{"id":7542,"date":"2011-02-01T07:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2011-02-01T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T12:37:47","slug":"football-players-behaving-badly-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/football-players-behaving-badly-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Football players behaving badly (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report on <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2011\/01\/lapd-arrests-former-usc-football-standout-everson-griffen-after-an-alleged-assault-on-an-officer.html\" target=\"_blank\">another NFL player&#8217;s<\/a> run-in with the law:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Los Angeles police used a Taser to subdue former USC football standout Everson Griffen after he allegedly assaulted an officer during a traffic stop near campus, department officials said Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Griffen, now a member of the Minnesota Vikings, was booked on suspicion of felony battery after the incident, which was reported about 4 p.m. Monday at 30th and Hoover streets, said LAPD spokeswoman Karen Rayner.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place during a routine traffic stop, Rayner said. Officers asked Griffen for his license, which turned out not to be valid, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Griffen then told them &#8220;he did not want to go back to jail&#8221; and sprinted away from the officers, who caught up with him after a short distance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not the &#8220;Love Boat&#8221; all over again, but it&#8217;s still sad to watch yet another NFL player endangering his career through brushes with law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report on another NFL player&#8217;s run-in with the law: Los Angeles police used a Taser to subdue former USC football standout Everson Griffen after he allegedly assaulted an officer during a traffic stop near campus, department officials said Monday night. Griffen, now a member of the Minnesota Vikings, was booked on suspicion of felony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9],"tags":[489,126,179,98],"class_list":["post-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-law","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1XE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7543,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions\/7543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}