Call a cab.

In fact if police departments really wanted to catch folks all they would need to do is have random checkpoints around stadiums after games or set them up right around the corner from popular night clubs and bars. I know driving after drinking is a dangerous thing and plenty of you know the same but judging from court records plenty of you have done or did do the same thing. Some got caught some didn’t.

The reason for this long post is really to address those with over the top venom towards Brent. What he did was irresponsible and it cost the death of a friend. But it wasn’t malicious. He will pay for it through the lost of freedom, career, as well as emotional and psychological pain.

You’re so right about driving tired. The statistics for accidents caused by tired drivers is astounding. A quick web search is recommended for everyone.

There’s another message that doesn’t get enough attention. And that’s to not to get into a car with a driver who’s been drinking.

I agree on the mistake. More importantly, though, I disagree about what kind of guy this makes Brent. He was a repeat offender with the DUI. His initial penalty was severe enough that it almost damaged his ability to ever play in the NFL. Certainly, the punishment was enough to have himself take a personal inventory and reset his priorities. He was fortunate then that there were no victims.

Fast forward and we are at such a tragic place. There’s a dead man and a manslaughter charge. There has been a previous incident. I am not naive enough to believe that he hasn’t been driving drunk between incidents. With these things in mind, that he is personally and primarily responsible for taking someone else’s life, the repeated nature of this behavior, makes Brent elitist, immature, and above the law. With all that we know, it makes Brent a deservingly future convict. In other words, a bad guy.

They have a flight the next day, meetings and a game in 48 hrs. Sensible to be well rested and on top mentally.

Shame to both and fortune that no innocent bystanders where injured.

Either could have called a cab.

The legal system punishes brown’s family as well if they come down too hard on brent. Brent should spend the rest of his life helping out brown’s family the way brown would have if he had lived. He cant do that from jail. I guarantee you thats what brown would have wanted, for his familiy to be taken care of. Would you really want to prevent that from happening by taking away any chance brent has to do it?

Can we think of brown’s family first here?

Driving tired is lethal. So is texting, putting makeup, looking for a channel, doing anything but concentrating on the road.

Accidents happen FAST. You don’t have time to change your mind about that text, or realize you could find that lighter or change the channel at the next light.

There are no do-overs when things go wrong.

Hopefully, other young kids will learn from this and not die–or kill someone else–as a result.

Condolences to the families and fans. Hate the Cowboys, but certainly don’t want to see something like this happen to them or anyone else.

But then you regain your intelligence and you say no to that.

Baffles me that these millionaires don’t have a full time driver to drive them around from the clubs/bars/parties. I’m sure pro athletes can afford to pay some guy $50k a year to drive them everywhere they want to go.