Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler was an NFL MVP and a Super Bowl winner, and any biography of him should focus, first and foremost, on his football career.But any biography of him also needs to acknowledge that drinking and driving has been a major feature of his post-NFL life. He was convicted of drunk driving in 1995 and again in 2001, and his most recent DUI arrest has led him to take a leave of absence from his radio job.
So it's strange that someone keeps editing Stabler's drunk driving record out of his Wikipedia entry. First the information about Stabler's arrests and convictions will go up, and then it will get deleted. The absence of information about his drunk driving arrests has now been a subject of discussion at Wikipedia. One Wikipedia user writes:
I'm not sure why these aren't mentioned in the article, at least in some form...it can be done in an encyclopedic manner...why is there protection going on?Good question. If someone who likes Stabler is trying to do Stabler a favor by whitewashing his record, here's a suggestion: Do Stabler a bigger favor by convincing him to stop risking his own life and the lives of everyone else on the roads.
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7-13-2008 @ 12:37PM
LB said...
Why are you so concerned that the negative parts of his life are shown? What joy do you get out of it?
You tell me with all possible stories going on this is the story you are focused on!? A Wikipedia Entry???
It tells more about you then Stabler.
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7-13-2008 @ 1:04PM
tophercl said...
I'm not a MDS apologist, but it's just ignorant to talk of some one's life in a so-called encyclopedia without including everything that's happened in their life that merits mentioning. It's telling that yesterday when the same blogger mentioned Chmura's comments on Brett Favre, all anybody wanted to do was ignore what he had to say because of his own legal woes. I guess if Stabler had been a similar caliber of player to Chmura we would be calling for his head on wikipedia, just like the Brett Favre fans did in the comments yesterday towards their old tight end.
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7-13-2008 @ 1:10PM
petejayhawk said...
Internets is serious business! Dont forget it bitch!
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7-13-2008 @ 3:17PM
§ said...
It's Wikipedia, it's allowed to be edited. I wanna know why MDS is always trying to create controversy? Lighten up!
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7-13-2008 @ 3:44PM
jdoe899 said...
"This is a prime example of the progress made in the USA concerning race. Two stories highlighting sports players caught in the wrong...with black players they need to returned to the ghettos but whites players we're asked to look the other way----Explain that if you'd!"
"Explain that if you'd!""
Apparently you haven't mastered English, I'd ask you to do that before you start lecturing people.
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7-13-2008 @ 11:08PM
Jason S. said...
Is Wiki Fanhouse next?!?
I cannot wait!
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7-13-2008 @ 11:26PM
George B Vieto said...
Robert has a good point that if an African American sports star breaks the law he is a bad person who should go to reform school but when a Caucasian athele is a bad person it is put under the rug. Why Wikipedia doesn't report Ken Stabler's drunk driving arrests I will never know.
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7-14-2008 @ 5:41AM
al coholic said...
Drinking and driving? That's nothing.
According to Art Donovan lin his book "Fatso" Bobby Layne, quarterback for the Steelers, used to get drunk at half time to insulate himself from the pain of the second half sacks he knew were coming.
By the way, that book is one of the best football books ever written. If you are old enough to have watched any football in the late fifties and early sixties you will really get a laugh out of reading it.
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7-14-2008 @ 2:33PM
Robert said...
This is a prime example of the progress made in the USA concerning race. Two stories highlighting sports players caught in the wrong...with black players they need to returned to the ghettos but whites players we're asked to look the other way----Explain that if you'd!
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7-18-2008 @ 10:12AM
C said...
Was this the Snake I saw recently on the tv show "JAIL"? By gosh I do believe it was.
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7-25-2008 @ 10:03AM
Bubba said...
People, why be surprised at Stabler. I played with him at Alabama and we nicknamed him "Sorry", because he laid so many married women, including his own College Coaches wives. Coach Bryant hid it from the press, you could do that back then. Got to say thou, guy was a great player, at baseball too. But Namath was the best I ever saw in my lifetime, bad knees and all.
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8-13-2008 @ 11:19AM
J L said...
Yes Kenny & Joe were a little short of perfect, kind of cut from the same cloth as Babe Ruth, his hot dogs and beer on game days, and saving the Scotch for post game into the wee hours.
Now Stabler nor Namath would not do this. They took their sport too seriously and waited until they were off work to have a drink or beer.
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