Bar Hoppin'

"You honked one time too many bro!"

The truth is always the hardest thing to find because it's typically buried somewhere in the middle of a pile a garbage. The old timers would always say that there are three stories, his, there's and the truth. More often than not all parties involved will say, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it."

Four LSU football players hired a defense attorney and put off a meeting with police about a bar fight that started when a patron honked at a crowd blocking his exit from a parking lot, Baton Rouge police said Sunday.

Quarterback Jordan Jefferson, offensive lineman Chris Davenport, defensive lineman Josh Johns and receiver Jarvis Landry had been asked to give their side of the story at police headquarters Monday, but attorney Nathan Fisher asked for a delay, Sgt. Donald Stone said.

Now wait just a minute! The guys claiming to have been beaten up by the LSU football players say that they just blew their horn at the crowd and the fight started? Everybody that believes that story stand on your head and whistle. It's way more to the story than that bruh. It sounds like the kid in middle school that tells the teacher that the kid on the ground kept running into his fist.

Look, does anyone have the right to beat someone down. Not at all. Should the LSU football players used better judgment and walked away? Certainly, but don't tell me that four guys got beat up because they honked their horn at a crowd of folks in a parking lot. Try telling me that they were trying to get out of the parking lot and began to honk and holler out of the window at people. Tempers flared and both groups of guys started arguing and the balloon exploded.

Now, again we don't know which group of guys were the aggressors but we definitely know who finished the argument though. It makes no sense to get into a fight with well oiled machines if I'm the guy in the car. Let's keep it real! These football players are in the best shape of their lives and the average Joe needs to realize that. Getting into a fight with a guy that's been trained in a million dollar facility is insane.

On the other side of the coin what were the guys from LSU thinking. They're on the 4th ranked team in the country according to the pre-season polls. They've got the season opener in less than two weeks in Arlington against the 3rd ranked Oregon Ducks and you're fighting at a bar. Where is Chris Carter, Tom Jackson and Mike Ditka when you need them. C'mon Man! I need all of these guys front and center so I can kick them square in the pants!

The Oregon game is going to be huge and these four knuckle heads may be at home in Baton Rouge or better yet sitting in jail at kick off. I recently did an article entitled “The 1^st Rule of Engagement” that was simply about using your ability to think. Life is a thinking man’s game and those that think 1^st will typically finish on top. A stupid bar fight may have cost these young men a national title, a free education and most importantly their freedom.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Twitter:@jaygravesreport
Information from the Associated Press was used in this article.