Rookie WR Christian Kirk arrested at Phoenix Open

I'm right there with you, the race card has been overplayed so much for so long it has the opposite effect of that which intended.  And I think that's the case for many more people than is evident, lots of people are simply terrified of being labeled xenophobe they play along with the theater of the race hustlers.  And for anyone saying "hey, he was just being a kid!" I'd ask you to think about how you'd feel after getting back to your car after watching a golf tournament and finding a broken window.  I would be mighty pissed.  I get mighty pissed when people explain away property crime, it's nonsense.

So now we have a {likely} criminal in the house, let's see if one or more coaches / players can get to him and get his head screwed on nice and tight.  There's another guy on the squad who did some "dumb kid stuff" before he hit the NFL.  His name is Nkemdiche.


Look Im not going to get into a whole thing on these boards. There are people, in certain parts of the country, who are usually involved or around certain activities routinely, who might have a legitimate fear of an incident with the police getting out of hand. (Mostly because those people are involved in illegal activity and get scared about being caught)...but that is not even really my point. Christian Kirk is not one of those people. 

People have been hyping this kid up in the valley for years. Even as a high schooler, he was all over local sports. His recruitment to ASU was big news, as was the case when he went to A&M. He has not only been treated well here in the valley, he has had opportunities that people without his athletic ability would have never had. 

What angers me about that ridiculous twitter post is the fact that nowhere does it acknowledge that if Kirk had not gotten drunk and acted like and punk vandal with his friends, then there would have not been an incident. It is 100% his fault, and it seems very obvious that they know this....and so they are trying to run interference by claiming that the cop that arrested him was xenophobe. That kind of crap is shameful, slanderous, and should be called out by the public at every turn. There is ZERO evidence that that cop did anything wrong, or treated Kirk differently that he would have treated any other drunk and disorderly punk who he was busting. 

When I first heard about this story, I thought " move, but not a big deal". I would have still thought that, until I read that twitter post calling our Darren Urban for reporting the news. No accountability, no admittance of wrong doing, no acknowledgement that Kirk was doing something he should be embarrassed about, and should own up to and learn from his mistakes. Instead, its trying to paint the picture that Kirk is some kind of victim, which I find disgusting. If it is true that Kirk is now lying to himself and believing that "his freedoms have been taken away, and he needs a bodyguard with him at all times", then this kid is already a lost cause. 

Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone tries to cover their mistakes up by throwing out the race card and a made up victim story. I find that very hard to root for. Kirk should have come out right away and said, 'I got drunk at the Open. My friends and I were acting ...it was a very dumb thing to do. I wasn't thinking straight, and I threw a rock at a car...which looking back I am so embarrassed about. That is someone else's car, and for me to just randomly disrespect a stranger like that is really immature and I'm sorry. I have already written a letter of apology to that person and let them know that I would be covering the cost of repairing the damage I did". 

He makes a statement like that, and this is a non-story and all worries about the kid are gone. Instead...we get the professional victim. I am more than a little worried that we drafted a spoiled, Scottsdale punk who thinks his crap doesn't stink in this town. He better put up some monster numbers if he wants people to tolerate that kind of attitude. If he is average, he will be gone soon.