FredEx Arrested

Why is it that every month or so I am doing some random post on former Eagle Freddie Mitchell, a legend in his own mind and his own mind alone? This time he failed to pay child support so he was locked up in jail. Poor First Down Freddie. CSN Philly's Leslie Gudel first broke this story through Twitter over the weekend and here is said tweet.

As if this story needed a kicker, he was scheduled to guest host a radio show this week in Philly. Well guess what, somehow, FredEx got out of jail and still ended up on the radio! Only Freddie Mitchell.

According to PhillyBlurbs, he was asked about the incident and he did have some comments on it.

Mitchell said on the radio that he didn't know about the warrant. On his non-payment of child support: "I don't condone not paying it, but they don't understand my situation, and it's still an ongoing trial." ..."When it comes to parenting and custody, they have all the rights. I'm sorry, but woman have the rights. If they want to do something on spite and not let you see your kids, they can do it. And that's what happened with me. I don't condone not paying child support, but I chose, 'Hey, I'm not going to pay.' "

Sometimes there is a part of me that wishes he never caught that 4th and 26 ball from McNabb. That guy is just flat out crazy and/or delusional. And yet, it's all oddly hilarous.

FredEx May Be FedExed To The Pokey

Thanks to 49er16 for the link on this one. I could bore you with my take on the Brett Favre retirement story (he's done for good, I think), but there is not anything that I can say that you can't get from watching 30 seconds of ESPN. Instead, here's an interesting little peace on Ex-Eagle Freddie Mitchell from Pro Football Talk. Apparently the Ex-Eagle may be spending some time in jail for possessing marijuana.

Former Eagles receiver Freddie Mitchell, a 2001 first-round pick whose career flamed out a few years back, could be spending a few years in prison.

He’s reportedly under investigation for accepting a package allegedly containing more than seven pounds of marijuana.

Mitchell reportedly was cuffed briefly but not arrested after signing for the package last week at his Lakeland, Florida restaurant.

This is officially less surprising than Brett Favre's second retirement. Freddie Mitchell is one man an ego that is still in Philadelphia and the date is still January 11, 2004. For that day was both the birth and the death of his career. He was a nobody before it and he was a nobody after it. What was that big day, you ask? I now take you back to January 11, 2004 at Lincoln Financial Field. It's the divisional playoffs against the Green Bay Packers with 1:12 to, the Eagles are trailing by 3 and the down is 4th and 26.



Good times.....gooood times. And as far as Joe Buck's call goes, David Tyree feels Freddie Mitchell's pain.