Alabama Football: Reuben Foster Explains – NFL Execs Say No Problem

Alabama Football has a not always inaccurate reputation of contributing to occasional boorish behavior. Boorish behavior or not, Reuben Foster appears to have made amends.

A couple of days ago I commented on Reuben Foster’s problems at the recent NFL Combine. As is no doubt known on every continent by now, Reuben failed to realize he needed to approach the Combine as anyone would a regular job interview.

I feared that Reuben’s unnecessary altercation with a medical worker might end up costing Reuben millions of dollars. In an effort to elaborate on what happens to a man when he makes a significant irreversible mistake, I used the wonderfully descriptive old southern phrase that Reuben may have “pissed in the whiskey.”

In case you are not a southerner or you are but have never heard that saying, I will explain. In southern lore, it is possible to screw up so thoroughly that it can only be explained as “pissing in the whiskey.” It takes little imagination to conjure an overly inebriated man mistaking a partially filled whiskey bottle as a vessel in which to relieve himself.

Suffice it to say such an action is definitely irreversible. No amount of apology or remorse can ever reclaim the offending party’s reputation.

Wait just a minute! I am compelled to confess. I was entirely wrong. I failed in providing the essential context. The premise of the old southern story is that the contaminated whiskey setting was among a group of men without another bottle of whiskey immediately at hand.

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For such a transgression, of course, you can never be forgiven. But this context can never be applied to any group of owners of NFL teams. They have an overabundance of everything. They never run out of whiskey bottles or anything else. It is humanly impossible to contaminate enough of their liquor cabinet for any of them to care. A few of them might actually find the act amusing.

Reuben was never in any danger of blowing his job interview. All Reuben did was demand that someone beneath his stature give him special attention. That is common operating procedure for major league team owners.

If you are wondering if I am as off-base in this amended opinion as I was in my original epistle, look no further than below.

Allow me to close in a serious vein. Reuben made a mistake. Young men can have a propensity for doing and saying foolish things. That I know from personal experience. Reuben broke no laws. Based upon reports he only acted imprudently. It is no secret, in our world, a wide leeway is afforded to those who are essential to feeding a money-making machine.

In his ascension to NFL stardom, his actions were a mere bump in the road. A classy move would be for Reuben to make a special trip to Indianapolis, look up that medical worker and make a sincere apology. Doing so would make a more powerful statement than anything he could have said to those NFL team officials at the Alabama football Pro Day.

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