In the piece, Borland talks about a former player who spoke at the 2014 NFL rookie symposium and told rookies “Get yourself a fall guy”.
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Yes, it was Cris Carter at the Rookie Symposium.
The year-old video was uncovered after Chris Borland, who played one season as linebacker for the 49ers before abruptly retiring citing concerns about brain damage, referenced a speech imploring the use of a fall guy in an ESPN feature on Friday. Although the NFL didn’t seem to have a problem with those comments at the time, a league spokesman told PFT in a statement today that the league does not think the comments were acceptable. I need to teach to you how to get around all of this stuff too.
Apparently one of the nice things about playing in the NFL, making a lot of money and then living your life like it’s an episode of Ballers (entourage and all) is that the money actually entitles you to sending one of the friends you support to prison if you do something wrong. “We’ll get him out”. Borland declined to name the player, but as Sportsnaut’s Jesse Read writes, it’s none other than current ESPN analyst Cris Carter. Ironically, Sapp probably could have used a “fall guy” when he got busted for soliciting a prostitute over Super Bowl weekend, or for the three counts of domestic violence stemming from an April incident in Las Vegas. “Your name can’t be in lights, under no circumstances”.
“I was just sitting there thinking, ‘Should I walk out? What am I supposed to do?'” he recalls.
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Prior to starring for the Minnesota Vikings in the prime of his NFL career, Carter’s own trials away from the gridiron nearly derailed him from the start. And the NFL had the video on its site. Wow.
