Link: Former Nebraska RB Lawrence Phillips suspected of killing cellmate in prison

Wow, haven't heard that name in a while...

He, at one time, played for the Montreal Alouettes up here, IIRC...

Well said, brother...

Anybody who didn't see this coming is legally blind.

You can blame every single person that babied this moron his whole life. Tom Osborne is the first on the list, what was he did? Choked his girlfriend then played in the bowl game or some crap like that? At least the Rams finally had the pair to cut him, but no telling what he done then as well.

This is the PERFECT case of what giving athletes what they want will get you, and what happens when you will do what it takes to get folks out of trouble. Now look at where we are.

Not exactly shocking, It was just a matter of time. If he hadn't been in jail it probably would have been a woman.

At least the victim's death was no big loss to the world.


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Crimson1967 said:

At least the victim's death was no big loss to the world.


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This quote made me think of that Monty Python song in "The Life of Brian" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (it is the song the guys are singing while they are nailed to the cross).

isn't he in jail for trying to run over some kids after a pickup game or something like that?

I guess I'm naïve but it's always surprising to me how evil some people are.

*blank stare*

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At least the victim's death was no big loss to the world.


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crimson1967 said:

at least the victim's death was no big loss to the world.


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justneedme81 said:

*blank stare*

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he is suspected of killing damion soward, a 37-year-old inmate from san bernardino county serving 82 years to life for a first-degree murder conviction.

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*blank stares back*

Continue to blank stare* I thought they were looking at someone else for this murder as well?

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Continue to blank stare* I thought they were looking at someone else for this murder as well?

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Not this murder. There were TWO inmate murders and they are looking to see if there is a connection between the two deaths, like if Lawrence Phillips and this other inmate murdered these two for some connected reason.

In a few weeks, maybe they will put AH in the same cell with LP. Would that be a double homicide?

230kv_barehand said:

You can blame every single person that babied this moron his whole life. Tom Osborne is the first on the list, what was he did? Choked his girlfriend then played in the bowl game or some crap like that?...

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I think he also drug her down some stairs by her hair.

Moro Creek said:

In a few weeks, maybe they will put AH in the same cell with LP. Would that be a double homicide?

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We can dream...

There were a few bad apples on that Nebraska team. I want to say Christian Peter? A defensive lineman. He was no saint either.


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I'd be more surprised if this was his 1st killing to be honest..

230kv_barehand said:

You can blame every single person that babied this moron his whole life. Tom Osborne is the first on the list, what was he did? Choked his girlfriend then played in the bowl game or some crap like that?

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Although I DO remember the incident and that it was in 1995 (though admittedly not the exact date doggone it - I was in school for C programming language and Trig at UALR at the time but I digress), the Internet is our friend:

1) He threw Kate McEwen....not just ANY female but an ATHLETE, a member of the Nebraska women's b-ball team.... to the floor of a bathroom and THEN dragged her down three flights of stairs. Since this idiot got the limelight, let's at least know who she was and what she looked like (as she came forward).



And btw - he did this at 5 am by scaling a three-story wall AFTER she had dumped him and he was pounding her head against a metal mailbox and brick wall, running away (like he ran through the tackles) when others came to help

At the time of this assault, Phillips had been cleared to play by the NCAA despite an ongoing investigation into his driving of a Mustang convertible and another issue not exactly clear at the time. He was sentenced to ONE YEAR of probation in December 1995 for that horrific assault on McEwen. (I still swallow in disgust at the black militant Nation of Islam guy I used to work with who actually said McEwen deserved to be assaulted because she was sleeping with another guy - I don't know if she was but so what if she was? She didn't deserve that).


Osborne began the coddling immediately, too. Look at these words of genius from the later elected Congresscritter:

Osborne said some critics have mischaracterized Phillips.

"It's not as though Lawrence is an angry young man all the time and a threat to society," Osborne said. "But there are occasions every four or five months where he becomes a little explosive. We've got to be satisfied here that every precaution has been taken to where he's able to deal with his anger more effectively."

Uh, whatever you say, Tom!!!!


2) Once Osborne won his second straight national title, he didn't want Phillips around, either, and told him to go to the NFL. The Rams drafted this idiot (Rich Brooks, in what turned out to be his last year....Dick Vermeil made clear he wouldn't have touched the guy). They drafted him in April and the Clueless Clown got picked up for drunk driving in June while on probation for the assault (a real winner eh?). Phillips was sentenced to 30 days in early 1997 and got out in 23 thanks to (irony alert) good behavior. Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

3) The Rams saw enough to cut the guy midway through his second season after he skipped a team meeting and practice. This absence was ALLEGEDLY related to alcohol use in yet another isolated incident. In fact, Phillips had several isolated incidents of walking out of team meetings with the Rams as a rookie when Brooks was still the coach. While with the Rams, Phillips had a total of three arrests, two lawsuits, a jail sentence for domestic violence (the probation violation).....and FIFTY-SIX different fines for violating team rules. Given that he was only with the Rams nineteen months, these are staggering numbers.

4) So Jimmy Johnson and the Dolphins gave Phillips his second, third, eighty-third chance. Johnson immediately mouthed the same rhetoric as the Rams when they drafted him - it was all rumor and exaggeration. He played two games for the Dolphins with a Hall of Fame worthy 44 yards on 18 carries (a 2.4 average, which most people could fall forward enough to attain). He was then immediately released after assaulting a woman (anyone seeing a pattern here?) named Michelle Black at a night club in Plantation, FL.

5) He missed the 1998 season, so he played in NFL Europe for Barcelona. After he rushed for 1,000 yards, the NFL decided he deserved a second, third, one hundreth chance.

6) Bill Walsh made clear in no uncertain terms that he would cut Phillips if anything shady happened. Phillips actually did quite well off the field, but on the field he missed a block on a blitz that resulted in a career-ending injury to Steve Young, the Hall of Fame QB. Phillips - just like with the Rams - started acting a jerk about team meetings and they wound up cutting him shortly thereafter.

7) He then signed with a team in the Arena League but never played. Why? Because he left the team without even telling the coach.

8) He then went to the CFL and the Montreal Alouettes won the Grey Cup with him as the lead horse. However, he said they had "lied" to him and left. He was then released. Why? Because he'd been charged with sexual assault!!!

9) In 2005, this poster child for "Real Men of Genius" then pulled the all-time topper (until yesterday) when in an argument over a pick-up football game he drove his car into three teenagers. At the time he was wanted in San Diego for (wait for it) not one but TWO domestic violence incidents.

He eventually got sentenced to 31 years of which he must serve 26.

And then he channeled his inner OJ. Oh wait, OJ beat his girl, too!!!

230kv_barehand said:

This is the PERFECT case of what giving athletes what they want will get you, and what happens when you will do what it takes to get folks out of trouble. Now look at where we are.

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230kv_barehand said:

You can blame every single person that babied this moron his whole life. Tom Osborne is the first on the list, what was he did? Choked his girlfriend then played in the bowl game or some crap like that? At least the Rams finally had the pair to cut him, but no telling what he done then as well.

This is the PERFECT case of what giving athletes what they want will get you, and what happens when you will do what it takes to get folks out of trouble. Now look at where we are.

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How about blaming him???