Driving while black is too sensitive for the Game Room.
I assumed Pro Teams used buses to go from the hotel to the game venue. A team bus ensures everyone gets to the stadium on time.
Allegedly, Tyreek Hill was driving without a license and speeding. That’s a ticket.
What the cops did is inexcusable IMHO.
Thankfully he wasn’t injured, but understandably upset.
Would he be at a hotel if he only lives 20 minutes from the stadium?
This may be the exception because the coaches and players are local residents.
Where did you read that he didn’t have a license? Your cites don’t mention that.
And if home team players took a bus from the hotel, then they’d have to take a bus back to the hotel to get their cars, instead of just driving home.
ETA: Most nfl teams do require to their players to stay at a hotel the night before a home game.
There were two citations. I thought one was driving without a license. The story is evolving as more information comes out.
Very minor infractions. I think the appropriate action is to write a ticket and let the driver go.
He’s a star. He should get a chauffeur.
Early reports said Tyreek was doing 100 mph in a 35. Haven’t seen any confirmation on that.
This video shows Tyreek being a bit of a dick once pulled over. The cops then seem to reacted and escalated beyond all reason.
So I think the suggestion that this is solely about DWB is a bit of inflammatory nonsense if the speeding story is accurate. Also the suggestion that players use busses or chauffeurs for home games is absurd. This isn’t a case of a rich asshole driving drunk at 3 AM. Dude’s just going to work.
None of that seems to excuse the completely belligerent actions of the cop(s) here who once again prove themselves to be some of the most beta crybabies on the planet.
I know some teams require it, but is it really most? It was required during COVID protocols but those requirements have been dropped.
This wasn’t necessary at all. Routine traffic stops shouldn’t require three officers.
Speeding is a problem everywhere. People pass me like I’m a little old lady driving to church. I’m driving the speed limit and won’t risk losing my insurance by speeding.
There was inaccurate reporting. It’s not unusual in these chaotic cases.
Drew Rosenhaus is Hill’s agent.
Tyreek sounds like scum:
He was accused of punching his girlfriend in college and got kicked off the team at Oklahoma State, later pleading guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation. In 2019, prosecutors in suburban Kansas City declined to charge Hill after an alleged domestic violence incident involving his fiancée and their 3-year-old child.
It’s been going on for decades. No Medals for Trying details a week behind the scenes with the New York Giants in 1989, and they were doing it then. Players (and coaches) would drive themselves from the hotel to the stadium, usually arriving long before traffic started to jam up.
The game depicted in the book was an afternoon kickoff; I don’t know what changes are made for night games.
This ESPN article from 2023 highlights the Dallas Cowboys as unusual in not requiring their players to sleep in the team hotel before home games (but the “team hotel” does exist, and some players choose to sleep there).
He is, but ultimately that’s irrelevant here.
Many police need to be little emperors and any challenge to their authority shatters their fragile egos.
If he was going that fast, this wasn’t a routine stop. Going that much over the speed limit is similar to drunk driving–it’s endangering everyone else. In southern California it’ll get your car impounded and several hours at the local station for processing.
That’s certainly true, but I don’t know if that’s what I saw in the video linked above.
Yeah, if he was truly doing 100 mph in a 35, then I would expect criminal charges, not just a traffic ticket. (Although at this point the city might try to just pretend all this never happened).
Was he actually going 100mph? I can’t find any news articles that state that, just random people saying he was ‘probably’ going over 100mph.
The only article I’ve been able to find that brings up how fast he was going is this one.
Hill was cited for careless driving and failure to wear a seatbelt. The original officer who first decided to pursue Hill later estimated that the football player had been driving at 60 miles per hour.
“later estimated”, eh?
That inspires so much confidence in the idea that this wasn’t a DWB gone terribly wrong for the cop. /s
ETA: Not that Tyreek Hill is a good person or anything. But that doesn’t excuse stupid and/or unprofessional behavior on the part of law enforcement, either.
He also didn’t get a speeding ticket. I’d WAG that he was speeding, and speeding enough to get the cop’s attention, the cop just wasn’t clocking people at the moment.
And I’m not defending any thing the cop did, I’m just guessing that’s what happened.
What would you expect to happen if you drove 30-70 mph over the speed limit? If they didn’t have time to clock your speed, do they just ignore it?