(10-29-2018, 08:17 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(10-29-2018, 08:06 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I think it's perfectly within reason for a bunch of twenty-somethings to have a night on the town under those circumstances. To each his own. Plenty of valid but varying opinions on how to spend one's free time.

The "expected" comment was in a much more general context BTW.  Was not specific to the London trip.

I have no problem with these guys going out and enjoying themselves, nothing wrong with that at all.

Harrison is only 21, understandable. Wilson is 24, still young. Hayden is 28 and Church is 30. They aren't all just young and naive. Church should know better then to let things get out of hand like that. Yea, they probably got taken advantage of, but when you put yourself out there like that, it's going to happen.

There's no reason why they couldn't have went out and had a great night on the town. Got a bottle, or three and enjoyed themselves. 99% of the population wouldn't have any clue who those 4 were if you walked past them, or just seen them at a bar/club enjoying themselves. You start getting VIP booths/VIP services and all you're doing is asking for trouble. You're either going to get a bunch of leeches who are trying to take advantage, or idiots looking for problems.

The thing about that though, and I don't want this to come across as "racial profiling" ... but I'm guessing that it's not very common to have 4 fit black gentleman who are obviously yanks probably dressed pretty nice around London.  With the news that the NFL is in town it wouldn't exactly be rocket science to peg them as NFL players, even if their names are unknown.  They had "target" written all over them.

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