Cujo'S wrote:
Good list indeed...
Didn't Eugene Robinson of the Falcons get busted with a prostitute in South Beach the day before the Super Bowl?
Cujo
I didn't remember that one, but it did happen like you said.
I can't say that makes him a bad guy, at least from the general point of view on this board. He could have easily picked up some chicas in South Beach but instead decided to "pay a chica to leave" that night.
His real mistake was stupidity in not finding a better way to hook that up.
Super Bowl XXXIII: Eugene Robinson's prostitution scandal added to Dan Reeves' Miami bluesDan Reeves had just brushed his teeth, dressed for bed, and prepared to turn in early the night before Super Bowl XXXIII. He was hoping a good night's sleep would be the start of changing his luck after being part of three losing Super Bowls played in Miami.
Then the phone rang.
"Well, I didn't get a lot of rest," recalled Reeves, then the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons.
That infamous night of Jan. 30, 1999, Atlanta safety Eugene Robinson, a man who that morning had received the Bart Starr Award for being a person of high moral character, was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer.
By morning, no one was talking about the 14-2 Denver Broncos with the NFL's leading rusher, Terrell Davis, or that it could be John Elway's last game. The arrest became the overriding theme of the game.
"You can never measure how much that affected our football team, but there's no question it was a distraction," Reeves said.
That morning, Elway and offensive lineman Mark Schlereth were having breakfast when a security guard told them the news.
"If I'm completely honest, I was like, 'Oh well. Looks like we won this game,' " Schlereth said. "How do you do that to your football team? "
Reeves left it up to Robinson whether he wanted to play . Robinson played, but it was clear the Broncos would try to take advantage of him.
They went right at Robinson. A second-quarter pass to Rod Smith caught him out of position. Smith ran right by Robinson for an 80-yard touchdown. The Broncos won 34-19.
"Did we attack that guy? Absolutely," said Schlereth, now at ESPN.
Reeves said Atlanta's offense, which failed to score inside the red zone three times, was more to blame than Robinson and the defense. Either way, the game added to his list of Super Bowl losses in Miami, once as a Dallas running back and twice as an assistant to Cowboys coach Tom Landry.
"There's not a good memory about any Super Bowl I ever played in Miami," Reeves said, laughing.