Tiger introduced the word transgressions into the parlance of our times but none of his transgressions were as shocking as those of Adam “Pacman” Jones.
Life is a series of transitions from one level to the next, one job to another. The compelling saga of “Pacman” Jones is a series of unsuccessful transitions and unbelievable transgressions chronicled by this timeline.
2001- Jones tallies six interceptions and 1,850 rushing yards and leads his team to his second Georgia 4A State Championship. He commits to play football for West Virginia.
2003- As a sophomore, Jones records 89 tackles and four interceptions, making 2nd team All-Big East. He makes the Athletic Director's Academic Honor Roll an Athletic Coaching Education major buts faces a year in prison for beating someone with a pool cue. The sentence is reduced to probation.
2004- Jones leads the team with 76 tackles and three interceptions earning first-team all-Big East and honorable mention All-American honors. He forgoes his senior year and declares elgible for the NFL Draft.
23 April, 2005- The Tennessee Titans draft West Virginia DB Adam “Pacman” Jones with the 6th overall pick. He is the first defensive player selected. Jones holds out due to a contract dispute over safeguards which would deny him bonus money if convicted of a crime.
19 February 2007- Video shows Jones celebrating NBA All-Star Weekend with rapper Nelly and producer Jermaine Dupree in a Las Vegas strip club.
26 March, 2007- The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department implicate Jones and his entourage in the shooting following the strip club melee.
10 April, 2007- The NFL suspends Jones for the 2007 season.
18 June, 2007- Jones threatens a man named Darian in an Atlanta strip club and shots fire on Darian's car at a nearby intersection shortly after he leaves the club. Dekalb County Police question Jones but the victims could not identify the shooter so there were no charges and the story quietly evades excessive media coverage.
20 June, 2007- The Metro Police and the Clark County DA charge Jones with two felonies and he accepts a plea bargain.
6 August, 2007- Jones signs a contract with TNA Wrestling.
Jones’ NFL contract limits “The Greatest Team Sport Athlete That Ever Lived” to a non-contact role. He forms a tag team with Ron “The Truth” Killings.
Jones “makes it rain” in the ring and eventually wins the World Trade Team Championship with Killings.
15 January, 2008- Atlanta stripper Wanda S. Jackson pursues an arrest warrant alleging that Jones hit her in the strip club.
23 April , 2008- The Dallas Cowboys acquire Jones for a 4th round pick in a deal that includes compensation for Jones’ failed reinstatement or future suspension. He drops the "Pacman" nickname that was once represented by the P on his jersey, in an effort to disassociate from his checkered past.
13 October, 2008- Commisioner Roger Goodell suspends Jones indefinitely after an alcohol-related scuffle with a bodyguard on October 7.
7 January, 2009- The Dallas Cowboys announce that they will release Jones.
2 September, 2009- Jones agrees in principle to a one-year deal with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL but they revoke their offer when Jones contemptuously refers to the league as the United Football League.
What does the next decade have in store for Jones? Bonds? Kobe? Vick? Tiger? Matt Walsh? More transgressions, I hope.
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