This dude kicks a football for a living
Associated Press:
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Jeff Reed has been cited by city police for public intoxication and disorderly conduct outside a bar a couple of blocks from where the team beat the Cleveland Browns a few hours earlier.
Police say Reed was cited outside McFadden’s Bar about 9 p.m. Sunday.
Reed kicked two field goals in the 27-14 victory.
This is Reed’s second brush with the law this year.
He paid $543 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct and criminal mischief for damaging a paper towel dispenser in a convenience store bathroom in New Alexandria in February.
Team spokesman Dave Lockett says the team is still gathering information and has no comment.
Police say Reed will be mailed a summons to appear in city court.
Talk about living the dream.
Reed went to college at UNC, where he undoubtedly picked up his party hard habits in a sick college atmosphere where no one really cares about football. Remember, this was before Butch Davis took over the program and transformed the Heels into a respectable football team.
He’s now been in the NFL for eight years and has been one of the more reliable kickers in the league (82 percent for his career).
He’s also a ridiculous drunk (I’m pretty sure he’s wearing a “I <3 Jack” bib in that picture), who makes more than a $1 million per year.
True story: I was working with a girl last spring who goes to college at Pitt and told me Jeff Reed was hitting on her, and basically anything else with two legs at a bar.
This makes so much more sense now. Dude beat up a paper towel dispenser on a random February night… and now by 9 p.m. he was drunk enough to have the police ignore his semi-celebrity status and arrest him for being an ass.
Jeff Reed clearly does three things with his life: Kicks footballs, makes money and parties harder than any human being rightfully should.
God bless him.
-Tidbit
