“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.”
- John Madden

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Adam Treu reminds us that Barret Robbins is, in fact, fucking crazy

Adam Treu spent the first chunk of his 12 years with the Raiders answering for Barret Robbins. The question was always "where's Barret and why are you playing?" but that's beside the point. In honor of Super Bowl week, Adam took his time to tell the National Football Post about the Super Bowl experience he should have never had.

In the weeks and months and years that have followed, I’ve learned more about the details of the night before, and about how the Raiders chose to handle it.   Barrett eventually found his way back to our hotel Saturday night and was instructed to sleep it off.  Whatever “it” was.  He was later taken to the workout room in the hotel and put on a treadmill in the hope that movement would bring lucidity.  Once he expressed a level of delusion so deep that a simple sweat wasn’t going to erase it (he was happy about winning the Super Bowl and excited for the upcoming Pro Bowl), the team knew he needed help beyond what the trainers and coaches could provide.
Only the Raiders would try to end drug-induced delusions with a few minutes on the treadmill...

EDIT: I paid a visit to Barret Robbins' Wikipedia page and found this

On September 212007, a warrant was issued for his arrest by Miami-Dade police for a parole violation stemming from his run in with police in 2005. To date, authorities have not been able to locate him for extradition back to Florida[1].
Now that's a Raider!

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