Unnecessary Roughness
This Ravens running back got caught on video knocking out his fiancee in an elevator. He still got a $3.25 million settlement out of the NFL for violating league rules.
Who is Ray Rice?
This now B-List comedian has only recently taken criticism for dating a teenager in the mid-90s, then roughly 20 years his junior.
Who is Jerry Seinfeld?
This federal agency first ventured into professional sports with a dispute between the MLB and umpires but has since been a regular player in disputes between players and ownership.
What is the National Labor Relations Board?
This film told us the story of the West Canaan (Texas) Coyotes and their pursuit of a conference championship.
What is Varsity Blues
This former Missouri Tiger football coach holds the record for career wins in Columbia.
Who is Gary Pinkel?
This NFL owner was tagged in a prostitution after getting caught on tape getting in a Florida massage parlor. But he got a real happy ending when the charges were ultimately dismissed.
Who is Robert Kraft.
This famed actor and OG Law and Order constable died in 2004.
Who was Jerry Orbach?
The Christie v. NCAA SCOTUS ruling in 2018 paved the way for the mainstreaming of this age-old sports activity.
What is Sports gambling (state authorized).
What fictional, former Ohio State quarterback once inspired his fledgling teammates by saying: "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever."
Shane Falco (The Replacements)
This former Duke Blue Devil once led the Missouri basketball team to great heights. He went on to coach the Austin Toros.
Who is Quin Snyder?
In 2008, this NFC East receiver was subject to investigation after the Glock in his pants went off and he suffered a self-inflicted gunshot.
Who is Plaxico Burress?
This mid-first round pick of the 1985 draft is, at the very least, the greatest receiver to come out of Valley State, Mississippi.
This former UCLA basketballer is the namesake of the lawsuit that ended the EA NCAA football and basketball sports franchises (among other things) after raising the NCAA violated his name and likeness rights.
Who is Ed O'Bannon (O'Bannon v. NCAA).
This former wiseass played the Notre Dame backup quarterback who famously could have been All-American if he had "half the heart" of Rudy Ruttiger.
Who is Vince Vaughn
This Missouri Tiger quarterback became the second FBS QB to pass for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards. He finished his Tiger career at the Independence Bowl.
This national champion runningback out of Nebraska had a short lived career followed by a long string of arrests and assaults, including an incident where he tried to run over several teens after a pickup game of football. He passed away in custody in 2016.
Who is Lawrence Phillips?
This 1990s heartthrob may be best known by sickos for his starring role in the 2001 "romp", TomCats, alongside Gary Busey's son, Jake.
Who is Jerry O'Connell?
This NFL coach recently sued the NFL based, in part, on some errant text messages from his former mentor, Bill Belichik.
Who is Brian Flores.
What defensive scheme did the T.C. Williams Titans run in the profoundly overrated Denzel Washington film, Remember the Titans?
4-4 (stack)
This unorthodox scrambler won two national titles at 174-pounds before venturing into the UFC (after an Olympic run, of course).
Ben Askren.
Between 2000 and and 2014, this NFC team led the league in player arrests (more than twice that of the Raiders, for the record). Maybe it's the cold.
Who is the Minnesota Vikings.
This fictional Jerry is famously married to Beth, who, along with her father, resents Jerry's very existence in this dark, surrealist animated adventure.
Rick and Morty
This legal theory (and affirmative defense) is commonly used to defend against lawsuits raised by athletes involving injuries they suffered in contact or otherwise dangerous sports.
What is Assumption of the Risk?
This was the ill-fated slogan for the Heisman Campaign for the ESU quarterback (and drunkard) Joe Kane.
Kane is Able.
This physical tight-end was on the receiving end of many a touchdown pass from record-holding Missouri Tiger QB (and future superbowl champion), Chase Daniel.