Crime in Sports - #412 - The Human Air Freshener - David Boston

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

This week, we talk about a man from an upstanding family, blessed with all the physical gifts to allow him to be an NFL star. Only problem is, he can't stop flexing his muscles in the mirror, long enough to accomplish that. Rumors (and suspensions) because of "banned substances" that may have made him into The Hulk. He also drives while on GHB & maybe other drugs, and is a little loose with his fists, around women!Stare at your physique in a mirror, tell everyone that your "hygiene is unbelievable", and go from a future hall of famer, to a "what could have been" in a mere 5 years with David Boston!!Check us out, every Tuesday!We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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David Boston. Remember that guy? Oh yeah. Yeah. Boy, did he have potential. Jesus. Well, yeah, he also had a body full of steroids. So that was a lot of his potential.

He's six, four, six bodies. Yeah. And He was bigger than a defensive lineman and he just shoved cornerbacks to the ground and it was like well yeah he's on so many steroids. That's probably how you should play that position. It's ridiculous. Fuck out running them. There's not a lot of guys that have played it since then. Yes because most receivers aren't like let me get bulkier than a defensive end. Let's do that and then he was real good when he was jacked up. If I knock the corner down and take off running, it's harder for him to catch me from the ground. That's what it is, really. If I just throw him to the ground,

I also took his money and fingered his butthole a little bit, then he's not gonna wanna get up. So we'll get into this here. He's born August 19th, 1978. He is from Humboldt, Texas. And we know from small town murder that they call it Humboldt, Texas, because I don't know, they can't read. That's all I can imagine. He's a big guy. Six two is his height. But they don't pronounce the H unless there's a W James.

That's the W, what is fine. That H is hard. Cool whip, it'll get you good. But humble Texas, it's humble. Right. Yeah. Like you're not just being dicks, honestly. Think about that.

Come on. Think about that, that's crazy. So he's 6'2", he's listed at 228 in his playing days. 6'2"? 6'2", David Boss. I don't believe it. I think he's bigger. They always list guys bigger than they are, not smaller.

Really? Yeah. What guy, what ego maniac athlete would be like, yeah, it's cool, just list me less than I am. They're always taller than they are. I'd do it that way. Not make them scared to see me. I want to show up and then them get scared.

They want it to look cool in the program. You know what I mean? 6'2". Figured he was bigger. He just looked bigger? No. He was enormous. Plus a 6'2'' is still tall for a receiver.

That's... Yeah, sure. Receivers, you know, there's bigger ones now. They're trying to get everybody who's 6'4". When you get a guy who's 6'4", 6'5 six five as a receiver He's a monster and a freak, you know All DK Meg Megatron and fucking Randy Moss and guys like that. There's just not a lot of them. So Okay, let's do this here. There. He's born. He's 78. He's born in and

One of his grandfathers was a minister for 51 years Wow, that is some ministering. Holy shit. And you will use steroids and grow big and catch touchdowns. I believe was one of those sermons. I mean, any career that you do for over 50 is really incredible, but this is impressive. There's not a lot of heavy lifting in that. No, no, you're just, you're yelling a lot.

That's a lot of smooth handed. Long as they keep putting shit in the plate, I guess 51 years is whatever, right? I'll keep going. I'll keep talking. Why not? I got stuff to say. That book's thick. I was just going to say, though, after 51 years, you think you just go, I've read every part

of this to you hundreds of times. How come you're not living right? I mean, honestly, if you haven't figured it out by now. I haven't done my job I retire this is crazy How many more times can I read this one book to you before it's? People need saving Jesus fuck man, so that that's what he would say on stage to Jesus fuck man. What's wrong with you people? Sweet Christ with a love of fucking balls help me people do something Help yourselves of fucking balls help me people do something help yourselves so one of his

the other great-grandfather and a great-uncle were both dentists okay good money there yeah that's great money his name by the way is David Byron Boston B Y R O N yeah Byron his father's name is Byron that's his middle name so we got the middle did not junior him which is really really nice of them to do actually They could have really screwed it up from the beginning, but they don't so he's got potential right now His father would be an NFL referee when Boston was a kid. Is that right? Yes, Byron Boston has his dad So I guess later on when he came into the league It was a big deal because he when David came into the league because his father was not allowed to rep his games, which makes sense.

You're not going to call your kid for a fucking offensive holding. Yeah, a lot of, yeah. Get off him. Jesus Christ. He's all over him, this guy. There's a lot of PI around here. I'm throwing him out of the game. He's really been hanging on this one guy all game here.

So he worked as a line judge for one of the preseason games actually between the Cardinals and Chargers in 1999 and his father's also an H&R tax H&R block tax consultant Fucking guys busy all those refs are all Yeah, they all do that and a lot of them are like financial guys for lawyers actually because the lawyers are popular It's strange, but the NFL rulebook is really complicated. It is. There's a lot to it that's complicated and so much so that you really need lawyers to fucking figure it out. It's not just you know some meat head that goes out there like I'm going to rough a game. You know you're down. It's not that

at all. These guys are all nerds. Yeah I tried to ref high school football long, long time ago and I went to the train. I'm like, I can't do this. This is crazy. I love football and this is so confusing. It's so confusing. These guys, why you have to be a lawyer like that. And Hockley was a, he was a big lawyer in Phoenix the whole time he was a NFL ref. So his mother's name is Carolyn and she's a retired teacher. So he does not come from dummies and dipshits and ne'er-do-wells. His mom's a teacher, his dad's an NFL referee slash tax guy. Right.

So like he has no excuse is what I'm getting at for any of his fuckery. And uncles are DDSs. Dentists and ministers and all this shit in his family. Like it's very silly. He's got an older brother. Guess what his name is. Byron?

Byron Jr. That's right. There he is. So, this family, see, they're either juniors, they name their kids Junior or Junior Adjacent. It's in here. His brother was a Dallas police officer, worked for the drug task force.

Really? Yes. So, everyone in his family's very upstanding basically, in terms of how society looks at people, you know what I mean? Ministers, dentists, police officers, teachers, they're, you know, all that shit. And his sister, Alicia, is a lawyer.

So, everyone's doing everything right, except for this fucking dummy. So let's hear about it. Except David. Except him. He'll also have a couple of sons later on Jalen and Braden are his kids So no drama no drama with the names of you know, a David Jr. Unfortunately, so that's okay But he did the whole 2008 thing. Oh, yeah, Jalen and Braden and they're both with wise in it J J a y b r a y so have that. I guess he didn't like doing his homework in high school. He had to be forced by his mother to do it, who was

a teacher. And it's mainly because he was a football player and he was really good. So he was like, man, you don't understand. I don't have to be smart. Well, I'm gonna skip the line on a lot of things. And no matter what you teach me, I'm going to be hitting the head so many times, the odds of me retaining it are very low. Very slim chances, my. He is first two years in high school, he was a big speed guy, not a big muscle guy, because he's not built like that normally.

He's like a tall skinny guy. And he was doing that and then he ended up shooting up five inches in high school. So he went from being, yeah, like a little speedy slot guy to like a number one receiver guy who's over six feet tall and that kind of guy. And a baby deer too because you don't get used to that when it happens fast.

And the funny thing is some of these athletes do though, and that's the people who. Really? Yeah, some of these athletes still grow. Some of the ones that just excel. Yeah, they're so whatever. But the year before his junior year, that summer, he grew five inches and gained 40 pounds.

Jesus. Which I get the five inches, but 40 pounds? How do you fucking put 40 pounds on? 10 pounds an inch almost, Jesus. That's insanity, man So he loved his new size and he was all confident then like I'm big now So he felt you know, which I can imagine on the football field On the football field to be a smaller guy on a field of giants has to be disconcerting a little bit

You know like you have to yeah a lot of these receivers I think they have that swagger because if they didn't, if they let their thoughts take over, they would be terrified of being murdered out there. So they have to have this overconfident thing with the receiver. I really feel that way because they're the skinniest, smallest guys on the field a lot of times, you know, and they're running across the middle gate and putting themselves open to be

blown up by middle linebackers. And he played in an era and league when that was a thing, man. You could still hit a guy when he came down with the ball. Nowadays you have to let him come down, stop, he has to be able to call his mother and have a snack before you're allowed to tackle him. It's fucking ridiculous. Old juice box. So that's why, my least favorite thing is when they take like a current quarterback a mediocre current quarterback stats and they're like they're better than Dan Marino's

Yes, because you're allowed to fucking you can't tackle people That's why when Dan Marino played you could hit a guy while he was in the air catching the ball You could murder him. So it's a little bit different and it's the air catching the ball. You could murder him. So it's a little bit different. And it's the whoever hell way you want the roughing. The passer calls are. Yeah, it's it's really amazing. It's it's crazy mind boggling. I don't know how a ref can even call it. Yeah, I don't know what you do because I mean the quarterback still holding the ball. He gets tackled and they call roughing. It's like, yeah, but you didn't tackle him. You tackled him too hard. Like I'm sorry. Should I have written him a note first

well you know what I mean like should I have given him a little thing hey man are you free in about you know four seconds for a tackle? Well it's that game it's it's at such a high speed that when a quarterback is tackled they have to watch that and determine whether or not that tackle was too hard. How do you do it? And how the fuck are you not supposed to tackle hard? Do you know how hard it is to get past an offensive lineman who's trying not to let you get past them? You get past him it's got to be at full speed. So what are you supposed to do? Slow up and then what? I'm supposed to now take it off a little bit? And then also this guy's these quarterbacks now the last 20 years the

entire quarterbacking industry has been about quick releases so if you don't get to this guy quickly he's getting rid of the ball. And on top of that the pure passer that's like a pocket guy is he also can scramble and he's fast and he's wiry and tricky and if you don't grab him and throw him to the fucking ground fast he's gonna get out of that tackle and then all of a sudden I'm on his high line. Fuck you I'm not gonna be on sports center. Patrick Mahomes is hard to tackle. He fucking squirms and twists and shit so you gotta pop him good to get him down.

And they've changed all the, and it's fine to do this I'm just saying don't compare stats and be like obviously. Can't act like they're better than some. Obviously Kirk Cousins is better than John Elway. Look at his completion percentage. Well yeah cause they changed all the rules between then and then to make it so there's a lot more completions. That's why.

Because you can't tackle a guy. You've got to wait until he turns around and makes a football move before you're allowed to go near him. And nobody's going to keep watching a six to three game even if they've got the under. They need this shit high scoring to keep people's attention. That's the dumb part is they don't need it to be high-scoring because they have money in it still So it doesn't fucking matter those guys could go out there and change the rules to jerking each other off if people have money On it, they'll watch and root for the fucking tackle to come first. That's just the way it is

Nobody wants to watch defensive games though. I fucking love them. I don't mind them. And again, they're gambling on it. They're gonna watch it. Everyone's got a fantasy team and everyone's got all this shit. They're gonna watch anyway. They don't care. Fucking stupid, so anyway, off of that soap box here. It's too old man yelling at the sky.

Our old man yelling at the sky. I don't mind that they change it though. I'm not saying the game was better. I'm just saying don't compare stats on errors because you look at the 70s and you know, well Joe Namath has a 51% completion percentage for his whole career. That's because you could you could literally enter pass interference was pretty much allowed until like 1975. You could pop a receiver before the ball got there. What the fuck do you want from these people? They're not magicians. And these monsters made a career out of it and the crowd went nuts when it happened.

Yeah, I mean it was fucking crazy. So anyway, David Boston said, quote, being around football with my dad and being able to travel around to some of the games gave me a goal to reach for. It wouldn't seem so unattainable at that point too, because you're walking into NFL stadiums. So it seemed like, oh yeah. And supported by a guy that's been around this shit. He's very well aware of what's capable. And it wouldn't awe you so much too.

As a kid you walked into stadiums and walked onto fields and stuff, you get used to it probably. I remember the first time it's majestic man. It's fucking awesome yeah. It really is. It's a different thing so he became a big star for Humble High School on football and in basketball as well. Oh really? Yeah he's really good. Football was his choice because he's like I really like steroids though it helps much more. Feels good. In football, yeah.

He still denies that by the way, which is hilarious. He to this day denies he did steroids. Won't admit it. Won't admit it even though he was caught multiple times as we'll talk about. So he said if it wasn't for his dad, he might've played basketball in college. He said, I was this close.

That's what he said to playing basketball. He was named all region in basketball, all state at safety and all American at wide receiver. Jesus. So yeah, he's an all state defensive back and an all America wide receiver. So one's region one state and one's all America. You pick the one you're all American in and that's wide receiver. So he's all anything's all anything at all and that's fucking amazing. He's great at everything. As a senior, he caught 67 passes for 1145 yards and 12 touchdowns while also making 88 tackles and having four interceptions on defense.

So goddamn good. He was named the greater Houston area player of the year in 1995. Greater Houston area. The whole Houston area. Yeah. Everywhere where it'll flood every time it rains, he's the best. Anything but Galveston.

Yeah, anywhere in this fucking flood plain. It's all good. So he was the ninth best receiver in the nation by Super Prep, which is pretty amazing. Imagine being a kid and being that like. I can't imagine. I can't. Just imagine you're in high school and any magazine at all is writing an article about

you. That'd be fucking insane. Your head would go blow up. It wouldn't be able to get through doors. Somebody in Prescott knowing my name, let alone somebody in fucking LA. People buy tickets come to our shows, we go to live shows, we come out on stage and there's a thousand people there and they're yelling,

we're like, holy fuck, all these people are here. We're still amazed by it, it's incredible. If this was happening when I was 16, my head would have exploded. I'd be dead. I'd be dead by the time I was 23, I guarantee it. Yeah, I would have like wrapped a fucking supercar around a pole like Paul Walker or something, you know, that would have

Something that motherfucker off the can. Yeah, I can jump it. Yeah, they'd arrest my corpse for littering on the Indian Deservedly so So he decided football and He he's all-american. So he got a lot of attention. He visited Michigan, Florida, Texas, all the big one. I mean, these are all the big schools and he ends up picking Ohio State University. That's right. The Ohio State. So, uh, he went up there from down there. Yeah. Well, he was looking for the biggest schools that are on TV all the time.

He wants to be a big high draft pick. He wants to be a high draft pick. I think he gives a fuck about it. I mean, winning is great, but that's so you're on television and you're a high draft pick. That's all it is. Well, and also then, Ohio State in fucking 97, right? 96, he goes there.

They've been good for- That's a big deal. They've been good for, they're a big deal for 60 years. You know what I mean? Since fucking, what's his name? Woody Hayes or whatever he's been they've been great. Is that his name? I think the guy who? anyway He said fuck Ohio State

Who gives a flying shit about this so He said I went on a visit there loved the school and loved the players there They had a lot of guys getting ready to enter the draft. See, that's all it's about. Sean Springs, Eddie George, Joey Galloway. So the environment was great. I saw guys with money in their pockets that their agents lent them.

Out of all those schools, I just thought Ohio State felt like the right place. And yeah, and that, it's probably the equivalent to what Humble is for high school football, because that's all that fucking town is about. That is all it's about. Boy, do they love it. Fuck, they love everything Ohio State there,

when you go there, that's all they talk about. Even all the homeless people ask you about Ohio State, literally, sort of. The only other place that rivals it is like Madison with Wisconsin. That's The only other place that rivals it is like Madison with Wisconsin. That's the only other place that's anywhere close to the real fucking enthusiasm they have for that shit. That's what must keep Columbus going because you look at Cleveland and Cincinnati and

you're like, what happened to these places? What's going on? Yeah, so I'm not sure. So 96 Ohio State, they are 11 and 1. So second in the AP poll, not bad at all. Very, very good year for them. Kicking ass. Joe Germain was the quarterback that year and Stanley Jackson and Tom Hoying was their third quarter. I wonder if that's the Hoying's. There's other Hoying's that were in the NFL in the 90s there. Probably. I would assume so. Yeah, Nick Goings was Hoying's. There's other Hoying's that were in the NFL in the 90s there. Probably then.

I would assume so. Yeah, Nick Goings was on the team. There's an NFL on the back. They had a Hoying and going? They had a coming, and Bobby Cumming also. Yeah. Orlando Pace on that team as well. Oh wow.

So yeah, this is a lot of guys on this team. Mike Grable on that team. Wow, these are a lot of NFL players on here. Sean Springs, Antoine Winfield, oh, a punter, there you go. And even their punter went to the NFL. Good Christ. So that year he plays in 11 games,

29 receptions for 430 yards and five touchdowns as a freshman. Not bad. That's pretty fucking good. Yeah, 14.8 per reception also and He caught the game-winning touchdown for Ohio State in the Rose Bowl at 18 years old Can you imagine the blow job think about when he was? Holy when he they got off the plane back in Columbus. It was that he was engulfed in a sea of tits. It was just Just a sea of tits. It was just... Oh, goh. Just a bunch of mouths over on the tarmac.

What a fucking wild time. He's 18. Yeah. Your life would be over, right? It would be done. Certainly drained. I'd be dead by the end of the week. I swear to God.

I would have been done. My uncle's a dentist. I'm going to clean all of your teeth. Oh my God. Here's a dentist, I'm gonna clean all of your teeth. Oh my god. Here's a new instrument. Your dentist probably doesn't use this all the time, but I do. 1997 Ohio State, they're 10-3 that year and 12th in the polling, so not as good a year as they had the year before.

Oh, the drop, but I'm sure they lost a bunch of talent. Well, yeah, they lost a bunch of talent. Well, yeah, they lost a lot of guys. So he, either way, this year he had, he played in all 12 games, 70 receptions this year. So now he's a focal point, 930 yards, 14 touchdowns. God damn fucking good, I would say. 1998, they go 11 and one,

and they're second in the final AP poll there. Jesus. So they're, Ohio State's always in the running. That's the thing about them. Always. So, yeah, he's a starter, so this is his third year starting. He is going to end up with a lot of records, by the way, at school here. This year in 1980 he plays an 11 game, 74 receptions, 1,330 yards,

18 yards to catch, 13 touchdowns. He's nasty. He's nasty. He's also returning punts and kicks here. And he, or punts at least, he returns 18 punts for an average of 14.9 per return as well, and a touchdown. He's doing really well.

His 191 pass receptions as a Buckeye was a new record at the time. It was broken in 2019, but yeah. His 2,855 career receiving yards and 1,435 single season receiving yards were school records until 2003, so he set them at the time. He had 34 career touchdown receptions and one two-point conversion and averaged 5.89 points per game. He's fucking crushing it. And he held the school touchdown reception record

until 2021. Jesus. That's not bad. His game-winning 97 Rose Bowl touchdown, by the way, was with 19 seconds left. Oh my god. 97 yards? No no no it was in 1997. Oh okay. Yeah 1997 Rose Bowl. Where did 97 come from?

How long was the touchdown? Five yards. Five yards. But still at the end of the game the touchdown. I mean everyone's remembering you. So very good here now March 16th 1998 this has nothing to do with David Boston, but it will at the end here that day the Chargers Trade their first round draft pick which is the eighth overall pick with a 98 first round draft pick here a pick with a 98 first round draft pick here, a 1998 second round pick, and Eric Metcalf and Patrick Sapp to the Cardinals for their 1998 first round pick, which is the second pick overall.

So they traded all that to get Ryan Leaf, because that's the second pick overall. Really? Yes. This will include the pick that the Cardinals got David Boston with and Andre Wadsworth and Corey Chavis. What a great deal. Great deal for the Cardinals. Corey Chavis was there forever. Best deal the Cardinals have ever made, right?

Yeah, usually their front office is a fucking tire fire, so that's pretty impressive. Well, they did fuck up by then not signing Wadsworth and letting him sit there in training camp like they always do, and then he ended up being a bust and so that's... They did fuck up their draft picks, don't worry. They will fuck up a high round draft pick. But Wadsworth was only a bust because of injury, right?

Because he was a good player but he fucked his knees, was that the problem? Yeah, his knees and it was the whole thing. It starts from the very beginning when they don't sign a guy and they set out the whole free agency and they sign them in week two because they're cheap to save a hundred grand. They'd fuck up a whole season for a guy. It's fucking stupid and they did it every year back then because they're just cheap. They go, we don't do all those bells and whistles. Well, yeah, you do because you're in the NFL. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, that's why the draft is also silly, because you can be drafted by a team who's like,

we don't act like all the other teams. Right, we're gonna fuck you over here. Yeah, fuck that, that's crazy. That'd make you hate the climate. Yeah, so the draft is in 1999. It's one of the worst drafts of all time it's known as. It's fucking terrible, which is funny, I love that. By the way, the passing leader for 1999

Who do you think it was passing yards leader in the NFL in the NFL? Yeah passing. Yeah Was it somebody is the Cincinnati quarterback? No, I'll tell you that much. Oh boy Steve Berline. You'd never get Any played for the Cardinals no, no, I'm talking in the NFL I said, oh he's playing for Tampa at the time, right? No, definitely not. Where was he? Tampa had no offense. Carolina?

Carolina's where Berline was, yeah. Well no, because then Kerry Collins was there. Where the fuck was Berline at the time? Did Kerry Collins get hurt or something, maybe? I don't know, was Berline playing for the Rams? No, no, no. I don't remember where the fuck he was. It doesn't matter.

It had to be Carolina or Jacksonville. The rushing and receiving leaders were Edger and James and Marvin Harrison, both of the cults at the time. So this year, first pick overall, do you know this 1999 draft? 99? We've talked about it before.

Oh, man, and it wasn't Ryan Leaf? Nope, that was 98. That was 98. Oh, 98. 98 was Manning and Leaf. 99? 99. Jesus Christ.

Tim Couch of the Browns. Big bust. Oh, 98. 98 was Manning and Leaf. 99? 99. Jesus Christ. Tim Couch of the Browns. Big bust. Oh man. A huge bust. So that was when Cleveland, first year Cleveland came back to as the Cleveland Browns again. So they drafted this quarterback and it's going to be the future and he was terrible. When the matriarch of a prominent Princeton family is found stabbed to death in her locked basement.

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that she was playing them out in real life? Follow Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes of Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy early and ad free right now by joining Wondery Plus. Second overall is Donovan McNabb. Oh, how could you? He went to a couple Super Bowls and had a pretty good career for a while. Yeah, but how could you take out over him?

Yeah. Jesus. Third overall, Achille Smith. That's a bad pick. Yeah. That's a fucking bust and a half there. That's Cincinnati, of course. Fourth overall, Edger and James. Hall of Famer. Great choice. Number five, Ricky

Williams. Great player. Somehow not a Hall of Famer. Torrey Holt number five. Good receiver for the Cardinals. The Rams is who I'm thinking. Cardinals came out of my mouth because they look down here. Then number seven, Champ Bailey overall here. Great, to Washington, right? Hall of Fame, yeah, to Washington. Then number eight overall, David Boston of the Cardinals. Wow, top 10.

Top fucking 10 pick there. Then Chris Claiborne, Chris McAllister, Dante Culpepper, Cade McNown, a lot of bad quarterbacks in this first round. Where'd Cade go? Number 12 to Chicago. Oh, Chicago. They are a lot of bad quarterbacks in this first round. Where'd Cade go? Number 12 to Chicago. Oh, Chicago. They are the worst at drafting quarterbacks. They're just not good at it.

We'll see if this guy works out for him here from USC because... He's good. He's good. They all are good in college though. That's the thing. That's why they're drafted in the first round. But Tim Couch was good in college. He was great in college.

The problem is if the Bears draft you right away, that's a that's a Question you go. Oh, no, what do they see in him? Whatever skill set they see Is obviously not the one that translates to the nfl. So more read right right off the bat there Troy edwards john tate Um, not taint tate javon curse number 16. So that's a good pick. He was so good He was good. Damien Woodie, longtime NFL center, also pretty good, Ebenezer Ekuban, guys like that. Not a great deep draft here, just not.

Antoine Winfield went to Buffalo. A lot of his teammates went in the first round though, there. So second round, it really starts to fall apart. You look at it and you're like, what the fuck is happening here? There's just Jim Kleinsa saucer there for the tight end. That's about as good as I really see. Nobody really terrific in this draft.

It's a rough draft, let's just say. He loved getting drafted, obviously. More attention. Oh, man. Yeah, especially. Top 10, fuck. You're going up there with the hat and they're holding

the jersey up and everything. This isn't just getting a phone call at your house and you and your mom and dad celebrate with a six foot sub. This is. You went number eight but that jersey you're holding is number one. Number one. It's the Cardinals first pick. That's right. He said it was a great feeling to get drafted. We were all out in California for the draft party at my agent's house. Why weren't you there? You're a top-ten pick It was a good feeling watching all the hard work and everything. I had dreamed about happen and come to life Yeah, why are you there dude? Well because at there sure It's a celebration for a moment as he walks across that stage, but at that party. Yeah, it's all night

I'll have a fucking party in New York at the draft, that's the point. Get a goddamn hotel suite, you're an NFL top 10 draft pick. Yeah, you got the money. Get a suite and have a party, fuck's wrong with you. So 1999 Cardinals, oh, this was the fun, bad every year. Awful Cardinals. So bad. It was so great, I hate the Cardinals,

they're my second least favorite team. Actually, they're my least favorite team because when they play the Patriots, I root for the Patriots to kick the shit out of them. So, second, my favorite game was like 51-3 in the snow with Kurt Warner not able to walk in the snow. It was amazing, I loved watching them get pummeled. It was just always, always so depressing.

I hate that fucking team so much. I hate the fans too, because they're all bandwagon. When they're six and 10, nobody gives a fuck. When they're 13 and three, it's like, I bleed Cardinal Red, man. And they're like, fuck you. The tickets were so easy to get for so long. You'd have to fend them off.

Homeless people would offer them to you. They wouldn't even ask you for money. They're like, take these tickets off my hands. That's why I'm homeless. I have too many tickets. They ask to carry these. I know. I can't have them.

They don't even burn. They're garbage. Take them. So it would work. So there's six and ten. Coach Vince Tobin there. Oh, God. Oh, Tobin.

Yeah, poor bastard. What a goddamn disaster that is overall. Dave Brown. Oh, God. Dave Brown and Kent Graham as quarterbacks. Do you remember those days? That's no good. Oh man, I remember I went to a Monday night football game and there was just like, the crap, people that were rooting for the Cardinals were, it would be second down and they'd be

like, just punt, just fucking punt, he's going to throw a pick. It's easier to punt now, like literally. Just punt. Rooting for punting on second down, because otherwise there was going to be a turnover and they knew it. So fucking funny. Oh, we have Marte Jenkins. I remember that guy on the team.

Looking over these old names from here, it's pretty interesting. So anyway, David Boston this year, he plays in all 16 games, starts eight, because it's a terrible team. They could use him. Oh, it's a terrible team. They could use it He has 40 receptions for 473 yards and two touchdowns and garbage throwing to him, too But still it's his first year in the NFL. He's doing fine. He's a good he does some punt returning to and does decent there Everybody's happy. I would say he's happy. Sure. I'm gonna say grace right now for David, right? It's a big day. It's a big fucking day. So March 27th, 2000

now. This is in the off season obviously. He gets in a really bad car accident. That was his first of, yeah. One where somebody's dead. That's why it's bad. A driver going the wrong way in Columbus, Ohio was killed when his car hit David Boston's. It's not David's fault. It was in Columbus. It was in Columbus. Yeah, the guy was going the wrong way on the highway, which is insane.

And in Arizona, nobody gives a fuck about him. But in Columbus, everybody loves him. He's a big deal in Columbus, yeah. And at the time, too, because he was a good rookie wide receiver. He had a lot of playing in Arizona I remember and he wasn't injured at all somehow Wow, the other guy's dead and he's not injured. I'm not on steroids The other guys twisted blood coming out of his mouth and you just see the You just see the roof pop off his car,

and he jumps out of the top, and he's like, I feel great. What was that? He picks the other guy's car up and puts it off of his car, and he's like, ah. Uninjured. Uninjured, yeah. Uninjured. Uninjured, yeah.

The guy must have glanced off him and hit a pole or something, huh? I don't know, but the guy was 21, I'm injured. Yeah, the guy must have glanced off him and hit a pole or something Huh? No, but the guy was 21 the other guy Damn shame he was with Number digs that linebacker Digs he was with him leaving Ohio State for the NFL. That's they were both This is before everything so he was driving north on interstate 71 at 3 a.m. When he's driving a Hummer That's why there you go. He's driving a Hummer now. We know he's driving a fucking tank hit a car head-on. Oh

Boy go on injured southbound a lot of that's that your car weighs five times as much as the other guys I think yes The other driver that truck ate your car. I wanted as much as the other guys, I think. Yeah, yeah. The other driver. That truck ate your car. I wanted to save this. The other driver, you know what he was driving? No. A Ford Escort. Ah, no chance.

A Ford Escort hits a Hummer. That's a suicide. The Hummer probably said, do we just hit something like a raccoon in the road or some shit? They barely noticed it probably. Is it already mosquito season around here? This is wow. He said he wasn't, I felt something.

He wasn't injured but he said later on that he suffered lingering nerve damage from it. But he wasn't like nothing broken, not bleeding. Pinched something. A woman by the, was the driver. Danielle, 21-year-old Danielle Carfagna. Maybe it's just the name. She's just really had enough of that.

Been really picked on a long time. This goddamn escort. And police were unable to determine why she was doing it. Sounds like a suicide attempt if you're driving the wrong way directly at a Hummer in a Ford Escort on a highway. Were there any chemicals in her body at all? If not, that is suicide. Or if there was, I'd say she did that to have the balls to do it, you know. Maybe, yeah.

Just to get juiced up. So 2,000 Cardinals are 3 in 13. Yeah, buddy. Good shit. Fuck the torture. Fuck, they were bad. I can't imagine being a player and having that just every fucking week. Buddy. Yeah. Good shit. Fuck the torture. Fuck they were bad. I can't imagine being a player and having that just every fucking week. Depressing. How'd you like to be a season ticket holder? Because that's also when they still played at Sun Devil Stadium.

So you go to an early season game, it's 111 degrees outside, you're sauteing on a metal fucking bleacher while watching a 3-in-13 football team Embarrass the fuck out of the state. Yeah. Yeah Team the team unfold just fall apart before your eyes They started out with Vince Tobin who got fired when he was two and five and then Dave McGinnis comes in really cleans it Up by going one and eight the rest of the way nice job Great work Dave. Holy fuck Wow cleans it up by going one and eight the rest of the way. Nice job. Great work, Dave. Holy fuck.

Wow, they probably won the first game like, yeah, new coach and then it all. Now we got it together. It all goes downhill here. So this is also, it's a rough time. Simeon Rice on the team then, that's right. That's his guy there. Yeah, he was real good.

Aneas Williams still on the team. Fuck Aneas Williams, he's good. He's real, he was real good. Aneas Williams, still on the team. Fuck Aneas Williams, he's good. He's real underrated because he was so kind of low key, but he was really good. Did he get in trouble for something too? Did he go to the Rams and do something bad? I think so, I thought he got like, I don't know. I think it was elsewhere though.

He beat up his wife or some shit? I don't remember what happened. Maybe. We'll have to look that up. He may have gotten traded because of it May that's possible here. Yeah this year David's by the way these that's speculation. We don't know that he beat his wife up Yeah We're not saying that's what happened. We don't know money for kids every day. That's why he got traded

He was too busy raising money for underprivileged handicapped children. That's what it was. He's like there's poor blind kids I'm trying to help them. They're like listen. We need you to watch more film. We have no Maybe they trade him because he beat the fuck out of his wife. I don't know It could have raped her in the face with a wife fucking I don't know or he's or he's too nice for 13 team He was an asset they could trade maybe What do I fucking know? I don't know or he's or he's too nice for three and thirteen team. Yeah He was an asset they could trade maybe So David starts all 16 games this year 71 receptions 11 156 yards and seven touchdowns. He's a star now. Yeah, it's

16.3 yards per catch too. So that's That's big numbers on the team that fucking matters. Yeah, he really, on the offense, he really was at the time. So this year they go seven to nine under Dave McGinnis. I remember everybody going, ooh, the Cardinals look better. Look at this.

They almost for 500, yeah, wow. All of a sudden they're one game away from being even. Being even and still not making the fucking playoffs. Jake Plummer was still on the team, by the way. I don't know why I thought he was gone early. Jake Plummer did this, huh? Yeah, Jake Plummer, he started all 16 games that year. Man.

That must have been his rookie year. Plummer? No, Plummer's rookie year was 97, wasn't it? Or no, 97 was the Rose Bowl. It must have been 98. It could have been 98, yeah. It must have been 98 or this. Yes, yeah, yeah. It must have been 98 or this. Yes, yeah, that's right, yeah,

because he had, I think it was the 97 Rose Bowl was his big fucking coming out. Yeah, so then it would have been 98, but he probably didn't start him until this, right? Maybe, yeah, because back then you wouldn't, especially him too, because he wasn't ever ready to play in the NFL, I don't think. He was terrible, so.

You think so? The worst quarterback I've ever seen. Loved him in Denver. Well, he has never thrown a spiral in his life. I can't, any quarterback that throws like that. I can't watch it. You're fucking awful. All of his stats are we're down 28 to three in the fourth quarter. So they let you march down the field twice and people like he's Jake the snake, the comeback. No, you're down 30 points. They don't care if you fucking they're playing prevent

They're literally saying catch let him catch it then tackle him. That's what they're doing That's 13 and wait time was pretty fucking amazing to watch that was not him at all He was looking at him look at his games though. He's terrible. Look who they have they had so many great exactly You could have quarterbacked that team to success they were fun he's a I can't why he was awful he was just awful a most overrated quarterback part of that I think he was too I think I think the plumbers the most overrated quarterback in the last 30 years of the NFL he's terrible I mean Tim Tebow aside but that was just that was just religious people saying he was good no one else thought he was good that's why they pushed former aside was was for cutler and him. Yeah. Well color had potential when you looked at him

But then oh, you know, he was so bad. He turned out to be Jay Cutler, unfortunately I hated him so much if you watched him throw though you go a spiral finally Holy shit, he can throw it more than 38 yards down the field to to the other team You see plumber go down field It was like he threw a haul back and chuck it as far as he could it was a wounded duck that would wobble 36 yards and Hopefully I'm Rod Smith's hands. Well, yeah, hopefully if you have Rod Smith or a giant roided up David Boston who can throw a Defensive back out of the way and grab it, but otherwise

Royed it up David Boston who can throw a defensive back out of the way and grab it, but otherwise Garbage so loved it. Oh man. Well, yeah, cuz you like Denver and you'll take whatever the fuck they have. I really well Yeah, see, I'm I'm a Giants fan, but I you know, I can you want to win No, not a specific way if someone sucks they suck I don't care if they're on my team or not You suck, but when they suck and they win I'm so happy Daniel Jones could win the Super Bowl. He still sucks. You know what I mean he sucks Period watch him play. He's not good He's really not That's not their starter right now, right? Yeah, they gave him a fuckload of money

They gave him a ton of money. They gave him like 150 million dollars for being Extremely mediocre is that the kid with the fucking? No They just gave him a fuck ass shitload of money last year and everyone went what? He's the comparison of like why quarterbacks are so overpaid. Daniel Jones makes this much money and he's terrible. So David this year though, he, 1598 receiving yards, led the league, so big star. Lot of fucking 28 to three games where he caught a lot

of passes in the fourth quarter that no one cared about and let him catch. And he was named to the Pro Bowl and the All Pro teams. That's awesome. Really good here. He says that he gives success to his credit for his success to his coach. He said, I had a great season in 2001 and we had a coach come in there that changed my whole viewpoint as a receiver.

I had never come across a coach who had any kind of impact with me to the degree Jerry Sullivan was able to have on me. I think just me getting better, working hard and throwing him into the mix, I think he was able to guide me to that Pro Bowl caliber year that I had." So at least he's giving credit to people. That's good. Yeah, this year 15 games started 16 played 98 receptions 1,598 yards That's a lot eight touchdowns exact same yards per reception as last year 16.3, which is pretty impressive But he averages 99.9 yards a game. That's incredible. That's fucking incredible. He has a terrific year. Awesome March 15 2002 he's under investigation yeah and this is for possible drunken driving driving yeah remember how big of a deal this was in

Phoenix oh boy because it was such a ridiculous thing here it was a it was a time it was an era to Arizona that where they were they wanted they wanted the country to know that you're all on watch. We're keeping an eye on you. You cross our borders with a mouthwash in your car. You're going to jail. You're going to jail? Your kid's gonna get kicked out of school?

He losing your license for a year. Yeah, they were really nuts. And this was at a time too when like in Phoenix because 2001 is kind of pre podcasts and pre all that sports radio was a big deal in Phoenix back there I remember so like they're they a story like this This is all they would talk about all day all night was this shit So they had nothing else going on but the cardinal was this this was in March so there's nothing happening it's spring training and this that's it yeah so the Cardinals here he's being investigated

he was taken into custody after quote performing very poorly during a field sobriety test at his home I guess the police went to his home after two different people called 911 on him wow separate people and said they had followed a car there that they thought was being driven by someone in there. Two separate people followed a fucking car there, followed his car. All the way to this house. To his house and called 911 to say this guy was tanked.

Mind your business. Hey, they got home and didn't kill anybody. I'm moving on now. My part and this is done. Yeah. At that point. We're very lucky. You're lucky. We're all lucky great moving on I also have like the job and kids and shit. What the fuck am I doing following a stranger around? Nothing happened except this guy drove like a dipshit. Yeah, because he's a he's hammered so April 24th

2002 he faces charges now police recommending that he be charged with driving under the influence of cocaine and marijuana oh Oh got a little more interesting now Yeah, this is a fuck blood test taken after he was to detained after he performed poorly on the field sobriety test Revealed the presence of cocaine and marijuana no alcohol in his system The first guy that ever left of the presence of cocaine and marijuana. No alcohol in the system. No, my God. None. The first guy that ever left fucking the Tilted Kilt was just coke and weed in it.

Yeah. I'm worried about that guy. Yeah. That guy worries me way more than the guy who had four beers at the Tilted Kilt. Yeah. Just because he went to a bar and was like, I'm only doing coke.

That's a fucking weird guy like I'm only doing coke. That's The weird guy Ladies night drink specials. I don't give a fuck. Yeah, I don't care. That's clean this area of the bar. I'm about to chop it up Yeah, click let's get that towel out here get the clean one from behind there So the police recommend that the city prosecutor's office charged him with one misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of drugs and another misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle while generally impaired. I can't fucking believe this because I remember when this happened and I had no idea it was just drugs. The big deal was he was saying he wasn't on drugs, number one, and at the same time he said it was ridiculous that the cops came to his house after he was already home and the people Who saw him driving aren't cops. So why there was a huge debate over whether this should be a thing or not So how you swerve and when that's all it is. That's it's a misdemeanor too. So yeah

That's you got to be so fucking high on coke Coke and weed to also which one did you do last is gonna be the thing that dominates. The dominant one. Yeah. If you're high and you do coke, you're not gonna be stoned anymore. It's an interesting crossfade because if you do too much coke,

then you don't even, what's the point of smoking that weed? You don't feel it. Usually, guys I know that did a lot of coke, they would smoke weed at the end of the night to chill off of that and be able to go to sleep. That's how they would come off of it. So I don't know if that was his like chill out or if he's just likes to fucking put everything together at once, make a cocktail. I don't

know. But they say they're saying at this point that he's probably going to be in more trouble with the NFL than with the police. They're saying the actual police investigation here there's a lot of holes, there's a lot of, anybody with a decent lawyer can find shit wrong with an investigation, that's why. And with something like that, I mean, I don't know, I'm not a fucking lawyer nor a cop, but it feels like it'd be hard to prove

that he ingested it on purpose. How the fuck do you accidentally ingest cocaine and marijuana? I don't know, man. How do you say that he did it on purpose? It doesn't matter, he's in a car, fucked up. Whether you did it on purpose or not doesn't matter. Does it? I don't know, maybe you say,

I don't know, I just started feeling funny. I didn't mean to feel like this. I don't know how I feel like this. I just had to get home. But that, according to the law though, driving impaired isn't, intent isn't the point. Great point.

They don't care if intent, it's driving impaired. Is it illegal to have drugs in you, or is it illegal to have them in possession of them? And drive, it's illegal to have them in you. If he was hanging out in his living room and he hadn't drove and they busted in and protested him, that's not illegal at all, if he didn't have anything. But in a car, then it's, yeah, that's a different story.

So they're trying to make a big deal out of it illegal at all if he didn't have anything. But in a car, then it's, yeah, that's a different story. So he, they're trying to make a big deal out of it and his agent is saying, no, no, it's crazy. The true facts will be revealed once independent blood testing takes place is what his agent said. The true facts. I love when people say the true facts will be revealed.

It's like Jim Jones and then nothing happens. Or like one of these doomsday people the world will end on April 22nd And then April 23rd are like so anyway Another millennia fundraise There we go So they said the NFL has probable cause now with Boston, because the league, they don't abide by laws. They're not the police force.

They have their own rules that they regulate and investigate and all that kind of shit. So they said this arrest is all they need to initiate the drug program for David Boston. No matter what happens with the criminal investigation, the league can now tell Boston that what to do, whether, you know, no legalities aside. So he can't get out of that.

They said that he has to do a league sponsored drug test now. He could have to drop piss as much as 10 times a month. That's how many times they can do that here. Ten times a month? They can knock on your door at fucking seven in the morning and say piss right now. Every 72 hours? All the time. Yeah, they can do it as much as they fucking want, which is pretty goddamn wild here.

This is his, it will be his first strike, so I don't think he'll be suspended, but he probably will have to get a lot of drug tests going on. He is saying here he's been known as a hard partier anyway, like he was always known as that. Yeah. And so they said that he's a hard partier and they don't like that he's very, remember all his taunting on the field? He was a lot of big talker and all that shit.

Loudmouth. They didn't like that, but that's a wide receiver. I don't give a fuck. That's fine. They were saying though the drug testing could be bad because if you fuck up at all, they're testing you constantly. So they say he becomes an unrestricted free agent after next year, so they're talking about will this ruin his market value, getting drug tests all the time and all that kind

of shit. So May of 2002, he won't face a drug possession charge. Okay. They said there's a lack of evidence on a drug possession charge. Really, lack of drugs. Well, no, they said they found two bags of cocaine. Oh! Well, here's what they did.

Okay, this is fucking funny. They took him in from his house, no cocaine in the back of the cop car, okay? When they got him there, they took him out, and then they went and looked in the car. Now there's two bags of coke in the back seat of the car yeah so if you try to transport it into jail that's an extra charge so he was like I don't leave these motherfuckers in the car and say it's not mine and they're saying it worked because they're saying they're not gonna charge them because a

lack of evidence now because they don't have proof who cameras in the car back then they could show it wow that's fucking wild man. So unreal They said there isn't sufficient evidence to prosecute him on the cocaine charge They recommended that he be prosecuted for driving under the influence of drugs and all of that So how about that the cop the arresting officer has to feel like a real dick for not patting him down Yeah, right. They didn't how do you not find down. Yeah, right. How do you not find that? How do you miss that? How do you fucking miss that?

That's wild. So he then apologizes to the Cardinals. He says, quote, I want to apologize for bringing this kind of circumstances to the organization, this kind of circumstances. I've been told by my lawyer not to discuss any of the details of the matter, but I'm glad to be back out here playing. That's his big apology. He didn't apologize.

No. He said, I want to, but I want to apologize. I'm going to say a bunch of things that are not an apology. But I'm happy to be playing. Yeah. We can't talk about it, but sure happy to play. I want to apologize, but I'm not gonna. Oh my god. So July 28th 2002 big article on is he on steroids? Of course he's not. I mean this is from the Arizona Republic here Richard Obert so Dickie O over here. He says David Boston would have been the envy

of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he came to Cardinals camp a year ago. 19 inch arms, six pack abs, legs that carried him 40 yards in 4.18 seconds. That's not true by the way. Also put it away man, calm down. That would tie the fastest 40 in the history of the NFL. He's not 4.18. 4.18 yeah. Michael Vick ran a 4.19. You're not that fast.

Sorry David Boston. You're just not. So they said he went from 209 pounds the previous season to a sculpted 242 pounds. Jesus. And emerged as an NFL star. Steroids, the question mark, and then his personal trainer says

he's got tested 14 times for steroids and passed every time. That doesn't. Look at what he just said. Is he on steroids? He got tested 14 times and passed every time. Is that no? He's not on steroids? This is also the time when the Wizzinator

was a big deal in the NFL. They all used one. This is also the time when they wereisenator was a big deal in the NFL. They all used one. This is also the time when they were, HGH was a big deal. There was all these creams and all this stuff that didn't, the mask, this was all Balco times and all that times. This was all new technology that was ahead of the testing and all that. But just to say, if I said, did you kill your wife, Jimmy? Well, I mean, her head was found on the front lawn, but none of my prints were there. That's not no. I passed a polygraph. Yeah they polygraphed

him 11 times and he's passed every time. It's not I didn't kill my wife at all. Sorry. I look forward to my day in court. That's what you are. Might as well They said human growth. This is the article again human growth hormone injections Question mark they're hard to detect because the body produces it naturally Boston says no to both Okay, this is fucking amazing. He says that he does reishi a mushroom extract that lowers the Cortisol levels in the body. That's what he does. Cortisol is a stress hormone that breaks down muscle. Boston attributes much of his gains to the herb along with a high protein low carb diet and training. It's 30 pounds in a year, bro. No

No, no high protein low-carb. Yeah Barry Bonds is like I got to write that down for later when they ask why my head is four sizes bigger than it was Before yeah, I have BLT lettuce wrap. That's why sorry Boston said He gets his blood tests done to measure his hormone levels and takes the reishi orally. He also does what is becoming an increasingly popular technique for many athletes using an IV drip that's a mix of vitamins and minerals or whatever else he might need. Yeah, like steroids.

He said, I do it for whatever is wrong with my body. Sometimes I'll get a hydrogen peroxide drip which cleans the veins and arteries. What the fuck are you putting in your body? You can put hydrogen peroxide in your bloodstream? In your bloodstream? Directly into your bloodstream? I didn't realize that. That feels dangerous.

I thought it was just blood you were supposed to put in there. Or drugs or you know. That shit's like a foaming agent too, like that'll expand. Yeah. It'll blow out your heart. Feels like it would. His trainer says it cleans the veins and arteries. This sounds like some 17th century shit.

Then he covers them in leeches after that and they fucking really go to work. I'm not a doctor, but that sounds bad. This sounds ridiculous. I don't think this is this is like policy nowadays. I don't think there's NFL players directly injecting hydrogen peroxide into their bloodstream. When I have a yuck stomach, James, I like to get a Seagram's ginger ale drip. Yeah, I just eat charcoal. That works for me. The fuck are we talking about? You put hydrogen in your veins?

He said, sometimes after I train real hard and being on a high protein diet, they'll give my liver a lot of things to break down. Okay, at Fisher Sports Physical Training and Conditioning in Phoenix, Cardinals quarterback Jake Plumbers, up to 215 pounds, eating five meals a day and pumped up on a combination of zinc and magnesium.

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I believe he was. I think he was. I think he was dinged, yes. Archuleta left last weekend for camp at 224 pounds and running the 40 in 4.3 seconds. No he wasn't. You're lying to fucking advertise your shit. That's bullshit. He was not running it in 4.3. He wasn't. They would

instantly make... Oh my god, I'm so angry right now. These fucking liars. Liars. He says, he left bigger, stronger, and faster than I've known him. That's what Schrader says. Scottsdale strength trainer Chad Ikei, or whatever, a former world record holder at 119 pounds in Olympic weightlifting. I think that means he weighed 119, not he lifted 119. That must have been a really long time ago. He refers some of his clients to Dr. Vance Inouye, an instructor at the Southwest Naturopathic Medical Center in Scottsdale and a naturopath at Tyche Chiropractic. Innuay administers vitamin and mineral IV drips that he says helps the muscles recover

faster and give the athlete more vitality, which is what steroids does, by the way. He says IV drips work much faster because they bypass the stomach lining and liver and get right to the cells. He said he administers only FDA regulated products. It can cost from 85 to $125 a session. Wow. Mark Verstegen, who operates Athletes Performance in Tempe, says he has each of his athletes sign an ethical statement that says they will not take performance enhancing drugs.

If Schroeder suspects one of his athletes of using steroids, he says he'll have the athlete tested. If they refuse or fail, they're kicked out. Wow. Oh my. Do you refuse their money? I can't believe this Dick Obert just wrote this down. Tell me what you have to say and I won't investigate it or look into it or anything

I'll just write it down as an advertisement for you. What a fucking hack man. You're a hack Richard Obert. Sorry Hope you're not a fucking writer there anymore because this is awful Vest verse Stegen who has a nutritionist on staff promotes homeopathy and a balanced diet trainer Mac Newton swears By meats and lots of vegetables and fruits You know a balanced diet. Trainer Mac Newton swears by meats and lots of vegetables and fruits. You know, a whole diet. 30 pounds in a year. Yeah. You didn't figure some meats and vegetables. Wow. Philadelphia Flyers forward Jeremy Roenick reduced his body fat by 14% under the nutritional advice and workouts. Well, that you can do. You can slim if you exercise. If it doesn't fly, swim or run,

or if it's not green, don't eat it, the trainer said. That's, they just let that article go out. There's literally no, investigate, no, I looked into this, this is actually, nothing, just they say this, and then it keeps going. Some natural pathetic shit. Wow, what fucking hackery in sports writing.

Dude, hackery in sports writing is gonna be a new category. It's certainly a- For these scummy awards. Worst sports writers ever. And old, what's your name, Dick Obert? You are top of the list, you fucking hack. 2002 here, the Cardinals go 5-11, really crushing it.

Good thing they were doing some naturopathic shit. Thank God they're all super muscular and look great because they suck at playing football. Yeah, they sold more calendars than season tickets. Exactly, yeah. There's the Jake Plummer centerfold. 215 ladies, What do you think? My fucking spiral still terrible, but 215 So ESPN the magazine remember when that was a thing

Reported at some point this season Boston had been caught with a woman at bed check before a game The night before a game every team stays in a hotel even if it's a home game It's so you know none of the distractions of home. No distractions, yeah. And so he brought a distraction with him, apparently. I got no distractions, I got a blowjob machine. I got no pussy or steroids, I swear. There's a needle hanging out of his arm and a naked woman next to him.

I've done neither. I've done neither. I've done neither. No, it's used and on the floor, full of jizz. I swear, that was here when I got here. I swear. She brought that with her and just put it down. I don't know. She carries it with her. It's weird. When the woman was ordered to leave Boston, there's a team said, you gotta get out cause they do bed check.

Boston fucking bucked up to the coaches and said that he threatened to fake an injury and not play unless she was allowed to stay. I will tell the press I'm injured tomorrow and not play. And you know what the team said? Fake the injury. Okay, she can stay and they let her stay. What?

Dude, you're asking for every fucking thing you will get with this guy at that point. Wow. If you let him have special rules, that's insanity. They let her stay. They let her stay. That's one of those things. It doesn't matter if you're Peyton Manning, this one, that one fucking day before the game, no chicks in here.

You're getting walked. I mean, that's just like a teenager telling you, my girlfriend's staying over. Yeah. The kid's always going to be against you. I'll fake strep throat tomorrow and not go to school. Well, okay, I guess she can stay then. I guess she can stay, see you in the morning. Your ass is going, yeah, I'll drop your ass off at school

and you're going. So November 14th, 2002, he actually does hurt himself. This is not a fake injury. He tears his patellar tendon in his right knee. And he's going to lose a whole bunch of the season here. So 2002 he only plays in 8 games, still has 32 receptions for 512 yards and a touchdown but obviously it's a, this is the beginning of his injuries because you know his body isn't structured to hold 242 pounds while playing

football. That's not how his body is. It's an unnatural 30 pounds. And it's fascinating that it's the weak low point. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's that spot that it's going to give if it's too top heavy. That's it. Yeah. Your legs are meant for your knees. Joints are only meant for a certain amount of weight. And you can see if you know people that are like, like I know a guy who's like 525 pounds and could dance, like light on his feet, his fucking ankles

were the size of my knees and they weren't like with fat, his fucking bone structure was made to carry that much weight. That's why he could dance and not hurt himself and shit. Whereas if I gained 300 pounds, I would break my fucking leg walking around in my house because I'm not made for that. So he tears his shit. March 10th, 2003, the Chargers sign him.

The Cardinals are done with him after that. They let him go. They have four years with the Cardinals and that's it. He's a free agent and they sign him. They sign him to a seven year, $47 million contract. Wow. With 12 million guaranteed. Jesus.

Which isn't a lot for a big receiver now, but back then that was a huge deal. That's great money, yeah. Real big deal. So $50 million. It's a lot. 2003 San Diego, they're not great either. Four and 12 that year.

Yeah, that was fun to be a Broncos fan back then. That was when Marty Schottenheimer first got there and then they'll be pretty goddamn good soon. I think they're 13 and three in a couple years. So four and 12 that year, not good at all. Drew Brees is their quarterback again, starter. It's finally starting that year. This is 2001?

2003. Okay. That season. So that year, September 1st, 2003, this is from ESPN.com, and this is fucking funny. They say that you hear a lot of whispers around the NFL about just how David Boston got so big and still is fast. And it says, you know what? He doesn't give a damn what you or anyone else thinks.

Yeah. Very bonds doesn't care about what you think about his home runs either. No, he doesn't care that his hat size went from six and seven eighths to seven and a fucking seven and five eighths overnight. So the article says, what's going on in room 614? There's a man in there, a he-man actually. Listening to ocean music. There are syringes and needles in boxes and IV bags in the closet. There are registered nurses knocking on the door and chiropractors coming and going and a personal trainer carrying a backpack full of pills. A backpack that some people would love to inspect.

What's going on in room 614? There's an overgrown wide receiver in there. Dude, you're on steroids! fans yell at him at training camp. A lot of NFL players and coaches think he's on something, but the term they use is yoked up. Gotta be, an NFL defensive back says. The receiver keeps testing clean, seven times last season, but his peers are still suspicious. Yeah, because he's on fucking HGH, you dummies.

Jesus Christ. They can't prove it, but they think he's on something they don't have a test for yet. Maybe human growth hormone, and one reason is the size of his head. Oh. Dude, it's just ridiculously, now in the past, knowing that we know about Balco and Bonds and all that shit, he said, this a player that said look, even his face is growing. He's bloated. His cheekbones have changed.

Oh shit. He's turned into a fucking monster. He's turning into like a wolf man or something. I don't know what's happening. So guys around the league just don't see how his weight could jump from 209 to 257 in three years. Yes you can. You know exactly how. Drugs or how he can have 21 inch biceps. Good lord. Dude that's like a very big 80s roided up professional wrestler. That's a lot of arm. That's so much arm. That's crazy and a 34 inch waist and 5.5 percent body fat how can he run the

40 in 4.3 seconds or how sorry the Cardinals could let a or how the sorry Cardinals could let such a physical specimen walk or how 30 other teams could let the Chargers scoop him up as a free agent for only 47 million a fucking bargain a Roided-up idiot who apparently likes to do coke and fucking And waste weed. Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, but this is not you know, and also as a torn tendon in his knee Yeah, so now they say no There's got to be something going on in that room something to keep Arizona from franchising him franchise tag They mean something to scare off the rest of the league. We didn't even have him on our board says a Redskins exec whose team needed a receiver and opted to pay

Laverneous Coles a 13 million dollar signing bonus. Laverneous Coles, he's half this guy's size and doesn't run any faster. But few trust him, meaning Boston not Coles. They hear all the stories stories how he eats only his personal trainer in his personal trainers room Room 614 at the Hilton Carson Civic Plaza in Carson, California How Hall of Famer Joe Green an assistant coach on his own old team wonders if he'll live to 30? Really he's living fast is what he's saying How he's paying his personal trainer 200k a year. Yeah, what is going on? Apparently this guy just, it's just David Boston.

His whole thing is just keeping David Boston in business here. Even though he's rooming with LaDani and Tomlinson, he's holed up most of the time in room 614. Holed up and getting heavier every day. Chargers defensive end Marcelus Wiley said, have you seen that guy? Our D line coach calls him RoboCop. Fuck, if any of us defensive linemen go down, he's going two way. I mean 260 pounds, 5% body fat, 4.340, that's 30 sacks. You're saying it'd be a great defensive end. Every day in the cafeteria, I walk past fried foods and say, I am David Boston. That way I won't eat them.

I want to look just like David Boston. No problem. No problem, real easy. But that's the problem. David Boston doesn't even look like David Boston. Arizona Cardinals official, somebody from the team said, quote, I give him till Halloween. For what? The consul? To live? I think, yeah, he's going to be dead by Halloween.

It's going to be dead in six months. He's being stalked by fucking Michael Myers, I think is the problem here. He said, If he falls asleep that Friday, he's going to get him. He's going to get him. That's it. He knows it if he falls asleep that Freddy's gonna get him. He's gonna get him. That's it. He knows it. It's bad because that means awake he's got to run for Michael Myers. So he's got a lot of problems. He's not lasting past Halloween. I'll tell you that much right now. He's only, he can't run that. I mean, yeah, sure. Michael Myers doesn't run a four three 40, but but you know if you're in one spot. You run a 4-3-40 long enough you're gonna get tired you're gonna fall asleep and

Freddie's gonna come out of your chest. That's how it works. So they said the consensus in Arizona is that he'll break down that his ankles are too thin to carry that load that's what I was saying that he's too massive for the ligaments on his sprinter legs the consensus is that that patellar tendon in his right knee, the one that burst last season, will burst again and that will be that he'll be a bodybuilder or a model. Wow, week 10, he's done with this sport. Boston says, well, I'd rather be explosive at 250 for 8 to 10 years than be 230 for 13 years. Why?

I don't know what that means. You don't have what that means. You don't have to be 250 to be a great receiver in the NFL. Jerry Rice is still the greatest receiver who's ever fucking lived, and I think he was a buck 80, if that. Yeah. And they don't care about size. What they're looking for is speed.

If you're fast, you can last in this league. Well, run good routes, take good angles. Jerry Rice wasn't even the fastest guy. He just had great great fucking angles He could outrun a guy that was way faster than him because he knew how to do it He's a like a master of physics. It's fucking crazy So they said somewhere Boston became a mass first everything else second Maybe it started after he broke his left scapula as a rookie in 1999 and decided he needed more meat on him

Or maybe it was the car accident a year later when a drunk driver slammed into his Hummer at high speed, killing herself and rearranging his body. Or maybe it was when the chiropractor examined him six months after the accident, noticed lingering nerve damage in his foot and weakness in his lower back and said, your body's for shit. The only thing it'll solve is coming here all the time and paying me money. Hold on. A chiropractor.

A chiropractor told you your body is for shit? That's medical terminology. Yeah. And I trusted that person. Let me make it worse by the way. Yeah. Let me make it worse. Yeah.

Wow. Your body's for shit. Oh my God, please tell me everything I need to do. I'd leave that instant. Every huckster sees him as a fucking cash register. Yeah, what a dope to listen to a doctor, quote unquote, that says your body is for shit. My doctor's never said that to me. No. And my body is certainly for shit.

And a chiropractor sure as fuck isn't a doctor either. No. That's the other thing. Wow. They said whatever he's undergone a makeover, whatever he's undergone a makeover that few believe is above board, a makeover on and off the field that ultimately contribute to the Cardinals decision to run their prized possession out of town. Man, we've taken a lot of hits for doing it, says Joe Green. But once in a while, I'd like to hear that maybe we weren't wrong. Well, you'll hear you got to wait a little while because 2024 we're saying you were absolutely right

Joe Green. Here we are. That's not mean Joe Green is it? Yeah, yeah he was their D-line coach for a while. Really? Absolutely they hired him yeah. Remember seeing him in that Cardinals polo? It was fucking weird to see him in a red polo shirt. I don't like that at all. I don't want to see that. It was fucking not okay. It was unsettling so. I don't know. I don't like that. I don't want to see that. It was fucking not okay. It was unsettling. So Either they said Arizona staff staffers roll their eyes when they hear Boston's name now But it wasn't always that way when the Cardinals saw him at training camp in 2001 his body fat went from 11% to 6% His weight went up from 209 to 238. They were thrilled He was still fast enough to outrun Charles Woodson

on a 50 yard score that season and no one dared jam him at the line. Boston said, DBS got scared of me. Well, fuck yeah, you're twice their size. By year's end, he led the NFL with a team record, 1,598 yards on 98 catches and had everybody at the pro bowl staring. Brian Erlacher kept going, how are your arms bigger than mine? Yeah. Yeah. That's a problem. The most feared defensive fucker, the second, if you put Ray Lewis,

probably above him at that time, and fear probably, yeah, that's ridiculous. But a month later, Boston tested positive for cocaine and marijuana after a DUI arrest, pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors, and his world changed. Now the Cardinals began to notice his idiosyncrasies. He'd mumble.

He'd show up with his eyebrows pierced, his tongue pierced, his upper earlobe pierced, his nipples pierced. Who fucking cares? That doesn't matter. He's on steroids. That's the problem. I don't care what he pierces. I don't care if he goes to Axis Radius at night.

Yeah. He's going to Scottsdale clubs. He's just, I think, doing it for aerodynamics. I don't care if he goes to Axis Radius at night. He's just I think doing it for aerodynamics. He's like air can flow through these holes now and it's better. So they said he only hung with one teammate running back Thomas Jones, who was another guy they held out at camp forever, a first round draft pick there. I think he was from Virginia if I'm not mistaken. The 2002 season was Boston's contract year

But there was little goodwill between him and the franchise in practice one day. He asked the DB's not to hit him hard Because otherwise his shoulder pads would pinch his nipple piercings I Think your priorities are slightly fucked up. Maybe if you're like listen, I can't really practice this thing I have to do don't hit me so hard you're like, listen, I can't really practice this thing I have to do. Don't hit me so hard, I like it when women lick my nipples. Yeah. You're chafing my nips before my girl gets to really hit

them and lick them. They said that Boston says he doesn't remember that, but Cardinals coaches and players confirm it. Receiver Jason McAdley said, he was like, don't hit me in the chest. The coach was like, what the hell? What's happening here? The low point came the night before a game in Seattle in the second week of the season during bed check. Mean Joe Green said a coach found a woman in his room when the woman was asked to leave. Boston's response

was if she goes, I don't play, I'll come down with an injury. So the nipples suck. Like, yeah, you're going to come in here and suck my nipples coach. I got these new rings. She's doing it. So the girl stayed in Boston played. Putting your personal needs in front of the team says me and Joe Green. That's not an environment I grew up in. Boston says he doesn't even remember that incident either. Well it's funny how he conveniently forgets all the things that make him an asshole. But some problems if you're already forgetting things. Forgot it. Yeah, he's got worse problems. But Cardinals coaches felt that he was never focused. A member of the front office said who knew what was going on in his world or what he was ingesting. They said they go on

to the article says the team just didn't trust the supplements he was on. His weight had climbed into the two 40s. He'd get winded after four or five plays and he was moughing passes. Oh, that's not good. That's not good. Some coaches felt he was so muscle bound that he couldn't extend his arms and he was trying to catch everything against his body, which will make the ball bounce off of you. Thomas Jones, his buddy there, said, quote, people who say that stuff are haters. No, they're

just coaches actually they're trying to win because that's what their jobs are based upon. Yeah. Here's the thing about coaches generally if you're really really good they don't give a fuck. Lawrence Taylor was allowed to do whatever the fuck he wanted because he locked the coach out of practice. They were like cool he'll have three sacks on Sunday scares the shit out of the other team Yeah, that's how much that week. Yeah coaches aren't haters or those people aren't haters They're you know defending their own jobs people who say that stuff are haters They there were a lot of guys who didn't like me and David

Because maybe you were assholes me and me David. I don't remember you, man. I don't even know you. I just remember him holding out because they wouldn't give a normal signing bonus again when he got drafted and then he came in and he was okay. He was a decent running back, Jones, actually. It wasn't bad. I don't know a single one of his plays that remember him. He's not fucking, you know, Edger and James.

He was a serviceable running back for a while. He did better with the Bucs a few years later because they have an offensive line of shit yeah of course they did that's what that's what you do you let a guy go and then he goes on look at garrison Hearst yeah Jesus that's what the Cardinals did for years so the team felt Boston was caught up in his new image like when he put lotion on his arms before games so his biceps would glisten That's a good move. It's a good move except that yeah You don't want your arms to be slippery when you're trying to catch footballs with them generate points

You may want rub some stickiness glue on your arms. That's what they used to do Yeah, they didn't care how with their arms look like they care if the ball stayed in their fucking hands Or when he'd show off shirtless photos of himself to women. One day, reserve quarterback Preston Parsons noticed a pleasant aroma in the locker room and said, what's that smell? Boston told him, my hygiene's unbelievable. Dead serious.

What? Like, it's me. I'm so, my hygiene's so good I smell good. I'm like an air freshener, I'm a human air freshener. It's a hilarious response to that. Rather than saying it might be the soap I use. He just says, my hygiene is what he's, what's the word? My hygiene is unbelievable.

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. He's like Dennis Rodman, but he forgot to get a bunch of rings before he went nuts that was the problem My asshole so clean yeah Rodman had three rings before he put a drop of dye in his hair. That's the problem. That's why Rodman. This is okay Unbelievable, I'm a human air freshener. Very nice. I am so clean. You could hang me from your rear view mirror and I will help.

Not a single germ you guys. Hey coach, get this microscope out. I want these people to see how germ free I am. My hygiene is unbelievable. Unbelievable. That's fucking amazing. Boston would show up with different color contacts. Blue ones, red ones, purple ones.

And people would walk away confused by his look. None of this matters, by the way. When I wear the red ones, people think I'm stoned, he says. I'm a different kind of cat, aren't I? No, you're just a douche. You're a righted up club kid. That's what you are. A douchebag. Says Wiley, I went up to talk to him after a game two years ago and he had like purple eyes and I said, okay,

a little Melrose in you. Boston never finished the 2002 season. His right patella tendon already slightly torn coming into the year, snapped when the 49ers defensive back nailed him directly on the knee last October. He hobbled through the next game then had season-ending surgery. It was still assumed the Cardinals would place the franchise tag on him, but owner Bill Bidwell declined. He's just cheap by the way. The DUI arrest and his erratic behavior sealed his fate. Yeah, he was like, oh good, the fans won't be mad at me if I don't pay him lots of money. That's exactly what that guy said.

Green's explanation as to why Arizona let Boston walk, quote, fear, fear of him repeating not his Pro Bowl year, but the year after. To keep him, you'd have to make a serious commitment to him financially, and that was scary, too scary. So, San Diego was his only free agent visit, by the way. Wow. The chargers said they did a background check with the league office and the Cardinals assumed Boston would be suspended for the cocaine incident,

but San Diego was told not to worry. He won't be. So the chart, Marty Schottenheimer said we did a lot of due diligence. So Atlanta, Baltimore and the jets had all invited Boston, but the Chargers never let him get out of town. Schottenheimer assured him that with Tomlinson, defenses wouldn't be able to double team him, and Boston was sold, settling for just a $4 million signing bonus.

But they said they reported it at 12 earlier. I don't know if that was just part of the deal. Mean Joe Green said, I know one thing, the coach he's with right now ain't going to tolerate anything. Schottenheimer. And I don't think I'm slinging mud at David either. I like David, but I was disappointed in his behavior last year. I was beyond disappointment.

It was painful. So they said his father, Byron, said his son is too good a kid from too good a family to be hearing these whispers. At 20 he turned pro but the NFL was so full of hard bodies after that auto accident he needed an edge and so his chiropractor referred him to a Canadian bodybuilder named Charles Poliquin. That's his personal trainer. Poliquin known for bulking up hockey players and bobsledders, set two primary goals for Boston, reduce his

insulin levels with low-carb, high-protein diets and vitamin supplements, and raise his growth hormone levels with vigorous workouts to build muscle. And also, an injection full of a human growth hormone, also, maybe, possibly, allegedly. It was all done away from his teammates, which is why when he showed up at Cardinals camp, bigger and faster in 2001, the rumors about HGH started. Pollack when answers the all of these, you know, legit concerns and criticisms, I would say with quote, blah, blah, blah. My hygiene is unbelievable.

That's what this is amazing he said as a 25 year old guy David produces more growth hormone than he could buy in a store bullshit fucking liar you fucking fucking liar you piece of shit lying scum fucking bag you piece of guy hope you can't I hope your heart exploded sometime in the last 20 years you fucking scumbag your body just can't do that no it produces you to say that just because a lot of people don't know and they'll read that then they'll go to work the next day and they'll go I mean he could produce more than you could get in a store that the people will start

saying that yeah Kim Jong-un doesn't poop or pee but yeah at all I mean he could produce more than you could get in a store. That the people will start saying that. Yeah, Kim Jong-un doesn't poop or pee. Yeah, at all. I mean, every fucking golf shot's a hole in one. He's amazing. It's ridiculous. He's just too busy to play on the PGA Tour. Doesn't have the fucking time for it.

He's got to run a country, James. God damn it, this polyquin. I want to kick him right in the balls. I don't care how big and jacked he is. I don't fucking care. I want to fucking beat the shit out of him. He produces more than he could buy in the store. What a fucking asshole a lying scummy asshole I hope he's in prison or dead one of the two is the only fucking thing that would make me satisfied. He's gotta be dead right?

Fingers crossed fucking to the sky. He's gotta be dead. Holy fuck I hate this man. Huh so yeah wow and an intense workout will boost your growth hormone nine times above normal levels. Is that right? No. It'll put 40 pounds on you no problem. You'd have to shoot yourself with a weak supply of HGH to equate one workout. Well then that's what people fucking... That's what they do then, you idiot. People say he's on drugs. Food if properly used is a drug. So yeah, he's on drugs.

He buys them at Safeway. I want to punch this man. I just dislike him so much. He's just... it's all all natural I just don't like him you know the meat department didn't they bring up Victor Conti a minute ago I don't know we brought didn't we bring up Victor Conti didn't we say he was part of this isn't that the bulk oak asshole it is I'm looking back through this now because I think we just I think we We his name if Victor Conti's anywhere involved as we know for a fact, obviously

I have to go back through this because I can't fucking remember now, but I think it Victor Conti was involved here Okay, here's all the people they were yeah Talking I had to go back to the other article that we had here from the I was his name Richard Obert that fucking moron That fucking hack idiot. Who's that? So I'll just write that down and fucking put it out to the whole fucking city. That's cool. I Can't find it. We'll look it up again Did he say Victor Conti? I could swear Victor Conti came up at some point Yeah, I don't know if it was him or if it's the sports illustrated article or what it is But there's definitely I thought there was a Victor Conti reference in here now. Now it's gonna fucking bother me

Why didn't they catch that before? Oh, that's annoying. Anyway, either way Everybody's an asshole here. There are no good people here So, yeah, they say that So, yeah, they say that Polyquin referred him to Bob Sledder, originally from Guyana, as a guy named Ian Danny, I guess, here. And Danny's a speed trainer, but he's also a former biochemistry major at the University of Alberta who says Polyquin is using biomechanics to advance his theories. Also, drugs is helpful. Boston asked Danny to train him and Danny agreed

and walked right into the rumor mill. Boston made it clear during contract talks with Chargers GM AJ Smith that he and Danny were a package deal. At Schottenheimer's request, Boston promised to work out twice a week at the team facility, but he otherwise wanted to be free to train alone with this guy. The Chargers said, we're flexible.

But a handful of Charger players and coaches are already curious about Danny, who often stands with his backpack on the fringe of the Chargers practice field. The truth is, other than at meetings and practices, Boston and Danny are inseparable. Boston sleeps in the room he shares with Tomlinson. He signs in every day at the team cafeteria, but then he's off to see what organic food Danny has for him. It's Danny who organizes Boston's day. It's Danny who brings in the registered nurses

for the post-practice IV drips. It's Danny who has Boston take an average of 90 pills a day, and it's Danny who does the hormone insulin testing in room 614. Even though Schottenheimer says they're not concerned, the accusations come anyway. They come from a strength coach who used to work with polyquin. This guy says, I started to question it the past year because I've compared pictures of David in 2001 to now and his cheekbones have changed. because I've compared pictures of David in 2001 to now, and his cheekbones have changed.

Yeah, and it's not 90 pills a day or a T-bone. No, if this actually worked, all the NFL teams would be doing it. Their whole fucking business is trying to win on the field. So they would give everybody IV drips in this, that's all they would do. It's fucking ridiculous. So they come from current NFL players

who assume a 6'2 wide out can't outweigh Lennox Lewis. Yeah, Rob Moore, remember him, a wide receiver? Jets? Jets for a long time. He said. Detroit too? Possibly after the Jets. He said, David works hard, but who wouldn't get suspicious?

Boston says, I hear this all the time. People question me because my physique is totally different from everybody else's in the league. I'm just a freak of nature. That's what he's saying now. I'm unbelievable. My hygiene. My hygiene.

He said, what am I supposed to do? I'm perfect. What am I supposed to do? The gods have fucking blessed me. I don't know what to tell you. He said, I pass every drug test. I eat the right things. I work out hard.

And when I sign a big contract, instead of buying a Benz, I move my trainer out here. That's dumb because at least later when you're out of the league, you can sell your Benz because this fucking guy is going to be just money down the drain. He said, some people go to the movies. I like to lift weights and run. All I care about is my body. I take hot and cold contrast baths to flush my system out. I pay five grand and have a doctor test every pill I take. I watch my calorie intake. I take antioxidants. I eat egg whites and

cottage cheese, lean steak with asparagus, protein shakes before and after practice, sushi and simple carbs at night like blueberries. I eat 6-7 meals a day. Yeah, I'm over 250 pounds, but I'll be 240 on opening day. I can lose weight anytime I want. I eat all that and I'm fat as shit. I mean, none of that means that you're going to be... You don't run a 4-3-40 and fucking... You're not 5% body fat?

He said he can... or the article said he can gain it too. How big can he get? He sits in room 614 and thinks about it. Quote, maybe 290, he says. He wants to be nearly 300 pounds wide. Why not? He can't be that. He said it wouldn't be for football,

but give me a year and I could get to 290. Wow. Wow. So September 25th, 2003, the Cardinals suspend David Boston from the team for one game for conduct detrimental to the team. It's a suspension. It was a result of a pattern of conduct

in which Boston failed to comply with team policy, including missing or being late to mandatory activities. And it could cost him $32,000. The cardinals or the Chargers? The Chargers did this. Yeah, okay. He was suspended because he cursed out strength coach Dave Redding.

Oh really? Yeah, the incident was part of a pattern, they said, and this was just kind of the end of the fucking, they're tired of this shit. The strength coach, the guy telling him what to do for his body, and he's saying, I pay somebody else to do this, shut the fuck up. Yeah, I pay somebody 200 grand a year to tell me this shit and he's better than you.

And they're like, well, I don't know, it's my job, what do you want from me? So he's reinstated four days later, because what are they going to do? He starts 14 games, has 70 catches for 880 yards and seven touchdowns that year. So not bad, but you know, not. We need a bigger guy. Not the best in the world. How about you lose 20, let's see if you lose a little bit, maybe a few more yards and let's get the right

weight to yards ratio going on here with you. March 16th, 2004, he's traded by the Chargers to the Dolphins for a sixth round pick in 2005. Wow. That's what he gets traded for. Boy did he slide in value. Yeah, well the rumors around him are just terrible. He's an asshole, nobody likes him, the coaches hate him.

March 21st, 2004, another article, the Miami Herald has an article saying no steroids here at all, just a fucking Greek god. Miami Harold, quote, definitions of the player can prove as elusive as Boston is in an open field. Oh. The receiver can go deep, philosophically, metaphysically deep, deep enough to suggest a probing mind is at work atop that maniacally grown mass of muscle. He's a Greek god who's also brilliant.

He's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Boston recently attended a seminar on the concept of universal intelligence. That doesn't mean he's smart. No. He's interested in quantum physics, biomechanics, and physiology. I'm interested in all of it too. Yeah.

I mean I can understand. Whoever Stephen Hawking said, I'm interested in it, but I don't know what the fuck he's talking about. That's the difference because I'm stupid and Boston's even dumber. So what do you want from me? Let's see. Devour's books by Frank Netter on the human anatomy speaks a bit of French. He says, we, we, when they give him something.

Yeah. Yet other. Monage a trois. That's, huh? See, I am French. He says, wee-wee when they give him something. Yet other elements of Boston's personality imply superficiality and convey a man who cares about nothing more passionately than what he admires, flexing in the mirror. The man's hometown, Humboldt, Texas, hardly describes him, and this side of Boston can overwhelm and become all you see. And then it's a colon, a peacock in pads. That's all you see. His falling out with the San Diego Chargers, which led to his trade to Miami, happened

largely because the team became convinced that Boston cared more about his physique than about football. They say the player's body is his obsession. He says, all I care about is my body. That's what he said in the late summer. So yeah, a personal trainer, chef, chiropractor, acupuncturist help minister that body. His workout regimen of weights and cardiovascular training is intense, consuming and diet minutely regulated.

Boston, only 25. Young. He's already on his third team, and he's back, terrible reputation. On his way out of the league. He's like Antonio Brown, like three years ago. 25 swallows up to 90 supplements per day. Twice a week he undergoes a 90 minute intravenous drip of magnesium and other minerals to speed his body's recovery to better prepare for the next season of weightlifting. He falls

into a trance-like state, listening to the sound of ocean waves while the IV bag hangs above his head. He oils his arms before games so his 21 inch biceps glisten. One guy said at the end of 2001 he was as ballet type of big guy as you'll see. In other words, light on his feet, able to dance on the sidelines and make catches. That's what you want, a big guy who is nimble. He could dance along the sideline like it was Saturday night fever. That's what they said. Boston has denied he even uses steroids.

They're saying he was tested and all that. But the whispers chase him as surely as they do Barry Bonds in baseball. The speculation about human growth hormones HGH is flatly refuted by his personal trainer, Charles Poliquin, quote, I hear this all the time. Boston told the ESPN Magazine last summer when referring to the rumors, what am I supposed to do? I eat the right things, I work out hard. What do you want from me?

Oh my God, there's speculation that Boston is unnaturally developed as not only his only baggage. The one coach said, yeah, there's some dirt out there. The Dolphins are convinced that Boston's drug use is in the past and they're seemingly unconcerned about his controversies. Boston speaking previously or briefly with local media Thursday deflected all questions about anything controversial, about anything in his rear view mirror. He said, I'm focused on the future.

Interesting. So that's how he's going. They're talking about his dad also was a 10-year vet and his son, I guess they said he only weighed 130 pounds as a high school sophomore and then he started lifting weights and all that kind of thing and come on they said you don't see guys come up and press him he'll swat them like little gnats is what his dad says. People think he works out to look good he does it for his game. That's what Byron that's his dad saying that. So, silver. Okay, well then why does he put fucking baby oil on it?

Yeah, that's what I mean. So, he's in Miami in 2004. His debut is delayed, because there's a four game suspension, because he tests positive at the beginning of the season. Uh oh, for what? We'll talk about it. And then he missed the remainder of 04 when he tore ligaments in his knee, which is exactly what the Cardinals said was going to happen here. Um, so yeah,

he's got a lot of problems. Let's just say, um, we could, we could put it. He's got a fucking issue. Yeah. So they're saying that he was declared out this a torn patellar tendon again. Same thing. Left knee. Yep. Injured while running a route in Friday during practice. A practice route too, that's not good. Practice route. So the Dolphins place him on IR. Yes, he was some banned substance he was caught on.

I don't know what it was, because the NFL doesn't release everything, but he was caught with some banned substance. Something he's not allowed to have in him. Yep, that's what they, four games is the one they do that for. So he's placed on the IR. He's done.

So 2004, he doesn't fucking play. Sits out with his knee all fucked up. Yep. October 21st, 2004, has more surgery. Yep. A season ending operation for his tendon. And they said he plans to be back by the spring. October 2004 though he's arrested in Vermont of all places. What is he doing way up there? We've had very few crime and sports people ever arrested in

Vermont. I don't think he might be the first. Yeah very few athletes ever end up in Vermont at all. At all. There's no games there. Well this is he was at the Burlington International Airport so he didn't even get like into Vermont proper He was still at the airport connector What was he going to at that airport when he's arrested on assault of charge of simple assault? He hanging out with Pac-Man. What's going on here? The assault is against Ed Korag or Chinsky a 59-year-old ticket slash gate agent you fucking asshole asshole he beat up some 60 year old fucking gate guy I

Think I remember this what a fucking dick No further details were listed other than he is arrested for simple assault here I mean he might he would have been arrested for like attempted murder if he actually did anything to him because he's so hot a guy attempted murder if he actually did anything to him because he's so huge. A lot of guy in the gate agent. Gate agent in Vermont of all places. It's got to be a small airport, right? I can't imagine it's large. It's got to be.

It's probably small. Gate numbers. There's no letters in front of those numbers, right? Raleigh Durham was pretty small, you know what I mean, compared to other places. This has got to be tiny, probably. There's no way it has more than one terminal. Nope. December 7, 2004.

He pleads innocent to it though. Says he didn't do anything here. He didn't appear in court. His lawyer pled guilty or pled innocent on his behalf. He was accused of striking a US Airways customer service agent in the face after the guy refused to let him board a plane. He told Boston police that this guy had caused him to miss his flight and that he had spit in his face.

Gorchinsky said the flight was running late and that he urged Boston to hurry to the plane, but he said he took his time. So Gorchinsky then refused to let him board the plane. He said, I told him, this is post 9-11. Once the door's closed, it's fucking closed. Sorry, man. It's done. So he got mad and did something to the guy. Once the door's closed, it's fucking closed. Sorry, man. It's stuck. That's it.

So he got mad and did something to the guy. So December 11th, 2004, the NFL suspends David Boston for fucking steroids. Yeah? But he's out with a knee injury anyway, so it doesn't matter. He will lose $1.34 million, which is one-fourth of his salary because he's not available to play because he's suspended. So his agent, Mitch Frankel, denied he used steroids, even though it's obvious he's using steroids,

and now he's tested positive for steroids still. Got a little symptoms, and his piss is full of it. Yeah, just because it's obvious, and everybody that's ever known him says it's true, and you can just look at two pictures and logically see it No, not even and also is blitz in his blood still He said I did not take any anabolic steroids, but it was decided that I tested for a related substance Yes, they're starting to develop different tests now

He said the NFL has always strived This is the NFL here the NFL has always strived to provide the highest level of accuracy and reliability in its testing procedures. There are usually higher standards than other organizations. This is his agent. However, I believe the NFL utilized lower standards of reliability in testing criteria in this case." They were like, let's make it less reliable. So now he can be tested a lot more. At this point in 2005, February

30th, he's going to be convicted of his airport attack here. Jesus. Oh yeah, he's ordered to pay you, sir, may fuck off $500 fine with $96 in court surcharges and $211.84 in restitution to this guy. That Vermont is a beautiful place. What lovely people. That is fucking funny man. He said-

That's so affordable. Before he was sentenced he said, quote, I'm sorry for the whole incident. I've learned a lot from it. I've learned to keep my cool in every situation. I like for others to treat me just like I treat them. I learned a lot. I also learned that when my fucking boarding pass says it boards at 150, I get on the plane at 150. I get on the fucking plane. Yeah, when they call group one, get on the fucking plane, asshole. Get on the fucking plane.

So the NFL has ordered also him to take mandatory anger management classes as well. So there you go. Then they asked him, did you find it helpful? And he said, yes, I sure have. I sure have learned a lot from it. Okay. Wow, that's some Eddie Haskell shit there. Sure have, man. These are delicious cookies.

They make them yourself? Fucking jackass. Boy, Mr. Cleaver. Oh man, so this is fucking wild also they say Gorchinsky might sue him also he hired a lawyer. Why not? Fuck this guy giant jacked-up asshole punching me because I'm trying to tell him what the... Roid raging at the airport. What FAA rules are. It's not like it's up to me I can't open the fucking door they're closed. So he said thankfully this case in Vermont is resolved and I'm glad it's behind me Absolutely, so this is hilarious. By the way, this whole thing is a mess. So February 14th, 2005 reinstated from suspension

March 7 2005 Shit-can from Miami. They release them Miami. They cut him but then he signs he resigns for the veteran minimum so they said we want you just not at your salary so 700 grand he plays for yep and we'll talk about it because he doesn't last very long he plays in a few games tears his knee up again is that right yeah it's almost like he's too big for his knees the other knee or the same knee same knee I think wow yeah I think. Wow. Yeah I think that knee is pretty fucked. So 2005. Eventually they start drilling the bone and

wiring tendon through the bone. Once they start doing it that way dude it's over for you. It's a mess. So that year Miami 2005 they're 9 and 7 under Nick Saban. Remember his brief NFL sojourn there where he was terrible that he likes people to forget about David Boss. They also had Marty Booker who's another big strong receiver there. He was good. He used to play for the Bears. So yeah, otherwise, you know, it's the Dolphins. What do you want?

They placed him in November on IR. He played in five games, started zero, had four receptions for 80 yards. And that's that for Miami. 2006, the Tampa Bay Bucks sign him. Really? Yup. They said his status is still unclear. They're now calling him a reclamation project.

Eee. So now it's like they pulled like a 68 Carmen Geyat out of a junkyard and they're trying to find a fucking water pump for it. We're going to rotisserie restore this thing. Fucking A. Sandblast it. Let's get it going. So they asked him if, they asked John Gruden, who was the coach, if Boston will be on the

final roster at the end of training camp. And Gruden said, I might not be. Gruden said, what the fuck do I know? Yeah. Gruden said, I'm not going to say anything other than he's in my heart and in my prayers every night, which isn't a good sign. Nope. He said, I like Boston.

I like guys who have a history of being great. The media say I like veteran players. Any idiot can like guys who can play and have played great in this league because it's hard to do, man. Play great. So he likes someone who's ever shown flashes of greatness. So they say that Boston showed signs he could be the player he once was,

which is to say a dominant physical receiver. He had one good year, one, one. One? That's it, one good year. Made his whole career off it. He didn't show that until the final preseason game when his opponents were second and third string defenders. Yeah, they're just getting guys in there.

Still it was encouraging and tantalizing for the team to see Boston go over the middle, taking on tacklers, and to see him stretching the defense as a downfield threat. So, maybe he'll make the team, there we go. Boston said, I'm holding my breath. I don't know, it's the NFL, there's lots of moves to be made. I just go out there and try to do the best job I can

to let the coaches evaluate. Yep, so he had only one catch in the previous three games and the extent of his success was drawing consecutive pass interference calls against Jacksonville. He said a- He got two P.I. calls. Against him. That's a big day. Not against him, but the other guy.

Yeah, he got two guys to interfere with him. Right, and that's a big day. It's a big day. He said, I hadn't really done anything in the other guy. Yeah, he got two guys to interfere with him. Right, and that's a big day. It's a big day. He said, I hadn't really done anything in the other preseason games, so it was good for me to get out there and compete again. And yeah, I would say so, Jesus. John Gruden said, here's a guy who caught six passes tonight,

and it's really the first time David Boston has played that much football in a long time. David says, oh no, they say it's a credit to him and a real credit to Richard man Dick man. Dick man. What? Big D on his chest. Dick man. Wow. Our receivers coach who pushed him and stimule and stimulated him. I had to make sure that's what it said. They'll be careful and worked with him to try to fight through the dark moments.

But those moments are in the past Boston believes He says I don't have any pain in my knee Feeling good. He said I haven't had any pain since midway through the offseason Gruden says I don't know. He says there's some real dark moments the last couple years for this guy I'm thrilled he had a chance to see the ball make some plays and get back on the grass and do what he does It was a big night for David tonight. What do you think is going to happen here? This does not sound like he's making the team.

This sounds like a make a wish kid. It was a big night for him tonight. He'll be dead tomorrow, but we're so glad he got to meet John Cena tonight and he's feeling much better about himself. He'll be unemployed, but we're really glad that he got to high five Warren Sapp. Yep and the next day they fucking cut him. Yeah exactly what happens. Yep he's released the night before the home opener done. Wow. They're like fuck man he's attempting a comeback it's not working so June 21st 2007 he says he's ready to come back again he's ready. Oh boy. That's right he's ready to come back again. He's ready. Oh boy. That's right. He's ready. He's ready to go

he wants to come back and Yep, this is from Tampa The article says Dave McGinnis can still close his eyes and see David Boston streaking toward the end zone past Raider Nation With a helpless John Gruden grimacing on the opposing sideline Boston's 50-yard touchdown in the final minutes of regulation helped Arizona spring a huge overtime upset at Oakland late in the 2001 season. So that's why Gruden wanted him. He remembered him blowing him up in a big game five years ago.

McGinnis said, I'm pulling for David Boston. I'm pulling for him hard. For 15 games this year, I'm all on his side. In other words, unless he plays against me. So yeah, this is pretty fucking funny. So Boston, I mean, they keep talking about, he was one of the elite receivers. And I remember David Boston as a beast, a dominating force.

None of this is he's gonna be now. No. So he's trying though. He's trying to get back onto a fucking roster here. He said, a lot of people have forgotten that I even play anymore. You're putting it loosely. We play the same amount pretty much.

He said, let's be honest, if I don't make the team this year, I probably won't play anymore. I'm just going out there trying to do as much as I can, be in tune with what's going on, and make plays when I can. So he's back in Tampa trying to make it again. Gruden said, come on back. Gruden said, I'm impressed, I'm really impressed. If you ask our players, they will tell you

he's really impressive. So you think he's impressed or no? Evidently they're very impressed. He was one of the elite receivers in football four or five years ago and everyone kind of rolls their eyes and forgets he's not even 30 yet. That's not a positive thing to say about somebody. It's not great. He's fucked up this much.

Yeah. Remember when he used to be great? Remember that? He said this. Let's do it in their own words here. I really feel like this is an appropriate place for an in their own words because it's perfect. In their own words, quote, anybody who has made mistakes has learned from them and those

who won't will continually make the same mistakes in life. I've made a lot of mistakes and I've seen my career how it's gone one way for a few years and how it's gone another way for the last few years. The thing I've learned most is don't take anything for granted. You never know when the opportunity is going to be gone. It's true. Yeah that's right and then August 23rd 2007 in the midst of training camp while trying to make the team, he appears to be arrested for reckless driving from a DUI. So, because it was a DUI and it ends up being reduced to reckless driving. Really? Because he takes a plea on it in 2008 here. Yeah. So, pulled over and arrested there.

Not wonderful, I would say. Where is that at? Pinellas County Florida Tampa. Tampa yep first it was a DUI and it was lowered so um there he goes he's not doing well at all. No he is doing fucking terribly I would where do you go from here? Overseas Canada I don't know. You know when you're walking around a city, like when we go on the road and we're walking around a city and we see the parks and there's just people, some of the people just sitting on a bench staring. They don't even look homeless or anything.

They're just like, I don't know where to go. That's David Boston right now, I feel like. Lost. Lost. A lost soul here. I mean, he needs help. He needs somebody to do something. Luckily, in the distance he hears dogs a-barking.

And he's like, what the fuck is that? Are they here to bring me my food or give me my IV drips? They're not though. Instead, it's Bobby Colorado. And he says, how is it you come to arrive here? Jesus, look at the fucking size of you. For Christ's sake, look at you. You can bounce a fucking dime off of your bicep.

This is ridiculous. This is crazy. Listen, you're looking for work, possibly. You know what? I could use some help with these dogs is all I'm saying. I train them, you know what I mean? I'm from Fredericksburg, Texas. That's true. Don. Don't think it's not yeah, you know what I mean, so I Could use some help and I figure you with these maybe nutrition

Maybe you could feed the dogs and help me there. No, don't what are you doing scraps? What do you got a needle in you put no no don't stick they get those fucking needles away from my dogs What's wrong with you? I don't want them to be fucking enormous, you fucking maniac. Get out of here. No, I'm going. You can't touch my dogs. Fuck you, I'm going. And then poof, in a cloud of dog shit, he's gone.

And David's very confused and he's holding a needle out at dog height trying to inject a dog and it's not there. What's the matter? What's the matter with you, huh? My hygiene's... It's fucking unbelievable. Hey, your hygiene is fucking unbelievable. Let me tell you something.

You know what? My hygiene's unbelievable. What is that smell? It's beautiful. August 26, 2007, right after the DUI is here, the Bucks support the receiver, they say. We got his back, very silver. We're like, listen, we just want the best they say. Really? We got his back very silver. We're like listen we just want the best for him. We've investigated the David Boston situation

and feel that we have an understanding of the facts. At this time we've seen no objective evidence to support the charges that were brought against him. Okay. Really? Yes so September 7th 2007 the DUI case will go on against him. Police say the charge stands against him as well. Yeah, because we've got enough evidence. Yeah, that's what they said. They said the test results were not released because the case is still under investigation, but he failed a test or whatever.

So David Boston said, all I'm able to say at this time is that I've done nothing wrong. I was not impaired. I have assured and will continue to assure the Buccaneers that I have done nothing wrong. And in the end, when this matter is resolved, the facts will show that I've done nothing wrong. I appreciate the Bucs and the fans for believing in me and their support. Done nothing wrong. Yeah, Coach John Gruden said, I don't have any information on that. Once we get information, we'll move accordingly. Don't fucking know here. So they say we're David Boston's attorney said we're very, very

confident. Apparently, he was arrested here after he was found asleep at the wheel of his Range Rover. Oh, Dave, they suspected that he might be under the influence of drugs and alcohol when they noticed his eyes were fluttering. They took him into custody and performed a breathalyzer test. When it came back negative, an officer known as a drug recognition expert was asked to test Boston. He, Boston, protested that he was innocent and refused to partake or participate in the tests as his right. So they took a urine sample, because you don't have to do a sobriety test.

And they say that the urine sample confirmed it. So here is September 12, 2007, Tampa Tribune here. This is another, some silver shit coming out. They said they found him passed out in his car. Barely 24 hours later, Bucks General Manager Bruce Allen dismissed the case against him. We have investigated the Boston situation, all that shit. Boston's urine test came back

that he tested positive for GHB. Oh. He's fucking Ruthie-ing himself. Date rape drugged himself? Yes, which a lot of the bodybuilders, that's a big deal, they like that shit. That's what they use. So he's a big bodybuilder, that makes perfect sense.

And you can't be driving when you're on GHB. No. A little sleepy and known to cause hallucinations as well. So not good. They said GHB wouldn't show up in a sample by mistake. There's a specific test for it and anyone using it in any form could have a lot of fucking issues here. So this is just ridiculous.

But Tampa here, the Bucks knew that there was an arrest warrant waiting to happen when they brought him here And they did it anyway Just like they always do is what the fucking article says which is hilarious this guy's taking him to task Joe Henderson writing for the Tampa Tribune My his balls might have dropped at some point unlike the other two fucking pussies So John Gruden recently declared of Stevens, his problems are in the past. So they said they investigated after Boston's arrest and decided all was well. And that was that. So Bruce, was it Alan here? I'm sorry, the Bruce Allen, that's the, I believe the GM here. He said the date rape

drugged himself enough to fall asleep in his Range Rover fall asleep in his Range Rover He said if Bruce Allen had been on the Warren Commission Kennedy would have been day to day with a paper cut He blamed the media for making too much of the whole riderless horse and extant eternal flame thing good thing He didn't have Ben Bradley's job at the Washington Post during Watergate Woodward and Bernstein, we've got a wide-ranging conspiracy involving high levels of government, including the president. Bruce Allen, I checked, nothing to it. I found it to be meritless. All good, it's fine. So yeah, this guy's silver as it gets, Bruce Allen. He is as silver as it goes. Also on September 12, 2007, Boston was officially released by Tampa.

All done. All done. November 1, 2007, looks like an arrest here. This is in Broward County, Florida, and it is for battery false imprisonment, exposing culpable negligence, and resisting or obstructing without violence Not good. I think he took a phone sounds like yeah, he got a trouble with a lady is what that sounds like He then April through June 2008 He signs with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and he reported training camp but medical report showed a stress fracture in his right foot and

recommended surgery. He was placed on the suspended list and never practiced or played at all. A doctor's second opinion said however it was a two-year-old injury and cleared him to play in the regular season opener when he recorded two receptions for a total of 16 yards. The following day, though, after the game, he reported feeling too much pain and opted to follow the doctor's suggestion and get surgery. So he was done. Wow. That's it for pro football for him forever. Do you think he signed with them just to get insurance enough to get the foot surgery? Possibly. Yeah. Maybe he already knew. He was in the NFL long enough where he's got

insurance. He's got a pension. Yeah. I think health insurance already knew. He was in the NFL long enough where he's got insurance. He's got a pension, yeah. I think health insurance, yeah. He was in there long enough. But this is, I mean, he just can't run without breaking his legs because he's too heavy. Who knows? That stress fracture may have been from the Hummer. We have no idea. We don't know.

Yeah, it's possible. June 3rd, 2009 here is another arrest resisting or obstructing without violence is his thing. December 11th, 2011 also and that ends up being dealt with in court in 2000 later in 2009 the resisting. But 2011 he's out at a night of drinking in Boca Raton. Here we go. Here we go. December 2nd and the headline is

former dolphin charged of in beating of woman. Very nice. Oh no. He's got a short temper? A little bit. David Boston's accused of beating a woman after a night of drinking Tuesday in Boca Raton. She wouldn't take the GHB. I had to beat her. And then beat it into her. And then beat it into her. Boston who played for the Dolphins here They said punched a woman twice in the head leaving a gash big enough to require ten stitches ten Opened a cut for ten stitches with a punch. I've fucking cracked my eyebrow I have two huge scars on my eyebrows You can see I've cracked one open in a fucking wall

It took like three stitches to close and it was huge and pouring blood onto my face Woman's had ten inches with two punches Wow the incident was at the 21,000 block of Cromwell circle According to the Boca Raton police he's gonna be charged with aggravated battery for that on the street He did this can't fucking do those 2100 block. They're not given the exact Cromwell circle sounds like a yeah home like a cul-de-sac or something December 7th 2011 he is now charged with tampering with a witness or victim Oh telling her don't testify that's not good oh also battery let's not forget that. Jesus. God. He's facing three years

in jail. No shit. Oh yeah. Uh, he could face nearly three years in prison for punching a woman. Palm beach County prosecutors say that Boston pleaded guilty to aggravated battery now. So he pleads, yeah. Facing up to 35 months in prison. And they say that authorities say he was drinking at a Boca Raton home when he punched a woman twice in the head and she needed 10 stitches. So his attorney says his client is extremely remorseful for his actions and expects, as he accepts full responsibility. So yeah that is December of 2012 I believe, yes that's November 7th, 2012. He does that.

December 7th, 2012, he is arrested for assault and hindering apprehension. My God. Hindering apprehension or prosecution of a known felon and assault. So two assault charges and two of the hindering charges. So he's going to get jail here, by the way. Here we go. Circuit Court Judge Charles Burton ordered Boston to immediately begin serving. You, sir, may fuck off six months for aggravated battery here. Wow. That's wild.

That's a lot. The judge also gave him a break, declining the attorney, the attorney for the state, Christy Rogers' request for Boston to serve a four-year sentence. That's a lot. The judge said, I believe he's sincere in his remorse. I don't know about that, boy. Psychiatrist Lawrence Tucker testified, an evaluation of Boston's brain shows at least four concussions from his playing days. Boston said he joined ex-players in suing the NFL over head trauma.

So I mean that's terrible. He doesn't know what's going on. He's having a bad time being David Boston. He really is. I'll tell you what. I mean head trauma, that's bad. Maybe he's too fucking cloudy between the steroids and the hitting the head and all this shit

to even know he was hitting anybody. I feel bad for everybody involved, but not nearly as bad as I feel for David Boston. He's an actor and a member of SAG, AFTRA, all those things. He does commercial print voiceover artists, and he's a published poet as well. And yeah, and everyone just goes,

that receiver that was jacked up all the time. And also, yeah, there's a music festival stuff on him. David Boston, a student at NYU from North Bergen, New Jersey, poor guy. And also, from 1948, if you happen to be there, stop by to hear David Boston do revival meetings at the North Waco Baptist Church. Fantastic. As he'll be there. Stop by to hear David Boston do revival meetings at the North Waco Baptist Church. He'll be there as well. September 22nd, 2022. Here he is. Here's an article

catching up with him here. 2022. It's been 10 years. He's been quiet. After jail, he got quiet. They said, well, Humble Texas might not jump off the map the way Houston does. It's considered a hidden gem of sorts in the state. Within this hidden gem of a town is a hidden gem of a person. That resident is David Boston, a former NFL All-Pro, who returned to his hometown a handful of years after his playing career. I just wanted to reconnect with my family, Boston said of his decision to come back. We are all a really close family here in Houston, so once my playing days were over, I felt

like I wanted to be around good support and be around them. So he said, when I moved back to Texas, I was around my family and started a CrossFit gym and trained younger kids. What? CrossFit. Yeah. I decided to be a bigger douche than I've ever been before I Loved it and still do favors with some of the high school kids But when I was around my family, I felt like it gave me a good system a support system to be around

I don't like favors and high school kids being the same sentence But I get what he's getting that he owns a commercial plaza and his home in his hometown along with his wife Erin who he met when he moved back to humble He said I never thought when I was at Ohio State I'd be in commercial real estate, but here I am We plan to open up another commercial building on a track of land somewhere near Houston We've been scouting several locations So we're gonna continue to say stay in the real estate business on the development side buying the land and developing the buildings Gotta be with her money, right?

I can't, I mean unless he saved it maybe he was good with his money. I don't know if he was paying all those people all that money. He might have had a money guy too though and if he listened to everybody maybe he actually listened to his fucking money guy that said let me put all this in a thing for you, you know what I mean? Who knows? So he said, Jalen who's 14 is a thing for you. You know what I mean? Who knows? So he said, Jaylen, who's 14, is a basketball player year round and he's doing really well.

My younger son, Braden, is primarily a baseball player, but he plays basketball as well and does well in both. He said his sons are what he's excited about. He said, I'm really looking forward to watching them grow and develop into top athletes. It says his net worth is $10 million right now. I don't know if that's a fact or not, obviously as we know, but that's what he says.

Net worth around $10 million, which I don't see how he would still have that kind of money. Yeah, I mean, the Fox superstars culture says he has $86 million. Which, that's what he made in his career. He didn't even make that. That's what what he made in his career. On paper. He didn't even make that.

That's what his contracts were probably on paper or some shit. I don't know. I don't know how the hell he'd have $86 million. In commercial real estate, you'd have to own half a Houston to have that kind of fucking money. His average salary was 6.7. Yeah, that's...

I don't know how he'd have $86 million. I don't either, I don't either. I don't know how that happened. Maybe they're just wrong. It's the internet, that's possible. Maybe they're just wrong. It's the internet. That's possible. Maybe they just have no fucking idea and haven't seen his bank account. That's possible.

I mean, he has enough to buy land and develop buildings. I guess that's good for him. He doesn't seem to be beating anybody up. He hasn't got arrested in over 12 years. What's his wife do? Works in commercial real estate. It's a company they have together. He says they do it together, him and his wife Erin.

So maybe he just, his kids are, maybe he just said, you know what, I gotta fuckin' grow up. Yeah. Let me marry this nice lady, have a couple of fuckin' kids, and be boring and work on commercial real estate and not care if my arms are 21 inches.

Maybe, I don't know. So here is a quote from him that just sums up all of David Boston. Quote, it's not like I just fall out of bed and look like this. Takes a lot. Unbelievable. My hygiene's unbelievable. Here we go. Can't get enough of David Boston. Get on eBay here where there's a 1999 elite Donress football card.

It's his rookie card in the old Ohio State uniform. It's a dollar forty nine. So He's got tons of money also a vintage 1990s champion jersey a Fucking the old Cardinals one with the flag on each sleeve there one of those a white one is 39.99 David Boston Cardinals jersey. Because all the Tillman ones are flying off the shelf. Or Best Offer, by the way. Yeah, they're going to get him and Thomas Jones.

They're both going to do great. And that, everybody, is David Boston. His wife is a doctor, James. What? There you go. Of what, though? I don't know. Who knows?

She may be a chiropractor. We don't know. I'm sure she or some kind of fucking nutritionist or some bullshit. But from his family, it would make sense because you can take somebody, a nice person and go, I'm going to take you to Christmas at my house and holy fuck, these are great, nice people. And it makes him look better by, you know, by just fucking association. He looks better. So there he goes.

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