"The Gangster in the Huddle."

[Jiggyfly]

Read entire article here
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle

In the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands Friday, August 30th, contributing editor Paul Solotaroff delivers a detailed investigation into Aaron Hernandez's life, tracing his path from affable high school football star to deeply troubled NFL player to murder suspect. Solotaroff conducted interviews with family friends, high school teammates and NFL sources to help explain why the potential NFL great was ensnared by drugs, guns and a life of violence. Here are six revelations about Hernandez:



• Hernandez was a heavy user of angel dust, and had become so paranoid over the last year that he carried a gun wherever he went.

• He surrounded himself with a cohort of gangsters, and cut himself off from his family and teammates.

• Hernandez had so infuriated his head coach, Bill Belichick, with missed practices and thug-life stunts, that he was one misstep from being cut.

• Both his parents, Dennis and Terri, had criminal records, as did much of his extended family.

• Terri allegedly cheated on Dennis before his death with a violent drug dealer named Jeffrey Cummings, then married Cummings after Dennis died and moved him into the house she shared with Aaron.

• In college his coach (then-University of Florida head coach Urban Meyer) may have helped cover up failed drug tests, along with two violent incidents — an assault and a drive-by shootout outside a local bar.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/five-revelations-from-rolling-stones-aaron-hernandez-story-20130827#ixzz2dJClyIrH
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[Cujo]

Angeldust? I didn't even think that was around anymore. Always reminds me of after-school drug specials.

 

[EZ22]

Angeldust? I didn't even think that was around anymore. Always reminds me of after-school drug specials.

Yeah I was telling a buddy today that I didn't even know people still did PCP.

He's kicking it old school.

 

[Jiggyfly]

In the hood its called Wet and Sherm and its usually smoked after dipping a cigarette in the fluid or with weed it never really goes away but it has recently come back pretty strong among the under 25 crowd.

 

[Bob Roberts]

I refuse to believe that about Urban, he would never look the other way just to win a few games

 

[BipolarFuk]

When I think PCP, I think Denzel and Ethan Hawke.

 

[Cujo]

When I think PCP, I think Denzel and Ethan Hawke.

Great movie.

 

[boozeman]

Angeldust? I didn't even think that was around anymore. Always reminds me of after-school drug specials.

Makes me think of Trading Places.

 

[Simpleton]

 

[Bob Roberts]

I'm such a square that I wouldn't even know how to get drugs even if I wanted them.

I'd be like, "ya'll got any of the drugs?"

 

[EZ22]

I'm such a square that I wouldn't even know how to get drugs even if I wanted them.

I'd be like, "ya'll got any of the drugs?"

I'd know how to get them if I wanted them... I know some potheads that could hook it up.

But at this point all I'd even wanna do is weed.

 

[boozeman]

Patriots dispute claims in Rolling Stone story

Posted by Michael David Smith on August 29, 2013, 7:32 PM EDT


Rolling Stone‘s report on Aaron Hernandez was harshly critical of the Patriots. Unsurprisingly, the Patriots say Rolling Stone‘s reporting got many facts wrong.

Patriots President Jonathan Kraft went on the offensive in an interview with 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston, saying that the Rolling Stone report had multiple factual errors.

Specifically, the Rolling Stone claim that Hernandez had told Patriots coach Bill Belichick that he feared for his life because of contacts with unsavory characters, and that Belichick “told him to lay low, rent a safe house for a while,” was strongly disputed by Kraft, who says he spoke to Belichick about it.

“Bill told me, ‘Absolutely not. Aaron never told me his life was in danger,’” Kraft said, via Greg A. Bedard of TheMMQB.com.

Kraft also said Belichick did not threaten to cut Hernandez, and that Belichick was not the person who hired the Patriots’ security chief, who also comes in for criticism in the Rolling Stone piece.

“The stuff I know about the article is just completely factually inaccurate,” Kraft said.

Belichick has not spoken publicly about the Rolling Stone report. He will meet the media late Thursday night, after the Patriots’ preseason finale.

 

[Cujo]

All these PCP references makes me feel like I'm missing out.