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In the wee hours before he killed a man, Donte' Stallworth was knocking back shots of tequila with friends at a Miami Beach club. "Three, four at the most," the NFL receiver told police later. "I wasn't really counting."When he finally left the club that late winter morning a year and a half ago, he stopped by his condo in Miami to sleep off the alcohol. And when he came to, he decided to satisfy a hunger pang by getting behind the wheel of his 2005 Bentley and hitting the road in search of breakfast.
It was a quarter after seven in the morning by then. A 59-year-old father and construction worker named Mario Reyes, who'd just finished a night of work, was crossing a road Stallworth happened to be driving down. Stallworth said he tried to swerve around the pedestrian. He failed. Lab tests showed Stallworth was drunk. He pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.
Among his friends he drank with that horrific morning was fellow NFL receiver Braylon Edwards, who was arrested Tuesday for driving drunk in New York City.
I thought that having been a participant in the precipitation of such a tragedy would scare the participant straight.
I thought, too, that a participant's loved ones and dependents and employer would remind the participant that, on that fateful morning, for the grace of the Creator went he.
But at least one of those parties, maybe the most important, failed Edwards, too. The New York Jets said that Edwards, whom they imported last season for $6.1 million to help them get to the Super Bowl, will play as usual Sunday, save starting the game on the team's opening offensive series.
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