More Ahmad Bradshaw Theories
Some of you may be wondering if there is anything new out there about Ahmad Bradshaw. Each New York paper wrote an article about Bradshaw being in jail, but not much more was written that we didn’t know already. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com has been searching for theories. Florio found an article that Tom Rock of Newsday wrote,
Bradshaw did something naughty when he was a kid (it’s a sealed juvenile thing) and was sentenced to probation by Tazewell County which covers his hometown of Bluefield, Va. Then he went to college (at UVa) and pleaded guilty to the underage drinking thing in 2004. Then he went to another college (Marshall) and was tagged with the petty larceny in 2006. He was sentenced to probation in each of those instances, but apparently those arrests — not sure if it’s either one or the combination of the two — violated the first probation agreement from when he was a juvenile in Bluefield.
Florio seemed to agree with Rock’s take on the situation, but raised some questions like…
Except for the fact that Bradshaw somehow ducked the probation violation during the months and years following the arrest in Charlottesville and later in Huntington. Has this issue been merely percolating through the legal system all this time? Or was Bradshaw somehow able to delay the dispensation of justice until he was able to get himself ensconced in the National Football League? Moreover, if Rock is right, why in the hell didn’t the team or Bradshaw’s lawyer just say so? Instead, both parties carefully have ducked addressing the basis for the development.
When I read that theory for the first time last night, it made perfect sense. The Giants and Bradshaw’s attorney both stated that he is serving time due to something that took place before Bradshaw joined the team. However, Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com kept on digging. Smith found an article written by the New York Daily News who called Ahmad’s father James by telephone last night who, “would only say that the probation violation had to do with a previous juvenile offense unrelated to the player’s run-ins with the law while at the University of Virginia and Marshall University.” So Smith was able to figure out that James’ statement contradicts Tom Rock’s theory. At the end of the day, nobody knows why Ahmad is in jail. Nobody will say why he’s in jail.
