People in Sports Revered in Death or Retirement Wo Were Jerks

Yeah, sorry. Got a little off-track there. ... But Kirby Puckett, wow.

 

I had a great interaction with Billy Martin as a kid, getting his autograph after an A's game. Got Rickey's then as well. So few people went to the A's game back then, it was easy as they left the locker room.

 

O.J. Simpson owns this thread, though.
Toast of the town in his NFL retirement.
Lovable guy, plenty of money rolling in ...

Has anyone fallen faster or harder?

 

Lance Armstrong

 

His scene in "Dodgeball" has a new meaning from when it was filmed.

 

Vernon Forrest was a jerk to me, but that might have been my fault.

 

I met Joe Carter once and he was definitely not a dick to me. Actually really friendly.

What did you do to piss him off?

 

But only the naive believed he was clean.

 

Why?

 

Why?

I just don't think it's a good idea. Still worth mentioning, though, that it's not just athletes and coaches.

 

If anything, Ted Williams softened in his older age. As unfriendly a person as there was as a player, though.

Kirby Puckett was one of the first guys I thought of too, but his deep dark side was beginning to trickle out even before he died.