Apparently swiping pocket change from ladies.

The incident occurred Dec. 7, at the TGI Friday’s at McKinley Mall, where the detective sergeant’s wife and her girlfriend had stopped before heading home.

After hearing what happened, Crawford said he went the next day to the Hamburg Police Department and filed a complaint against Lynch.

Hamburg police declined to comment but confirmed that Crawford made a complaint.

Crawford asked that his wife’s name be withheld because she and her girlfriend are frightened of retribution from Lynch.

Crawford said his wife’s girlfriend was approached at the restaurant by another member of the Buffalo Bills, who struck up a conversation with the unmarried woman. At some point, Lynch arrived at the restaurant and joined them.

When the woman’s girlfriend stepped away from the table, Crawford said his wife pulled out a $20 bill to pay their check in preparation for leaving.

Lynch, 23, of Hamburg, then grabbed the money from her hand.

“He takes the $20 out of her hand, and my wife says “What are you doing?’ and Lynch says “Don’t worry.’ When my wife’s girlfriend came back to the table, she told her about it. The girlfriend approached Lynch and said, “Give my friend her money back,’ and Lynch threatened her saying “Do you know who I am? There’s going to be consequences.’

“At that point, my wife and her girlfriend left,” Crawford said.

Crawford said he filed the complaint the next day with Hamburg police, and about 10 days later, a letter with $20 arrived at their home from the police.

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But words are cheap (unless they are printed in color on a full page), so let’s see the Bears put their money were their mouth is.

And by doozy, I mean a chair. On the ref’s head.

However, the NFL could only deny the facts for so long. Their official spokesperson, Greg Aiello, stated in a phone interview that the NFL, in fact, agreed with the facts, and publicly announced their stance.

“It’s quite obvious from the medical research that’s been done that concussions can lead to long-term problems,” the league spokesman Greg Aiello said in a telephone interview. He was discussing how the league could donate $1 million or more to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, whose discoveries of brain damage commonly associated with boxers in the brains of deceased football players were regularly discredited by the N.F.L.

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BALTIMORE (AP) — A woman has filed a $70 million lawsuit against Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs, claiming he is father of her two children and assaulted her multiple times.

Suggs said at practice Thursday that he has nothing to hide, but he was not able to discuss the case yet.

Candace Williams, 26, is seeking $50 million in punitive damages and $20 million in compensatory damages from the three-time Pro Bowl pass rusher. She filed a separate complaint seeking custody of the children. Both were filed Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court.

Williams is also seeking a restraining order against Suggs, who she said knocked her down and poured bleach on her and their son.

“I can’t talk about all that right now,” Suggs said at the Ravens’ training complex. “You know I’ve always been fair. When I can address it, I will. I really have nothing to hide. As bad as I want to talk about it right now, I can’t.”

..Williams alleges Suggs broke her nose during a Nov. 3 incident and threatened to kill her. On Nov. 29, she said he threatened to drown her with bleach and poured bleach on her “entire body as she was forced to stay on the ground.”

A district court judge noted that she had a laceration on her chest when he granted her a temporary restraining order against Suggs that requires him to stay away from Williams and vacate their residence.

Williams claimed that Suggs has “irrational and violent tendencies.” Read on…

In light of that thought, Boston.com had this story:

EVEN WITH an enfeebled Willie Wood sitting right behind him in a wheelchair this week, NFL chief Roger Goodell still refused to acknowledge the damage football is causing to players’ brains. For me, this was sickening.

Wood, who played safety for the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s, was one of my childhood heroes. I still remember cheering his interception and 50-yard return that helped the Packers win the first Super Bowl in 1967. He weighed just 180 pounds. Still, his tackling was so fierce that even his teammate and fellow Hall-of-Famer Ray Nitschke, the mean-faced linebacker, said the second-scariest Packer, after coach Vince Lombardi, was Wood.

The scary thing Wednesday was the sight of Wood at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Now 72 and suffering from dementia, he wore a Packers hat and coat as he slumped in his wheelchair. Wood’s guardian, Robert Schmidt, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel said that because of Wood’s size, many of his tackles were “like a bus and a Volkswagen at the point of impact.’’ Now he could only listen as Goodell, the National Football League commissioner, denied the impact of the sport on men like Wood – despite exploding evidence that football players are inadvertently blowing up their own brains.

When asked directly by Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, whether there is a link, Goodell muttered, “You’re obviously seeing a lot of data and a lot of information that our committees and others have presented with respect to the linkage. And the medical experts should be the ones able to continue that debate.’’

Conyers said, “I just asked you a simple question. What’s the answer?’’

Goodell said, “The answer is, the medical experts would know better than I would.’’

Conveniently, Goodell’s ranking medical expert was not there. Dr. Ira Casson, cochairman of the league’s research panel on football brain damage, did not appear. In a blatant show of disrespect to the committee, Goodell claimed that Casson’s presence had not been requested. Yet The New York Times reported the day before the hearing that the Judiciary Committee had tried several times to contact Casson, who did not respond.

The NFL clearly did not want Casson to face the likes of Representative Linda Sanchez, Democrat of California, who rightfully likened the league’s obfuscations to Big Tobacco’s past denials about the dangers of smoking. She played a clip of a television interview where Casson bluntly said “no’’ several times when asked whether head trauma in football is linked to various types of premature memory loss and disease. In 2007, Casson told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, “players who have two or three concussions over a year test no differently neurologically than those who had one.’’ The doctor’s blithe statement should give pause to all youth football parents about the world their children are entering. Read on…

Classy.

Proving that college football is merely an extension of the NFL (and its regulations for bad behaviour), Spikes will suffer the unbearable punishment of being suspended. For one half.

Yup, a mere 30 minutes of game time. That’ll teach him to play dirty.

So perhaps they should just ease up.

Lately (as in, since they started losing – badly), the Washington Redskins have started taking aim at their fans. Previously there was a rule for the stadium audience that helped control the various banners and signs that people would bring in support (or opposition) of the playing teams.

Fair enough. Football is intended to be family friendly. It wouldn’t do to have an obscene image or phrase mucking it up.  And large banners could cause safety issues, or just plain be obnoxious by blocking peoples’ view of the game.

But after Daniel Snyder effectively removed all authority from head coach Jim Zorn, the signs took a more criticizing tone – nailing Snyder for his recent decisions regarding the team. The solution? Ban all signs from the games.

Wow, that’s petty.

“Banners are permitted at FedEx Field; however, Guests may not display banners that advertise or mention products or services. Banners may not cover existing FedEx Field equipment or signage. Signs may not be made with metal or wood. Management reserves the right to remove any sign, including those deemed to be obscene, inappropriate or which obstructs the view of other Guests. For the safety of all Guests, banner poles are not permitted.”

So in other words, most banners were permitted. Then it became obscene to criticize Snyder, so no banners whatsoever were permitted. That’s pretty much the typical action when a franchise hits an impotent skid and ownership struggles against mounting discontent. You limit the fans’ ability to vent at games. Security at Lions games practiced it at one point, too, stripping fans of at least some “Fire Millen” signs at one of the low points of former team president Matt Millen’s tenure. The Lions deny it was ever a team mandate, and that banners of any kind have always been off limits. But the latest message from the Redskins is pretty clear: Buy the tickets and don’t question the management – which sort of makes watching a Redskins game like flying coach. (Yahoo! Sports)

Wow, this is just outrageous. The man could have died. And the entire team is protecting the guy who did this? If anything, the coach should be honor-bound to say something. One of his players destroyed a man’s health and ruined his love of the game – that player should have consequences for his actions.

What jerks.

The latest Twitter tantrum comes from NFL player Larry Johnson. This is no slip of the tweeting tongue. This guy insulted his coach. I’m pretty sure that’s not the way to get resigned to the team come next season. You can see here on this screenshot from Johnson’s oh-so-tasteful Twitter page.

I don’t know what’s less smooth – the insulting tweets or the ridiculous wallpaper.

Johnson’s agent is trying to smooth things over by downplaying the whole incident and insisting that Johnson was only trying to promote his father, and that he meant no disrespect towards his coach. Uh huh.

When this hit the fans, they responded in turn to ol’ Larry. In what quickly became just another trolling war, he threw back a tweet, saying “Make me regret it. Lmao. U don’t stop my checks. Lmao. So ‘tweet’ away.”

I’m pretty sure we the fans don’t sign checks, but I can’t imagine it looks good for the NFL to have its players insulting them. Something about ticket sales and high dollar merchandise comes to mind. Keep up the attitude and Johnson might just be getting a little paycut after all.