Matt Maiocco of CSNBayarea.com and Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee are tweeting that Aldon Smith was stabbed at a party Saturday morning. Barrows tweeted two people were shot and one was stabbed, and Smith’s injury is not believed to be serious. I will give you more details as they are forthcoming.
Here’s a statement from Trent Baalke: “The San Francisco 49ers are aware that Aldon Smith incurred minor injuries during an incident last night. We are in contact with Aldon, and thankful that his injuries were not more serious and that he is recovering comfortably. The 49ers are also in communication with local authorities as they gather information regarding the incident, and will reserve further comment at this time.”
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Dang it. This is the dangerous part of The Doldrums. This is when we don’t want news.
I try hard to choose parties where nobody is carrying a knife or a gun. Just saying’.
You don’t need to be a genius but Aldon Smith is a party boy and I hope he makes better decisions in the future, with the DUI and now the bad Party crowd.
JH needs to put a stop to this right away ! This has bad ending written all over it if the kid doesn’t grow up a bit after this,his 2nd big mistake.
Can we at least wait until we know exactly what happened before we make judgments or get hysterical about it?
Nothing good happens after midnight…
Even less good happens after 2 am…
HIMYM?
Always this kind of news sucks. With so much on the line I would think these young men would understand that screwing up can cost them and their team lots. You can be innocent, but just being around certain lifestyles can produce clouds, and it may rain on your parade, and then your all wet – and then we all have to wait to see if you dry.
I read it was his house party and all his hometown peeps were acting up. If Aldon doesn’t figure it out sooner than later I’m sorry he may derail his career. It’s just not worth it with so much potential… sucks
I hear ya BB.
Yeah, Mike Vick spoke to the Rookie Symposium this year (along with Pacman) about not letting yourself be defined by the actions of others around you. If your old buds can’t move with you into the next phase of YOUR life, then leave ‘em behind. Harsh, but……
You’ve got to make every effort to control your environment. Wanna be a cop or a soldier? Gotta walk the walk. Want that NFL big money? Better figure it out fast.
With the way the Comish operates, makes me wonder if a game or two suspension is on the horizon.
undercenter,
Why would he get suspended for getting stabbed? He wasn’t breaking any laws.
I didnt say he was getting suspended, it has to be a possibility tho. You already have a DUI earlier this year, the Commish is addressing this type of behavior with unprecendented fevor. Your at a party late at nite/early morning, stuff happens, he does not want bad publicity and he is quite clear with that.
The DUI was a 1st offense, and in this situation he wasn’t breaking any laws. I highly doubt he will be suspended.
The more important thing is that he grow up and not put himself in these types of situations moving forward. If he doesn’t learn from these incidents things won’t end up the way they should.
As the story goes, it has been preached for a few years now, about not putting yourself in harms way. It has been stressed very much so. Some people are not getting this message. Yes he apparantly didnt break a law and yes he got stabbed. But going to a party with I guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 patrons is something to raise one eyebrows. Bad idea. I dont think the Commish uses breaking the law as the only factor in suspensions. He has zero tolorance for bad publicity. This isnt good publicity. He probably wont get suspended but I bet he is on thin ice with both the Commish and the Niners organization. Bad choices promote scruitney.
Very true undercenter. As a child I knew that being around certain people/situations would increase the odds of something bad happening.
As an adult, it should be a “duh” at this point. Come on Aldon. If not for us Niner fans/organization, then for yourself.
Aldon Smith: I’m not worried at all about Aldon. Here’s a kid who’s what? 22? Family in the mid West? Millions in his pocket? He’s figuring it out. He likes to party. I know, I know…. you want the kid on lockdown so you can enjoy your Super Bowl runs. Niner fans want to shut down all chances of Aldon getting into trouble. I say horse cookies. If you gave me a million dollars when I was 22, I’d be on 25 hr a day lockdown in Gitmo for building a rocket ship made out of blow and hoping to take underage Colombian hookers with me to the moon. I’d be a pioneer. Call me Christopher Spitblood. Personally, I think Aldon is an enlightened human being for not building that rocket ship yet.
The NFL has a structure in place for this. Aldon could miss some games. So what? It’s a team sport. You lose Aldon for a week, month or even a year (I’ll be there for you) – the team steps up and the NFL works on Aldon’s head. I don’t think Baalke should shy away from guys like Aldon because it’s exactly what Terry Donahue didn’t get as our GM (among so many other things). Donahue said, “I want guys who go to Church on Sunday morning and then play like hell in the afternoon,” or something like that. This is all wrong. I could build a team of Lawrence Taylors a lot faster than you could build a team of Reggie Whites. There are more insane men who get after the qb with an enthusiasm unknown to man kind who like to party and tear it up than there are pious men who believe Jesus wanted them to practice their swim move. I like Aldon’s beast within – it’s exactly the reason he now owns the 49ers’ rookie sack record and why he almost got the NFL sack record for rookies.
Let the kid party. He misses games, years? So what. He’ll learn soon enough there are people out there who want to take from him what he has by grabbing his fame through altercation. He’ll create a network of friends to prevent that. Hopefully that network of friends can be trusted.
Who did Aldon speak highly of last year? Mike Vick. Aldon could be a Mike Vick talent. He really could. Aldon could be a HOFer like Vick. The key will be for Aldon to make his circle of friends more moral than Vick’s – meaning no dog fighting. If Vick had dog fighting going on, what else was going on? Women, drugs, space ships made of blow?
The key to Aldon will be him creating a strong posse of moral men. My money’s on Aldon figuring it out. Why? Harbaugh. Right now Jim’s building Claude Balls a mud hut in Peru. He can handle Aldon.
So, how much alcohol was involved?
If I’m Godfather Fangio I need to find another guy that can do the same things as Mr. Smith. Once is a bad mistake. Twice is a pattern. I don’t think we found one in the draft so maybe we go get that other unhappy Giant. Next year I would look for one early because as Tim indicated, we’ve seen this movie before and the ending is disappointing. This guy has a character flaw and this is exibit B indicating nothings changing.
This is too much now. He needs to pick the right people to hang out with. His whole career is in front of him. A potential big contract and some championships. Where are his parents? yes I said parents. He’s still young. Siblings?mentors? Justin Smith? P willis?
JH needs to put the smack down too, not start him the first game at least. he needs to be accountable for his actions. two incidents in 6 months where both could have been life threatening….come on Aldon!!
If I’m Justin Smith, I make him an offer he can not refuse to move in with me for the season. That would take care of that little problem.
Aldon Smith is an extremely rare talent – right now, i think he has LT-type ability. Lets hope that Baalke et al help this young man see the value and wisdom of a stable life and that this is the only comparison to LT we ever need to make.
Strike 2. This kind of S*#& needs to stop. People are saying its not his fault he was stabbed but the fact is he put himself in the situation where people were shot and stabbed. Clearly hanging with the wrong crowd. He has a very bright future but anymore stupid crap like this and i sont want to see him in a Niner jersey
The story is pretty bleak at this point and everyone already has their mind made up on it. Everyone already knows exactly what happened. Funny!
Oh ya! Wish you a speedy recovery AS and thank God it wasn’t more serious.
It’s all about *decisions* and *choices* and making the right ones. He needs to be mentored by one of the veteran players (McDonald or PWillis?). What happened to HEdwards? BW brought him into the org in the 80′s to work with the players and help them make the right decisions/choices. This isn’t looking good, but damage control and it is very early in his career, he can change his decisions/choices. Let’s hope the team helps with this process. He has a big career ahead of him if he can stay focused.
Harbaugh and crew will get this sorted out. Aldon doesn’t seem like a bad guy, just a young guy making bad decisions. Knowing Willis’ history I wouldn’t be surprised to see him take Aldon under his wing.
I try not to get too down on these youngsters when they blow it. Heck, if someone had dropped $10 million on me when I was 22 I’d have never seen my 23rd birthday.
Probably not MacDonad who was also caughton a dui a couple years ago.
So was Harbaugh for that matter. Both McDonald and Harbaugh shaped up quick after their incidents – they can help Aldon I would think.
And hey, at least Aldon is drinking at home now so he can’t get a DUI! :-D
Why does it have to be the natural talented ones that seem to find trouble?
I hope he wises up after this, being from bad neighborhoods as a youngster I know its hard to get away from what you know. I still love my boys from back then, but I dont go to parties that are going to be trouble.
WTF Aldon? I know reports said he was trying to break up a fight but really? Ur in the NFL on the verge of being an integral part on a super bowl favorite and u try to break up fights at house parties.
This is just another reason why I cant wait for TC and the season to start. With the way JH hammers his guys, after a nice 12 hour day all players want to do is go home and pass out. So far AS has shown terrible judgement twice in 6 months and both times he has managed to escape serious harm.
I trully hope that he gets his head out of his a$$ and in to “staying late to watch gamefilm” mode. I agree with earlier sentiments made here that Cowboy or PWilly need to pull him aside and have “The Talk” as in “were all in this together dont F#$% it up for the rest of the team”
August cant get here fast enough.
And before anyone rushes in to defend him as a victim, hold back. There is wrong place wrong time and then there is putting yourself in bad situation.
I have been to hundreds of parties and have never even been close to getting stabbed. Just saying
Aldon didn’t just go to a wild party,he was the host of this wild party where people were shot and stabbed (him) and a load of police had to come to break it up etc.
He put himself in the situation ! If this doesn’t stop him in his tracks and turn him around,then maybe he is just stupid and maybe his career will be a disaster. I hope not.
Aldon needs a mentor. Success has not been a good friend to Aldon thus far.
Time to grow up, Aldon.
These people are millionaires! They just can’t be locked up when they’re away from the game. I’ve been to parties around good people where they’ve gotten out of hand. Sh!t happens! Why does everyone seem to think that these guys can’t have a life? I remember something way worse happening to Ray Lewis several years back. Look how he turned out. Everyone should just stop judging people and relax. Have a beer!
The majority of ” these people” donot get stabbed and get DUI’s. You can have a great life without going to parties and getting stabbed. What does money have to do with it, a non millionaire can get stabbed and get DUI’s, you sound like a counrty bumpkin.
Paul Pierce…..Ray Lewis straightened up because he beat a murder case. Should we hope AS doesnt have to go that far to straighten up? Hope not.
“you sound like a counrty bumpkin”
Well I’m not really a city boy if thats what you mean. What that has to do with anything I’m not sure.
If anybody doesn’t think this is happening all over the nfl, dui’s and such, you better look again!
All I’m saying is I have know idea what I would do at 22 years old and have millions. The mistakes one could make are endless. Hindsight is always 20-20. Have you ever thrown a party at your parents house or your own house and said to yourself,”maybe I better not, somebody might get in a fight and I might get stabbed breaking it up”? Don’t think so, never ever even crossed my mind.
And for another thing, I dont ever believe much of what the media writes anymore, they don’t report the facts. They report what they hear and add there personal touch to it. Ask TO what the media can do to ya if they don’t like you. So I’ll reserve judgement until if and when I hear facts. Thats all I’m saying. Jumping to conclusions before that is rediculous!
I do like that slave theory tho. It’s exactly right. It has nothing to do with race. These players are being bought and put on display and all they’re suppose to do is play football. It’s pretty crazy!
DUI+Stab wounds in one offseason=red flags. The kid is only 22 years old, but he needs a firm talking to by some of the vets. It has nothing to do with being “locked up”, it has to do with acting responsibly.
Because they are millionaires they can easily hire bodyguards , drivers and so on. No one is saying stay locked away but instead of having an entourage of “loosers” ie ur friends from back home who start trouble. Get some asistants and protection so it doesnt wind up being a Darrent Williams situation.
This points to the real problem we’ve created in this league. We have reintroduced slavery. We sell these kids the same way slaves were sold in the past. We measure them. We line them up at auction. Then we let the rich come and buy them. The only difference, the slaves get a percentage of the money.
In 2004 at OU, there was a star who played there who was never in Math class. We’d hear the role call, not present. He didn’t even show up to take the final. He was never in any class. WOrd around campus was he stayed at home playing video games and went to practice, until the local media starting making a story about it. Then all of a sudden, tutors showed up for him.
It’s simply a matter of another uneducated talented fool given the keys to destruction.
The colleges are just interested in money. They build up this sense of entitlement without accountability. Then, the NFL comes along, gives these kids a blank check, and lets them loose on the world.
Kind of ironic that we work hard, live responsibly, and it is our money they are out there jeopardizing the innocent with.
Slaves?????????? Man please. This is where you miss reality. Colleges arent to blame, “White owners” arent either. This starts from their childhood, and parents. This is who you should blame. Blaming adults who arent their parents is foolish. They take hold when these athletes are already old enough to know right from wrong. It starts at home. LIKE IT ALWAYS HAS!
Parents are to blame? These kids are told from every adult in their lives from the age that they start to rise to the top that they are better. The rules don’t apply. This is a community problem, not a problem that is contained to the home.
I don’t know why you thought race was an issue here. No where did I say “white owners”. I said slavery, which is much broader than the early US version. Subsequently, that version originated with African Tribesmen selling their own people – both their captured enemies and their own tribesman- into slavery, not with white owners.
Your argument lacks merit. If at 18, the typical age of a college freshman, you are old enough to make life alterating decisions that affect both you and those lives you pass through on a daily basis, why does the law require a presidential candidate to be 35 years old ?
These athletes make more than the president of this country, have more exposure, and half the life experience without a solid education.
There are two college sports that pay the athletic department bills. Basketball and football. 17% of the revenue for an athletic program is generated from NCAA distribution. That is media contracts, jersey sales, etc. To give that some comparison, it is the second highest contributing factor behind alumni/booster donations (27%).
It is in the best interest of the college to turn a blind eye to these kids lack of academic success as only 57% of college football programs are profitable. Boosters don’t want a Rhodes Scholar, they want championships. Championships aren’t earned in a classroom. They are earned in the weightroom away from the academics, pummeling each other as athletes get bigger, stronger, and faster. No, it is not the parents fault. It is a community issue that is generated by money and our version of the Roman Gladiators.
So we can’t sit here indignant that yet another star athlete has made poor decisions that have affected someone else’s life. He is just doing what we have encouraged him to do, being entitled without consequence.
There is a history lesson. I completely agree. It is a community issue that includes the parents.
We have reintroduced slavery.
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He is just doing what we have encouraged him to do, be[] entitled without consequence.
Someone needs to make up his mind.
That is not two points. It is an explanation of causality in regards to professional sports in America. It is a point followed up by supporting details, a little history, and explained with the consequence of the first.
Here is a translation for you.
“We have reintroduced slavery” -Professional sports.
(the Cause)
“He is just doing what we have encouraged him to do, being entitled without consequence. ” -Aldon Smith is merely a specific consequence of the reintroduction of slavery. -(The effect.)
It sort of loses its luster when it has to be explained in commodious detail.
It actually sounds even dumber when explained in detail. Slaves were taken from their country, against their will. They were forced into labor and abused. Professional athletes are paid millions of dollars to play a sport that many would play for free. There are consequences if you don’t carry yourself in a professional manner. Aldon has already had a DUI this offseason, which was his consequence for driving drunk. Now he has stab wounds, which is his consequence for hanging out with idiots. It’s about stupidity, not slavery.
“The only difference, the slaves get a percentage of the money.”
WTF? The PLAYERS get roughly HALF of the money because they decided to be PARTNERS with the owners. They are FREE not to play football, nobody is forcing them to play football against their will.
You can’t give pearls to swine Jason. The intelligent people here understand what it is that you are saying. We comprehend the correlation.
Soap boxing in a forum that is built on those correlations is as ludicrous as telling an alcoholic he has a problem.
Big P,
I agree no one is forcing these kids to play football. Instead, kids are being told that to get out of the poor house, they have to aspire to be something.
Education is the key to aspiring to something greater.
The education that should be freeing these individuals is taking a back seat to revenues. I am not saying that 100% of the NFL and NBA players are muscle bound oafs who lack self control.
I am merely saying that we’ve created an environment that promotes entitlement without accountability. You still have your free agency to make the choices that dictate your life.
However, slapping a warning label on the side of a box of cigarettes doesn’t mean it’s no longer harmful.
“Some” nfl stars have no other options when their careers end, because they lack an education. We’ve taught an individual how to live for 25 years and then when we are done with them, they are cast out and told that way of living is wrong. On a communal level, we’ve dropped the ball putting money ahead of education.
You don’t havce to agree with me. Just ask any of the retired NFL players. I am merely repeating what they have been saying the last 20 years.
Jason,
I understand your argument as it relates to education, youth and entitlement, the slavery comments just don’t make any sense.
Community problem? Wtf? Since when did the community raise kids? What socialist world do you live in? I raise my kid. I feed my kid. I teach my kid what life is going to be about. The morals of family and morals of ethics are learned at home. School subjects that prepare kids for life are done by the community. Comparing these kids to slaves is apples and oranges. And count how many black owners there are, now count how many black players there are. You with that dumb comparison make it a race thing. Dude put down the Jesse Jackson books. And if you have kids raise them yourself. I as a community member sure as hell don’t want to. Community??? Lol
And jason… Since the “slave owner” colleges and nfl owners are the problem with these “slaves” why am I reading stories of parents taking bribes and cars, houses and cash to make their own kids slaves to these people? There’s my point. What kind of good parent that prepares their kids and teaches them work ethic and moral values do these things? Parents that never learned those values either.
Do the colleges look for players only and that’s all they care about? YES! But where are these parents sitting at the table with their kids making damn sure their education comes first? Look at Alex smith. It’s hard for me to believe his parents were letting their son ve a “slave” to colleges.
When of ever are the parents in this country going to go back to raising their own kids and stop blaming everything else for their kids failures? Like I said. It starts at home.
I have read some truely idiotic statements on this board but I have to say all outrageous, insane, flat out stupid statements prior to Jason’s statement pale in comparison to this epic ignorance. You can’t equate a profession where workers earn millions to slavery. You can’t equate a profession where millions upon millions of men would trade places with the workers as slavery. These men go into this profession knowing about the physical toll it will take on their bodies and they consciously make the decision to freely play the sport. Being weighed, measured, tested in all sorts of ways goes to evaluating a players ability to do the job and has nothing to do with slavery. Fighter pilots are weighed, measured, and tested in every way possible to determine if they are fit to fly. Fireman, Police Officers, accountants, lawyers, court stenographers, welders, architects, etc. etc. etc., are all measured in multiple ways to determine if they are fit to perform the functions of the job. Your point about the hypocrisy of the college system (which does have merit) is completely overshadowed by your correlation to slavery which is just plain ignorant. Any comparison to a young person choosing to play football and slavery – which is actually still a huge world wide problem in the form of human smuggling – completely discounts one of the greatest evils the world has ever seen.
Jason,
These kids are offered an education in exchange for representing the school as an athlete. The education along with room and board can range in value from $100k – $300k. If these kids CHOSE not to take advantage of the education then it’s the kids fault. You are concentrating your focus on the despicable cheaters in the sport, like OU, where the school does a disservice to the athlete by allowing him not to take up their offer of a free education. It’s still not slavery.
@jason:
My problem with your thesis isn’t so much the individual concepts, although I think your “reintroduction of slavery” assertion has been more than effectively rebutted. It’s that you have taken two mutually exclusive concepts – (1) slavery and (2) a life of entitlement without accountability, applied both of them to professional athletes and asserted that one causes the other.
Apparently, it is the reintroduction of slavery and not the payment of millions of dollars that causes these athletes to live lives of entitlement without accountability. Interesting.
Now, my family never owned slaves and I went to public school, so it’s possible that I simply am ill-informed as to the practice of slavery. I performed a Google search, however, and can find no record of any slaves who led or were encouraged to lead lives of entitlement. Nor can I find any explanations of how being a slave causes one subsequently to live a life of entitlement, particularly without accountability.
I am not opposed to the idea, however, depending upon the details. How long would I have to be a slave before it causes me to become entitled? Does the entitlement end with me, or will my kids be able to continue it after I am gone? Does the slavery have to be back-breaking hard work, or can I get a position in the house? Will I be able to avoid being whipped or maimed?
Depending upon your answers, your ideas may be intriguing to me, and I may wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Wooo woo wo Houston. You can add those crappy longhorns to that list also. No need to take shots at the mighty sooners. OU is a fine institution. Lol BOOMER SOONERS!!! :-)
Ninermd, I am no Longhorn fan. My allegiance rests squarely with Stanford. My OU blast comes from some direct knowledge of OU recruiting tactics in the state of Texas. All schools push the rules but OU must feel the need to bend (code for shatter) the rules to get recruits to actually go live in that state. Those tactics have crossed the tenure of many coaches in OU history and continue to this day.
Its not about locking people up, or even following them around as a team’s babysitter; Jerry Jones tried that with Pacman Jones and it didn’t work.
It is about thinking ahead when making choices. Doesn’t have to be a church group. Music and dancing and laughs and some drinks can be fine. Deion lived a flashy lifestyle with his posse but never, as I recall, was implicated in anything with drugs or violence or highway shenanigans. He lived large without problems.
Jason
These “Slaves” are offered a free education and a chance to better their life. Like you said their only way out of the poor house is sports but its a vehicle not a destination. What I mean is that they can use sports to get an education and then use that education to get out of the poor house. But what happens when the “slaves” come from a broken home where the parents are either absent or dont give a sh*t, is that the “slaves” start taking shortcuts instead of using sports as a tool to get what they want(a better life) they focus solely on sports and want that to be their life.
I wish someone paid for my college education, that would have been nice. If all I had to do to get it was to bounce a ball or tackle someone (which many of us here do for recreation FOR FREE) Sign me up for that type of slavery. Every time a player drops out of the winter semester to train for the draft he reinforces the notion that he is an idiot and he is chasing NFL $ rather than a free education. While by doing that u can earn more money in a year that most people can earn in 5 this is a risky approach.
And dont ask me to feel sorry for ex athletes who were dumb enough to not capitalize on their free education and then even dumber with their money management. $1 million is more that an average person would earn in 20 years (50k x 20 yrs) yet many are broke only 3 years after leaving the league. No one made these “slaves” put rims on their toaster
Like Chris Rock said “Oh sh*t they spinnin”
The party was at HIS house…hundreds of gun & knife wielding inebriated party-goers raging at 2:30 am. Common man, that is not a good idea for anyone to hosting that action. Going to a house party is way better. If trouble breaks out you leave and have your driver take you home.
http://www.joedean.com/new/cartoons/abc1.swf
damn that was a shock to the system!!!
I think Aldon Smith needs to stop putting himself in these kind of environments and situations. He has a promising career, but if he keeps it up, he may end up like Adam “Pac Man” Jones. He should spend a little more of his idle time in the gym or film room.
SteeeeeeRike 2! Will the player strike out? To be continued…
How does that saying go?
You can take a xxx out of the ghetto …
Nice, BillyBob. Now I suppose you’re heading off to Church, eh?
Billy Bob,
Perhaps you should change the xxx to the KKK, you racial dope.
Should of gone with Harbaugh to build houses…
I recall Gary Sheffield getting shot in the chest, visiting “the old neighborhood.” Aldon, “keeping it real” and letting “your boys” hang around isn’t the answer. Kill it on the field, date hot models and stay away from the house parties and clubs.
Way off topic (maybe a good thing at this point, lol), Loving the presentation of the 2002 SF Giants at AT&T right now.
These guys brought Giants baseball back to relevence. Showed a video of JT Snow grabbing little Darren Baker off of home-plate (classic). Darren (now 13) threw the first pitch to JT Snow, how cool is that!
Thanks 2002 Giants Team
Go Giants!
2012 Giants are making their playoff move. Now our 49ers are relevent again as well. Bay Area sports is on the rise. C’mon Warriors, you have some catching up to do.
Booooooooooooo. Lol
Aldon, get your act together man!
100+ people at Aldon’s party? Hmmmm, any other 49ers there? More to come…?
Grant, you were probably hanging out with AJ Jenkins and Anthony Davis, we’re y’all there too?
just trippin. : >)
That’s what I was wondering, how many other niners were there. The neighbors say there are frequent parties at this house. Well these things can get corrected, I think it will be more from other niners vs the coaches, which is why I wonder what other niners were there.
Surprised niner management isn’t on top of this, you have to know other players new what was going on. Guess at some level the notion that the niners are 100% bought into Harbaughs program is a myth, because if it were 100% then this would not have happened.
Well I do feel like we have to be a little careful in our condemnations. A party is fine, maybe fine tune the guest list? But in this day and age a lot of bad stuff happens when party crashes are excluded and decide to express their displeasure with firearms.
So some beef comes up and the host tries to break it up; that’s the right thing to attempt. In my town, drunk a-ho’s spill out of the bars and fistfight and pee on the sidewalk and puke in the storefront bodegas. It sucks, but sorry, twenty-something’s don’t handle their booze well. We’ve resisted the temptation to resort to Prohibition. But these knuckleheads face a $250 fine for D&D, Aldon’s got a lot more at stake.
I think he’s a fine guy. He’s made two separate mistakes, one’s I could’ve made in my youth but didn’t happen to get arrested for.
…Aldon will be ok….everyone needs to chill……
And your mental background is ? Are you Freud, Erickson, Dr. Phil, a sport psychologist. Thank you I thought so. That comment reminds me of a guy who thinks is marriage is perfect, then the following week , his wife serve him with papers.
Is anyone aware of a suspension coming down the pipe from Goodell for the DUI? His tollerance level is fairly low for this sort of behavior. If he gives you a break and you blow it a second time, the punishment is incredibly harsh. I wonder how this latest incident is going to sit. The commissioner has shown he doesn’t need a conviction to access a punishment and that police contact is more than enough cause to suspend a player who is already on the radar.
Bets on next one? I’m guessing sometime around Thanksgiving…
Why would you want that bet? Not only is he a 49er but he is a person too. Why would you want to see someone throw a great career away?
I do agree with MD, it starts at home. The parents job is to instill certain social skill/personality traits. Responsibility, self discipline, morality/ethics, manning up, are some of the the social skills parents need to be teaching. The main job of the parent is to make their children socially acceptable.
Doesnt sound like bad parenting from this article.
http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2012/07/02/issues-surrounding-aldon-smiths-stabbing/
u r all so ignorant…so what he went to a house party.. he didnt know that was gunna happen..just because he’s a famous football player and rich now he cant hangout with his old friends??? really think about it before u start to put all the blame on him and JH does not need to fix anything, for there is nothing wrong with aldon smith ..u all should just b happy he ok …..jeeeeez
petaluma
How are people on this blog ignorant? Whats ignorant is to look the other way as a member of a team that we all greatly care about goes off the tracks.
Thats the thing Aldon Smith is not OK. While his wounds might not be serious this incident speaks to a greater problem: Poor Decision Making.
“so what he went to a house party” Actually by some accounts He threw the party with over 100 people 3 of wich were either stabbed or shot. I dont know what type of host u are but at my parties I try not to have my guests maimed.
“..just because he’s a famous football player and rich now he cant hangout with his old friends” he can but he shouldnt especcially if those friends get him in to trouble (see Lewis, Ray; Kiel, Terrance)
“really think about it before u start to put all the blame on him ” I guess we can blame society for “reintroducing slavery” or the NCAA for being moneygrabbers but ultimately you are responsible for your decisions.
One last thought if Aldon Smith was ur son would you not have a single word of caution for him after this incident?
Niner news in July is always bad news!!
Aldon is only 22 and just like many of us he has put himself in very bad situations this off season!!! Mr. Smith, you have a bright future a head of you so please be aware of your actions and how it will impact your life! It’s time to realize you are walking a fine line with public attention. Have fun but keep it low!