GSG Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Former NFL WR Irving Fryar Indicted For Allegedly Stealing $700,000 According to the five-page indictment, Fryar, 51, and his 72-year-old mother, Allene McGhee, allegedly worked together to apply for and close on five home loans in six days back in 2009, while using only McGhee's home as collateral. Quote Link to comment
suh_fan93 Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 That is crazy. I just saw a story, an inspiring one on the Big 10 Network chronicling his life now as a Pastor. Sad if true. Quote Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Money will make people do some crazy things.... Disappointing too say the least.... Quote Link to comment
TGHusker Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Man, wasn't expecting this. See my thread on the 1983 team and article. Contrasts to this story. Quote Link to comment
Decked Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Maybe we just need to stop recruiting these kids with the minor offenses and move up to some more serious felons! EDIT: Auto correct...... Quote Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Maybe we just need to stop recruiting these kids with the minor offenses and move up to some more series felons! We are one or two Lawrence Phillips' away from winning it all.... Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Oh, say it ain't so, Fryman. Quote Link to comment
Decked Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Maybe we just need to stop recruiting these kids with the minor offenses and move up to some more series felons! We are one or two Lawrence Phillips' away from winning it all.... Maybe.... Might have to mix that in with a couple leg stomps and some illegal blocks . Quote Link to comment
onlyHskrfaninIL Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Now we know what he's been preaching Quote Link to comment
Goal-line Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I personally knew Irving Fryar. My son was a friend of his when he attended NU. Really sorry to read about this story. I always thought Irving was a stand up guy. Playing 17 years in the NFL is almost unbelievable. Wonder why he saw fit to want to commit a felony to pad his income? Sad story to say the least. 1 Quote Link to comment
Abdullah the Butcher Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I heard him speak at one of the recent spring luncheons before the spring game, he seems like a good guy on the surface, and appeared genuinely grateful for what Dr. Tom had done for him. There have been rumors for decades that he was paid off the lose the Orange Bowl so you never know. http://www.grantland...984-orange-bowl The third notable obstacle on this drive was Irving Fryar. Irving Fryar, of course, played for Nebraska. Irving Fryar may have been the best wide receiver in Cornhuskers history. But something weird happened here, and I'm not even sure how to talk about it without casting aspersions on Fryar himself — I have no proof of any foul play, and I'm not sureanyone else does, either — but I have never seen a receiver of Fryar's prodigious abilitydrop a pass in the way he did in the midst of this drive. There he was, streaking across the middle of the field, wide open in the end zone, and Nebraska's quarterback, Turner Gill, hit him directly in the hands. Fryar seemed to bat the ball away as if he were fighting off a rabid squirrel. Equally strange: Fryar went to the ground in the back of the end zone, hands to his helmet, in what I'll just assume was a moment of genuine self-pitying introspection, and a gang of Orange Bowl executives — the guys in the awful, mustard sport coats — leaped up and down and celebrated right next to him. You want a five-second exposé on the inherent corruption of college football's postseason system, you could do worse than that moment right there. 1 Quote Link to comment
VA Husker Fan Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 We were something like a 15 point favorite in that Orange Bowl. There was no way we would cover the spread at that point in the game, therefore no reason for Fryar to purposely drop that ball. It was incredibly odd in that it looks like it hit his hands and he just decided not to pull it in, but there's no logic in dropping it. 1 Quote Link to comment
Abdullah the Butcher Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IQ8qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sdIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3014%2C9119079 Quote Link to comment
Foppa Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I watched that 'drop' by Fryar again. I hear more and more about how he sold out. I'm pretty convinced of it now. There's a lot of smoke to not be some fire. He did not even try to catch that pass. Anyone who watches it cannot deny it. His character is not doing much to defend my beliefs that he got paid to do whatever he could to throw the game. It happens in sports all the time, so NU can't pretend to be exempt from something that pathetic. Money talks. I've always hoped that I was wrong in what happened, but that essentially lost Nebraska the National Championship. Quite sad, quite embarrassing. 'Allegedly.' Quote Link to comment
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