Chris Henry RELEASED

[jjakq27]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...SPT02/304030121

Henry's week of "fun".

[BengalszoneBilly]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...SPT02/304030121

Henry's week of "fun".

So Chad was there too!?! Go figure.

[HoosierCat]

So Chad was there too!?! Go figure.

I doubt it.

[BengalszoneBilly]

So Chad was there too!?! Go figure.

I doubt it.

Did you read the article?

“We got a few Bengals players in here, Chris Henry, Chad Johnson and them,” the officer says on his call for backup, citing two of the players he recognizes. “They are destroying the ceiling in the back room and they are all highly intoxicated. The bar owners …want them ejected from the bar and we are going to try to eject them now. They have been rowdy all night.”

His name was mentioned. Was this too a case of mistaken identity?

[HairOnFire]

His name was mentioned. Was this too a case of mistaken identity?

Probably. Every report I've read other than the above names Chris Perry and Domato Peko as Henry's companions at the nightclub. Besides, nightclubs aren't Chad's thing. He prefers comedy clubs and charity events.

[jjakq27]

At least Odell wasn't there.

[agreen_112]

At least Odell wasn't there.

NO f-ing doubt. What a blessing... Henry was doing good until he couldn't resist going out and getting f**ked up. This guy just can't handle alcohol. He's like one of those kids who has something to prove to everybody when he's drinking... I really don't feel sorry for the guy, I feel sorry for his family. Did anyone catch the story on 700 WLW about Chris Henry's mom getting evicted because Chris couldn't pay or paid late the $650 rent for his mothers rental property? Apparently, the landlord (who called in to the radio station) recently evicted her because she wasn't getting the rent. The home owner was pretty upset because she said Chris's mom was a very sweet woman. Sad!

[gregstephens]

i think its a mistake as long as the guy is making next to nothing and getting 8 tds a season u should keep him.

He won't be getting any TD's anytime soon. Daddy Roger will see to that.

[HoosierCat]

So Chad was there too!?! Go figure.

I doubt it.

Did you read the article?

Yes. I think the cop is full of s**t. Note the updated version of the story changes it from players the cop "recognizes" to players the cop "believed he recognized."

[jjakq27]

At least Odell wasn't there.

NO f-ing doubt. What a blessing... Henry was doing good until he couldn't resist going out and getting f**ked up. This guy just can't handle alcohol. He's like one of those kids who has something to prove to everybody when he's drinking... I really don't feel sorry for the guy, I feel sorry for his family. Did anyone catch the story on 700 WLW about Chris Henry's mom getting evicted because Chris couldn't pay or paid late the $650 rent for his mothers rental property? Apparently, the landlord (who called in to the radio station) recently evicted her because she wasn't getting the rent. The home owner was pretty upset because she said Chris's mom was a very sweet woman. Sad!

If I'm not mistaken, she was uprooted by Hurricane Katrina.

[ShulaSteakhouse]

How do you confuse Chad with Domato Peko?

[BengalszoneBilly]

How do you confuse Chad with Domato Peko?

Impossible.

[agreen_112]

At least Odell wasn't there.

NO f-ing doubt. What a blessing... Henry was doing good until he couldn't resist going out and getting f**ked up. This guy just can't handle alcohol. He's like one of those kids who has something to prove to everybody when he's drinking... I really don't feel sorry for the guy, I feel sorry for his family. Did anyone catch the story on 700 WLW about Chris Henry's mom getting evicted because Chris couldn't pay or paid late the $650 rent for his mothers rental property? Apparently, the landlord (who called in to the radio station) recently evicted her because she wasn't getting the rent. The home owner was pretty upset because she said Chris's mom was a very sweet woman. Sad!

If I'm not mistaken, she was uprooted by Hurricane Katrina.

Which is probably why she relocated to a rental in Cincinnati/N. Ky.

[BengalByTheBay]

How do you confuse Chad with Domato Peko?

Impossible.

The implications are obvious. Anybody surpised he didn't "recognize" Carson Palmer there?

[jjakq27]

At least Odell wasn't there.

NO f-ing doubt. What a blessing... Henry was doing good until he couldn't resist going out and getting f**ked up. This guy just can't handle alcohol. He's like one of those kids who has something to prove to everybody when he's drinking... I really don't feel sorry for the guy, I feel sorry for his family. Did anyone catch the story on 700 WLW about Chris Henry's mom getting evicted because Chris couldn't pay or paid late the $650 rent for his mothers rental property? Apparently, the landlord (who called in to the radio station) recently evicted her because she wasn't getting the rent. The home owner was pretty upset because she said Chris's mom was a very sweet woman. Sad!

If I'm not mistaken, she was uprooted by Hurricane Katrina.

Which is probably why she relocated to a rental in Cincinnati/N. Ky.

I remember reading a story when Henry first got into trouble that there were a bunch of people that were displaced and moved up here. And there was some reference to not knowing if some of them were even relatives. Not sure what that was all about. Also I think somehow Tory James was involved in this "group housing" thing too. Sounds like there might have been a few bad eggs in that batch but I am sure they didn't teach Henry anything he didn't already know.

[Kazkal]

What a idiot ,it looks like he's gonna have a chance to do special things this year and goes and F's it up.

[Pidge]

And the Chris Henry era comes to an end.

My God I don't know how this team is going to be any good next year, they need to make some moves.

So one WR down and our SB run is cut short eh, Shula?

[gregstephens]

And the Chris Henry era comes to an end.

My God I don't know how this team is going to be any good next year, they need to make some moves.

So one WR down and our SB run is cut short eh, Shula?

It's not a matter of being 'one WR down' to me. It's the whole 'here we go again' karma that's going to impact this team. I believe unless the 'leaders' (aka Palmer, T.J. and Ocho Stinko) step up major, the Henry incident is going to be the last straw that will break the back of 2008...before it even starts.

[Pidge]

And the Chris Henry era comes to an end.

My God I don't know how this team is going to be any good next year, they need to make some moves.

So one WR down and our SB run is cut short eh, Shula?

It's not a matter of being 'one WR down' to me. It's the whole 'here we go again' karma that's going to impact this team. I believe unless the 'leaders' (aka Palmer, T.J. and Ocho Stinko) step up major, the Henry incident is going to be the last straw that will break the back of 2008...before it even starts.

I agree with that. I was "corrected" some time ago by his nibs about being somewhat pessimistic about our chances of doing much this upcoming season. Just wondered where all his confidence and his delightful "angry sarcastic uber fan" persona went. Just because Mr. Screwup screwed up again.

Delighted to see the big baby has been cut though. Chad is probably crying into his chocolate milkshake, knowing that his hissy fits are most definitely for naught now.

[HoosierCat]

And the Chris Henry era comes to an end.

My God I don't know how this team is going to be any good next year, they need to make some moves.

So one WR down and our SB run is cut short eh, Shula?

It's not a matter of being 'one WR down' to me. It's the whole 'here we go again' karma that's going to impact this team. I believe unless the 'leaders' (aka Palmer, T.J. and Ocho Stinko) step up major, the Henry incident is going to be the last straw that will break the back of 2008...before it even starts.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[gregstephens]

And the Chris Henry era comes to an end.

My God I don't know how this team is going to be any good next year, they need to make some moves.

So one WR down and our SB run is cut short eh, Shula?

It's not a matter of being 'one WR down' to me. It's the whole 'here we go again' karma that's going to impact this team. I believe unless the 'leaders' (aka Palmer, T.J. and Ocho Stinko) step up major, the Henry incident is going to be the last straw that will break the back of 2008...before it even starts.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Brother, stand brave. As for me, I'm grabbing my umbrella.

[BengalszoneBilly]

It appears even Henry's college team is feeling the heat over this latest debacle...

Henry on path to self-destruction

By Bob Hertzel

For the Times West Virginian

MORGANTOWN — He stood before the bench in the Hamilton County Municipal Court, just as he had stood in courtrooms so many other times before, only this time the court had had enough of wide receiver Chris Henry’s antics.

The presiding judge, Bernie Bouchard, told Henry “You’ve become a one-man crime wave.”

That is saying a lot to — and about — one man in city that in 2007 had 67 murders, 322 rapes, 1,973 robberies, 1,082 aggravated assaults, 6,198 burglaries, 12,615 larcenies and 2,421 car thefts.

But then again, how many people since December of 2005 have been arrested five times, as Henry has?

Little more than a week ago he was stopped and cited for driving with expired license plates.

Now it appears he may be making license plates.

Just a few days later, he was arrested for punching a University of Cincinnati student in the head and smashing in his car window with a beer bottle, leading to his release by the Cincinnati Bengals. It also led to having to come up with a $51,000 bail and being confined to his riverfront condo in Cincinnati under house arrest, complete with tracking bracelet.

Here is a man who had everything, or, as The Cincinnati Enquirer put it this week, he “had million-dollar hands but a 10-cent head.”

And it is that “10-cent head” that interests us today for it once wore a helmet with a flying WV on it.

Let us begin by noting that this university — any university — should not be allowing 10-cent heads into what is an institute of higher learning, no matter how fast they can run, no matter how high they can jump or no matter how much money they can create for the school through their athletic abilities.

Let us also note that certainly the roots of Henry’s discontent were laid long before he arrived in Morgantown, in the small Louisiana town in which he was raised and praised, where whatever discipline was supposed to be instilled in a young high school athlete failed to take hold.

But it must be said the university — especially the football program run at the time by Rich Rodriguez — failed to do anything to straighten out this gifted but troubled young man.

It failed in its responsibilities to Henry, to his family and to society, which is threatened each day he walks around freely.

Multiple sources within the athletic department and football program say Henry was much worse than his public image, and that public image was never exactly heroic.

On the field, Henry was a game-breaking, record-setting receiver but one who over and over drew personal fouls for unsportsmanlike conduct, topping it off with two against Rutgers in 2004 that led to his ejection and to his getting into a sideline argument with Rodriguez and flipping off the taunting Rutgers fans as he left the field.

Henry did draw a suspension for the ensuing Temple game — and game that WVU was expected to win easily and a suspension which lasted only for the first half. Even that suspension was shoved down Rodriguez’s throat.

“The orders for that came from Stewart Hall,” a source revealed, suggesting WVU President David Hardesty demanded Rodriguez offer a public form of discipline.

But there never was any real criminal behavior, or so it seemed.

Yet one source revealed Henry once punched another student in a food line and was arrested.

And then there was the 2003 Gator Bowl disaster, ending what had been a season of high hope with a devastating 41-7 loss to Maryland and an 8-5 record.

The 2003 team was led by Henry, troubled cornerback Pacman Jones, who is attempting to get his NFL life in order after missing last season because NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had suspended him for his transgressions, and wide receiver Travis Garvin, who is currently incarcerated after being arrested for armed robbery.

In late December, while practicing for the Gator Bowl, Garvin and Henry apparently rebelled at having to come out of the locker room to run. According to a source on the scene at the time, Rodriguez sent wide receivers coach Steve Bird in to get them and they refused. Henry is said to have cursed and offered a one-finger gesture.

Garvin was sent home but returned the next day and was in uniform for the game.

After the season, Bird was fired. Bird had become the fall guy for Henry and Garvin.

Had the whip been cracked hard and early on Henry, on Jones, might WVU been able to save their lives rather than trying to save its own football skin by letting them get away with almost everything but murder?

We’ll never know but we do know that two of the most talented players in the NFL missed time last year due to suspensions and that Henry is now looking for work, which he will surely find even though San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ray Ratto referred to him as “a serial nitwit.”

Ratto went on to compare Henry with Steve Howe, the-drug addicted relief pitcher who was given chance after chance despite numerous suspensions because he had the same kind of unique talent Henry possesses.

About the only salient fact about Steve Howe that Ratto didn’t point out came in this article from The New York Times:

“Steve Howe, the relief pitcher whose promising career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol abuse, died yesterday when his pickup truck rolled over in Coachella, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. He was 48.”

Chris Henry is now 24 and on self-destruct.

[HoosierCat]

John Thorton's take, from his blog...

Sad ending to Chris Henry's Bengal Career

This has been a rough week for Chris Henry. Not only did he get released from the Bengals, but he probably will be sent to jail for violating probation and the NFL may suspend him indefinitely ala Pacman Jones. The sad part is that both of these young men went to my alma mater, West Virginia University. I heard things about both of them before they were drafted, and a lot of it turned out to be true. Both men will probably play again in the NFL, but only after paying a heavy fine. Chris will get another shot to play. He is a rare player and another team will take a chance on him because all of his bad press came while he was with the Bengals. Chris could have had it all here in Cincy. Prefect offense for him, not a lot of pressure to perform, just catch one deep ball per week. Take pressure off of other WR's, and loosen things up for running game. He also had Carson Palmer in his corner. Carson doesn't publicly support everyone, but Chris was one of the guys that Carson has always lobbied for. Hopefully Chris gets himself together.

[Bobcat Bengal]

(yawns)

next.

I have utmost confidence that we'll find a more than capable WR in this draft. Maybe more than one.

[jjakq27]

I would love to know all of the discussions leading up to the selection of Chris Henry that year. Was it Mike was it Marvin or was it someone else. Had they done their homework? Did Marvin feel like he could keep him in line? Was Mike enamored with his physical skills and ignored the rest? Was he still sorry for not taking Randy Moss in 1998 when everyone talked him out of it?

After the fact it looks to be a no-brainer that they should have stayed away from that guy.