… ‘But just resist that for one week and then we’ll come back here, and I’ll pay for everyone’s plane ticket. And then I’ll show you around Miami, local style.’ “
It sounds simple, but history has shown time and again that some players can’t resist that temptation, even before the biggest games of their lives.
Two of the most infamous incidents involving Super Bowl players on the eve of the game happened in Miami. In 1989, Cincinnati running back Stanley Wilson was caught using cocaine on the night before the game, his third offense under the NFL’s drug policy, which got him banned from the league. Ten years later, Atlanta safety Eugene Robinson was arrested by an undercover police officer for soliciting a prostitute on the night before the game — on the same day that he had been awarded the Bart Starr Award for his high moral character.
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