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You all know that Adam (Don’t call me PacMan) Jones had another little run in with the law.  Tom Curran of MSNBC says we really should not be surprised, because he is just acting out his role in the circus known as the Dallas Cowboys.

Sorry to be the turd in the punch bowl, but I’m having a hard time with the amount of glee people are deriving from Adam “Pacman” Jones’ latest bout of stupidity.

This particular piece of low-hanging fruit holds little appeal for me.

It’s apparent the guy is not very smart. Dangerously not very smart.

Are we getting this yet? The guy is intellectually overmatched by the simple workings and expectations of society yet, by dint of his physical talents, he’s “enabled” to come back and perform.

Either way, he’s a crappy employee, but the Cowboys thought it might be kinda fun to have him under their big top (every circus needs a freak show) so they hired him. The Cowboys’ motives in exploiting Jones were never more clear than during the HBO training camp documentary “Hard Knocks.”

Given the pain Jones has caused himself and others and the limb the Cowboys made the rest of the league climb out on for a guy who’s a lock to offend again, the honorable thing would have been for the Cowboys to somehow shield Jones’ re-entry into the NFL from the cameras.

Would HBO have like it? No. Did it make for great TV to see Jones dumping trash cans filled with water from his balcony on unsuspecting teammates, catching six footballs at once, saying about T.O., “That boy crazy!” and sending correspondence to the league to ask for reinstatement? Yeah.

But the whole operation served to give Jones — someone not mentally equipped to deal with the severity of his situation and the reality of the expectations set upon him — the perception that he wasn’t a person or an employee of an NFL franchise but a reality TV star.

And what do reality TV stars inevitably do? They melt down.  (Source and the rest of the story)