Dallas Adult Entertainment: Football and the market
… Was your mother ever a prostitute?”
That question came from Jeff Ireland, the general manager of the Miami Dolphins who interviewed college football standout Dez Bryant, one of thousands of young players evaluated before the April 22 National Football League draft.
Bryant, who grew up living in several different homes and whose mother Angela spent 18 months in jail ending in December 1998 for selling crack cocaine to an undercover agent, showed amazing restraint.
“My mom is not a prostitute,” Bryant told Yahoo! Sports who first reported the story after the draft. “I got mad — really mad — but I didn’t show it.”
For many, Bryant’s restraint is nothing short of amazing.
“I don’t care who you are or who you’re talking to, that kind of question usually gets your [expletive] teeth kicked in,” said former NFL lineman Kyle Turley. “I mean, where do these people come from? That’s just completely [expletive] classless and totally unprofessional.”