| 06 January 2010
Last September, when I wrote about the sad decline of one of the biggest draft busts in Detroit Lions history, Charles Rogers, I said the following:
I honestly hope Charles Rogers somehow gets his life together, and I never hear anything about him ever again.
There's an old saying that is quite true, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Rogers apparently didn't learn from his past run-in with the law, when he was found passed out in his car in the middle of the afternoon.
ESPN:
Police say ex-Detroit Lions and Michigan State receiver Charles Rogers has been arrested after apparently drinking too much and passing out at a Mexican restaurant.
Novi Deputy Chief Tom Lindberg said Wednesday that Rogers was arrested at the suburban Detroit restaurant Tuesday afternoon on a warrant for disobeying a sobriety court order. Lindberg says Rogers was visibly intoxicated Tuesday and was taken to a hospital.
Novi Deputy Police Chief Tom Lindberg said this morning that Rogers was found slumped over at a table Tuesday afternoon at On the Border restaurant in Novi, and employees who couldn’t wake him called 911. Police and emergency medical personnel were sent to the restaurant on Haggerty Road.
“He was showing signs of intoxication and was uncooperative, and at that point our officers determined that he had a warrant out for his arrest,” Lindberg said.
The Freep also reports Rogers is facing the music as I type, as he is to appear in District Court at 11AM.
At this point, locking him up may be the best for both Rogers, and society. He's a danger to himself and others. The only bright spot, if you can call it that, in this story is Rogers wasn't behind the wheel. Small favors...
Charles Rogers owes the Lions several million dollars, has several kids out of wedlock he can't support, still abusing alcohol and drugs and is likely going to jail.
Rogers could have had it all. Instead, he's trying to drink his problems away. What a waste of an immense talent.
I'd like to remember the former Spartan great in this way:
Thanks to his off field indiscretions, Rogers is going to be remembered for what he could have been, instead of what he accomplished at Michigan State.
Charles Rogers has become nothing more than a cautionary tale to other young players coming out of college.
UPDATE: WXYT has reported Rogers is going to jail. For violating probation, he was sentenced to 93 days in jail, and fined $985. At least it gets Rogers off the streets, and hopefully he can get some help while incarcerated.
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