At Yahoo!Sport, Ben Rohrbach reports on the current status of, “The most outrageous streak in American sports.”:
After former San Jose Mercury News reporter Mike Rosenberg professed on Twitter … that September marked the first calendar month since July 2009 that an NFL player had not been arrested, everyone from the Tech Times to Time Magazine ran with the story. It was kind of a big deal. …
The NFL has averaged an arrest per week for the past five years and logged at least one for 79 straight months. September supposedly marked the second time in Roger Goodell’s tenure as commissioner that the league had gone without an arrest for a calendar month — the first month during a season that didn’t feature an arrest in 15 years. The streak was snapped. It was a new beginning.
Except …
It turns out Tennessee Titans rookie wide reciever Dorial Green-Beckham was arrested on Sept .30 — over an unpaid $92.48 speeding ticket. … Green-Beckham signed a four-year, $5.6 million deal with the Titans on June 1. …
So, Goodell & Co. will have to hold off on the champagne that’s been on ice since The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” was the No. 1 song on the Billboard charts and “Bruno” was No. 1 at the box office.