Old school question

[WhiZa]

Why did Hart Lee Dykes get his butt kicked in a bar by teammate Irving Fryer back in 1990? I was just reading up on this guy and seems like an interesting story

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Why did Hart Lee Dykes get his butt kicked in a bar by teammate Irving Fryer back in 1990? I was just reading up on this guy and seems like an interesting story

Actually Dykes and Fryar were involved in a fight with bar patrons (not with each other)after arguing over the Patriots. Dykes was outnumbered 5 to 1 and Fryar got his gun to rescue his teammate according to this news article...

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1006672/3/index.htm

 

[RayClay]

Poor Irving. If he wasn't involved in some violent, drunk drugged up episode weekly back then, it was a shock. Sorry, the tone of the article is laughable.

Glad he straightened his life out.

Hart Lee? Why? I would guess arrogant, drunk and drugged up accident waiting to happen as well.

I have no specific knowledge, just the feeling that they were both "bad character" picks.

Of course they weren't alone. In the draft the Celtics picked Len Bias, I think the first 15 draft picks, excepting Chuck Person, totally washed out due to being cokeheads. (86 Patriots scandal also, of course).

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

That's a great story about Fryar. Heartless Dykes was a big disappointment. A 2nd round WR with impressive size and build, he was injured year after year and never played many games before being cut as a complete bust.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

That's a great story about Fryar. Heartless Dykes was a big disappointment. A 2nd round WR with impressive size and build, he was injured year after year and never played many games before being cut as a complete bust.

He was no Eugene Chung.

 

[Bertil]

He actually fractured the same kneecap TWICE in consecutive seasons and never recovered.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

That's a great story about Fryar. Heartless Dykes was a big disappointment. A 2nd round WR with impressive size and build, he was injured year after year and never played many games before being cut as a complete bust.

i remember that draft pretty well. hart lee was our first rd pick taken a few spots ahead of rison, by indy. wanted to see who would do better but hart lee kept breaking his patella and rison kept getting his house burned down.