OT: Ohrnberger crashed his car to avoid being cut for tardiness.

[mgcolby]

Former Patriot says he crashed car to avoid being cut by Bill Belichick when late to practice

Rich Ohrnberger said he once overslept and purposely got into a fender-bender on the way to practice to avoid Patriots coach Bill Belichick's wrath.

www.yahoo.com

This is unique, I think.

 

[archstanton543]

 

[WinstonSmith]

I guess it's better than stumbling around a supermarket naked while in a fugue state...

 

[TheRainMaker]

I get it that it can be stressful to not mess up/be late at our jobs, but I'm not a huge fan of what he did.

 

[Scotty]

I was just going to post the story but too slow....never be late for a BB meeting then !

 

[MAC10]

apparently there was a guy inside the car that he hit…

 

[mgcolby]

I get it that it can be stressful to not mess up/be late at our jobs, but I'm not a huge fan of what he did.

I'm with you. I was thinking he hit parked car or a mailbox or something..wait do those still exist? Anyway...the thought process in theory is humerus to me. But not so much in reality.

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

Fendergate

 

[slam]

This would be good source material for a Law & Order episode back in the day.

 

[TheRainMaker]

I'm with you. I was thinking he hit parked car or a mailbox or something..wait do those still exist? Anyway...the thought process in theory is humerus to me. But not so much in reality.

Same. I hoping he just ran into something other than a car/person to say it was an "accident". But hitting another car even slightly could cause something bad.

 

[Hyped]

Brandon Spikes also left the scene of an accident....and he was never suspended or anything for it....IIRC.

 

[VectorPrime]

I’ve done this before with a lamppost but that’s because I was late all the time because I really didn’t care.

 

[PatsFan2]

Rich Ohrnberger who??

 

[captain stone]

Lil’ Richie O-Burger… What a ****ing predictably Horrible pick in a draft that should’ve been much better than it was.

 

[jah]

Seems like a similar line of reasoning to calling in a bomb threat to avoid going to work, except the mere threat of a bomb is less physically dangerous than hitting a car with a guy in it.

 

[Nehalem]

This would have been funnier if BB had cut him for being late anyway

 

[TommyD4207]

I guess it's better than stumbling around a supermarket naked while in a fugue state...

Don't bring Chandler Jones into this.

 

[Uncle Rico]

Thing I remember most about Ohrnberger is that during and a bit after his playing days he was perhaps the most crudely hilarious person on Twitter. Totally cleaned up his act to become a media guy.

 

[ahmed]

Don't like that our players are that afraid of getting cut for being late once.

 

[NormZauchin]

I remember that Brady once was in an accident in the Back Bay with his Audi. Didn't admit that it was intentional to avoid the wrath of Belichick.