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gonna be entertaining as hell
recall the dude dominated the NFL and NCAA without playing a game sober:
https://instagr.am/p/DRLNc40gTrK
gonna be entertaining as hell
recall the dude dominated the NFL and NCAA without playing a game sober:
Quote:
In a sobering interview with GQ, Gordon admitted that he used to get drunk or high before pretty much every game that he played in during his first three seasons with the Browns.
"I would have these little pre-made shots," Gordon told GQ. "I used to love Grand Marnier. I could drink it down smooth. I could usually drink a lot of it. But if it wasn't that, it might be a whiskey or something. And I would drink probably like half a glass, or a couple shots to try and warm my system up, basically. To get the motor running. That's what I would do for games."
Gordon said he also liked to smoke weed before games if he could fit into his drug testing schedule.
"I used to make a ritual of it before every game," Gordon said. "If I had already been drug-tested that week, or the day before the game, I knew I had a couple days to buy to clean my system. Even before I was getting tested for alcohol, prior to my DWI in 2014, I would take the biggest bong rip I could. And try to conceal all the smell off all my clothes."
The Browns wide receiver also added that he would smoke week with "a bunch of guys" on the team before each game.
"But we're not talking about them," Gordon said.
Gordon led the NFL in receiving yards in 2013 despite the fact that he only played in 14 games. Unfortunately for Gordon though, his addiction finally caught up with him as he ended up missing 45 games over a period of four seasons (2013-16) due to failed drug tests.
When asked by GQ how many times during his NFL career he drank or smoked weed before a game, Gordon gave an honest answer.
"Every game," Gordon said. "Probably every game of my career."
The receiver admits that he's basically been a functioning alcoholic his entire life.
"Highly functioning. For sure. definitely pushed the limit," Gordon said. "I don't know how I did it. It could be before games, it could be before practice, after practice. You see other guys kinda doing it, but I would take it to another level a lot of times. Feeling as though I was being enabled, I thought it was an okay thing to do: 'Well, this is the norm.' And it wasn't. It definitely wasn't."