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    Who was/is the biggest drunk in professional sports?

    I admit it, I have a soft spot for drunks and bums.....John Daly is an idol of mine and I am not sure why....any guy that can win $1.2 million at 7pm on a Sunday night and be broke playing $5000 slots before 2am is pretty cool in my book.

    When I was younger the biggest drunk I knew of was former Buffalo Sabre and Winnipeg Jet Phil Housley. I used to work at a bar in Winnipeg called Norma Jean's and we would pour Phil into a cab or some chicks car 100 nights a year.....I wonder how good that guy could have been if he wasn't such a booze hound.

    I also remember that the guy he got traded for, Dale Hawerchuk, could put them back. one time, out in Gimli Manitoba I was playing golf behind one group...they were exceptionally slow but were all good players. The problem was that all of them chain smoked and drank and one of them was a pot-bellied Dale. the gu must have smoked 50 cigarettes in 18 holes.

    Teemu Selanne was awesome too...spent a night hanging out with him (at a club called Wise Guys) when I was 22 (he was 24) when he had his achilles injury. The guy's English sucked at the time, but can you imagine him with 30 drinks in him? I poured him and one of the hottest chicks I have ever seem into a cab that night (don't tell his wife).

    The biggest drunk I ever saw though was Fedor Fedorov, a former Canucks draft pick and a Manitoba Moose player for 3 years. He was involved in something that the media called 'The Incident' and was suspended for 9 games while the team tried to trade him....turned out there were no takers. In 'The Incident' we were out with him until he passed out at 5am.....we then hopped in his H2 (Sergei used to send him $5k per week) and dumped him in the hallway of the arena for his coaches to find him after practice. Damn he was a fun guy to party with.

    Anyway...I have about 2 million more stories.....hopefully other's have a few to add!!!!!!!!!!! Tell me the bighgest drunks in sports!!

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    Mick Mantle massive problem

    Also most nrl bulldog players in 2002

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    Quote Originally Posted by BennyBigNuts View Post
    Harry Carey
    Lol. definitely the best charactor that drank ON THE JOB! Love that vote. I drink on the job too, but my company asks me to, so it is a little different.

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    Billy Martin...

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    David Wells rings a bell in my mind, he looked like he's about a 12 pack in every time he was on the mound.. Sweatin profusely in that little ass mets uniform with his beer gut hangin out.. Would imagine he would go home to his trailer park and finish off the rest of his natty ice 30 pack and beat his wife

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    Oh let's not forget our pal Josh Beckett, 7th inning stretch fried chicken and beer run.. he's just an all around pathetic excuse for a human being

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    I read somewhere that wade Boggs drank crazy amounts of beer

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    Kickers. Janikowski is a lush, and I have seen jeff reed buy the bar.

    Also, going to Arizona the same time as gronk, i wouldn't call him a drunk....... yet.

    Baseball is too easy.

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    The Boston Red Sox

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    Mantle's life is well documented. He probably is the winner.

    Martin's was also.

    Sonny Jergensen threw down his share.

    John Riggins and most of his linemen were famous in D.C. for what they did.

    The guy was great!

    Here is Riggo at his finest being helped out after telling Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O' Conner to

    "Loosen up Sandy Baby, your too tight".

    It was at the 1985 National Press Club's Salute to Congress at 529 14th Street NW in Washington D.C. that Riggins drunkenly told Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to "loosen up Sandy baby" because she was "too tight" when the two met at dinner.[29] Riggins then fell asleep under the table.[30] The incident created a national stir.[citation needed] The next time Ms O'Connor and John Riggins met at a function years later, she gave him a dozen roses.[31]


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    Quote Originally Posted by freeVICK View Post
    I read somewhere that wade Boggs drank crazy amounts of beer
    Absolutely!

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    D2D -- did you catch John Daly on Feherty's show a while back? If not, look it up. Well worth it.

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    Ron Artest said he use to drink a pint of Hennessy in the locker room during halftime when he played for the Pacers lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by No coincidences View Post
    D2D -- did you catch John Daly on Feherty's show a while back? If not, look it up. Well worth it.
    Any chance you can provide a link to the one you're talking about? Googled it and came up with a few. Daly and David are friends from way back. Setting world records for hookers in a hotel room, n shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilfred View Post
    Dennis Rodman
    back when he played for the Lakers, I would see him at the Bar Fly on Sunset drinking like he had diabetes and jaeger was insulin. Guy could put down a lot of booze.

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    LOL the rally beers LOLOLOL just awesome
    Quote Originally Posted by Minnesota Niice View Post
    Oh let's not forget our pal Josh Beckett, 7th inning stretch fried chicken and beer run.. he's just an all around pathetic excuse for a human being

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    Lol this thread is awesome. I'm pretty sure Lenny dykstra was a huge drunk too. He also got involved in some huge scams and was squatting in a huge house.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChalkyDog View Post
    Kickers. Janikowski is a lush, and I have seen jeff reed buy the bar.

    Also, going to Arizona the same time as gronk, i wouldn't call him a drunk....... yet.

    Baseball is too easy.
    Yea Jeff Reed buys the bar every time he's out you would think he makes 33 million a year lmao

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    Didn't Carlton Fisk wind up in the middle of a corn field with an empty vodka bottle in his truck at like 5pm?

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    George Best was one of the best drunks.

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    Jim Kelly.

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    This picture of Reed LOL...

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    Nash LOL

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    and the King

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