Pacman Jones-Worst Person of the Year

The story about Pacman Jones making it "rain" and the shooting at a Vegas strip club has received a great deal of press in these last few months. It forced Roger Goodell to suspend Pacman Jones for the entire year, even though he is appealing it, and let to what was needed by the NFL, a new player conduct policy. Pacman even took out an ad in a Nashville paper to apologize to the fans.

That is all fine and dandy, apologize to the fans for not being able to stay out of trouble. You talk about earning back their trust, making amends and the like but have you apologized to Tommy Urbanski yet? CNNSI has a great story about Mr. Urbanski who is paralyzed after the shooting. A former professional wrestler, no I don't recognize him must have been a run of the mill indy worker, is paralyzed from his belly button down after the shooting. The man has a 9mm bullet permantely lodge into his spine cause of this and all he did is walk outside.

My problem with this whole situation is I haven't heard Pacman Jones apologize to this man whose life has been turned upside down after only trying to help put his wife through law school. He apologized for letting down the team and basically being a menace to society, but what about the immediate harm your actions and the actions of the people you run with with? All anyone seems to care about is how this affects the Tennessee Titans and the NFL conduct policy, not the fact that Tommy Urbanski is permanently in a wheelchair because of this.

I would like to ask Mr. Goodell if the year long suspension was too soft for Pacman Jones. Some have said, oh it's far too hard, but I disagree completely. When you are involved in an incident that results in a shooting that results in someone being paralyzed you deserve far more then just a suspension. I hope the Vegas PD are not afraid of Jones and his lawyers and slam the book on him and send him to prison for a few years. So he may have ruined the Titans season, who cares, they'll have plenty of other seasons. Tommy Urbanksi however will likely never walk again and for that Pacman Jones needs to be held responsible.