Found December 16, 2011 on NBC New York:
I know this is going to sound wildly inappropriate given the circumstances, but you have to have a certain amount of admiration for Chicago Bears wideout and alleged drug kingpin Sam Hurd. Here's a gentleman who was moving, according to law enforcement officials, upwards of $700,000 in hard drugs every week. And he was doing it while playing full time for an NFL team! According to AM 670 in Chicago, Hurd was a top drug dealer in the city. And Hurd only joined the Bears THIS season! Holy smokes! Are you telling me that, in the span of less than a year, Hurd was able to seize control of the Chicago drug trade AND learn the intricacies of Mike Martz's elaborate timing patterns? The Hurd scandal could end up becoming a huge thorn in the side of the NFL. There are certain scandals that you just know have legs, and the Hurd arrest is one of them, mostly because of this tidbit: Police have a list of NFL players who were supplied drugs by the receiver, a law enforcement sour...
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