Jake Plummer Blasts NFL Owners in Pro-Cannabis Rant
Former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer is displeased with how the league is handling cannabis and wants everyone to stop fixating on the rule-breakers and focus instead on the rule-makers.
“I have a hard time with it because everybody says, ‘Oh, poor NFL millionaires. Oh, you poor people.’ They don’t understand,” Plummer told BSN Denver. “Maybe they should have a little more to say about the owners that are billionaires, they’re not millionaires; they’re billionaires.”
He went on to single out Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones, arguably the most powerful owner in all of professional sports.
“Like Jerry Jones, who says it’s ‘absurd’ that there would be a link between brain trauma, football and CTE. Shame on him for saying that, that billionaire asshole. It’s the worst thing in the world for a guy like that to say. That’s where we’re sitting; grown-ass men are asked to go out there for millions of dollars—which, yeah, it’s a lot of money—bang themselves around and completely f*ck their lives over for their 40s and 50s. So yeah, poor football players is what I say. If you’re a grown-ass man, you should be allowed to make grown-ass decisions.”
Plummer joins the growing ranks of professional athletes, including Chicago Bear legend Jim McMahon, advocating for cannabis as a way to relieve pain and aid in the recovery process.
“They should be able to say, ‘I’m going to have some CBD and puff on this fatty, relax after a football game and take the pain away,” Plummer continued. “Not get tested for it like Josh Gordon, who now can’t play the game that he’s been playing since he was a kid because he smokes marijuana. It didn’t derail him or cause him to underachieve from what I witnessed. He dominated the league for two straight years, and now he’s out of the league because he chose an alternative form of medicine.”
Plummer played in the NFL for 10 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals (1997-2002) and Denver Broncos (2003-2006). He made one Pro Bowl and finished his career with 161 touchdowns.
