Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.
Jones was involved in an alcohol-related scuffle with one of his bodyguards at a private party in Dallas on Tuesday last week.
He will miss the next four games at least, and league commissioner Roger Goodell will determine the final length of the suspension after the Cowboys’ game in Washington on Nov. 16.
In a letter to Jones, Goodell called the latest incident the continuation of “a disturbing pattern of behavior and clearly inconsistent with the conditions I set for your continued participation in the NFL.”
After repeated legal trouble while with the Tennessee Titans, Jones was traded six months ago to Dallas, where he had stayed out of trouble until the scuffle at an upscale Dallas hotel.
Hotel employees reported hearing a tussle in the men’s restroom in the lobby. Jones and the bodyguard, Tommy Jones, said everything was OK.
Police said both were driven from the hotel by an acquaintance, and the bodyguard, part of a security detail provided by the Cowboys, didn’t want to press charges. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said last week banter between the player and his bodyguard got out of hand, and a small glass item on the vanity in the restroom was damaged.
Only six weeks ago, Goodell reinstated Jones from a 17-month suspension.
“It’s terribly disappointing to me that we’re dealing with this again and that he’s reflecting so poorly on all of the players in this league, which they don’t deserve,” Goodell said at the NFL meeting in St. Petersburg.
Jerry Jones said he had spoken to the player, whom he described as being “devastated” by the news.
Jerry Jones, who last week said the team wouldn’t discipline Adam Jones because no team rules were violated, said he was disappointed with the situation but supported the league’s decision.
The player’s agent, Worrick Robinson, didn’t immediately return messages left with his assistant and on his cell phone.
Jones was an elite cornerback and kick returner in his first two seasons with the Titans, but six arrests and 12 instances requiring police intervention, including his connection to a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club, led to his suspension without pay in April last year.
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