This is a bummer for Matt Jones.

When hanging out in Arkansas, it would probably be best not to do hard drugs in public. Unfortunately, this thought did not occur to the Jacksonville Jaguar’s wide receiver, who was busted chopping up lines in his car early Thursday morning. Police also found a jar with “marijuana residue,” which probably isn’t going to help Jones’ situation. Good luck, buddy.

Green Bay Packer Brett Favre is considering coming out of “retirement.” Apparently, he’s got the “itch” to play, and he’s talked to coach McCarthy about showing up at training camp.

Utterly ridiculous. First off, you don’t get to come out of retirement if you never actually missed playing time. Yeah, Favre had a retirement press conference, but there haven’t been any games to miss. He wouldn’t be returning, because he never really left in the first place.

Secondly, what the hell are the Packers thinking to have him back? It’s time to move on. Go with Aaron Rodgers. If he sucks, give Favre a call. But this is a giant distraction just waiting to happen. Frankly, I feel bad for Rodgers either way. He’s got to have a shot sometime, right? Fuck. Just when you think a guy might actually ride off into the sunset with a teary-eyed goodbye, he’s got to go and grandstand.

Former Oakland Raiders great and current Alabama Crimson Tide broadcaster Kenny “The Snake” Stabler went down for his third DUI charge early Sunday morning. The ex-quarterback was picked up on Alabama 59, and now has bail set at $1,000. So haggard…

David Jacobs, the guy that not only ratted out several NFL players for using steroids, but exposed an entire performance enhancing drug ring, was found dead in his home yesterday. Him and his lady were both shot. I know the NFL is serious fucking business, but offing a dude and his lady for dropping the dime on you is a tad overboard. Granted, it probably wasn’t the players that commissioned the hit (and make no mistake, this was a hit), it was probably the guys he bought all of the shit from, but still.

My point of writing about this is not to talk about some roided out dude that got murdered, but to say the performance enhancing drug hunt by the government may have gotten a tad out of control at this point. They are trying to send Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens to jail, statistics have all become tainted, and now people that provide info to help the investigation are dying. I think a far better way of dealing with the obviously prevalent steroid problem is not to try and catch everyone that has done it in the past - because they ALL do it - but to say “we know that it was a problem in the past, so from this day on we are going to improve the drug testing and make sure it doesn’t happen anymore.”

The blood lust for past users has now cost two lives, not to mention the careers and reputations for several great athletes that are taking a bullet for their entire generation. I’m not saying I condone steroid use, all I’m saying is stop trying to punish the people that have done it in the past and just start punishing the guys that are doing it now. I’m sure the Jacobs family would agree.

22-year-old Wisconsin grocery clerk Jake Brahm will spend six months in federal prison for starting a terrorist hoax. Brahm began and circulated the Internet rumor that seven NFL stadiums would be hit with “dirty” bombs on October 22, 2006, and claimed that Osama Bin Laden would hail the bombings as the “American Hiroshima.” The rumors resulted in heightened security for each stadium, which Brahm will be paying to the tune of $26 grand on top of his six months in the clink.

ESPN just put out its May version of the NFL power rankings. A quick gander will find the Super Bowl champion New York Giants logging in at number six, behind the Cowboys (who are in the same division!). I know folks will want to get hell bent on all of this, but it’s important to remember that it is May, and these rankings don’t mean shit. Here’s a complete list.