Outcasts are the MVPs in MFL

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If you're like me, although hopefully with a better mug shot, youcan't wait for the NFL season to begin.
So why wait? Join my rotisserie Miscreant Football League, wherethe excitement never stops. You've got your NFL fever, year-round.Simply get a group of buddies, draft your teams and start scoringpoints based on the misdeeds of your players.
You can draft retired and currently unsigned players. You can evendraft dead players, because you never know when a guy might beimplicated posthumously. To help you keep tabs, the San Diego UnionWeb site has an up-to-date list of arrests and citations involvingNFL players.
Here's a partial MFL points menu (points in parenthesis), and we'readding new ones as fast as we can:
Your player is arrested for driving under the influence whiledriving his car (2).
He is arrested for DUI while driving a boat (4).
He is arrested for DUI while driving the Coors Light "Love Train"(10).
Your player causes a stir by spraying bottles of expensivechampagne on patrons at a glitzy Las Vegas nightclub (3).
When patrons complain of being soaked in champagne, your playerexplains that he ordered dry champagne (4).
Your player sends back one of the bottles of Dom Perignon becauseit smells "corky" (3).
He causes a stir by spraying bottles of expensive champagne onpatrons at a Sizzler (6).
He causes a stir by spraying expensive bottles of champagne on histeammates in the huddle (8).
Your player's agent releases a prepared statement containing thewords, "If anyone has been offended ..." (3).
Your player claims he was misquoted in his agent's preparedstatement (5).
Your player is subdued by police using pepper spray (2).
He is also charged with assault (3).
The report appears in a newspaper under the headline "Assault andpepper" (5).
Your player announces that he is dropping his old, silly nickname,in order to turn over a new leaf and become a solid citizen (2).
He is arrested for beating up a patron in a strip bar who insistson calling the player by his old nickname (4).
Your player flunks a drug test at his mansion (2).
He flunks a drug test while living at a Zen yoga farm (5).
Your player is arrested for a crime or violation involving a sportutility vehicle he owns (2).
His legal defense is that the SUV acted alone (5).
Your player reports to camp 10 pounds overweight (1).
Oops! He steps back on the scale and makes weight after removinghis 10-pound Rolex (3).
Your player is busted for speeding (1).
Police search the car and find drugs (4), no registration (5), aloaded weapon (6), O.J. Simpson with a paste-on mustache (8).
Your player agrees to take a sobriety test, and when police ask himto recite the alphabet backward, your player demands to use his"phone-a-friend" lifeline (4).
Your player's roadside field-sobriety test wins the weekly grandprize on "America's Funniest Home Videos" (5).
In any auto chase involving your player, points are awarded"taxi-style" - with the meter running, two points per minute ofchase time.
Your player is arrested for carrying a loaded weapon through anairport security checkpoint (3).
He explains the gun by telling police he picked up his mom'sidentical purse by mistake (5).
He explains the gun by telling police that it helps him get anaisle seat (8).
For whatever reason, they Taser him (4).
Your player is arrested for a crime involving dogs (7).
He is charged with animal cruelty, allegedly forcing 10,000hamsters to run on little wheels to supply electrical power for hisdogfights (10).
Your player is arrested for reckless driving (2).
The incident takes place on an amusement-park bumper-car ride (6).
Your player is arrested inside a topless nightclub (2).
He is arrested outside a topless club (3).
He is arrested on the roof of a topless club (5).
Your player, in court, takes the Fifth (2).
During an arrest, according to news reports, he "takes umbrage"(3).
During an arrest, he takes a hostage (10 points per).
Your player, brought to court for "arraignment," misunderstands thelegal terminology and showers the judge with dollar bills (7).
Five bonus points for every crime or incident involving your playerthat takes place in Las Vegas.
As the player's legal defense, his lawyer cites the Constitutionalguarantee that "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" (5).
Found "not guilty," your player sprays the jury with Dom Perignon(10 per bottle).