Michael Phelps a stoner!!!!

[GIGOLO]

  Ok, so  is the big deal???? This guy stoned, could still out-swim anybody.  Besides if I had a 4 year off-season, a-ton of cash,  and any girl I wanted,  I would be partying my ass off too.  Party on Wayne!!!!

[jigs]

That don't make him a bad kid.

[barb_arah]

So, do you think all his endorsements be taken away?  That's the big talk.

[Burt Munro]

Endorsements are the big concern......

Hard to convey the squeaky clean all-american boy imagine with this floating around.

And as a swimmer, that's your only hope for income - endorsements.

Lots of sports figures getting shot down in the last few years from supposedly innocent candid photos making their way to the entire world via the internet.....

Couple that I'm aware of:

Larry Eustachy - Basketball coach at Southern Mississippi got whacked as the Head Coach at Iowa State for photos that surfaced of him having some beers at a post game party in Columbia, MO with a bunch of college age young ladies (and men).

Ed Podolak - Former star running back for the Kansas City Chiefs in the '70's (still holds the NFL record for total yards in a playoff game) just 'retired' as a radio broadcaster for the Iowa Hawkeyes Football radio network after photos of him peeking down the top of a willing young lady at a 2009 Outback Bowl party in Tampa surfaced.

Awful easy these days to catch someone off guard doing something they wouldn't want their Momma to know about and spread it around for the entire world to see.

Be careful out there!

[Jeff]

my thoughts...

1.  Can you imagine how big of a bong hit this guy could take?  I mean his lungs are like sleeping bags!

2.  He just needs to say "Look, have you seen what I eat for breakfast?  How do you think I get that hungry?"

[jigs]

This country's gotten way too uptight...he should have been much more careful though,endorsements prolly in trouble.

[Jeff]

Pfft...  He could probably recover his earnings by doing a cover shoot for High Times.

[Cowboy 6]

This country's gotten way too uptight...

   Now that's a good one !!!    

[Super Dave]

This country's gotten way too uptight...he should have been much more careful though,endorsements prolly in trouble.

Yeah, ok, I think some are a little up tight.

But, on the flip side, a little discretion is pretty easy.  Some just like to "do stuff" without care or concern for how it will harm themselves.  I call it the "new porn" were people air out their dirty laundry and stupidity in public.  Goes along with the idea that even "bad press" is "press". 

As for his salary from companies, certainly, they had contracts written to allow them an escape from him if he does anything that is outside of what might be considered good for that company.  This might be one of them, certainly.  One can argue whether it is criminal or not, but there are certainly some that choose not to use that substance and feel that an athlete would be one that wouldn't themselves either. 


He can do what he wants, sure, but his lack of discretion with his choice of friends when he did what he did is a giant risk to his own financial well being.  In the end, it's pretty dumb.  And for bein' dumb, I guess I'm less impressed with him overall now.

[proechel539]

No one said you had to be smart to swim like a fish!

[Super Dave]

No one said you had to be smart to swim like a fish!

Yeah, but if you want to make money doing it, it would help to be brighter than a fish.

[jigs]

Agree'd...not too smart with that much on the line...not to mention,beeing in the spot light,a little responsibility towards the young ones,who idolize people like him.I didn't mean when I said we're too uptight,to condone grug use and rampant immoral behavior,I was mostly referring to the comment about the having a beer with young women and other students.Funny,right now it seems we're too loose AND uptight at the same time...wierd times we live in.Thank God we get to go race bikes with people like us and get our faith restored in humanity..race track is the most "normal" place I know of other than a 12 step meeting!! LOL