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07-25-2015, 02:37 PM
by Jay Busbee
Shutdown Corner
Say this for Charles Haley: the man doesn't hold back in conversation any more than he did on the football field.
The five-time Super Bowl winner and impending Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee recently spoke to the rookies at 49ers training camp, and delivered some blunt advice. "I know they probably got mad," he said, according to the San Jose Mercury-News, "but I said, ‘Why don’t you all act like the white guys? You never see them in the paper getting high or hitting people. Why don’t you act like that?’ They all looked at me crazy.”
..."The hardest thing is these guys, they have an attention span of a 5-year-old," Haley said. "I’m not the most gentle and kind person to sit there and deal with that crap. I’m a little more confrontational. I think I got my point across.”
Read more: Charles Haley told 49ers rookies to 'act like the white guys' (http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/charles-haley-told-49ers-rookies-to--act-like-the-white-guys-120608851.html)
Shutdown Corner
Say this for Charles Haley: the man doesn't hold back in conversation any more than he did on the football field.
The five-time Super Bowl winner and impending Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee recently spoke to the rookies at 49ers training camp, and delivered some blunt advice. "I know they probably got mad," he said, according to the San Jose Mercury-News, "but I said, ‘Why don’t you all act like the white guys? You never see them in the paper getting high or hitting people. Why don’t you act like that?’ They all looked at me crazy.”
..."The hardest thing is these guys, they have an attention span of a 5-year-old," Haley said. "I’m not the most gentle and kind person to sit there and deal with that crap. I’m a little more confrontational. I think I got my point across.”
Read more: Charles Haley told 49ers rookies to 'act like the white guys' (http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/charles-haley-told-49ers-rookies-to--act-like-the-white-guys-120608851.html)