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Sad end to Timmy's story...

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2008346

May 26, 2006 — DENVER (Reuters) - Former National Football League running back and Super Bowl record-holder Timmy Smith was sentenced in federal court on Friday to two and a half years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine.

Smith, 42, apologized to the state of Colorado during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock. "I have made a mistake and I wasn't raised this way," he said.

Babcock said the former football player had been respected at his job as a security guard at a juvenile detention center. "You were leading a Jekyl and Hyde lifestyle," he said.

The former Washington Redskins tailback was arrested last fall along with his younger brother, Christopher, after the pair sold about $20,000 worth of cocaine to undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Timmy Smith pleaded guilty in March to the conspiracy charge after federal prosecutors agreed to drop eight additional cocaine-trafficking counts in exchange for the guilty plea.

Christopher Smith pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of aiding and abetting and was sentenced this month to five years of probation.

In January 1988, Smith rushed for a Super Bowl-record 204 yards in the Redskins 42-10 rout of the Denver Broncos. He last played for the Dallas Cowboys in 1990.

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He was sentenced in a court room in Denver....the town that the Broncos call home, which happens to be the team he set the SB record against....how's that for irony

What a shame, I feel bad for Timmy

He last played for the Dallas Cowboys in 1990.

Well....that explains it !

I don't feel bad for him at all. Its his fault. No one put a gun to his head and said sell and use drugs. We all make decisions and we have to pay the consequences for our actions.

I'll just remember counter-trey and Smith slicing through the hole and staying a step ahead of the Broncos. Then we -- my son, Redskin Dan (age 9) and Dave-from-Oxon Hill and his son (age 7) -- were stomping on the kitchen floor, making the TV wobble, and shouting "Hail to the Redskins".

redskindave wrote:What a shame, I feel bad for Timmy

Don't feel bad for the guy..he's getting off easy. In many places of the world, he'd face death!!!

If his football career is any indication, you know he had at least one really big sale that worked out.
Can't feel bad for him. Just can't.
Does this affect the value of his rookie card at all ?