Broncos release player who told arresting officer to "contact my boss, John Elway"
John Elway is as popular as ever in Denver, but name dropping Elway did not help Broncos practice squad safety John Boyett when he was arrested on Monday. Elway, the Broncos general manager, didn't seem too impressed either, because he cut Boyett on
Thursday.
Boyett allegedly had a heck of a time out, it sounds like from the police report, via the Denver Post. Take a gander at what Boyett was arrested for. It's quite the list:
"In summary, according to the police report, Boyett was highly intoxicated, threatened a bartender at a sports bar where he ate, drank and did shots, was belligerent to his fellow patrons, assaulted a cab driver, stole a shovel from a construction site so he could whack the cab driver, fled the scene and tried to hide from police by trying to bury himself under mulch."
It's really, really hard to pick a highlight out of that. Another candidate, later in the Post's story, is that Boyett "tried to take food off one woman's plate." It's like he was trying to one-up himself all night (by the way, I'm picking "stole a shovel to whack the cab driver" as the winner, although "tried to hide himself by trying to bury himself under mulch" is hard to pass up).
It's not like that report wasn't enough for the Broncos to consider cutting Boyett, who was cut by the Colts last September after being charged with disorderly public intoxication and resisting arrest (he allegedly played the "I'm a Colts player" card then), but Boyett then decided that his best move was to tell the police to "contact his boss, John Elway." He did this repeatedly, the Post said, after he was arrested and put in the back of a patrol car.
That wasn't too smart, although that shouldn't come as a big surprise given the rest of what happened on Boyett's big night out.
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