Report: Everson Griffen involved in weekend incident at Minneapolis hotel

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The only explanation the Vikings provided about Everson Griffen‘s absence from Sunday’s game is the defensive end was attending to a “personal matter.” That left it to reporters to track down the reason, and one has.
Ryan Raiche of KSTP-TV reports that Griffen was involved in an incident at a Minneapolis hotel Saturday night. The name of the person verbally threatening to shoot someone was redacted from the police report, but according to Raiche, it was Griffen.
Hotel staff moved into a back office at one point as Griffen paced around the lobby and threatened to assault hotel employees if he wasn’t allowed into his room. No gun was seen, according to police, and Griffen was not arrested.
Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder told Raiche that the man left on his own and the caller no longer is cooperating.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/09/24/report-everson-griffen-involved-in-weekend-incident-at-minneapolis-hotel/

[Guest]

Oh man...

[Guest]

And there you have it. I really hope he gets himself sorted out. That's quite scary actually. 

[Guest]

Is Everson Bipolar ?  If so hopefully he was just off his meds and he had an episode.  

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@"Purple Haze" said:
Is Everson Bipolar ?  If so hopefully he was just off his meds and he had an episode.  

The local media are treating this like it's a mental health issue. I know he was someone who had some issues when he was younger, but it seemed like he had matured into a team leader and family man. This seems very out of character for him and I glad that the issue did not progress any further. Whatever the issue is, I hope he gets the help that he needs.

[Guest]

What wre the rumors about cocaine in his hotel room? Was there any validity to that? If not this is a story about a guy getting pissed off at hotel staff about something. What is the something that he was pissed off about? Seems like an apology tour is going to happen soon. Unless he actually hurt someone or there are drugs involved this will be a community service issue and likely that's it. 

[Guest]

sounds like he went off the deep end. Breaking into teamates house after the hotel thing. His season and most likely career is done, sounds like that is the least of his problems at this point.

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@"Mike Olson" said:
What wre the rumors about cocaine in his hotel room? Was there any validity to that? If not this is a story about a guy getting pissed off at hotel staff about something. What is the something that he was pissed off about? Seems like an apology tour is going to happen soon. Unless he actually hurt someone or there are drugs involved this will be a community service issue and likely that's it. 

The drug rumors were from Reddit and seem to be conjecture at this point. More information is starting to come out and after he left the hotel, he tried to break into the home of another player (edit: the Vikings are now claiming that rumor is false). Something is seriously not right here. The good news is that he's safe, no-one else appears to have been hurt, and that he is undergoing a mental health evaluation. It's a very scary and bizarre situation and we may never know the full story here. Hopefully, he's receptive to the help being provided.

Edit: Removed a link, since some of the information is now being disputed as false.

[Guest]

now the team said he didnt try to break into a house. who knows wtf went on 

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https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/...96320?s=19