Laremy Tunsil misses his introductory press conference due to "allergic reaction"

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Laremy Tunsil missed his Dolphins introductory press conference this afternoon due to an "allergic reaction." How do you have an introductory press conference without the person you are introducing?

 

Dolphins said Laremy Tunsil had an allergic reaction and will not be appearing at today's previously scheduled press conference.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 29, 2016

 

EDIT: Tunsil has now been made available to reporters a couple hours after missing the press conference. Refuses to talk about the past or Ole Miss. Interesting that he did not recant the statements he made yesterday.

M-Dog

April 29th, 2016 at 5:15 PM ^

That was like a $10 million high.

If it was worth it, I want some of that.

Seriously.

I'll do it right in front of my wife, kids, pastor, 1st grade teacher, and grandma.

I just need to try something that good.

Wolvie3758

April 29th, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^

is he allergic to telling the truth about getting money from Ole Miss Coaches?  yeah a allergic reaction!!!! anybody buying it?   he needs more time to coordinate the upcoming lies.... this is way to obvious...Im sure Ole Miss is furiously trying to get ahold of him to shut him up..The Corruption in the SEC just grows and grows

BursleyBaitsBus

April 29th, 2016 at 4:03 PM ^

I do feel bad for him in the sense that he has someone attempting to blackmail him all while having to deal with this Ole Miss situation. 

He probably just felt like getting it all off his chest last night under the scrutiny and stress. Unfortunately, the information is kind of a big deal. 

stephenrjking

April 29th, 2016 at 4:36 PM ^

Look, I've already gone out on a limb about some of his indiscretions and I have a more negative opinion of them than most on this board.

But I doubt there is anybody here who hasn't done some things that have been embarrassing or regretable in their lives. Stuff that, if it were broadcast even to just our extended family, would be cause for serious humiliation and/or anguish. 

This guy's dirty laundry was just exposed to a national audience and is, to this point, the most dramatic plot twist in the history of the NFL Draft, one of the sports nation's touchstone events. It is quite possible that Tunsil will never achieve anything that overshadows this moment on the public consciousness.

And that's awful. Whatever one may think of whether his recorded actions, they do not merit the treatment he has received.

 

WolvinLA2

April 29th, 2016 at 5:34 PM ^

There's a difference between "that situation sucks" and "I genuinely feel bad for him."  He's a super high profile guy who is about to make a ton of money.  He's been a local celebrity for 3 years.  He has it good.  The downside of fame is that when you do stupid stuff, a lot of people care.  He's learning that right now the hard way, as many have before him.  

I am lucky because if I post a video on Twitter (I don't have instagram) of me smoking a gas mask bong, no one will care because only like 63 people or something like that follow me and outside of my wife who never checks Twitter, none of those 63 would have an opinion on it one way or another.  Hell, 40 or so of those people don't know what I look like.  I'm unlucky because I don't make millions and millions of dollars playing in the NFL.  

Laremy Tunsil could have my life (approximately) if he wanted it.  In fact, in the very recent past Eric Crouch had my same position in my company in Nebraska.  He has chosen (wisely, in my opinion) that he'd rather play in the NFL so he has to deal with the pros and cons that go with that.  Thus, I don't feel bad for him.

Cali's Goin' Blue

April 29th, 2016 at 7:35 PM ^

Maybe before judging an 18 year old whom took money, which he should be getting anyways, you should try to put yourself in his shoes. I am not saying that purposely breaking the rules is always ok, but at one point in our country's history, it was a law that you had to return a slave who had escaped, back to their owner in the south. Does that make it right? The reality of this situation is that an 18 year old chose to go to a certain college due to the fact that they offered to pay his mom's rent, which she may or may not have been able to pay for withour the help. If you put yourself into that kid's shoes(and I am only 21, so I would hope I can come close), you would maybe realize that the issue is not the kid who did what he thought at the time was best for his family, but the system that makes it "against the rules" to use his special and unique talents to help his family out. I know there are multiple sides to this argument, and honestly don't feel like bringing up the idiotic argumets or the NCAA to play Devil's Advocate to myself, but this seems like an obvious situation to bring up why THE RULES NEED TO BE CHANGED, not why this 19 YEAR OLD, needs to change how he thinks it is best to help his family. 

Sorry, didn't mean for this comment to get this long, but I think it is an important point to bring up to somone who somehow has over 7,000 mgopoints, and people who may agree with him. 

The most important part is to truly put yourself in their shoes and ask whether they(Laremy Tunsil, Laquon Treadwell, Etc.) were doing a terrible thing. You should feel bad for them, because they were robbed of thousands of dollars for their families when they were truly the employees making the money for the company. Without the athletes, the NCAA is NOTHING. The end. 

George Pickett

April 29th, 2016 at 3:57 PM ^

Why do they have to treat everyone like idiots? Just tell us he's not coming without some absurd excuse.

FauxMo

April 29th, 2016 at 4:50 PM ^

But wait, wouldn't a person who is allergic to seafood know to avoid it? I guess maybe if a person was so stoned (say, to the begeezus) and saw a huge shrimp platter, they might lose control and down 100 or so. But as a recent draftee to the NFL, he cannot possibly smoke weed, so there's no way that is right...

stephenrjking

April 29th, 2016 at 3:59 PM ^

I don't like the wimp-out lie here. Nobody in the world thinks this is true. I wish they would just say that he is not attending. Honestly, I can't blame him--his life changed so rapidly last night and people are only beginning to see where this is headed. The presser would be a circus, doing neither him nor his new team any good at all.

Just own up and cancel. Don't give a reason. Say he's not coming. Nobody blames him.

FauxMo

April 29th, 2016 at 4:56 PM ^

I agree that this is almost certainly a lie, but here is a story for you...

 

As a teacher, I always used to joke how many college students strangely had grandparents or old friends from home die just before or during finals week. It got to the point where I would act sympathetic, then say it was university policy that I needed a note or other evidence to allow them to retake the final (or to take an incomplete). Then one year, during finals week, as I was getting ready to murder my students with a vicious final, my grandmother died. I had to have someone else administer my final.

 

In short, sometimes weird stuff happens at weird times. Oh, and I have vicious spring allergies this week... ;-)

M-Dog

April 29th, 2016 at 5:22 PM ^

All the more reason not to give bullshit excuses left and right, so that when something real actually does happen . . . people won't have a reason to not believe you.

Next press release the Dolphins do about a player's status, how seriously are people going to take it, even if it is actaully true?

 

DualThreat

April 29th, 2016 at 4:12 PM ^

I hope the bong incident does not detract from the $$$ incident.  Ole Miss was caught red handed and needs to be punished severely.

Heck, Harbaugh, seeing as he's on an SEC (t)roll lately, should come forward and announce that Michigan is going to start paying all recruits that come to Michigan unless Ole Miss gets the punishment he thinks it deserves.

DualThreat

April 29th, 2016 at 4:39 PM ^

in addition to above recommendation.

Cooperation with the NCAA won't drive the NCAA to do the right thing.

Of course, I'm only kidding about Harbaugh intentionally breaking rules... or even getting involved in this matter. 

.... but if enough people keep speaking up about something, including those with high profiles, that will drive NCAA action.  Case in point = satellite camps.