It’s been a crappy couple of days for Koren Robinson. Not only does he lose his job with the Green Bay Packers, but his brother was hauled in for drug trafficking.

It’s enough to make a guy drink - which is why Koren might have been cut from the Pack in the first place.

As the PORTAGE (WI) DAILY REGISTER reports, Robinson has had problems with alcohol in the past. The worst was during his days in Minnesota, when he was arrested for drunk driving after leading cops on a high speed chase. (What’s with these ex-Vikings players, anyway?)

Koren says he’s been attending AA meetings and trying to stay on the wagon, but there were concerns that he may have taken a quick jump off:

The Packers had heard rumblings that Robinson recently had been seen at a Green Bay-area bar, and (Koren’s agent Alvin) Keels acknowledged that Robinson had been out in Green Bay. However, he said Robinson was drinking a non-alcoholic beverage and remains committed to his recovery.

Both Keels and Packers GM Ted Thompson say that Koren’s cutting was “made sorely for football reasons“, and not for Robinson’s recent bar trip. But Koren’s agent concedes that his client’s alcohol-altered past could compromise his football future:

“I’ve been out at a bar with Koren, in a setting where alcohol is served, and he typically orders fruit juice — cranberry juice mixed with pineapple juice. That’s his drink of choice … But whenever you have the reputation Koren has, the first thing people are going to say is that he’s drinking.”

I told him, ‘When you’re in Green Bay or wherever you land next, you can’t be in those positions, period. He has to drink bottled water. People aren’t going to assume the best. They’re going to assume he’s drinking cranberry mixed with something else.”

Packers fans probably don’t want him around, anyway. How can they root for a guy who goes to a bar but doesn’t drink any beer? In Wisconsin, you can be tried for heresy for such actions.

And we’re sure the Pack backers would find the whole cranberry juice thing a little fruity.