Each summer, the NFL holds a meeting with each team during minicamp on personal security. A film is shown. Situations are discussed. As the DALLAS MORNING NEWS’s DALLAS COWBOYS BLOG puts it, “Know your surroundings. Watch those around you. Don’t hang out in bad places. And, as my father always said, nothin’ good happens after midnight.”

Some athletes hear those words loud and clear. Others hear the same words but have a slightly different interpretation. For example, Cowboys wide receiver Sam Hurd spends his nights with his lovely wife in his gated community. Also, he owns an M-16 (among other weapons) and “… if someone comes in my house to rob me, you’ve got World War III going on.”

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