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Dalla’s Cowboy’s legendary wide receiver Michael Irvin opened to an incident where he was arrested for cocaine possession in the first years of the team’s dynasty of the 1990s.
During the seventh episode of Netflix Docuseries “America’s Team: The Gambler and his cowboys,” Irvin talked about the incident in March 1996, which saw him arrested and eventually tried for cocaine possession.
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Michael Irvin is a three-time Super Bowl champion and played in five Pro Bowls in his NFL career with Dallas Cowboys. (IMagn)
It came only a month after the team won its third Super Bowl for a four -year period when Irvin had cemented himself as a league superstar and Future Hall of Famer.
“I had a routine after you won the Super Bowl before the next season starts, you get about a month and that month you cut and are doing well,” Irvin said of the incident that took place just before his birthday March 5.
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The wide receiver Michael Irvin #88 from Dallas Cowboys carries the ball against New York Giants Circa 1990 during a NFL football match at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
The documentary showed that on March 4, 1996, the police found Irvin, his former cowboys teammate Alfredo Roberts and two females in a hotel room in Texas with drug products, sex toys, marijuana and cocaine. A hidden camera video showed Irvin, discussing making cocaine while he was in the passenger seat in the car.
Irvin was facing potentially 20 years in prison. But he ultimately relied on no competition for crime of cocaine possession in exchange for four years of deferred probation, a fine of $ 10,000, and dismissal of wrongdoing of charges of misdemeanor marijuana. He was also suspended the first five matches in the 1996 season.
Michael Irvin from Dallas Cowboys sees the game against Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams at CenturyLink Field on October 3, 2019 in Seattle, Washington. (Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
Still, the incident resulted in a difficult conversation with his wife, Sandy Harrell.
“My wife, she looked at me, and she said, ‘Don’t say a word God has already told me that I am your wife and I am not going anywhere. But you have to make your peace with God,'” Irvin said in the documentary. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt worse in my life.”
