Jesse Reed
Eugene Robinson at Super Bowl XXXIII
Truly one of the most embarrasing moments anyone has every experienced in league history belongs to Robinson, who made the biggest mistake of his life the night before Super Bowl XXXIII.
Robinson was busted soliciting a prostitute the night before the big game in a bad part of town in Miami. He had heard about the area after many of his teammates had visited the spot earlier in the week, but nobody else got caught.
”Guys had been going there all week,” a Falcon starter said. ”It’s just that Eugene was the only one who got caught.”
The reason this was so embarrassing to Robinson and the league is that he had just received the Bart Starr Award from Athletes in Action for “high moral character.”
Needless to say, his actions that night destroyed that reputation, as well as the Falcons’ chances for winning the Super Bowl. To say his arrest and following media frenzy shook up the Falcons would be an understatement. The Broncos went on to win by a score of 34-19.
