Twenty years after he offered a Dallas cop a "one-billion dollar" bribe, The Eagle flies again for the wrong reasons.
Looking at the former Dallas Stars goalie Ed Belfour latest mug shot is amusing, only until you realize this is not an aberration but a pattern.
Belfour was arrested on charges of criminal mischief, and public intoxication at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday at the Kentucky Grand Hotel and Spa in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
According to the arrest report, "(Belfour) was laying on the floor clutching a curtain rod that had been ripped out of the dry wall above a window next to him. The subject was kicking the spa door while he was laying on the ground.
"Belfour had a slow slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, he could barely stand up, and he had the strong odor of alcohol on his breath. Belfour was not being compliant with officers as we tried to put hand cuffs on him."
The person who called the police said, "Belfour had tried to fight another manager in the bar. The caller stated Belfour was hitting a glass window downstairs in anger. Belfour was manifestly under the influence of alcohol to a point where he was a danger to himself and others."
This is not exactly new behavior for Ed Belfour, now 54. He had success on the ice, having led the Stars to a Stanley Cup title in 1999, but he has continued to struggle outside of the arena.
In March of 2000, he was arrested on a charge of unruly behavior at a high-end Dallas hotel. He famously offered the Dallas cops who arrested him a $1 billion bribe to let him go. The "$1 billion" line was taken straight from the movie, "Austin Powers."
In 2007, when Belfour was in his final NHL season and playing with the Florida Panthers, he was arrested on a charge of disorderly intoxication.
Of all of the great players on those Stars' teams, The Eagle was the biggest concern then, and now.
He retired after the 2007 season, and he was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2011.
Belfour lives in the DFW area, and in his post-playing career he launched his own line of, you can't make this up, whiskey. It obviously works.
