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Updated Jun 25, 2009 - 2:33 pm

Former Husky, NFL player sentenced 2 years for DUI's

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By CHRIS SULLIVAN
KIRO Radio
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Former University of Washington football player Reggie Rogers has been sentenced to two years in jail after pleading guilty to two separate DUI incidents from last fall.

At the sentencing hearing on Thursday morning Rogers asked the court to give him a chance, "I really would appreciate it if the state of Washington and you (the judge) and the court and the people of this community would give me a chance." Rogers went on to site his football career and time at the University of Washington as an example of how he could get his life straightened out, "Stand on my back like you did when I was playing college football and basketball, when I carried this whole team, this whole state on my back to the promised land. Number one football team in the nation. I did that. I can do it again."

In response to the statement Judge Darrell Phillipson told Rogers, "You've had lots of chances to get this right, you haven't done it. And at some stage in the game, sir, you've got to start dealing with reality. You aren't any of those thing you used to be, when you were in college. You aren't any of those things now except a man whose life is in total shambles because of alcohol."

According to the plea agreement, the 45-year-old Rogers refused to submit to breath-alcohol tests after police stopped him Oct. 17 on Interstate 5 near Westfield Southcenter, and Nov. 26.

The second incident, also on I-5 near Tukwila, Wash., resulted in Rogers' arrest because police say he left the scene after hitting another car. Nobody was seriously hurt in either case.

Two decades ago, Rogers wound up in prison after being found guilty of negligent homicide. In that Michigan case, three teenagers were killed when Rogers ran a stop sign and collided with their car in October 1988. Rogers had been a first-round pick of the NFL Detroit Lions but was dropped by the team when he went to prison.


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  • karen8944 wrote...
    Reggie Rogers
    This man needs to be in Prison for the rest of his life, he has not learned any of the leason's, you would think that after KILLING 3 teenagers 21 years ago that he would say I am Never going to Drink and Drive again, this man is arrogant, he cares for no one but himself, he is self absorbed, and he flat does not give a darn about anyone or anything, I do not have a problem when people make thses kinds of mistakes, but to carry on the way he has been doing only says one thing to me he is a REPEAT OFFENDER.....I am sick to death of us always coddling the offenders, what about the VICTIMS, I was almost killed by a drunk driver 12 years ago, I forgave the person, I asked for her to only do 7 days in jail, I asked for her to be in an outpatient treatment program, and we both moved on with our lives, the repeat offenders need to stay in prison
    June 25, 2009 1:12 pm
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  • mkjenkins wrote...
    Rogers
    karen8944 you have the wrong person. reggie did not kill 3 people 21 years ago. It was another Husky though. I hope Reggie learns from his time away, he had the world at his hands and has let it go.
    June 25, 2009 1:26 pm
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  • My Vote Counts? wrote...
    Reggie Roger
    Sorry MKJenkins it is the same person who killed the 3 people in the 1980's. Ryan Leaf has nothing on this guy both were given ultimate opportunities
    June 25, 2009 1:56 pm
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  • Barry wrote...
    Go to Jail!!
    How many opportunities do tou give this clown? He gets drunk, kills three people, and asks for a chamnce, which he was given. Now, he gets two DUI's, and wants yet another chance. I don't think so! And when he is begging to the judge, asking for the state of Washington, the judge, the court and the people of this community to give him yet another chance, he has the arrogance and inflated ego to say that when he was playing college football and basketball, he carried the whole team, the whole state on his back to the promised land, to become the number one football team in the nation. And I thought football was a team sport. Obviously this guy needs to spend time in the promised land we all call jail! He sound to me like a typical non-cracker.
    June 25, 2009 2:53 pm
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  • MrMoPar426 wrote...
    It's sad
    A person that had such promise to really make the big time and do something good with his life has become what he is now - a convicted killer and repeat offender. Fame and fortune are hard to handle. This is evidence that getting too wrapped up in your public persona can waste opportunities and cause harm not only to yourself but to innocent citizens as well. I hope Reggie spends his time in the system getting his life on track finally.
    June 25, 2009 3:07 pm
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  • Steve Dallas wrote...
    mkjenkins - you're wrong
    Read the article. It states that he ran a stop sign with his pickup and killed three people. Do some research as well, and you'll find many references to this piece of scum's MURDER of 3 innocent lives by being a self-absorbed alcoholic. This guy deserves 10-20 years, not 2.
    June 25, 2009 4:47 pm
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  • nortac wrote...
    I was about to turn my life around.
    I heard about this case so many times this morning that it was making me sick. KIRO kept replaying his pastor saying that he was turning his life around and that if they would only give him another chance he could start sooner. All I could say to the radio was hello pastor, if he wanted to turn his life around a good time to start was when he killed three teenagers 21 years ago. Or perhaps when he was caught driving in Oct as a DUI. But no he just keeps doing whatever he wants and his friends defend his actions to the end.
    June 25, 2009 7:43 pm
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  • kidjon wrote...
    you can
    take the boy out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the boy. What the heck is this bragadocious "I carried this State on my shoulders"? That is straight out of the ghetto. Send this doosh to prison for many years before he kills anyone else.
    June 26, 2009 12:46 am
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