North Dallas Thugboys: Rather than have a ninth potential suspension... (UPDATE and PARTIAL RETRACTION)

(This post has had a significant update with new information which came out late on July 24th or July 25th...)

And the hits just keep on coming out of Dallas, and this one actually finally got a player fired!!!

Lucky Whitehead has been fired out of Dallas because of failure to report to court on a July court date for a shoplifting offense in June.

Since he's not the star running back or a prominent defensive player or the like , this was enough to get his ass cut.

Whitehead (barring the potential new information) would've been the NINTH Cowboy to be potentially suspended at the start of this season had Coach Jason Garrett not cut him.

Whitehead's attorney stated that the whole case was based on a situation of mistaken identity -- and, if we are now to believe the new story, it WAS!!

The Cowboys are done with Whitehead anyway (and I almost wish this would start being retroactive to the other EIGHT Cowboys involved, but we know that won't happen with some of the names involved!), but it appears as if Whitehead has already had 3-4 teams reach out to him, especially as it became clear he was, factually, misidentified.

And, if we are to believe David Rich, Whitehead's attorney, a lot of this IS due to the fact that Whitehead was an expendable cog in a sea full of dirty thugs on the Thugboys...

"We got made an example of," Rich said. "They needed to make an example of somebody to get those boys' heads on straight. It is calculated. But I get it. It's business ... Jason Garrett said it. They needed to do what's in the best interest of the Cowboys. I think they're wrong, but I get it."

(ESPN article)