NFL great teaches rookies how to cover up crimes

THIS NFL great was asked to speak to young players about the dos and don’ts of being a pro athlete. His advice wasn’t what anyone expected.

Hall of Famer’s ridiculous advice

IF you can’t do the time, make sure one of your lesser-known friends can.

That’s the advice Cris Carter doled out to NFL rookies last year in a symposium to help them adapt to professional football, uncovered recently after a recently retired player helped bring it to light.

Carter, a Hall of Fame receiver and current ESPN analyst, ostensibly was preaching to the first-year players how to navigate the unfamiliar lifestyle of a rich and famous athlete. One of his talking points involved the necessity of a “fall guy” to take the blame when matters of legality come into play.

“In case y’all not going to decide to do the right thing, if y’all got a crew, you got to have a fall guy in the crew,” Carter said in video that was up on the NFL website until Sunday afternoon, headlined by “Rookies learn life lessons from (Warren) Sapp and Carter.”

WATCH CARTER’S CRAZY SPEECH IN THE VIDEO ABOVE

Cris Carter is in hot water over his ridiculous rookie speech.

Carter then summoned up to the stage Teddy Bridgewater, telling the Vikings quarterback his friends likely will enjoy living beside the first-round pick’s opulence.

“Y’all wanna keep rolling like this?” Carter advises Bridgewater to tell his companions. “Then I gotta know who’s going to be the fall guy.”

The year-old video was uncovered after Chris Borland, who played one season as linebacker for the 49ers before abruptly retiring citing concerns about brain damage, referenced a speech imploring the use of a fall guy in an ESPN feature on Friday.

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Carter, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2013, proselytised in a tough-love fashion, as players in the audience greeted his stunning advice with nervous laughs and occasional sporadic cheers.

“Y’all not all going to do the right stuff, I got to teach y’all how to get around all this stuff, too,” Carter said. “If you going to have a crew, one of those fools got to know he’s going to jail. We’ll get him out.

“If you going to have a crew, make sure they understand can’t nothing happen to you. Your name can’t be in lights, under no circumstances.”