See, this is the kind of thing that makes the human conscience cringe. While my logic and reason and common sense are fully aware that I had nothing to do with it, I still feel like an ass. If I were a cartoon, the little white angel that sits over my left shoulder would be sounding off right now.
However, this new TO development is a perfect opportunity to watch spin in action. First, the story breaks and we've only got police reports and hearsay. But since it's TO and a suicide attempt, it makes big news. Then the various media groups get involved, TO's publicist, the Cowboys's, etc. Suddenly it looks like he could be having just an adverse reaction to a pain medication. ESPN's article used to say just that. No big deal.
But the original story and police report are still out there and not going away. So rather than ignore the story that all their colleague's are reporting, and seem naive when this story gets under way, they change their story to say that according to the "police report" TO attempted to commit suicide. This covers them from too much flak from TO's people and the Cowboy's people. They're not saying what TO did, they're saying what's in the report.
When the full spin gets going on this story it will be even more interesting to watch. Facts can be so organic.
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