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Originally Posted by bowener

Doesn't he have alcohol abuse problems as well?

Yes, he has everything problems.

https://www.gq.com/story/josh-gordon-nfl-2017-interview

Q: Can you think of an example?

I used to make a ritual of it before every game. If I had already been drug tested that week, or the day before the game, I knew I had a couple days to buy to clean my system. Even before I was getting tested for alcohol, prior to my DWI in 2014, I would take the biggest bong rip I could. And try to conceal all the smell off all my clothes. I'd be dressed up to go to the game. A bunch of guys smoke weed before the game. But we're not talking about them.

I would have these little pre-made shots. I used to love Grand Marnier. I could drink it down smooth. I could usually drink a lot of it. But if it wasn't that, it might be a whiskey or something. And I would drink probably like half a glass, or a couple shots to try and warm my system up, basically. To get the motor running. That's what I would do for games.

Q: So if you get tested, you have a certain window where you don't get tested again?

No, it's random. But that's where the brain goes. You think you have it figured out. You think you have the system beat. You think you know something that they don't know. I've been proven wrong every time. I've tried everything to get around it. Before I went in for treatment, just seeing the lengths I was willing to go to risk myself, having lived that scenario out, and the negative effect has always occurred, it's like: Alright, man. Not again. Can't do it anymore. That's the point I was at. I was like: Do it again, throw everything away. Don't do it again, have a chance, give yourself a little bit of opportunity. That's what made it a lot easier for me at that point in time.

Q: How would you do this on game days?

We would stay at the team hotel and then players are allowed to go back home, get what they need, and then go to the game. So I'd leave the hotel early morning, go home, eat breakfast, do my little ritual, whatever it may be, some weed, some alcohol, and then go to the game. And then, I'd definitely be partying after every game, win or lose. Every game.

Q: Were you doing this in 2013—during the back-to-back 200-yard games, for instance?

Yeah.

Q: How many of your games would you estimate that you had something in your system for?

Every game. Probably every game of my career.

Q: Including college?

Definitely college.