Should she keep it?

[Steve]

At the risk of the ire of non Americans I decided to post this here and not in the American section. Why? Its a guy thing. It transcends nationality. Its about an American football player but it could easily have been a spanish soccer (fotoball) star or an Aussie cricket star or an Kiwi rugby player or even your run of the mill multi millionaire.

 

Here is the story.

http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/msn/07/06/11/Cowboys-Williams-loses-76000-engagement-/landing_cowboys.html?blockID=537029&feedID=3742&

Cowboys fans have seen a few airmailed footballs slip through Roy Williams’ fingers the last three seasons.

Now it seems the receiver has let a $76,600 engagement ring that he mailed slip through his grasp — and he wants it back.

According to a lawsuit filed last week, Williams mailed the ring along with a recorded wedding proposal to Brooke Daniels, a former Miss Texas USA.

When Daniels turned down his proposal, Williams wanted his ring back. Just ship it back, hopefully with postal insurance, right?

No problem, except that six weeks after sending her the ring, Williams said in affidavits that Daniels said she lost the ring.

Williams reported the loss to his insurance agency, which investigated and found that the ring was in the possession of Daniels’ father, Michael Daniels.

Michael Daniels told the Odessa American that Williams said he didn’t want the ring back.

“He said (to Brooke Daniels), ‘I’m not like a lot of people, I don’t want the ring back. You’ll eventually come back to me,’ †Michael Daniels told the newspaper. “And she didn’t.â€

Williams, who declined comment, was a prep football star at Odessa’s Permian High, the football-obsessed school and community chronicled in the novel and movie “Friday Night Lights.â€

Daniels is from Tomball, near Houston. In addition to winning Miss Texas USA in 2009, she was also named Miss Photogenic during the contest. She placed in the Top 10 in the Miss USA pageant that year, the same pageant that sparked controversy when Miss California’s Carrie Prejean, the runner-up, said she lost the title because of her response to a question on gay marriage.

[Flashermac]

 

And here I thought this was going to be about a khatoey deciding whether or not to have the chop.

 

 

[Wallenda]

Are you asking if this girl should keep the ring or not?

 

If so, of course not. If she declines the engagement request, she can't accept the ring. If she agrees to the engagement, she keeps the ring. That's how it works. And I guess if her father wants to keep the ring, then he has to marry the Cowboy player. Of course they'd need to do that in New York state, not Texas.

 

But the fact that she said she'd lost the ring (lied in other words) shows that she's well aware she can't keep it.

 

Either way, sounds like the Cowboy is a knucklehead. What kind of way is that to propose? And obviously it wasn't a situation where he had any confidence he'd get a Yes -- so with a less than 50-50 chance, to choose a pretty obviously lame method of proposing -- he kind of manufactured this problem.

[Hugh_Hoy]

As well-chronicaled, a lot of pro athletes aren't the sharpest folks in the world.

 

HH