OT Portland sports radio host Isaac Ropp arrested for drunken driving, records show

Nothing wrong with enjoying the festivities of the holidays. Just a good reminder to be smart about it when a vehicle is involved. The ramifications can be serious not to mention what might happen to someone else.

 

I was listening for a while and all they were talking about was CFB. I must have missed it.

 

Story?

 

Had a couple drinks drove a car...?

 

I hope they give him the chair. I've had 9 run-ins with drunk drivers since I got my license, including a double fatality due to alcohol. I have zero tolerance for those who drive drunk. I've seen first hand what such poor decisions can do, and checking the pulse of a bloody corpse crushed inside of a pickup truck while her friend is hanging lifeless outside of the cab erased any such sympathies I had for drunk drivers.

 

When I was 10 I saw a girl get hit by a drunk driver in front Shamrock on fessenden. She was definitely dead, it still freaks me out a bit.

My guess is this isnt Ropps 1st time. Its not like he’s a kid. I hardly ever consume any alcohol but even one is more than enough to know the smart decision is to not drive.

 

According to the article, it's his first DUI (though I doubt it's his first time driving intoxicated......), and his driving record is pretty colorful with tickets for speeding and parking violations. 10 parking violations, to be exact. That's ridiculous. I couldn't manage 10 parking tickets if I tried.

The guy sounds completely irresponsible, and either needs to have his license suspended, or he needs to address personal issues in his life with counseling, to help him become more responsible and even-headed.

Though if you're not responsible enough to get a designated driver at 42, then I doubt counseling will work.

 

Yeah. I like him too. I genuinly think he has good personality and provides a nice buffer from the ex jock-isms of Suke. They make a good pair.

 

I listen to every show on podcast. I used to only go back and listen to the club hour but it's so easy to download the whole show and there are no commercials so it goes fast. I've been listening to Ropp since his Saturrday show Ropp and the Mop with Gavin Dawson back in the early 2000's. After learning about the DUI I was still listening to the show from last Friday. It was cringe-worthy how Ropp kept making jokes about drinking and saying his favorite drinking quotes.

He and Suke have talked at length over the last couple years about colleges trying to hide wrongdoings and covering them up instead of just doing the right thing and telling the truth before it all comes out. Ropp himself even says everything comes out anyway so why not get ahead of it? Well last week we were told he was "sick" when he missed two shows and came back to do the Thursday and Friday shows with absolutely no difference in his tone or jokes about drinking. When it comes to him messing up why not just come out and own it on Thursday?

While I do think his apology was sincere, it would have been a lot more sincere and honest had he done it BEFORE the O-Live article came out. Did he actually think no one would find out about it?

I love Ropp and will continue to listen, but he should've owned it right when it happened.

 

The problem with sobriety is that since I've stopped using any alcohol I'm now the local designated driver....my son loves it as do all his friends and my new inlaws!

 

You're in Eugene right? Didn't they just allow Uber in the downtown area? Ducks fans were bitching that they didn't when one of Willie Taggart's coaches got caught literally the week he was hired.

 

Yeah but based on what Ropp says on his show regularly about how other people should come out and admit wrong doing before it becomes public he is a major hypocrite if that is what happened.

 

Yep. I'm always the DD. But i'm good with that.