Facing charges of driving under the influence of marijuana, the trial of former Titans quarterback Chris Simms began yesterday with arresting officer Frank Acosta testifying that the son of Giants legend Phil Simms was "very, very unsteady on his feet" after being pulled over on West Houston street last summer, the Daily News reports. This was fairly vanilla compared to the things Acosta said during a pre-trial hearing, among them that the smell of marijuana was "coming from his breath. I had a headache. Even my tongue got numb…He was like a zombie." While we can't vouch for marijuana's ability to morph into garlic, we can say that Simms' mug shot is a tad damning. Maybe he's squinting because his future's so bright? Oh.
Harvey Steinberg, Simms' defense attorney, told jurors that it wasn't Simms, but his friends who were smoking, and that the 30 year-old would have never gotten behind the wheel in that state with his pregnant wife in the backseat. "There were no questions, no investigation, just off to jail with Chris Simms," Steinberg said. One of these "friends" is set to testify that he was in fact The Smoker. Look out O.J., I think America just found its new Trial of the Century.
