Pacman the next Ricky Williams?

Did someone say strip club?

Pacman Jones was just traded from the Tennessee Titans to the Dallas Cowboys for a 4th round draft pick. The trade includes a clause that Pacman has to play significant time and be reinstated by the league or the Titans will have to deal them an undisclosed pick in 2009.

For Pacman Jones this is time for a new start, not as if he hasn't been given that opportunity before, but it is a change of locale this time. Jones will be playing with a team of talented young players and veterans and should help a defense that was already strong a year ago. Jones should also be able to make an instant impact on the kick and punt return teams where Dallas struggled a year ago.

In the contract with Dallas, Jones will receive $0 in guaranteed money (that compares to the $30 million in guarantees for Jake Long in his 5-year contract). What that does for Dallas is ensure they don't get snubbed in the deal if Jones can't be reinstated or relapses into another strip club bender where he gets drunk with naked women and allegedly flees the scene of a crime...allegedly.

So while Dallas did all the things they needed to do to avoid paying out huge sums of money to a player banned from the league, the expectations have to be low for Pacman. The man has already had one major relapse due to strip club withdrawal and as soon as he starts cashing paychecks again he's certain to be spending a weekend at Scores or some other blue-chip "gentlemen's club."

Even Ricky Williams' former agent, rapper Master P, wouldn't have negotiated a contract with $0 in guarantees