Maybe Brandon Marshall should start using Lyft …
In the last few days, Marshall has detailed several interesting encounters with his Uber drivers. First, on Thursday, Marshall said that his driver gave him this piece of, uh, interesting career advice:
This fool driving this uber told me I should move out here to LA and be an escort 😑🤔
— Brandon Marshall (@BMarshh) April 14, 2016
And while that’s an odd thing to say to a professional athlete who’s already making exponentially more money — long-term contract or not — than the world’s most successful male escort, at least it wasn’t dangerous. Just very, very weird …
But yesterday, Marshall said his driver — hopefully not the same guy — got himself embroiled in a little bit of a road rage incident:
My uber driver a G, Somebody cut him off and almost hit him.And he pulled up to the side of him and got out the car and told him to get out😂
— Brandon Marshall (@BMarshh) April 15, 2016
Now, not to get too serious here, but with what happened to former New Orleans Saints defender Will Smith last week, this isn’t really a laughing matter. While most road rage incidents are no more than wasted testosterone, others can turn sour quickly, and I’d rather not have my Pro Bowl-caliber linebacker getting put into a potentially dangerous position because his Uber driver is a hothead.
So please, Brandon, hire a personal driver. Apparently Uber isn’t cutting it for you.