The 10 Biggest Athlete Idiots To Bring to a Dinner for Schmucks

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Athletes have done a lot of stupid things over the years whether on the field or off the field. But there are 10 athletes who stand above the rest of giving us a look into some of the stupidest things one could do. 

For that, they deserve a seat at the dinner table.

Yet, the are other shmucks we'd invite who have not done anything wrong or malicious but are merely so entertaining will their off the wall behavior that sitting down to dinner with them would be either endlessly entertaining or endlessly frustrating.

Plaxico Burress

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As if there was a choice as to whether or not Plax would land on this list. 

What sensible person a) decides its OK to bring a loaded weapon into a club and b) packs his heat in the elastic band of his sweatpants?!

Plaxico altered his life and his career with one misfire into his leg and permanently landed himself on the list of the stupidest athletes in history.

Michael Vick

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Meanwhile, Michael Vick may be the kingpin of dumbest athletes of all-time.

Here is a guy who had a $160 million contract locked up. All he needed to do was not start and fund an illegal dog fighting circuit in his home.  Whoops. 

Vick lost nine figures worth of money, his freedom, his dignity and much of his public respect.

Adam "Pacman" Jones

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Pacman Jones is the standard bearer of gun violence in the NFL. 

Possibly ordering a hit on a bouncer at a strip club that left one man paralyzed, "making it rain," slapping and banging the heads of strippers and then denying much of it when there was a room full of witness.

For one night in the mind of Pacman Jones, the world was his oyster when he literally believed he could do what he wanted. 

Unfortunately for Pacman, he learned the hard way that one cannot simply go into a strip club guns and fists blazing and not face repercussions.

Sammy Sosa

Despite years of public appearances and countless interviews given in English, Sammy Sosa had the cajones to sit before the United States Congress in 2005 and stand by the notion that he doesn't speak English. 

It was perhaps the most idiotic and daring move in courtroom history.

Congress should have gone to the videotape.

John Daly

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Why not John Daly? He could be the most entertaining dinner guest one has. 

Daly could go on for hours with stories of his drunken debauchery, stupors, benders, fights with strippers and waitress and nights spent in the drunk tank. 

He can do all that while showing up in the most ridiculous pair of pants you've ever seen.

Tiger Woods

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Daly cannot be the only golfer at the table, not while Tiger has his own absurd stories to tell. 

Here is a guy who could have anything he wanted at any time he desired, including his women, and still managed to leave a trail five miles long regarding all of his behavior.

Combine that with the fact that he now has lost a Swedish supermodel of a wife, his kids and at least $100 million in the bank. If that doesn't scream "shmuck" I don't know what does.

Mike Tyson

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This is a man who once said he'd eat the children of his opponent among his many, many other famous quotes.

Mike Tyson is a guy who was out to lunch for over a decade and even put a tattoo right on his face. 

The former heavyweight champion is one big source of unpredictability and that's what makes him so great and possibly so off the reservation at the same time.

Charles Barkley

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The golf swing. The Southern drawl with the constantly entertaining quotes. The hungover performances at the NBA All-Star Festivities. The screaming for Damon Jones' red coat (while likely tipsy).

The general lack of concern for what comes out of his mouth makes Charles Barkley perhaps the biggest class clown of the sports media. 

There is nothing malicious or negative about anything Barkley does, just that he's so darn entertaining even when he doesn't mean to be.

Ben Roethlisberger

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You're a quarterback with a contract worth tens of millions of dollars. It's the offseason. You could go anywhere to party. Vegas. Hawaii. South Beach. Paris. You choose....a bar/nightclub in a small Georgia town? If you're Ben Roethlisberger you do, and you find yourself in more hot water. Slinging shots around to young women like they're nothing. Walking around with your manhood hanging out. Trapping a girl in a bathroom. Hey, it's just a regular Saturday night out with the Steelers quarterback! Certified shmuck.

Gus Frerotte

Oh we've make fun of Gus Frerotte over the years, but the former Redskins' quarterback's ranking among the shmuckiest athletes of all-time will never subside.

Only a true shmuck would go headbutt a thinly padded concrete wall as a form of celebration, simultaneously knocking himself out of the game.

Cheers to you, Gus, a real idiot who will never live down a move that will be repeated for years and years.