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Pittman's wife calls him a 'caring father'

David J. Cieslak
The Arizona Republic
Jun. 2, 2003 12:00 AM


Former Arizona Cardinal Michael Pittman's wife calls her husband a caring father, despite a weekend incident when he slammed his Hummer into her Mercedes as she tried to flee their Ahwatukee Foothills home with their 2-year-old son.

Pittman, 27, who was arrested Saturday on suspicion of felony aggravated assault, endangerment and criminal damage, flew into a blinding rage when he hit the car knowing that the toddler and a teenage babysitter were trapped inside, Melissa Pittman said in an interview Sunday.

"He just doesn't think rationally when he's angry," said Melissa Pittman, 25, who married the Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back following a two-month courtship that began in 1999 when they met at a Valley gym. "We all were scared. When you have a Hummer coming toward you and you're in a car, it's a scary situation and you don't know what's going to happen."

Melissa Pittman said the problems started Saturday afternoon when she accused her husband of having an affair with another woman.

During the argument, she attempted to leave their upscale gated community with one of their two children and an 18-year-old babysitter. Melissa Pittman disputes police accounts that the argument started because Michael Pittman wanted to take their son to the Buccaneers training camp in Florida, saying the disagreement was solely based around the alleged affair.

Michael Pittman was released Saturday from Madison Street Jail and apparently left Sunday morning for training camp with the Buccaneers, who acquired the running back last year after he spent four years with the Cardinals. Attempts to reach him were unsuccessful Sunday.

Pittman remains on probation stemming from two domestic violence incidents in 2001. He was suspended for one game then, and NFL regulations indicate he could face harsher penalties pending the outcome of Saturday's incident.

ajcardfan

What a pathetic story this is. Makes me sick to hear crap like this.

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Alan

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Renz

Alan? You in Vacaville? You aren't in the prison there are you?

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Alan

Not too far away

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"T.J. was born during a Monday night football game," - Joumana Kidd on why she should have replaced Melissa Stark as the sideline reporter on Monday Night Football.

Brian in Mesa

What'd he do for "courtship at the gym"? Corner her in a towel closet? Force his way into the women's showers? Drive his vehicle through the front of the gym looking for her one day?

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ChiCard

Isn't the facilty there for the criminally insane?????

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Chris_Sanders

This is the typical response of an abused woman. I think it is especially so for a woman who is used to a certain lifestyle and then that lifestyle gets taken away from them once the abuse comes to light.

Then, suddenly it is no longer the abusers fault, but those that responded to the abuse. Just look at Joumana Kidd, she was the poster child for this behavior in Phoenix.

Krangthebrain

I was thinking the same thing Chris, but didn't want to say that.

Next thing you know, someone on this board will blame it on her and say she probably deserved it .

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JeffGollin

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the Lieutenant

What an idiot. If he can ram his own family what's to stop him from hurting others. I don't care how big his "guns" are if he went after my family or friends I'd do everything in my power to put this moron behind bars. I definitely wouldn't make excuses for him. A rational human being does not hit his spouse. An irrational human being doesn't hop in a Hummer and try to kill his own family. So that makes Mike either a mentally disturbed psychotic baffoon, or an animal. You pick one.

Krangthebrain

Can I pick both?

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“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do—his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn’t care ‘how hard it is’; he knows he either wins or he dies. He doesn’t go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the ‘Cause.’ Now, who wants to quit?”

NCOIC of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in a welcome speech to new SF candidates

On life after football: "I wouldn't mind being a sports commentator. Having my own segment, working for ESPN, my own talk show. Part time trainer. Part time car mechanic. Part time Sprint cell phone salesman. Part time car washman. Grocery store baggage man. Football coach. Model. Actress. Stripper. And I even have dreams of being the next crocodile hunter." - Darnell Dockett

the Lieutenant

Absolutely!!

BuckeyeCardinal

Do the words ANGER MANAGEMENT mean anything to anybody?

A friend of mine HAD to attend 6 months of classes just because his wife snatched his radio knob in his car (she didn't like the song) and when he grabbed it back her hair got in the way.