Jay Cutler's opening?

I actually had to work yesterday, but I had nothing to say about Clippers-Suns Game Seven. I didn't watch it-my whole world felt upside-down after the Mavericks finally closed out the Spurs. What were the odds? And how crushing was that loss after Ginobili’s gutsy go-ahead three late in regulation?

Anyway.

I feel like I’ve been in Jake Plummer’s corner for a long time, but he's testing my patience. From the Denver Post:

Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer has been issued a summons by the Englewood police in connection with a purported "road-rage-type incident" last month, investigator John Hoehler said Tuesday night.

Police were sent to East Hampden Avenue and Downing Street on April 20 after a report of a hit-and-run accident.

I used to pass through East Hampden and Downing Street on the way to work one summer, and so far this story checks out. If I hit something over there, I’d run, too.

The victim of the incident - identified by Fox 31 News as Doug Stone - told officers he had been involved in a road rage incident with the driver of a gray Honda van.

When the van stopped at a red light, the driver got out and kicked the front of Stone's truck. The man then got back into the Honda, put it in reverse and hit the front of Stone's vehicle causing minor damage, then left the scene, Hoehler said.

Ha ha ha ha ha. I don't know if you can really call it "minor" damage:

"When he backed into my truck, he broke my license-plate frame," Stone told Fox 31.

The victim explains further:

Stone also said, "He actually kicked the front of the truck and said, 'Stay off my tail.' He proceeded to get back into his van, he put it in reverse and backed right into the bumper and actually pushed there for 10 seconds and then took off."

Awesome. What did Stone do to provoke this attack?

Stone said he saw the gray Honda cut off three other drivers before he was cut off.

"He pulled in front of me," Stone said. "I wasn't very polite. I did honk my horn quite a bit."

That's messed up. You can't just go around being not very polite.

A witness - identified by Fox 31 as Marjorie Casse - got the license-plate number of the van and reported it to police, he said.

"I was just very appalled," Casse told the station. "I couldn't believe what I saw."

The plate was listed to Jason "Jake" Plummer of Cherry Hills Village.

"Jake Plummer?" Stone said. "Yeah, it would surprise me. Was it Jake Plummer?"

Casse said, "Being who he is, he should really be a role model, and I'm really shocked that he would do such a thing."

Thank you, grandma. I’m shocked, too. Jake Plummer drives a gray Honda van? Isn’t that guy a millionaire? She might have been talking about the “purported road-rage-type incident”, but Jake's taste in wheels is the best evidence I’ve seen that his shaky decision-making extends to all aspects of his life.

The officer did give a New York Times-style explanation of Jake’s side of the story.

"Mr. Plummer's recollection of the incident was not as reported by the victim and independent witness," Hoehler said.

You don't say. Topic for today’s discussion: is this incident better or worse than when Brian Griese rear-ended that car in a funeral procession?