Irvin simply needs to change his scene

Maybe join a book club

Broward County prosecutors announced that rape charges would not be levied against former Dallas Cowboy and sports radio stalwart Michael Irvin.

This stemming from the appropriately placed news item (during the Super Bowl ... in Miami) that a woman was claiming that Irvin and a cohort got the woman drunk at the Hard Rock Hotel, took her up to their room, Irvin allegedly raped her and the other guy allegedly forced her to perform oral sex.

The woman took two weeks to report the crime, washed her clothes and all physical evidence was lost. She did apparently pass a polygraph and was examined by a private gyno.

This isn't just Irvin evading unwanted attention. This is about Irvin making a definitive effort to change his ways.

Fans and observers are calloused by the woman coming out of nowhere and claiming rape by a professional athlete (Kobe Bryant, Duke lacrosse, Ben Roethlisberger) and it coming back as not being true or the truth being somewhere in between.

Who's to say that Irvin didn't rape this woman? There's no proof that he did and no proof that he didn't and for that, he shouldn't be charged.

However, he's not denying having sex with this woman, who is not his wife. He just states that it wasn't rape.

The typical example we come up with his the woman dressed like a slut who is later raped in an alley. The general thought isn't guys shouldn't rape women. It's that women shouldn't dress like sluts. This is inherently and incredibly wrong. Dressing like a slut isn't illegal (mostly), but rape is.

If Michael Irvin doesn't want to be pulled over with weed in his car or be accused of raping women, then he needs to change his lifestyle. Irvin is the woman dressed like a slut ... but in this scenario, we're sympathetic with Irvin whereas we'd state the woman "deserved" what she got.

For all I know, Irvin's a sweet guy that likes to have fun. Like all of our parents and teachers stated, however, you can still have fun, but you've got to take it down a notch. Stop sleeping around, stay at home, change your friends or change how you interact with the ones you have.

Otherwise, be prepared for another such incident. No one's ever gotten a speeding ticket going below the limit.