DALLAS — Wearing a dark sports jacket, a dark shirt and a somber expression, a man who once entered a courtroom for his own cocaine possession trial wearing a full-length mink arrived for a news conference at an Oak Lawn law firm Wednesday fully aware that his past still haunts him. That doesn’t mean what has happened to Michael Irvin in the last month has the appearance of being fair.
At the very least, it remains unexplained. The Cowboys’ Hall of Fame wide receiver, who turned 57 Sunday, has disappeared from the NFL Network and from ESPN’s First Take since the week of the Super Bowl following his dismissal from the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown after a late-evening encounter Feb. 5. Irvin has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Marriott in Collin County, but the cause for the suit and his removal from the hotel property remain unclear.
On Tuesday, his attorney Levi McCathern was, for the first time, allowed to see the hotel’s surveillance video. “I was not allowed to make a copy, I was not allowed to take a copy and I was not allowed to make a cellphone video,’’ McCathern said.
