March 14th, 2011 
Adam Warwas 
Posted in On Sunday, reports surfaced that Vikings 2010 second round pick Chris Cook was arrested for brandishing a handgun during a fight.
This immediately set off speculation as to how this type of incident would be handled during the current labor unrest. We do know that members of the Vikings organization are strictly prohibited from speaking with their player under lockout rules. It is also possible that he could be punished by the NFL after the lockout is over (any day now… I’m sure).
Cook, however, is not prohibited from speaking to the press and he decided to deny the allegations via Chip Scoggins of Access Vikings by painting his accuser as a person with a certain amount of crazy.
“I wasn’t in any fight or nothing,” he said of the altercation taking place near his house in Lynchburg, Virginia. “It was just an argument.”
Cook told Scoggins that he was riding his bike near his house when a neighbor started to scream at him.
“You’re not going to scream at me like I’m your child so I screamed back at him,” Cook said. “He thought that I called the police on his brother for some reason. Why would I do that?”
Cook said that things never became physical and that he never brandished a firearm, although he did recently get a license to carry a concealed weapon.
“He went downtown and told [the police] I pointed the gun at him,” Cook said.
“It’s just crazy,” Cook said. “I just have to deal with it the best way I can. I wish it didn’t happen. I wish I would have never got in an argument, but that’s what happened.”
Cook said that he went with police to the station where he filled out some paperwork but did not spend any time in jail and does not know if he will be charged as a result of the incident.
The fact that Cook denies pointing the gun at him instead of a gun does suggest that Cook was armed at the time of the altercation. I would further speculate that the gun did not stay entirely concealed during the incident, or else the neighbor likely wouldn’t have known to tell police about the gun.
Cook becomes the second member of the 2010 draft class to be arrested this offseason. Previously, Everson Griffen was arrested twice in three days.
Chris Cook Intangibles: Twice suspended for academics while at Virginia, missing the 2008 Gator Bowl at the end of the 2007 season and the entire 2008 season.
Unfortunately, Chris’ Wonderlic score was unavailable. Dumb kid fully armed and cocked.
Why is he carrying a gun and HOW DO YOU KNOW HE WAS?
WTF?????? SEE ABOVE POST
REALLY? Why is he carrying a gun and HOW DO YOU KNOW HE WAS?
TO ADAM – WRITER
Why is he carrying a gun and HOW DO YOU KNOW HE WAS?
As I said in the article, Cook’s own choice of words suggest he was armed. I do not KNOW that he was. Thanks for the 5 comments, sorry for the delayed response.
ha ha ha and riding “his” bike????? like a bicycle or motorcycle?
Neither, it was a stationary bike, he was simply working out.
[...] noted very early Monday morning that I found some of Cook’s quotes interesting from an interview with Chip Scoggins of Access Vikings. In that interview, Cook denied pointing [...]
If he has a permit to carry, there is nothing wrong with dude carrying a firearm.
Agreed, nothing wrong with carrying.
With carrying comes certain responsibilities, however, and I personally have never found it diffficult to carry a concealed weapon without my neighbors accusing me of threatening them.
Time will tell on this kid, but his crime was certainly not carrying a licensed firearm.
Chris Cook, shoot first corner