DALLAS (AP) -- Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin was charged with misdemeanor
possession of drug paraphernalia after Plano police officers searched his vehicle during a traffic stop.

Irvin, told The Associated Press late Sunday that the drug pipe found in his car belonged to a friend of 17 years who left a
Houston rehab center and came to Irvin's house in Carrollton for Thanksgiving. Irvin wouldn't reveal his friend's name.

Irvin said he put the pipe in his car because he didn't want it in his house where his children might find it. He said he planned to drive somewhere the next day, like a grocery trash bin, and throw the pipe away but forgot.

"Then! Wait, stay with me. My son was having a powdered sugar, nose-off, which I usually don't partake in, but I felt the need to today because I missed his last birthday!" Irvin said frantically, "And lastly, my eyes are red because, umm, I tripped and fell on the opposite of eye drops. So. You can see this is just... Hahaahhahaha..." Irvin then ran towards a cliff and leaped off trying desperately to fly.

Michael Irvin, was 39 years old.