The Super Bowl is here and
nothing has changed in a week of revelations, accusations and just braking the
rules of the game. What else is new with a league that doesn’t pay taxes, doesn’t
pay cheerleaders a decent wage, doesn’t fire players are abusive to their
wives, girlfriends and children in their personal lives doesn’t fire guys that
are out to permanently injure other players and now of all things purposely
deflate footballs to give a team an extra edge in the game, cheating and the
Big game isn’t even here yet. But they are still getting $8000 dollars for the
worst seats in the stadium.
The question still remains, Did
they or didn’t they deflate 11 out of 12 balls in the game?
After a week of speculation, nothing
is solved, no one is fired or fined and the big business of getting as much
money out of the game as possible goes on. As usual, money trumps ethics. The
right thing would be to throw the bums out! The New England Patriots are
fighting back against accusations of un-sportsmanship conduct. Did they gain a strategic
advantage during a Championship game? The press has called the scandal “Deflate-gate.
“ I guess after Watergate investigations in the
Nixon era in Washington however here there doesn’t seem to be much of an
investigation.
It was a second quarter play that
led to questioning the integrity of the AFC champions. D’qwell Jackson, a linebacker
for the Colts intercepted a pass from Tom Brady and allegedly felt that the
ball was lighter than normal. It turned out that q1 out of 1w balls
were questionable. That is no accident when soo many balls used to defeat the Indianapolis
Colts were under-inflated. At the start of the third quarter referees had the
Patriots balls inflated to regulation size. If the inflation problem did effect
the game, was it already too late? By
this time the Patriots were ahead by ten points. I say throw Brady and his bums
out.
There are advantages to working
with a deflated football. According to Mark Brunell a former NFL Quarterback,
He says it is easier to grip a deflated football and easier to dig your hand
into the football. The balls were
deflated two pounds per square inch less than league standards making them easier
to grasp and catch. This is a first in
all the years of football or at least they were caught doing. In 2007 Bill Belichick,
the Patriots Head Coach was fined for videotaping the Jets sideline signals
during a game so they can have an advantage. I say throw the bums out for
cheating before and now too.
While the Patriots were fined
$250,000 dollars for spying Belichick was ordered to pay $500,000 dollars for
his role in the scandal. Where does all this money go and why are these guys
allowed to coach again? How do you explain to high school players that if you
cheat you still get to play in the Superbowl? It is all ethically wrong. So watch
the Super Bowl this year and even root for the Patriots if you are into cheating,
corruption and scandal as so much of America now accepts as normal. Ugh!
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