In other words, the NFL’s other huge game, the AFC Championship, hinged in large part on the players’ inability to act as minimally constituted professionals in the service of the bigger picture.
Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers, a Boston College product, caught a pass late in the third quarter and made a great run, and instead of setting up for the next play when he was trailing 17-7, he ran over the top of the tackler. I stood up and challenged him. He quickly fumbled as he entered the end zone, helping and comforting opponents.
Of course, anyone can make a mistake at any time, and the same is true if you’re flagged for rotten and dissolute behavior.
And yet, media gambling “experts” have become so self-deceived (or full of it) that they now claim to be the winners of a game that is often determined by personal, all-about-me incivility. I believe that you can choose. And it all comes down to the fact that NFL Finance Minister Roger Goodell told the Maryland government in 2016 that gambling is ultimately a vice, raising suspicions of degrading the game and its players, and at the same time leading to the ruin of society. This goes back to his solemn plea to remove the NFL from the state’s gambling operations.
Now, under Goodell, if you can’t get at least one bet on a game, you have to add one or two at halftime. You can’t be an NFL fan.
But Goodell is the king con. He has relentlessly proven that he is overpaid, a “charlatan” in my grandmother’s terminology. He eludes honest media evaluation, especially by television news and the TV and radio sports divisions within the networks that do billions of dollars of business with the NFL.
But in the most hollow public relations move, Goodell makes it clear that even as the NFL’s network continues to flourish, those who watch games on television are in constant need of improving their social skills. We chose to decorate NFL fields and helmets with messages. It conveys the visual message that live NFL spectators are invited and encouraged to perform like costumed fools for attention.
So the weekly videos of internal customers getting into punch-drunk fights should be ignored or enjoyed.
More details on this tangled web of opposites: Despite repeated evidence that Chiefs WR and Giants 2021 first-round pick Kadarius Toney (a great scout) is a semi-illiterate dunce. , was a four-year student-athlete at the University of Florida. He was on the injured list and will not be able to play Sunday.
Tony took to social media (a misnomer habitat for profane and deeply unhappy professionals and former full-scholarship college students) to issue an expletive-deleted denial that read:
“Why don’t you read this pretentious sentence? You couldn’t believe it. I don’t do AF-K. I would never do anything other than that – I’m not human, that’s no good.
“I’m not hurt. It’s not like that. Save that. Sk, I’m also DK.” Fascinating.
Now, when we get back on the field and read a big message in the end zone that says, “Let’s End Racism,” it’s as if all NFL fans, especially those who cheer for the uniform regardless of who’s wearing it, are on the path to justice. It’s as if you need to change direction in order to walk.
Goodell isn’t fooling anyone.
Reader Dom Ravako writes: Oh, yeah, wait a minute…she doesn’t use her N-word. ”
But Usher, who was chosen as this year’s headliner, is. Continuing Goodell’s shameless pandering tradition of exploiting the largest television audience each year, he has made it clear that his business promotes and maintains the worst stereotypes of black Americans in order to enjoy “eradication.” Starring black performers who have succeeded in demonstrating that they are based on
So once again, I challenge Goodell and Usher’s drum bangers Jim Nantz and James Brown on CBS to recite the lyrics of “iconic performer” Usher. It opens with “Nice and Slow,” a standard boastful snarky “iconic” song. number.
are you ready? Please receive:
“They call me Ashé Raymond
“Come on baby, tell me what you want to do with me.”
“There’s someone as brutal as Jodeci…”
Jodec is, of course, a group that relies on vulgar, sexually explicit, and degrading lyrics.
And no one in the NFL is going to publicly recite the lyrics to Goodell’s Super Bowl headliner, who grabs the crotches of men and women of his choosing. But despite the escalating number of domestic violence arrests and accusations among NFL players since Goodell’s appointment, the NFL has been unable to find a better figure for its biggest stage event.
But Goodell seems to be giving us what I think we deserve.
Silence against crime speaks volumes
Beyond the financially, educationally, and ethically corrupt university movement, there may be no greater fraud than offering a broadcast journalism major at our universities. Media sports journalists are not necessarily required to lie, but they are not allowed to tell the truth.
Illinois basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. was suspended in late December after being charged with rape.
However, when his trial was set for May after the basketball season, he was cleared to return to play.
Since then, I’ve watched the Illinois game three times, once on Fox and twice on the Big Ten Network. We were then told that Shannon had been reinstated from his “suspension,” but he was never asked why he had been suspended, as if the “team rule” is the same as not returning library books to a police-accused felony rape. It appears to be nothing more than a violation.
I strongly suggest that all three telecasts followed the pre-production decision to subvert the truth.
Sunday’s Chiefs vs. Ravens opener on CBS included footage of pregame trouble between the teams. Ravens cornerback Arthur Morlett was believed to have tried to escalate the episode into a brawl, and had no intention of being ejected before the AFC Championship began.
Then, as if to pre-empt the Ravens’ home loss due to in-game cheating, Ray Lewis, the most obvious and brutally ferocious man-to-play player in team history, if not the NFL, Already introduced to an enthusiastic audience as an inspiration. Create a more enthusiastic atmosphere.
Although CBS and the NFL were apparently unaware, Lewis was the prime suspect in the double murder, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for lying to police investigators, and later reached a settlement with the victim’s family. .
And for both of these indigestible scenes, Jim Nantz, 64 years old and at CBS since 1985, has no right or self-respect to tell the undisputed truth. or had no right or self-respect to remain silent, yet seemed willing to rise above that status. Sil.
With Romo, you can win and you can lose
Good Tony: Early in the Chiefs-Ravens game, KC was going for it on fourth-and-2 from midfield, and Tony Romo said that Baltimore should “go for the pass here.” Patrick Mahomes made the right call when he completed the pass for a first down.
Bad Tony: Romo told us, “Don’t believe what you see, believe what I say.” Ravens DT Travis Jones appeared to be hit in the eye and collapsed in sudden pain. Replays showed exactly that.
But during that replay, Romo said Jones twisted his ankle. “That’s when his right ankle twisted.” There was no “right there.” Not only could I confirm that his ankle wasn’t twisted, but I could also confirm that his fingers were connected to his eyes. And when Jones left the field, he didn’t drag his feet, he squinted his eyes.
Meanwhile, Jim Nantz and CBS’ Understanding Football indicated that Mahomes’ track record as a starter made him a one-man show and therefore he should have won several Cy Young Awards.
Rumors persist that ESPN hoops analyst JJ Redick will join Mike Breen and Doris Burke on the A’s team for NBA telecasts, replacing Doc Rivers. Rivers left the booth as Bucks coach last week. ESPN’s dismantling of the attractive trio of Breen, Mark Jackson, and Jeff Van Gundy is reminiscent of managers removing effective starting pitchers after allowing infield hits.
