Football Blues

I like your product, Roger…I just don’t like you.

It wasn’t a weekend entirely football free, but it may as well have been.

With the Buccaneers playing (if you could call it that) Thursday night in Atlanta, and with my favorite college football team (Notre Dame) not playing this weekend, I watched very little pigskin. I caught the tail end of the FSU-Clemson game (which FSU won in overtime without a QB embroiled in a scandal of his own doing) and that was about it. I watched the Rays games and the playoff contending teams in baseball, and Netflix. I didn’t know until I woke up this morning what happened in the big Seahawks-Broncos Super Bowl rematch game yesterday afternoon, or the Steelers-Panthers game last night.

If you’ve been reading my last few blogs, I think I’m footballed out as a result of the Roger Goodell-Ray Rice scandal. It ripped the scab off of the NFL for me, and the pus is flying everywhere. If a guy gets paid $44,000,000 a year to do a job that poorly, his product shouldn’t be watched or bought.

I found other things to do this weekend. I imagine some of you did too. I don’t know if my quasi-boycott is going to last once baseball season ends in about a month, but as long as the “Jolly Roger” is commissioner, I will do my damnedest to find other things to conquer.

Whatever Happened To The NFL?

Maybe it took a longer period of time then I realize, but it feels like the NFL and its image has been destroyed almost overnight by star players with shoddy reputations, and some incompetent management.

I’m sure most of you know the Ray Rice story by now, and a new story has emerged about Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings and how he whipped his 11 year old son with a switch, which has been deemed to be child abuse by authorities in Texas.

Personally, I wonder if the NFL will recover from the incompetence from their decision making in the whole Ray Rice affair, and how Roger Goodell, the current commissioner of the league, will be viewed as credible ever again. As one article I read during the week pointed out, it’s almost as if the league went of out it’s way to tell women all over the country that we (the NFL) don’t give a (insert the profane word of your choice) about you.

I guess there’s always baseball…

Keith Olbermann on Ray Rice, Redux

I could have sworn we were just here a little over a month ago, but new evidence has come to light that made all parties concerned look all the more stupid.

Keith Olbermann on Ray Rice

If you have to beat up a woman to get ahead in life, don’t waste my time.

It’s a shame the NFL didn’t come down harder on Ray Rice recently. As Keith Olbermann pointed out recently on his ESPN show, you can be a NFL player and get punishment more severely for smoking pot recreationally in a state where it is permissible than what Ray Rice got for his domestic incident this off-season.

The NFL basically told all of its female fans to go take a flying leap. Yeah, that’s good business…I say sarcastically.

I heard some sports commentators on the televised sports talk shows also got into trouble, but I never pay attention to those shows to begin with. They make politically based talk shows look tame by comparison.

A shame the NFL is doing this, and for what? So one of their star players gets back to his season quicker? Not right.