Tired of this

I am what you might call a social fan of the NFL. I watch the games to spend quality time with my spouse, who has an inexplicable interest in pro football. It also gives me an added topic of conversation at work when there is no baseball.

Know what? I'm fucking tired of all of the alleged taping scandal. What we have here is a practice that was, until this year, at least licit for any NFL team. The one team that broke the rules, once, after the rule was changed, has been rightly stomped. It happens to have been the local franchise. The story should be over, over, over.

This would not be any deal at all if they had not won so much in the preceding several years.

We also have the spectacle of a possibly demented, possibly bought, Pennsylvania senator who pitifully keeps trying to beat a dead horse. The people who allegedly bought him, the cable sports media, keep shoveling money at this fool. I don't think they believe any of this crap, either. They are just too lazy or stupid to find their stories ethically. They will keep buying the spectre until he is too comatose to be bought, just to make noise.

Besides the senile senator and the lazy, stupid media, we have the critical mass of NFL fans, most of whom can't be trusted to tie their own shoelaces. They will keep drooling about a story like this as long as there is an ESPN to encourage them.

Let us imagine for a moment what would be going on if it had been either the Pittsburgh Steelers (who did tape) or the Philadelphia Eagles (who probably did) who had been caught at this foolishness. It is hard to imagine the spectre being so self-righteous.

Thanks very much, but I'm reserving my fall attention for college football. It has its own set of mistakes, but most of them (save the BCS idiocy) are human ones. And if the spectre doesn't shut up, and if he is still alive to run for re-election, I'll contribute to his opponent.