Thirteen years ago tomorrow, I got arrested in New York City.
Even I am having trouble wrapping my brain around two stories I've read in the last 18 hours on ESPN.
1) "Murderer" Ray Lewis basically exposes football fans for the violent savages they are, almost threatening to turn them loose if they don't get what they want out of the NFL lockout.
In this ESPN interview, Ray Lewis basically throws down the following gems.
"Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game."
Actually, I've done some research. I've actually seen studies which indicate that unexpected upset results increase domestic violence rates. (In fact, here's one link to a 2011 study on just that!)
"There's too many people that live through us, people live through us," he said. "Yeah, walk in the streets, the way I walk the streets, and I'm not talking about the people you see all the time."
Oh, like your fixers, Mr. Lewis? The ones that got you out of a murder rap from that party before Super Bowl XXXIV? Where you gave misleading statements, by your own freaking admission, to the police??
How you have had any business in the NFL for the last eleven years, I have no idea. But, again, you admit you walk with some very "dark" people -- and I'm not talking necessarily color of skin.
I'm talking conduct.
When asked why he thought crime would increase if the NFL doesn't play games this year, Lewis said: "There's nothing else to do Sal [Palontonio, the interviewer]."
Because the NFL (and larger religious culture of football) has made it that way, literally from Friday night in the high schools through Monday night with the national primetime pro game.
But basically, Ray, you all but admit that the NFL is a violent game for a violent culture. You all but expose the conventional NFL fan as a freaking savage who needs his literal religious drug, called the NFL, or all Hell will break loose.
Sadly, I think you're right, Ray. I think the conditions in this country are absolutely ripe for massive unrest come this fall -- gas prices, food prices, the debt ceiling, etc. And no NFL will effectively cause massive wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Well, maybe it needs to. Perhaps the Teddy Roosevelt solution to football (banning it!) might be the only answer for people like you.
And answers like the culture which leads to the second ESPN story of football violence today.
ESPN has found the guy accused of poisoning Toomer's Corner in Auburn.
Interviewing him, you basically understand that the poison he is accused (and may have admitted to on a local radio program) of laying is not the only poison surrounding football in the Southeast.
You see, he's an Alabama fan -- and Toomer's Corner is almost sacred in Auburn.
Look, I have no use for $Cam Newton and all the corruption in Auburn either, but basically the whole response to the 2010 Iron Bowl capitulation by Alabama (which not only handed the national title to Auburn, but also caused Boise State to lay down to college football reality later that night!) is even interesting to someone like me.
Someone poisoned the trees in Toomer's Corner the weekend after the Iron Bowl.
Someone needed to tell whoever did it that Alabama was ordered to lie down to $Cam and Auburn. Everything was already mapped out from almost a year before: the SEC title, the national title, the Heisman, the #1 draft pick.
Mr. Updike/"Al from Dadeville", if you actually did it, you're a bigger dupe than people felt I was for going to New York City to talk to Deborah Gibson thirteen years ago -- and many felt to kill her.
(Did a year in jail and three years probation for it.)
If you're scared, perhaps there's two reasons. One, any serious football fan in Auburn wants you dead.
Two, you got so taken in by the religious culture of football that you actually believed the game you saw (apparently in person) where Alabama went up 24-0, only to lay down and lose 28-27, was legitimate.
Here's a hint: If, as "Al" and I believe, the season was stolen by Auburn, why in the Hell should anyone not believe that basically everybody wasn't behind it, including the B$C$ themselves?
The B$C$ has emerged from this $Cam Newton farce the only real college football sanctioning body, even subsuming the NCAA. Why would they not want one of the preferred schools (read: the SEC plus maybe two or three others) to ensure that schools like TCU (Boise State is no longer worth mentioning, because of their NCAA violations!) never see the title?
That game was a rigged farce, "Al". Simple -- as -- that.
But it shows what fandom has become today.
And people thought I was nuts...
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