I used to write this blog thinking that, if we could just expose and ridicule into the ground the corruption and thuggery of football in general and specific players/owners/administrators/referees as the situation warranted, that I might be able to "save football".
And then, as my ex-football-fan friends point out, we get the case of Aldon Smith.
Aldon Smith has been arrested for the third time since the start of last season.
This one may be far more serious than either a DUI with marijuana involved (September 2013) or 3 felony counts of illegal possession of an assault rifle (October 2013)...
Now he's arrested at LAX.
In what now appears to be his end as a 49er (at barest of minimum), Smith was arrested at LAX for yelling "Bomb!" at the airport terminal. TMZ stated at the time that several cops said he was drunk.
I'm going to say something that is probably no surprise to anybody: Aldon Smith needs to be locked up.
He makes me and my history look sane.
I'm not even talking a factor of prison time, etc., though if he weren't a starting football player with $9,000,000 on his head for next year (if San Francisco wants to make a mistake of epic proportions), he probably heads straight to prison right now...
He's mentally ill and has no business on the outside.
(And there are many who would say the same about me, to which I say: If that were true, would I not know of what I speak?)
And here's why I say the title of this blog post:
There are many dozens/hundreds/more such people who are only propped up by the sport of football and all the trappings thereof.
The blows to the head are making it worse.
Mr. Goodell, start by getting Smith deep into the mental health system before he's killed or kills somebody else.
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