- So the NFL is suspending dozens of players for drugs, domestic violence is out of control, concussions even in the first game last night... And the NFL decides it wants the public to know it's telling the players... not to use eyeblack for face paint. Womp womp.
- Dateline: Eastern Michigan University. One of the football team was murdered by Kristopher Pratt, who agreed to Murder 2 as a plea-bargain, but no one else was convicted. Problem: Pratt's cousin, Demarko Taylor, has apparently gotten the shit kicked out of him by three other EMU football players -- who are now facing misdemeanor assault charges. Um... "Eye for an eye." is supposed to apply to the perpetrator, not his cousin.
- Penn State University is at it again. In the third year of their unprecedented penalties for their school and football program being a front for at least one pedophile (it still hasn't been made public yet as to if it was, in fact, a ring of prominent PSU donors, as Mark Madden asserted was possible and being investigated shortly after Sandusky and Paterno were exposed), Penn State officials are telling prominent PSU fans to lay off -- having to send a letter not unakin to when my chemistry teacher would say "Say You, Say Now... Let's Be Friends" to tell them to be civil when posting to boards. To the Deadspin article, this appears to indicate that PSU alums are still spewing that their football program, the only reason PSU exists, was victimized by a conspiracy. Never mind the conspiracy which is probably the only reason you have a univerysity, much less a football program.
- Ray MacDonald will play Sunday. Mission accomplished, for now, by the police. Happens all the time on every level of football -- one of the many reasons the entire culture needs to be smashed.
- And two by the defending (and, if last night's coronation was any indication, heading to back-to-back (sans drug investigation or someone getting a spine) championships) chumps, the Seadderal Seahags: The Green Bay Packers started a rookie center last night, Corey Linsey, to which one of the loudest of the Legion of Boom, Bruce Irvin, said he was going to pray for Linsey.
- And this gem, of which we're not sure if it was screwed up by the Seahag Twitter account or by the lady singing the opening National Anthem of the season, Ariana Grande:
(It apparently was the Twitter account, according to the
Huffington Post. The Hags deleted the original Tweet when the error was discovered, so only Grande's response (above) remains.)
Yeah, those Penn State people are a joke. I listened to Boers and Bernstein out of Chicago after their bowl eligibility was restored. They had audio of students chanting "Where's the statue?". It is sad. Dan Bernstein was right three years ago when he said that university should be napalmed.
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