Football Nation America, The Patient Is Dead. You Cannot Save It.

(Blogger's Note:  A very important edit has been made to this post.  See the post above as for why.)

Today was completely predictable, given a lot of what's gone on.

Janay Rice has basically been subjugated, by Ray and possibly others, to Stockholm Syndrome for anyone who has had experience with such abusive relationships.  (Unfortunately for my own knowledge in this matter, I, not so much as others.)

In blasting the media for their coverage of her getting the fucking shit knocked out of her by her husband Ray, she basically all but sends a neon sign saying "I DESERVED IT!" to all the people who state that women deserve to be raped, abused, etc. and so forth.

That's bad enough.

Keith Olbermann brings up the worse point.


"... the unavoidable and simple truth that, intentionally or by neglect, the Atlantic County (New Jersey) District Attoney's Office, the Baltimore Ravens, the National Football League, and Commissioner Roger Goodell have conducted a cover-up of Ray Rice's brutal assault on his then-fiance on February 15. There is no other conclusion possible."

No.  There isn't.  Olbermann, and correctly, calls for all relevant parties:  NFL, Ravens, and New Jersey law enforcement, to resign.

And the worst part of it is why no one bats an eye to this cover-up...

Without rape, domestic violence, and unspeakable violence toward the (considered) lessers of our society by football players at all levels across the nation, THERE IS NO FOOTBALL.

Football CANNOT exist as The National Religion that it is without these heinous acts.

If any degree of an accounting of just the collegiate and professional players who have committed acts similar to this (with cover-ups similar to this), the entire economic structure of the game would INSTANTANEOUSLY COLLAPSE.

The percentage of players who have committed domestic violence, assault and sexual assault, rape, and similar, under the cover of football, is so staggering that a full accounting finishes the game long before we find out how many of them have CTE.

The mentality presented behind football, as a sport -- by coaches, leagues, and parents -- dehumanizes the human form, be it the players, their lessers on their teams, the women around the game (who only exist for the pleasure of the players and the jealousy of all others not entitled), and those who only are allowed to exist as cannon-fodder for the preferred to beat to submission.

I am reminded of that Long Island team (I believe it was a junior-high team.) going to a summer camp, and the older athletes took their younger counterparts, put them in the back of the bus, and raped them with broomsticks.

I am reminded of at least three different Deadspin articles on how injured players are viewed in the professional nature of football:

• August 26, 2014:  Former football player dies way too young, and was convinced, during the waning years of his short life, that he had CTE.  Sure enough, when his brain was examined, CTE.
• August 21, 2014:  The coach of Air Force's football team, the team already under investigation for date-rape drugs by their team against women, belittles and subjugates injured players, and is openly cheered by former players now talking at ESPN...
• December 12, 2013:  A story of Nate Jackson, author of Slow Getting Up, a book chronicling how the former San Francisco 49er and Denver Bronco was basically used up and thrown out like a bad gear.

I am reminded and shown of various violent aspects which show the real impact football has:

• Today in Kansas:  A youth football player's father and his coach got into a playing-time dispute.  The father brought friends, who kicked the shit out of the coach, until the coach's wife fired a warning shot in the air to disperse the beat-down.  That, apparently, was not the only gun involved, the father also being armed!
• April 29, 2013 Huffington Post, March 22, 2011 Time Magazine, November 23, 2009 Slate Magazine:  Three separate articles, apparently three separate studies one common subject.  It doesn't matter if it's British soccer (the first one), or the NFL (the other two):  If you are a wife/girlfriend of a fan of a team which loses, you are more likely -- SUBSTANTIALLY more likely, to be assaulted and domestically abused, as a result of the contest!
• October 14, 2011, Georgia:  After a victory over Hancock Central, Warren County High School football players were ambushed in a helmet-swinging riot outside their locker room, as a culmination of what turned out to be threats from many parties at Hancock.  Since the incident occurred a Hancock, however, no charges were filed.
• The entire Jonathan Martin fiasco, especially the reactions of one Damon Bruce.

And the list goes on and on and on...

We have reached a very probably Rubicon here, and, should women be smart and start becoming violent against the violence measured upon them in the name of football, perhaps pulling the one thread may finally collapse the entire tapestry.

Again, the attitudes of the sport effectively require inhuman conduct -- ON AND OFF THE FIELD.  I still, more than 24 hours later from the second video, can't understand why people are more outraged now about something that not only we already knew had happened, but the fact is that it happens hundreds and thousands of times in professional, high school, and collegiate situations.

But why don't we hear about it?  The same reason of the cover-up which Olbermann believes heads should roll for:  Domestic violence and rape and similar violences against those who are only considered worth being violent against are the necessary part and parcel to being a football...  *inhale* Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahd...

Nothing is going to be done about domestic violence in athletes until their sports are shut down.  Period.