Quickie Fine Blotter Before The Goblins Show Up

• Detroit Lions:  James Ihedigbo, $10,000 for a late hit.
• Detroit Lions:  Garrett Reynolds, $22,050 for an illegal blindside block.
• New England Patriots:  Akeem Ayers, $8,268 for a punch.
• Philadelphia Eagles:  Trent Cole, $22,050 for roughing the passer.
• Arizona Cardinals:  Jerraud Powers, $16,537 for a horse-collar tackle.
• Oakland Raiders:  Brandian Ross, $22,050 for the defenseless player rule violation.

Naaaaaaah, No Unhealthy Obsession With Football Here...

Three Deadspin gems, the first two suggested by my anonymous friend...

• Cowboys lose, go to 6-2...  This guy's apartment pays the price.

First victim was the glass table in front of the TV, before the game was over.  You can hear the drunk idiot scream for a first down just after the crash of the glass.

After two cans into the TV, there goes what I assume to be a game system.

And this, again, was before the play that ended the Cowboys' chances.  And then his two buddies snickering in the background.

HINT:  RUN!!!

If you want an idea as to how much alcohol these guys consume (and I am guessing some of it during the game), watch the number of beer caps being removed from the back table.  They know what's coming if the 'Boys don't come through...

1:32:  "APESHIT FUCKING MODE!!!"

A new Internet meme is born.  The game is STILL NOT OVER.

At least the buddies are shutting doors all over the place.

1:55, incomplete, and he literally tears the light out of the fixture overhead.

The TV bites the dust afterward.

Guitar, kitchen table, kitchen counter (completely torn off the base!) follow in rapid succession.

His aquarium, a portable refrigerator...

This guy probably, in 2 minutes, caused $5000, maybe more?, in damage...

Over a REGULAR-SEASON FOOTBALL GAME...

• SEVERAL Ray Rice Halloween idiots, at least one couple complete in black-face and the black eye for "Janay"...

And word is that Adrian Peterson is also getting good Halloween play too.

• Rookie Arizona safety Tony Jefferson led the Cards with 11 tackles in their win over Philadelphia.

Too bad he doesn't remember a thing about the game.

Doesn't even know which play he got the concussion.

No unhealthy football obsessions here, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

Pereira: Secret official decides SEC games?

In a FOX Sports column last Saturday, former NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira said the Southeastern Conference has "lost almost all credibility" with respect to it's officiating.

Pereira refers to two SEC games:  Alabama-Tennessee Saturday, and two weeks before with Auburn-Mississippi State.

In both cases, Pereira points out the refs "abused" the communications system to talk to somebody on the basis of calls being made.

Pereira asked the national college officiating coordinator about this, and he told Pereira no one else was supposed to be on that system.

"Bull."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Are you kidding me?  THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME, MIKE PEREIRA!!

You have a conference, right now, that the question isn't IF they make the playoff, but how many teams?  And, right now, it's not implausible that if strength of opposition trumps them beating each other up, they could get ALL FOUR teams.

You think there isn't somebody at a few of these games that is "ensuring" a particular result?

And isn't it funny, Mr. Pereira, that they probably got that practice from your very former employer, the NFL?

And isn't it doubly funny that, starting this year, such communications with a central control office are now codified in NFL rules????

"But now it appears the SEC has someone that nobody else has -- a mystery man. I’m not sure where he is, but he’s providing information to the officials on the field. If the SEC denies it, they’re not telling the truth."

What he's really saying:  "That 'mystery man' is deciding games."

Score Update, as we enter halfway through the madness...

Real stupid week, as you'll see below:

• Scoring shot back up for the week.  Would've been over 50 a week if not for the Monday nighter, but ended at 49 1/3 points per game for the week.
• Season average is now back to almost where it ended last year:  46.653
• Fifteen games this week, seven were non-competitive in the fourth quarter, and two more only barely so (one (OAK-CLE) was only within one score for 43 seconds of the fourth quarter, while PIT-IND lasted about 2:26 at 42-34).
• ALL OF THE OTHER SIX GAMES WERE CLIFFHANGERS.  I don't think I've had a week since I started looking at this, but all six other games of the week were decided by a score within the last two minutes of regulation or overtime.
• That means 26 of the 121 games played so far this year did so.  That's 21.49%, getting pretty close to where it was last year. (21.875% last year.)
• Games within one score at some point in the 4th quarter are at 63.64%, down from 68% last year.
• Games decided by one score are at 41.32%, down from 48% last year.
• Over was 7-8 this week, no real indecisions on this week.  Had my math a little screwed up, so double-checked my numbers.  The over is just slightly over .500 for the year - 62-58-1 if you take predominant bets.  56-57-8, just below .500, if you take into account some of the variable results -- and that's, with the 9% juice, just what Vegas wants!
• Another London game this week, so only 14 home games -- home team was 9-5, including the last five games to finish.  74-44-1 for the year.  Home teams are winning at a 62.6% clip.
• Home team was called for more penalties in half of those 14 games.  7-7.  52 out of 119 for the season.  43.7%
• The exact same number of penalties, 205, was called each of the last two weeks.  Also, 104 penalties were called on winning teams in BOTH weeks.  
• 99 on the home teams, 103 on the visitors.
• Team with more penalties was 7-8.  55-57-8 for the year.
• Team with more Points of Emphasis penalties was 5-7-3.  44-48-38 for the year.
• New season "high" for PoE penalties in a game by a team:  Pittsburgh had six accepted vs. Indianapolis, and WON EASILY...

And Another One Bites The Dust: More Hazing

Late last week:

Central Bucks school in suburban Philadelphia suspended the football program and put the coaches on suspension after investigating hazing within the team.

(Source:  Reuters)

One rookie player, according to the article, had to grab another's dick while the team watched.

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WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO REALIZE THAT FOOTBALL BREEDS ANIMALISTIC INHUMANITY?

That's SEXUAL ASSAULT, even under the standards of an underage participant, yet the Central Bucks Police Department doesn't believe it met the level of criminality?

Is NOTHING sacred? Are we even using sex, drugs, and rock and roll to recruit MILITARY football players?

So we happen upon this ditty yesterday:

The latest football squad to be under investigation for the use of women and the like to recruit football players is...

THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

Yep, the Army football team has disciplined 20 cadets for illegally recruiting players with cash, cheerleaders, and booze on a party bus...

One Thing To Think It, One To Believe It True...

... but, especially after Donald Sterling and the situation in Atlanta, another to say it, Sir Charles!!!

In response to that Russell Wilson is perceived (at least by reports) by some of the Seattle Seahag Legion of Thug Boom not to be Black enough, Sir Charles had this to say:

“For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough,” Barkley said. “If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.”

“There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don't have success,” he continued. “It's best to knock a successful black person down because they're intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school and they're successful … It's just typical B.S. that goes on when you're a black, man.” He also described the situation as ”a dirty, dark secret.”

As my neighborhood will tell you, there are many similar White people too.  But, that said, oh boy...  I could see some real problems with this in the NBA offices, Mr. Barkley.

Week 7 Fine Blotter

• Indianapolis Colts:  Erik Walden, $27,652 for physical contact with the official and subsequent ejection.
• The ejection on Carolina's Luke Kuechly was declared improper -- he was actually being restrained by an official blind to him and threw an elbow, thinking it was a Green Bay Packer.  Kuechly was not fined as a result.
• St. Louis Rams:  Brian Quick, $8,268 for unnecessary roughness.

There may be further updates, but, as of about 5:30 PM PDT Friday, that's all I can find.

EDIT TO ADD 10/31:  Spotrac has a few more...

• San Diego Chargers:  Donald Butler, $5,512 for a uniform violation.
• Baltimore Ravens:  Steve Smith...
• Baltimore Ravens:  and Jimmy Smith, each $8,268, both for face masks.
• Seattle Seahawks:  Tharold Simon, $8,268 for a face mask.

And a suspension to report:

• Detroit Lions:  C.J. Mosely (if I didn't report this one before), 2 games, BY THE LIONS.  Sent home from London, he was banned for conduct detrimental to the team.

More Truth No One Wants To Hear

• From the "Flem File" on ESPN.com...  A headline which made for an obvious click for someone like myself:  "Otherworldly damage to the helmet of a Browns rookie lineman tells real NFL story"

This is what is left of Jacobbi McDaniels' helmet after his Cleveland Browns debut against the Jacksonville Jaguars:





If the OUTSIDE of the helmet is that damaged, what's to make of the head which was INSIDE it?


From David Fleming, who says it better than I can:


"All in all, I counted 15 different marks of every shape, size, depth and direction, including: a horizontal tear on the gray facemask; a thick, weird smudge near the right temple; two long tire skid marks that dead end into a deep tear of the brown stripe decal that runs down the center of the helmet; a cavernous divot of plastic near the Browns nameplate; a shooting-star gash above the right eye that looked like the work of an expressionist painter; and on and on and on. And when you begin to think about the shear amount of force, torque and close-quarter violence needed to carve such a strange script into such a strong material, McDaniel's helmet becomes almost mesmerizing, like an orange crystal ball.


Ultimately, though, it was those other-worldly Freddy Krueger-like claw marks down the right front side of the helmet -- the ones that reminded me of the equipment guy in Green Bay, who said that after good games Clay Matthews' helmet looks like it had been attacked by a rabid pack of bobcats -- that spurred me to track down McDaniel. Turns out, the guy with a 2013 criminology degree from FSU was just as fascinated as I was by the football forensics left behind on his helmet. Really, that's why he tweeted out a picture of his helmet. It tells a story. His story."


Took two plays for a helmeted collision with an opposing guard.


Later in the first drive, another facemask-to-facemask shot.


The hits are so violent, the screws on opposing helmets gouge into each other's helmets.


But some of the best evidence the game needs to be shut down comes from McDaniel's own mouth:


""Naw man, I don't worry about my brain," McDaniel insists. "That helmet shows I went out there and did my job. That's all. When I posted the picture, a bunch of people from back home [in Madison, Florida] said, 'Hey, that's exactly what your helmet used to look like in high school.'""


McDaniels was returned to Cleveland's practice squad after the 24-6 loss.

• The report on academic fraud at the University of North Carolina is so damning that it's not just the football program or basketball program which might have to be shuttered, but try the entire damn university.

If this doesn't get some of these programs shut down, NOTHING WILL.


Eighteen years of fraudulent classes in the African-American Studies Department (1992-2009).


Over three thousand students involved -- prominently, though not completely, from the football and men's basketball programs.


The semester after the fraud who was running the A-A Studies Department retired, the average GPA of the football team was barely eligible at 2.12, and a decade-long low.


When Roy Williams became men's basketball coach, he actively, seeing what was going on, tried to get his academic people to get his players out of that major, according to the USA Today report.


The NCAA has reserved comment.

Two Offensive Stories: They may not appear related, but they are...

I was wondering when they might sneak this through, but the Dallas Cowboys cut Michael Sam from their practice squad today.

I'm becoming more and more suspicious that this 6-1 run is not only a means to push Jerry Jones and Tony Romo, but to create exactly what took place today?

Evidence:  Dallas, in recent years past, could not find a defense of any kind with a GPS system.

So why, pray tell, all of a sudden, when they put Michael Sam on their practice squad, even though they only have one sack a game this season, that they are 12th in yards against in the passing game and 16th on the ground?

Someone was trying to lock him out, and they fucking succeeded.

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A second offensive story, which corroborates the story in Mother Jones during the NFL crises of the wife of former NFL center Adam Treu, surfaced Monday.

Two NFL wives (one of whom refuses to identify herself, both for fear of retribution from the league and from her former husband, who still plays in the NFL...  Hmmmm, domestic violence here??) told the Washington Post about the complete run-around of the league "fixers", from the league itself to the police to anyone else who wouldn't listen about their domestic violence issues from the supposed "real men" who exist only to rape, pillage, and plunder, and far more than just on Sunday.

"You will hear of a wife murdered before you hear another one come forward."

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Why are these two stories related?

Because the violence of being a "REAL MAN!!!!" is central to football.

Raping, pillaging, and plundering everything in your path in central to the entire presentation of this sport.

And ANYTHING, be it a talented homosexual player or a wife who has just had enough of getting the shit kicked out of her, that gets in the way of this meme MUST be dealt with to the advantage of The Shield.

Another bout of Russian IDIOCY...

Let's hear it for the head of the tennis federation of Russia.

Another round of Russian stupidity:  The head of the Russian Tennis Federation has been banned by the Women's Tennis Association for one year from any involvement in women's tennis.

Shamil Tarpiscev's crime:  Calling the Williams sisters MEN...

He said, in a scathing retort on women's tennis and the Williams':

He was sitting alongside retired Russian tennis player Elena Dementieva who was asked by the host, Ivan Urgant, what it was like to "play against one of the ..."

Before he finished his sentence, Tarpischev interrupted to say the "Williams brothers."

Urgant went on to say: "I have tremendous respect for them (the Williams) but once one of the sisters passed next to me and I found myself in her shadow for about 40 seconds."

He also said the Williams' were "scary to look at".

Well, I'll freely admit they can be intimidating, but, and especially from a Russian (*cough*Olympic steroids*cough* -- and the IOC wants a word with him too!!!), that goes beyond tasteless toward hypocritical!

I have little use for some of the Williams' antics, but that's completely out of line.

BAN HIS ASS PERMANENTLY.

Let's Get The Score Update Out of the Way

Scoring down a bit for Week 7:  43 2/3 points a game.

7 Week per-game average is now 46.273, about .43 points a game below last year's total.

• Two national prime-time games end within a score (Thurs. night and Mon. night -- you can almost ignore Sunday as Peyton Manning Night), meaning 9 of 22 national games have gotten to the fourth quarter in contention, with still only the one cliffhanger in Week 2 that had the game decided in the last two minutes.
• Five non-competitive games out of the 15 this week.  Four games decided in the last two minutes (Detroit got a TD to win 24-23 at 1:48, Buffalo won with a TD at one second left, Kansas City got a field goal to best San Diego at :21, and Washington won with a field goal at the gun.)  That's 20 out of 105 games played so far like that, 18.87%.
• Games within a score in the 4th quarter are now at 65.09% vs. 68% last year (a difference of about three games total now), and games within one score at the end are at 41.9% -- that one well below the 48% last year.
• Over was 6-8 this week, not that surprising, with one game actually fully middling.  Detroit-New Orleans went over at most spots, but went under at the Peppermill and the William Hill.  So the over is 55-60-1 for the year for full consideration, and partial at 49-59-8.
• Home teams got revenge for last week -- they were 12-3 this week!  65-39-1 for the year.
• Home team was called for more penalties in eight of the 15 games, with a ninth squaring even.  45 out of the 105 games had the home team get more penalties called on them.
• Home team was called for about 3/4 a penalty less a game.  98 vs. 109 last week, both weeks with 15 game schedules.  That was 7 of the 11 fewer penalties called this week.
• Team with more penalties was 9-5-1 this week.  48-49-8 for the season.
• Team with more Points of Emphasis fouls was 4-8-3 this week.  39-41-35 for the year.

Nope, RETRACT: Peyton 509 was a catch.

Here's another look, and watch the replay after the TD.

Play starts at about 2:55...


Nice drag of the foot there, but that's a catch. Gotta retract the previous blog post.

(Anonymous friend and I got a good look at it.)

(Still gets Rig Job of the Day for how obvious it was, but that was in-bounds.)

Fine Blotter for Week Six

Again, far fewer than there should be.

• St. Louis Rams:  William Hayes, $16,537 for a horse-collar tackle.
• St. Louis Rams:  Ethan Westbrooks, $8,268 for a punch.
• Washington Redskins:  Chris Baker, $10,000 for a face-mask.
• Miami Dolphins:  James Landry, $8,268 for a face-mask.
• San Francisco 49ers:  Michael Crabtree, $5,512 for an illegal souvenir (ball into the stands).
• Washington Redskins:  DeSean Jackson, $16,537 for a horse-collar tackle.
• Washington Redskins:  Robert Griffin III, while injured, got a $8,687 fine for an illegal walking boot.
• Denver Broncos:  Lamin Barrow, $8,268 for a punch.
• New York Jets:  Terrance Knighton, $11,000 for inappropriate language.
• Chicago Bears:  Ryan Mundy, $22,000 for a helmet-to-helmet.

And a drug suspension:

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  Jorvorskie Lane, 2 games.

Fine Blotter Week Six Part One: And This Shithead is Not Suspended... WHY????

Well, one incident got the supplemental treatment this week, and readers of consistent Fine Blotters should recognize the name.

• Cincinnati Bengals:  Vontaze Burfict strikes again.  $25,000 for deliberately twisting the ankles of both Cam Newton and Greg Olsen of Carolina.  (Both after they scored touchdowns.)

He's a repeat offender, has been stated as such.

That's also a little ditty we in the parlance like to call, oh...  "INTENT TO INJURE"!!!!

How is this shithead not suspended for BOTH of these facts, for multiple games no less???

Well, there's an answer if you are one of those readers.

Been noticing the Fine Blotters this year?

They're smaller.

A LOT SMALLER.

And if you honestly believe that, in any way, has to do with players knocking off the dirty hits and bullshit, I have some nice swampland to sell you in the high deserts of the Andes Mountains...

EDIT TO ADD:  That was on top of concussing Kelvin Benjamin with another hit for which Burfict was flagged under Defenseless Player.  That could be another $20K+...

Week 6 Score Report: They Finally Caught Up, And So Did I

Combination of real-life, fatigue (both RL and sports!), etc., and I fell behind in getting this posted.

Week 6 score average:  48.4 even.

6 week score average:  46.703 -- just four-thousandths of a point below the 46.707 that was last year's average.

In the other numbers:

• They openly rigged the Indianapolis Thursday night win to within one score, and the Monday nighter got to one score in the 4th quarter, so, for the national prime-time contests, they're 7 for 19 getting it to the 4th quarter, and only ONCE was it a cliffhanger (and that was WEEK TWO).
• Four non-competitive games this week, though several appeared to only sneak under the wire as that the losing team got within a score in the fourth before losing bigger (including Monday night).  There was one tie (which featured not only a field-goal for Carolina at the gun, but NFL history, as both teams scored field goals in the OT (on six-minute-plus drives) for the draw), and two other games which were decided in the last two minutes (GB-Miami at 0:03 and SD-OAK at 1:56).  That's 16/91 for that, still well below recent average at 17.58%.
• Games within a score at the 4th quarter are still down from last year as well, though the margin is narrowing (64.84% vs. 68 last year), and games decided by one score are at 40.65% vs. 48 last year.
• Not surprisingly, the over was 10-5 last week -- with one game that pushed at a couple places.  49-52 if you take the predominant, 43-51-7 if you account for games with pushes at some locations.
• I'll have to check to see if this is an NFL record, but, in a 15-game schedule, the home team only won FOUR contests.  4-10-1!!  53-36-1 for the year.
• Home team was called for more penalties in 7 games, less in 6, same in 2.  37 out of 90 non-neutral site games this year.
• Home team penalties were up almost two a game in this week -- 109 in 15 games including 13 for Cincinnati in the draw with Carolina and 14 for Arizona.
• In games with a result, the team with more penalties was 5-7-2 this week for 39-44-7.
• And, for the increasingly archaic Points of Emphasis fouls that made the preseason more of a farce than usual preseasons:  4-5-5 for the team with more in games with a result.  35-33-22 for the season.

Beginning to think the die is being cast again....

Jameis Winston, now under investigation himself for autographs, has finally caused Vegas books to take the major college football game of the week (and one of the few left for the year, it seems) off the board.


Notre Dame-Florida State is not just being "circled" (reduced betting limits).  It's off the board at most of the Strip.


And that's my indication that Notre Dame is probably going to Florida State and winning the game.

So how long before this superintendent gets run out of town or shot?

Hazing scandal.

High-school football.

Been in the news for quite some time, as now there are at least seven students who are criminally charged over a hazing scandal

This, apparently, is another set of older players sodomizing younger players.

As I've noted several times on this blog, this is not a unique nor first-time situation.  There was a famous case of a Long Island school whose older students took the younger students to the back of a school bus, on way to a summer football camp, and sodomized them with broomsticks.

According to a Mel Robbins CNN opinion piece, at least four freshmen football players were pinned to the ground and sexually assaulted by upper-classmen players over a ten-day period in September of 2014.

The football program has been cancelled for this season, and there is a chance, or so the superintendent says, that it isn't coming back.

At that point, I have but only two reactions:

First, even though the decision was upheld by the school board, I have to wonder how long it's going to be before this guy either gets threatened, shot, or simply run out of town.

Stubenville, anyone?

Penn State??

And, going back to the CNN piece, I look at comments like this one from a football mom and have to wonder how bad that mom has been beaten (perhaps by her own son?) over football:

"No one was hurt. No one died. I don't understand why they're being punished. I think that the forfeited game was punishment enough."

I'll start the second reaction by the opinion piece's proposed actions:

1) Fire the coaches.

No.  JAIL the coaches.  Schools act, in the eyes of the courts as in loco parentis -- in the place of the parents.  This isn't just a function of the actions themselves, but, either through a direct cover-up (and one which the opinion piece says may have been going on for years.

To believe that the coaching staff has no criminality in all of this is utterly ludicrous, especially in the nature of that this occurred in the locker room.  At minimum, there should be an arrest and investigation on the complete abrogation of responsibility of oversight.  At maximum, they took part, in one way or another, too.

Firing them just puts a Band-Aid on the problem.

2) Cancel next football season too.

Not sure that's going to be enough either.  I'd say, right now, your next football season (if I don't get my ultimate recommendation, to come later), should be about the Twelfth of Never.

No more football.

Not sure if there should be any more sports either of any kind!

What alarms me in people believing otherwise is this real question:  If the students are doing this to other football players to initiate them (and that's what this is:  a perverted form of "Freshman Initiation"), what the fuck are they doing to other students, especially those considered "lesser" (non-athletes, LD, etc.)?

3) Find the whole truth.

Good luck, if that one mom is any indication.  You'll probably end up with another Stubenville.

And that's why I give my ultimate recommendation:  Shut the entire school district and re-partition the area into other districts.

Why?  Very simple.  How many innocent parties are there, in a true sense?  Could we be talking a situation that anyone who didn't perpetrate this was a victim, or that the perpetrators were in the same position when they were younger?

You might well, as I just said, have a Stubenville situation here, where a massive series of incidents basically meant that a bunch of rapists, etc., ran the fucking town.

You try to find the whole truth, and you'd best be prepared for that truth to be utterly devastating?

And, of course, this is another example of football as rape -- basically, a non-consensual power-over which some people are taking quite literally.

Shut it down -- all of it.

How You Win National Championships: A Massive Coverup Now Alleged By The New York Times

Things are going from bad to worse for Florida State.

About the only thing which went right today, if you believe in Florida State football, is that Winston played and they creamed Syracuse.

But the New York Times may have different to say about it.

An article published yesterday seems to show that football is the only reason the school exists, as the campus police have routinely and repeatedly covered up for misconduct on the part of the football team.

This is no surprise, as one report stated that police told the raped party that Winston was protected because "Tallahassee is a football town."

Domestic violence against a 19 year-old and her child is alleged in at least one covered-up case.

Also:

"In a community whose self-image and economic well-being are so tightly bound to the fortunes of the nation’s top-ranked college football team, law enforcement officers are finely attuned to a suspect’s football connections. Those ties are cited repeatedly in police reports examined by The Times. What’s more, dozens of officers work second jobs directing traffic and providing security at home football games, and many express their devotion to the Seminoles on social media."

"When Jesus (Bobo) Wilson, an up-and-coming wide receiver, was stopped by the Tallahassee police in June while riding a stolen Bintelli Sprint motor scooter, his story was dubious: He claimed he had borrowed it from a student whose last name he did not know. But for Officer Michael Petroczky, it was convincing enough to forestall an arrest.

The officer, noting in his report that Mr. Wilson was a Florida State football player, wrote: “Wilson was not arrested today because he cooperated, showed no signs of guilt and provided a plausible story that needs to be investigated.”

Up to 13 football players have been under investigation for BB-gun shootouts on and near the campus.

This is fucking out of control.  Someone needs to forcibly shut down this program, and, if the school doesn't like it, it can go with it.

How bad is it?

One Sports Illustrated columnist says that the only way Jameis Winston might see the NFL, and his best move therein (even with the costs involved) is to drop out of Florida State University.

And here's why those two Florida quarterbacks will be so welcome in the National BeatingWomen League...

In vino veritas... 

In wine, comes the truth.

Somebody opened up their mouth a couple days ago, and the "fixers" told him to back off.

Jerry Angelo, former GM of the Bears, said that the NFL literally hid "hundreds and hundreds" of domestic violence cases over his eleven year (2001-2011) tenure.

And why wouldn't they?  Look at the entire presentation of football and tell me many of these roided-up monsters aren't "supposed to" kick the shit out of all of their "lessers", including their wives and girlfriends?

You cannot have football without domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and other unspeakable acts to go with it.

The game MUST GO.

Another Florida Quarterback Cleared -- Or Is It His Victim Was Silenced?

Treon Harris is in the clear, as the "fixers" at the University of Florida have successfully completed their work and silenced his accuser.

What, you actually thought most of those babes who are at football games are for YOUR benefit and for "school spirit"??

Sham Show Title IX Trial at FSU Coming, While the Truth Comes Out

Anyone who doesn't believe Jameis Winston is a rapist thug needs to be firmly woken up.

FSU, at the behest of Title IX, is being forced to put up a disciplinary committee on Winston for his rape of that co-ed in December of 2012.

And on the same day that the word comes out that Winston is being formally charged, another arm of this case, the "Tallahassee is a football town, missy, so bend over when he tells you to..." arm, also becomes known.

FOX Sports, through Yardbarker, reports that a major cover-up took place to protect Winston.  (Almost as if they knew in 2012 what he was going to give the college...)

• FSU's campus police had all the reports four days before they turned them over to the criminal process outside of campus.
• In that four days, the football program and Winston's defense attorneys received this material -- again, before external criminal processes began.
• The news media was sniffing, and the football program and the university were sniffing them.

Bluntly, FSU, a football school first and last, covered up for a rapist.

Nothing new here, except this was the only reason they won a national title.  Jameis Winston and the thugs at FSU are about the only reason the school exists...

And if you don't think Roger Goodell is licking his chops on this asshole...

(However, there is at least one AFC front office-person who does not want Winston.)

If Anyone Else Thinks Football Can Be Saved, Here's Another Reason It Can't Be

Another Stupid Fan Shithead...

A teenage fan (whose identity has been sealed, pending harassment of him at home) has been banned from the stadium for LIFE.

All events, not just football.

His incident?  He not only used one of those laser pointers to point in the face of various Buffalo Bills players during their game with Detroit last week.

He then bragged about it on Twitter.

According to another article, the owner of the team, in confirming the incident and life ban, said he felt more should've been done than a disorderly conduct misdemeanor.

Well, according to a doctor who talked to USA Today, more might well be done...

"We need to be clear about this," Robert Josephberg told USA TODAY Sports in a telephone interview from his office in Yonkers, NY. "These things are weapons; powerful weapons that can cause very severe damage and blindness. They are much more powerful than anyone appreciates."

I do know that, if this moron had done this in California, he could well face life in prison.

You heard me right.

California Penal Code Section 205:

"205.  A person is guilty of aggravated mayhem when he or she
unlawfully, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to
the physical or psychological well-being of another person,
intentionally causes permanent disability or disfigurement of another
human being or deprives a human being of a limb, organ, or member of
his or her body. For purposes of this section, it is not necessary
to prove an intent to kill. Aggravated mayhem is a felony punishable
by imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of
parole."

There is a similar law on the books of the state of Michigan, but it may appear to require an actual attempt to remove the eye through violence.

Michigan Penal Code Section 750.397:

Mayhem—Any person who, with malicious intent to maim or disfigure, shall cut out or maim the tongue, put out or destroy an eye, cut or tear off an ear, cut or slit or mutilate the nose or lip, or cut off or disable a limb, organ or member, of any other person, and every person privy to such intent, who shall be present, aiding in the commission of such offense, shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not more than 10 years, or by fine of not more than 5,000 dollars.

This is your fan of sports these days, Football Nation America...

Adrian Peterson May Be The Stupidest Motherfucker Alive

I'm beginning to think this over-zealous shithead has got a death wish.


Seriously...


Admitting to smoking pot when he had to take a urine test recently, Adrian Peterson is now the subject of prosecutors in Texas trying to get his bail revoked and him behind bars.


A little piece of advice for a Big Piece of Shit:

Take this from someone who knows from being behind bars:


If you get arrested and have to do serious time before trial, you might not survive to trial.


There's one thing that they WILL fuck you up for in jail (and may kill you!):


Fucking With Kids.


There may be little conscience behind the bars, but one thing they will not stand for (and the only time I was scared during my 8 1/2 months was some Manhattan (incarcerated) idiot believing that's why I was back there.


I also personally witnessed someone who was put in jail pending trial for something like that and the House Gang having no problems blasting the guy in the face -- before the presumption of innocence could be removed.


I think you want to meet your God, Adrian Peterson.


Keep being stupid, and you damned well will.  And it won't be by any means I do -- it'll be by what most people know but refuse to talk about.

More fines, and more money for illegal headphones than some dirty hits...

• San Francisco 49ers:  Colin Kapernick is a TWO-TIME LOSER:  Fined $10,000... for illegal headphones.

You heard that right.


Earlier this week, because of NFL's commitment to Bose as "The Official Sound of the NFL". they noted that Beats By Dre headphones would now be illegal to be seen anywhere where cameras could pick them up.


(You'd think that backwards, given the thug element in the NFL, but, as my friend pointed out when we talked last night, Bose costs money, and monied people are the only important people to the NFL.)


Further complicating the matter is that Kapernick has an endorsement deal with Beats by Dre.  I smell LAWSUIT...


So, now let's find out how many dirty hits cost players less this week than Kapernick fulfilling his endorsement commitments...

• Tennessee Titans:  Derrick Morgan, $8,268 for a late hit.
• Tennessee Titans:  Andy Levitre:  same fine, same offense
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  Louis Murphy, $11,025 for verbal abuse of an official.
• Minnesota Vikings:  Antone Exum, $22,050 for a blindside block.
• Denver Broncos:  Julius Thomas, $8,268 for a chop block.
• Cleveland Browns:  Christian Kirksey, $8,268 for roughing the passer
• Cleveland Browns:  Craig Robertson, $8,268 for a late hit
• New England Patriots:  Jamie Collins, $8,268 for a late hit.

So, there are only two fines (so far) that are worth more than violating the league's money pit with your own endorsement deal...

St. Louis Cardinal Fans: The Best Bigots in Baseball

(Hat-tip to my (very angry) anonymous contributor.)

So the umps and the like conspired with the Cards to send the Dodgers packing again.

But it's something which happened last night after Game 3 which has me saying something which is not much of anything to do with baseball.

Somebody is going to die.

You know why I say this?  An article I found on Yardbarker (and I'm sure it's other places as well -- found this one on Deadspin).



This bastion of "best fan-dom" was seen talking shit to Ferguson protestors who were in the area of Busch Stadium -- and they weren't received well.

A 17-minute clip follows that, with at least 12 incidents of Ferguson protesters being degraded.

Fuck you, Cardinal Nation.

Oh, and Daniel Bryan does not think you have the best fans in baseball.

How Much More Bullshit You Want To Spew? This Asshole Can Go ALL DAY!!!

• More from the Adrian Peterson articles.  Turns out this shithead, while spewing family values and prayers to God and "No Homo" and all such, was using his foundation's credit card to rent rooms and buy booze for orgies with women.  Nice family values there, bigoted hypocrite.  Or is that what you think God meant by "Be Fruitful and Multiply"?
• Speaking of such, Treon Harris, a backup quarterback who played on Saturday for Florida, apparently is accused of sexual assault Sunday morning!  He's been suspended from the team pending investigation.
• And another fight at another football game -- this one at the new Levi's Stadium between 49er Fan and...  49ER FAN.  Four of them got in a bathroom scuffle and at least one got concussed by head forcibly meeting commode.
• Yep, MLB is blowing the Cardinals again, so much so that my baseball-historian friend could identify at least a half-dozen pitches which were called in benefit of the Cardinals.  And it sounds like Matt Kemp noticed too.  He's going to be fined for telling Bud Selig and these umps where to shove.
• And more cock-sucking to the Cardinals:  Yada-Yada Molina will be fined and not suspended for shoving an umpire as part of a melee in Game 1.  MLB video embedded into Deadspin article.
• If you need to know why leagues have to control outcomes, I submit to you the new NBA television contract:  $2,700,000,000 a year, TRIPLE the previous value and more than the current NFL deal!!

If these were funny, the jokes would almost write themselves....

Week 5 Score Update: Well, They're Getting Back To Normal Now

Week 5 per game:  47.07
5 week per game average:  46.37 -- now only about a third of a point below last year's year-end.

• Finally got the Monday nighter to be at least close in the 4th quarter for a while.  Still, only five such national prime-time games in five weeks (16 games).
• This week, only three games were non-competitive into the 4th quarter (and two of them were prime-time, the third was the Jets vs. Chargers).  Four games were decided in the last two minutes and overtime, with two overtime games (NO over Tampa with a touchdown, Dallas over Houston with a field goal) and two others (Buffalo over Detroit with a 58-yard field goal at :04, after Detroit misses a 50-yarder in the last minute (for which Detroit, today, cut their kicker!!) and Cleveland over Tennessee with a touchdown at 1:09).
• That makes thirteen total games in the five weeks so decided.  63.1% now for the games within 8 points at some point in the final period, with 40.79% decided by 8 or less.  Still well below last season (68 and 48, respectively).
• Over was 7-8, 39-47 for the season.  If you take partial pushes, over was 7-7-1 for the week, 34-46-6 for the season.
• Home teams 11-4 for the week, 49-26 for the year.
• Home teams were only called for more penalties in the game 4 times out of 15, with one tie.  30 out of 75 for the year.
• Home teams about 5.5 penalties a game.  (82 total in 15 games) Visitors got 123 penalties in the 15 games, about 8.2.  Think there was a home advantage this week?  NAH!!!
• The teams were deadlocked on record on who had more penalties (7-7-1, team with more penalties in the game is now 34-37-5)
• Also deadlocked on Points of Emphasis:  5-5-5.  Season, team with more PoE penalties is 31-28-17.

Sports Gone Insane, Beginning of Week Five: Another Week, Another Adrian Peterson Accusation

And I find this gem this morning on SB Nation:

According to a new report on the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Adrian Peterson is a complete fucking sham.

The report now places the number of children Peterson has fathered (out of wedlock, for such the religious bigot family values man) at at least 6.

A 2011 party in Minneapolis resulted in a six-month police investigation in which it took the NFL "fixers" six months to get the most popular non-quarterback in the NFL off.  This was a continuing pattern from when Peterson got in the league, with it getting so bad that one Mankato bar had to hire guards just to keep women away from Peterson while he was at training camp in the city.

His charity is being seen as a complete sham, with not only bad accounting practices, but also questionable claims as to whether the money was ever given to where Adrian said it was.

And yet he'll probably be back in the league when this is all over -- when he really should be getting well-acquainted with the inside of a prison cell.

Something to ponder: Another Screw-Job Win For the Cardinals?

I mean, look at Game 1 on Friday night, and tell me someone wasn't stealing signs here.

6-2 Dodgers, Kershaw on the mound.  Yeah, he was getting up in pitch count, etc.

But does that account for THIS?

The two runs were both on home runs before the top of the 7th.

Single, Single...

Runner on second.

Single, single.

Bases loaded, nobody out, one in.

K for one out.

Single again.

Bases loaded, one out, two in.

K for the second out.

Double for three, walk, homer for three more.

Eight in the inning, and that's enough to hold off the Dodgers to snag home field 10-9.

Now, why do I say this is a screw job?

Every one of those runs was on a guy on second.

You mean to tell me the Cardinals are the only team which can hit off of Kershaw?

Or, like Yardbarker has noted for months, are the Cardinals just the best team in baseball at stealing signs?

Play the game the right way, eh?

Fuck the Cardinals.  Hope they lose the next two nights.

And the Refs Don't Want To Get Thrown Under the Bus....

The head of the NFL referee's association is sick of the league throwing the refs under the bus.

The latest retort comes as the third part of Hussein Abdullah's situation on Monday night, where the head of the referee's association actually believes the crew properly flagged Abdullah for unsportsmanlike conduct for performing a Muslim prayer in the end zone.

According to Deadspin and Barry Petchesky, the NFLRA released a statement on Thursday, stating in part:

"In the last two weeks, two penalties that were called in games that drew national attention were publicly announced to be in error by the League office, however the Officiating Department later graded the calls as correct. This has caused confusion for NFL officials as to what the League does and doesn't want called."

Goodell:  "Exactly what we want you to call, and NOTHING MORE..."

Three More Examples of NFL Blood and Fixing...

• Toxicology reports had Rob Bironas' blood alcohol content at .218 .  Valium was also found in his system.  (Yardbarker)  This, combined with the reports from friends he may have been on Ambien, leads to the very real possibility that a nightmare-induced sleep-drunk-driving situation may have contributed to his death.
• When Ray McDonald was arrested for his domestic-violence incident, he summoned a police officer of his own.  According to Deadspin and the San Jose Mercury News, the police officer he summoned also works security at 49'ers games....  Hmmmmmmmmmm...
• And John Elway is back in the news for all the wrong reasons:  His son was arrested for domestic violence, so severe that it was for pulling his girlfriend out of the car with such violence that some of her hair extensions and actual hair were pulled out with the situation.  John Elway III was sentenced to one year probation and the possibility the charge might be wiped off his record completely -- for that!  As Deadspin asked:  "Did John Elway's Son Get Special Treatment in His Assault Case?"  OF COURSE HE DID!

Week 4 With More Examples of Blood And Other Misconduct the Fans Bay For (Fine Blotter)

• New York Jets:  Geno Smith, $12,000 for that "Fuck You" to the fan calling for his job.
• Detroit Lions:  James Ihedigbo, $16,537 for Roughing the Passer -- the aforementioned Geno Smith.
• Houston Texans:  J.J. Watt, $16,537 for Roughing the Passer.
• Pittsburgh Steelers:  Cameron Heyward:  $22,050 for verbal abuse of a referee.
• Chicago Bears:  Kyle Long:  $8,268 for Unnecessary Roughness.

Here's Who Gloria Allred Was Talking About

(Another hat-tip, same anonymous source, on the web at CNN:)

C.J. Spillman of the Cowboys is under investigation for sexual assault.

What makes this important is that this is probably the player whose victim Gloria Allred is representing, sending a letter to Roger Goodell that a player (now known certainly to be Spillman) was allowed to rape someone on Saturday and play on Sunday (of Week 3).

The assault is alleged to take place at the Cowboys team hotel on September 20, the Saturday before Week 3.

All the information matches.  The Cowboys played in St. Louis in Week 3, on Sunday.

More Blood On The Altar: Not one, but THREE dead for football...

(Hat-tip to my anonymous contributor again...)

Washington Post:

Tom Cutinella, 16, died of a head injury suffered in a football game in Shoreham, NY.

That's bad enough.  He died after colliding with another player (and I'd lay money helmet-to-helmet) and collapsing.

What's worse is that he's the THIRD football player to die of an on-field injury since Sunday, according to the Post:

Isaiah Langston, 17, North Carolina, Rolesville High School.  Died warming up for the game -- blood-clot in his brain.

Demario Harris, Jr., also 17, Troy, Alabama.  After a tackle, an aneurysm ruptured in his brain.

Head injury, blood-clot in the brain, aneurysm in the brain...

Brain, brain, brain....

See the pattern yet?  How many more will die before you do???

Do You Still Wish To Swear Fealty To This "Sport"?

On September 30, 2014, the Public Broadcasting System reported that the Department of Veterans' Affairs has a brain repository, and that 79 dead NFL players were in the repository.

Of them, ALL BUT THREE HAD CTE.

76 OUT OF 79.

(Source:  Sports Illustrated.)