Super Farce XLIX, The Cheats: The Perils of Testicular Fortitude...

(With apologies to Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy Mick...  (Whom I met on Wrestlemania weekend about six weeks ago.))

Ahh, testicular fortitude...

If but for our dear Commissioner Goodell had some.

Today, the NFL made a statement in response to yesterday's notices that "league sources" were saying that Tom Brady would be suspended for Deflate-Gate.  The league said that the headline was "misleading":

"But on Saturday, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello insisted the league has not yet made a decision and addressed Myers’ report directly.

“It is Gary Myers’ prediction,” Aiello wrote in an email to Boston.com. “The headline is misleading.”"

In short, the spokesman/shill for the NFL says that Roger Goodell has no testicular fortitude.

We knew this already.  This is at least the third time in the National Religion Era that on-the-field misconduct has led to a fraudulent Super Bowl result which the league should be demanded to reverse.  (And there's good cases for at least two more on the basis of on-the-field misconduct and a third on a blatantly ineligible player!)

Here's the problem, Herr Goodell.  You're going to need some testicular fortitude anyway.

It's going to take testicular fortitude to somehow explain to the other 31 teams (especially Indianapolis) how you're not going to reverse a result (the AFC title game, the Super Bowl being nullified as a result!) that you KNEW WAS A CHEAT SIX HOURS AFTER THE GAME ENDED -- TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE GAME THEY "QUALIFIED" FOR.

Barring that, it's going to take similar testicular fortitude to explain to the nation that the games they are beating themselves over the head for, committing untold injury and property damage in anger of their team losing, etc. and so forth, are frauds and that the championships are now scripted and determined in advance (yes, those scripts and determinations can change at the election of the decision-makers -- the only point here is that they are predetermined at some point).

And it's going to take even more testicular fortitude to go to the men who have literally maimed themselves for our entertainment and tell them they did so for a LIE.

So it's not going to happen, because Roger Goodell has no testicular fortitude.

Otherwise, those are his only two feasible options (yes, Super Bowl XLIX 1/2 would make a ton of money, but realistic feasibility of the matter is another question!):  Reverse the result/void the championship, or admit to everybody the games are rigged and championships scripted -- and that those who have died in the service of football have died for NOTHING.  They have died in complete vain, except for corporate profit.

Consider the landscape, even with a lengthy Brady suspension, if the Patriots are allowed to raise the banner in 2015 for XLIX.  Combined with the limp-dicked response to Bountygate (and I forgot, until I was reminded, that same Saints playoff run DID end the career of Kurt Warner!!), you would then be left asking the question of what kind of injury (with what kind of cost -- and, after last year, that's if there is one?) will these amoral players who glorify injuring people be willing to do to get their team to the Super Bowl?

This is NOT just a competitive balance thing on Tom Brady and the Cheatriots.

This is a calculated effort on the part of the league (over and above rigging the championships for the likes of Brady, Belicheat, and Kraft) to basically turn the league into a lethal Wild West scenario.

We're already seeing players die to football as it is -- now imagine what happens if no penalty can be sufficiently assessed as a deterrent?

What if every motion on the field is now a risk-reward discussion for a bunch of amoral (whether they were moral in the first place is irrelevant -- by the time they get to the pros, they either never were moral in the first place or they had it beaten/sodomized out of them!) players who can now act with abject impunity, knowing that the ultimate penalties will never be assessed.

All for the want of testicular fortitude.

Admitting that the whole exercise last year was a political ploy for the Associate Commissioner basically allows players to maim (and worse!), knowing that any penalty which MIGHT (ha ha) be assessed is far outweighed by success, glory, championships, etc.

It's the old question that is asked (and, several times, can go to the Stalker Concept in at least college ("If I can't have the championship, no one else will either!")):  How much would you be willing to give for a championship?

And, for the lack of the Commissioner's testicular fortitude, he's going to allow much of this to stand.

Someone is going to (directly and on the field) die as a result, because one would have to be an idiot not to believe that the day comes (and soon!) that someone who thinks he might have testicular fortitude says "I don't care if I get fined or suspended, that we win is the only question." and kills somebody.

But go on, Commissioner Goodell, and lack testicular fortitude.

As Max Landis would say, it's your time, and your dick fell off.