And the latest example of many of the ills of football... Greg Hardy is back...

... and a lot of people don't like it.

One problem, as friends of mine pointed out today, was that the entire Internet was "blah blah blah Greg Hardy blah blah blah Greg Hardy's back blah blah blah..."

No place to get away from it, leading one friend of mine to assert that, within about five years, we expect to be forced to watch NFL bloodsport football or be arrested for not doing so!

It didn't sound like anyone wanted us to get away from it today, as Terry Bradshaw, Jim Nantz, and Phil Simms decided to get into it.

Nantz and Simms got into it with a cut-shot on Hardy in the first quarter of the game on CBS today, as Deadspin reported.

Hardy, since his suspension was about to end, has been unrepentant:  Stripper-ladened rap video, coming back "guns blazing", sexist comments, slamming Tom Brady...

For those of us not willing to sit through anything regarding Greg Hardy, Deadspin's Diana Moskovitz summarizes some of it:

"Nantz starts the conversation, pointing out that Hardy’s comments were “absolutely outrageous, unrepentant” and “there was nothing funny about it.”

Simms offers a counterpoint, asking “Would he still be out there if he wasn’t such a dynamic player?” He then says what probably was going through Jerry Jones’s mind when he signed the player: Hardy might make them a Super Bowl contender."

Jim, he didn't mean to be funny.  This is the culture of football.  He has had all the humanity beaten/sodomized/headshotted out of him.  Greg Hardy is no more than an animal, and that's what makes Simms' counterpoint.

Phil, he wouldn't e out there if he wasn't one of the NFL's chosen boys.  That said, he is an animal.  He has been reduced to simplest primal form -- that which the NFL can perfectly exploit and send as a bastion of "REAL MANHOOD!!!!!11!!11" to the millions whose lives absolutely revolve around football.

And that's just it:  It gives this piece of shit value in our society.  That be a normal person in this country?  He goes to prison.  For a long time.

The only way this Greg Hardy bullshit is going to go away...  is for Greg Hardy to go away -- by force.  And since no one is man enough to cripple this girlfriend-beating jackass on the field, he's not going to go away any time soon.