Seemed like it was going to be a slow week, until Deadspin just unloaded the entire documentation (or at least as much as it could get it's hands on) in the Greg Hardy case.
Police report, case progression, the interview with the victim, Hardy's (and friends') attempts to cover it up, court documents, all here.
Basically, Deadspin just thermonuked Greg Hardy and the NFL, to the extent possible.
The question is: To what extent is this possible? Football is our National Religion, NFL is it's Mass, and Roger Goodell might as well be the fucking Pope at this point.
Short of an outside party either crippling or eliminating Greg Hardy (who we know is a piece of shit and admits to being such!), how much more can really be done? The NFL has already "acted" (any second act will get reversed, by either them or the Cowboys)
Anyone who pays attention knows that Greg Hardy (and Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, etc. and so forth and so on) is a poster child to the inhuman monster that is supposed to be American Man and Football Man. You remove the death and destruction they give and take, you remove football. There is no football without rape, murder, assault (sexual and otherwise), and every other form of criminality.
Greg Hardy, girlfriend-beater, is a hero to many American men - and I believe this to be true both on the field and because he beat the unholy shit out of his girlfriend. As a result, how any woman be a fan of the NFL and not be seen as a self-loathing hypocrite is beyond anything I can understand.
(Diana Moskovitz has an excellent piece on the conflict she had about being an NFL fan in Pittsburgh in the Roethlesberger situation.)
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