Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Follow-ups to previous posts: The Show Must Go On, and Brian Tuohy ain't buying any of it!

  • The Serena Williams situation is about to explode.
Fined only $17,000 by the USTA for her role in destroying the US Open Women's tournament for the third time in ten tournaments, Williams was actually defended by the head of the WTA, Steve Simon, a man with a known reputation of "The Show Must Go On" and pandering to star players.
“Yesterday brought to the forefront the question of whether different standards are applied to men and women in the officiating of matches,” Simon said. “The WTA believes that there should be no difference in the standards of tolerance provided to the emotions expressed by men versus women and is committed to working with the sport to ensure that all players are treated the same. We do not believe that this was done last night."
There is now serious discussion of an umpire's boycott of Serena Williams -- given that the chair umpire for the women's final of the US Open was only paid about $500 for the responsibility and the WTA is not going to take action against Williams because of her stature in the sport, I hope they follow through.  Stay tuned!
  • Adam Schefter reported Randy Gregory may have committed Strike Four on the drug policy in the last month.  The league is investigating, but Gregory played his first game in two years on Sunday.
  • Brian Tuohy's Week 1 review of the NFL is up at his new season page, and to say he doesn't take too kindly to the NFL's scripted production of Aaron Rodgers is putting it lightly!
But, first, he mentions:
  1. A key penalty giving a second chance to the Falcons at the end of the game, leading to two repeats:  The Eagles won Game 1 last year with a goal-line stand.  It also represents a repeat from another Thursday opener where the defending champs (in this case, Green Bay over New Orleans) needed a last-play goal-line stand after a penalty to win the opener.
  2. There is now significant rumor that the Jets had the Lions' playbook last night in the blowout.  Various reports are indicating the Jets knew the plays the Lions were running before they ran them.
  3. The "Sacking Is Illegal" rule reared it's ugly head, and the Browns got screwed because of it.  2nd quarter, Myles Garrett got Rodgers Rule-d for a 15-yarder -- that the NFL says should not have happened.  Steelers turned what would've been a field goal into a touchdown...  and probably cost the Browns their first win in two years.
  4. The Andrew Luck saga continues, as opposing quarterback Andy Dalton of Cincinnati is saying he's certain that Luck got better treatment from the refs than he did on Sunday.
Nothing held a candle to the Aaron Rodgers situation in Green Bay, though.  I guess it helps when your "trophy girlfriend" is now Danica Patrick, apparently...

As most well know, the Khalil Mack-led defense of the Bears ran fucking roughshod over Rodgers and the Pack in the first half.  Mack, in fact, was the subject of an interesting statistic.

Mack had a sack, a forced fumble, an interception, a fumble recovery, and a touchdown defensively.  Who was the last person to actually do that five-some?

It was Khalil Mack, Week 12 2016.

Got the fumble, the fumble recovery, and the sack 3:07 left in the second, the pick and score for 17-0 on the next drive.

So the Packer fans are already writing the eulogy on this season with Deshon Kizer as their quarterback...  The 100th season of the Green Bay Packers...

And all of a sudden, out comes...  Aaron Rodgers!!

Oliver Kohn posted in his Facebook this postgame interview clip where it looked like Aaron Rodgers was on something fierce.

That was all Brian Tuohy needed to say to call bullshit:
But that wasn't all!  After going up 20-0, that was basically the last meaningful moment for the Bears.  After trading field goals, Rodgers threw three fourth-quarter touchdowns for the 24-23 win.

And appeared to have help from several things Tuohy pointed out:
Mack didn't even record a tackle in the second half. In fact, the sack was the only full tackle he had, but the pressure he had left Rodgers 3 for 7 in the first half before the injury. Second half? 17 for 23, 273 and 3 scores.
That's the Bears' final offensive play of the game.

This country gives up friendships, destroys people emotionally, kills people physically (on (head injuries/CTE) AND OFF (domestic and other associated violence!!)), and the like.  And yet no intelligent person can look at shit like this and wonder how stupid Football Nation America has to be not to ask some very real questions.

For the record, Tuohy's fourth book on the rigged American sports machine, "The Fix Is (Still) In", scheduled to be released in 2019.
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