A lot of people are saying the Hunt situation could derail the NFL's dream "POINTS!!!" season...

I get where they are coming from, but I believe they are wrong.

The problem with this argument is the very essence and nature of the Alpha Male Athlete in Alpha Male America.

Seriously...

Let's go back and understand something about this situation.  The only reason Kareem Hunt played the first eleven games of this season was that he flat-out lied to the Kansas City Chiefs, the NFL, and probably the police local to the situation -- and all that unraveled when the video came out yesterday.

Those two facts alone could see Hunt suspended all of this season and all of next (and that doesn't take into account the July incident with another man).

Those two facts alone SHOULD see Hunt banned from all sport and arrested immediately.

I still believe as I did last night -- that this will depush the Chiefs, but probably not this week (again, how do you put Oakland over any professional team at this point without making it obvious (which see their two wins -- over the Browns and Cardinals)?).

I believe this will be true for three reasons:

• How much of that 9-2 start is the league going to attribute to Hunt?
• How could the league continue to push the Chiefs without somehow glorifying him?
• And the ugliest question of all, which goes back to the Ray Rice fiasco...

I think one of the most prescient questions ever asked about the sport of football -- and it comes up every time I read of junior-high players being sodomized or high school girls being systemically raped and assaulted by football players -- was asked by ESPN and former partner Grantland and Louisa Thomas, who eviscerated the truth of professional football and it's reliance on domestic and other forms of violence in the article "Together, We Make Football".

Her last question:  "If we take the violence out of football, what's left?"

The fact is, Kareem Hunt was employing his station as an Alpha Male and an NFL player when he beat the shit out of that 19 year-old girl.  That is why I cannot agree with the idea it will derail the season.

Might well cast a pall over this week, sure. 

Might even already be getting taken into account, given Thursday's result.

But I end up asking the question, more and more, to fans who believe this all is legit and people like me are full of shit?

The first thing I begin to think of with game-altering calls is how many women of husbands or boyfriends of losing fans are going to get beaten up by those men, because of the ties football has to violence?

Remember, Ray Lewis all but threatened, if the lockout had cost games, that a horde of angry (probably implied Black) men would increase crime because of their bloodlust.

Keep that in mind when you express your disgust.  As reprehensible as it is, the entire sport and it's athletes are reprehensible -- by design.