Monday, October 21, 2019

I have someone's official attention in the National Football League...

What my anonymous friend has long posited has finally officially and openly come to pass.

I guess I should say something first:  For several anti-Trump tweets, I had my Twitter account softlocked for a period of about two years.  Finally, about a month or so ago (to the joy of members of my family), I finally was able to convince them I had no cell phone number to give them, so they let me delete the two Tweets that were reported, and I returned.  (Probably the next foul terminates the account, though.)

My anonymous friend has long posited that the NFL does read this blog.

Well, I now have someone in the league who is in a rather animated discussion with me about the officiating and my belief that the NFL games are fixed.

I hope that my discussion partner will not mind, in the understanding, that, though I understand his position and why he has to say what he has to say, I disagree with him wholeheartedly.  I want him to know, if he ever sees this post, that I at least respect he had the balls to talk to me and give his stand on the matter.

His name is Andy Studebaker.  He is one of five Player Directors of the NFL Players Association.  He had an eight-year career as a linebacker with five different NFL franchises from 2008 to 2016.  Please do not be angry with him or anything that he says.  I think even he recognizes the difficulty of his position with respect to the officiating and the perception that something more is afoot, which is growing by leaps and bounds by the week.

It began with this Tweet condemning that the NFL had three players fined for speaking out against the officiating.
Studebaker got no different than anyone else, with my contention that the calls are not "bad calls" when they are for something else...
Unsurprisingly, Andy was very short with his denial, as he well should be...
To which I responded...
To which he was again curt...
Which got this response...
That got a much longer response this time, in three parts... First:
To which I get it, but still... Second:
Then AMERICA WISHES YOU WOULD GET STARTED!!!! Because I point out:
He has to take the position he has.  What he has to understand, though, is the concept that if the games aren't rigged (let me take his position for a second), then the rules are so convoluted and the referees either hamstrung and/or inept that fair competition in the NFL, on any level, is now impossible.

That the games are either rigged or have become rank impossibilities in which no fair outcome could be discerned even under the BEST of circumstances.

He would need not only a flush of the entire refereeing contingent in the NFL, but a complete rework of the on-field rules of professional football -- MID-SEASON -- just to save THIS season.

As I said, I obviously believe he is wrong.  But he has to believe it and attempt to project it.  I don't think he has any idea of the impossibility of the task he would have before him if he were even remotely correct.

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