Day 332 Part Two: St00pid Bowl LV, The Night of the Mercenary Pirates

I really hope this opens the eyes of America that The National Religion is hopelessly rigged.

Because you saw a league, from the jump of this game (with the exception of maybe a missed Intentional Grounding call on Mahomes in the first drive), not only rig a game, but order and have executed the Chiefs to lay down.

Yes, I'll say it, THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS AND THE REFEREES OPERATED IN OPEN-FACED CONSPIRACY TO NOT ONLY RIG SUPER BOWL LV, BUT TO THROW THE GAME.  AND THERE ISN'T A GODDAMN THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, AMERICA.

I made some enemies in the Botball Discord tonight, and was duly warned.  Muted it, and I don't know when (eventually I will, but not anytime soon) I will turn it back on.  I could get myself banned from that place anytime in the foreseeable future, especially because there are people there (as there are in many circles -- I do not mean this as a specific cut or flame) who cannot get around the concept of that, when an athlete of sufficient stature is told to jump by the right people, the only remaining question is "How high???"

They cannot get around the concept that a professional athlete can be told "Dive.", and do it, even on the largest stages in the world.

What you saw, especially after the Bucs gelled after their bye week (after which they never lost again -- 8-0 to win the Super Bowl -- and the Super Bowl in probably the worst Bowl in DECADES), was a band of mercenary pirates.

As I said near the end of the blog-along I did to approximate the daily post today (Thank you to Applebee's, BTW.  That deal was TREMENDOUS!!!), you now have Antonio Brown accomplishing his mission to manipulate and tamper his way to a Super Bowl championship, you have Ndamokung Suh get a title, when he had no business being in the league for years with his dirty play, Leonard Fournette and HIS REPUTATION getting a title...

And now you have Greater Than Jordan...  Seven titles for Tom Brady -- the most hated man by every fan outside of his team in the NFL.

And what you saw today was a league which DID NOT CARE.  I will be very interested in the ratings numbers -- I expect a debacle.  I expect, at minimum, it to go below 90 million and go back to where it was before 2000.  I'll definitely be getting an eye on that in the next day or two.

That said, it was clear from the jump that something was "off".  A lot of people have been posting to social media that something was "off" with today's game.

NO SHIT!!!  You think the NFL wants an assistant coach who may well have killed a little girl while intoxicated days before the Super Bowl to get a title???

There's your angle!!  Brady may well have been"The Plan", at least partially, all along -- though I still was standing in belief that he was there to pass the torch to The Next Man, Patrick Mahomes.

That was until about, what was it?  Thursday???  When the news of Andy Reid's son getting in the DUI and injuring two girls, one of them life-threatening...

That was it.  Game over.  Title #7 for Brady.  See ya.

And here's the thing about it:  The one thing I got wrong about the game was that there was NO EFFORT, at ANY POINT IN THE GAME, to keep the game close.  There was no effort, in anyone's capacity, to make the Chiefs competitive.  In fact, quite the opposite -- and, by the end, a very real chance that Patrick Mahomes could've had a year or two cropped off his career with a lot of the stupidity he had to put up with.

But get real:

• These players can, will, and do throw games.  You need to start getting with reality that world-class professional athletes are eventually answerable far above their teams.
• This was on the Reid DUI.  The league could not chance, especially that it has already taken a significant hit on the criminality of it's players, to have an assistant coach definitely commit major-injurious DUI (and possibly vehicular-manslaughter DUI) days before the Super Bowl and then win a championship.  So, even if The Plan WAS, before that, that Brady would pass the torch, it had to be changed -- and now Brady has #7, with a band of mercenary pirates around him built for that purpose.
• My prediction is Andy Reid, a man completely unfit to lead a scout troop, much less a football team at any level, has coached his last NFL game.  And it won't be an elective decision, though it may be couched as a retirement as such.
• Brady??  Now you gotta start thinking about #8 if he doesn't...