Jermaine Pratt, you were correct and should not have had to apologize for a goddamned thing!!!
Jermaine Pratt visibly upset with the ending of that game- particularly with the roughing the passer on Joseph Ossai that got the Chiefs in comfortable FG range to win the game #bengals #AFCChampionshipGame pic.twitter.com/02JR77QgG7
— Katie Kapusta (@KatieKapustaTV) January 30, 2023
HE.
IS.
RIGHT!!!
And that's why you know the game was rigged. There was an article in my MSN homepage talking about referee Ron Torbert trying to explain away what happened.
But there's one thing he can't explain away.
"WHY DO YOU TOUCH THE FUCKING QUARTERBACK???"
Even in KAYFABE, before we even get to the discussion of who gave the order for the Bengals to take a dive when Torbert's officiating crew couldn't finish the job in favor of Kansas City, that's the FIRST QUESTION YOU NEEDED TO ASK.
The very fact that Ossai committed that act, at bare minimum, should be a STIFF league (and not out of the realm of the Federal police -- sports bribery!) investigation...
.... that is, unless you, as the NFL, have finally done away with the last of the pretense the games are legitimate.
And the fact that Pratt was forced to apologize today (fuck "in the moment": Ossai may not have been the sole reason the Bengals lost, but he certainly caused the loss directly -- and that's at least the fourth different NFL player to do that this year, two of them ending their team's seasons) exposes the game to be rigged before we even get to discussion of the officiating!!!
I am watching Jake's (the A**hole) video right now, and he seems to have done away with the pretense (that the games are legit). Also, in that video, they brought up Pat McAfee (someone who Jake has had an issue with before). I am watching Pat's video, and he is blaming the refs for being bad, and saying that there can't be a fix because of the amount of people and money it would take.
ReplyDeleteI've got significant issue with some of his other conspiracy theories (one of the reasons I kinda scaled back usage of his material on the blog). That said, you can't look at events like yesterday and not wonder if the NFL has done away with the pretense.
DeleteMcAfee, God bless his passion, is trying to protect what brought him to the dance -- his rather unique NFL career as a punter. The NFL is a Mafia. You almost-certainly well know that the NFL employs "fixers" to "fix" "problems" the league does not want to have to encounter (Billy "White Shoes" Johnson was one after his NFL career ended).
If they think it's a lot of people and money to keep the kayfabe, how many people do you think the NFL has to enforce it? Ask ESPN -- "Playmakers", anyone?