Well, there's no dispute of it now -- the NFL is at least sending Damar Hamlin out to the public (but I'm only going to go as far as "we think" in that regard...)...
The outpouring of fan love on his charities' GoFundMe after his death on the field (and subsequent revival) on Monday Night Football garnered Hamlin the Alan Page Community Award winner at an NFLPA event today in Arizona. The NFLPA announced an additional $100,000 donated to the charities as a result. The outpouring raised over $9,000,000 for various causes Hamlin supports.
And now I get to be That Guy again...
Especially that we know he's (assuming that it IS him) in Arizona this week, the probability would have to be that Hamlin, had the Bills been in the Super Bowl, would've been brought out for the coin toss...
He may be anyway, for all I know.
So why the secrecy when he was in Buffalo?
Why did the Bills come out flatter than a pancake and get negligible help from the officials that day (especially now that most of America believes BOTH conference championship games were tampered with quite severely by the game officials -- which I could damn well have told you was going to happen in the NFC, and, had I known of the Mixon incident, would say the same for the AFC!)?
Why did, inconsistent with sports memes, the NFL's prior wants in other situations, and the human nature of athletes, did Buffalo get it's posteriors kicked 27-10 in a game they were never in?
If there was a game that the "THE NFL IS LEGIT SPORT!!!oneoneoneone111!!one!11" crowd wanted to point to, it's that one.
Could it BE as simple as the Matt Araiza signing?
I mean, now that the NFL and NFLPA have no problem representing this man face-full (and speaking) at the press conference today, why all the secrecy in Buffalo? He wasn't going to be face-to-face/arms-reach accessible to the public at any point in time (and, had there been a concern of that, I can't see why they'd have allowed him there)...
Sorry, I'm not buying something in this equation. If that makes me a bitch, so be it.
If that IS Damar Hamlin (and I'm about as convinced as I'm going to be -- and it's "not very"), then I apologize to him and his family -- but none of this adds up.
If he's this healthy now and it is him, why are the Bills not rigged into the Super Bowl?
I love love LOVE how you are millimeters from realizing all your bullshit is false and you might actually just be a shitty person with the same amount of knowledge and credibility as the next Q fanatic, yet somehow you almost superhumanly evade the truth that you are revealing to yourself. How much longer will you delude yourself, Michael? Please go have some herbal tea with some Debbie classics playing to just soothe you a little. I, as a representative of the normal community at large that DOESN'T go and repeatedly disrespect living and dead people because it's your God given right to (how's that whole "Chiefs won't win because of Andy Reid and him murdering his son" shtick going btw?), very much recommend it. Not for your own sanity, far be it from me to admit you have any left, but more for us and our sanity.
ReplyDeleteI could be an asshole if I really wanted to and say two things here:
Delete1) I'm not a tea person.
2) "Debbie classics" don't do it for me right now -- the whole "Be yourself, no one will tell you you're wrong." is complete bullshit, so let's just say there's that in play.
But, back to the situation at hand:
Even if you wanted to purport this game as legitimate, you'd have the dominant #2 seed in the AFC, who'd played basically out of their minds most of the year, including in one of the toughest divisions in the NFL...
... then you add the man they almost lost due to a heart attack -- died TWICE that Monday night and was brought back -- and they can't be arsed to even be in the game against the third-seeded Bengals, who were then jobbed by the league to the Chiefs the next week?
(I could also add the scenario where the league was at least back-channel discussing making the neutral-site games permanent -- that probably got put to bed by somebody wondering what the point of getting the #1 seed was...)
This ain't adding up, except to 45-IQ NFL fans and Republicans such as yourself. It goes against the NFL's penchants TWICE, and the trend of inspired athletes going above and beyond.