I could see this, with at least "nobody", to be the most unpopular opinion and post I've done in the over-decade of this blog.
But there are two things I need to talk about before tomorrow's game.
First, a blog announcement: The last... I wanna say, seven or eight Super Bowls, I have watched the game live with a notebook (or similar edifice) to document the farce.
And, especially this year, I believe there is a LOT of farce which is going to be documented.
Someone else is gonna have to do the live documentation this year -- I will not be watching the game live.
I have been requested to boycott the live broadcast of Super Bowl LVII by the same readers which had me boycott the Sochi Olympic coverage and the Qatar World Cup, and all of the on-field efforts of those last two events.
And this one is largely for the same reason, but is specific to the broadcast: The NFL, as announced earlier, has taken $100,000,000 from the ADF for two "He Gets Us" religious spots during the Super Bowl.
And one news story on them has asked "How did the greatest story become a hate group?"
There's an answer to that. The group behind this effort is a hate group which has been trying to get an Old Testament view of dealing with LGBT's and other such entities in the United States. It is openly supportive of exterminative efforts in other countries against the LGBT community -- and with the increasing vise being squeezed on especially the "T" of this community, I have been requested to boycott the live broadcast as a result.
I will abide by that request -- however, in conversation with these readers, they have said, this time, it is specific to the broadcast itself.
So it may take me a bit longer to come up with my thoughts on the game, as I will be doing that after the fact.
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And now the second part: Ever since the Instagram post of Damar Hamlin the Saturday before the conference championship games, I have been taken to task (and, on surface, it would be correct to do so) about my initial theory that Hamlin was deceased or irrecoverable.
And, obviously, with media appearances this week at both the NFL Honors and the NFLPA event the day before, it would stand to reason that there is enough evidence to believe I am wrong -- and I hope I'm wrong.
But something is bugging me, and if the NFL chooses THIS TIME to ignore what it has done, now, four separate times (including Buffalo-Matt Araiza) in these playoffs, I'm going to be left to come to a highly disturbing conclusion!
If Philly wins this game tomorrow, I will be forced to go to the deep-fake route on Hamlin -- that, either through electronics (which, as I showed in an earlier post, the technology does exist for) or the equivalent of the "two Ultimate Warriors" meme professional wrestling fans had for many years and that Hamlin has been replaced by someone else taking his identity.
Yes, I do emphatically believe the NFL is capable of such a disgusting act.
And why would they do it? I'll give you three different theories -- and the apolitical one may co-exist with the right-wing or left-wing one, but the right- and left-wing theories do not such co-exist:
Starting with the most innocent of the three, the apolitical theory. Go back to the play in question and examine the hit by Tee Higgins. And then understand why no one should ever blame Higgins for what took place, even if it does end up (as it is beginning to appear on surface) commotio cardis. (And Hamlin's further appearances would be consistent with a commotio cardis event.)
That is a hit you are taught Day One in Pop Warner. Clean as a goddamned whistle. And anyone who's known of this blog for five minutes knows I'm a stickler against helmet-to-helmet, etc. and so forth.
If the truth is that the hit killed him, live on Monday Night Football, and they didn't get him back, the sport of football would well die with him! So why would the NFL allow that to get out?
Especially when you have about 40% of the United States population believing a far more sinister event. The right-wing theory of "Died Suddenly".
So much hue and cry has been given to the MAGATs and Died Suddenly that I am not able to find a clear article anymore (drowned in all the "It was the VACCINES!!!" claptrap, which is the Died Suddenly hypothesis) as to whether Hamlin had COVID in the first place. This would be important because of the third theory I will list, if he did -- and I believe he did.
The main reason, in my honest opinion, we have lost to COVID and we can only slow the mass death is because of the fact that the better part of 40% of this country believes that the Fauci vaccines were actually created to kill them and the rest of us.
... and that Damar Hamlin's heart attack on the field was one of the John Stockton-believed "thousands of athletes" have not only collapsed on the fields and courts of play, they have done so not of COVID, but of the vaccines.
I consider this ridiculous for two very sentient reasons:
If the action was meant as a means of population reduction, don't you think they would be far more selective as to who dies?
In short, why would I be allowed to live, now, almost two years after my first dose and almost 3 (a month short of 3 years tonight) of the pandemic's declaration?
The other reason is a very short question for these people: Would you not be able to understand that a government plot to do something like that would end the entire First World as it has been the last... 75 years? More???
As in IT IS BEYOND OVER if you are right. The Died Suddenly crowd is literally making a bet on the end of the world.
To go to the other side of the political spectrum, what if it is Long COVID itself? That's also something the NFL would want to cover up, any means possible, but for a far different reason...
In short, high-level athletic competition would become a rank impossibility, then and there.
It is largely understood that we all have had COVID at least once by now. Two studies have also come back with long-lasting after-effects ("long COVID") in 5-20% of all COVID cases.
Imagine if 5-20% of the entire US population, including athletes, could keel over at any instant due to Long COVID...
Let that process.
But the fact is this: No, I do not think the Hamlin family, et. al. are bad people and would be part of such a matter except for a lot of zeroes.
And if it is Damar, I will apologize, but to him and his, not the NFL -- whom I believe is fully capable, willing, and has the classic "motive, method, and opportunity" to go this far...
... and every reason to do so.
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