The NFL has now also admitted another (at least FOURTH!) missed penalty call against the Cowboys in that fourth quarter of the "game" with the Lions.
It was also on a 4th-down conversion by the Cowboys on the drive previous to the pass-interference/unsportsmanlike conduct/holding incident.
Ndamokung Suh was held on the fourth-down play -- in the video, a complete pass to Jason Witten, on the linked page, at least for now.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
Wow. Do we REALLY have a live one here?
Was at a restaurant getting lunch and saw Olbermann today, including a great tribute to Stuart Scott ("Welcome to the end of our careers!" -- a young Keith Olbermann, launching ESPN2's SportsNight in October of 1993, in which Scott did the highlights for segments called "sportssmash".).
When they finally got around to the highlights of the farce in Dallas yesterday, the first thing they showed was three of the officials, and then Olbermann himself, when the play was being shown, actually said it was such a bad call that, though he had (claimed to) never described a game like this before, said it was a fix.
No, that's not why I gave the title what I did.
It was a discussion with my anonymous friend, after said friend found a Deadspin article on something which, at least in dark humor, is being disseminated through the sports media today.
Jerry Jones had a very interesting guest in his box yesterday: Chris Christie, the Republicancorruption head governor of the state of New Jersey.
As the article notes, this has raised continued ethics questions onone of the most corrupt governors in the country.
Now how about I raise you the fact that Christie was also in the box with Jerry Jones on December 14 in Philadelphia.
Please note, as my friend immediately told me: Christie is in the home state of the Giants! However, according to at least the Deadspin piece, he's a front-running Cowboys fan from way back.
So him hanging with Jerry Jones is no real surprise.
--
But, now, what of what happened yesterday?
It is no secret that, if a run is politically palatable, the fat fuck ruining New Jersey wants to be the next Republican President of the United States.
So is this simply Cowboy Fan Chris Christie (which, of course, further alienates him to the state he is supposed to be Governor of), or could Jerry Jones also be prepared to have the NFL anoint Christie as their candidate?
For which Christie would give the NFL anything it wants (including complete immunity for player abuse and silencing his calls for legalized sports gambling???)-- with only one further thing in return...
A Cowboys Super Bowl championship.
We'll see on this one over the upcoming weeks.
When they finally got around to the highlights of the farce in Dallas yesterday, the first thing they showed was three of the officials, and then Olbermann himself, when the play was being shown, actually said it was such a bad call that, though he had (claimed to) never described a game like this before, said it was a fix.
No, that's not why I gave the title what I did.
It was a discussion with my anonymous friend, after said friend found a Deadspin article on something which, at least in dark humor, is being disseminated through the sports media today.
Jerry Jones had a very interesting guest in his box yesterday: Chris Christie, the Republican
As the article notes, this has raised continued ethics questions on
Now how about I raise you the fact that Christie was also in the box with Jerry Jones on December 14 in Philadelphia.
Please note, as my friend immediately told me: Christie is in the home state of the Giants! However, according to at least the Deadspin piece, he's a front-running Cowboys fan from way back.
So him hanging with Jerry Jones is no real surprise.
--
But, now, what of what happened yesterday?
It is no secret that, if a run is politically palatable, the fat fuck ruining New Jersey wants to be the next Republican President of the United States.
So is this simply Cowboy Fan Chris Christie (which, of course, further alienates him to the state he is supposed to be Governor of), or could Jerry Jones also be prepared to have the NFL anoint Christie as their candidate?
For which Christie would give the NFL anything it wants (including complete immunity for player abuse and silencing his calls for legalized sports gambling???)-- with only one further thing in return...
A Cowboys Super Bowl championship.
We'll see on this one over the upcoming weeks.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
"We've Got A Live One Here!"
I seem to recall a Bugs Bunny cartoon when Bugs is visiting a Canadian boom town (or was it California in the Gold Rush) and puts some money or gold on the table.
The bartender flips a signal, and the top of the piano flies up to tell the pianist (and the other workers): "We've got a live one here!" or something to that effect.
Well, we have one in the NFL playoffs.
After three pretty dismal games, Detroit and Dallas was about to go the same route until Dallas finally woke up 35 minutes in.
But, fourth quarter, they are still down three points, and Detroit has the ball. 8:20 to go, 3rd and 1 just inside Dallas territory.
Now, it appears as if Detroit had been the beneficiary of a couple of very interesting calls.
But, chips down, this happens:
(and this is FOX Sports official look with former NFL refereeing head Mike Pereira in the booth for the game -- gee, wonder how that went down!!!)
The clip shows several stills of THE controversial play in the game, where Hitchens of Dallas clearly has an arm on Brandon Pettigrew of the Lions.
The play is originally called pass interference on the field, and the announcement is made, big first down at about the 30 for Detroit. RIGHT?
WRONG! All of a sudden, about a minute later, the flag is picked up!!!
Not only was Pettigrew probably interfered with, he also was held in the interior of the line, as other replays showed.
4th down, the Lions take the 5 yard penalty and then punt...
TEN YARDS.
The Cowboys drive down, aided by three Lion penalties (all correct and ALL points-of-emphasis -- two holds and a shot to the head), and win the game.
If I can find a video that won't get taken down (as many/most of the controversial videos I post here seem to have been *cough!!!*) of the entire play, I'll show that.
So what does this give us?
One, Ndamokung Suh is out of the playoffs, and probably into a contentious offseason, with both the Lions and the league. It is of little dispute to me that Suh continually being in the league's doghouse is what separates Detroit from being pushed.
Two, we get this for Sunday, as far as the NFL is concerned:
Romo/Rodgers in the early game, Luck/Manning in the late game.
I think Dallas beats Green Bay next week, FWIW -- I think they are of more value to the league going to Seattle in two weeks than the Packers are, even with it being Fail Mary III.
EDIT TO ADD: The game's referee said that another official, after the back judge threw the flag, told him he had a better angle, the contact was minimal, and that the only offense Hitchens was guilty of was face-guarding.
Face-guarding is a penalty in college (and I believe in high-school as well).
It is NOT in the NFL.
The bartender flips a signal, and the top of the piano flies up to tell the pianist (and the other workers): "We've got a live one here!" or something to that effect.
Well, we have one in the NFL playoffs.
After three pretty dismal games, Detroit and Dallas was about to go the same route until Dallas finally woke up 35 minutes in.
But, fourth quarter, they are still down three points, and Detroit has the ball. 8:20 to go, 3rd and 1 just inside Dallas territory.
Now, it appears as if Detroit had been the beneficiary of a couple of very interesting calls.
But, chips down, this happens:
(and this is FOX Sports official look with former NFL refereeing head Mike Pereira in the booth for the game -- gee, wonder how that went down!!!)
The clip shows several stills of THE controversial play in the game, where Hitchens of Dallas clearly has an arm on Brandon Pettigrew of the Lions.
The play is originally called pass interference on the field, and the announcement is made, big first down at about the 30 for Detroit. RIGHT?
WRONG! All of a sudden, about a minute later, the flag is picked up!!!
Not only was Pettigrew probably interfered with, he also was held in the interior of the line, as other replays showed.
4th down, the Lions take the 5 yard penalty and then punt...
TEN YARDS.
The Cowboys drive down, aided by three Lion penalties (all correct and ALL points-of-emphasis -- two holds and a shot to the head), and win the game.
If I can find a video that won't get taken down (as many/most of the controversial videos I post here seem to have been *cough!!!*) of the entire play, I'll show that.
So what does this give us?
One, Ndamokung Suh is out of the playoffs, and probably into a contentious offseason, with both the Lions and the league. It is of little dispute to me that Suh continually being in the league's doghouse is what separates Detroit from being pushed.
Two, we get this for Sunday, as far as the NFL is concerned:
Romo/Rodgers in the early game, Luck/Manning in the late game.
I think Dallas beats Green Bay next week, FWIW -- I think they are of more value to the league going to Seattle in two weeks than the Packers are, even with it being Fail Mary III.
EDIT TO ADD: The game's referee said that another official, after the back judge threw the flag, told him he had a better angle, the contact was minimal, and that the only offense Hitchens was guilty of was face-guarding.
Face-guarding is a penalty in college (and I believe in high-school as well).
It is NOT in the NFL.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Semi-"Innocent" Prank, or Has Someone FINALLY Had Enough?
More fallout from Florida State:
Upon returning to Florida after getting their asses whipped by Oregon, they came home to having some of their tires slashed and their cars "keyed" -- where a person uses a key to damage the finish and look of the car.
So is this:
Upon returning to Florida after getting their asses whipped by Oregon, they came home to having some of their tires slashed and their cars "keyed" -- where a person uses a key to damage the finish and look of the car.
So is this:
- Pissed-off fans that they finally lost/got exposed for the frauds they were?
- Opposing fans?
- Or could this MAYBE be (and we won't know until and if they actually get somebody on this) somebody finally having had enough of the rape culture of the FSU football program and finally doing the one thing which CAN get through to people... VIOLENCE.
Here's Part Two Why 2014 = Worst, Year, Ever!!
July 29: Stephen A. Smith suspended from ESPN for his rant, capping a week of continuing stories on how sports covers up domestic violence, from baseball's Chuck Knoblauch to a victim almost run out of Oklahoma University for fear of her safety by Sooner fans.
August 2: Dustin Johnson is suspended from the PGA for a failed drug test, NOT his first offense. Other stories surface that Johnson might not only be on drugs, but also womanizing on the PGA Tour.
August 3: An Inspector General is called to investigate the Air Force football program for all the usual suspects: Parties, (non-consensual) sex, and drugs (to facilitate the second -- MDMA).
August 4: A UFC press event at the MGM Grand dissolves into chaos when Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier apparently have a legitimate fight on their hands. Their main event is postponed due to an injury -- to tonight!
August 5: Anthony Bosch of Biogenesis is finally arrested on drug-trafficking charges.
August 7: The NCAA, in it's dying throes, finally allows the five money conferences effective autonomy to make their own rules. The first proposals should be in meetings this month. I gave it one calendar year before a non-money-conference school gave up.
Four days after becoming bowl-eligible, Conference USA's Alabama-Birmingham dropped football on December 2, not four months after this decision.
August 9: A fatal accident involving Tony Stewart on a short-track in New York state kills Kevin Ward Jr.
August 14: Rob Manfred is promoted from COO of MLB to the new Commissioner of the league. This is also with Bud Selig, later in the year, staying on as a "Commissioner Emeritus". Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
On the same day, the NFL announces it will re-examine penalties for domestic violence.
August 15: In the latest example of football thuggery, Oklahoma star recruit Joe Mixon is charged with homophobic slurs to a person, a female friend of whom stands up to them. For this, she gets smashed in the face, four broken bones. He is banned from the program for the year soon after.
In December, he received a penalty of... 100 hours community service. He is expected to be back with Oklahoma next fall.
By August 22: Under the old drug policies, at least six NFL teams would've had to send money to the league for having multiple players suspended in the off-season.
August 23: In a pre-season full of defensive penalties, Ndamokung Suh (for at least the third pre-season) is brought under scrutiny for a borderline hit. No fine or suspension is given.
Around the same weekend: A Cameroonian soccer player was killed in Algeria by a rock thrown at his head by one of the spectators.
... or at least that was the story then. Further tests have indicated a struggle may have been involved, and that his injuries may not have been consistent with such a projectile. The team has been banned from African tournaments for two years and ordered to play all home matches in empty stadia.
D.J. Swearinger concusses Wes Welker for the third time within a year with a borderline hit. No fine for the hit, but Peyton Manning is fined for taunting Swearinger soon afterward.
August 25: The disgrace to football and humanity, Richie Incognito, has his suspension ended. He did not, however, play in 2014.
August 26: ESPN is caught attempting to disseminate a meme in which players are uncomfortable showering with Michael Sam, who was having a quite-credible pre-season with the St. Louis Rams.
The next day, Jeff Fisher explodes on ESPN for trying to manufacture the story.
Three days after that, ESPN wins: Michael Sam is cut from the Rams. He is not placed on the practice squad, ends up on the practice squad of the Cowboys until it is convenient, and is soon-thereafter cut.
August 29: Aldon Smith is suspended nine games for his misconduct.
August 30: Oklahoma State students and fans unveil a racist anti-Indian banner, aimed at the Florida State Seminoles, on ESPN's Gameday, which often had demeaning such acts this season -- again!
September 1: After a lesser attempt to revamp the NFL's domestic violence policy, Ray McDonald of the 49ers is arrested for domestic violence. Though coach Harbaugh SAID he wouldn't be welcome on the team anymore if he did it, it takes until the piece of shit is accused of RAPE on top of it in Week 16 before he is finally cut!
September 2: Jim Irsay is banned from ownership activities of the Colts for six weeks and fined a half-million dollars for his March 16, 2014 DUI situation.
On the same day, Wes Welker is suspended four games for violation of the NFL's drug policy, for an incident at the 2014 Kentucky Derby, involved the crystallized form of the active ingredient of Ecstasy!
September 6: The NASCAR race is brought to a caution when a drunk idiot climbs on top of the catch fence in turn four!!!
And then, just as we are about to wrap up Week One in the National Religion of the NFL, Sports Gone Insane begins and ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE:
September 7: The Atlanta Hawks' owner, Bruce Levinson, decides to divest his stake in the Hawks after e-mails surface racially denigrating Luol Deng and the demographics of the crowd at Atlanta Hawks games. As of yesterday, January 2nd, the entire 100% of the team is now up for sale, with the NBA's blessing.
September 8: Ray Rice is released from the Ravens after a weekend where TMZ found the REST of the story regarding that night in Atlantic City, and showed the world Rice knocking his wife unconscious in the elevator.
The NFL suspends Rice indefinitely (over the top of the 2-game suspension earlier), claiming it did not have knowledge of the video, but Adam Schefter and most NFL insiders do NOT believe Roger Goodell.
On the same day, Mark Emmert officially voids most of the remaining penalties against Penn State for Jerry Sandusky, et. al., effectively admitting any effort to make life more important than football there has gone to failure. Penn State immediately responds by becoming bowl eligible in the 2014 season.
September 9: Janay Rice effectively covers for her husband, in a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Keith Olbermann begins a season-long campaign for the expulsion of Roger Goodell as Commissioner. He, obviously, failed.
September 10: The Associated Press reveals the NFL was lying in it's comments that it did not have the full video of the Ray/Janay incident.
Goodell announces Ray Mueller, the former FBI head, will head an "independent" "investigation" of the NFL's handling of the issue.
Congressional Democrats in both House and Senate try to involve themselves, to no avail.
September 11: On a day when the Ravens are playing on Thursday Night Football, it is revealed through "sources" that Roger Goodell did believe Janay was responsible for the incident.
Bill Polian is interviewed by SportsCenter on ESPN about the procedures in the NFL office regarding such matters and whether it would be possible that such as what the NFL claims happened could have happened.
He gives what appears to be a more truthful answer, but is soon cut off. He is brought back 20 minutes later, and gives a much more NFL-friendly answer.
At the broadcast, Rihanna's song for the NFL Network/CBS broadcast was pulled (soon permanently!), and James Brown, the host of the studio show, has a statement on the manner. Leave it to Jim Nantz to try to cover for the league's poster boys, though.
Half a world away, Oscar Pistorius is found responsible for the beating of his wife, not to intentional murder, but to culpable acts resulting in her death. On October 21, the Blade-Runner was sentenced to five years in a South African prison.
September 12: In an admission that the NFL is a bunch of drug-ladened freaks, the NFL rewrites it's drug policies in such a manner such that most of the monetary penalties, and some of the suspensions (including Welker's) are reversed.
All of this, almost including Ray Rice, pales in comparison to the child-abuse allegations which sprout on the 5:00 news against the NFL's favorite homophobe running-back, Adrian Peterson. After using a switch to nail one of his sons on about every part of the body imaginable (he was 4!!!), it should be still in question as to whether the son who was killed (ostensibly by the mother's boyfriend) was not involved in a similar incident.
I'm going to have to make a third, and perhaps a FOURTH, part to this.
August 2: Dustin Johnson is suspended from the PGA for a failed drug test, NOT his first offense. Other stories surface that Johnson might not only be on drugs, but also womanizing on the PGA Tour.
August 3: An Inspector General is called to investigate the Air Force football program for all the usual suspects: Parties, (non-consensual) sex, and drugs (to facilitate the second -- MDMA).
August 4: A UFC press event at the MGM Grand dissolves into chaos when Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier apparently have a legitimate fight on their hands. Their main event is postponed due to an injury -- to tonight!
August 5: Anthony Bosch of Biogenesis is finally arrested on drug-trafficking charges.
August 7: The NCAA, in it's dying throes, finally allows the five money conferences effective autonomy to make their own rules. The first proposals should be in meetings this month. I gave it one calendar year before a non-money-conference school gave up.
Four days after becoming bowl-eligible, Conference USA's Alabama-Birmingham dropped football on December 2, not four months after this decision.
August 9: A fatal accident involving Tony Stewart on a short-track in New York state kills Kevin Ward Jr.
August 14: Rob Manfred is promoted from COO of MLB to the new Commissioner of the league. This is also with Bud Selig, later in the year, staying on as a "Commissioner Emeritus". Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
On the same day, the NFL announces it will re-examine penalties for domestic violence.
August 15: In the latest example of football thuggery, Oklahoma star recruit Joe Mixon is charged with homophobic slurs to a person, a female friend of whom stands up to them. For this, she gets smashed in the face, four broken bones. He is banned from the program for the year soon after.
In December, he received a penalty of... 100 hours community service. He is expected to be back with Oklahoma next fall.
By August 22: Under the old drug policies, at least six NFL teams would've had to send money to the league for having multiple players suspended in the off-season.
August 23: In a pre-season full of defensive penalties, Ndamokung Suh (for at least the third pre-season) is brought under scrutiny for a borderline hit. No fine or suspension is given.
Around the same weekend: A Cameroonian soccer player was killed in Algeria by a rock thrown at his head by one of the spectators.
... or at least that was the story then. Further tests have indicated a struggle may have been involved, and that his injuries may not have been consistent with such a projectile. The team has been banned from African tournaments for two years and ordered to play all home matches in empty stadia.
D.J. Swearinger concusses Wes Welker for the third time within a year with a borderline hit. No fine for the hit, but Peyton Manning is fined for taunting Swearinger soon afterward.
August 25: The disgrace to football and humanity, Richie Incognito, has his suspension ended. He did not, however, play in 2014.
August 26: ESPN is caught attempting to disseminate a meme in which players are uncomfortable showering with Michael Sam, who was having a quite-credible pre-season with the St. Louis Rams.
The next day, Jeff Fisher explodes on ESPN for trying to manufacture the story.
Three days after that, ESPN wins: Michael Sam is cut from the Rams. He is not placed on the practice squad, ends up on the practice squad of the Cowboys until it is convenient, and is soon-thereafter cut.
August 29: Aldon Smith is suspended nine games for his misconduct.
August 30: Oklahoma State students and fans unveil a racist anti-Indian banner, aimed at the Florida State Seminoles, on ESPN's Gameday, which often had demeaning such acts this season -- again!
September 1: After a lesser attempt to revamp the NFL's domestic violence policy, Ray McDonald of the 49ers is arrested for domestic violence. Though coach Harbaugh SAID he wouldn't be welcome on the team anymore if he did it, it takes until the piece of shit is accused of RAPE on top of it in Week 16 before he is finally cut!
September 2: Jim Irsay is banned from ownership activities of the Colts for six weeks and fined a half-million dollars for his March 16, 2014 DUI situation.
On the same day, Wes Welker is suspended four games for violation of the NFL's drug policy, for an incident at the 2014 Kentucky Derby, involved the crystallized form of the active ingredient of Ecstasy!
September 6: The NASCAR race is brought to a caution when a drunk idiot climbs on top of the catch fence in turn four!!!
And then, just as we are about to wrap up Week One in the National Religion of the NFL, Sports Gone Insane begins and ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE:
September 7: The Atlanta Hawks' owner, Bruce Levinson, decides to divest his stake in the Hawks after e-mails surface racially denigrating Luol Deng and the demographics of the crowd at Atlanta Hawks games. As of yesterday, January 2nd, the entire 100% of the team is now up for sale, with the NBA's blessing.
September 8: Ray Rice is released from the Ravens after a weekend where TMZ found the REST of the story regarding that night in Atlantic City, and showed the world Rice knocking his wife unconscious in the elevator.
The NFL suspends Rice indefinitely (over the top of the 2-game suspension earlier), claiming it did not have knowledge of the video, but Adam Schefter and most NFL insiders do NOT believe Roger Goodell.
On the same day, Mark Emmert officially voids most of the remaining penalties against Penn State for Jerry Sandusky, et. al., effectively admitting any effort to make life more important than football there has gone to failure. Penn State immediately responds by becoming bowl eligible in the 2014 season.
September 9: Janay Rice effectively covers for her husband, in a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Keith Olbermann begins a season-long campaign for the expulsion of Roger Goodell as Commissioner. He, obviously, failed.
September 10: The Associated Press reveals the NFL was lying in it's comments that it did not have the full video of the Ray/Janay incident.
Goodell announces Ray Mueller, the former FBI head, will head an "independent" "investigation" of the NFL's handling of the issue.
Congressional Democrats in both House and Senate try to involve themselves, to no avail.
September 11: On a day when the Ravens are playing on Thursday Night Football, it is revealed through "sources" that Roger Goodell did believe Janay was responsible for the incident.
Bill Polian is interviewed by SportsCenter on ESPN about the procedures in the NFL office regarding such matters and whether it would be possible that such as what the NFL claims happened could have happened.
He gives what appears to be a more truthful answer, but is soon cut off. He is brought back 20 minutes later, and gives a much more NFL-friendly answer.
At the broadcast, Rihanna's song for the NFL Network/CBS broadcast was pulled (soon permanently!), and James Brown, the host of the studio show, has a statement on the manner. Leave it to Jim Nantz to try to cover for the league's poster boys, though.
Half a world away, Oscar Pistorius is found responsible for the beating of his wife, not to intentional murder, but to culpable acts resulting in her death. On October 21, the Blade-Runner was sentenced to five years in a South African prison.
September 12: In an admission that the NFL is a bunch of drug-ladened freaks, the NFL rewrites it's drug policies in such a manner such that most of the monetary penalties, and some of the suspensions (including Welker's) are reversed.
All of this, almost including Ray Rice, pales in comparison to the child-abuse allegations which sprout on the 5:00 news against the NFL's favorite homophobe running-back, Adrian Peterson. After using a switch to nail one of his sons on about every part of the body imaginable (he was 4!!!), it should be still in question as to whether the son who was killed (ostensibly by the mother's boyfriend) was not involved in a similar incident.
I'm going to have to make a third, and perhaps a FOURTH, part to this.
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Before I do the rest of 2014 (sometime soon), we have our first 2015 story!!!
Florida State got freaking destroyed by Oregon, and will play Ohio State, who upset Alabama, in the Sugar Bowl.
There will be a number of Oregon players "disciplined internally" for a post-game incident after Oregon's 59-20 win in the Rose Bowl, this year a Playoff National Semifinal.
After the game, a number of the players began to use the Florida State chant to say "No means no"!!
And I don't think I need to say what that's all about.
Coach Mark Helfrich of Oregon had this to say to the Associated Press:
Coach Helfrich, I understand everything you're trying to do there, but, in this particular case, you are wrong.
Why?
BECAUSE THE MOTHERFUCKER DESERVES IT!
That piece of shit RAPIST is going to the NFL, and is probably going to be the #1 Draft Pick (yes, over your Mariota!!) because that is what the NFL is all about.
Are you even remotely aware of the reputation Florida State University's football team has over that kind of sexual assault and rape??
The only way you should be disciplining them internally is if you're basically admitting that your program has a similar rape/sexual assault problem -- at which point you have as much business on the field as Jameis Winston and your opponents today, NONE!!
Otherwise, in this case, the unsportsmanlike conduct should be handled by other parties, NOT by you.
JAMEIS WINSTON FUCKING DESERVED THAT!
There will be a number of Oregon players "disciplined internally" for a post-game incident after Oregon's 59-20 win in the Rose Bowl, this year a Playoff National Semifinal.
After the game, a number of the players began to use the Florida State chant to say "No means no"!!
And I don't think I need to say what that's all about.
Coach Mark Helfrich of Oregon had this to say to the Associated Press:
Oregon coach Mark Helfrich in statement to AP: "We are aware of the inappropriate behavior in the postgame. .... (more)
— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) January 2, 2015
Coach Helfrich, I understand everything you're trying to do there, but, in this particular case, you are wrong.
Why?
BECAUSE THE MOTHERFUCKER DESERVES IT!
That piece of shit RAPIST is going to the NFL, and is probably going to be the #1 Draft Pick (yes, over your Mariota!!) because that is what the NFL is all about.
Are you even remotely aware of the reputation Florida State University's football team has over that kind of sexual assault and rape??
The only way you should be disciplining them internally is if you're basically admitting that your program has a similar rape/sexual assault problem -- at which point you have as much business on the field as Jameis Winston and your opponents today, NONE!!
Otherwise, in this case, the unsportsmanlike conduct should be handled by other parties, NOT by you.
JAMEIS WINSTON FUCKING DESERVED THAT!
2014: Worst -- Year -- Ever.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I usually say that at about the end of every year, but this one, more so than most.
I truly believe that only question as to whether we are at Decline or Fall is whether, as I told friends, our collective culture has had the Wile E. Coyote moment where, far off the cliff, he finally looks down.
That, friends, is 2014 in a nutshell.
January 1: Brian Tuohy starts off the year with a video full of evidence as to the NFL getting the exact playoffs it wants.
January 2: Months before the Michael Sam fiasco of the National Homophobia League, Chris Kluwe tells Deadspin that he was fired by a Minnesota Viking franchise full of homophobia and cowardice. An eventual lawsuit was settled out of court for a charity donation to LGBT causes, at Kluwe's request.
Kluwe's NFL career, even by his own admission, is over.
January 7: A purported-ex-employee of the NFL claims the Super Bowl champion for 2014 would be the San Diego Chargers.
January 8: Dan LeBetard reveals he was the person who sold his Baseball Hall of Fame ballot to Deadspin, to make a point.
The next day, LeBetard was stripped of his ballot and new procedures were put in place that it not happen again.
January 11: In what should've been the most obvious example of the SeaThugs' first title being handed to them, New Orleans Saint Marques Colston throws a blatant illegal forward pass to run off the final seconds of his team's "defeat" to the Hags.
January 15: Grantland posts an article about Dr. Essay Anne Vanderbilt, a golf-club inventor who was outed as a transgender person, and committed suicide as a result of being outed.
January 21: After the Hags beat the Niners to go to the Super Bowl, two members of the 12th Man were shot by a 49ers fan who was being razzed by them.
January 29: A middle-schooler was caught spiking his basketball opponents' Gatorade -- with BLEACH!
February 2: In an uncharacteristic for the recent NFL manner, the Hags decimate the Broncos to win the Super Bowl. Never mind almost every pre-game segment close to the game was about Seattle, and that we got "That Look" from Peyton Manning, not unakin to his believed demeanor before the Super Bowl loss to New Orleans.
February 7-23: The Homophobe-Lympics were held in Sochi. The only winners: Russia, Vladimir Putin, and everything opposing human decency.
February 8: Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart shoves a Texas Tech fan.
February 9: In an extraordinary interview, Michael Sam of Missouri, the co-SEC Defensive Player of the Year, publicly comes out as gay.
Within a week, during a Cotton Bowl celebration for Missouri, The Westboro Baptist Church protest of Sam was blocked by over 2,000 Missouri students.
February 20: Three years after they beat Brian Stow to a half-inch of his life, his two Dodger-fan attackers, showing no remorse whatsoever, were sentenced for 4-8 further years in prison, before the Feds get a shot at them on gun charges.
February 24: As Michael Sam began the process toward the NFL Draft, Jason Collins, after coming out to Sports Illustrated, became the first openly-gay athlete in American major-professional sports, signing a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets. When he entered a game against the Lakers in Los Angeles, the Laker fans gave him a rousing ovation.
It would be his last season. He retired from the sport in November, a capable journeyman who was always seen as a hard worker.
February 26: In the regular-season tiebreaker between the two schools, a mob scene breaks out at Utah Valley University after they defeated New Mexico State for the #1 seed in the conference tournament. Two New Mexico State players were seen punching Utah Valley fans, for which they only received small suspensions.
March 1: The Sloan Conference on sports analytics at MIT becomes the center of a still-burgeoning NBA controversy: The controversy of teams tanking to improve draft position.
At the same conference, Mark Cuban actually proposed the NBA finish off college basketball by being allowed to take players who would be "one-and-done" anyway.
March 6: A fan disrupts a UC-Santa Barbara vs. Hawaii game by coming onto the floor and challenging the Hawaii coach, who had just received a technical foul for questioning a call.
March 8: Two videos (originally three, but the NFL took the third one down within two days -- and now all three are down) provided insight into the NFL's ensuring that the Seadderal Seahags became champions in 2014.
March 25: The NFL announces a rules change which will demand that all instant-replay challenges be in communication with the league's central offices in New York.
March 26: The NLRB rules the Northwestern football team has the right to unionize. The decision, obviously, is under appeal.
The week of March 29: Ray Rice is indicted by a grand jury for assaulting his then-fiancee Janay in an elevator in an Atlantic City casino.
~ April 1: Chris Kluwe jumps into the foray on athlete pay in college, admitting he wrote papers for athletes at $10/page
April 3: St. Louis Cardinal Matt Adams shoves a Cincinnati fan lightly for the latter's attempt to catch a foul ball which had made the stands.
Around the fortieth anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th home run: John Rocker (and others) had to open up his fucking mouth again.
April 17: San Francisco 49er Aldon Smith was arrested by the TSA for yelling "Bomb!" at LAX.
April 20: Reports surface that Jameis Winston is not the only person believed to have committed sexual assault under the color of Florida State football.
April 22: Russell Allen of the Jacksonville Jaguars becomes the latest case-study as to why football is unsafe at any speed. Allen suffered a stroke during a game, killing a dime-sized area on his brain, and still finished the game, only finding out afterward what had actually happened.
April 26: TMZ releases audio in which Los Angeles Clipper owner Donald Sterling does not want black people brought to his games.
Within three days, Sterling, soon found a certifiable lunatic on far more than being the worst owner in sports, is banned from the NBA for life, under pain of an immediate playoff work stoppage.
May 10: Michael Sam is finally drafted with a seventh-round supplemental draft pick by the St. Louis Rams. "Family values" idiots across the country have their heads explode when the emotion of the moment is recorded for the correct news posterity by ESPN.
May 19: The NBA formally begins the process to remove Donald and Rochelle Sterling from the Association.
May 21: Mitch Williams is suspended from MLB Network when it is learned that he got tossed from a youth tournament for ordering a pitcher to bean a "pussy" player.
Also, the NFL was sued by a bunch of former players, saying painkillers were pushed on them, disregarding the risks. To no one's surprise, the lawsuit was dismissed in December.
May 30: Former Microsoft head Steve Ballmer purchases the LA Clippers for a mind-boggling $2,000,000,000, rewriting the entire sports franchise valuation landscape.
June-July: After a serious amount of work by Declan Hill chronicling match-fixing all over soccer, the World Cup stoops to new lows in match-fixing, including a result so bizarre in the semifinal, the only question is whether the hosts were fixed to get there, or took the biggest dive in world sports history when they got there!
June 12: A document surfaces showing the complete ownership of the Super Bowl host city by the NFL every year -- Minneapolis produced the requirements it had to provide the NFL, mostly at their own cost and not to the league!, to host the National Holiday falling on the first Sunday in February.
June 24: Luis Suarez, for at least the third time in his farcical career, bites an opponent. The only reason he is ever allowed to play again - he's Luis Suarez!
June 26: Ghana fixes a match with Portugal to ensure the United States advances to a second-round date with Belgium. Not that the USA didn't earn it, but the Ghana-Portugal match was fixed, right down to a $3,000,000 cash payment given to the players (provided by whom??) the late-night before the match!
July 9: 1-7. Brazil is eliminated from the World Cup in utterly inconceivable fashion by Germany, in a match which can only be kindly believed a rigged farce.
Deadspin produces a photo, purporting that someone bet $20US that not only would Germany win the game by 7-1, but Khedira would score -- and he did!
July 17: ESPN does what they've wanted to do: The Tiger Channel -- a Tiger-only feed of his play in the British Open.
July 19: Carolina's Greg Hardy has calls for him to be suspended for an act of domestic violence.
July 21: A report is floated as a trial balloon to try to get the "Group of Five" non-major FBS conferences completely separated from the rest of FBS, and play their games in the Spring instead.
July 23: California passes the strictest anti-football laws in the nation, eliminating off-season contact (effective TODAY, January 1, 2015!), codifying into state law a concussion protocol, etc.
July 24: Ray Rice suspended two games and fined a third game check for the Janay incident.
July 25: Stephen A. Smith steps into the Ray Rice fiasco hard -- and this was six weeks before we found out the rest of it!
And that's just through July! We haven't even gotten to "Sports Gone Insane" yet!!!
Part 2 later, maybe today, maybe the weekend...
Oh, and Fuck Rapeis Winston.
I usually say that at about the end of every year, but this one, more so than most.
I truly believe that only question as to whether we are at Decline or Fall is whether, as I told friends, our collective culture has had the Wile E. Coyote moment where, far off the cliff, he finally looks down.
That, friends, is 2014 in a nutshell.
January 1: Brian Tuohy starts off the year with a video full of evidence as to the NFL getting the exact playoffs it wants.
January 2: Months before the Michael Sam fiasco of the National Homophobia League, Chris Kluwe tells Deadspin that he was fired by a Minnesota Viking franchise full of homophobia and cowardice. An eventual lawsuit was settled out of court for a charity donation to LGBT causes, at Kluwe's request.
Kluwe's NFL career, even by his own admission, is over.
January 7: A purported-ex-employee of the NFL claims the Super Bowl champion for 2014 would be the San Diego Chargers.
January 8: Dan LeBetard reveals he was the person who sold his Baseball Hall of Fame ballot to Deadspin, to make a point.
The next day, LeBetard was stripped of his ballot and new procedures were put in place that it not happen again.
January 11: In what should've been the most obvious example of the SeaThugs' first title being handed to them, New Orleans Saint Marques Colston throws a blatant illegal forward pass to run off the final seconds of his team's "defeat" to the Hags.
January 15: Grantland posts an article about Dr. Essay Anne Vanderbilt, a golf-club inventor who was outed as a transgender person, and committed suicide as a result of being outed.
January 21: After the Hags beat the Niners to go to the Super Bowl, two members of the 12th Man were shot by a 49ers fan who was being razzed by them.
January 29: A middle-schooler was caught spiking his basketball opponents' Gatorade -- with BLEACH!
February 2: In an uncharacteristic for the recent NFL manner, the Hags decimate the Broncos to win the Super Bowl. Never mind almost every pre-game segment close to the game was about Seattle, and that we got "That Look" from Peyton Manning, not unakin to his believed demeanor before the Super Bowl loss to New Orleans.
February 7-23: The Homophobe-Lympics were held in Sochi. The only winners: Russia, Vladimir Putin, and everything opposing human decency.
February 8: Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart shoves a Texas Tech fan.
February 9: In an extraordinary interview, Michael Sam of Missouri, the co-SEC Defensive Player of the Year, publicly comes out as gay.
Within a week, during a Cotton Bowl celebration for Missouri, The Westboro Baptist Church protest of Sam was blocked by over 2,000 Missouri students.
February 20: Three years after they beat Brian Stow to a half-inch of his life, his two Dodger-fan attackers, showing no remorse whatsoever, were sentenced for 4-8 further years in prison, before the Feds get a shot at them on gun charges.
February 24: As Michael Sam began the process toward the NFL Draft, Jason Collins, after coming out to Sports Illustrated, became the first openly-gay athlete in American major-professional sports, signing a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets. When he entered a game against the Lakers in Los Angeles, the Laker fans gave him a rousing ovation.
It would be his last season. He retired from the sport in November, a capable journeyman who was always seen as a hard worker.
February 26: In the regular-season tiebreaker between the two schools, a mob scene breaks out at Utah Valley University after they defeated New Mexico State for the #1 seed in the conference tournament. Two New Mexico State players were seen punching Utah Valley fans, for which they only received small suspensions.
March 1: The Sloan Conference on sports analytics at MIT becomes the center of a still-burgeoning NBA controversy: The controversy of teams tanking to improve draft position.
At the same conference, Mark Cuban actually proposed the NBA finish off college basketball by being allowed to take players who would be "one-and-done" anyway.
March 6: A fan disrupts a UC-Santa Barbara vs. Hawaii game by coming onto the floor and challenging the Hawaii coach, who had just received a technical foul for questioning a call.
March 8: Two videos (originally three, but the NFL took the third one down within two days -- and now all three are down) provided insight into the NFL's ensuring that the Seadderal Seahags became champions in 2014.
March 25: The NFL announces a rules change which will demand that all instant-replay challenges be in communication with the league's central offices in New York.
March 26: The NLRB rules the Northwestern football team has the right to unionize. The decision, obviously, is under appeal.
The week of March 29: Ray Rice is indicted by a grand jury for assaulting his then-fiancee Janay in an elevator in an Atlantic City casino.
~ April 1: Chris Kluwe jumps into the foray on athlete pay in college, admitting he wrote papers for athletes at $10/page
April 3: St. Louis Cardinal Matt Adams shoves a Cincinnati fan lightly for the latter's attempt to catch a foul ball which had made the stands.
Around the fortieth anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th home run: John Rocker (and others) had to open up his fucking mouth again.
April 17: San Francisco 49er Aldon Smith was arrested by the TSA for yelling "Bomb!" at LAX.
April 20: Reports surface that Jameis Winston is not the only person believed to have committed sexual assault under the color of Florida State football.
April 22: Russell Allen of the Jacksonville Jaguars becomes the latest case-study as to why football is unsafe at any speed. Allen suffered a stroke during a game, killing a dime-sized area on his brain, and still finished the game, only finding out afterward what had actually happened.
April 26: TMZ releases audio in which Los Angeles Clipper owner Donald Sterling does not want black people brought to his games.
Within three days, Sterling, soon found a certifiable lunatic on far more than being the worst owner in sports, is banned from the NBA for life, under pain of an immediate playoff work stoppage.
May 10: Michael Sam is finally drafted with a seventh-round supplemental draft pick by the St. Louis Rams. "Family values" idiots across the country have their heads explode when the emotion of the moment is recorded for the correct news posterity by ESPN.
May 19: The NBA formally begins the process to remove Donald and Rochelle Sterling from the Association.
May 21: Mitch Williams is suspended from MLB Network when it is learned that he got tossed from a youth tournament for ordering a pitcher to bean a "pussy" player.
Also, the NFL was sued by a bunch of former players, saying painkillers were pushed on them, disregarding the risks. To no one's surprise, the lawsuit was dismissed in December.
May 30: Former Microsoft head Steve Ballmer purchases the LA Clippers for a mind-boggling $2,000,000,000, rewriting the entire sports franchise valuation landscape.
June-July: After a serious amount of work by Declan Hill chronicling match-fixing all over soccer, the World Cup stoops to new lows in match-fixing, including a result so bizarre in the semifinal, the only question is whether the hosts were fixed to get there, or took the biggest dive in world sports history when they got there!
June 12: A document surfaces showing the complete ownership of the Super Bowl host city by the NFL every year -- Minneapolis produced the requirements it had to provide the NFL, mostly at their own cost and not to the league!, to host the National Holiday falling on the first Sunday in February.
June 24: Luis Suarez, for at least the third time in his farcical career, bites an opponent. The only reason he is ever allowed to play again - he's Luis Suarez!
June 26: Ghana fixes a match with Portugal to ensure the United States advances to a second-round date with Belgium. Not that the USA didn't earn it, but the Ghana-Portugal match was fixed, right down to a $3,000,000 cash payment given to the players (provided by whom??) the late-night before the match!
July 9: 1-7. Brazil is eliminated from the World Cup in utterly inconceivable fashion by Germany, in a match which can only be kindly believed a rigged farce.
Deadspin produces a photo, purporting that someone bet $20US that not only would Germany win the game by 7-1, but Khedira would score -- and he did!
July 17: ESPN does what they've wanted to do: The Tiger Channel -- a Tiger-only feed of his play in the British Open.
July 19: Carolina's Greg Hardy has calls for him to be suspended for an act of domestic violence.
July 21: A report is floated as a trial balloon to try to get the "Group of Five" non-major FBS conferences completely separated from the rest of FBS, and play their games in the Spring instead.
July 23: California passes the strictest anti-football laws in the nation, eliminating off-season contact (effective TODAY, January 1, 2015!), codifying into state law a concussion protocol, etc.
July 24: Ray Rice suspended two games and fined a third game check for the Janay incident.
July 25: Stephen A. Smith steps into the Ray Rice fiasco hard -- and this was six weeks before we found out the rest of it!
And that's just through July! We haven't even gotten to "Sports Gone Insane" yet!!!
Part 2 later, maybe today, maybe the weekend...
Oh, and Fuck Rapeis Winston.
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