Leave it to the NFL to COMPLETELY LOSE THE PLOT.
NFL has photographers all over the field for every game, more and more as the stakes get higher.
So the NFL was going to sell (probably almost exclusively to the 12th Man) a collage of different Seattle pictures from the lay-down Green Bay committed against them a week ago.
For what it's worth, these collages are rather common.
So Roger Goodell must have been in a real good mood when that $199 collage was going to include a full-on picture of the crotch grab by Marshawn Lynch.
Almost so good, it's trolling...
The collage has since been yanked off of NFL sites.
Monday, January 26, 2015
The Allenby Story Falls Apart -- But WHY It's a Story is the Wrong Side of It
Well, Robert Allenby lied.
I think we're pretty clear on this now.
After being cut from the Sony Open, word is that Robert Allenby went to a strip club and dropped $3,400 on the action there.
No wonder he was so wasted and all that.
OK, I get it.
So the question is: Why lie about it to such an extent?
Allenby has already sat out one event since, and I have to wonder, now that we basically understand he's lying, if the real story here is that, somewhere in this (probably the coverup, if anything) is a Conduct Unbecoming a PGA Professional situation.
(And, no, it's NOT the strip club, unless he did something to one or more of the ladies we don't know about yet!)
I think we're pretty clear on this now.
After being cut from the Sony Open, word is that Robert Allenby went to a strip club and dropped $3,400 on the action there.
No wonder he was so wasted and all that.
OK, I get it.
So the question is: Why lie about it to such an extent?
Allenby has already sat out one event since, and I have to wonder, now that we basically understand he's lying, if the real story here is that, somewhere in this (probably the coverup, if anything) is a Conduct Unbecoming a PGA Professional situation.
(And, no, it's NOT the strip club, unless he did something to one or more of the ladies we don't know about yet!)
Super Farce XLIX, The Cheats: Now, even the company making the balls is throwing Belicheat under the bus...
Someone has to be banned from the Super Bowl.
Hell, CANCEL THE FUCKING FARCE already. It's clear the Packers had to literally throw the NFC game, and it's clear the AFC game was tainted cheaply.
A Wilson representative has now added his name to the fact that Belichick was full of shit on the balls.
This is going to get beyond ugly by Sunday.
The Pats should be thrown out (unless you're somebody who understands this is the Super Bowl Football Nation America deserves), the SeaThugs should be thankful for the booking, and... Oh brother.
Hell, CANCEL THE FUCKING FARCE already. It's clear the Packers had to literally throw the NFC game, and it's clear the AFC game was tainted cheaply.
A Wilson representative has now added his name to the fact that Belichick was full of shit on the balls.
This is going to get beyond ugly by Sunday.
The Pats should be thrown out (unless you're somebody who understands this is the Super Bowl Football Nation America deserves), the SeaThugs should be thankful for the booking, and... Oh brother.
The new baseball Commissioner is a fucking idiot.
And you can tack on a BIG red flag while you're at it.
Deadspin compiled a couple of interviews of Rob Manfred as Commissioner, and one thing is crystal clear.
The guy wants to bring back offense in a BIG WAY.
So big, one of his first concrete ideas is to illegalize the defensive shift.
He also wants to try to speed up games.
I'm just waiting for what a couple morons over on MLB Trade Rumors said, and, knowing what Manfred said, this is a big red flag for it:
We had at least two commenters openly say players should be allowed to juice.
Deadspin compiled a couple of interviews of Rob Manfred as Commissioner, and one thing is crystal clear.
The guy wants to bring back offense in a BIG WAY.
So big, one of his first concrete ideas is to illegalize the defensive shift.
He also wants to try to speed up games.
I'm just waiting for what a couple morons over on MLB Trade Rumors said, and, knowing what Manfred said, this is a big red flag for it:
We had at least two commenters openly say players should be allowed to juice.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Credibility? We're The American Sports Machine!
We don't need no steeking credibility!!!
1) Ernie Banks died on Friday.
(And if you don't know why people should feel bad about this, even as non-Cubs fans, you never watched baseball.)
Anyway, Mark Bogen, the family attorney, said the following on Friday:
""His death was not expected," Bogen said."
He went so far as to say the death was not by "natural causes".
Well, thanks for scaring us, dummy. When your comment makes it sound like someone killed him or he got a diagnosis and decided to die with dignity (as he most certainly lived!), today at the press conference we simply find out he died...
... of a heart attack.
2) This one could simply fall under "Super Farce XLIX: The Cheats", but it's a little short.
Bill Belichick tried to explain away and sweep under the rug the whole "DeflateGate" thing, and tried to use science to do it.
He did not take into account another Bill -- BILL NYE.
The Science Guy basically shot that theory full of holes, as Deadspin reported today.
Congratulations, you shithead -- you just converted Nye to a temporary SeaThugs fan. Thanks.
3) Speaking of shitheads, ESPN has given it's answer to DraftGate.
No, they're not firing Chad Ford for effective journalistic disintegrity.
They're not even going to suspend him, rendering it a worse offense to debate a Republican crybaby on evolution than to alter the story to make yourself look better.
No, they just changed everything back.
The American Sports Machine only has to make it APPEAR the games are legitimate. Integrity usually leaves the playing field completely by that point.
1) Ernie Banks died on Friday.
(And if you don't know why people should feel bad about this, even as non-Cubs fans, you never watched baseball.)
Anyway, Mark Bogen, the family attorney, said the following on Friday:
""His death was not expected," Bogen said."
He went so far as to say the death was not by "natural causes".
Well, thanks for scaring us, dummy. When your comment makes it sound like someone killed him or he got a diagnosis and decided to die with dignity (as he most certainly lived!), today at the press conference we simply find out he died...
... of a heart attack.
2) This one could simply fall under "Super Farce XLIX: The Cheats", but it's a little short.
Bill Belichick tried to explain away and sweep under the rug the whole "DeflateGate" thing, and tried to use science to do it.
He did not take into account another Bill -- BILL NYE.
The Science Guy basically shot that theory full of holes, as Deadspin reported today.
Congratulations, you shithead -- you just converted Nye to a temporary SeaThugs fan. Thanks.
3) Speaking of shitheads, ESPN has given it's answer to DraftGate.
No, they're not firing Chad Ford for effective journalistic disintegrity.
They're not even going to suspend him, rendering it a worse offense to debate a Republican crybaby on evolution than to alter the story to make yourself look better.
No, they just changed everything back.
The American Sports Machine only has to make it APPEAR the games are legitimate. Integrity usually leaves the playing field completely by that point.
So is this how ESPN controls the dialogue?
Another Deadspin gem unearthed by my anonymous friend...
Chad Ford is the ESPN NBA draft guru.
Well, after this weekend, we may make that past tense...
Reddit users have now caught Chad Ford retroactively altering his draft boards to make himself look good.
Really...
Really, Chad...
Really, ESPN...
The Reddit people, using Internet pages which track edits to such affairs, caught Chad:
Chad Ford is the ESPN NBA draft guru.
Well, after this weekend, we may make that past tense...
Reddit users have now caught Chad Ford retroactively altering his draft boards to make himself look good.
Really...
Really, Chad...
Really, ESPN...
The Reddit people, using Internet pages which track edits to such affairs, caught Chad:
- Altering his 2009 Draft Board sometime in 2012.
- 2010's, they got down to somewhere in October or early November of 2012!
- 2011's, they could only get to late 2012 or early 2013.
- 2012's, he might have done before 2011's.
- 2013's? Last three months.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
2014 WYE Year In Review: Can Mike Do It? Can Mike Finally Finish His Review of the Worst Sports Year Ever?
Sheesh.
September 12: Jayru Campbell, former football prospect in Michigan, just hours after being released for assaulting a security guard, assaults his girlfriend on campus and is arrested again.
He got seven months for violating probation (and only a year of probation for the violence!) and was also under investigation for an assault while on the inside.
No word on whether he still will be allowed to graduate the school he quarterbacked to two Michigan state titles, much less play in college.
September 13: Rutgers plays Penn State in the first Big Ten meeting between the two teams, and, after anti-PSU comments from the fans, the Rutgers AD is forced to apologize.
September 14: Week Two begins, as the NFL is a raging inferno over Rice and Peterson:
Ray Rice appeals his indefinite suspension.
And a former NFL wife gives a haunting set of truths about silencing dissent within the NFL family.
September 16: Rihanna, angry at the NFL's handling of her situation, and a former domestic violence victim herself, forcibly cuts ties with the NFL as CBS' theme song singer for the Thursday night telecasts.
Numerous sponsors either cut ties with Peterson and the Vikings, or express concern at the NFL as a whole. No major NFL sponsor, however, completely cuts ties.
September 17: Arizona's Jonathan Dwyer adds his name to a growing list of abusers within the NFL over the course of what is turning into the biggest crisis in decades.
Grantland publishes an article which gives a new meaning to the NFL's "Together, We Make Football" by exposing a small portion of a year's worth of ignored abuse claims.
Jameis Winston wants in: Still under investigation by Florida State University for rape, he yells a vulgar, misogynistic Internet meme at lunch. He is banned for a half.
Reggie Bush steps in it with several comments which make it appear he could be investigated for how he disciplines his daughter.
Adrian Peterson is finally put on the Commissioner's Permission List, ending his season.
September 18: A member of one of the sixteen teams in the League of Legends World Championships is suspended for it's first round group phase for racial denigration of his Taiwanese hosts. Partially as a result, his team does not make it out of the group phase. The Danish player is still with his team to date.
Jonathan Dwyer is charged with various forms of child and spousal abuse -- he's soon on the same list as Peterson.
A poll released by SI puts the blame outside of Goodell, and largely begins the ability of Goodell to seize the narrative and quiet the storm...
September 19: Which he does the next day, with a lot of smoke and bluster, but very little else, outside of a new personal conduct policy which, early in 2015, the players' association will seek to nullify.
The same day, ESPN's Outside the Lines eviscerates the standing story regarding the Ravens and Ray Rice, basically making it clear it was more important to have him on the field than actually holding anyone accountable for Rice beating his wife into submission.
Winston's ban is now the entire game vs. Clemson, a game Florida State barely wins and Winston almost scoffs at the ban during pre-game. The ban effectively ends any realistic chance of him going back-to-back on the Heisman.
September 20: According to Gloria Allred, retained by the victim, another NFL player was allowed to rape a woman on Saturday and still play on Sunday. The player is later revealed to be C.J. Spillman of the Dallas Cowboys.
September 21: Dan Le Betard, him of the sold Hall of Fame ballot, throws a broadside at the NFL, asking a very uncomfortable question: Does football itself contribute to bad behavior NFL can't prevent?
Rob Bironas, formerly of the Titans, dies in a bizarre one-car crash under very mysterious circumstances which appear consistent with football-enhanced brain damage or the abuse of the drug Ambien.
September 22: The Ravens respond with a litany of denials to the Outside the Lines report.
Bill Simmons responds with a barrage of statements against Roger Goodell, and dares anyone at ESPN to do anything about it.
September 24: True to ESPN's subservience to the NFL, Simmons gets his wish and a three-week suspension.
On the same day, unnamed Atlantic City law enforcement basically states Simmons was telling the truth when he said Goodell lied -- for the SECOND TIME.
September 25: Derek Jeter has a single in his last Yankee Stadium at-bat. It appears the pitch is utterly juiced down the middle, and results in the game-winning RBI for the Yankees, long since out of the playoffs.
September 28: Husain Abdullah of the Kansas City Chiefs is flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after scoring a touchdown. His offense: Going into Muslim prayer in the end zone afterward -- "going to ground" to do so. The league, within two days, admits it erred.
September 29: Jovan Belcher's brain is found to have CTE-level damage, and the University of Michigan is brought under fire for allowing it's quarterback to go out with clear concussion symptoms.
By the end of Week 4: New England is 2-2 and in big trouble. Seattle is infighting all over the place and is 2-1 and would eventually get to 3-3.
September 30: PBS releases a statement from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has a brain repository, in which 79 NFL players now have their brains. They all were checked for CTE. All but three came back positive.
October 2: Three high-school football players join the growing ranks of players dead due to football. All three had brain injuries.
October 3: Bironas was drinking the night he crashed and died, to the point of a .218 BAC.
John Elway's son is arrested for domestic violence, but gets off light because... John Elway!
October 6: Bud Selig's love affair with the Cardinals continues, screwing over the Dodgers for the second year in a row. How are the Cardinals the only team that can hit Kershaw? Take one look at the umpiring...
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune basically exposes Adrian Peterson as a fraud, and reveals a six-month police investigation as to his conduct at a party in Minneapolis.
October 8: Cardinal Fan is Cardinal Fan, as Cardinal fans are seen attempting to provoke racial unrest in the continuing Ferguson, MO situation.
October 10: A teenage Lions fan is banned from the stadium (all events there, not just NFL) for LIFE for using a laser pointer to attempt to blind opposing players from Buffalo.
October 11: Florida State is forced by Title IX to start a sham trial "against" Jameis Winston for the rape he's been under a cloud for for almost two years now.
The New York Times reports that Florida State has been covering up for it's football team as long as can be remembered, and one SI legal analyst said the best case for Jameis Winston at this point would be to drop out of school now.
Jerry Angelo, formerly Bears GM, reports he was witness to hundreds and hundreds of reports of domestic violence in his time with the team -- all covered up.
October 13: A school superintendent in Sayreville, NJ cancels the football program after seven students are charged with sodomizing the humanity out of younger players. At least one victim, this week, has announced a probable $1.5 million lawsuit. It took until the first week of 2015 for enough to come down on said superintendent to reinstate the program.
October 14: Now, Jameis Winston is being investigated by the NCAA for the same violations Johnny Manziel started his senior season with -- illegal autographs.
October 21: The WTA bans the senior tennis official from Russia for one year after he called Serena and Venus Williams men.
The NFL finishes the job and cuts Michael Sam from the Cowboys' practice squad. On the same day, the wife of former NFL player Adam Treu says you will hear of an NFL wife murdered before another is allowed to speak out.
October 23: ESPN got hold of a substitute lineman's helmet from an NFL game. It wasn't pretty.
North Carolina's academic fraud investigation explodes, as it appears that a decade and a half of African-American Stuies classes were involved.
October 27: A suburban Philadelphia high school ends it's football season due to sexual-assault hazing.
A Dallas Cowboys fan goes viral after the Cowboys lose Monday Night Football's contest to the Redskins. As a result of said loss, he goes "APESHIT FUCKING MODE!" and TRASHES HIS APARTMENT/HOME.
October 30: Mike Periera, former NFL officials' head, chastises the SEC for using a secret official to communicate with during replay reviews in games.
November 4: Adrian Peterson pleads out to a lesser charge in Houston. His attempt to re-enter the league this season was, surprisingly, later denied!
November 6: Deadspin reveals that any real attempt to Death Penalty Penn State was a complete bluff.
As if the Jameis Winston Saga isn't enough, underground Vegas sources reveal the very real possibility that Winston was point-shaving for the behalf of a former high-school teammate in the first half of an ACC game vs. Louisville. Similar patterns of possible point-shaving could be seen in almost every succeeding game Winston played.
November 9: Chase Coughlin of the Titans is fined $30,000 for cheap-shotting an assistant coach of the Ravens.
November 11: Orlando Thomas, dead due to football. ALS at 42.
November 14: Good news: The New England Patriots got to one million Twitter followers and gave everyone who retweeted that fact an electronic personalized team jersey with their handle on it. Bad news: One of the handles: IHateN*****s. The team apologized.
November 16: Kevin Harvick shoves Brad Keselowski into getting his ass kicked in an incident with Brad involved in which Kevin was not! One week later, Harvick wins his first title. Have at it, boys!!
The DEA investigated several NFL teams as part of answering a lawsuit by former players on drugs being used by the teams. The lawsuit, soon after, was dismissed.
November 21: Keith Law is banned from his ESPN Twitter account for fighting notedRepublican crybaby Curt Schilling on evolution.
November 22: Jameis Winston forcibly shoves a referee out of the way at the line of scrimmage... AND GETS AWAY WITH IT.
November 28: Ray Rice wins his appeal.
November 30: Ohio State senior lineman Kosta Karageorge is found, dead with a gunshot wound to the head, in a dumpster, after being missing the last several days, including Senior Day in Columbus.
December 7: Florida State University is given one of the four spots in the first College Football Playoff.
December 10: The NFL announces a new Personal Conduct Policy, allowing for more pre-conviction leeway. As stated above, a grievance has been filed to stop it.
December 17: Ray McDonald is FINALLY cut from the 49ers, but it takes another rape investigation to get it done.
Jim Harbaugh, who said he wouldn't have any domestic violence on his team, gets a $48,000,000 parachute out of San Francisco to coach at Michigan.
Dan Hampton wanted the Bears coaching staff waterboarded, while a Chicago-area station said, in a graphic, that the Bears should cut Jay Cutler or cut their wrists.
December 21: Jameis Winston wins the sham trial.
A low-level bowl game is interrupted as the line judge was struck by an object, purportedly thrown from the stands.
December 22: Another low-level bowl game ends in a brawl between the two teams after the final whistle.
December 25: A Twitter war erupts in Inland California when a Kobe-jocker is so offended by someone saying (correctly!) the Lakers are better off without Kobe Bryant, said Kobe-jocker jumps in his car and heads to Temecula on Christmas Day for a fight! Too bad for him, the other guy was on vacation in another state.
December 26: For grabbing his crotch after a long TD run, Marshawn Lynch is fined $11,050. He repeat-offenders on the touchdown which aided in sending the NFC Championship to overtime four weeks later -- fine is doubled.
December 29: Ndamokung Suh is finally suspended for yet another incident vs. the Packers...
December 30: ... only to have it reversed.
A third bowl game is disrupted when, twice in the first half (and the first, apparently, right in front of an official!), a Texas A&M student assistant cheap-shots a West Virginia ball-carrier.
September 12: Jayru Campbell, former football prospect in Michigan, just hours after being released for assaulting a security guard, assaults his girlfriend on campus and is arrested again.
He got seven months for violating probation (and only a year of probation for the violence!) and was also under investigation for an assault while on the inside.
No word on whether he still will be allowed to graduate the school he quarterbacked to two Michigan state titles, much less play in college.
September 13: Rutgers plays Penn State in the first Big Ten meeting between the two teams, and, after anti-PSU comments from the fans, the Rutgers AD is forced to apologize.
September 14: Week Two begins, as the NFL is a raging inferno over Rice and Peterson:
- Mike Ditka claims getting the shit beat out of him made him a better child.
- Charles Barkley throws the entire South under the bus.
- Protests around the league include flyovers demanding Goodell's firing and an iconic change from what the NFL wants to project as "makeup" for female fans to what it really is too often -- a black eye!
Ray Rice appeals his indefinite suspension.
And a former NFL wife gives a haunting set of truths about silencing dissent within the NFL family.
September 16: Rihanna, angry at the NFL's handling of her situation, and a former domestic violence victim herself, forcibly cuts ties with the NFL as CBS' theme song singer for the Thursday night telecasts.
Numerous sponsors either cut ties with Peterson and the Vikings, or express concern at the NFL as a whole. No major NFL sponsor, however, completely cuts ties.
September 17: Arizona's Jonathan Dwyer adds his name to a growing list of abusers within the NFL over the course of what is turning into the biggest crisis in decades.
Grantland publishes an article which gives a new meaning to the NFL's "Together, We Make Football" by exposing a small portion of a year's worth of ignored abuse claims.
Jameis Winston wants in: Still under investigation by Florida State University for rape, he yells a vulgar, misogynistic Internet meme at lunch. He is banned for a half.
Reggie Bush steps in it with several comments which make it appear he could be investigated for how he disciplines his daughter.
Adrian Peterson is finally put on the Commissioner's Permission List, ending his season.
September 18: A member of one of the sixteen teams in the League of Legends World Championships is suspended for it's first round group phase for racial denigration of his Taiwanese hosts. Partially as a result, his team does not make it out of the group phase. The Danish player is still with his team to date.
Jonathan Dwyer is charged with various forms of child and spousal abuse -- he's soon on the same list as Peterson.
A poll released by SI puts the blame outside of Goodell, and largely begins the ability of Goodell to seize the narrative and quiet the storm...
September 19: Which he does the next day, with a lot of smoke and bluster, but very little else, outside of a new personal conduct policy which, early in 2015, the players' association will seek to nullify.
The same day, ESPN's Outside the Lines eviscerates the standing story regarding the Ravens and Ray Rice, basically making it clear it was more important to have him on the field than actually holding anyone accountable for Rice beating his wife into submission.
Winston's ban is now the entire game vs. Clemson, a game Florida State barely wins and Winston almost scoffs at the ban during pre-game. The ban effectively ends any realistic chance of him going back-to-back on the Heisman.
September 20: According to Gloria Allred, retained by the victim, another NFL player was allowed to rape a woman on Saturday and still play on Sunday. The player is later revealed to be C.J. Spillman of the Dallas Cowboys.
September 21: Dan Le Betard, him of the sold Hall of Fame ballot, throws a broadside at the NFL, asking a very uncomfortable question: Does football itself contribute to bad behavior NFL can't prevent?
Rob Bironas, formerly of the Titans, dies in a bizarre one-car crash under very mysterious circumstances which appear consistent with football-enhanced brain damage or the abuse of the drug Ambien.
September 22: The Ravens respond with a litany of denials to the Outside the Lines report.
Bill Simmons responds with a barrage of statements against Roger Goodell, and dares anyone at ESPN to do anything about it.
September 24: True to ESPN's subservience to the NFL, Simmons gets his wish and a three-week suspension.
On the same day, unnamed Atlantic City law enforcement basically states Simmons was telling the truth when he said Goodell lied -- for the SECOND TIME.
September 25: Derek Jeter has a single in his last Yankee Stadium at-bat. It appears the pitch is utterly juiced down the middle, and results in the game-winning RBI for the Yankees, long since out of the playoffs.
September 28: Husain Abdullah of the Kansas City Chiefs is flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after scoring a touchdown. His offense: Going into Muslim prayer in the end zone afterward -- "going to ground" to do so. The league, within two days, admits it erred.
September 29: Jovan Belcher's brain is found to have CTE-level damage, and the University of Michigan is brought under fire for allowing it's quarterback to go out with clear concussion symptoms.
By the end of Week 4: New England is 2-2 and in big trouble. Seattle is infighting all over the place and is 2-1 and would eventually get to 3-3.
September 30: PBS releases a statement from the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has a brain repository, in which 79 NFL players now have their brains. They all were checked for CTE. All but three came back positive.
October 2: Three high-school football players join the growing ranks of players dead due to football. All three had brain injuries.
October 3: Bironas was drinking the night he crashed and died, to the point of a .218 BAC.
John Elway's son is arrested for domestic violence, but gets off light because... John Elway!
October 6: Bud Selig's love affair with the Cardinals continues, screwing over the Dodgers for the second year in a row. How are the Cardinals the only team that can hit Kershaw? Take one look at the umpiring...
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune basically exposes Adrian Peterson as a fraud, and reveals a six-month police investigation as to his conduct at a party in Minneapolis.
October 8: Cardinal Fan is Cardinal Fan, as Cardinal fans are seen attempting to provoke racial unrest in the continuing Ferguson, MO situation.
October 10: A teenage Lions fan is banned from the stadium (all events there, not just NFL) for LIFE for using a laser pointer to attempt to blind opposing players from Buffalo.
October 11: Florida State is forced by Title IX to start a sham trial "against" Jameis Winston for the rape he's been under a cloud for for almost two years now.
The New York Times reports that Florida State has been covering up for it's football team as long as can be remembered, and one SI legal analyst said the best case for Jameis Winston at this point would be to drop out of school now.
Jerry Angelo, formerly Bears GM, reports he was witness to hundreds and hundreds of reports of domestic violence in his time with the team -- all covered up.
October 13: A school superintendent in Sayreville, NJ cancels the football program after seven students are charged with sodomizing the humanity out of younger players. At least one victim, this week, has announced a probable $1.5 million lawsuit. It took until the first week of 2015 for enough to come down on said superintendent to reinstate the program.
October 14: Now, Jameis Winston is being investigated by the NCAA for the same violations Johnny Manziel started his senior season with -- illegal autographs.
October 21: The WTA bans the senior tennis official from Russia for one year after he called Serena and Venus Williams men.
The NFL finishes the job and cuts Michael Sam from the Cowboys' practice squad. On the same day, the wife of former NFL player Adam Treu says you will hear of an NFL wife murdered before another is allowed to speak out.
October 23: ESPN got hold of a substitute lineman's helmet from an NFL game. It wasn't pretty.
North Carolina's academic fraud investigation explodes, as it appears that a decade and a half of African-American Stuies classes were involved.
October 27: A suburban Philadelphia high school ends it's football season due to sexual-assault hazing.
A Dallas Cowboys fan goes viral after the Cowboys lose Monday Night Football's contest to the Redskins. As a result of said loss, he goes "APESHIT FUCKING MODE!" and TRASHES HIS APARTMENT/HOME.
October 30: Mike Periera, former NFL officials' head, chastises the SEC for using a secret official to communicate with during replay reviews in games.
November 4: Adrian Peterson pleads out to a lesser charge in Houston. His attempt to re-enter the league this season was, surprisingly, later denied!
November 6: Deadspin reveals that any real attempt to Death Penalty Penn State was a complete bluff.
As if the Jameis Winston Saga isn't enough, underground Vegas sources reveal the very real possibility that Winston was point-shaving for the behalf of a former high-school teammate in the first half of an ACC game vs. Louisville. Similar patterns of possible point-shaving could be seen in almost every succeeding game Winston played.
November 9: Chase Coughlin of the Titans is fined $30,000 for cheap-shotting an assistant coach of the Ravens.
November 11: Orlando Thomas, dead due to football. ALS at 42.
November 14: Good news: The New England Patriots got to one million Twitter followers and gave everyone who retweeted that fact an electronic personalized team jersey with their handle on it. Bad news: One of the handles: IHateN*****s. The team apologized.
November 16: Kevin Harvick shoves Brad Keselowski into getting his ass kicked in an incident with Brad involved in which Kevin was not! One week later, Harvick wins his first title. Have at it, boys!!
The DEA investigated several NFL teams as part of answering a lawsuit by former players on drugs being used by the teams. The lawsuit, soon after, was dismissed.
November 21: Keith Law is banned from his ESPN Twitter account for fighting noted
November 22: Jameis Winston forcibly shoves a referee out of the way at the line of scrimmage... AND GETS AWAY WITH IT.
November 28: Ray Rice wins his appeal.
November 30: Ohio State senior lineman Kosta Karageorge is found, dead with a gunshot wound to the head, in a dumpster, after being missing the last several days, including Senior Day in Columbus.
December 7: Florida State University is given one of the four spots in the first College Football Playoff.
December 10: The NFL announces a new Personal Conduct Policy, allowing for more pre-conviction leeway. As stated above, a grievance has been filed to stop it.
December 17: Ray McDonald is FINALLY cut from the 49ers, but it takes another rape investigation to get it done.
Jim Harbaugh, who said he wouldn't have any domestic violence on his team, gets a $48,000,000 parachute out of San Francisco to coach at Michigan.
Dan Hampton wanted the Bears coaching staff waterboarded, while a Chicago-area station said, in a graphic, that the Bears should cut Jay Cutler or cut their wrists.
December 21: Jameis Winston wins the sham trial.
A low-level bowl game is interrupted as the line judge was struck by an object, purportedly thrown from the stands.
December 22: Another low-level bowl game ends in a brawl between the two teams after the final whistle.
December 25: A Twitter war erupts in Inland California when a Kobe-jocker is so offended by someone saying (correctly!) the Lakers are better off without Kobe Bryant, said Kobe-jocker jumps in his car and heads to Temecula on Christmas Day for a fight! Too bad for him, the other guy was on vacation in another state.
December 26: For grabbing his crotch after a long TD run, Marshawn Lynch is fined $11,050. He repeat-offenders on the touchdown which aided in sending the NFC Championship to overtime four weeks later -- fine is doubled.
December 29: Ndamokung Suh is finally suspended for yet another incident vs. the Packers...
December 30: ... only to have it reversed.
A third bowl game is disrupted when, twice in the first half (and the first, apparently, right in front of an official!), a Texas A&M student assistant cheap-shots a West Virginia ball-carrier.
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