My take on Tom Brady's balls (hee-hee)
Sports aren't a morality play. I need to say this. I may need to say it over and over again. Quite frankly, the idea of sportsmanship, while nice in the abstract, isn't really relevant, especially in professional sports.
People are all up in arms about what a shitty cheater Bill Belichick is when his real crime is pretty much not wanting to work for a raving incompentent in an unstable organization. (That's why he resigned as H.C. of the N.Y.J.) And yeah, he probably did the spying shit, but he got punished for that.
I got news for you. Pretty much without exception, all NFL coaches are shitty human beings. They work 100 hour weeks to come up with schemes to exploit the physical gifts of people who will end up crippled both mentally and physically. Most of them have to claw their way through a cuthroat business by sticking shivs in anyone foolish enough to offer a back.
Just in case we wanted to fool ourselves about this, Tony Dungy, who is revered as a "good guy" suggested that having a gay player would be much more distracting than having, say, a <em>murderer</em> on the team (like Marvin Harrison). And he also suggested that the Cowboys needed to play their all-pro QB in a meaningless game against a bad opponent the week after he <em>broke his back</em>. And he's supposed to be a good guy!
Professional atheletes cheat all the time, and they play for awful people who make a living on their broken bodies. And we eat it up, and that's fine. I love sports. I love the bread and circuses. I love the sense of community that a successful team can bring to a region or fan base. Sometimes, I even love the smack talk between fans. But I don't ever, ever make the mistake that it's some measurement of morality. Winning doesn't make you good. Cheating doesn't make you evil.
Sports aren't a morality play
People are all up in arms about what a shitty cheater Bill Belichick is when his real crime is pretty much not wanting to work for a raving incompentent in an unstable organization. (That's why he resigned as H.C. of the N.Y.J.) And yeah, he probably did the spying shit, but he got punished for that.
I got news for you. Pretty much without exception, all NFL coaches are shitty human beings. They work 100 hour weeks to come up with schemes to exploit the physical gifts of people who will end up crippled both mentally and physically. Most of them have to claw their way through a cuthroat business by sticking shivs in anyone foolish enough to offer a back.
Just in case we wanted to fool ourselves about this, Tony Dungy, who is revered as a "good guy" suggested that having a gay player would be much more distracting than having, say, a <em>murderer</em> on the team (like Marvin Harrison). And he also suggested that the Cowboys needed to play their all-pro QB in a meaningless game against a bad opponent the week after he <em>broke his back</em>. And he's supposed to be a good guy!
Professional atheletes cheat all the time, and they play for awful people who make a living on their broken bodies. And we eat it up, and that's fine. I love sports. I love the bread and circuses. I love the sense of community that a successful team can bring to a region or fan base. Sometimes, I even love the smack talk between fans. But I don't ever, ever make the mistake that it's some measurement of morality. Winning doesn't make you good. Cheating doesn't make you evil.
Sports aren't a morality play