Here the available games when it’s not the Eagles are almost always games with the Steelers, Ravens, and Giants, none of which I usually give a shit about watching.
Green Bay was on that list for quite a while in those years when Aaron Rodgers was there.
Then that national game is also too often involving the damn Cowboys or those damn Chiefs.
If I had my choice, I would be watching a whole lot more games of the teams out west on free TV instead of all that bullshit every week. It’s not like we don’t hear enough from those fans here either.
I may just have to tap into Pirate Sports Network more once again.
One overlooked reason of a few that this story is not going away, including a professional double-standard at hand already at the expense of Dianna Russini though her doings are all on her all the same, is that the open secret in sports media about these “NFL insiders” is out as the mainstream media ran cover for them and are still doing so, for there are many skeletons in not merely all their closets here, but hidden cemeteries. The naivete of some of my fellow Americans is over-the-top when not simply the act (by ironically often the most guilty parties in their own lives).
No, it’s not right in professional circles of course, but here we are again.
The handling of this matter in the dominant sports media comes down to media people (i.e. ESPN, Fox, The Athletic, et cetera) behaving like it’s still 2005, when they could get away with covering all this up so easily and did for any given rumour (/hears somebody say “BONNIE BERNSTEIN” from the back), whether what was done was right or wrong by any given measure or determination, though always with a conflict of interest with regards to professional reporting. Wait now, who is that over there, is that you too Shannon (Sharpe)? Oh how soon people forget!
And so because all too often the cover-up is worse than the wrongdoing or misdeed or poor use of judgement depending on the take, the situation has been inflamed and remains at minimum a huge distraction.
It did not help the Patriots or NFL here at all when it came out that the owner Bob Kraft, who has his own personal history, intervened to try to have the story buried. Of course that finding revealed yet again another NFL owner meddling in what is reported to be sports journalism but is in fact all too often not, unless still to this day, like with all the leagues, any given “reporter” wants to retain their league media credential if not also their employment or contract.
So now the public is all over the matter of the attempted cover-up well beyond merely the not-so-private “gathering” of Vrabel and Russini.
And of course most people beyond NFL fans have been thinking the hushed part all along after seeing the photos for which there was an attempt to suppress publication, as have been especially many wives and girlfriends when seeing those photos, from whom we are not hearing enough in that same mainstream media mind you.
This tale reminds of way back in 2006, when Jon Stewart once rhetorically asked the quiet part out loud on his show on Comedy Central, after airing a clip of the minister’s speech, about another professional gathering in Canada of US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, and Candian Foreign Minister of Affairs, Peter Mackay in Nova Scotia:
Ha ha ha, well then you are totally free to look the other way, but so are others free to be nosey for a matter otherwise made public that was in easy view of any onlooker as well!
Or of course, they could have kept their mutual affection indoors - that part is also totally on them!
Like other matters in a democratic society, the media are mercifully not YOUR way or the way of any one of us.
That is the point of media in a democratic society!
Why are the Raiders staff members congratulating each other for drafting Mendoza? They had the first pick. They knew what they were going to do all along.
Anyway, here’s the first round as it went with some analysis:
Some highlights:
The Giants, Chiefs, Browns, Titans, and Dolphins appear to have had a good first round.
The Rams have begun their transition plan at quarterback, in picking Ty Simpson to be trained by none other than also Matthew Stafford.
Those damn New York Jets will stay those damn New York Jets. Everybody is happy except for them of course, as it should be.
It is an old and unwritten draft law that the Miami Dolphins must use about 3 out of 4 first round picks over the years to draft another offensive tackle. And so they did.
man that vrabel and russuni thing is getting nuts. the new smooching in the bar photos from when he was at Titans. haha so much for those initial denials. it’s even on wiki! i guess athletic doesn’t have much more investigating to do now LOL
Oh yeah this scandal sure has taken on a third life now. It’s the cover-up that gets them more than what they were seen doing, for the public for years has had scepticism about the integrity of reporting on the NFL, which this episode unleashed and is the bigger scandal for most fans than their extramarital affairs.
In retrospect, I think the recent photos in Arizona tell the story not merely of an affair, but that they have been a couple for a long time, as if “second husband and second wife” if you will. Perhaps some seeing them had figured the same already upon their publication?
Now their situation after apparently years now would be merely theirs to sort out privately of course, BUT here we have a reporter who had a conflict of interest so as to mislead the public and in violation of her own employers’ rules (oh hello there, you too ESPN!), and a coach using his private relationship with a reporter to send out certain information to attempt to gain competitive advantage with regards to obtaining at least one player. Now the latter is common and normal by teams in their relationship with credentialed sports media anyway, but when done for compensation or undisclosed benefits in any form including a romantic relationship in this case, doing so via a reporter is at minimum unethical.
The NFL would have wished this all to go away by the time of the NFL Draft, which they could manage to pull off until recent years, but nope, that’s clearly not happening as the heat is now turned up on Vrabel and the Patriots.
of Vrabel and Russini.
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