NFL and unfair play go hand-in-hand
“You jump in front of my car when you, you know all the time…That 90 miles an hour is the speed I drive. You tell me it’s all right, you don’t mind a little pain. You say you just want me to take you for a drive. You’re just like (crosstown traffic!) so hard to get through to you. I’m not the only soul who’s accused of hit and run. Tire tracks across your back, I can see you had your fun. But uh, can’t you see my signals turn from green to red? And with you, I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead.” (Excerpt from the song; ‘Crosstown Traffic’ by the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
I am going to attempt to enlighten everyone regarding the many methods of “unfair” play that have allegedly been going on in the NFL almost since the league was founded. For example, take the New England Patriots. This has to be the umpteenth time that the forensic evidence of “cheating” tracks has been left across the back of the NFL and the sports world by the Patriots. For many years, these serial cheaters have been disguised as a football team. The Pats have employed a myriad of back-alley and underhanded methods to get the upper hand on the competition not just for weeks, months and years, but for decades! Don’t believe me? Check out their Super Bowl won-loss record B.S. (before spygate) and you will get the full picture.
Former Patriots QB Tom Brady has almost always been given the benefit of the doubt when he and his team have been caught committing “many out of bounds” transgressions, while he simultaneously promoted himself as the All-American savior riding in to save the NFL, on a white steed without blemish with the bling of Super Bowl rings adorning his saddle. Also, he was never short of expressing condolences to the opposition after they were defeated by a Patriots team that supposedly outplayed and outcoached the inferior competition. Brady never told his coach that he would never cheat!
At times Tom Brady was considered by many folks as “untouchable” simply because of his “fair market value” to the NFL. However, many folks have considered his unwritten advantages as an unfair market value. Talking about hit and run! As far as many players may be concerned, the NFL pays them but continues to create and enforce rules and regulations that help the league recoup some of that dough. Some of those fines may be insignificant to players on the higher end of the salary scale but to those on the lower end of the NFL salary ladder, that is a different matter. The owners are often seen “scrubbing for surgery, scalpels at the ready to slice and dice the salaries of players for in-game violations such as, ‘unnecessary roughness.”
However, when a player plays through injury and pain for the sake of the success of his team, will he be fined or suspended for “unnecessary toughness”? Perhaps, a few players might even be crooning: “Crosstown traffic, it’s so hard to get through to you.”
In the recent past, if a player was a member of the Patriots, they didn’t have to worry about rules especially when existing rules could be disregarded and ignored and when the franchise could create its own rules, “on the fly.” There were no green, yellow, or red lights because the light on the Patriots freeway was perpetually green. There was an internal investigation of “Spygate” by the NFL. That seems like a “crock” relevant to being tried for murder and having all twelve members of the jury picked from a pool of your immediate family members.
Let’s hit the stop button for a moment. Tom Brady is now a member of the Las Vegas Raiders ownership group. He is currently retired as a player. The following excerpt was recently posted on sportingnews.com. “Tom Brady’s first year as an NFL broadcaster is unique, as the former quarterback also serves as a Raiders minority owner. Therefore, Brady has to abide by certain limitations when calling games on Fox. Brady may have violated one of his personal rules on Sunday when broadcasting the Lions-Packers game. However, the NFL decided not to punish Brady.” Is Tom Brady sitting on the hot seat and the ‘cheat seat’ once again? Is there anything that Brady won’t cheat at or anyone that he won’t cheat?”
In 2024, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed one-year deals with quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Justin Fields reportedly for less than 3 million dollars. Writer Tom Blow or should I refer to him as “Tom Blowhard” posted a piece online titled; “Aaron Rodgers gets Steelers boost as Justin Fields return would ‘leave stale taste.’” Blowhard offers us this piece of nonsense. “Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms doesn’t expect Justin Fields or Russell Wilson to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2025. And that could pave the way for Aaron Rodgers to move to Pennsylvania. Rodgers, who will turn 42 in December, is on the hunt for a new team after the New York Jets told him they are planning to move in a different direction under fresh management. “But I feel like, one, if they bring Russell Wilson back, the fan base, and I don’t think the locker room, would be in love with that. Justin Fields, I feel like, is gonna leave a little bit of a stale taste in everybody’s mouth, too. I don’t think it’s gonna excite Pittsburgh if they go, ‘We’re bringing Justin Fields back to be the starter.’”
What player would leave a taste that could be staler than a loaf of month-old bread with mold on top than Aaron Rodgers? By the way, Aaron Rodgers was just unceremoniously put out to pasture by the New York Jets. Is “Tom Blowhard” a USDA Certified Nut with a reserved lifetime condo at Western Psychiatric Hospital? It is painfully apparent that some people will always try to, as some church folk used to say; “make a way out of no way.”