Picking My Scab

Peter King thinks he thinks Commissioner Roger Goodell should give the Patriots back the draft picks he took away for Deflategate. So do a lot of other pigskin pundits and bobbleheads, too. The ones not named Bill Plaschke, that is.

They also think it won't happen.

Spoiler Alert: It has nothing to do with the integrity of the game.

Or the commissioner.

 

As if the Combine wasn't already picking that Deflategate scab, Peter King has to remind us all of what we already know. Tom Brady is not a cheater. Roger Goodell is a tyrannical dick. This was never about the truth. Or that "I" word Goodell likes to use like a sorcerer's incantation. A protection spell to shield him from facts and science. This was that rare scenario that was both simpleminded boneheadedness and Machiavellian plot with its final act still unwritten. This was always about power. To think of Deflategate as Shakespearian hardly does it justice. It's more "Guardians of the Galaxy" without the cool soundtrack or happy ending.

Goodell has never been concerned with getting this right. When the punishments for a rules infraction are described as "draconian" and "unprecedented" you know fairness wasn't a consideration.

Roger won't give the draft picks back?

Why don't you tell me what color the sky is or what direction I should look for tomorrow's sunrise?

Here's the thing.

I think everyone now agrees the Patriots and Tom Brady got screwed.

The difference is that some people are actually good with that. They're more than good with this. They're ecstatic. They've got a tingly feeling in their pants. This is justice, payback for Spygate, a perfectly chilled gazpacho of revenge for every time Belichick and Brady ripped the still beating heart from their chests in Indianapolis and Pittsburgh and everywhere else west of the Connecticut River.

So, thanks anyway, Peter King. I'm glad you can now sleep at night.  

Okay, I don't really give a fuck how Peter King sleeps at night. He's a pompous ass. Hey, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while, right Peter? Enjoy your nut. Thanks so much for your considered consideration, your reasoned reasonableness, your evenhanded evenhandedness.

What I want to know is this.

Where is the fucking outrage?