*FAN SUBMISSION by Jesse of San Diego.*
Courtesy: Fox Sports
As I listen in one ear to a Ray Bradbury seashell to tune out and the other to a Dre Beat to turn up, I can’t help but wonder how sports commentators became an unbiased jury overnight. Since when did the NFL become TMZ? Why is this sport becoming the latest, hottest scandal?
This is supposed to be America’s favorite sport, a pastime, a downright way of life for some diehard fans. In the Rutgers vs. Princeton game of 1869 that gave birth to American football…I doubt the commentator was gossiping about what each player did in their spare time. It is about the field. The only penalties are the flags! Unless a grand jury indicted them then no one else has the judicial power to do so.
It’s easy to judge sitting on your couch as an average Joe. Along those years, obviously new guidelines have been created and followed. If I’m not mistaken ESPN correspondent Brent Musberger was cited for an open alcohol container in HIS CAR in 2005. I mean, until cameras came about.
Conduct rule applies to normal citizens, yes? The thing with that is that a jury of unknown peers judges you. You are innocent until proven guilty. Not guilty but the NFL says you are punishable because the media backlash states it. This is not Lord of the Flies.
I find it interesting how people judge you from their Laz-e-Boy chair or couch, normally screaming your name to get those yards. To make that first down, touchdown or even field goal…Whether it’s to make them happy for their home team, fantasy team or plain outlet.
How about every fan gets background checked to come into the stadium or watch on TV? How about you get judged and see how it feels? These guys are athletes, it’s all they know. Their life has been this. If it wasn’t, they would have gone to Harvard or Yale and saved your cheetohs eating life or they would have been a irrelevant speck in your world. T
he fact that they made it by being talented and hard working is none of our business to take away and only cheer on. They play for themselves, for the game, for you. And for fans to think they are perfect, well, get off your high couch and come out on the field then. Everyone has been a number 27. We need to embrace and support each other as human beings so we all feel number 1.
