d.: Since Cal.E. is otherwise occupied, I’m going to take another break from the storyline today, because I have some things that I want to get off my chest. The first thing is my gym. When I was getting out of the shower, I heard a woman’s voice asking if anyone was still in the dressing room. If no one answers, she’ll put up a sign saying that a woman is working in the men’s locker room. As I exited the locker room, I walked past the women’s dressing room to get more water. There was another sign stating a man was working in the women’s dressing room. What? Couldn’t they just switch places and make everyone more comfortable? I thought that was the stupidest thing I’d ever seen (remember, I work in a prison) until I read yesterday’s sports section in the newspaper.
It seems that NFL commissioner Roger Goodall has fined the referee (the head official) $100,000 for making incorrect calls in the Bills’ Chiefs’ AFC championship game last week. If you saw the game, you’d agree that was a wise decision, except….
Two weeks ago, Houston Texans’ running back Joe Mixon was fined $25,000 for stating that he didn’t think that the Chiefs’- Texans’ game had been called fairly, and last week the NFL fined Buffalo Bills’ coach Sean McDermott $100,000 for stating that he didn’t think that the AFC Championship game was called fairly, and Tom Brady, the only player in the history of the NFL to collect seven Super Bowl rings, was criticized and told he should be fired because he gave his opinion on the way the Texans-Chiefs’ game was called. Really, the G.O.A.T. doesn’t know anything about football?
This is not a gray area. One person is right, and one is wrong. Period. This is all black and white, and most of the fans who saw the game would side with McDermott and Nixon. So, the question is, can a referee fix a game? The answer? Absolutely.
Offensive linemen hold On. Every. Play. (But, if Chris Jones, who’s listed at 6’6’’ and 310 lb.s-with one foot on the scale, I suppose, and he was listed at 6’8” when he played at my alma mater- and moves like a tight end, the lineman assigned to block him will do whatever it takes to protect his quarterback). Before the NFL changed the rules about the kickoff, one of the players was offsides: On. Every. Kickoff. (And this comes from an old offensive lineman who also played special teams.) The only question is, will the official call a penalty? The answer is it depends on which team committed the foul.
Defensive back hold receivers On. Every Play. And oh, do you remember all those one--handed catches that DeAndre Hopkins used to make when he played for the Texans? Where was his other hand? “Creating separation” i.e. pushing the defensive back away from the ball and his body. He now plays for the Chiefs. He may get his Super Bowl ring, because….
When you see the most popular singer in the world watching a football game, do you think that, maybe, the team she’s rooting for is going to win? Of course they are. How else would the NFL get a bunch of ten-year-old girls to watch the Super Bowl?
Okay, so with all the controversy surrounding this year’s Super Bowl, I’m going to call my shot: it will be a low-scoring game because both teams like to run the ball and have excellent defenses, say 16-14 Eagles. This will be when Philadelphia, trailing by a point, calls a last-second time out and kicks a fifty-plus yard field goal to win the game. Jalen Hurts will then hold up the Lombardi Trophy and ask his former coach at Alabama and now television analyst Nick Saban if he’s every seen one of these?
And, oh yes, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will break up (seriously, though, has anyone ever seen them together?) Kelce will then join his brother in retirement, and Swift will write a song about how cruel he was to her and make one billion dollars off it. Remember you heard it here first if this happens.
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