Whose Problem Is It?: Credibility Of NFL Fan In Question, Not NFL

This issue has raced past cheating and is starting to bring about questions of credibility.

When similar stuff took place in the game of baseball, congressional hearings were held to insure the sanctity of America's first love.  Congress might not have the same nostalgic connection to the NFL as it did to Major League Baseball, but football is big.  Much bigger than baseball and more profitable than can be controlled it seems.


We know Richard Sherman is known for his controversial sound bites, but did he have a point when calling the Roger Goodell and Bob Kraft selfies a conflict of interest?  Does this picture serve as a way of formally approving of the 32 year old Kraft side piece that adorns the picture? Is there any easy way of regulating a man who has your future in the palm of his hands along with the side dish (40 years his junior) that he insists you connect with your wife (who's too old for her as well)?

What do you say when your boss invites you over for a playoff party?

Does this picture offer any answer as to why the NFL will NOT interview Tom Brady until after the Superbowl? 

The New England Patriots have not endured the trials that the NFL has faced over the past season, but their recent history of shenanigans and/or suspicions of them makes this recent episode a reason to compare these beleaguered organizations. In the NFL we have discovered a league that has likely been hiding domestic violence and the like for years.  When you take into consideration the unfair punishment that the NFL levied on its  drug using players you can imagine Richard Sherman describing this as the chickens coming home to roost.  Similarly, the Patriots have been guilty and/or accused of many misdeeds in their recent past as well.  Whether they are unfairly targeted because they are innocent and talented or because they are more guilty than we expected is the reason we haters all wish Goodell would interview Brady sooner than later.  After the Superbowl might be too late when it comes to getting stories in line. Already reports are surfacing of a ball boy who Brady will use as his patsy.

The sanctity of our love for the Superbowl must be preserved, so somebody has to take the fall before the NFL announces a new policy for handling game balls. Personally, I hope the league implodes (after the Superbowl of course) so that the faulty design of a commissioner who owes his job security to the teams he was hired to police can come to an end.  The credibility of every NFL judgement has now been reduced to questionable motives.  Correction. The motives are hardly questionable in that they are clearly cash driven. This league will only be as sensitive to social causes as their pocket books demand and we football fanatics had better recognize the truth as well as our role of enabling them to do it.

If cheating feels like a serious lack of credibility to you than boycott the Superbowl.  Don't watch it this year.  I can hear your answer, and therein lies the problem.