Monday, January 26, 2015

The Only Sufficient Penalty for the Patriots for Deflategate


Execute them.

Take all the Patriot’s players, coaches, executives and low level staff and just execute them. Have a show trial in the Hague first to toy with these people and then have them put to death on live international television. Hanging might be the most photogenic way of going. Roger Goodell can work the gallows.

Think this is too harsh? Think again. After reading about this for several days, sportswriters across the nation have taught me that it is IMPOSSIBLE to be TOO HYSTERICAL or TOO SHRILL, particularly when pretty much everyone calling for BLOOD AND FIRE has acknowledged that the Patriots’ deflated footballs had no effect on their 38-point beatdown of the Colts.

Think sports are just fun contests of skills that can bring people together with shared memories and civic pride? NO. They’re an endless morality play.

Obviously, with Belichick, Brady, Gronk and the rest of the team dead, New England will not be able to play in the Super Bowl. Indianapolis will get the runner-up crown and scepter, which is a long tradition in football when the winner cannot fulfill her duties. Since the Colts have been so scarred by Deflategate, let’s just skip the formality and give them the victory and the Lombardi Trophy now. JUSTICE.

I feel bad for parents. How do you talk to your kids about this?

The sanctions for the Patriots should not stop here. The NFL should strip them of their previous Super Bowl wins during the Belichick-Brady era. Let’s go further and strip the team of all its victories in that time period, since extrapolating one instance of cheating into 15 constant years of it is not at all as overblown as … as …

There’s a simile that would be appropriate here. I just can’t think of it.

Anyway, we need to completely disband the team, raze Gillette Stadium and sow the earth with lye so nothing can ever be built there again. Fine the team’s surviving family members $100,000 each to start a fund to PROTECT THE CHILDREN. Football’s INTEGRITY is at stake like NEVER before in memory and we MUST ooopnjxasbnixbnas

Sorry about that. I’ve been foaming at the mouth with outrage and some of it got on my keyboard. Anyway, start building the gallows.

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