Underinflated Super Bowl

The Super Bowl kicks off Sunday as American football seeks to put a scandal-plagued season behind it.  In the early days of football it was a sport where your kids had respect for the players.  They were role models that didn't do drugs.  They didn't beat their girlfriends or wives. They didn't kill people or abuse animals.  There were always problems, but it does seem like there are more problems these days.  The term sportsmanship is hardly ever used anymore.

Some novice football fans will be tuning in mostly for the much-anticipated halftime show, which this year features pop princess Katy Perry and rocker Lenny Kravitz.  Who is really going to watch the halftime show besides those novice fans? Katy Perry appeals to teenage girls, not exactly the NFL Audience.  I'd like to check her footballs and see if they are the correct air pressure.  Her left one looks a little deflated.  The way this season has gone for the NFL I wouldn't be surprised if she takes the stage with a black eye and a nipple hanging out.  I can only imagine this being one of the worst and least watched halftime shows in history.

Parents take the family out to dinner and a movie.  Show the kids that the concept of 'cheating’ is not acceptable to most of us.  We will probably never know how many times over the years on cold days the Patriots used illegal (underinflated) footballs during the games to gain an advantage on the field.  Especially in close games where the slightest advantage could be the difference between a win and a loss.

For the life of me, I can't understand why they ruin the commercials by staging a football game around them. With all the bright lights and flashy gimmicks that are stuffed into each commercial these mini-movies can be much more entertaining than the game or the sad excuse for the halftime show that is also a terrible idea.

Dazzle a Patriot to death

Aaron Hernandez “committed the crime of murder,” assistant District Attorney Patrick Bomberg asserted in opening arguments at the former New England Patriots star's murder trial -- and video surveillance, cell phone records and photographs “show the path” of the crime, he said.

Hernandez'sdefense attorney, Michael Fee, insisted his client lacked intent to murder and said the prosecutors are only trying to “dazzle and distract.” 

There was a damn good reason why he wanted him dead.  Aaron won't testify on his own behalf.  What he's banking on is that his defense will get him off the hook.  I think the evidence is too overwhelming.  It will be too much for Aaron’s defense to overcome.  He is much too smug to go for anything but an all or nothing defense.  Unless you're working the graveyard shift, nothing good happens at 2 in the morning.

You can take the man out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the man.  He had a great career, his life was set; but I guess that wasn't as fun as wanting to be a criminal.