Yes, there are any number
of other matters I can post on.
But that ugly Steelers – Bengals game Saturday night was such an object
lesson, I cannot let it pass.
There was already a lot
of longstanding, deep-seated hostility between the two teams before the game .
. . not unlike conservatives and Leftists, and Obama and almost half the
country. And there is a long history of NFL favoritism towards the Steelers, not unlike the favoritism of
Obama’s Feds towards favored client groups and against Red States.
Before the game’s
defining moment, authorities, namely Steelers’ coaches, had already committed
at least one enormity, namely pulling an opposing player’s hair.
What was the defining
moment you ask? Steeler Ryan
Shazier’s brutal head-to-head spearing of Bengals running back Giovani
Bernard. It was an obvious illegal
hit (which broadcaster CBS anchors said was legal. Sycophant news media anyone?), but it was not flagged. The Bengals and their fans were
justifiably angry about that.
But then matters got even
worse. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin
challenged the ruling that the Bengal player was down on contact before he
fumbled the ball. (When you are
knocked unconscious by a dirty hit, fumbles can happen.) He won that challenge. So not only were the Steelers not
penalized for the illegal dirty hit, they were rewarded by being given the
football.
Does that not sound too familiar? IRS scandal before the
2012 election anyone? Obama rewarding those violating our borders? Etc. Etc.
Back to the game, at that
point, the anger in the stadium exploded.
Really the NFL should be thankful there was not a riot then and there.
The Rule of NFL Law, if
you will, was not being enforced in that key incident except when it benefited the Steelers. That may not have been the referees’ intent. But it was most certainly what they
did.
Those who watched the
rest of the game know the result - it got ugly, very ugly. Unequal justice and
undermining the Rule of Law invites that. And the Bengals got too ugly for
their own good. Yes, that next to
the last flag against the Bengals for Burfict's cheap and dirty shot to the head had to be thrown.
But what about that last
flag when turned a possible Steelers win into an easy FG win? Steelers Assistant Coach Joey Porter
was on the field mouthing off at Bengals players.
Now Joey Porter and the
Bengals have a long history of hate between them. And Porter has long been a bad actor back to his days as one
of the NFL’s dirtiest players (which speaks volumes about the Steelers that they made him a coach). And he should not have been on the field
mouthing off at the Bengals in the first place. That should have been flagged.
Bengal Pacman Jones,
himself not the cleanest or coolest player in NFL history, lost control and
shouted back, bumping (probably inadvertently) an official in the process. He, not Porter, gets flagged, putting
the Steelers in easy FG range. End
of game.
Yes, there is a lesson
here for those of us who are provoked by the disregard of the Rule of Law in
this county. We have to be smarter and better than them. The Bengals were
not smart. They lost.
So this travesty of a
game was practically an exercise in unequal justice and making a mockery of the
rule of law and in demonstrating the ugliness that can and likely will happen
as a result.
And, yes, things could
get uglier in this country. That
it hasn’t yet speaks volumes about the peaceful nature of real Americans. As a whole, we are not hotheads like
certain Bengals.
But Americans do have
their limits as our English friends found out. Let us pray the Rule of Law is peacefully restored.
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