waving monkey
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There are plenty of opportunities for schadenfreude when you are a sports fan. Let's be honest: Almost all of us are taking more than a little bit of pleasure from watching Bill Belichick and Tom Brady endure incredibly awkward press conferences to discuss the lack of pressure in the footballs the New England Patriots used in the game against the Indianapolis Colts. (And for those who are wondering why there was not a really salacious play on words in that last sentence, it can only be attributed to incredible restraint, plus all the really good ones have been used already.)
It makes you feel good if you are a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, because you know that at least part of the reason there is so much controversy over something that had absolutely nothing to do with which team won the game is that the Patriots have such a strongly established reputation as schemers and cheaters. Jason Garrett and Tony Romo have very good reputations, and we all know with absolute conviction that neither of them would ever do anything in any way underhanded to gain an advantage in a game.
OK, maybe Romo isn't really as pure as the driven snow. But he was playing that strictly for laughs. Maybe.
While the football world, and actually almost all of American media, has been obsessed with those soft balls (OK, I had to get one in), there has been another strange story playing out about another NFL franchise. It seems that the owner of the New Orleans Saints (and Pelicans), Tom Benson, is embroiled in a huge battle over who will control the team.
Benson, 87, announcend Wednesday that he plans to hand over control of the franchises to his wife, Gayle, in the event of his death. But Benson's adopted daughter, Renee Benson, and grandchildren Rita Benson LeBlanc and Ryan LeBlanc filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming he should not be allowed to do so because his "health and mental capacity have significantly declined" and he has "fallen under the undue influence" of Gayle, whom Benson married in 2004.
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015...rry-jones-ownership-dallas-cowboys-tom-benson
It makes you feel good if you are a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, because you know that at least part of the reason there is so much controversy over something that had absolutely nothing to do with which team won the game is that the Patriots have such a strongly established reputation as schemers and cheaters. Jason Garrett and Tony Romo have very good reputations, and we all know with absolute conviction that neither of them would ever do anything in any way underhanded to gain an advantage in a game.
OK, maybe Romo isn't really as pure as the driven snow. But he was playing that strictly for laughs. Maybe.
While the football world, and actually almost all of American media, has been obsessed with those soft balls (OK, I had to get one in), there has been another strange story playing out about another NFL franchise. It seems that the owner of the New Orleans Saints (and Pelicans), Tom Benson, is embroiled in a huge battle over who will control the team.
Benson, 87, announcend Wednesday that he plans to hand over control of the franchises to his wife, Gayle, in the event of his death. But Benson's adopted daughter, Renee Benson, and grandchildren Rita Benson LeBlanc and Ryan LeBlanc filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming he should not be allowed to do so because his "health and mental capacity have significantly declined" and he has "fallen under the undue influence" of Gayle, whom Benson married in 2004.
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015...rry-jones-ownership-dallas-cowboys-tom-benson
