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How Bout Dem Boys?

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A known serial womanizer/assaulter squared off against a known massage parlor frequenter yesterday and the result was not a happy ending.

The NFL fall meetings took place in New York Tuesday.  And the fireworks were glorious.

The owner of the highest valued franchise, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, exchanged a few heated words with the owner of the most historically successful franchise, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

The catalyst was a motion to permit the owner’s compensation committee to begin negotiations on a new deal with commissioner Roger Goodell.

Jerry Jones was the one dissenter in the 31-1 vote in favor of beginning.  He wants Goodell’s next contract to be more performance incentive-based and less salary guaranteed.

If Jones, as President and GM of the Cowboys, was compensated that way he would be far less wealthy than he is, but we digress.

Jones told Kraft, “don’t f… with me.”  Kraft uttered, “excuse me?”  And Jones countered with “don’t mess with me.”  What started this?  Does it matter?

Boys.  Boys!  BOYS!  How bout dem boys?

Billionaires arguing about a two-three hundred million dollar compensation package is unseemly.

But wait, there’s more.

Colts owner Jim Irsay contended out loud that he believes there’s “merit” to consider the removal of Dan Snyder from the Washington Commanders’ ownership.  In an effort to oust Snyder over a series of serious internal missteps that there is now an investigation into whether Snyder was actually privately investigating the other owners so that the dirty ones would have dirt on the other dirty ones.

What’s Snyder getting the most heat for?  The heat stems from a steamy boy’s club front office that serially harassed female employees when the Commanders were the Redskins.  He should get heat for running a once proud franchise straight into the Fed Ex Field dirt, but we digress again.

It seems that DeShaun Watson’s off-of-the-field dalliances should immediately qualify him for ownership once his playing days end.  Of course, the NFL will allow none of his bad behavior to go unpunished.  It tarnishes the image of the game.

We ask once more, “how bout dem boys?”

 

The Show

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For the NBA and the NHL, the regular season quickly became the suspended season.  For MLB, the regular season that was about to start became the delayed season.  For the NFL, the offseason goes on.

The NFL really doesn’t have an offseason though.  One of the greatest marketing machines that the world has ever known, the NFL has turned the offseason into a continuum of events and news stories all perfectly designed to hype it’s players, about to be players, teams, schedule, and league.

The scouting combine is followed by the free agency frenzy.  Individual workouts, mock drafts, more mock drafts, rumors, and then the real draft is next.  Offseason voluntary OTA’s (organized team activities) are numerous and anything but voluntary.  The preseason gives way to the regular season which gives way to the post-season playoffs.  And the grand finale, with two weeks off to build the hype, is the Super Bowl.

The year 2020 is threatening to be different though due to an overtly obvious 500-pound gorilla in the room.  The NFL draft is a three day made for TV extravaganza.  It’s so big that two productions, ESPN and the NFL’s own NFL Channel, cover it.

Yesterday by a 6 yay to 1 nay vote the GM committee that oversees the draft process voted to delay it.  How can we properly conduct individual workouts, administer physicals, and administer psychological exams they wondered?  And, what if teams in “hot spots” cannot conduct the draft from their headquarters?

The NFL office said thanks for the recommendation.  And then they said, the draft will go on April 23-25 as planned.  They already put the planned Vegas draft pick flotilla to the middle of the Bellagio Fountains on dry dock.  It’s being moved to a studio for all to see.

GM’s work for the owners.  Owners like revenue then publicity then GM’s.  Some like publicity then revenue then GM’s.

Will the draft go on as scheduled?  Could it be a bad look for the league to showcase itself in the middle of the global pandemic?  Or, would it be viewed as a very welcome relief from the replay boredom that a sports starved world craves?

It’s a big decision.  It’s why Roger Goodell makes the big bucks.  Actually, he makes the big bucks because the owners pay him so.

WWJJS?  What will Jerry Jones say?

The NFL never takes a knee unless it’s lining up in victory formation.   Ask Colin Kaepernick.

The show must go on!