Spread ‘Em Belichick

The new NFL sheriff, Roger Goodell, was scoring points early and often as the head honcho of the NFL.  He vowed that there would be no more bullshit from the players and, so it seemed, from coaches with larceny in their hearts.

But it hasn’t taken long to have the spectre of politics enter the NFL’s handling of the charges leveled against the Pats and their coach, charges stemming from the frustration of Senator Arlen Specter.
According to reports, Specter feels the NFL has been stonewalling him and his staff in efforts to get to the bottom of this controversy. He has also implied that the NFL may never get around to questioning Matt Walsh, the deep throat key witness and former Pats video assistant.  

The Commish, on the other hand stated that the NFL was moving towards an agreement with Walsh that would immunize Walsh from litigation. ”My suspicion is that they’re going to put enough conditions on it so that he won’t talk,” Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, told ESPN.com. “If they had wanted Walsh to talk, it would have been done a long time ago. They are not helped by keeping him on ice, unless they intend to [permanently] keep him on ice.” If the league gains Walsh’s cooperation, Specter said he wants to be present when Walsh is questioned “because a witness’ testimony can be shaded or molded by who questions him first.” Walsh, employed by the Patriots from 1996 to 2003, has suggested that he has information, perhaps even materials, about the Patriots’ video practices that could be potentially damaging. 

NFL spokesperson Greg Aiello said the league respectfully disagrees with Specter. “We have offered Mr. Walsh’s attorney assurances that are fully responsive to his concerns,” Aiello said. “And we have not heard back from him. … We very much want to speak to [Walsh].” As of Friday night, however, the league and Walsh’s attorney had not reached an agreement.
But the Senator has said that both the Pats and the Jets have refused to cooperate with the investigation.

So here we are, the almighty NFL has fought the Vegas hotels when they tried to throw Super Bowl parties using their feeds. They forced ESPN to take their not so pretty picture of football players soap opera off the air. They have gone head to head with the cable companies in their quest to get the NFL Network included with little cost. They have essentially driven NFL Films into obscurity and they have made it virtually impossible for programs such as Inside the NFL on HBO to stay on the air and compete with the likes of Jamie Duke.

What the Fuck?
The NFL is no longer a little league with a sense of community. The NFL is now a powerful and hungry corporate monster that looks out only for its own . Sounds strangely like corporate greed doesn’t it? Stay with it Senator Spectre, the government may be the only entity powerful enough to rock their boat and make them accountable.
Because no one and nothing else seems to be able to.

Roger “The Dodger” Clemens

 

Roger “The Dodger” Clemens

 Breaking News: Roger Clemens answers questions: 

Q:
Did you take steroids?
A:
No

Q:
Did you have an affair with then 15 year old Mindy McCready?
A:
No

Q:
Is your name Roger Clemens?
A:

No, oops I misremembered.

Maybe we can supply Rocket Man with some ginkgo biloba for his memory issues.
Looking for love in all the wrong places Roger is living out a Country Western song.
The Ballad of Roger The Dodger Clemens.
I was a fool for loving you and I know that it was wrong. But I can’t remember what I do, especially when I’m on my “roids”.  

Where the hell is Columbo when you need him? How’s about we call Monk and have him obsess about the actions of one of America’s baseball heroes?
Joe DiMaggio where are you when we need you?

Mamas don’t let your sons grow up to be morons and idiots.

Not only is Roger trying to dodge steroid use questions now he is being accused of a relationship with an underage girl.

To make matters worse the shit is hitting the fan at warp speed as heretofore hidden secrets of the rich and famous ball player are making their way across the internet.

 Breaking News

The New York Daily News reports that Clemens and Mindy McCready were lovers when she was only 15 years old and Roger was 28, a married father of two and the Red Sox’ best pitcher.

“I cannot refute anything in the story,” McCready tearfully told the Daily News yesterday.

Breaking News
Wife of retired pro-wrestler “Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake” claims accused baseball bad boy Roger Clemens made a pass at her 18 years ago, but the married Red Sox [team stats] ace never reached first base.

Breaking News
Barbara Leslie, 43, of Winchester - then a comely waitress at the celeb-magnet Palace nightclub in Saugus - claims that in her brush with the Rocket, he said, “‘What would you do if I tried to kiss you?’ ” and she replied, “‘What would your wife say if you tried to kiss me?”

Clemens’ Houston attorney Rusty Hardin did not respond to a request for comment on this latest accusation of extramarital shenanigans by the seven-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher, who’s also under investigation by the FBI for steroid abuse.

Leslie, who hadn’t yet met her husband of 15 years, Edward Leslie, was fetching drinks in lifeguard shorts and a tank top at the Palace when, she says, Clemens happened by with a pal in 1990.

“People were going, ‘Roger Clemens is here, and Roger Clemens is here!’ ” she said. “Being a big sports personality in Boston, all the waitresses wanted to wait on him. He definitely didn’t act like a man who was married, though.”

Leslie said Clemens had been in the club about an hour and she admits to flirting with him until he allegedly followed her into a dressing room off-limits to the public, leaned into her and made the clumsy, rebuffed overture.

“Back then, it was a compliment to have someone like Roger Clemens think you’re pretty, and I’m a huge Red Sox fan,” said Leslie, “but the next day, I was totally grossed out.”

And no richer for it, apparently.

“I gotta tell you, he wasn’t that great a tipper,” Leslie said. “As I recall, he didn’t even take his money out.”

Breaking News
Roger “The Dodger” Clemens has decided to take the fifth on every issue, every question and everything in his past until the proverbial cows come home.
Here’s a useful tip Roger, keep your mouth shut and keep it in your pants.