DEFLATION OVER-INFLATION
Coverage of DeflateGate
By Patricia Moloney
Dugas, Palm Springs via Boston, freelance writer.
Delicious! Thank heavens it wasn’t the Cleveland Browns. No one would care a twit. But the Patriots! Bill Belichick – the greatest coach ever! And sacred Tom Brady, becoming the greatest quarterback
ever! Oh yes! Another chance to slam
them all in Boston -- the greatest sports town ever!
Oh,
how delicious!
Cleveland, you are safe – nobody cares if you even bump off detractors. But the shameless, endless, leaping and
bounding all over this Patriot story, exaggeration be-damned -- let the ink
flow. The often malicious joy of tearing
down, ridiculing, and castigating their greatness is far too delicious to let slip
by. The gossip hungry, blather bonkers are having a field day.
Gossip
you say?
Isn’t that just for flighty little girls? Oh, contraire! Guys (&gals), sports pundits, grid-iron
grunters, non-football tattlers, frenzied bottom-feeders are lying in wait for
the next morsel of tattle tailing trivia.
A Fox News gold mine! Come on,
Belichick, say something dumb and meaningless!
They push aside the pro
reports that pigskin pre-prep has always been precarious. What do they know? They only played the game themselves.
Coverage
of the game – oh yes, there is a game -- the Super
Bowl – that’s now secondary to the Deflate Bowl. They will reluctantly give up
Deflation Nation to cover the game, but focusing on what the Patriots will do
next to tweak the rules. Meanwhile, we football
purists are deprived of endless, delectable coverage of the Super Duel between
Seattle and New England -- details we can salivate over. Not trivia tattle-trash.
For
shame, guys. Get over it. Show some class. Prove gossip-mongering
is beneath you.
Let Boston remain the
greatest – slightly tainted – but still the greatest.
Enjoy the game. Pat Dugas,
Twitter: @artrician,
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