If you like the sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” then you might be familiar with Michael Schur, one of the show’s creators. And if you know anything about Schur, then you probably know he’s a huge Boston sports fan.
Schur usually unleashes his sports takes on Twitter, but on Wednesday, he took to Boston message board Sons of Sam Horn to give his two cents on New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s Deflategate suspension appeal. And he certainly gave NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a shellacking.
Here’s part of his epic tirade:
“He’ll reduce the sentence to 2 games, but no, he isn’t just going to say, ‘We were wrong, sorry guys.’
This is the essential problem with the way Goodell runs the Justice Thunder Fist of the NFL Front Office. He wants the league to be the military, with strict codes and punishments and Serious Things Taken Seriously. But it’s not. It’s a big sloppy sports league. Most on-field stuff should be dealt with by saying ‘knock it off,’ but he never says ‘knock it off,’ he only says ‘How dare you!’
“And when you deal with every tiny thing by saying ‘How dare you?!’ you end up stepping in it, all the time. You commit a massive amount of resources and money and PR capital to determine whether two guys might have done something that no one has ever cared about, and that investigation completely misreads (willfully or accidentally) the science behind what happened — which, again, no one knew about, because no one had ever cared about the gameplay issue it affected. But by turning over $5 million worth of legal rocks you discovered some grubby behavior. So you yell ‘How dare you!’ the loudest you’ve ever yelled it — because maybe recently some people have pointed out that you didn’t really yell ‘How dare you!’ to a couple guys who deserved to be yelled at, and you looked stupid. So you yell, you yell a lot, you yell so loudly that no one will ever be able to accuse you of not yelling!”
The whole rant is long (and has some strong language), but it’s well worth a read. You can check out the rest of Schur’s thoughts, which he writes under the name “KenTremendous” here.
h/t For The Win
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