Oh When The Saints Cover Up Sex Crimes
God this has been a depressing week. We got the Super Bowl coming up but it’s a rematch between two teams few people like that already played two years ago. Then Justin Tucker gets exposed as a guy who likes to expose himself. Then this story also drops.
To be clear, we already knew some of this. I never made a comic about it, but I did touch on it for the NFL owners evil ranking post. In retrospect the Saints ownership was my biggest misplacement on that chart, Benson should have been much higher on the EVIL scale. Almost poetically, that original reveal of what Gayle Benson did was kind of brushed aside to little fanfare. Even now, with this new story coming out, it isn’t receiving much attention. If you have no idea what this is, a quick recap:
A list of pedophilic catholic priests in the New Orleans area was released and the Saints, under direction from Benson, spent a lot of time and money on doing everything they could to cover it up and distract the media from the story. They were supposedly able to help remove certain names from the list of predators.
Cool stuff! Very on brand for the Catholic Church. We knew the Saints helped with this, what we didn’t know until now was how involved they were. Earlier reports seemed to be that they knew about the problem and helped fund some of the efforts, this new reveal shows they were deep in the coverup. The Saints, I guess predictably with that name of theirs, were heavily involved with the local New Orleans church community. That’s fine of course, except when the local church community is trying to sweep pedos under the rug. That’s the point where you are supposed to detach from your business relationship and put some distance between you and the problem. Benson got all up in there. Here’s our money and manpower, let’s do some coverups! Keep these communications secret! The church and only the church should have information on what priests are raping children. Fuck, man.
I don’t know about you, readers, but with everything going with the new administration’s blitzkrieg of terror it’s been much harder to compartmentalize the problems away and spend some time having fun with football. It’s felt hard to be funny lately. Friday will still be the annual Puppy Pun comic, and I hope Sunday can at least deliver us an enjoyable few hours. This might be the first time in history I’m more excited to see the halftime show than the game itself. It’ll be an absolute pleasure watching Kendrick shit on Drake in front of the biggest TV audience of the year.
Yeah, I don’t think anyone that has a fully functioning brain will blame you for not finding anything very fun at the moment.
One again, NFL Owners not only do something horrific, but also fuck over the fans who are rooting for them. Why should anybody root for this organization with Benson in charge? How are the parents going to explain to their kids that their favorite team is run by a women that covers up child rapists? I honestly wish we all have the Packers structure of ownership…
I know us packer fans have a rep for being smug and Dave is a known Packers disliker, but at the very least, the fan owned style is something that I am proud of and think every team should aspire to.
If only that were possible. Such an arrangement is now forbidden by the NFL but there was a grandfather clause added for Green Bay to maintain their current structure.
Bad news, unfortunately. The orange man will be in attendence at the Super Bowl, so that will undoubtedly take people out of the celebration that is supposed to be non-political.
In an effort to appease Trumpolini, the NFL has decided that even the most token thing they do – the “End Racism” tiny little script in the endzones – will be removed. In its place will apparently be sayings that are equivalent to the posters that hang on the walls of high school guidance counselors.
This makes Synder look like an average Joe it is so repugnant.
Louisiana has always been known for corruption but this puts even more of a bad aura around the Superbowl.
Oh and Goodwill and the refs union calling the Chiefs/refs connection “ridiculous” and “insulting,” should find if the refereeing in the NFL is not improved, the shield will continue to lose face.
Alright, I wouldn’t say it makes Snyder an average Joe. But it´s definitely one of the worst things I´ve seen an NFL Owner do, and that´s really saying something.
As for the whole ¨Refs favor the Chiefs¨ thing, lets be real, its not why teams lose to the Chiefs. Even though my team got screwed over multiple times, we had our chances and screwed up. Same for the Bills.
Well Synder isn’t an average Joe per say, but it’s like the difference of 3rd circle of hell to 8th.
I get KC is a good team but that’s why the flags are agregious. Every time a critical down on a critical drive is thrown, it is going the Chiefs. The fans know before the call is made at this point. It doesn’t pass the eye test and if the refs aren’t instructed to throw a few calls Chief’s way, they are grossly incompetent. We saw a similar thing with Brady and the Pat’s as it seems the NFL likes a villain. Another example would be the Rams over Saints game…would the NFL prefer big market LA or NO?
Chiefs are like 18-0 in their last 1-score games, statistically that should be nearly impossible.
That Fucking Guy is gonna be there, for the matchup I wanted least. Even if I don’t get up at 4am on weekdays, HARD FUCKING PASS. I’ll catch kendrick’s set and the highlights later.
I just want to say thank you to Dennis Allen for ushering in one of the potentially worst eras in Saints history. Why am I thanking him? As fans, we don’t even get to enjoy anything worthwhile about our team as everything falls apart. Loomis has straight up f*cked our salary cap situation for years to come. We can’t find a coach who wants the headache this team provides. I can imagine, it will only get worse now. Who in their right mind would say “sex crime coverups by ownership? That’s what I was waiting for! Where do i sign?” This year sucks. I want a refund.
As soon as I found out who Gayle’s “special guest” was for the game, any micro-shred of plausible deniability went out the window (I’ll be honest, there was no shred left after this dropped). She’s quite the connoisseur of pedos.