Well That Got Dark
I don’t know if any story line better represents how football has kind of gone from fun to dark and depressing in recent years like the downfall of Kellen Winslow.
Football used to be so fun. Everything was fun. Sure there were bad dudes sometimes, but football was still generally goofy and silly and offseason stories were about Gronk partying too much and stuff like that. Now everything is so goddamn depressing. CTE. Sexual assault. Domestic violence. Politics at the forefront instead of a side discussion. It just feels like everything that happens now is the kind of thing that is just a severe bummer. Brandon Browner attempted some murder. LeSean McCoy may have sent goons to assault an ex-girlfriend. Marcell Dareus possibly gave a woman an STD. This was all in this past week. We can’t even get a plain old DUI of a player hitting a telephone pole, he has to possibly kill a woman now.
And Kellen Winslow, good freaking god. I still remember the Boston Market Masturbation story. It was amazing. He was jerking it in a Target parking lot and said he was looking for Boston Market. Then BM dunked on him in one of the great displays of corporate branding slam dunks. That tweet is still up. It never got enough love.
Now we find out Kellen Winslow is Darren Sharper levels of monster, possibly worse. Well that fun story about jerk’n the gerkin at Target is suddenly a dark foreboding indicator of how messed up the dude is. Dude is charged with raping old women, kidnapping, burglary, indecent exposure, sodomy…and some more rape, of an underage girl. Dude could potentially be serving life in prison. If even half of the charges leveled against him are true he’s a terrible person.
It’s about legacy yo
He may have been a tight end in the NFL, but he won’t be a tight end in prison.
He got lost lookin’ for a Boston Market and decided to jerk it? Was he planning to make a Boston Creme Pie?
I had never heard of the Boston Market story. Interesting
You could say the theme song of the NFL is
*Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again.*
Never heard about that story, but that tweet is gold.
Shit…take mushrooms.
I’ll take those, thanks
…Well fuck him then, he won’t last one week in prison.
as long as we’re in the dark place, here’s a really dark thought to consider
what if football is exactly the same as it always was except we just weren’t hearing about all this shit
i honestly don’t know if that’s true here but it’s a pattern that has played out in other arenas so it’s worth a brutally honest thought in passing
shouldve colored your hair white&gray tbh
Social media. Social media is a lot more prevalent than it was a few years ago. Wasn’t there a story a year ago on how much the locker room has changed? In 2000-ish it was players playing dominos/cards. Now its players on their cell phones and electronics.
So, lol, maybe you have a point. Maybe this is how its always been but now everyone is on social media. Remember back in the 80’s there were rumors of Cosby being a perv. If social media was around back then, would it have taken this long to find out?
People don’t change. Ugliness has always been in the NFL. We’re just talking about it differently.
NFL Crime log going back to 2000: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/arrests/
Jeeze. Now i can add that to the list of reasons why people have stoped watcuing football
If it makes you feel better, football players still commit crimes at a lower rate than the national average as well as basketball players. Baseball players are more law abiding than football players and hockey players are the most law abiding. Interestingly, wide receivers have the highest crime rate while CB’s have the lowest.
Honestly why I started watching more baseball recently. I think the biggest controversy this year is Robinson Cano getting injured from a pitch then getting suspended for PED use. Which is ironic because the Mariners are doing quite good without him. Of course the inevitable will happen and they’ll collapse like is the usual. It started with our ace getting sent to the DL
That FIFA add…
Thank you for using Jets pics and not Browns pics.
OJ
Yeah, him being a jet is sad.