Sighhh. I'm exhausted. I'm just emotionally exhausted. The constant replaying, by it in my head or on my TV, of the most egregious uncalled penalty in sports' history has basically left my football fandom (not to be confused with Saints' fandom) in need of a dirt nap. So no, I personally don't care to hear whatever predictable and contrived horse-crap someone making tens-of-millions of dollars a year to take bullets for billionaires might begrudgingly be forced to mutter to a franchise and fanbase that had a Super Bowl appearance unlawfully ripped from their grasp. Much like every single coping mechanism, it's just not going to help ease the pain of a stolen season. The ideal of integrity has long been lost on the NFL. Therefore, the belief that their Commissioner needs to be forthright so as to protect whatever shred of it somehow remains is actually pretty laughable. Having already remained silent through far more severe circumstances (see: domestic abuse) than anything that might play out on the gridiron, I can't - in good conscience - pretend I'm surprised that Roger Goodell has been as quiet as an alley rat in hoping this product-compromising embarrassment too shall pass. That, of course, doesn't mean it didn't please me to see Ben Watson, who has been one of the NFL's consummate good guys for almost as long as some rookies have been alive, demand an explanation on behalf of an entire Who Dat Nation who has yet to let it pass. While the rest of the league yearns for the Saints and their fans to get over a historical screw job, someone who almost certainly lives by the motto "everything happens for a reason" is still impatiently waiting for something that resembles even the shittiest of reason, as empty as any subsequent apology might ring. I think all the petitions, billboards, and lawsuits are more than a little much, but there's something to be said about not letting go of a blatant breach of trust until the multi-billion dollar business that oversaw it, at the very least, publicly acknowledges it. Call it "crying" if you want, but one of the loudest and proudest football cities on the planet isn't going to shut the hell up until they get some sort of answer. Even if it's bound to be an inherently and insanely unsatisfying one to a legion of fans and, more importantly, the pro's pro who is speaking for them and his tortured team after watching his surreal career end on an obvious injustice.
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