Julio Jones Got Lost In The Fog Of A Conspiracy Theory After The Falcons' Loss To The Patriots10/24/2017 247Sports- The Falcons wide out seems to think that the Patriots didn't exactly help the visibility during their 23-7 victory on Sunday night. During the game a giant fog engulfed Gillette Stadium for most of the second half making it almost impossible to watch from the 300 level of the venue.
Conditions got so foggy that NBC couldn't even use their usual sideline cameras because visibility was so poor. It appeared universal from a players perspective that the fog didn't impact much of the visibility for them on the field, but after the game Jones shared his bizarre thoughts on the matter. “It didn’t affect me, but it’s crazy though, like, they score and they shoot fireworks off and then it sits high, kind of in the stadium,” Jones said, via CBS Boston. “So it’s kind of hard, like, if you do get behind, like how can you throw deep balls and things like that, because it’s foggy? I mean, it didn’t affect us at all though. They were just the better team tonight.” ------ Which really begs the question, exactly how potent was the blunt that Paul Simon kept passing to Julio down by the schoolyard? This is a message brought to by Mr. Jones and me: When you use "it's crazy" as a precursor you might as well just be blunt about it and drop a "weeeeeeird". I suppose you could go with "I'm not making excuses, but...", but if you don't want to be oxymoronic then the excessive use of e's is always a solid alternative. He might desperately argue otherwise, but the Falcons leading wide receiver absolutely lent credence to a conspiracy theory so absurd that you'd think he played the entirety of Sunday Night Football with his head covered in an industrial size roll of Reynolds Wrap as opposed to an NFL-licensed helmet. Granted, acting like any display of gamesmanship is beyond the New England Patriots is a fool's errand. Still, when you're the predominant playmaker for a Super Bowl runner-up whose touchdown broke a streak of 54 unanswered points by the team that shattered your dreams it might be wise to just silently tip your cap to an insanely hypothetical circumstance. As someone who has been a 22 year desk jockey working his first full-time gig on the first Monday of football season, I can't tell you the best way to prove you're not hungover when the opposite is clearly true. I can, however, say that implying that your opponent did the equivalent of buying Mother Nature's drunk ass another drink by intentionally invoking the use pyrotechnics as a defensive measure to protect their commanding lead is undoubtedly not the way to hide your mental fragility. I don't know exactly how foggy it got down there on that field, nor do I know if the visual impairment increased right along with the Patriots lead. I do know that the instinctual allegation from a leader of the team that's less than one year removed from suffering the most crippling loss in NFL history is a far bigger cause for concern than the smoke that resulted from scores at their expense.
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