I love this. As someone whose interest in the Giants begins and ends with how much of a mockery they can make out out of their long-standing reputation as one of the best run organizations in football, how could I not? It's a meaty example of the toxic newsworthiness of New York sports seasoned with a generous pinch of familiar disfunction from a franchise that's got to be approaching the mid-40's in finding 50 ways not to blame Eli Manning. Is that not funny enough for ya? Okay then, close your eyes and form an undoubtedly exaggerated mental image of Paul Schwartz feverishly texting his sources, hearing that a glimpse of some dirty sweat rags and a couple old team-licensed t-shirts was caught under the name plate of Landon Collins, and immediately using that "investigative journalism" to emphatically refute a report that was apparently partially figurative...
Objectively speaking, the idea of conflicting "news" being broken about a prominent player based almost exclusively on the amount and the assumed significance of the laundry in his locker on February 20th is absolutely hilarious to anyone that has the ability to sense humor and laugh at the New York Giants. Of course, with both the franchise tag and free agency being options, only Dave Gettleman knows whether or not the former Defensive Player of the Year is merely posturing or if his premature spring cleaning was simply the result of reading the writing on the wall in regards to his potentially fluid future. Whatever the case may be, professional journalists disagreeing on the meaning and placement of discarded belongings and hopelessly dirty underwear is a laughably shameless grab for headlines that are essentially as empty as Landon Collins' stall. So much so, that they presumably had Odell Beckham's monopoly on entirely vague and unnecessary attention feeling threatened...
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