There’s finally something that should distract us from Deflategate, but it won’t. Nothing, it seems, ever will.
We should be trying to figure out how it came to be that a league with revenues of more than $10 billion each year — a gargantuan business able to pay its relatively few employees handsome salaries — decided it was not just OK but worthy of a video on its own site to have a former player advise rookies to have a “fall guy.”
The NFL has issued all the standard denouncements of Cris Carter’s comments — full details here — and said that “the league’s player engagement staff immediately expressed concern about the comment to Cris.