Suhpid Mistakes

Ndomakung Suh, a year ago he was the best defensive lineman in football. Coming into the NFL he won multiple awards for dominating the college ranks (a particle championship game vs Colt McCoy and Texas comes to mind).

He continues this domination throughout his entire rookie season. Physical and fearce; he was referred to by Ross Tucker (my favourite analyst @RossTuckerNFL) as a future hall of famer on more than one occasion.

Fast forward to nearly a year later. Suh is suspeneded for two games without pay and now carries the moniker of the dirtiest player in the league. Worse than that, his apologies come off as forced from the organization.

Well, I'm shocked first. Suh is a player that gives it his all down in and down out. I never thought of him as dirty. However, I've watched these incidents (stomping, late hits, forcing helmets to the ground) and I would definitely say he plays on the edge and needs to reign it in.

Dirty, however, doesn't come to mind. Inauthentic does though. It appears as though he doesn't care about how he's viewed and doesn't think that he's dirty or even crossing a line. After each game he doesn't say he was wrong, or that maybe he made a poor decision. Instead, he says the other players are wrong, and it's not until a team meeting that he gives a half assed apology that does nothing for him, the Lions or the NFL.

All Suh has to say is that football is a violent game played by violent men and that the line between acceptable and unacceptable violence is barely visible and poorly defined.

Man up and accept responsibility.

Nickelblocked

Awesome. That's all I can say. Awesome.

Aux.tv has created a plugin for Firefox and Google Chrome that effectively removes Nickelback from your internet. The purpose is to "scrub Nickelback from the internet. Permanently." In case you haven't gathered, the plugin is called Nickelblock.

My hatred of Nickelback is pure, it might be the only true emotion I've ever felt in my life. Removing them from my experience is a fantastic idea, too bad it doesn't erase my memory of their great songs.

With such hits like "I'm a disgusting person", "I can only play three chords" and "My lyrics are bullshit", this band does nothing but destroy the legitimacy of the Canadian music scene. We have so much more to offer!

So, Aux.tv, let me personally thank you from all of Canada for wiping Nickelback from the internet.

But, it doesn't end there. You see, not only do Canadians hate Nickelback, but so do Americans. Today is Turkey Day down south, and as is tradition football is being played by Detroit (Green Bay at Detroit). Nickelback is scheduled to be playing the half time show of this game. The citizens of Detroit, however, have different ideas. 

A petition has been started (click here to sign it, a suggestion I'll give you) to stop Nickelback from playing the show. With comments like "Hasn't Detroit been through enough" and "I'll probably never watch the game, but if I can stop one Nickelback gig, I'll have done good", the nearly 55 000 (of a desired 75 000) have spoken out.

Again, this isn't the end of the story. Nickelback, in response has teamed with Funny or Die to respond. The video, shows Nickelback can poke fun at themselves, something I did not think they were capable of.

Interesting developments regarding Canada's most popular (yes it hurts me, I think I had an aneurysm just typing it) band. They suck, and Detroit thinks so, but at least Nickelback can embrace it.

Why Penn State was Right

Alright, a lot has happened since my last blog and I feel like I should address some of what happened.

First and foremost, Paterno was fired (like I said he should be) by Penn State. The firing came mere hours after he announced that this season was his last. Now some might call this a classless move or a poor way to treat a man that IS your institution.

I disagree. Great move on Penn States part. By canning Paterno, the university is taking a stand that they are not okay with the lies and cover up. As we say PR, the cover up is always worse.

By distancing themselves from Paterno (and hopefully this stands for a long time) the university can save face, but that does not make what happened okay.

Penn St and Joe Paterno

What a mess. This is an awful place to put both your team, school, and self into. For those of you that don't know, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was recently accused of child sexual abuse.

The school has appointed a committee to review the case against Sandusky. It appears as though this was a cover up involving school officials like athletic director Tim Curley, senior VP for business and finance Gary Schultz (who were both arraigned Monday for perjury) and head football coach Joe Paterno.

Joe Pa has been a long standing figure (60 years coaching, 46 as head coach) at Penn St, and might the single most recognizable figure in college football history. If the allegations are true (which I believe there are, as 8 different accusations have surfaced) then Joe Pa needs to go and his reputation will forever be tarnished, or at least it should be.

Covering up an act this disgusting is not a matter of moral ambiguity. Joe Pa was wrong, he should have admitted his knowledge immediately, fired the coach, and testified against him.

Students have recently gathered at Joe Pa's home to show their support for the university's greatest spokesman. I, however, would not do this. With Paterno's only official statement declaring his lack of knowledge, there is very little for me (and anyone else who is against the shit that athletes get away with) to support.

By this point Joe, you know, and you know that you were wrong to not immediately address the issue years ago. This ridiculous double standard that athlete's and figures in sports have is an insult to morality. Rape, child abuse, murder, robbery and nary a meaningful bit of jail time to be served by anyone. This speaks to our willingness to forgive horrible crimes against nameless humans (like those above)  committed by those we idealize as a society.

This disgusts me, and it should disgust you.

Doug out