{"id":41267,"date":"2014-01-21T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41267"},"modified":"2014-01-20T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:48:41","slug":"thoughts-on-the-richard-sherman-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41267","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On The Richard Sherman Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the viral video of Richard Sherman&#8217;s verbal end-zone happy dance the other day, I thought &#8220;This is truly a threat to democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/elatO5E8pGs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, it&#8217;s\u00a0a symptom of a deeper problem in American society, one where civility is merely another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;um&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;oh, who cares? It&#8217;s FOOTBALL. A game where people are paid more than heart surgeons to bludgeon each other while moving a ball around a field. It&#8217;s a barroom brawl with referees. A game entirely controlled by the Mob, to make itself fortunes in gambling (with a little help from our idiot legislatures, who not only grant them tax-free status but pour our tax dollars on them like whipped cream onto high-priced hookers). It&#8217;s a game for athletes who don&#8217;t have the attention span to tackle Baseball, run by a business that doesn&#8217;t have enough ethics to criticize the Crips, facilitated by legislators who don&#8217;t have the brains to call a scam a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Sherman may be the most articulate spokesman the game has ever had.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, he dispels the notion that pro football is in any way different that pro wrestling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the viral video of Richard Sherman&#8217;s verbal end-zone happy dance the other day, I thought &#8220;This is truly a threat to democracy&#8221;. But beyond that, it&#8217;s\u00a0a symptom of a deeper problem in American society, one where civility is merely another&#8230; &#8230;um&#8230; &#8230;oh, who cares? It&#8217;s FOOTBALL. A game where people are paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41270,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41267\/revisions\/41270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}