Censorship, wrongful persecution, punishment piled on for those lamenting such mistreatment, these all sound familiar.
But, this time it’s not the story of a sitting Biden administration weaponizing the justice system to damage political opponents. Instead, it is the haughty NFL suppressing anything that might discolor its reputation.
We refer to the case of Houston Texans running back Joe Mixon. Like some alleged Jan. 6 insurrectionists, Mixon has been penalized for something he didn’t do, then punished again for noting this.
Much of the informed football world understands the Kansas City Chiefs (Swifts) seem to get the benefit of the doubt on many things, including close officiating calls. The NFL, whose marketing is as slick as anyone’s, understands the ongoing Chiefs success, and the side benefits of having Taylor Swift as a Chiefs player’s paramour, keeps the league’s broadcasts attracting bonus eyeballs of viewers for the flood of Swift sightings.
Obviously, the league considers this a win-win situation and much more productive than those ridiculous platitudes such as “Choose Love,” “It Takes All of Us” or “Stop Hate” plastered on the back of helmets or stenciled around the edges of the field.
Clearly, the NFL has a WOKE playbook and took quite a few notes on how Biden and his friends in the FBI harassed Donald Trump and MAGA types.
Back to Mixon, his team suffered defeat at the hands of the KC Swifts in this season’s playoffs, getting the short end of those 50-50 calls.
Mixon was quoted as saying: “Everybody knows how it is playing up here. You can never leave it into the refs’ hands. The whole world sees, man.”
The NFL fined Mixon, but with a typical Keystone Kops twist, the cited reason for that $25,000 fine was a social media post not from Mixon, but by a former teammate with Cincinnati. That would be T.J. Houshmandzadeh who tweeted: “Why play the game if every 50/50 call goes with Chiefs. These officials are (trash) & bias(ed).”
Mixon took to social media, posting “I’m getting fined by the (NFL) for what someone else said. What’s next? I get fined by them for Connor McDavid cross-checking an opponent on a (NHL) game!”
The league has hit Mixon for a fine for what he did say, and it is not clear whether that is in place of, or in addition to, the first fine.
Either way, it’s an ongoing joke and few are laughing.
As background, I started watching this KC-Houston game in question, saw a phantom personal foul called against Houston early for being in the neighborhood of KC quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and turned off the broadcast not wishing to watch the inevitable garbage that would ensue.
I even wrote about this and was amazed to see how many others shared my disgust with the NFL.
As Biden and his fellow propagandists eventually found out, Americans cannot be fooled indefinitely. They know what they see, and when they see what they perceive as injustice, they speak out, then act. Fortunately, Biden and the leftist cabal could be voted out of office.
Those aggrieved by the NFL are reduced to taking their case to the court of public opinion, and/or voting with their feet and refusing to buy tickets or, more importantly, to watch this.
Surprisingly candid about this are former players and current television analysts such as J.J. Watt and Troy Aikman.
Expect them at least to get a stern lecture from their employers, at the behest of the NFL. It just might be the equivalent of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Barack Hussein Obama giving Biden an offer he couldn’t refuse to exit – too late – the presidential chase.
The rest of us can only hope that at long last the NFL, like Biden, has overplayed its hand and the public won’t accept it.
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