Just a couple of random sports thoughts. Has anything ever been more blown out of proportion as a news story than "Deflate-Gate"? It's about a week after they announced the suspension/penalties and it's still the lead sports story on every freakin' network. I have no dog in the fight. Not a big Pats fan or hater. I admit to enjoying watching a guy like Brady or Manning when they're really on, like TB was this past Super Bowl. Otherwise, I couldn't care less if they even made the playoffs.
Several former QB's have come out and admitted they've done it and it's a regular practice in the NFL. Brady will appeal. The Player's Union will get it reduced to a couple of games (in a 16 game season) and let's just move on already. It's air pressure in a damn football.
I'm one of the few around here that pays attention to the NBA. I watch far more of the regular season than I do the playoffs because playoffs in any sport that require 7 game series after 7 game series, just bore the hell out of me. I usually check the results. Hawks/Wizards playing last night. I was flipping channels and came across the last few seconds of a two point game. Hawks leading and Wizards with the ball. They pass it to Paul Pierce in the corner, who drains a 3. Time out. 8 seconds left.
Why bring it up? Because after Pierce hit the 3, he goes into full-on thug mode. He starts talking shit to the Hawks bench and running down court woofing at the fans with that, "I'll kill everyone of you punk bitches" scowl. It almost looked like he was going to run up in the stands after he got to his bench but he just stood there and talked shit to the fans.
Hawks ball.....drive to the bucket....miss....Al Horford crashes...grabs the rebound...put back. Game over. Fuck you, Pierce.