Lex what do you think about the Richard Sherman controversy? The world wonders.

Not much.  I read somewhere in a military book on leadership that nearly everyone who is at the top of their game in whatever field has a huge ego and that’s a good thing.  Who wants to follow a general into battle that is unsure of himself?  I have ever since transferred that notion to nearly everything else.  Pro football is comprised nearly 100% of type AAA personalities.  Sure you’d like to see people be humble in victory gracious in defeat, but that’s not how these guys are set up.

I will tell you this though, since 2009 the NFL has taken on a concerted effort to attract women to the sport.  That’s why NFL players and coaches dawn that down right annoying pink gear in Oct. in support of breast cancer.  There are many more severe and wide spread forms of cancer that the NFL apparently doesn’t give a $h!t about. Richard Sherman set the NFL’s out reach to women back 10 years and painting the entirety of every field in the NFL pink won’t fix it.

When Sherman came on after the game Mrs. Lex, a Seahawks fan, said, “Oh, brother.  Why do they have to do that?  Why can’t they just be happy they won?  Why do they always have to act like idiots?”

What’s more interesting than Sherman’s post game out burst is all the reaction to it.  Sherman has said people who call him a “thug” in reaction to his tantrum are racist and that the word “thug” is another way to call to someone the n-word.  Uh, no.  It isn’t.  Several posts under Lex referred to Chris Christie’s administration as “thuggish” for closing lanes on the GWB.  My intent wasn’t to secretly refer to Christie as the N-word but as a thug.  So I looked to see what Mr. Webster had to say on the matter:
thug
noun \ˈthəg\
: a violent criminal
:  a brutal ruffian or assassin :  gangster , tough

Nope.  Substitute for the N-word isn’t there.  But Webster, being a white guy, may just be hiding the white man’s super secret language.  After all we can’t have everyone with a white man’s racist decoder ring.  Lib loons and the PMSNBC creeps have already broken the code on niggardly, Chicago, apartment, food stamps, golf, angry, Constitution, affirmative action, experienced, Obamacare, etc.etc.etc. all of which have been termed racist when applied to King Dopes-A-Lot or Queen Wideload.  Whenever something comes up that places King Pantload in a bad light, that something is dismissed as racist.

Well if works for King SFB, why shouldn’t it work for Richard Sherman?  I don’t know Richard Sherman.  I understand he’s a highly educated Stanford grad.  That being the case, I doubt that he’s thug in the way either he or Mr. Webster understands the word.  But the trash talking Sherman doesn’t like being called one.  So, like King Excrementsmear, Sherman calls it racist to make the taunting stop.  Well if I learned one thing from the locker room it’s that if something really bothers you, don’t let on or that particular brand of harassment will be continuous.  And isn’t it rich that the trash talker can dish it out but can’t take it.

NFL extra point
The NFL is considering doing away with the point after touchdown.  According to the NFL swells the PAT is too automatic, only 5 misses in over 1,200 tries.  Rather than doing away with it why not make it a bit more challenging?  Give 7 points for a TD.  Allow an optional kick where the line of scrimmage is the 40 (total 47 yard kick) and the defense gets to pick the hash mark for 1 point.  However if the kick is missed, 1 point comes off the scoreboard.  Continue to allow a 2 point attempt from the 2 yard line.

NFL field goals
And while we’re on it, is anyone else sick of soccer players kicking 3,4 or 5 field goals in a game from as far away as 60+ yards?  I think the structure of the field goal needs to be changed as well.  The closer a team moves the ball to goal line the more a field goal is worth.  It’s a bit counter intuitive, but think about it.  The team should get more points for a closer field goal that comes after driving the ball inside the 20 yard line than for one where the defense held them outside the 35 yard line.  So here’s my proposal when the line of scrimmage is outside the 35 yard line a field goal counts for 1 point.  35-20 it counts for 2 points.  Only after a team enters the “red zone” does the field goal count for 3 points.

OK that’s two major problems in NFL that I’ve solved this morning.  I’m done doing this stuff for free.