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10/18/05
You
know, Sunday’s loss was no surprise to me.
Given our history at Mile High Stadium, combined with the utter and
complete lack of a secondary as a result of injuries (galore), I expected
very little.
I
do agree that those backups on the field should
put all they have into the game. And
yes, we failed in that department yesterday.
However, I believe a major factor to this failure is the players’
lack of experience playing under Belichick and his system.
But
that’s not why I am writing this article.
See,
shortly after the Pats were
attempting to get their act together (and that was nice to see), 60
Minutes aired an interview with Bill Romanowski.
I
didn’t watch…and not just because I was on my way home from the game.
The
fact is, I would never watch this interview and have absolutely no concern
for this man’s existence.
“My,
my, Rampage …them’s fightin’ words.”
“Yup.”
You
see (as you should before I even put this to paper), Bill Romanowski is a
jackass. And not the good
kind (there are good kinds...the ones that carry people across the floor
of the Grand Canyon).
And
frankly, I don’t care if you agree with me.
To me, it never mattered for which team he played.
I just never liked him…and apparently, with good reason.
To
use baseball language (the only really good way to do this):
Strike
1 - Romanowski played dirty
and revels in it to this very day, even when he “regrets” something
from his past.
Strike
2 - Romanowski couldn’t
even avoid violent confrontations with teammates, such as the “eye
socket” incident with Marcus Williams.
Strike
3 - Romanowski admitted
to taking steroids during his NFL career and would change his habits to
avoid detection, which is a clear indication that he knew what he was
doing was wrong.
So,
let’s fast forward to yesterday, shall we?
Apparently 60 Minutes is
interviewing Romanowski crying…like
a baby. Maybe the THG is
giving him the gynecological condition the unmodified form was created to
treat.
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Why
should I feel sorry for him?
Because
I spent 16 years watching him do and say anything
to get ahead, ethical or not, only to see his desire now to confess his sins?
Because
he maintained tackle boxes of
supplements and worked out immediately following surgeries to “get
healthy” yet ignored the multitude of concussions he suffered over the
years?
Because
he claims to have “suffered” to keep up in the NFL yet continued to
play and even destroy the
careers of others in his zeal to get ahead?
Please,
tell me. Why should I
give a damn? Because his kid
heard about his drug use on the playground?
Or because he can only use his brain cells for surfing?
What
Romanowski fails to acknowledge, like so many before, is that his desire
to be always a winner in fact made him a loser…that
destruction is not the best way
to succeed or even survive…that
the ends do not justify the means.
How
do we continue to miss this point? Maybe
because we choose to, because to admit this means that we cannot stay on
top forever.
In
my opinion, Romanowski signifies all that can go wrong with the NFL, or
life for that matter. His
admission at this juncture only verifies my suspicions all along…that we
revel in this behavior when it in some fashion benefits us.
If that’s the case, then shame on us.
I
have no sympathy or even empathy for Romanowski.
He brought this on himself. I
don’t even feel sorry for his wife, who was charged with illegally
obtaining the diet drug phentermine for her husband (charges were
dropped).
I
feel sorry for their potentially messed-up kids, who will be the ones to
pay for their parents’ mistakes.
Shame on you, Romanowski. Shame on you.