It has been bizarre watching ESPN cover this story. Yesterday evening, at the in-laws, we were watching ESPN and they were playing some kind of soft funeral type music while doing a segment on Hernandez. Yesterday's event was a good thing for society. The tragedy happened years ago, when he decided he'd leave his life of luxury and success and become a gangsta thug.
Yeah, I kind of was sick of Mike and Booger and the other dude playing up the tragedy angle of the whole thing as if Hernandez himself was the tragedy. No, he IMPOSED tragedy on others. I cut the cord weeks ago because I don't watch anything other than football (seriously - then my bro let me use his Netflix, ha ha and then I won a free year with MLB TV). But they were saying yesterday he had some kind of bad upbringing, and to be honest I'm tired of that narrative. Adam Griffith had a bad upbringing, too and so did MANY fine upstanding minority athletes in many sports (I'm saying this because you're never going to convince me that if Hernandez was a full fledged cracker that this would be the angle).
Lyman Bostock was a tragedy.
And let me add something else here on the soap box I guess. I've always said that deep down people KNOW this stuff, okay? Hernandez KNEW what he was doing was wrong, which is why he committed the murder at 3am (and did this bozo stop for even a second to think that he had two witnesses IN THE CAR with him?). That's why I can't get into this whole "tragedy" angle.
This is an imprecise parallel but.....the Cam Newton scandal at Auburn (and no, I'm obviously not saying paid player equals murder). My black pastor friend I work with - we get along great and kind of give each other the rundown. So he tried to argue - very politely, almost lawyerly like - that a guy from the hood like Cam (and I don't think that part is true but whatever) has never been around a bunch of money and someone offers it to him...it's not WRONG to him, he's doing whatever anyone would do.
I pointed out that he KNEW it was wrong by mere fact he kept it a secret.
And knew he had to lie about it. In other words, this 'defense' isn't any defense at all.
Same with Hernandez but on a MUCH bigger scale.
