Deflate what?

Are they kidding us?  We've been listening to the deflated balls for over a week now.  Seriously.  A damn week plus.  So what?  My bet is every team plays with this a little.  My bet is that no one has ever really given a rat's buttocks.  Regardless, a week and a half over deflating a ball.   A NFL investigation that has been going on for at least a week.  And every single day on the news and SportCenter and any media that you happen to read whether online or the old fashioned paper way.  The Patriots may have deflated balls because of weather.  This may have been done by the Colts too.  No one's looking into that because well it doesn't really matter.  Enough already.  Here's my problem with this whole thing:  Why so much attention to some deflated balls but so quickly swept under the rug actually paying off of referees?!?!  Let's be serious.  Money talks and bullsh*t walks.  The Cowboys' party bus the night before the playoff game against the Lions had referees on it.  Drunk.  Partying with the Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones.  Why haven't we heard about an investigation into a possible payoff?  Why haven't we heard about sanctions for the referees being out partying the night before a game?  Why haven't we heard about sanctions for cheating by the Cowboys?  Why?

Money baby.  Money.  Jerry Jones has more money than any of the other owners.  Detroit struggles to keep money rolling in, let alone being able to grease the NFL into doing the right thing.  Total revenue of the NFL was $9.5M in 2013.  The most popular teams include the Cowboys (of course), Patriots, Raiders, Steelers, Packers, Chiefs.  This year the Seahawks and the Colts have a money backing also.  They bring in the cash.  But hey, with the whole balls thing, the NFL seems to have completely forgot about paying off referees!!!  Who did that?  Who benefits from this ridiculous crap about balls?  I bet Jerry Jones is laughing his ass off while he tarnishes a head coach he doesn't like and one of the all time greatest quarterbacks. (And I can't stand the Pats.)  The tarnish this year belongs to Jerry Jones and his Cowboys.  We'll never know if the Lions could've won for sure.  It's definitely highly likely based on the final score.  Those calls could've had a huge impact on the outcome.  The referees make or break the game. 

All football fans, heck all sports fans, know the referees making crap calls can swing the outcome of the game.  Why isn't the NFL looking into the finances of the referees?  Why aren't they looking into Jerry Jones for making a payoff?  For that matter, why isn't the Federal Government looking into it?  This was possibly FRAUD involving a payoff to have an affect on an outcome that had financial gains for some and financial losses for others.  There's no fraud when a ball is deflated, because it could be debated all day long how much impact that could have on the outcome--as the week plus coverage proves.  But, financial gains, free party bus tickets, the sales that the Cowboys would see from their fans the week after the win, money crossing hands in any way, shape or form between Jerry Jones or his representatives or the fans on that party bus to the referees--right down to free drinks--should be looked into.  But hey America, here's how stupid people like Jerry Jones think we are.  They play the shell game and find some great debatable drama to divert our attention from financial fraud.  

Often I talk about stuff trying to get people to start opening our eyes to what a little logical thinking immediately can have us scratching our heads.  Why would the NFL not investigate and fire the referees that took bribes?  Why would they not focus on why referees were drinking excessively the night before a playoff game, heck any game for that matter?  They work half the year and make more than double what the average American does.  I seriously want them to lose their jobs.  I seriously want to see them in jail.  The average Joe that watches football every weekend that makes half in a year what those referees do in only 6 months should want to know to.  What's the point of watching those teams if our teams will always lose because the owners can pay off the refs?  

Why do we let the media and money, and not even money coming to any of us, redirect us?  It happens to us over and over and over again.  Politics.  The Brits made a huge stink about a blurb taking from an interview that Mitt Romney said about the difficulty of getting the Olympics logistics right in a large city like London.  The media in England and the States didn't ever focus on what he actually said, but a sentence taken out of context.  I immediately got on YouTube and saw the entire answer to the question he was asked.  Romney had made the comment in reference to how the London Olympics were behind schedule when they were preparing and his experience being brought in to Salt Lake City's Olympics when they were behind.  He was explaining the difficulty of the logistics and basically complimenting the London team.  Who benefited from that gaff?  The liberal media, the rich, and the Obamas.  With them in the White House for the last 6 years I know as the average middle class person I haven't benefited one bit.  Higher federal taxes.  Higher healthcare costs.  Lower wages.  Lots of friends that have been unemployed so long that they are actually no longer on the unemployment roles (the REAL reason unemployment is down).  But hey, it got the people who would benefit from it exactly what they wanted.  

What I wanted is what Detroit wanted, what Michigan needed, was what every underdog in this country could have benefited from.  The Detroit Lions in the Super Bowl.  The Detroit Lions who have never even been to a Super Bowl.  The last time they won any championship was in the 1950s.  No NFC Championship ever.  No Super Bowl.  And Detroit, the city, is the underdog of all underdogs.  The city has been the focus of the media because of how downtrodden, hell practically abandoned, defeated and left for dead it is.  Thanks to Fiat and Chrysler and GM (no Ford has still not returned to the Motor City), Detroit is trying to make a comeback.  Nothing would have been a better underdog story, nothing would have been a great "win" for the once pearl of a city--the Motor City, Motown, HockeyTown.  So what Jerry Jones and those referees did was steal, de-fraud, Detroit and every underdog in this country of a win.  One that we middle class underdogs really could have appreciated.  A comeback for the Motor City is a comeback for every average Joe in the country.  The sign that we were not losing to the rich, to the politicians, and that even the little guy comes out ahead once in a while.  That is the epitome of Detroit and the Detroit Lions.  Yet, let's focus on balls because they make easier jokes.  No one wants to admit that even the NFL doesn't really care about us over the Jerry Jones' Cowboys mega money team.  Hahaha America.  The joke is on us and even the NFL is in on it.  Money talks and we don't have any.