Hosting Super Bowl 2024 in crime-ridden Las Vegas a rotten choice by NFL
Gotta step on it. Reader Mark Morley reminds us that the CBS Super Bowl pregame show starts in 10 minutes.
Hey, without dawn-to-dusk pregames how would we know the game is on TV, let alone which channel?
Anyway, come Sunday evening well hold these truths to be self-evident:
Taylor Swift, if present, will be followed very closely, more so than on usual Chiefs telecasts, as this is the game that attracts women of all ages despite Roger Goodells annual approval of misogynistic, N-word spewing, crotch-grabbing artists as halftime family entertainment.
Thus Swift will be given the Tiger Woods parking lot-arrival to parking lot-departure treatment even if it diminishes coverage of the game.
But by now we understand that anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Recall the Tommy Cutlets DeVito days?
Tony Romos $180 million voice, by the end of the third quarter, will be raspy, a blend of Mel Torme and Suzanne Pleshette.
4Roger Goodell speaks to the media during a press conference on Feb. 5 ahead of Super Bowl 2024. USA TODAY SportsLas Vegas will have again proven to be a rotten choice of venue as for some strange reason crime has a nasty habit of visiting Sin City and that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas police files.
By Tuesday, Raiders DB Janarius Robinson was arrested for DUI at the Vegas-common crime time of 5:59 a.m.
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Thats about the same time NFL players Alvin Kamara and Chris Lammons were arrested and charged with nearly stomping a man to death after they refused to allow him to share their elevator at a Vegas strip joint. They were in Vegas for the Pro Bowl.
A Vegas strip joint is also where limitless NFL miscreant Adam Pacman Jones and Co. did their worst, making it rain until a gunshot paralyzed the bouncer. They were in Vegas for the NBA All-Star Game.
Another NFL star, Marshawn Lynch, was arrested for suspicion of DUI when he was found at 7:30 a.m., passed out in his sports car, two of its tires destroyed after impacting a Las Vegas curb.
Then theres WR Henry Ruggs III, now in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter for drunk-driving his Corvette 156 mph on a Vegas street at 3:40 a.m. before injuring his girlfriend and mother of his daughter, and killing a 23-year old woman and her dog in the fiery crash he caused.
Ruggs was also accused of a misdemeanor for carrying a gun, not that on this morning he needed one to kill someone.
The Raiders statement offered the boilerplate thoughts and prayers to the victims family.
4Hosting Super Bowl 2024 in Las Vegas was a rotten choice by the NFL, The Post’s Phil Mushnick writes. Christopher Trim/CSM/ShutterstockTheres a growing pile of sports-specific good reasons not to hold big events in Vegas, but whos counting? Certainly not that first-class, flip-flopping phony Roger Goodell. This week he drew well-earned roughly $70 million per ridicule for declaring that the integrity of the game remains his No. 1 priority.
He did the same prior to legalization when he pleaded with Maryland not to allow gambling on NFL teams as it will leave families in ruin and afflict the perceived integrity of the game.
This week, he claimed that the Supreme Court, in legalizing sports gambling, is to blame, as if the NFL was forced to partner with sportsbooks to ensure its cut of the losses, as if hes unaware that NFL-licensed, logoed and promoted gambling didnt reverse a downward trend in TV ratings.
Under Goodell, money, including of the ill-gotten kind, is the NFLs No. 1 priority, thus he wouldnt change a thing.
And in spite of his habitual baloney, We, The People, agree with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in holding these truths to be self-evident.
Trump was warned that McMahon is sleaze
Now that most everyone knows what this column years ago investigated and reported that Vince McMahon is a twisted creep it brings to mind a phone chat I had with Donald Trump, before he became president.
4Vince McMahon (L.) had Donald Trump (R.) on a number of his WWE telecasts. Getty ImagesAs Trump was throwing in with McMahon, playing an in-ring clown during McMahons pay-per-view and often salacious extravaganzas, I offered Trump four large boxes of documents to show him that McMahon ran a drug and death mill, and a sexually perverted operation, even indulging the employment of known pedophiles who became the target of inside jokes on McMahons telecasts.
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Trump dismissed it all, rationalizing that he donates his appearance fees to charity, though he didnt say how much or give the name of the charities as if that excused his service as a McMahon attraction.
And so, as Trump was inducted into McMahons pro wrestling Hall of Fame, his wife, Linda, was soon named to President Trumps cabinet as the Secretary of Small Business.
Mrs. McMahon not only participated in her husbands most vulgar skits and sales of merchandise to kids her business acumen included T-shirts that read Suck It with an arrow pointing toward the crotch she had astonishingly been appointed to Connecticuts Board of Education.
That she claimed to have been an Education major in college when she majored in French. But who can recall their college major?
Its all a con, all of it.
Im on the thick side, thus I still dont understand why this past week, again, womens college teams dressed head-to-toe sneakers included in pink to show their support for curing breast cancer.
So I again ask: Why not everyone wear a conspicuous pink ribbon rather than spend tens of thousands of dollars on pink ensembles? Why not donate that money to cancer research rather than on fleeting public relations?
Now Jason Alexander, formerly known as George Costanza, appears in TV ads pitching real-stakes online poker.
Of course, everyone wins in such come-ons, thus Alexander is seen raking in a skyline of stacked chips.
ESPN ignores Kyries bigotry
Interesting session on ESPNs Around the Horn, Wednesday, focusing on flat-earth Kyrie Irvings return to Brooklyn to play the Nets.
Panelist Ramona Shelburne, an ESPN Insider, marveled at how Irving has rehabilitated his image, while the panelists claimed that his problems in Brooklyn were the result of his refusal to be vaccinated.
4Kyrie Irving return to Brooklyn during the Mavericks’ win over the Nets on Feb. 6, 2024. USA TODAY Sports Left unmentioned was his still-unresolved advocacy of a black lunatic fringes illogical, historically bogus claim that Jews caused centuries of black enslavement. But Irvings anti-Semitism, by Adam Silvers standards, was deemed permissible.
Of course, had Irving been white and advocated crackpot hatred of blacks, thered have been no discussion as Irving would have long ago been canceled.
The National Labor Relations Board this week ignored the fact that Dartmouth is a college that provides grants in aid scholarships to varsity athletes, ruling that the colleges basketball players are employees of the school, no different from window washers or librarians, thus entitled to unionize to negotiate salaries and benefits, including workers compensation for time missed due to injuries.
All pretense of college sports having anything to do with college educating basketball players, for example has been removed from Div. I schools as irrelevant. Its a sickness that will soon render college sports destroyed beneath an avalanche of debt.
Prior to the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, Mike Francesa promised us that he would not permit anyone on Radio Row in Atlanta to hawk products on his show. Well, I think you remember how that turned out. Save two minutes of your valuable time for this one. pic.twitter.com/TAHNZCdXoK
— Funhouse (@BackAftaThis) May 27, 2020Need a laugh? Tap into the @BackAftaThis X handle, formerly Twitter, to hear Mike Francesas WFAN days Super Bowl Radio Row pledge to not allow any guest to hawk a product. Enjoy!
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