So I’m guessing you’ve heard the one about the morally corrupt, meathead, New York Jets strength coach/cheater that built a fleshy wall-of-criminals and tripped the poor, defenseless Miami Dolphins gunner as he simply tried to do his job in the Jets-Dolphins game the other day? If this all sounds accurate, and you’re nodding along as you read, the concepts of “context” and “perspective” are in a pile on the other side of your wood-chipper.
The Dolphins’ Nolan Carroll was flagged earlier in the game for unsportsmanlike conduct for running out of bounds and not returning to the field in a timely fashion. So then he does it again, and the real story is a coach’s knee that moves a couple inches while in the area he’s legally required to be, contacting Carroll who … wait for it … isn’t?!
The point is Sal Alosi is having his job, livelihood, and good name threatened because, at its core, there is a palpable fear of public relations outrage from a mass audience that isn’t seeing what they’re seeing.
Carroll heads out of bounds on the 20 yard-line with a wide outside release to escape the double-team, grabs a Nathan’s with kraut from a vendor, high-fives Jenn Sterger’s replacement, and re-enters when he-damn-well-pleases before falling onto the 45 yard-line. In the absence of Sal’s lapse, his angle would likely have carried him up near midfield, 25-30 yards from where he started his tour of the countryside. And the only thing on the subject of “fairness” we’re discussing is a knee that traveled the length of the written word “Meadowlands?” Really?
