Schmess, I have to say, I don't quite get how it's Comcast Comcast Comcast, and I will have to have it spelled out for my miniscule brain to interpret.
The only way the CCC theory works, is if it's a pure revenge stunt: NFL versus Comcast, pure and simple. Comcast ("big cable") hates the NFL for trying to push its product on them. So therefore Comcast decides to kick the NFL in the nuts via their lackey, Spector.
And... what? How does this help Comcast? As this plays in my mind, it's just revenge, with no blackmail. What does Comcast get out of a damaged NFL, even if Spector were to succeed? Alternately, was there at any time a threat either explicit or implicit that Spector would pull this stunt, if the NFL did not do X, Y, or Z?
Although the mantra "follow the money" usually strikes me as pretty reliable, I'm thinking this is more amorphous grandstanding than traceable toolmanship. It seems Spector has found a stunt that satisfies both the people who vote for him, and those who have their hand at the end of his leash. His money guys will be delighted, his fan/voter base will be delighted... it seems like a ploy to capture and use the hatred and fear of the masses to one's own advantage, at the time of most advantageous political timing (i.e., visibility) -- the Super Bowl.
What scares me, is that 44 states out of 50 are not in New England, and congressmen and senators up for reelection, not to mention presidential candidates, might decide to hop this wobbly bandwagon in a quest for votes.
I mean, if I were on a fence, and MY team kept losing big games to somebody, and I was convinced they cheated, by Jingo I would go right out there and vote for the loudest loudmouth on the subject out there.
So would you, all your protestations aside.
And for fans from 44 out of 50 states, well, you know the outcome.
I would think it would blow over, that the political calculus will be "don't brand yourself an idiot dilletante. It's a self-damning manuever."
But what would give it legs is not Comcast - though I am am sure they would laugh their butts off, and throw money at the whole spectacle. What would give it legs is p i s s ed off fans of loser teams....
"Break Up the Patriots!" (it's okay, we're not losers, we have an excuse!)
Oh okay don't break them up... just drag them through the mud and steal their first rounder from San Fran.
It looks good right now but if it gets hairy, Goodell throws the team under the bus for the sake of the league.
Blech. Well all, if it does get hairy, remember: fair's just the thing that comes to town once a year in the summer time.
PFnV
