Wilbur smashes media for Peyton double standard

Is this Manning/HGH situation only a “non-story” because business partner Nantz and the rest of his “Protect the Shield” cronies refuse it to make it one, whether that’s by directive of commissioner Roger Goodell or out of respect for the quarterback, who remains the face (and forehead) of the league despite his putrid performance this past season?

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Powell writes, “I scrutinized the list of names, and it soon appeared less random than at first blush. Nearly all of the athletes he named are clients of Jason Riley, a fitness trainer based in Sarasota, Fla. Here is where the story of Charles Sly becomes more intriguing. Sly is a business partner of Riley’s. When Sly applied for a pharmacist license in Florida, he used Riley’s home address.”

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IamA Jason Riley, Professional Trainer who’s clients include Derek Jeter, Ryan Howard, Maria Sharapova, Sammy Watkins, and others AMA! Ask me anything!

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PatsBoy12 said:

It's true, but nobody cares. Not one person in the office is talking about it. But my whole office, including my assistant manager who once called a touchdown a goal (like in soccer), was razzing me about Brady during the off season. Look, people are who they are. The world has been taught to hate all things Brady and New England and to defend all things Peyton Manning. Look at all the predictions of Brady's demise the past few off seasons (before this past one). How many people are talking about the present decline of Manning truly? If anything, the media starting talking three or so weeks ago how Manning would come back to lead the Broncos to a SB win. He couldn't even do that when he was playing at a Manning level. But of course this season would be the year according to the general media. Yeah, okay.

People base their opinions in large part on whether or not they like the person. If they like you, then you're hilarious, can do no wrong or nobody really messes with you when you screw up. When they hate you, then all your jokes are corny, everything you do is wrong and everybody waits for the next screw up. That's just what it is.

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pheenix11 said:

The scary part is, if they are lying and misleading the public on sports stories, what's going on with the really important stuff?

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Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

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GrogansArmy said:

I just can't understand why the league and media hates the 199th pick so much even though its such a fantastic JAG to GOAT story (or if you prefer rags to riches).

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Tuck said:

The national news silence on this has been deafening. I personally don't care if he did it or didn't do it but the way it's been treated as a non story while Brady was practically burned at the stake is inexplicable.

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QuantumMechanic said:

Novelist Michael Crichton:



The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect (Among many other places where you can find reference to it.)

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Riley and Sly founded Elementz Nutrition, a nutritional supplement company whose website and Facebook page feature many of the athletes Sly mentioned on camera.

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ESPN declared that Riley had “dumped the Captain [Jeter] into a hot tub time machine” and turned him into a 25-year-old.

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You wonder if the pro league chieftains, Rob Manfred in baseball and the N.F.L. sachem Roger Goodell, have paid attention, and have the stomach to pursue these strands.

They might want to hurry. Last week, Elementz Nutrition voluntarily dissolved and closed its doors.

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As with most cases in this NFL, Manning’s protection comes down to cash as much as it does legacy, which means the league will eschew the embarrassment of sweeping it under the rug in exchange for making its advertisers happy.

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