Peter King is my grievance.
Peter King represents a guy who is intimately involved in destroying the NFL while pretending to be involved in journalism. Why a destruction of the NFL? Because he knows, we know, and most fans SHOULD know, that the Spygate thing has to disappear because of what several other high profile teams have been doing in similar fashion. If King continues to dig he will hit the Mother Lode and the NFL product will be about as credible as The Yellow Brick Road.
My personal opinion is that the Patriots have been good citizens by keeping their mouths shut about what they know about the Jets and other teams. If King is successful in skewering the Patriots, the Patriots will have no choice but to "out" the other teams and that is obviously not good for the sport. If you are asking me the commish has an unspoken agreement with the Patriots to allow Spygate to disappear in return for them keeping family matters inside the family. Fans of other teams who despise the Patriots for "getting off the hoook so easily" don't really get it. They do not understand the real nature of the game they are watching, or the unseen activities of their own teams. Their own teams will go down if the Patriots go down because the scandal, if you can call it that, is widespread.
And it's not a scandal except to morons who want it to be a scandal for reasons of jealousy. That is really the only way they can help take the Patriots down to the level of their own teams that can't stand up to the Patriots on the field. It's much ado about nothing, but in the world of guilt and hypocrisy, it's a big deal.
The NFL is a cheater league, if you want to think of spying as cheating, and in a weird way that is sort of what makes it great. Everybody is working overtime to get the advantage. Take that away and I'm afraid that you remove an important aspect of a competitive situation.
The thing that annoys me most about King is his sanctimonious approach and his insistence in ignoring what the other teams have been caught doing, even this year. Spygate was a gnat compared to other incidences, except for the fact that the most successful team in the league did it. To hold one team out because of their success is stupid and disingenuous. They all do it, every week, in one form or another.
