New audio has been released amid the bounty scandal plaguing the New Orleans Saints and shows just how desperate some football coaches are. Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was caught on tape discussing the strategies his players should take to incapacitate players of the opposing team by striking at their heads and ACL to inflict injuries.
…17 years later, on this disturbing January 13th night I couldn’t help but care.
Was it because I am 42 and no longer got hard-ons watching gladiators landing “kill shots?”
Was it because I don’t go to games with a painted face and scream obscenities at underperforming players in front of young children? Or because I haven’t paid-for-autographed Fathead’s of my favorite ballers to stick on the wall in my home office?
Or was it because I have friends I love dearly who played the game and got their “bell rung” so many times that I fear they won’t remember their children’s faces by the time their kids have kids?
Yep, I’m pretty sure the last one was the reason I wasn’t smiling.
You see, I was sitting next to Steve Gleason in the back of the room as Gregg Williams screamed ‘fuck’ and ‘fuckin’ countless times when instructing his men to hurt other men. Williams wasn’t considering the fact that many of those men have children and all of those men are somebody’s son.
“We make no apologies for the way we play the game,” Williams said in a tone which suggested that he actually had the balls to put on a uniform and do the very things he was ordering his players to do, much less be on the receiving end of the blows he was ordering up.
I don’t have those balls.
You don’t have those balls.
And Gregg Williams most definitely does not have those balls.
It’s a cowards play to send someone off to do your malicious bidding. I’m sure many of his players would have told him this if they weren’t scared to lose their jobs or look like bitches in front of their teammates. Or if they weren’t 25 and couldn’t possibly have a fully developed perspective on life.
“This is a production business,” Williams said emphatically when he began his speech. He repeated that mantra again and again, during the balance of his impassioned, profanity laced diatribe.
