The Robert Kraft sex fiasco

NFL fans know Robert Kraft is the owner of the New England Patriots. Pretty much everybody else knows he's also uber-rich, as in billionaire. Probably several times over.

And getting richer every day. As the honcho of the Kraft food empire, see mac and cheese, mayo, and a slew of other products folks buy every day by the millions, the money continues to pour in.

Yet it would appear Mr. Kraft is dumber than a brick in another respect.

How else to explain him getting caught up in a prostitution and/or "human trafficking" sting?

Yes, I get it. Men have their "needs", even old guys like Kraft. And given his wife died a while back, nobody would begrudge him if wanted to "get a little on the side" to satisfy his libido.

Stop right there.

How, pray tell, could he have possibly have wound up in this predicament? Sure, he denies any involvement, and he's innocent until proven guilty, just like everybody else. Time will tell -- maybe.

Just for the sake of argument, and perhaps stupidity, something yours truly excels at, let's just say he actually did it.

But this would he so colossally dumb, if true.

Consider. Your average billionaire has all kinds of contacts and connects. He/she can pick up a phone and call somebody to get most anything done.

It only seems logical then, that he would have somebody on his list that could facilitate getting in touch with a high-class call girl agency. They're out there, and very discreet as well.

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Back to Bob.

Though I wouldn't know from personal experience, not being a billionaire, I'm pretty sure the above-mentioned "agencies" can provide Grade A cuisine for any man willing to pay enough for it. Beautiful women that will do anything to please/gratify a client.

And what can it cost? A few grand a pop? Definitely way out of my league, but chump change to a billionaire. Somebody like Kraft could have a different "companion", all equally gorgeous, every day/night of the year, if he wished.

Even if he had the stamina to "go" every night, 365 a year, at, say, $5000 a throw, add it up and it's still under two million bucks. Did I mention chump change in the world of a billionaire? Good grief, he probably makes a lot more than that every week through his food empire.

So why, tell me WHY, would somebody in his position, with infinite resources, stoop to going to a sleazy massage parlor looking to hook up for fun and games? Those are precisely the kind of places the vice squad boys and girls love to bust.

And it appears he got busted indeed. Sure, he and his high powered lawyers will probably figure a way out of it. Such is "justice", or the lack thereof, in America of late. Got enough dough, and you probably buy yourself a break from the law. Happens all the time, unless children, large quantities of drugs, or the dreaded "national security" come into play.

But had the mac and cheese man spent a few bucks he could easily afford for "steak" in the first place, instead of settling for "hamburger helper", he wouldn't be in this mess.

Dumb.

Dumb.

Dumb.

Down go the Dukies

So much for being #1. Coach K's boys just got ran out of their own building by cross-town rival North Carolina. You can't get thrashed by 16 points on your home court (or anywhere else for that matter) and expect to be considered the top team in the country. And it only got worse for the Blue Devils. Star play Zion Williamson, once considered the shoo-in #1 pick in the next NBA draft, went down with a knee injury, severity unknown. If he's out for any length of time, particularly when the NCAA tourney starts, Duke has NO shot. And if the injury is bad enough, who knows what it will do to his draft stock? Not good.

So that would seem to beg the question -- who is #1?

Tennessee was there for a while -- until they got throttled by Kentucky.

Virginia? They're pretty good but they always fold in the tournament.

Tiny little Gonzaga from the great northwest? They've historically been the little engine that stalls on the way up the mountain.

Michigan? Nah. Though they improbably made it to the title game last year, they're not good enough.

Nor is Michigan State.

Kansas always lurks, but they don't appear to be the real deal this year either.

Same with Louisville.

Once perennial powerhouses like UCLA and Arizona haven't made any noise in a long time.

It just goes to show you all this ranking stuff is a bunch of hooey in the first place. It doesn't matter one iota once the tournament field is set. Whoever wins THAT will be #1. Period.

And this year, it's shaping up to be a total crap shoot.

Any number of teams could get hot and pull it off. That's not even considering the injury factor. Ya never know about that stuff. See Duke above.

I'ms still rooting for the Zags (Bulldogs). What an incredible story it would be if a little school like that could become champions.

But do I think it will happen?

Nope.

Fingers crossed, though......

The insanity continues

Here we have a professional golfer. Between the PGA, European, Asian, and other tours, not to mention the "minor leagues", there's certainly an abundance of them.

See said golfer playing a tournament -- not a major -- just your average tourney, in California.

See him a whopping ten strokes back -- tied for 55th place, not quite through his second round of play, and hoping to make the cut. Barely.

If you were watching the tournament at home, would you expect to be bombarded by coverage of this guy?

Of course not. But this particular golfer's name is Eldrick Tont Woods, sometimes known as Tiger.

The insanity of the media, not to mention the hordes of lemmings faithfully following him around continues.

He's not even in the Top Ten of the rankings.

He's won a grand total of one -- count it -- ONE tournament in the last five years. Not a major at that.

But STILL they faun over him. Replay, after replay, after replay. Everything always revolves around Tiger. See Tiger drive. See Tiger putt. See Tiger eat a banana. See Tiger chat with his caddie. See Tiger scratch his rear end. Tiger, Tiger, Tiger mania is everywhere. It's like they WANT him to win. They NEED him to win.

And never mind the 54 other golfers that are ahead of him. The TV crews can't go more than 2 minutes without showing Eldrick on the air.

When any round is over, apparently Congress passed a law saying it's mandatory the media televise a live interview with Tiger.

Wake up in the middle of the night, flip on ESPN for a recap of the day's sports, and what will you see?

More Tiger highlights. Tiger eagled this hole and birdied that one. They don't show the viewer the holes he butchered in between to be so far back on the scoreboard.

There are those that continue to say Eldrick Tont Woods was/is good for golf. They wouldn't tune in if he weren't playing.

I'm quite the opposite. I find any tourney infinitely more interesting when he's NOT entered in it, or the final two rounds of one where he didn't make the cut.

Because when that happens the TV coverage is more evenly spread around among the top contenders, as it should be.

To boot, of late Woods appears to only play maybe once a month or so, cherry-picking his tournaments at venues he prefers, while the rest of the pros are grinding it out week after week here, there, and everywhere.

You can bet he'll go into hibernation a few weeks before the Masters in April, preparing himself for the conditions at Augusta National.

And I wouldn't be surprised if the media somehow found a way to televise a documentary of Eldrick's said preparations, while all the other superior golfers the world over are ignored while actually playing live action.

I won't even get into his serial infidelity as a husband. Or his temper-tantrum throwing infantile behavior on the course when things don't go his way. Or claiming to have walked an entire course while playing on a broken leg. Ridiculous, but the suckers bought it.

Yet in spite of his boorish behavior and self-entitled attitude over the years, I tried, I really tried to warm up to the guy.

But I can/t.

The more the media attempts to jam him down my throat, the more I come to dislike him. If they would only be impartial about it, I likely wouldn't harbor such feelings.

I, for one, will be SO glad when the time comes and Eldrick Tont is no longer relevant, as in so bad even the media can't spin the proverbial gold from his game of straw.

Game "better" with Tiger in it? Pshaw. It's decidedly worse, much worse, because of the blatant bias.

Patriots Super Bowl champs -- again

It probably shouldn't have come as much of a surprise to most football fans. After all, the New England Patriots WERE favored, though just slightly, to win another Super Bowl over the LA Rams.

And so they did. What WAS surprising was how both defenses were so effective. In what most, including yours truly, thought would be a high-scoring affair, it was anything but. A final score of 13-3 bears that out. Defense pretty much ruled.

Hats off to defensive coordinator Brian Flores of the Pats. Holding the high-octane offense of the Rams to a mere field goal was impressive indeed. Rumors have it Flores will depart next year to take over the head-coaching job of the Miami Dolphins. Sure, he'll get a huge raise in pay -- welcome to the multi-millionaire club -- but last time I looked the Dolphins were still in the same division as the Pats. Which means they have no chance of winning it.

New England is amazing in that way. They just keep getting it done with guys most football fans never heard of, besides Tom Brady, of course. Running back Sony Michel was Rams' running back Todd Gurley's back-up at Georgia, but look who's hoisting the Lombardi Trophy now. Receiver Julian Edelman isn't tall, fast, or tough. But he drives defenders with the scat routes he runs and catches he makes.

Quick, name somebody on the Pats defense, or offensive line, for that matter. Betcha can't. None jumps out as a "notable" but together they play superbly as a team. That's coaching.

One need look no further than the current head coach of the Detroit Lions. Under Bill Belichick's tutelage, Matt Patricia was highly successful as the defensive coordinator for the Patriots.

One he got to Motown, he fell flat on his face, racking up a 6-10 record in his rookie season. And it surely doesn't look like the Lions will be any better next year. Same with Detroit general manager Bob Quinn, another former Patriot employee. True, he was only a measly scout in New England, but the Lions' "brain trust", and I use that term with tongue planted firmly in cheek, somehow came to the genius conclusion that Quinn had the credentials to be a general manager. As a scout, this guy knew about as much about negotiating player contracts and salary caps as your average legal assistant would know about arguing a case in front of the Supreme Court. Is it any wonder he's crashed and burned so badly?

But in contrast to New England, that's the Detroit way. Hire an incompetent, and stick by him for years. It took the Lions eight -- count em -- EIGHT years to realize buffoon Matt Millen running the franchise was a bad idea.

Nevertheless, all hail the New England Patriots, Super Bowl champions -- again. They get to have another parade while 31 other NFL teams don't.

Is anybody really surprised?