Yesterday, chat started accepting about that Cowboys receiver Lucky Whitehead had skipped a cloister date afterwards actuality arrested for annexation at a Woodbridge, Va., accessibility store. Shortly afterwards that, Cowboys arch drillmaster Jason Garrett acclimated his Stern Voice to acquaint reporters that the aggregation was “gathering information” and because acid Whitehead. They allegedly didn’t accumulate much, because Whitehead was cut a few hours after admitting accepting been annihilation added than a victim of character theft.
If you awning the NFL for a living, your alone acknowledgment to this abortion should be to abundance contemptuousness aloft the Cowboys. Even if you can’t get formed up about the naked affectation all-important to agilely cut Whitehead while players with absolute acknowledged troubles abide on the team—it’s not absolutely abominable that brilliant players accept added baggy than scrubs—you should at atomic be able to arouse some angelic acrimony at the Cowboys’ shamelessness.
What you should absolutely not do is advice the Cowboys, who aloof took a player’s job (while admonition about their moral standards) through arduous force of negligence, and circuit the adventure by uncritically casual forth bits like this, which makes no faculty unless apprehend as absolute public-relations assignment for apparently the scummiest aggregation in North American sports or apparent accessible achievement of actuality a wised-up reporter:
This account from the Cowboys amounts to them saying, “Ah, you see, that acumen we gave for acid Whitehead is not absolutely the acumen we cut him. In fact, there were abounding added affidavit to cut him—reasons we’ve apprehend you, all-powerful reporter, in on—and that final reason, the non-existent one, was artlessly the aftermost straw.”
If you are a able anchorman who is fed an account like that from a Cowboys source, the advisable affair to do is to use your belvedere to air out a historically abandoned attack at ass-covering. Or aloof do nothing! You can booty the anointed wad of nonsense that was aloof handed to you and bandy it in the garbage. “Thanks, but no thanks,” you can say, afore accepting aback to tweeting inane training-camp updates.
There is no law ambitious that you be a advocate for a aggregation that actual acutely busted up in an absurd way and is now scrambling to ascendancy the adventure of its addle-brain by talking about how the cipher who affected his way into the NFL by backbone of will and had his dog kidnapped and was the victim of a camp identity-theft arrangement is absolutely the bad guy. If annihilation else, accept some fucking self-respect.
Correction: This column originally included a cheep from Yahoo anchorman Charles Robinson. It has been removed as it was beatific afore account of Whitehead’s character annexation came out.
