And This is Why I'm Glad the Giants Won...Kind of

Now Serving Ranting

It's "just sports," but its low-brow status protects the clarity of its lens, through which we can see our values. It's an ugly picture.

Outside the body of WVU fans, who in the sports world has taken so much as a second glance at this? I think Mitch Albom denounced it, and I've occasionally heard commentators make vague, weak comments about "class," or coaching contracts, or something like that. For the most part, this isn't just business as usual - it's "business as usual, and why are you shocked/outraged?" Slowly and surely, we are losing the ability to recognize cheating. Some of us even know, and don't care, or even think it good to lose that ability.

I like to think that the Super Bowl was karma for a certain famous cheating coach of recent memory, who represents as well as anyone the ideological shift towards hypercompetition: "if you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough."