Denizens, this edition of the Perfect Football Weekend™ begins with NFL mafia don head honcho Roger Goodfella Goodell getting caught acting like the mafia don head honcho mafia don this scribe has always thought him to be.
Recall, if you will, how the NFL just got through suspending Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice after the Ravens terminated his contract following that video of him delivering a Joe Frazier-caliber left hook to the noggin of his main squeeze.  At time time, Goodell claimed that that was the first time the NFL had seen the video.
Welllllll…not so fast there, Sparky.
A law enforcement official says he sent a video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée to an NFL executive five months ago, while league executives have insisted they didn’t see the violent images until this week.
The official played The Associated Press a 12-second voicemail from an NFL office number on April 9 confirming the video arrived. A female voice expresses thanks and says: “You’re right. It’s terrible.”
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The law enforcement official, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, says he had no further communication with any NFL employee and can’t confirm anyone watched the video. He said he was unauthorized to release the video but shared it unsolicited because he wanted the NFL to have it before deciding on Rice’s punishment.
The NFL has repeatedly said it asked for but could not obtain the video of Rice hitting Janay Palmer — who is now his wife — at an Atlantic City casino in February.
The league says it has no record of the video and that no one in the league office had seen it until it was released by TMZ on Monday. Asked about the voicemail Wednesday, NFL officials repeated their assertion that no league official had seen the video before Monday.
Soooooo…an initial slap-on-the-wrist for Rice, followed by a cover-up.  “Nuthin’ t’ see here, move ‘long, we don’ know what’cher talk’n ’bout.”
Fairly typical behavior from Roger Goodfella, hm?
Let’s get to the football.  My Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets, having conquered a couple teams that would’ve beat the crap out of them last year, now Go West, Young Men™ – in this case, out Californication way to Scots Valley to play the locals out there.
I honestly don’t know who’s going to win this one – though I’m always leery about games like this.  Gimme Heights and 50.
Gary Patterson’s TCU Horned Frogs are home again this weekend to play the UMinne-haha Golden Ferrets Gophers of the B1G (that’s “Big Ten” for the Church of the SubTarded).  Vegas has the Froggies as a 15½-point favorite at home – which sounds a bit high to me, given that TCU’s still fine-tuning its offense and  Boykin’s still at QB, but I guess we’ll see.
Sunday, Andy Dalton & the Cincy Bengals play host to Matt Ryan and the Hotlanta Falcons.  Vegas has Cincy as a five-point home favorite.
I dunno about this.  I’m not a believer any more in Matt Ryan – yet he does  tend to eat up questionable secondaries – and Cincy has Terrence “Bust” Newman back there.  This could get ugly.
For my wildcard games, we’re going to go with Nebraska at Fresno State (if McNeese nearly pulled off the upset in Lincoln, Fresno’s going to kill them), Kansas at Duke (the Devils get to pwn them in football, too) and the Dallas Cowgirls at Tennessee.  (No, I still don’t like Widdle Jakie Locker, but Dallas doesn’t have anything this year.  I seriously think the ‘Girlz may go 0-16.)
We’re back Monday or so for the recap.  In the meantime, SMUT, which had June “Why Did I Leave Hawaii?” Jones just up & quit on them, is guaranteed not to lose this weekend…because (all together now)…
ENTIRE CAST & CREW OF SCBBS:  …THEY DON’T PLAY!!!!!
See ya Monday.
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