Yes, I get that this whole American-football-in-England and English-rugby-in-America thing is about globalism, but can you save the geopolitics for Meet the Press and just leave football alone?  Americans, even football fans, aren’t dumb.  We’re well aware this publicity stunt was about selling out American interests for globalist ones, which is bad enough, but why did the NFL have to choose Britain???  Britain has had a longstanding history of imperialism around the world and certainly with the United States even going so far as to aid, though quietly, the Confederacy during the Civil War!  So really NFL, just save it.  Americans do not bow, nor should we be taught to bow, to queens and parliaments.  Too many Americans died fighting against the British crown so that we wouldn’t have to.

Yes, shame on you NFL.  If this were 1773, you’d be sent back to England without your tea!

In the first couple of minutes of the Packers/Vikings game today, McNabb again showed just how classy he is when Christian Ponder — the back-up Vikings quarterback who replaced McNabb after McNabb got benched following a lackluster performance against the Bears last week — made a pass for his first touchdown and Donovan McNabb applauded him vigorously on the sidelines.  McNabb showed no signs of resentment or bitterness, just love and support for his teammate.  In fact, it kind of reminded me of Walter Payton.

And like Walter Payton (and Tim Tebow who I just can’t say enough about), I am greatly impressed with Donovan McNabb — a fine Christian man, a gentleman and a role model; someone a parent would be proud to let their kids look up to.

And as far as Monday’s game between the Bears and the Lions?  Well, I think all my rowdy friends and I will watch it on a local channel.  I’m done with ESPN.

Alex Edler’s hit on Taylor Hall.

Marco Sturm’s hit on Lennart Petrell.

Funny isn’t it how since the NHL implemented rule 48.1 concerning ‘illegal checks to the head’ that all of a sudden there are all these hits to the head?

“Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive.”

Yeah, just one thing.  The toxicology report won’t be made public for 4-6 weeks, so, as I said yesterday, Ebert is just assuming that Dunn was drunk while driving since he was at a bar prior to the accident; Ebert doesn’t actually know if Dunn was drunk, and Ebert’s not actually sorry. 

Ebert couldn’t possibly be sorry if he reiterated exactly what he said yesterday.  Today, after offering his “sympathy” to Dunn’s family and friends and the family of Dunn’s passenger Zachary Hartwell, for his thoughtless and injurious remarks yesterday surmising that Dunn was drinking and driving, he wrote,

“I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true.”

So, Ebert’s not actually sorry for what he said, he’s just sorry for people’s reaction to it. Yeah, who’s the jackass again?

Ebert went on to admit that,

“I have no way of knowing if Ryan Dunn was drunk at the time of his death.”

Right, so why finger-point (insinuating Dunn was drunk driving) and name-call (calling a dead man a “jackass”) when all the facts aren’t in yet and won’t be in for at least a month??? Again, Ebert isn’t actually sorry.  He’s just sorry his remarks brought him out of the frying pan into the fire.

And Ebert once again insults Dunn and makes assumptions.  He wrote, in what will hopefully be the final nail in Ryan Dunn’s coffin that,

“I do know that nobody has any business driving on a public highway at 110 mph, as some estimated — or fast enough, anyway, to leave a highway and fly through 40 yards of trees before crashing…That is especially true if the driver has had three shots and three beers. Two people were killed. What if the car had crashed into another car?”

Well what if Ryan Dunn wasn’t drunk and wasn’t actually recklessly driving on purpose or because he was negligent?  What if he was being chased?

As I wrote early this morning, if you take a closer look at the Ryan Dunn crash scene photo, you will see in the left-hand lane what looks like 4 skid marks which go slightly beyond the place where Dunn drove off the road.  These 4 skid marks are separate and distinct from Dunn’s skid marks.  It looks like Dunn may have been trying to get away from someone who was chasing him because Dunn’s skid marks end right next to an off-ramp, which you can see in the right-hand side of the photo.  So, Dunn very well may have been trying to escape a pursuer by attempting to exit via the off-ramp, but unfortunately he lost control of his car instead and plowed into the guardrail and off the highway.  And had he been drag racing or street racing, as one commenter to a UK Daily Mail article insinuated, he probably wouldn’t have been trying to get away from the other car (or cars, or motorcycles, or whatever) by using the off-ramp.

Clearly there is a lot the public and even investigators don’t know yet, so I think Roger Ebert should take Bam Margera’s advice and just shut up.

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Gee, I hope Dunn wasn’t being chased or something like that.  Maybe he was trying to escape somebody and was trying to exit off the ramp on the right-hand side there and lost control of his car.  If so, then someone is guilty of a hit-and-run type situation.

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“Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive.”

It would have been tasteless enough that Ebert was disrespecting the memory of someone who had just died, but Ebert did so while assuming Dunn had been drinking and driving. 

It was reported from several news outlets that Dunn’s last tweet pic was of him and some friends drinking in a bar.  Dunn reportedly had 3 light beers and 3 “girly” shots (meaning not hardcore shots) between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and about 2:30 a.m.  So that’s about 4 hours of time.  The average person can metabolize about a drink an hour (or perhaps in less time if they have a high metabolism or are simply drinking beer and not hard alcohol) and we don’t know if he drank those drinks over a period of those 4 hours, or if he consumed them in 2 hours, or what.  Yet it was assumed by Ebert (and some other utterly repugnant people leaving comments on TMZ, and in the comments sections of several articles) that Dunn was inebriated.  Well, you know what happens when you assume don’t you?  You make a jackass out of…well, mostly just you Roger.

I wonder how Ebert, who lost his jaw due to complications from throat cancer, would feel if someone tweeted about him that it was his fault that he almost died of cancer and was now disfigured because he used to eat hotdogs (since, you know, everyone knows hotdogs are carcinogenic).  In other words, how would Ebert feel if someone just assumed that Ebert himself was in some way responsible for his own near-deadly cancer?  What Ebert said about Dunn and the additional grief he unnecessarily heaped on Dunn’s family, fiancé, and friends was just as thoughtless as if someone had blamed Ebert for his own throat cancer.

No really, how far should Ebert go in his victim blame?  At this point, Dunn’s accident is just that: an accident.  An autopsy hasn’t even been done and the full toxicology report probably won’t be released for weeks, and yet Ebert is slandering a dead man.  And think what you will of the Jackass boys and their pranks and stunts, no one, and certainly not Roger Ebert, has the right to devalue a human life.  Shame on you Roger Ebert.  You set out today to blemish the character of a dead man and in the end, you only ended up blemishing yours.

Remember, there but for the grace of God go any of us.  Even you Roger Ebert.

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