The Fact Roger Goodell Had Every Right to Suspend Tyreek Hill but Didn't is Another Reason to Hate Ginger Satan
What a colossal goatfuck this Tyreek Hill situation has been from the beginning. If you think I or anyone else can sit here and definitively say how his 3 year old son ended up with a broken arm, you’ve got another thing coming. It’s been one of the hardest stories in recent memory to follow. Mostly because it involves a toddler with a broken arm, and just typing that phrase makes me throw up in my mouth. But also because every report you read contradicts the previous one. The child’s mom taped conversations with Hill that made sound like he maybe admitted to being responsible. Until the next recording sounded like she was saying he wasn’t. But regardless, she says the son is scared of Hill and he comes back with “You should be afraid of me too.” And as you wade through that armpits-deep open sewer, all you’re left with is a toddler with a broken arm and a supremely sick, twisted, dysfunctional family life.
I’m sorry, but when I worked in the court system I dealt with enough families like that to last ten lifetimes. So to the extent I could, I’ve tried to semi-ignore it, pray the authorities step in and do something to save the child who was born into all that insanity and hope the situation plays itself out somehow in some kind of positive way.
This is not it.
No suspension. Hill will miss zero games. Not one practice. He’ll be back for all 16 and the playoffs in a contract year which will undoubtedly end with him setting a new record for money paid to a wide receiver. Oklahoma State kicked him off the team for this:
Stillwater police records indicate that on December 12, 2014, Hill was arrested on complaints of assault of his 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend, Crystal Espinal. The police report states that Espinal said the two got into an argument and he threw her around like a ragdoll, punched her in the face, sat on her and repeatedly punched her in the stomach, and choked her
To which he plead guilty. But five years later, the NFL doesn’t have the balls to sit him down for as much as one series for threatening Espinal and putting his son in fear.
Even if he’s completely cleared of any involvement in the boy’s injury, there’s enough here to warrant some kind of punishment. Keeping in mind that just a few years ago the whole country was leaping to their feet and cheering when Roger Goodell exercised his Article 46 to suspend a player for not handing over his phone. He suspended Ezekiel Elliot for something he was accused of in college that had no supporting evidence. And routinely takes a quarter of the season away from grown men who smoke a perfectly legal substance. Ginger Satan has the absolute and unregulated power to do anything to a player he deems in “the best interests of the game,” and isn’t using it here.
If he did, there’d be some grumbling out of Kansas City, but not much. The NFLPA might release a statement, but not a particularly strong one. No one wants to die on the hill (this is no time for puns) of defending a guy who plead guilty to domestic violence and strangling the woman carrying his child and then a few short years later has a suspiciously injured 3-year-old. Nor should they. But Tyreek Hill is suddenly the one case where he can’t find enough to exercise that power. Not even for the positively publicity the league would get for it.
So Hill is free to show up to work when Chiefs camp starts next week. Good for him. I’m just glad I’m not in a position to have to root for him. Anyone who cheers for that piece of shit or buys his jersey will have to live with their own conscience.