Did you see this video of Baltimore Ravens’ linebacker Terrell Suggs from an interview with ESPN? Suggs accuses Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, of being responsible for the lights going out during the last Super Bowl. Here is the interview he did with Lisa Salters of ESPN.
I had 3 immediate questions after hearing Suggs talking crazy in this interview. First, is he a moron? Second, is he joking? But you can see he’s serious, because he explains his ridiculous reason for thinking this. Goodell was laughing with Denver Broncos’ General Manager John Elway before the AFC Divisional Game. I guess the commissioner isn’t allowed to talk with anybody affiliated with either team before a game. My last question was, has Suggs been drug-tested lately?
Super Bowl XLVII, which was played in the Superdome in New Orleans, on February 3, 2013, did have a power outage early in the third quarter. At the time, the Ravens were beating the San Francisco 49ers 28-6. After the 34 minute delay, play resumed. The 49ers then scored the next 17 point, to cut the lead to 28-23. However, the Ravens ended up winning the game 34-31. Suggs’ team won the game, and never even trailed.
So we have a player from the winning team expressing a crazy conspiracy theory about the commissioner causing a power outage, so that the losing team would make a comeback. Is Goodell so smart that that he knew the 49ers would play better after the blackout than the Ravens would? How did he do this without anyone knowing that he was behind it, or leaking his responsibility? If Goodell is this powerful, why would Suggs risk upsetting him? Then Suggs finishes by saying Goodell isn’t doing a good job, and shouldn’t be making $10 million per year. This will be interesting to see how Goodell reacts to Suggs talking crazy about him.
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