It appears football players are much wiser than journalists. That probably comes as no surprise to most of you. Instead of football players I could have said "prison inmates" or "derelicts" or "mollusks," and most of you would have considered it obvious that they are wiser than journalists. Maybe not more book-smart, mind you, but it's one thing to be in possession of a lot of information. It's another thing to be able to exercise good judgment in what you do with it.
You'd think the football aspect of the Super Bowl would provide more than enough angles for journalists to keep themselves busy as they cover the run-up to Sunday's game between the Patriots and the Falcons. But that assumes they'd be satisfied to simply cover the game. That's clearly not how things work at the moment. The media are on a collective mission to destroy Donald Trump, and one of the methods they hope to employ is the harnessing of cultural figures in unified denunciation of the president. They've been trying this for some time now with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, whom we're told has to explain himself to the media for supporting Trump.
