First off, I’m not much of a football fan.  I do pay attention to the Boston area teams, even for the sports that don’t do much for me.  Well.. Football and basketball.  Not so much soccer.  Anyway, I don’t really follow football, but I keep an eye on the goings on with the New England Patriots.  It’s hard not to given the amount of media coverage they get around here, and having a quarterback who is on the short list of the best ever also makes it hard to avoid.

Now we have this Aaron Hernandez situation.

Charged with murder yesterday, along with a handful of weapons charges.  Today the word is that he’s under investigation for involvement in a double murder last year.  Yeah.  Hell of a guy.

Now I am a firm believer in Innocent Until Proven Guilty, but dude… what the hell!  Video of you coming back home with a gun in your hand?  You returned the rental car with both gum (gum goes in mouth, saliva goes on gum, DNA lives in saliva.  Don’t you watch television, dude?) and a shell casing inside.  You didn’t think to clean out the car?  What a moron!  He must have been hoping to get caught and have his life as a millionaire elite professional athlete flushed down the shitter.

They were saying that the motive for murder was that the victim spoke to people Hernandez did not approve of.  Today they are saying it was because he knew something about last year’s murder.  Whatever it is, I am 100% sure that the guy did nothing to deserve death.  Even if he did, who the hell made some football player judge/jury/executioner?

I didn’t see the arraignment.  I didn’t read any transcripts or anything either.  A co-worker gave me a run down of the events yesterday.  My first thought was that he probably held his pistol sideways like the bad ass gangstas in the movies.  Damn, what an asshole this guy is.    My step son owns a Patriots jersey.  It has Gronkowski’s number on it.  Gronk strikes me as the kind of guy whose IQ is roughly that of a can of tuna fish.  A stereotypical dumb jock.  I’m really glad it’s Gronk’s name and number on my step son’s shirt.  I can forgive someone for being a dumb jock.  A dumb jock who is also a murderer?

He’s our very own OJ.

What an asshole.