It's All Burning Down

"I thought I had it very well planned, and something unforeseen and unfortunate occurred," Harlan said. "And now we have to deal with it."

That’s Bob Harlan’s quote in Rob Demovsky’s Sunday PG article, and of course it’s difficult not to wonder, when reading this or the many other necessarily mercurial and opaque articles in the news about the developing Jonesgate situation up in De La Bay, what, in fact, the unforeseen something really was. At Profootballtalk, they’re saying it’s that Jones is simply an asshole; I prefer to think that an elaborate practical joke involving whipped cream and a Batman costume in the Packer front office somehow went terribly, terribly wrong. We all know that John Jones has a wonderful sense of humor, after all. Did he streak through the Packer Pro Shop? Has he been crank calling Mr. T. for the last two weeks, posing as Bus Cook and then laughing mysteriously?

What is the average Packer fan to think of this? Would thi s be the right time to slip back into that oh-so-false sense of community ownership, the one that makes us all believe we have, like, policy-making power over the Packers because the fans “own” the team? Don’t get me wrong, I like that we’re the only Soviet-inspired NFL team, but it’s hard not to imagine, when very odd and impossible to interpret events like this occur, a level-headed owner taking care of business, or at least being there as the face of the organization through trying times. Bob Harlan just wants to go sit out on his damn patio. Let the man chill, dagnabit.

Quiz. What’s more boring: inter-office strife at GBP central or JT O’Sullivan’s rockin’ stats for the Frankfurt Galaxy? You be the judge, reader.