.@katienolan offers her take on Greg Hardy's return to the NFL.https://t.co/6KWcvN2OdP
— Garbage Time (@GarbageTime) October 8, 2015
Katie Nolan’s Garbage Time on Fox Sports 1 is already noted to be great around these parts. Nolan has plenty of fun with her show, like attempting the beer mile, scouting Stephen Curry’s new daughter with Steve Kerr, and trying to throw the worst first pitch in history, but not this time. Instead of all the laughs, Nolan takes on “garbage human” Greg Hardy making his return to the Cowboys and the inability of the media to hold him to the fire he started.
As we’ve covered before, Hardy was convicted of assault stemming from the choking and dragging of his then girlfriend through his house. Hardy appealed and had the decision overturned thanks to some shady dealing, then doing the same for his 10-game NFL suspension, getting it lowered to four games. His return this Sunday highlights a lot of things wrong with the NFL and comes at a time when the league also attempts to show it cares about women by turning everything pink.
Nolan takes this idea and unleashes a blistering rant against Hardy, the media that interviewed and reported on his return, and the NFL:
“What are we f*cking doing? What matters to you?”
Plenty of people will say that Nolan is out of line or that she doesn’t know Hardy and what actually happened during the alleged incident, but the stuff we do know supports her stance. The NFL has a highly visible and topsy turvy style of doling out fines and punishment, usually with it ending up blowing up in their face upon appeal. We just finished running through an entire offseason with Tom Brady’s deflated balls, and the season opener turned into a joke against the league (in one manner of speaking, of course).
If fining players for celebrations is considered “tough punishment,” then Nolan is definitely onto something. But the most damning part to me was how she put the focus on the media that interviewed Hardy and did nothing to push him on the reason he was suspended in the first place. The question about Blake Bortles’ significant other is just pure insanity, echoing Hardy’s comments on Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen.
No matter your opinion on the situation, it’s a powerful clip that isn’t hindered by the fact that it comes from a show called Garbage Time (it is still funny, though). Will it change anything? Not at all, but it’s nice to hear it coming out of the television.
(Via Garbage Time)
