Nicholson, Henry and media madness

Pity the fool who gets caught in the web of the 24-hour news cycle...media hates a vacuum so, occasionally, when there's no legit stuff to cover, we just sorta, you know, create things...

AJ Nicholson played not at all last year and was scheduled to do the same this year, though probably not in Cincinnati, where he'd have been cut in July or August if he'd managed not to get into it w/the mother of his child. As it is, he's cut now.

This was a big story?
Evidently.

Locally, nationally, everywhere in between. Guy got more pub for a fracas w/his squeeze than for anything he'd ever achieved on the field. National hacks and nets are fascinated w/our little town when they see a chance to rip. It's gotten comical.

Then there's Henry, who failed a drug test. Maybe, possibly, we're definitely not sure. Because a lawyer had a big mouth, Henry was all over the local, national and in between "news'' for... for... what, exactly? The crime of being Chris Henry?

Don't get me wrong. Man deserves his fate. But the way his and AJ's stories were exploded makes us in the media look like dopes. (Conversely, props to Enquirer football guy Mark Curnutte, who had the Henry story several days ago and didn't blow it out, because he knew nothing was official. He's the only sane guy in the whole deal.)

Mortensen, Clayton et al, yakking on ESPN as if they know what's happening. Comical.