Posted on 10/23/2009 7:58:43 AM PDT by SmithL
So Tom Cable walks. That's how you'd have figured it to play given the other characters and circumstances involved.
But more than that, Napa County District Attorney Gary Lieberstein said that Raiders assistant coach Randy Hanson couldn't satisfactorily explain to Lieberstein's conviction rate how his jaw was broken.
And that, ultimately, is the lesson here. Nobody told enough of a believable story for us ever to figure out what Cable, the Raiders head coach, actually did to Hanson's face, let alone what his intent was when he did whatever it was he did.
With that kind of iron-clad certitude, is it any wonder that Lieberstein looked during his seemingly interminable press conference like he'd just swallowed a live and irritated ferret? He could have just issued a statement without ever coming out to talk to the gathered medioids, or he could have worked his full 15 minutes of fame (which he did), but ultimately his message was, "Nobody told us anything we could run with, so we're running away."
Yes, the unsolvable red ball - next to losing the next election, it is the district attorney's best friend.
Lieberstein did attempt at one point to explain how he thought Hanson's jaw might have been broken, a tangled version of a coach trying to prevent Cable from actually hitting Hanson, bumping into Hanson while he sat back in his chair with his feet on a table and knocking him down. How he determined this is open to any level of speculation, and could have included anything up to and including "ginned-up pixies with wands."
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Well, there’s a surprise.
Gee there might be a side line play where a player goes off the field and a coach is accidently hit. Hmmm
I suspect that if you are an Assistant Coach and you press charges against your boss through to the point of conviction, your odds of having any future involvement in the NFL are slightly less than those of Rush Limbaugh
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