You know what the best thing about this week is? It’s not the college football season pending. It’s that the Olympics are over and we can go back to our daily mundane lives and stop caring about who peed on the side of a gas station half the world away. Of course, we shouldn’t have cared in the first place because in the grand scheme of sports, this Ryan Lochte fiasco wasn’t a big deal, it wasn’t a minor deal, it wasn’t a deal at all. Or at least, it shouldn’t have been.
Here’s another great example when the general populace is led down a path of angry mob mentality just for the sake of hearing their own voice by a 24-hour-cycle driven news group.