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No One Is Immune From The Long Arm of John Law, Not Even The Stars of College Football

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice and the FBI finally fulfilled the mission that they were both created for: to investigate and take down bribery in a largely foreign sporting organization.

That's glib, especially since the craziness that is the current FIFA mess goes far beyond simple charges of corruption and being jerks and whatnot. We're talking about bribery and graft on the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars, and a rigged voting system that gave the World Cup to two at least semi-despotic regimes in a row, the latter of which (Qatar), has begun construction projects involving what amounts to slave labor and the potential deaths of thousands of workers.