The Drive: Russell Wilson’s Tool-Assisted Superplay

Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY SportsIt is always depressing and deeply embittering to discover what seems like a great performance is in fact a great act of cheating. I believe the moldering bones of John Dryden said it best when they said:

“When I consider life, ‘tis all a cheat;

Yet, fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit;

Trust on, and think to-morrow will gainsay;

So let us gainsay, let us all gainsay together as one big gainsaying bunch o’ gainsayers! Wilson’s deception must be exposed! For surely no mortal man could have made this pass.

The details which expose this fraud are both obvious and subtle.

Let us begin with some of the irregularities which preceded and perhaps foreshadowed Wilson’s…