Don't call it a comeback

Derrick Mason is now back with the Baltimore Ravens, but was his return really ever in question? Not to me and like minded thinkers. It was apparent from the day Mason "retired" that he didn't want to walk away, he even said as much. It was the business of football and sports in general that, in part, caused him to walk. Derrick Mason: a proven player, leader and #1 WR for this Baltimore bunch, still not enough to warrant a contract he and the team felt comfortable with. Hence the retirement, short lived yes, but he felt his hand was being forced and as such needed to show his willingness to turnover the remainder of his career. The sad story is Mason needed to bluff just to get any momentum going in his favor. What a shame, a shame that's how our sports world lives today. A place where Tom Moore, Offense Coordinator for the Colts has to retire to retrieve money owed to him, just to rename his title and give him a consulting job to skate around crazy rules. The term "business of sports" is used as a blanket to cover all issues that comes with today's money and fame, but it doesn't change the fact that our sports society is totally screwed up. The Mason's and Moore's of the world shouldn't have to play shadow games just to stay in football. But they do and I guess it's just the world we live in. I just wish we lived in a world that made sense.

Glenn Younes
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