Gretzky Needs to Remain an Earthling
ESPN’s Terry Frei isn’t going after Wayne Gretzky, just his holy status.
The elephant still is over there in the corner, and for the most part, we’re all trying to avoid talking about it.
Could someone at least take the poor thing some peanuts and water?
This is figurative, of course. The elephant is an “it,” representing Wayne Gretzky’s at least peripheral and very-late-in-the-game connection to a New Jersey-based sports gambling ring.
After the initial what-did-you-know-and-when furor, both on this side of the Atlantic and under the Olympic rings in Torino, nobody seems to want to say much about “it” any longer.
Frei, who sometimes takes an outlandish view on the latest hockey/sports issues, is dead-on here.
The wave seemed to go like this:
1) Initial Tocchet-gambling-connection craziness.
2) Breaking news of Janet Jones Gretzky’s involvement. Did Wayne know?
3) Wayne Gretzky questioned like crazy.
4) Criticisms of the way the media treated Gretzky (especially here online).
5) Silence.
For some reason, when a scandal hits, everyone’s allowed to be grilled except for Wayne Gretzky. It’s not that Gretzky should be grilled, but it’s a scandal and hockey’s golden boy is possibly connected somehow. To not try and find the truth is irresponsible - as are false accusations (somethign Frei also points out) - but the matter can’t be ignored and Gretzky’s records cannot shield him from the same scrutiny as everyone else would/should receive.
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