And we were so close to getting to talk about soccer. . .

First off, can a league handle this any worse than the USL has? The league originally did not comment on the allegations coming from Louisville’s coach, just letting the clubs trade official statements. Then we finally get the discipline report on Wednesday and we learn the league has banned Djiby for 6 games, including one non-league game in the Open Cup (which I would love to hear how that works). But that incident report failed to mention why Djiby was being disciplined. Until it did, a few hours later, when it was quietly revised to say the suspension was due to the alleged bite. But now the teams are not allowed to discuss the issue. Whew. On the bright side, USL must be officially D2 now, since they have proven they can be just as dysfunctional as the NASL.

Now about that bite. Consider Djiby, a 15 year veteran who has played all over the world in front of hostile crowds, Europa League fixtures to places nobody goes to on purpose, and has played against some of the meanest defenders the planet has to offer. He has represented his home country of Senegal in two friendlies against Oman and Iran. That’s 230-ish games, and Djiby has managed to get two red cards. Two. One of them being on Saturday against Louisville. If Djiby is a dirty player, he is either the single sneakiest dirty player to ever play this sport, or he is really bad at being a dirty player. On the other hand he might also just be not a dirty player, if you will allow yourself to entertain that idea.

And Djiby has, apparently, bit the face of a Louisville City player. The face. That’s a intense place to be biting someone. Luis Suarez, world famous soccer biter, has bit two guys on the arm and one guy on the collar bone. Never in the face. And Djiby managed to bite another player in the sneakiest way possible, since there still is no clear video of photo evidence of this happening. Despite TV cameras, official team photographers, local press photographers, and members of the crowd with cameras, nobody has any concrete proof that anyone was bitten. Which has been exciting for the internet, letting Twitter play Zapruder-Film-Cinematographer and allowing Reddit to analyze pixels for signs of photoshopping. But in America, you are innocent until proven guilty. No proof, not guilty.