Despite some big news in free agency for the NFL, the league can’t just ignore the fact that Ted Rath, the infamous ‘Get-Back’ coach for the Los Angeles Rams being charged with sexual battery and being arrested on January 15th as a result.
The Strength and conditioning coach missed the Super Bowl and was said to be out due to an injury, but once the allegations came to past, we now know that it was to purposely hide what happened so the focus wouldn’t shift off the big game and the Rams and the NFL seemingly had a part in keeping it concealed.
Per Pro Football Talk: “The source said that the Rams also had communicated the information regarding the arrest to the league office, meaning that both the Rams and the NFL concealed the situation during the week that the Rams were in the epicenter of the NFL’s biggest event of the year, with an article on NFL.com providing the official reason for Rath’s absence from Super Bowl week without even mentioning the other official reason that would have kept him away from the team.”
If the news had gotten out, it would’ve most certainly dominated Super Bowl media week, but in doing so, the NFL is in a public relations nightmare right now about it.
Could that news be the reason the Rams came out so flat during that game in what became the lowest scoring Super Bowl in history? Only the people in that organization know the answer to that question.
No word on if Rath will return to the team in 2019.
