Remember that pesky sexual assault charge against former Blue Bombers head coach Mike Kelly? The one that if you had any idea about the circumstances, you would have laughed and said, “Those charges will be dropped.”
Well, guess what? Yesterday in a Pennsylvania court, all charges were dropped. Kelly has three months to take a one-day anger management course. Doubt he’ll get an apology from the mainstream media, but this can certainly be added to the MSM’s recent transgressions: “Judgment without knowledge is the greatest sin.”
Kelly spoke yesterday to www.rivercitysportsblog.com but could not comment on either the court’s decsion nor his buyout from the Winnipeg Football Club.
“I’ve signed so many confidentiality agreements, I can’t say a thing about anything,” he said.
Kelly, who got enough money out of the Bombers to give himself plenty of time to look around for a new job, should be pleased, not only with the players he brought to Winnipeg, but the players he coached up this season. In the past month, three players: Jonathan Hefney, Derrick Doggett and Dudley Guice signed NFL contracts; and kicker Alexis Serna, who was awful working for Doug Berry, was terrific under Kelly and was signed to a new deal.
Ultimately, Kelly left the Bombers in better shape than they were when he showed up. Today’s news that the bogus sexual assault charges had been dropped is a fitting end to a dreadful period of time for a decent man who was kicked around, bitterly, by some very nasty people.