He’s a year and a half younger than me. i haven’t used gay slurs as insults, intended to demean or not, since high school. Maybe college, but I’d have to see the tapes. But not later.
Reporter: So, Jon, what does “rubber lips” mean to you?
Gruden: I’M NOT A RACIST!
Reporter: What does “fag” mean to you? “Queer”?
Gruden: Um, I’M NOT A RACIST!
Apparently not.
My understanding is that they were in emails sent by Gruden to Washington Football Team president Bruce Allen, and others with the team, during the time when Gruden was an analyst with ESPN and an independent football consultant. The emails came to the NFL’s attention during their recent investigation of the Washington team.
How dumb can Gruden be to put it in an email?
Well, my Colts managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. 1-4 on the season now.
Is it too soon to be wondering about the draft and potential franchise QBs?
With six minutes left, ball on the Ravens 17, and an 8-point lead, Reich decided to play for a field goal and ran the ball 3 times. Maybe not the best decision.
Oh, I’m aware. I’m just not sold on Wentz as the solution to QB.
I don’t disagree regarding Wentz, but I thought he played pretty well tonight. He put them in position to win. That’s why I’m questioning Reich’s decision to play for a FG instead of going for a TD.
Well, of the other early bottom-feeders (0 or 1 wins), Miami, Jacksonville, and both New York teams have quarterbacks that they drafted highly, and recently, so they’re less likely to be looking at going for QBs early in the first round next year. Your Colts mostly would be dueling with the Lions, who also are probably not sold on Goff as their solution, either.
Better than pretty well, throwing for 400 yards, 2 TD, no interceptions against a good defence in a road game.
Yes, so why take the ball out of his hands when you’re in a position to ice the game?
He’s not the only one in his circle that thinks that way. It’s a frat boy circle jerk, trading porno and talking bad about female refs and gay folk. Why would Gruden think it would leak? They all agree.
It’s simple. You do that when you’re dumb.
IMHO, it was reasonable. An 11-point lead would have been a two-score game and with only a few minutes left, that would usually hold up, with running the ball also burning some clock time. Had Reich kept calling for throwing the ball and had a pick-six or something, he’d be roasted.
To be fair, there’s no way he could have known at the time that 10 years later The Law would be investigating criminal activities at the WFT franchise (or could he?).
I’m wondering out of those tens of thousands of emails, what else are they going to find? I can’t imagine this is the only juicy thing in there, considering the assumed participants and what we already know about them.
Also note that he was emailing the president of a football team whose mascot at the time was an ethnic slur. I can imagine someone who handled the business of a team called the Redskins wasn’t going to be cringing too much at that kind of language.
Despicable contents aside, keeping work emails and personal emails separate isn’t exactly hard. I’ve been doing that all my life.
And this was happening from ~2011 well into 2018, which would be during and after all the high profile email server nonsense that had been going on for years in Congress. So anybody with any sort of public profile should have been questioning their email practices.
And to an executive at a company that would have established and known email retention policies, especially for those executives, meaning those emails had a good chance of being disclosed to somebody at some point.
I know IT wasn’t exactly their top priority but we’re in the 21st century and all celebrities need to be cognizant of their online behavior, even their theoretically private online behavior.
Me too! He just looks like a smarmy asshole (that face is punchable!). I think I really started disliking him when ESPN annointed him the ‘quarterback whisperer’, and set up interviews with him talking to/advising up-and-coming QBs (IIRC college and rookie NFL), who had to pretend that they gave a shit what Gruden had to say.
Crazy unrelated stat:
With Tom Brady, the Bucs have had six games in which they scored 44 points or more.
Prior to Brady, they had only six games in their entire team history of 44 points or more.
This obviously doesn’t look great, but it looks like whomever created the gif tried very very hard to cut it to make it look as egregious as possible, it starts in a very unnatural spot. That it starts when it does suggests that there may have been a lot more shoving and grabbing going on while the ball was in the air but before the camera cuts in. Not sure what the broadcast showed to know what the gif omits, let along what even the broadcast missed.
It this happened to the Bears I’d probably react the same way, but if the DB was in his chest earlier in the play and the WR fought through that to make the play, that’s usually not called against the WR. Once the DB commits the penalty, all bets are off.
Not sure if anyone is actually interested, but I have a quick review of the new Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for you. It’ll be brief…it sucks. Like kinda glaringly bad for a brand new facility. This is NOT anything like SoFi or Jerry’s World. There’s virtually no amenities to speak of. Let’s break down the issues:
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There’s no general parking to speak of. This didn’t affect me as a tourist, but the locals are sorta mad about it so I’m including it here. Basically they expect you to use the parking at the adjacent casinos. Plus out of towners won’t have cars and there will be a lot of them.
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There’s no “bonus” features at the stadium. It’s a vague idea I guess, but modern stadiums tend to have things like parks, kiddie zones, restaurant rows, a big pedestrian mall, lots of shopping, water features or some kind of “artificial village” bolted onto the side to make a place people want to spend time when the game isn’t happening. I know it’s the desert, so for most of the year outside stuff isn’t really very enticing but the fall in Vegas is generally mild. Water features or green spaces aren’t gonna work for obvious reasons. But ultimately I think it comes down to the fact that this thing is attached to the Strip, they want it to be easy to access from the casinos and then you go back afterwards as fast as humanly possible.
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There’s “the flame” which is the big architectural element in the venue, but other than that it’s just a big concrete and steel cavern. Nothing at all like SoFi’s organic inside-out feel, no big cool LED board, nothing like Minnesota’s glass…all in all, it feels like a throwback to a simpler time (in a bad way). It doesn’t even have a premium club section really. They of course have a couple rows of suites and they have the bottle service gimmick with the booths in the end zone, but they don’t have a premium experience to offer. No high end food, no carpets, no sofas or TV lounges. They didn’t even have a bunch of bar/restaurants with local foods and seating for pregame dining.
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The bathroom situation is an utter and complete catastrophe. There’s 1 bathroom to serve each corner of the stadium. Only about 10 urinals and 12-15 stalls total. They allow people to enter and exit from both sides so there’s no effective way to manage whose turn it is. If you were in line at the start of halftime, you got back to your 6 minutes into the 3rd quarter. No exaggeration. It’s possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen…
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Second only to the beer situation. WOW, how can Vegas fuck this up so colossally. Now, Bears fans travel and have a history of putting a serious strain on the liquor stock in cities, but this is Vegas. They’ve seen it all. The Beer lines were without exaggeration 75-100 people long all game. You missed an entire quarter if you tried to buy something. Smart stadiums have hundreds of little stations all over the place where you can buy beer. You can buy beer at any concession stand. You have guys walking around with coolers. You have troughs. Not Vegas, not this stadium. You have 1 liquor line to serve every 3-4 sections of maybe 7000 people. People were angry. Really angry. Making it worse, I was in a line with 8 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter about 15 people from the server. The bartender walks around and tells a guy 4 spots in line ahead of me that they were cutting sales after them. They didn’t cut them at the end of the 3rd like the policy says. they didn’t cut it off at the back of the line. They left ~50 people who had already been in line for 15-20 minutes to fuck off, we’re so slow we can only serve 10 people in 8 minutes of game action and your time is of no value. In a brand new stadium, this shit should not happen.
I know people are having fun bitching about Soldier Field, but if this is the new “fan experience” they think they are missing, they are comically wrong.
/rant.