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I hate what happened to Gruden, even though I have never liked him much. I hate that he took the team that Tony Dungy built and went to the Super Bowl. No justice in that. But there seems to be no justice in his destruction either. I don’t know what racist or mysoginistic remarks he made, but I think it is creepy that little trolls are searching history to dredge up stuff from years ago to use against somebody. We all have said regrettable things in the past and maybe we have become smarter or wiser in the present. I hope the history trolls choke on their own creepiness.

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I think Matt is channeling Hunter Thompson

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Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill pled guilty to punching and chocking his pregnant girlfriend.

Kareem Hunt is on video pushing and kicking a woman.

Jon Gruden, who used locker room talk in private emails when he was employed by ESPN, not the NFL, was excommunicated. He's being erased. EA Sports said they're taking him out of the Madden video game. The Tampa Bay Bucs immediately removed him from their ring of honor.

This year, the super bowl halftime show features Eminem, Snoop Dog, and Dr. Dre. Have you ever listened to a single song by any of them? Because I guarantee they say shit that makes Gruden's alleged "racism" and "homophobia" look utterly benign.

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This has nothing to do with football; this has to do with exclusion from society, from loss of income and status; a right in your face showing you that you better buy into the narrative or you will be ostracized. The Amish call it shunning and the JWs call it defriending and others have different names. The toughest criminals in jail are punished with social exclusion, it's called solitary confinement and it's feared by people tougher than you and I. It goes back Millenia when being excluded from the group/herd meant certain death and it's hard wired into our DNA. They don't need a police state or Soldiers in the streets, social exclusion works as religion used to work. High school never ends, fear of exclusion never ends. Social control never ends, free will is a lie like rule of law and so many other things. Millions of people are angry and millions more are terrified of saying or doing something "wrong, not sanctioned by the narrative du jour". This guy apparently said things outside the narrative and for that, Even with apologies his life is ruined, just like that, an administrative action and you're gone... WOW! Are any of us so clean we can throw the first stone? You know what the answer is; now keep your head down and hope they don't find some dirt in your past and hope no woman who doesn't like you for whatever reason decides to accuse you, anonymously of course of harassment; you're out..no innocent until proven guilty, no right to confront your accusers.. gone, just like that. Welcome to brave new world, hope you like it, you could be next.

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Personally I’d love to see every public persons emails and texts published going back 15 years or so… let’s start with all “journalists “

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I have never had any expectation that a football coach would be an enlightened or decent human being. They get paid to coach Neanderthals playing a violent kids’ game. Why does anyone expect these guys to exhibit good behavior in their private lives?

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Worth my entire TK sub. I believed this up until the part where Gruden's body starts dissolving into the ether. Figured after all you are the Meet the Censored guy, and Gruden really is that nuts. You should profile him for real

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I don't really watch football, but I unfortunately grew up dealing with meathead coaches in the south who didn't like freaks and weirdos like me.

From what I've read— and I can't bring myself to read an entire article about this, although Taibbi's piece was fun — this guy sounds indicative of most football dudes and when I heard it, I thought "they're going after football now; that's been a big get for bloodless aliens like the staff of MSNBC for a long time."

Sure enough, the next day hundreds of "articles" — in unison — dogmatically stated that "this is all of football" or "all of football is this" (similar to the thousands of current stories that start with the definitive "fact" that Dave Chappelle is a transphobe) and I thought "I'd rather have football than these asshole media people, even if it means recognizing that it's still mainly run and populated by dumb meatheads." (And I want to keep Dave Chappelle too.)

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I thought this was a lot of fun… a very strange world we inhabit. The Animal Farm people are going to turn us in… like the children of Mao spying on their parents and reporting them to the local party bosses. Perhaps some wrongs must be righted in this fashion? But I think this is the greater evil. We shall see. Thanks Matt, always thought provoking.

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Chapelle: DaBaby kills a n**** in a North Carolina , but he gets cancelled for saying h**** slurs ... that's what's up with the NFL players beating up people, even suspected manslaughter ... but Gruden gets cancelled for being an asshole ...

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What can I say….Pure fucking genius. Thanks for sharing Matt.

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Yeah Matt, that was kinda cute but Gruden is low hanging fruit. There is a lot more to this and it might unravel Roger Goodell’s bullshit reign as NFL commissioner.

The emails came from an investigation into the Washington Redskins team and the effort to force owner Dan Snyder to sell the franchise.

What the fuck do Gruden’s emails from twelve years ago have to do with it and why were they the only ones leaked to the New York Times?

There were thousands of other emails discovered and the NFL Players Association wants to see them. If that happens what ever Gruden said suddenly won’t mean shit.

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Next, can you invite Roger Stone over for some bong rips?

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What a great break from everything. I’ve never read this side of you.

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Well, that was a pleasure to read. More of this, please.

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Nice job Matt. Took me a while to get into it, but I read it all, which is more than I can say for ¾ of the stuff I start when I sit down with my morning coffee… or I mean Rolling Rock.

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