Goodell literally went to Alaska to find someone who wasn't offended by the name of a team 5000 miles away. You can't write stuff this good.

Wow, that looks.....awful.

People that run racist-shamer sites are doing the Lord's work.

West had a basic point with the "well then educate me" trolls on Twitter and the like, who are annoying as fuck, but typically, she shot past that point at 9000 mph. People who are good-hearted but unaware of their adverse impact in language and actions can really be brought about with (well meaning,…

Hey, it beats thinking about or working on actual issues.

yeah, that Louis CK bit about feeling good about yourself for thinking about doing something good that you'll never do is ringing kinda true here

lol HS hockey flamewars

Yeah, please, more of this. Great piece, Peter.

No but you see motorcyclists are a protected class

D'oh. Good thing I didn't go on about him leaving Samoa and running for Congress, eh?

"Would Roger Goodell and Dan Snyder actually travel to a Native American community and greet a group tribal members by saying, ‘Hey, what’s up redskin?’ I think not."

Tucker Max, hunh?

Cut deep, cut once, cut at least a few cursory management positions at the same time. Is this the first mass layoff in ESPN's history?

"very shameful reasons"

+1, although it Depends

I'm guessing "tradition", "fan choice" and "trivial issue" are gonna be the big ones to come out of this.

Pretty sure they could have kept them from graduation ceremonies, revoked any branch orders they had (ie, not letting them get a plum branch assignment and put them to the back of the line as far choice), and any other number of things under UCMJ.

It's kind of silly to criticize a television program for following the rhythm of television programming. Would a longform Sesame Street be anywhere near as effective with its' intended age group?

It's chicken and the egg there. Children have short attention spans naturally; Sesame Street is built around that.

There are two components to communication. The sender and the receiver.