Tradition for tradition's sake is usually just covering laziness and bigotry.

My British friend and Canadian friend were watching the Browns-Redskins game with me last week (sounds like the set-up for a joke).

Brit: Who's playing?
Me: Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins. The main narrative here is that John-
Brit: Wait, the who?!
Me: Washington Redskins.
Brit: Like... Native American.…

Good for him. It is great when you can follow your principles without making it all about you.

NFL Ref Refused To Work Washington Games Because Of Racist Name

"Human beings take social stances," he said. "And if you're respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you're going to do and why you're going to do it."

Dan Snyder can't believe the hypocrisy in refusing to work Redskins game while agreeing to wear pink like a homo.

St. Louis. Is it southern, or midwestern? Either way, it takes the shitty aspects of both those regions (racism, obesity, etc.) and combines them in to one big ball of Show Me State shitiness. Anytime your town's solution for economic development is a casino, you've already lost. Terrible town, terrible airport,…

Boy, I never thought I'd see it, but the grassroots momentum against that name has really been building. It's pretty amazing.

I used to work for an organization whose board Mike Carey chaired. He's a solid guy. I really respect him.

St. Louis is so devoid of anything fun to do, that citizens flock to Nashville for crazy bachelor / bachelorette party weekends, guy's weekends, etc. People from here call it "Nash-Vegas". That's how bad St. Louis is.

Since no one could agree on how much contact should be allowed, the league decided that no contact would be allowed.

The constant penalties are bad enough, but when you add in the "automatic first down" it becomes a complete joke.

Hmmm. The last time the NFL went hard against illegal contact etc. was when the Patriots manhandled the Colts in the AFC championship game. What happened last season? The Seahawks manhandled the Broncos in the Super Bowl. Quarterback for those Colts and these Broncos? Mr. Payton Manning. Don't mean to go all false…

Really? You want a database for every time an Officer of the law decides not to murder a citizen?

Well "justified/unjustified" is extremely subjective.

In 1971, police officers in New York City shot 314 people, killing 93... Last year, in the nation's largest city, the police shot 16, killing 6. In Columbus, Ohio, a city one eighth the size of New York, the police shot 14, killing 8. Statistical diversities like this suggest that in the cities with the highest per…

As one of the American citizens at risk of being under siege by this racist gang, I just want to thank Gawker Media for doing this. Really, thank you.

My favorite part is that this project (which is great) has fewer rules than Gawker's how-to-comment-screed.