Goodell’s downfall won’t be his general incompetence or his wildly inconsistent disciplinary edicts, but simply lending a compassionate, open ear to players’ protests over police brutality and systemic racism.

This entire ordeal is pretty complicated, but I’m glad that we can all find common ground in saying “fuck the Cowboys.”

I’m always reluctant to over-parse somebody’s language and project intent, but the fact that he chose this phrase and pivoted from the more more common “asylum” to “prison” speaks volumes.

He was going to go with “We can’t have the slaves running the plantation” but his sensitivity training clicked in.

“We can’t have the inmates running the prison,” McNair said.

Don’t forget Aaron Karo, aka Tucker lite. My GF loved his book. Then we saw him do standup. It was so misogynistic, even in 2005 when I didn’t yet know that word, and so unfunny that we walked out.

In every way possible the very last person you would ever expect to be employed by Barstool.

The opener really hit home for me too. I was a real asshole for most of my late teens and early thirties. Gay jokes, sexualizing women, being angry about being put in the friend-zone - pretty much all of the things.

to be fair, Simmons did write some pretty gross things about women and gay people back in the day. specifically, didn’t he write an entire column that boiled down to “soccer—what a buncha fags, amiright?” while at ESPN?

You know the ground is dirty, right?

Thank you for standing up for the rights of Goof-Americans

If that was “malicious” everything is now malicious. God save us all.

The secret of the cottage industry is that it’s a bunch of dudes unwilling to do what you just did. All the phrases like SJW, snowflake, and the ironic uses of triggered and safe space, they’re all cover for assholes who know they’re being assholes but are too immature to own it, so they have to shift the blame. It’s…

He’d be obligated to write an article about how to clean blood from pavement.

I can’t recall why it came up but I recently told someone “I would lay down in traffic for Drew Magary.” They seemed so surprised but I was like, “Yeah no Drew is a thoughtful and generous person and I would do anything for him.” Thanks for writing this, Drew, and proving me right. (I love being right!)

I was expecting the part you quoted to have some obvious cretin-ism, but I guess I am missing it.

Bill Simmons wants you to know that he met Tucker Max at a house party being thrown at Dane Cook’s house and he and Dane agree that Bill Simmons is nothing like Tucker Max.

The football talk just seems so insignificant and out of place after that intro.

Dave Portnoy is a 40 year old divorced man who is admired by millions of 19 year olds. The day he stops trying to drum up controversy or project a “us vs everyone else” mentality, is the day he wakes up and looks at what he is. Pathetic.

Having graduated in college in 2005, I had both the Tucker Max and Maddox books. I would like to believe I wasn’t as much of a POS as they were, but as I was gleefully gorging on their materials, its hard to argue otherwise. Great write-up on how things have and continue to change, and the accountability many of us…