...and requests made to someone named “Eric B” to “look up her background history see how broke this girl is.”

Admittedly, there’s a lot going on in this article, and it reads to me like more of a collection of loosely connected thoughts around a particularly complex issue, rather than a straightforward identification of a problem with a clearly articulated solution. But even in that context, you have made no effort…

It’s hard to think of an American institution better designed than sports to shunt a woman to the side in her own story.

While I think this is an excellently written article that makes a strong argument, I also feel there is another difficult discussion this overlaps with. Namely if a player is signed to a team, what are his protections and rights as an employee in the League. I’m not arguing in anyway that it is a more important…

In her complaint, Taylor asks for damages. Brown’s camp already is feeding information to media to portray Taylor as just another woman out for cash

I was watching to see whether we’d hear Taylor’s story, knowing I was asking a question to which I already knew the answer (no). Some of this was due to timing; Taylor couldn’t meet with the NFL last week.

While I don’t doubt Antonio Brown is mentioned far more than Britney Taylor, do note that chunks of the article are talking about statements by the radio host James Brown, so mentions of “Brown” are being inflated by statements regarding a different person too.

I struggle with calling Nassar a #metoo moment, but every argument against it I run through seems to fail. So, maybe you’re right?

So I just looked this up and you’re not wrong, but the initial allegations (written about in 2016) caught aflame after over 150 females came forward, riding the MeToo wave, if you will, and that’s when things started moving quickly 

I struggle to balance “he’s a shit person”, with “he’s an employee who has not been convicted of anything.” The second is objectively true, and the first is subjectively true. Why shouldn’t he be allowed to work while the wheels of allegation and investigation and hopefully justice continue to turn? 

Diana for President.

I think if he likes his new teammates he won’t mind them getting their numbers. New England players don’t talk anything interesting to the media anyway so a significantly less chance to be thrown under the bus.

He only called Mayock a cracker after he was fined. That was a big part of Farris’s point.

Exactly. Even with Brown he didn’t say shit. It was all the journalists who lost it.
He really does view football as just a problem to solve (or odds to wager). Which, on one hand, is why he’s probably so ruthless in cutting guys and demanding efficiency (for the best value/odds) but also why he doesn’t take it out on…

I think the other Pittsburgh thing that people keep leaving out is that there weren’t a ton of skill guys that actually liked Ben. Martavis Bryant, LeVeon Bell, Emmanuel Sanders, Josh Harris and Antonio Brown have all taken public shots at Ben. Todd Haley clearly hated him. Sanders has implied that Mike Wallace didn’t…

Eh, I think you could make the case that holding out Malcolm Brown was Belichek throwing a guy under the bus. But even then, it’s by implication.

But that would be an awesome tv show. 

My internet view is also colored (no pun intended) by the fact I’m surrounded by a lot of racist Steeler fan so part of me wants him to quietly play slot receiver and say he’s happy just to be there, into Pats ring #7 so they can suck it.

“I need those stars, Daddy needs to eat!"

his stated claim (via Rosenhaus at least) of wanting a trophy will really be put to the test with the Pats. to your point, the ball will be distributed around, and they don’t need him — but if they throw brown, gordon and edelman out there at the same time with one of their pass catching RB’s, opposing defenses are…