Or you could say that like many young black men, every system he's been a part of has been stacked against him from the day he was born. He was placed in the substance abuse program the moment he entered the league because of his suspension in college. There aren't many 20-23-year-olds who would be able to pass weekly…

His open letter is really good, start to finish. I know he may have a bit of a persecution complex, and he may be in some degree of denial, but he's also living in a bizarro world constructed by the NFL deliberately to make no sense to anyone trying to exist in it as a player.

Josh Gordon clearly does not have a drug problem. That's the sad part about all this.

He gets tested more than 70 times per year and his one failure during that time period was a trace amount of marijuana that wouldn't even register in the testing procedures used in any other sport. He could have easily tripped that quantity by being exposed to second hand smoke (or maybe he took one toke in a moment…

Under the League's understanding of what constitutes alcohol and marijuana abuse, I've been a raging junky unfit for work since I was seventeen years old.

It's cool to both hate the NFL for its ridiculous rules and believe that Josh Gordon is unforgivably stupid, right?

Patient in my medical office today: "I'm not trying to be racist, but I had to like New England - it was the scrappy white kids against the bullying black kids!"

Right on cue, it's the Richard Sherman police.

Every athlete at that level is a loud mouth and a dickhead to the other team. Manning and Brady scream at everyone on the field (refs, teammates, opponents). Why the hate for Sherman? What makes him different? I would argue that his critiques of the NFL have been some of the most important things that an athlete has…

I DON'T LIKE THE OUTSPOKEN AND INTELLIGENT BLACK MAN!!

As a Pats fan: Richard Sherman with a bad arm is still good enough to avoid on 95% of passing plays. The man might talk a lot of shit, but he's got the play to back it up. I didn't see him losing it when everything went down prior to the rejection - and he was the first to shake Brady's hand. Pure class.

Well it's a good thing Pete Carroll was there to throw the game.

So let's assume the other guy was a DD. So the passenger is doing the right thing and being driven home, but he gets out of car and gets arrested? For what? Crime-stats padding? Revenue from court costs?

That whole thing confused me. If you don't get out of the car when an officer tells you to, then you're going to get the windows smashed on you, and charged with resisting arrest. So what difference does it make?

How long are we going to let this continue? How long are we going to allow the police to murder our citizens? Where is the tipping point?

"An officer asked Geer to step out of the car. "He got out and they arrested him for drunk in public," says Stewart. "He learned he could have stayed in his car and he never would have been arrested."

Since it's really not very funny when people struggle with substance abuse problems, I will say...get well and good luck, sir.

yup, and a lesson Carroll/Bevell has now learned. doesn't make the anon player crazy though. whether Carroll or Bevell wanted Wilson to be the one to make "the play" is a legit discussion

You know what's hilarious about this game? The ending was so good and so suspenseful that no one is even talking about the fight in the last 20 seconds of the game. That was a pretty big brawl for a super bowl, and I still have no idea what prompted it other than the obvious frustration among the Seahawks players and…

Not exactly a conspiracy theory. In SB32 it was reported afterward that Holmgren was trying to give Favre a chance to earn a SB MVP (since he didn't get the year before) and got out of his planned gameplan. Wanting your golden boy to have his shining moment not unheard of