A Police Lineup

If we, as a country, learn nothing else from the Trump years, I hope we collectively recognize that old, rich white men are fucking retarded, and their opinions should be mocked and ridiculed.

No, Tom Brady is famous because Drew Bledsoe was hurt and the Patriots went on to win a Super Bowl behind a strong defense, and Bill Belichik was eager to build a team around a quarterback that was not weighed down by expectations or Bill Parcells’ legacy.

Remember when rich people used to have to fear what would happen to their fortune if it got passed down to incompetent heirs? Like, JP Morgan was probably scared shitless that his kids would fuck his shit up.

I feel like if the NFL had done nothing to address this, these anthem protests would continue (as they should), but the media coverage would eventually kind of die down and it wouldn’t nearly be as big an issue this season. It’s really looking like the NFL Streisand Effect-ed themselves realllll good here...

Luck is the biggest of all these. The vast majority of rich people (especially the mega-rich) were born rich. Most NFL owners were born so rich they’d have to be as stupid as trump was to piss it all away. Society has a problem when someone can become so wealthy that it borders on impossibility for them lose all their…

As the wealth disparity increases and because we’ve continued to increase protections on estates, the “stupid rich person” problem will only get worse. Much, much worse.

I think the NCAA would like to argue with that point...

A LOT of people have had sex on camera. Many of them have also had rich dads. They didn’t all parlay that into billion-dollar empires for their entire families.

I used to work in entertainment journalism (particularly comic books) and I was extremely lucky that I had editors who were very upfront and honest about the wall between things like sales and editorial. Our advertisers knew that we could and would write stories about them good or bad and they were not to expect favors…

Smart too. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve heard someone say some shit like “He’s got a lot of money so I’m sure he’s smart enough to do this”. Often contradicting another recent comment like “Just because they have money they think they know everything!” from someone they disagree with.

> ... protests against policy brutality ...

It’s the closest you can legally get to making slaves fight each other.

YESSSSSSS more Diana Moskovitz pieces over here on Jezebel pleeeeease

You certainly do not need this validation, but holy fucking shit you are completely correct.

Don’t forget, they’re also alleged “titans of industry” in an array of fields unrelated to sports, as well. These clowns are our New American Aristocracy, the best our particular strain of capitalism can apparently develop.

I think this relates to our society’s common misconception that because someone is rich that they are also competent. This is absolutely not true and even someone like myself who understands this is confused by how rich people act.

If the NFL doesn’t know what a catch is, how could they ever understand a catch-22?

Peacefully protesting the anthem is far less detrimental to the Dolphins than starting Ryan Tannehill at QB every week.

As with Trump, I am truly amazed by the level of incompetence at the highest levels of the NFL. It’s one thing to disagree with an organization or even to think that its executives are outright evil; it’s staggering to think that the leaders of the most profitable sports league in the world aren’t even smart.