Armo here. Make that “the nine of us.”

Yep. He squandered the hell out of Mata at Chelsea only to end up with him again.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

But it’s no less silly than saying Man U has a history of developing young prospects into stars because Fergie bought Ronaldo and an already developed Rooney 14 years ago.

Nah, Mou is ruining Mkhi. He has no idea what to do with playmaking midfielders. None.

So he can play in Germany vs Bayern Munich and Schalke and Champions League teams...or he can play against Swansea and Newcastle’s U21 teams? That’s not really much of a choice if he wants to improve vs tough competition.

Mourinho already ruined Mkhitaryan, please don’t let him ruin Pulisic too!

I get the spirit of the rule and it’s importance, but Christ, if the Raiders were set on Gruden, would you really want to be the minority coach that was brought in to interview knowing that you had no chance at the job, that your time was being wasted, and you were only brought in because the team is mandated to…

That’s not it and you fucking know it. They’re not racist because the organization as a whole has a history of staffing itself with non-white guy hires.

Swear to god maybe think for yourself for once (or don’t, I’m not sure what’s really causing this to be so difficult for you here) but maybe consider that the Raiders…

So, wait— If a team knows exactly who they want, they still need to interview other people? Black, white, whatever— it’s a waste of time for everyone involved just so a front office can go through the motions. It’s not like these candidates are the dude who coaches the JV squad after the early shift at Jiffy Lube.…

The thing is, what the Raiders did here is a very normal thing in pretty much every industry. I guess what this group of bozos would like is for such an avenue to replace a coach to just not be available. Which means rather than creating opportunities, the Rooney Rule would be hamstringing organizations.

The issue here, I think, is that if they didn’t know Gruden was taking the job, they would have just kept Jack Del Rio, so there wasn’t an opening in the first place, so any other interviews they did, would be, by definition, shams. There’s zero chance that they were going to find out they could get Gruden, fire Del…

Raiders have a life time exemption to the Rooney Rule, in exchange for a life time of shitty ref calls.

It’s just funny to me Al Davis drafted the first black QB, hired the first black coach, and the first Latino coach and his son might get hit with a Rooney Rule violation.... should be called the Al Davis Rule!

So wait they want to give the Raiders shit for violating the Rooney Rule. Fuck aren’t they first team to have a Black Football Coach? Aren’t they the first to have a Mexican Football Coach? Aren’t they first to have a Woman work in the Front Office? Don’t have they a Black GM as we speak? (Granted he has Dennis…

Do you have anything better to do than spend 20-30 minutes trying to come up with “jokes” on a Deadspin message board all day that nobody looks at? You must live some life, dude. I wanna be you

I think the rule should be if you only interview one person you don’t have to interview a minority candidate. The raiders clearly had their heart set on Gruden so it doesn’t do anyone any good to just have token candidates.

Yeah, the thing about appropriation is people don’t usually ask or wait for permission. They do it and your only recourse is to call them out for it.

And in the 20s the swastika still meant peace