DJExile posted:

This goes here too. Bills beat reporters are getting creative with the team's media policies

Raku posted:

quote:

“He’s been really, really impressive,” offensive coordinator Clyde Christensen said. “He just has one of those demeanors that he doesn’t get out of whack easily. He’s kind of steady, slow and steady, and it’s been really good.”

“He’s every bit what we thought he was, which has a chance to be exceptional,” Christensen said. “He works. He pays attention. He doesn’t make the same mistake over and over again, which you look for in a rookie.”

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/06/ali_ushered_in_the_era_of_pree.html posted:

The first is his creation of the preening, prancing, unapologetically boastful demeanor that has become such a familiar plague on the world of sports. Every batter who hits a home run and stands at the plate for long moments admiring it, every basketball player who taunts the other team after sinking a three-pointer, every football player who breaks into a foolish dance after making a tackle – all of them are Ali's progeny.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I love how he tries to make this sound like a bad thing

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I love how he tries to make this sound like a bad thing

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I love how he tries to make this sound like a bad thing

NC-17 posted:

look at this guy's headlines:

Gorilla incident proves that we've become a nation of busybodies

So tired of hearing people whine about Cleveland sports miseries

Bureaucrats and lawyers trying to regulate Uber into submission -- and out of commission

Let Chief Wahoo opponents be offended on their own time, and leave the rest of us alone

Non-union teachers had almost won their freedom - and then Antonin Scalia died

quote:

He is praised for taking a principled stand, and there's little doubt about that. He was opposing the war, not trying to avoid going to battle: What he avoided was a cushy two-year hitch of publicity appearances and exhibition matches; no way was Muhammad Ali ever going to be handed an M-16 and sent into the Vietnam jungle.

But I'll let others applaud him for sacrificing those years of his career in an antiwar protest.

I'll save my admiration for people like baseball great Ted Williams, who lost almost five full seasons as a fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, and Cleveland's Bob Feller, who enlisted in the Navy right after Pearl Harbor and spent three of his prime years on the battleship USS Alabama in both oceans. And of course Pat Tillman, who lost his life in Afghanistan after walking away from a pro football career and enlisting in the Army after 9/11.

"I ain't got nothing against them Vietcong," Ali famously said at the time.

"Them Vietcong" killed 58,000 of his fellow Americans -- black and white, young and old, rich and poor -- while Ali was helping give them a reason to fight on.

Ehud posted:

WW2 and Vietnam were basically the same war

NC-17 posted:

Holy moly, reading the rest of that article.

Ostentatious posted:

yeah Ali is such a jerk for not participating in the perpetuation of a futile war against an ideology!!!!

swickles posted:

True, both wars had a super power committing atrocities against civilian populace.

Ehud posted:

WW2 and Vietnam were basically the same war

pangstrom posted:

Just an aside, but: why did Reshad Jones drop to the 5th round?

GobiasIndustries posted:

Jason Whitlock serving up his hot takes with a nice glass of OJ: http://theundefeated.com/features/o-j-was-the-lesser-of-two-evils/

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Jason Whitlock holds a huge grudge against Ta-Nehisi Coates because Coates didn't leave the Atlantic for The Undefeated and that is hilarious to me