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Greg Cosell (@gregcosell) is a fantastic follow, I have learned a lot about football just from his tweets. Great at teaching little positional nuances and team-building philosophies. edit: here's a snippet 
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Here's Bleacher Report and Yahoo! Sports guy Adam Waksman's (@AdamWaksman) smear piece on Palestinian-American NY Jet Oday Aboushi. Waksman essentially calls Aboushi anti-Semitic for speaking at a Palestinian society conference and having the gall to tweet about Israeli occupation. My favorite part: quote:As one last detail, Kaufman comments that Aboushi has been associated with IR (Islamic Relief), an organization that is believed to serve as a front for Hamas and Al-Qaeda. However, as a piece of fact-checking, it is important to note that IR is a legitimate charity, while IRRO (International Islamic Relief Organization) is the one that is believed to be a front for terrorism. Since it is not clear at this moment whether the reporter got the acronyms mixed up or the event itself confused, this last bit should be taken with a definite grain of salt until further evidence is available. "Oday supports charities connected to Al-Qaida. Actually, that's another charity, but still"  The lone source for Waksman's article? An even more disgusting piece from extreme right-wing rag FrontPageMag, written by Joe Kaufman, the same man who advocated nuking of Muslim countries after 9-11 Since Kaufman isn't a sports writer, or any sort of reasonable journalist, I won't get into how lovely and racist his piece on Aboushi is, but some young nitwit from Yahoo!/Bleacher apparently thought it was enlightening and important enough to repackage and share. The Nation's Dave Zirin (@edgeofsports) has already written a good response to Waksman's article: http://www.thenation.com/blog/175216/slander-ny-jet-oday-aboushi#axzz2YlbiTCgK
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Jul 11, 2013 21:55
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I just went to Waksman's article again and it has been taken down by Yahoo. I am not very computer literate so I don't know what 'caches' and stuff are but if someone wants to do that thing and quote it here
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Jul 11, 2013 22:17
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Honestly what is most irritating about Waksman's article is how he couches it in very guarded language and mentions that FrontPageMag is not objective, but still parrots everything they say on Aboushi. He isn't critical of Kaufman at all, and basically reprints his poo poo with the "Muslim Extremist" language taken out, and then plays the objective observer with little warning statements like quote:It is important to realize that FrontPageMag.com is an openly political news source and thus should not be viewed as an entirely objective source of information. In the end, nothing in the Kaufman piece is sufficient proof of much except for activism of a general sort. Why even write the article then, Adam? Why?
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Jul 11, 2013 22:28
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"considering both sides" Also the shitstain MLB social media guy @jdmael who compared Aboushi's Palestinian activism to Hernandez's murders is back on Twitter after taking his account down for several hours.
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Jul 11, 2013 23:17
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And if you were wondering if the MLB guy's apology on Twitter was sincere, he calls him Obay (it's Oday)
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Elotana posted:I hope he develops into a Pro Bowler and keeps up his activism just to piss off the subset of Jets fans who are also dumbshit racists It's New York/NJ. Home of Peter King, Christine Quinn, Michael Bloomberg, Anthony Weiner, Chuck Schumer, etc., I'm sure Aboushi has become very used to anti-Arab/Muslim hate since being drafted VVV I was referring to his support of NYPD surveillance of Muslim groups in NYC but you're right, he did defend the Ground Zero Mosque plans. Sorry to derail this thread into a very contentious topic guys Pron on VHS fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 00:01
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Where Johnny Football is compared to Rosa Parks, http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/johnny-manziel-case-was-tipping-point-in-ncaa-hypocrisy-080813
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Aug 9, 2013 15:48
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Manish Mehta's pretty good
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Aug 13, 2013 14:34
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Just gonna leave this here........ http://nypost.com/2013/10/13/sons-death-doesnt-make-adrian-peterson-a-great-person/?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost Bravely lovely even for Mushnick
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:And it's a joke that illustrates the point that "forbidden" words shouldn't exist. It's a perfect use of the slur and anyone who protests it is literally protesting the concept of letters being put together in a combination they don't like. You have to 100% ignore the context to be offended. Whoaaaaaa mind blown
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Oh for gently caress sake, I wasn't trying to say anything profound. I was referring to prominent people saying that some words shouldn't be used because they are so offensive. The point is that the word isn't offensive, it's the context, yet we still have seemingly intelligent people actually proposing that there isn't any context for them. No that is profound, don't sell yourself short
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Oct 22, 2013 02:48
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football fuckerman posted:If anyone follows @Bro_Pair, who just published a 14-page story on pro wrestling without ever tweeting about it beforehand--and he tweets a lot--it just underlines how loving stupid and baseless Kelly's smug poo poo is I quit twitter to try and get my life back, can you link the article nm found it https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/money-in-the-bank/
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Aug 13, 2014 02:07
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^^^ beaten The best part about Magary's article was his awesome and brief dig at Albert Breer. What a loving rear end in a top hat
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Sep 24, 2014 21:03
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my mom is on her 3rd year of thinking he is south Indian
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Oct 22, 2014 19:20
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Man, that reporter's tweet about Carson Palmer is strangely the most infuriated thing I've seen in this thread. gently caress that rear end in a top hat
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Nov 14, 2014 22:39
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Cruel and Unusual posted:Chichevache being a disingenuous gently caress again? Stop the presses. He has a point, honestly
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Dec 28, 2014 03:36
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Chichevache posted:I don't understand your histrionics. I totally agree with you, but I do think-- because football is an entertainment industry -- that many of its consumers like hearing what their favorite athletes have to say. I know we at TFF laugh at their canned answers to questions, but I think sports leagues assume it keeps fans closer to the product if you can interview the players/coaches after big wins and losses.
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My ideal is that they ask the dude a question, he doesn't answer, and they move on to go find a willing interview. This isn't the loving White House. He's a nobody football player, not someone with any importance or responsibilities. We don't need his answers like he's a press correspondent holding out about CIA abuses. This nutty idea that we need to know how opinion because he makes a lot of money is really odd.
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WeLandedOnTheMoon! posted:I really don't care about what Lynch does or doesn't say, but I find his total contempt of the media baffling. Was his mother Lady Diana or something? The dude is a gimmicky guy. From the grills, to the roped off Lambo, to the Skittles, to the flying crotch grab, Marshawn wants attention. So why does he get all uppity when reporters want to talk to him? Was he burned by a reporter in the past? Need to misspell a few words if you're trying to ape him, and be funny
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Ribsauce posted:It is amazing how easily people are willing to throw an accusation of racism at people based on nothing. People think nothing of accusing others of being racist like it is not a serious accusation. Really, Stephen A Smith just accused Chip Kelly of being a racist (without straight up saying it) in front of the entire county. That is not a joke. That is a serious accusation. It never gets treated like it though. It's so crazy man
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Mar 9, 2015 22:31
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I live in Arlington and have dealt with that company, and Britt McHenry is a hero for being so mean.
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Apr 17, 2015 15:54
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Chichevache posted:I mean, unless the person behind the counter was an owner that's still lovely. Like calling up the Redskins and bitching out whatever poor monkey runs the phones, instead of, you know, acting like an adult and waiting outside of Snyder's home. The people behind the counter deserve it all
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Apr 17, 2015 16:51
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Keith older man, Katie Nolan, Bill Simmons, also a lot of beat writers are pretty critical of the NFL especially when it's about their team
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Apr 27, 2016 20:43
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Old people suck so I'm with slipup
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May 13, 2016 15:32
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I want to be the overexcited defense attorney that questions the prosc witness' credentials to the point where the judge shouts that the witness is an expert!
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May 13, 2016 17:43
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I'm the Navy dress whites Demi Moore wears in Cuba
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May 13, 2016 18:30
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I'm the baseball bat that leads to the flight log bluff
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May 13, 2016 23:50
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is that my boy Phil Mushnick
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Peter King bitched and moaned for years about the greatest punter of all time getting in but he wants a mediocre guy who got tk'ed in the desert to go in the first round? i think Peter is saying he doesn't want Pat Tillman in the HOF?
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I interpreted not mine to be Peter King "humble" empty quoting it feels like he is saying "he's not on my list, friend"
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Aug 23, 2016 21:55
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I'm glad this dude is being petty about this, LaCanfora is the biggest loving turd in sports media
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Sep 20, 2016 17:59
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LaCanfora doesn't have any controversial takes like all those people, he is just a man with an idiot's face
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Sep 20, 2016 18:16
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What was so bad about what he tweeted, clowning on Boston (whether the natives or the sports teams) for being anti-black is pretty spot on and good
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I've lived in Boston as a non-white, so nah, it isn't The city's lovely reputation w/r/t race is definitely earned
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