This team needs Jon Gruden right now

picnicwithfish said

I like Gruden. I asked the question yesterday, in another thread, what was his nfl banishment all about…. I wasn’t paying too much attention to it when it was happening. The more I research it, the more I find flaws like the bounty gate evidence. I am not a fan of cancel culture, especially based to specific interpretations of what was said and in what context. In my opinion, there is Lots of grey area with what he said racially. Now, with that said, I think that any team that hires Gruden will go on the NFL crap list and we all know how that feels. No matter what you do, there will be a moment where the NFL powers at hand will remind you what it is like to defy them.

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I agree with the racist interpretation. His comments were definitely uncalled for and childish, but to say they were racist is subjective. I didn’t see that he called him the N word in the emails. Maybe he did and I missed it because that would clearly be racist.

But you can say people have big ears and big lips without it being race related. I’ve heard white people get made fun of for having big ears all the time when I was younger. Alfalfa from Little Rascals come to mind.

And I also remember this Hispanic girl when I was in high school that had some huge lips (which we thought were attractive) and we nicknamed her ApocaLIPS because they were huge.

So just because someone gets made of fun for having big lips and big ears doesn’t necessarily mean it’s racist.