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The only coach to lead the Bills to a Super Bowl win. Too bad he became kind of a racist jerk when he retired to be a Texas high school coach.

Bridgewater is the one to tank for anyway.

The Bills are charging for the night practices. Not a chance they'll make it free online.

Patriots unveil BOLD NEW LOGO!* *Same logo with new word mark that doesn't look that different from every other team's word mark.

Even good WRs don't get traded for all that much. Easley, who has proven nothing in 3 years, would get a 7th at best.

Fair enough. If you don't see what's wrong with an NFL team using a racial slur to describe a race of people that the US committed genocide against as its nickname then at best you're ignorant, and at worst you're willfully so.

It's wrong no matter how many people say they don't want it changed. Even if nothing changes, it's still wrong.

Or at least stupid.

Looks like they managed to put all their fans in the stadium too.

Come on. You only turn 29 once and then again every year for the rest of your life.

Fitzpatrick is not accurate enough for Welker. Part of Welker's success is getting the ball where he needs it either in stride or where he can make a quick move and get upfield. Fitzpatrick is not good at that. Paying a lot for old beat up Welker when the Patriots don't want him is a bad idea.

It's a dehumanizing name from a time when the perception of Native Americans was that they had been murderous savages without culture.

LOL.

Yeah. I think Harbaugh's plan was to try and draw the flag and get a fresh set of downs to score and run the clock down.

Crabtree was probably instructed to try and run through the CB figuring either they'd get the call and a 1st down or they'd catch the ball and get the TD. Neither happened. I still blame the coach for calling those passing plays inside the 5.

But the point is even if they had thrown it the result of the play is exactly the same. Your real argument is that the Ravens shouldn't have held on the play which you can believe if you want, but it was good coaching.

Harbaugh's ****ty playcalling after they got inside the 5 cost them the game. Refs missed calls all day. Some even benefitted the 49ers.

Haha. So instead of refuting what I said and explaining how the Rooney rule and holidays trees restrict personal freedom of choice you are just going to dismiss the argument. I will say in regards to Just In Atlanta' s list of scary things that obviously nobody here is in favor off censoring books and books being banned by specific school boards is wrong but as far as I know the government isn't burning books so we can drop the Nazi bull ****. Also all of this is so far removed from the subject of whether Redskins is derogatory term or not that its really just clouded what should have been a pretty simple point. Changing the name of a sports franchise because it is archaic and embarrassing restricts nobody' s rights or freedoms.

So nothing then?

How does the Rooney Rule limit or take away freedom of choice?

None of those take away freedom of choice. Sorry the world is changing. Seems to be pretty scary for you.

They were no more savage than the Europeans. History is written by the winners and the Native Americans lost. P.S. This Disney image?

Have the Bills ever used that as an official slogan? It doesn't matter anyway because its not a derogatory term.

I think Redskins came from the savage image of the Indians/Native Americans that existed in popular culture until just a few decades ago. It's dehumanizing.

neither of those examples is what the discussion is about, but for the record Chief Wahoo needs to go too. Nobody here is complaining about Florida State. The only reasons anyone can give for not changing the highly derogatory name are tradition and some imaginary line in the sand against the "pc police" and frankly both of those reasons are pretty terrible. You don't change the name because it's not pc or any other buzzword. You don't change it because the original owners were racist or fans that support it are racist, because I don't believe either of those is true. You change the name because it's a relic from a time in our history that we have moved past. We are better than that. Or we should be. You change the name because it's the right thing to do.