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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.There seems to be a good deal of bible thumping weirdos in the NFL for some reason. I always think of this article from the Joe Gibbs II era in Washington about how over the top some of the cultishness got in the locker room.I don't personally understand how huge religion is in the US, so I always found his ascension rather bizarre. Furthermore, I doubly found it weird since BB never struck me as a deeply devout individual. So, I chalked it up to "BB is trying to reach out to his players as much as possible".
I think it was more the fact that it was a flimsy attempt to relate to black players with his "Ray Ray and Ki-Ki". Pretty much ripped a page right out of Al Pacino's playbook in Any Given Sunday when talking to Willie Beamon about hearing momma ring the dinner bell or whatever that speech was.Wow, how terrible that his idol is MLK.
The guy is a snake.The change in football "titles" can not be questioned, and seems a bit odd. Having said that, these Easterby stories are full of anonymous sources which I do not believe anymore - I call it "anonymous drama" news. Now that anonymous sources are less credible, stories are claiming an increased number of anonymous sources to make the story seem credible. "This story has 40 anonymous sources". I am sure there is some truth to it, and some garbage too. I do not know how the separate the truth and garbage, so I ignore the whole thing.
Ah... retaliation. An excellent way to run a business.For those who don't watch Game of Thrones, this might be an oblique metaphor, as well as a hyperbolic one. But the point is: A player found insight into his own workplace from a dramaseries about the vicious and unrelenting pursuit of power. “That’s why I was able to read them,” the player says of the trio of decision makers, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. “I knew who it was going to be [at the end].”
I can’t believe Snape killed DumbledoreThere should be a spoiler warning for anyone who still hasn’t watched GoT. The author gives away some big time deaths.
It's become standard operating procedure for entities like universities and their athletic departments, pro sports franchises, even major corporations to cater to their minority students/athletes/employees by deploying incredible resources designed to acclimate/counsel/foster/integrate them into a society very unfamiliar to many.So, I chalked it up to "BB is trying to reach out to his players as much as possible".