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Dating back to when I was researching my USFL book, I was screaming to people about Trump: "He ruins fucking everything! E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g!" And it's just so true. The late John Bassett knew it. USFL owners learned it. He doesn't care about people. Or institutions [1] Image
He holds no loyalty to anyone. With the USFL, he threw all his peers under the bus. All of them. Threw his players under the bus. None of it mattered to him. He has no feelings. No compassion. So watching this all unfold, and seeing Republicans defend him [2] Image
I feel like I'm watching the same movie that was played nearly 40 years ago, when he destroyed an upstart football league and walked off from the wreckage unmoved. The @GOP is being left in pieces. Just as the USFL was. He can't touch something without demolishing it [3] Image
Last point on this: I'm dumbfounded by the suckery of people like @tedcruz @MarshaBlackburn @RepMTG @SpeakerMcCarthy @marcorubio. Take five seconds and Google "USFL and Trump." You idiots ARE the Pittsburgh Maulers and Oklahoma Outlaws. It's pathetic. #

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Sep 13, 2022
On the day of extended Favre revelations, I wanna share something: I wrote a biography of the man that was largely glowing. Football heroics, overcoming obstacles, practical joker, etc. Yes, it included his grossness, addictions, treatment of women. But it was fairly positive [1]
And, looking at it now, if I'm being brutally honest—I'd advise people not to read it. He's a bad guy. He doesn't deserve the icon treatment. He doesn't deserve acclaim. Image rehabilitation. Warm stories of grid glory. His treatment of @jennifersterger was ... inexcusable. [2]
And now—taking money that was designated to help poor people in HIS STATE, and funneling it to build (checks notes) A FUCKING VOLLEYBALL ARENA (!?!?!?) is so grotesque, so monstrous. I don't know how someone like that looks in the mirror. I just don't. [3]
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OK, this is important. So let's go thread. And remember: I'm from New York; I volunteered in the recovery afterward; I wouldn't lie about this shit ... [1]
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Jul 1, 2022
To expand: I'm an atheist, and I don't get prayer. I don't get something awful happening—and people praying AFTER the awful. I don't get heaven. Why people think there is one. Why people want one. I don't get the issue of death being the end. You live. You die. [1]
Why is that even slightly hard to embrace? There are gazillions of living things. They all live, they all die. Why are we any different? And, along those lines, I find it arrogant that people think they're created in God's image. Or God is listening to them talk. Or God [2]
has bigger plans for them. Or God led a quarterback to Texas Tech instead of Nebraska. Or God saved you from a typhoon—that killed 200. I think we'd be far better off without organized religion. Without places of worship hogging up millions of acres; without child-molesting [3]
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Again, a non-journalist perspective ... that's simply wrong. The great (and very good, and pretty good) beat writers are keenly aware they're not part of the teams they cover. They don't go out for dinner with players (unless it's for an interview/profile). They don't hang [1]
on off-days. The next time I see, oh, @TylerKepner or @ctrent or @JeffFletcherOCR high five a player after a game will be the first time. Why? Because we're reporters. We're not members of the team. We don't get rings when the teams win titles. [2]
We don't walk in the victory parade. It's not ours. And that's not some bullshit line. It's legit and essential. So you're the guy holding the cup, smoking a cig, reveling in the win. Two weeks later a player is charged with DUI. Or rape. Or whatever. Do you cover it as [3]
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