Deadspin has an IDIOT of the year. You can enjoy Nos. 50 through 11 here. Our top 10.
10. The man is called Thom Brennaman.
9. Ted Cruz is a Republican.
8. The man is Rob Manfred.
7. Irving is a person.
6. Steele is named Sage Steele.
5. Urban Meyer.
4. The Chicago Blackhawks are from the city.
3. There is a person named Trevor Bauer.
2. Rodgers is the man.
1. Jon Gruden is a TV personality.
Do you ever wonder if Hillary Clinton sent a thank you note to Jon Gruden? Before this year, she was the face of an email scandal, until she was told the woman who should have been the 45th president to hold his beer.
The former Las Vegas Raiders coach proved once and for all that mediocre white men have it in this world when the guy in the midst of a 10-year, $100 million deal, with a winning percentage barely over.500, was outed as a member of a hate group.
DeMaurice Smith had a lot of tires. He tried to say that he didn't have a racist bone in his body. He referred to Michael Sam, who never made a team, as a "homosexual" and used homophobic slurs. Carl Nassib was the first openly gay player in the league. He mocked the league for using female referees and Eric Reid, who remains blackballed by the league, for kneeling.
The Raiders broke the Rooney Rule when Mark Davis admitted to hiring Jon Gruden before Jack Del Rio. Mike Mayock was hired by the Raiders as their general manager, a guy with no previous front office experience before he got the job, and who once said he would take a quarterback over a quarterback in the draft.
The league has been accused of character assignation in a lawsuit filed by Jon Gruden.
G/O Media might get a commission.
There is no explanation or justification for why the only emails that were made public out of the 650,000 emails collected in the N.F.L.'s investigation of the Washington Football Team were those of coach Jon Gruden.
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The league could have an inside track on the Idiot of the Year if the NFL exposed Gruden to distraction.
