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Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders. If the Dallas Cowboys were known as "America's team," the Raiders were "America's badasses" -- a collection of misfits and renegades who wouldn't fit on other NFL teams that emphasized conformity and militaristic discipline. And there was no other NFL owner quite like the late Al Davis, who gave the franchise its swashbuckling identity. Davis was a civil rights pioneer on the gridiron. A colorful character who sported sunglasses and slicked-back hair, Davis in the s refused to allow his team to play in cities where Whites and black players were required to stay in separate hotels.
He also recruited some of the Raiders' best-known players from historically Black colleges and universities at a time when most NFL teams ignored those schools.
Some pointed to Davis' upbringing to explain why he championed being inclusive when it wasn't popular. As a teenager in New York City, he watched Jackie Robinson endure racist taunts as the first Black major league player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in He felt it as well. Gruden's downfall is part of a bigger NFL problem. The norm-busting culture that Davis built for the Raiders franchise seems increasingly out of step with the modern corporate NFL, which has become a multibillion-dollar business.
Earlier this year, USA Today reported that of the full-time coaches and general managers hired in the NFL since , only 40 were Black and brown.
The NFL has increasingly become identified with politically conservative White values. One report found that NFL owners' campaign donations in the election cycle went nearly to Republicans, including former President Trump. Many of these NFL owners are out of step with the racial activism embraced by a new generation of players. After Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem before a game in to protest racial injustice, sparking similar protests by other NFL players, the league instated a policy prohibiting players from protesting on the field during the anthem.
The NFL said any player who didn't comply would be subject to punishment. Colin Kaepernick, center, and two other members of the San Francisco 49ers kneel during the national anthem prior to a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on October 23, , in Santa Clara, California. The optics of a coaching fraternity made up of virtually all White men like Gruden bossing mostly Black and brown men around seems more anachronistic with each passing day.
The contemporary sports world has changed as well. His manner disconcerts me; but the sarcasm of his words and the offensive tone rouse my resentment. Avoid sarcasm ; it will, unconsciously to yourself, degenerate into pertness, and often downright rudeness.
I see you were not, said the stranger, an expression of quiet sarcasm playing about his mouth, or you would have known my name. A form of irony in which apparent praise conceals another, scornful meaning. New Word List Word List.
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