Brian Flores is suing the NFL, for alleged “racism in hiring”
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The Dolphins incentivized losing football games
All jokes aside … from a game integrity standpoint the NFL needs to put down a harsh penalty on Stephen Ross and the Dolphins
The QB on that boat in the lawsuit was NOT Deshaun Watson.
Brian Flores said that Steven Ross said he’d pay Flores 100K for every Dolphins loss in 2019 season to tank
TAKE AWAY THE DRAFT PICKS!
All jokes aside … from a game integrity standpoint the NFL needs to put down a harsh penalty on Stephen Ross and the Dolphins
The QB on that boat in the lawsuit was NOT Deshaun Watson.
Brian Flores said that Steven Ross said he’d pay Flores 100K for every Dolphins loss in 2019 season to tank
TAKE AWAY THE DRAFT PICKS!
Flores ruined his own career, but these others have to pay - especially Ross.
Teams that conducted sham interviews to satisfy the Rooney Rule, like the Giants and Broncos, should also pay. But Ross' actions are worthy of massive sanctions.
Teams that conducted sham interviews to satisfy the Rooney Rule, like the Giants and Broncos, should also pay. But Ross' actions are worthy of massive sanctions.
I mean, after he hit the homer off Branca, he's going to say things like that about the Giants.
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Of their past half dozen HCs, half were people of color - Herm, Bowles, and Saleh. That's not a bad track record of diversity for the Jets.
I dislike the Rooney rule for the same reason I dislike affirmative action. I am also smart enough to understand why both exist .
While I agree, a conspiracy theorist might say that the Jets organization has been used by the NFL as an example to prove that the rule works .
Glad I’m no such person .
And there's proof they violated the Rooney Rule, curtesy of an unintended (or did he mean to?) Bill Belichick text.
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Bill Belichick text messages to Brian Flores reveal Giants violated Rooney Rule
Brian Flores has filed a lawsuit against the New York Giants, and the main piece of evidence in the suit is a text message exchange he had with New
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I mean, after he hit the homer off Branca, he's going to say things like that about the Giants.
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For you youngsters:
Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca: Forever Linked by Sudden Immortality
GREG ENOAUGUST 20, 2010
Bobby Thomson didn’t hit his famous home run off a tee, in case you were wondering.
Nor did he flip the ball into the air, fungo-style, and swat it over the left field wall at the Polo Grounds on October 3, 1951.
Most of the great history makers had sidekicks.
Charles Lindbergh had the Atlantic—and his plane. Dr. Jonas Salk had mold. Elvis Presley had his hips.
And Bobby Thomson had Ralph Branca.
Thomson, auteur of the biggest walk-off home run in baseball history, died this week at age 86.
It was Thomson who slammed Branca’s pitch into the Polo Grounds seats in the bottom of the ninth of the tiebreaker game between Thomson’s New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, lifting the Giants into the 1951 World Series.
With one swing, Thomson became as famous as Babe Ruth, even though he was one-tenth the player that Ruth was.
Such is the gravitational pull of the legendary singular moments that occur from time to time in baseball, a sport where nothing can happen until the pitcher hurls the ball toward the plate. After that, all bets are off.
Thomson’s three-run home run capped a furious second half charge by the Giants, who found themselves double digits in games behind the Dodgers at one point during the 1951 season.
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The Giants chomped into the Dodgers’ lead like a Pac Man game until the two teams were in a dead heat by season’s end. Baseball rules at the time mandated a best-of-three playoff to determine the league champion.
The teams split the first two games of the playoff, and the Dodgers were ahead 4-2 when Branca was summoned from the bullpen in the ninth inning of Game Three.
Thomson had some power; he hit 264 home runs in his 15-year career. This wasn’t Bucky Dent/1978 at the plate.
You know what happened. Branca threw, Thomson swung, and Giants radio announcer Russ Hodges lost his mind.
“THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT”
A young whippersnapper on Bleacher Report suggested to me that Hodges’ call—long heralded as the most famous in sports history—was overrated.
“All he did was yell the same thing over and over,” the whippersnapper whined. “What was so special about that?”
If he’d been sitting next to me I would have backhanded him across his puss.
Instead, I took a deep breath and wrote back to him that Hodges’ call gained so much notoriety because it was basically the very firstdramatic sports call captured on audio tape.
That, plus even many non-sports fans know what “The Giants Win the Pennant!” refers to.
Branca, by the way, is still alive, if anyone has cared to wonder.
He’s 84 and enjoying his retirement at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York.
What’s fascinating, to me, about the Branca/Thompson connection is that neither player was anything close to being a Hall of Famer. If they didn’t have the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” no one beyond their own families would know who they were after retirement.
Branca was 88-68 with a 3.79 ERA. He made three All-Star teams but he was no star, per se. Thomson had a career batting average of .270 and ended up becoming a journeyman, playing for five teams from 1946 to 1960. Thomson, too, made some All-Star teams but All-Star rosters throughout history are teeming with dogs who had their day.
Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca were joined at the hip the moment that baseball soared into the seats at the Polo Grounds on 10/3/51.
Baseball’s Batman and Robin, forever.
Ironically, just months prior to his death, Thomson was finally showing signs of Branca fatigue.
For decades, Thomson had been haunted by accusations that sign-stealing engineered by Giants manager Leo Durocher enabled Durocher to somehow signal to Thomson what pitch was coming from Branca—specifically a fastball.
Thomson vehemently denied those charges.
In a Q&A with the New York Post’s Steve Serby published in May 2010, Thomson says those who accuse him of benefiting from sign-stealing are trying to take something away from him.
Among the accusers: Ralph Branca himself.
“Naturally I'm not happy about anyone who takes away from me the one thing that I've always thought, the one thing I can take credit for (that) I've earned in my baseball life,” Thomson told the Post.
So does Thomson have any hard feelings toward Branca regarding the sign stealing accusations?
“I just got a little tired of having that home run taken away from me. I was glad to get down here in Savannah (GA) and get away from it. In the last four years, (Branca’s) called twice, I guess to do a card show. I'm all through with card shows, and I wasn't going to come to New York. I've had enough of Ralph, and I'm sure he's had enough of Thomson.”
Thomson also hit a homer off Branca in Game One of the playoff. Funny how no one has cried about stealing signs when it comes to THAT dinger.
But a word about Ralph Branca.
On the day Jackie Robinson made his big league debut in 1947, the number of folks against the idea of a black man taking a Major League Baseball field included many of Robinson’s own Dodgers teammates.
In fact, only one of them had the temerity, the courage, and the sense of decency to stand alongside Robinson during the playing of the National Anthem prior to the game. The others refused.
That man was Ralph Branca.
Indeed, the sign stealing thing aside, Thomson calls Branca “A very decent person.”
Baseball immortality strikes like lightning—it shows no preference based on skill, stardom, or reputation. And it comes with no warning whatsoever.
The Tigers had a light-hitting shortstop named Cesar Gutierrez, a career .235 hitter. Yet on June 21, 1970, Gutierrez went 7-for-7 in an extra-innings game in Cleveland. He came into the contest hitting a robust .218.
Ty Cobb never went 7-for-7. Nor did Ted Williams or Rogers Hornsby or Tony Gwynn.
I love the suddenness of baseball fame and infamy. The sport has a propensity for it that makes it, in my mind, America’s greatest game.
“It's a funny thing with Ralph Branca and me ending up the way we did on the ballfield,” Thomson told the Post.
Indeed.
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Ralph Branca was a MENCH.
Doubt much if anything comes from this lawsuit.
Ross didn't appear too upset with the win handing Flores the game ball in the post above. Think it's a disgruntled former employee realizing he cost himself his dream job and millions of dollars. Giants could lose some draft capital if they did in fact have the deal in place with Daboll before his interview, as the Bill Belichick text seem to confirm for violating the Rooney rule.
Ross didn't appear too upset with the win handing Flores the game ball in the post above. Think it's a disgruntled former employee realizing he cost himself his dream job and millions of dollars. Giants could lose some draft capital if they did in fact have the deal in place with Daboll before his interview, as the Bill Belichick text seem to confirm for violating the Rooney rule.
The league found a way to sweep spy gate away and it will do the same with this . Flores will get paid but he’s done in the NFL
An old college teammate and buddy brought up a great point. There is much greater diversity among coordinators and assistant coaches because they are hired by the head coaches.
Owners, on the other hand, are doing the HC hires, and that is why there is so much less diversity there.
Owners, on the other hand, are doing the HC hires, and that is why there is so much less diversity there.