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League without 1 openly gay player having a 'Pride Night' at Super Bowl LVIIIBad execution can always ruin “good” intentions. The league that hasn’t created a safe enough space for gay players is having a “Pride Night” during Super Bowl week in Las Vegas. This is what a lack of self-awareness looks like....

Dan Quinn, Jim Harbaugh and all of the NFL coaching, exec hiresWith interviews entering late rounds and the new league year inching closer, we are finally seeing some of the coaching and front-office vacancies around the league get filled. To check out every opening around the league, check out our firings list. Tap in for all the latest head coach, coordinator...

Mark Davis needs to quit dragging this out and name Antonio Pierce the Raiders head coachMark Davis is making this coaching situation more complicated than it needs to be. Interim head coach Antonio Pierce is the obvious permanent choice. This really is the hire that should’ve happened already. The odds of the Raiders luring one of this year’s top candidates to Las Vegas are slim. Pierc...

New Orleans Saints interested in hiring assclown Jon Gruden

The New Orleans Saints are reportedly interested in adding Jon Gruden, who resigned after his racist, sexist, and homophobic emails surfaced, to their coaching staff....

Mark Davis is disrespecting Antonio Pierce by not removing the interim tag

This wouldn’t happen to Kellen Moore, Ben Johnson or Mike McDonald. But for “some odd reason,” Antonio Pierce has to deal with it....

Being a fired college football head coach is the best job in America

Being a coach is a tough and thankless job. It’s a profession where everybody thinks they can do your job better than you, which often leads to a high turnover rate — especially when you’re the head coach of a Power Five college football team. But, being fired isn’t so bad when you have a million-do...

Deadspin Dead Ringers: Professional athletes and their celebrity doppelgängers

We’ve all heard of doppelgängers — people who aren’t related but look like one another. There’s a whole subreddit dedicated to finding lookalikes. There was a Saturday Night Live short on the subject. But have you ever looked at one of your favorite athletes, or a player on your favorite team and no...

So 2 AFC North teams clubbed each other into oblivion after a short week? Shocker

The NFL is eventually going to win. People can push back on the product, and complain about Thursday Night Football and overseas football all they want, but in due time changes become normalized, and even the most inept schedule makers hit on a matchup. Enter the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Rav...