No Clever Moniker wrote:
The NFL prints money but right now they are losing in the court of public opinion. Whether white conservative men or liberal women (and those who act as though they have ovaries) she would be a win on the fronts that matter most. That she knows the game well enough to be on the NCAA playoff committee is plus. She knows crisis management, public relations, and how to make everyone in the room comfortable enough to go along with what's best for everyone. She doesn't have to hold the job for a lifetime, just long enough for people to forget Goodell.
If she didn't demand changing the name of the Redskins within her first hour on the job, Keith Olbermann and Deadspin would call her a race traitor and lead the charge to replace her too. In fact, I bet they want to call her a race traitor for any reason. Also, she was a big part of a particularly grim chapter of American history.
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Molly Lambert wrote:
The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.