You forgot the most important part of the game. The refs. Fuck the refs. Absolutely gave the chargers the game.

On a side note, I can't believe you and others missed the London game pick. It's like everyone forgot the UK exists

Jon Gruden has resigned as Raiders coach.

It's odd that a society that believes in rehabilitation of criminals, including rapists and murderers, shows little to no willingness to forgive words that someone used at some earlier point in their life. All too often people get fired or essentially forced to resign by their "own" choice.

Gruden used some bad words in e-mails dating a decade back, but if he were truly a bad guy, he would have already had such a reputation because he's been in the NFL for over 20 years in one form or another. Gruden is not Dan Snyder or some such.

But this is the NFL, a sports organisation where domestic violence is considered a much greater offense than complete and utter disrespect towards the sport itself. Slapping a woman can end careers, but the usage of performance-enhancing substances gets a player about four weeks off instead of a minimum of one year like in other sports. It's not that I am okay with women getting beat up, it's just the magnitude with which different things get punished defies common sense.

Who knows, maybe there's more that will come to light about Gruden. But as it stands now, this development is pretty disappointing.

EDIT: So I learned that Gruden got caught due to an investigation of the workplace conduct of the Washington Football Team, a franchise which unsurprisingly has been infested with a more than questionable culture. That's what you get with an owner like Dan Snyder. Gruden had sent e-mails to Bruce Allen; e-mails in which Gruden felt comfortable enough to talk unfiltered and that didn't only concern a couple of e-mails dating back a decade, but a whole bunch of e-mails over the course of several years.

Washington has been fined $10 million along with an agreement that owner Dan Snyder stays away from running the team for an unspecified period of time. Gruden was a circumstantial "victim" of the investigation, but given the volume of evidence against him, there has been a clear pattern established and he has no one to blame but himself. And as such, it's fair that he lost his job. He has been better at hiding his true feelings and thoughts than others in the NFL, but the cat is out of the bag now.

Jon Gruden has resigned as Raiders coach.

It's odd that a society that believes in rehabilitation of criminals, including rapists and murderers, shows little to no willingness to forgive words that someone used at some earlier point in their life. All too often people get fired or essentially forced to resign by their "own" choice.

Gruden used some bad words in e-mails dating a decade back, but if he were truly a bad guy, he would have already had such a reputation because he's been in the NFL for over 20 years in one form or another. Gruden is not Dan Snyder or some such.

But this is the NFL, a sports organisation where domestic violence is considered a much greater offense than complete and utter disrespect towards the sport itself. Slapping a woman can end careers, but the usage of performance-enhancing substances gets a player about four weeks off instead of a minimum of one year like in other sports. It's not that I am okay with women getting beat up, it's just the magnitude with which different things get punished defies common sense.

Who knows, maybe there's more that will come to light about Gruden. But as it stands now, this development is pretty disappointing.

EDIT: So I learned that Gruden got caught due to an investigation of the workplace conduct of the Washington Football Team, a franchise which unsurprisingly has been infested with a more than questionable culture. That's what you get with an owner like Dan Snyder. Gruden had sent e-mails to Bruce Allen; e-mails in which Gruden felt comfortable enough to talk unfiltered and that didn't only concern a couple of e-mails dating back a decade, but a whole bunch of e-mails over the course of several years.

Washington has been fined $10 million along with an agreement that owner Dan Snyder stays away from running the team for an unspecified period of time. Gruden was a circumstantial "victim" of the investigation, but given the volume of evidence against him, there has been a clear pattern established and he has no one to blame but himself. And as such, it's fair that he lost his job. He has been better at hiding his true feelings and thoughts than others in the NFL, but the cat is out of the bag now.