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The weave poles are always my favorite part of those.

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Of course ranch is a verb. I just ranched my salad at lunch yesterday.

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I could never handle Cadbury eggs. I mean, I won't eat a chicken egg raw, what makes you think I'll eat a rabbit egg that way?

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Upvote for Aussie rules football.

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That is a great ad but the redneck backlash should begin any minute. I predict it will be bigger than anything that Collin Kaepernick (an American hero) caused.

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I fucking cried, at work, when I watched this ad. I don't even watch football, and I cried. At work.

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Football culture is still horrible, and football is still a sport that turns people's brains to mango puree. Small towns in Texas still spend $millions on high-school football stadiums that blur the line between elective sports and monolithic Christian religion.

But the NFL is some kind of bellwether for cultural change, whether I like it or not, and this is a cool ad, which will - deliberately - give the rageaholics on the right something to freak out about this Sunday at the megachurch worship party.

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Not all that legal for the medical either. Wake me when the feds get their collective heads out of their asses so a trip to the dispensary simply involves an insurance copay and a debit card.

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Inch by inch, step by step ... white Americans, including the NFL, will always find it easier to embrace gender difference than to behave halfway decently to Black Americans.

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Still no women's football league, but it's something for them to keep mentioning us anyway.

And yeah, this matters the way NASCAR banning Confederate flags matters. It matters when large institutions say that they aren't going to accept your bigoted bullshit anymore and then do something about it like donate to causes that are doing the good work.

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So the Browns are right out.

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I predict it will be nowhere near as big as that. One million 23 moms will throw a fit and everyone else will point to this as proof that the NFL has no problems whatsoever.

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It's about fucking time.

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Don't forget the pants so tight they look like they were spray painted on.And one of the players is the "tight end."

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Robin Williams had a bit about Tom Landry (the longtime coach of the Dallas Cowboys a long time ago) directing a ballet.

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Yes, yes, very nice.

Now about those 1,285 other big problems the NFL has that it would like you to ignore ...

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