boor·ish
/ˈbo͝oriSH/
adjective
- rough and bad-mannered; coarse.
This past week, as any sports person at least would know, an NFL coach, Mr. Gruden, was pressured to resign over certain content within his emails that had been sent over the past dozen years. It was part of an investigation for when he was a coach with the Washington Redskins as they were known back in the day. While there were other behaviors that formed the context for his resignation, the publicized cause for his forced resignation was his word choices, so while I cannot speak to the full circumstance of his dismissal, there was something about the action that I found disturbing. Prosecuting or persecuting people based on words is the criminalization of thought, in this case, thoughts expressed in an ostensible private platform (internal emails), but what was most alarming about this was the utter hypocritical sanctimony of people in the NFL and the sports world.
Out of the entire NFL, only Mr. Gruden had been singled out for thought crimes. In an earlier day, his words would simply have been considered boorish. I found it strange that the same NFL that sanctioned Mr. Gruden is the same one that was quite challenged in recent years when it came to dealing with, for example, instances of domestic battery and other violent acts that are happened to be against the law, literally. The last time I checked, words, thoughts, and private opinions were still legal, after all, there is this thing called the first amendment that everyone seems to have forgotten, and yet the ethically and morally challenged NFL deemed them more dangerous than stuff that’s on the law books.
The wall of silence surrounding the case suggests that no one else in the NFL or the sports world has ever used the words that he used, now isn’t that laughable? Referring to contrasting individuals with pejorative descriptors indicating a homosexual or a vagina in a world where strength and red-blooded machismo are touted doesn’t strike me as an isolated or original thought. I suspect Mr. Gruden’s colleagues and peers are more abashed about their placement in email more so than what he actually thought or said, still, the hypocrisy runs deep while those same colleagues and peers run and hide under the bed away from the woke mob. Progressives at least certainly seem to have that level of disdain for all masculinity in any form, not just the boorish iterations of it. NFL, if you’re going to bend over forward for that crowd, there is no end in sight.