The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

Your opinions on NASCAR are insane. I'm a NASCAR fan and I don't have a racist bone in my body. There are some idiots who follow it but accusing the majority of the millions of fans that follow the sport of being racist is just wrong.

Major sponsors include Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Xfinity, Advance auto parts, Digital Ally and Geico. They wouldn't accept anything like that.

In recent times a few black owners have come into the sport, Michael Jordan is a major shareholder in his own team now and Brad Daugherty has been a shareholder in a team for a couple of years. Bubba Wallace is in the cup series and Jess Iwuji is in the Xfinity series. Ask any of them why there's not more black drivers and they'll all tell you that the reasons are mainly financial. NASCAR banned the Confederate flag last year after some idiots hired a plane to fly over one of the events with that flag behind it.

And as for the next team hiring Gruden being a PR disaster, you simply don't understand how things work over there. You do the good stuff and then the media portrays you as a good guy and people believe it whether it's true or not. You need to do something bad or stupid a second time to end your career.

Look at Bountygate, Gregg Williams took the blame for that and spent a year out of the sport and he's worked pretty much full time for four different teams since as a DC, and interim head coach at one stage.

Look at players like Michael.Vick and recent ones like Kareem Hunt and Tyreek Hill.

Maybe Gruden won't want to come back to coaching but the path is there if he wants to take it.

Don't reply if that's the type you are. Leave your opinion like it's gospel and walk away.

You see I didn't condone anything he said. I just said that I don't think he is a racist person because people came out and backed him and he has worked with so many people as a coach and a color commentator that I doubt he would have gotten away with it all these years. So please don't accuse me of condoning something I didn't.

I would never condone racism. As a matter of fact some of my friends love the fact that I never even bring it up. Tbh I just forget about a person's skin colour or sexual preferences when I get to know them, for me they are just friends.

Anyways this is all far away from my point that there is a path back for Gruden if he wants it.

I presume you are of the opinion that Formula 1 is racist too?

No it's the truth and I've been told it on occasion by friends, that's friends who are gay and friends who are black.

Cop yourself on, comparing somebody you don't even know to a despicable man like that is highly insulting.

I just think if Bell still has something that the Titans is where he'd show it.

Bell is a patient runner who waits to find the hole. In Baltimore it's instant impact to a predetermined spot. I always noticed how far back Derrick Henry lines up which is to give him time to build up his speed and to choose the gap he likes best. Bell would be able to wait and find the gap he wants with that OL.

It'd cost them nothing much to bring him in and with only McNichols, Foreman and Peterson it's worth a shot i think.