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Maybe.  I suspect the NFL is also full of good people that do not fit the stereotype that the author advances.  But today it is necessary to always look for and advance the negative. 

I think both are true; the NFL surely has a lot of people who are highly civically minded. Moreover even as single individual, as you (and Shaw) point out, Gruden is not a one-dimensional villain; he was a mentor to a number of people early in their careers, he seems to have been supported by his players, regardless of race or sexual orientation (I believe that one of the Raiders players is one of the first, maybe the only, publically out gay player).  But I would be surprised (shocked) if Gruden were the only one to have uttered racial and/or homophobic slurs.

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Maybe.  I suspect the NFL is also full of good people that do not fit the stereotype that the author advances.  But today it is necessary to always look for and advance the negative. 

I think both are true; the NFL surely has a lot of people who are highly civically minded. Moreover even as single individual, as you (and Shaw) point out, Gruden is not a one-dimensional villain; he was a mentor to a number of people early in their careers, he seems to have been supported by his players, regardless of race or sexual orientation (I believe that one of the Raiders players is one of the first, maybe the only, publically out gay player).  But I would be surprised (shocked) if Gruden were the only one to have uttered racial and/or homophobic slurs.

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