joining me now, dave zirin. dave, welcome. thanks for joining us on this. great piece, by the way.ort that has 70% black american players and at the top of the sport, in the ownership boxes, every single owner, except for one, is a white billionaire. and the one who isn't, shahid khan, is, of course, not black, so you're talking about a massive racial divide in the sport, but it's more than just franchise owners and players. if you look at the ranks of executives and coaches, even if you look at the ranks of offensive coordinators, what are the so-called thinking positions in the sport, that's how they refer to them, those are almost exclusively lily white, and this is a racial contradiction and it's also a powder keg in the sport. and this is why they had to deal with gruden so quickly, because they don't want any hint of racism, sexism, homophobia in the sport because it kind of gives the game away that at the top of the sport, what you have is effectively a country club with an ingroup and an out group and the out group is actually the great majority of the players who play the