Last year, the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders were a huge driving force behind everyone and their mothers making those “Call Me Maybe” videos that totally never got old at all. So how, then, would the wonderfully talented Dolphins ladies top that for an encore in 2013? By lip syncing to another ridiculously catchy pop song that gets stuck in my brain every other day – “22” by Taylor Swift.

Every time Swift’s Diet Coke commercial airs, this song sets up shop inside my head and I walk around mumbling the lyrics like a total doofus. But for some reason, I always sing the opening line as: “It feels like the perfect night, to dress up like Hitler…” I’m not sure what that says about me, but I’m sure that’s something I can discuss with my therapist later today.

In the meantime, let’s watch the Dolphins cheerleaders dance around the Dominican Republic, shall we? Oh, and I hope you’re dressed up for this, because it is a GIF party.

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Taiwan Animation tackled the sensitive issue of “football is more important than any other social issue” and the racism of the Washington Redskins name. When Taiwan is calling you racist and backing it up with hard evidence, you should probably just fold and call them Washington Football Team. I want one of those “Tennessee Inbreds” helmets, though.

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The NFL Players Association has added a line of LGBT Pride vintage t-shirts to their One Team Store, featuring Scott Fujita, Chris Gocong, Terrell Suggs, Donte Stallworth and more. They should appeal to anyone tolerant who loves football, gay rights or neon signs from the 1970s. They may or may not have been designed by The Electric Company.

Here’s the official statement, in the product description of each shirt:

Show your support for Pride Month with this Chris Kluwe LGBT Pride Vintage T-shirt. Featuring a screen-printed NFLPA Pride logo on the front and a rainbow jersey number on the back, this LGBT Pride T-Shirt is a great way to show support during Pride Month. A portion of the proceeds from each sale go to Athlete Ally, a leading nonprofit resource dedicated to teaching all individuals involved in sports to respect every community member, regardless of perceived or actual sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

It would’ve been nice to see them work the Q in there (people are always leaving off the Q … the Q is important), but NFLPA LGBT T is already a shitload of letters, so I understand.

My only other complaint (besides the fact that I feel like I should go rollerskating beneath these shirts) is the hashtag on the front. Man, I get that you want to be “with it” or whatever and incorporate social media onto your t-shirt design, but you should never put hashtags on a shirt. Remember a few years ago when we didn’t hashtag ANYTHING? Remember the last 10 years of social media, where nothing stays on top and we change directions as soon as the next cool thing comes along? People are already trying to work Vine videos onto t-shirts, the last thing you wanna do is hashtag something. In 10 years people are gonna be like, “what the f**k does ‘number pride’ mean?”

In all seriousness, go here and support a good cause.

Deacon Jones, a man who helped define what it means to be a great defensive player in the NFL, passed away on Monday at the age of 74.

His death was announced by the Washington Redskins through their general manager, Bruce Allen, whose father, George Allen, coached Jones with the Rams and Washington Redskins.

He had been treated for lung cancer and heart problems, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in September 2009. Jones told the newspaper then that he had undergone lung surgery and had a pacemaker installed the previous May. (via NY Times)

Jones’ accomplishments on the field, as part of the Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome” or by himself, are unbelievable. Seriously, look at this:

Rated #15 NFL Player of all-time by NFL.com
8× Pro Bowl selection (1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972)
5× First-team All-Pro selection (1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969)
3× Second-team All-Pro selection (1964, 1970, 1972)
NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team
NFL 1960s All-Decade Team
2× NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1967, 1968)
Rams Rookie of the Year award (1961)
Unofficially holds the two highest season sack totals (26-1967) and (24-1968)
St. Louis Rams #75 Retired
Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductee

And just like the late Alex Karras, Jones’ success on the field made him a success in popular culture. I knew him first as the football star who showed up on ‘The Brady Bunch’ to tell Peter it’s okay to be in glee club AND play football. He also made guest appearances on everything from ‘Bewitched’ and ‘Wonder Woman’ to ‘ALF.’ He was also a blue singer, and fronted the band that would eventually become War.

Deacon Jones was an icon, and innovator, a great player and an important piece of football history. He’ll be missed.

It has been a little more than four months since that insane Deadspin article blew open one of the most absurd hoaxes in sports, at least in this Internet era, as it revealed that Lennay Kekua, the reported dead girlfriend of Notre Dame star Manti Te’o, was the fabrication of a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Sure, we all had a ton of additional questions and would have loved to have a little more insight into how a grown man fell for such a trick, but Te’o and Tuiasosopo sort of told their stories and were content to leave us believing that Te’o is just a big, dumb schmuck.

Of course, between that January article and today, plenty of other things happened in sports and we’ve turned our attention elsewhere, because we thought that we’d beaten this joke into oblivion. That suggests, however, that sports fans are all on the same wavelength, and obviously Te’o jokes were going to be made during and after the NFL Draft. But today? Talk about timely.

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Thanks to Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria basically tricking Miami-Dade County into giving him a ton of cash for a stadium that literally everyone not involved in the funding process knew was a horrible idea, the Miami Dolphins were unable to secure a considerably smaller amount of public funds to renovate Sun Life Stadium. That led to CEO Mike Dee calling the team’s future in Miami “bleak” before kicking off a new rumor campaign of moving the team to Palm Beach.

In the meantime, the Dolphins are also making a pitch to the NFL to host Super Bowl L in Miami, and among a number of ideas that are so Miami they may as well have blue hair and iguanas in their front yards, the team would host a football game on an aircraft carrier. Somewhere, the writer of Hot Shots smiled.

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