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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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.

After I woke up this morning and did a few thousand pushups, I checked my email to find two variations of this joke:

Andrew Luck and RG3 walk into a bar… to watch Russell Wilson play the Atlanta Falcons in the Divisional Round of the playoffs.

The other variation involved the Pope and Raquel Welch in a dhingy, but that’s irrelevant. The point is that people are enjoying the fact that the Indianapolis Colts, who famously Sucked for Luck, and the Washington Redskins, who mortgaged their draft future for Robert Griffin III, are out of the playoffs and the Seattle Seahawks, who took a chance on Russell Wilson in the 3rd round, are still alive. Because it’s not like 2/3 of NFL fans wouldn’t at least consider chopping a finger off to have Luck or RG3 as a QB right now.

Even stranger, though, is that so many fans – or perhaps “anti-Redskins” is more appropriate – rejoiced in RG3’s knee injury last night. Again, maybe it was just the fact that it meant that the Redskins were screwed, but there have been very few athletes over the years who I could have imagined feeling jubilation over their pain. Especially not someone as likable as RG3. But here we are, the morning after, stepping over the lifeless bodies of the men and women who overdosed on joy at another’s expense.

Of course, that means there were memes galore last night, what with this Internet being such a horrible place and all. But if they mocked Derrick Rose and Manny Pacquiao, you could be sure that the RG3 mockery was coming.

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I watch all of my NFL games on Sunday with a group of friends at a bar that is owned by a huge Washington Redskins fan, so naturally there’s a small group of burgundy faithful who hang out there as well, and if I can keep blocking out the existence of Daniel Snyder, I can actually appreciate the team with them. It makes it exponentially easier, though, that I have Alfred Morris on my fantasy team and have grown to appreciate him as a player and a person in his rookie season.

So last week, I noticed that some Redskins fans on Twitter were trying to develop a good nickname for Morris, and the very boring and unoriginal “A-Mo” was picking up steam. No. People, please. We need to put an end to this horrible trend of first name, first letter hyphen abbreviated form of last name as a viable nickname already. It’s fine with A-Rod, because aside from A-Hole, there isn’t much else to call him. But A-Mo? Do you really want to give Philadelphia Eagles fans that easy of a chant? The alternative was “Monster” but that’s equally boring. Beast. Monster. Come on.

That’s why I was pleased to see that the inventers of Griffining over at The Burgundy Blog had come up with “The Natural” based on Morris’ patented home run swing touchdown celebration. I like it, a very plain and simple nickname for the guy with the plain and simple car and the ability to drag defenders 10 yards at a time. Good stuff.

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Meet Dexter, a dog who loves the Washington Redskins so much that he will refuse dog treats if they are from the Dallas Cowboys. That’s … uh, that’s the clip. Somebody trained their dog to refuse food if it comes from a rival football team. Which it doesn’t. But he’s named after Dexter Manley and he’s got a dog brain, so what are you going to do

My favorite part of the clip is actually the YouTube description, which is written by exactly the kind of person who’d do this with their dog:

Happy Thanksgiving! Dexter hopes the Cowboys wind up as turkeys!!!

I wonder what he thinks of Philadelphia Eagles dog treats? Michael Vick’s got an entire box of them on his kitchen table.

[h/t to Bob's Blitz]

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which means it’ll be a light day at With Leather. Burnsy will be enjoying a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, and I’ll be driving an hour south to San Antonio to eat mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and something called “glazed wham”. We’re very different people, but we love you the same.

If you’re like a lot of Americans, Thanksgiving means football. At UPROXX, Kissing Suzy Kolber means football, so here’s my best contribution to the vibe: a clip of Jimmy Junior, Wild Turkey Bourbon spoketurkey, choosing Thursday’s NFL match-ups. He picks the Houston/Detroit, Dallas/Washington and New England/New York games by eating feed out of a particular helmet, and hey, it’s not rocket science, but it’s as statistically valid as anything you’re gonna read at Bleacher Report.

Check out Jimmy’s picks below. “That turkey belongs on my plate” jokes not appreciated. Well, by half of us.

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