I hate to agree with Clay Travis and his raging ego but ...

Well, a lot of players do run afoul with the law, and that might mangle the thought process to blurt out prison.

 

Start of federal trial of Pilot Flying J executives Jimmy and Bill Haslam delayed

https://deadspin.com/do-nfl-front-offices-have-a-thug-problem-709755769/1545461758

Judge rules against Vikings owner in fraud case

Owners too.

 

Inmates and asylum is the phrase, but not all of those in asylums were sent by the court. "Inmates" is a term normally applied to those in prisons. Never understood how this one took off as a common colloquial expression without being corrected to "Inmates running the prison" whenever the saying first came into usage.

 

Good god that is a terrible headline. It says the Haslams are on trial. They are not on trial.

 

Not a great day for conservative hero Clay Travis.
His people got shouted down in Shelbyville and now his Vols lost to Kentucky. I don't think Travis is actually a white supremacist himself, but he, like the President of the United States, has no problem appealing to them and benefiting from them.

 

When did your paper(s) do its/their subscription-roll purges of white supremacists?

 

Well, yeah. He’s a member of a building trade union.

They’ve systematically prevented African-Americans from joining in significant numbers for generations.

 

He should just say he was watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and got the saying mixed up and never meant it as a dig at players.

Trade out "building trade union" for Trump fair housing policy in the '70s and you've got yourself a nice match!

 

Good luck to Clay:

 

I haven't been this excited to watch this kind of battle since back in college when the nerds on the lawn near my apartment dressed up in medieval clothes and rode around on double-decker bicycles jousting.

 

So glad I’m off Twitter

 

I tend to discount any statement that features the word "basically" because they tend to be full of crap and entirely an opinion with little basis of fact. Foote, a non-academic writer, was featured prominently on The Civil War because he was good TV - there were other, more esteemed historians but Burns wanted a "voice of the South" and frankly, the series needed one to show how the "war" is still being fought by historians, particularly those who romanticize the Confederates and burnish the "moral victory" of the thing.
If Travis wants to debate Coates' opinion, it will be a pretty lame debate.