Tuberville cautions NFL rookies to ‘downplay politics’
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
With the NFL draft hours away, former Auburn football coach and U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., advised the league’s incoming rookies to “be more involved in what they do” instead of politics.
In an interview with TMZ Sports posted early Thursday morning, Tuberville told the NFL’s newest players being selected during the draft to “downplay politics.”
“Everybody wants to make an opinion and that’s fine,” Tuberville told TMZ Sports. “But, I think, especially for young people to get involved in something that maybe they might not understand as much, I think they need to let people that, whatever they do for a living, justify it.”
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Two weeks after Placerville opted to nix a noose depicted on its city logo, officials affirmed that the area’s Gold Rush-era name, “Hangtown,” won’t be going anywhere.
City Council members voted unanimously to recognize that “Old Hangtown” and “Old Dry Diggins,” another moniker tied to the majority-white town’s mining past, are historically significant.
The decision arrives amid continuing acrimony over how to present the area’s Wild West origins. Three nooses were recently found hanging in the city, including two that weren’t removed because they were on private property and did not rise to the level of a crime, according to Placerville police.
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Two weeks after Placerville, California, opted to nix a noose depicted on its city logo, officials affirmed that the areaâs Gold Rush-era name, âHangtown,â wonât be going anywhere.
City Council members voted unanimously to recognize that âOld Hangtownâ and âOld Dry Diggins,â another moniker tied to the majority-white townâs mining past, are historically significant.
The decision arrives amid continuing acrimony over how to present the areaâs Wild West origins. Three nooses were recently found hanging in the city, including two that werenât removed because they were on private property and did not rise to the level of a crime, according to Placerville police.