Friday Firings: More Dan Snyder, High School Football Deaths, New Bowl Name

Every Friday the HR Department fires two or more things from around sports that range from silly to outrageous. Here's what we came up with this week:

Snyder radiates love.

Fire Dan Snyder's Defense of His Lawsuit (Again): Every time Redskins owner Dan Snyder or his legal team try to defend his libel lawsuit against Dave McKenna, it always makes the suit look increasingly mean spirited and absurd. Now, Snyder's suit is fighting for its life because DC passed anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) legislation right before Snyder moved his complaint from New York to Washington. Snyder's team is trying to argue that the DC City Council doesn't have the right to make laws affecting the DC Superior Court because only Congress can do that. It's possible that the argument is valid, but it's still essentially an argument that DC doesn't have the right to govern itself. Snyder is an ass. 

Fire High School Football Deaths: This week, two more high school football players died, this time in Georgia. Unfortunately it's the same story every year and the majority of the deaths happen in the South. The first reason for that is obvious (heat/humidity) but the second reason, less so - the South is consistently home to the highest percentage of obese people in the country. Two-a-days with overweight kids in sweltering heat is just asking for trouble, and nobody is going to argue that football is worth dying for. So maybe it's time to do something about this problem? There are a ton of options - ban outdoor practices when the heat index reaches a certain level, build more indoor practice facilities, limit the length of practices, or just don't allow schools to practice at all before school starts in September. Literally any of those things would make a huge difference, and yet nobody seems to want to take the steps to save lives. High school football deaths are beyond irresponsible - they're criminal, and if legal action is needed to stop people from dying, so be it.

Fire the Newest College Football Bowl Game Name: This week, the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho (with its storied tradition dating to 1997!) became the Famous Idaho Potato (no "e," Dan Quayle) Bowl. This is one of dozens of meaningless bowl games and it just went from one stupid name to another (albeit a geographically relevant one). Nobody cared about the game before and nobody will care now. College football has way too many bowl games, and these corporate sponsorships aren't helping the case for keeping them around.