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Your Monday Morning John Oliver Rant Takes On The Washington Redskins
By Jim Adair
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What you may not know, is that the contract I signed when I took this job stipulates that if I do not write about John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight once a week, I don’t get paid. So here we go: Last night, on Oliver’s HBO program that many had been using as a comedown after Game of Thrones, John took on the misguided arrogance of Dan Snyder in his refusal to even consider renaming the Washington Redskins. It’s a great segment — Oliver is already tackling sports stories better than Jon Stewart ever did — even if it does take a little dig at Philadelphia. But guess what, John Oliver, your dig at Philadelphia barely got any laughs, so the joke is on you, John Oliver: Very funny, very successful, very famous John Oliver.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.