Gee, Deadspin... We trying to stay alive by pumping up NBC's Sunday Night Football?

I mean, Univision is an NBC affiliate company.

But, once again, it appears that Deadspin has been caught trying to suck up to the NFL narrative to try to help parent company NBC.

How do I say this?  Two things...

• First, a common feature of Deadspin before this season, especially when the #NFLBoycott began to take real hold, was the "Avoiding the NFL" series.  The last (at least tagged as Counterprogramming" NFL avoidance article by Chris Thompson was last October.

Thompson is still writing for Deadspin and covered the game last night quite a bit, with at least FOUR articles on it written by him.

• The other is a hit-piece interview with Eric Dickerson about the Hall of Famers' letter about insurance and salaries for former NFL players.  Dom Cosentino wrote the article.

The article (like at least one other on the site) slams the letter, does correctly note that at least two signatories want to walk back on boycott talk...

But where Deadspin, Consentino, and the UPI all lose the plot was this:

"Other knotty issues have since come up. Pro Football Talk’s Michael David Smith discovered a UPI wire story that identified Dickerson as a picket line-crosser during the final week of the 1987 NFL players strike, when the owners broke the union’s solidarity by replacing the strikers with scabs for three games. A Los Angeles Times story from Friday, Oct. 16, 1987, said Dickerson and Rams quarterback Jim Everett were indeed on the list of players who would have been eligible to play that weekend because they reported for work before the strike officially ended two days earlier."

That's not crossing the picket line, morans.

In fact, even your own article notes that Dickerson himself said that, had he even considered it, he couldn't chance his future behind an offensive line of scabs!!

The resulting Q&A accuses Dickerson of crossing the line, in one form or another, at least three times if not FOUR.

So what the fuck's your deal?  Are we now, after years of slamming on Roger Goodell, in his corner because you need Univision to keep the tap on for you (even with significant layoffs already apparent at Univision)?

Are you afraid you'll be working under Peter Thiel if you don't suck NBC/Goodell cock?