Stop Using Pat Tillman
by Patrick Redford from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#336Z0)
In the 13 years since Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, he has become a symbol of the supposedly tight bonds between American football and American militarism and American patriotism. There's no clearer evidence of Tillman's symbolic potency than Donald Trump retweeting the"