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OK, so that headline isn't totally fair.
But then the entire point of this Grantland essay, timed to Thursday's turkey-day football games, is that stories about Grant High School star-turned-Detroit Lions lineman Ndamukong Suh are always unfair.
Jordan Conn offers "a 13-step guide to trashing Ndamukong Suh"—in short, it's a profile organized around the cheap shots of other profiles.
Suh has been typecast as a dirty player ever since the 2011 Thanksgiving Day game when he stomped on a Green Bay Packer. The essay argues that's a disingenuous narrative.
And it contains some fun tidbits about Suh's formative Portland years, including how he wrecked soccer havoc as a (not-so-) small child:
At the risk of typifying exactly the kind of hatchet-job publications this article is deploring, it's strange that Conn doesn't mention the best piece of ammunition for a writer bent on demonizing Ndamukong.
That would be the conflicting accounts from Suh's car crash in Old Town in December 2011—when he slammed his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle into a tree, light pole and Benson Bubbler water fountain outside Dante's.
WWeek 2015