In Hackbart someone was hit well behind the play, while kneeling on the ground, not tackled while they had the ball. That’s most definitely not a football play. A facemask is written into the rules specifically because it’s something that regularly happens. But, it was a valiant effort and a solid citation to a case…

So, it doesn’t say that he’s liable, it says there’s enough to survive dismissal if taken in a light most favorable to the plaintiff. In looking to see how that case was actually resolved (which you didn’t bother to do), I stumbled across this, which fits with my original theory about your experience level:

Most of the stuff Christ cared about regarding acceptance of others and decency. They both use religion to exclude people they disagree with and to basically justify hatred. They definitely missed the part about judge not...

At :51 of the video of the Cardinal run, the announcer makes a noise that perfectly captured how I felt watching that. Something more joyful than hehe, but roughly that.

It’s a 15 yard penalty with no civil or criminal liability until you find case law that shows otherwise dumb ass. You can try to hurt your opponents during a game of football. That’s basically what everyone tries to do every play. Find a US case that says otherwise. I’ll wait here.

For them to insist someone be punished without certainty it’s the right person is bloodlust. It’s certainly their right, but that doesn’t make it right. The fact that the prosecution is releasing the statement makes this stink even more to me... like the AG knows they are losing the public perception battle and just…

Just to be clear, Barry does good work here, but I’m talking about downgoesbrown (which you may have been, I’m not sure). He writes for a Canadian site or two, for Vice Sports and probably a few other places. Great mix of knowledge and funny. He was awesome on Grantland, too, but that’s not a thing anymore.

He was Grantland, so he was let go. He writes many other places though and is awesome.

By the way, you just described the Todd Bertuzzi incident. Broken neck, alleged that it was done with intent to injure and outside the rules of the game. Bertuzzi was not convicted of any crime and there was no verdict against him. Where do you come up with this shit?

Quit saying this. The NHL prosecutions were not successful and they were in Canada. Both of those things work against using them as precedent. I called you a 1L earlier, I was wrong. You’re a janitor at a law school, aren’t you?

You’re not smart. Most of the criminal investigations in hockey were in Canada. You can’t point to a conviction of a professional hockey player in the US for conduct that doesn’t involve using a skate or stick as a weapon (and even then I’m not aware of one). Further your point that there’s no difference between the…

When someone in a GOP debate makes that lazy statement that the problem with student loans is just people taking out loans to study art history or philosophy (implying there are no jobs for those majors), I hope one of the other GOPers makes fun of Cruz about this.

She very clearly makes the point that our education system sucks real bad. More by example than articulation, but still, she makes the point.

If I understood how Kinja worked, I’d just follow Rom and skip right to that instead of Deadspin.

His buddy is a pro rollerhockey player now: https://twitter.com/egizinski

There’s no one better writing about hockey right now.

I posted the same basic comment above, but wanted to add it in response to yours. When Manning was asked immediately after the game by a sideline reporter if he was retiring, Nantz said “of course he wouldn’t announce here and upstage his teammates” then Nantz proceeded to ask him that again on the podium. At first I…

When Manning was asked immediately after the game by a sideline reporter if he was retiring, Nantz said “of course he wouldn’t announce here” then proceeded to ask him again. At first I thought that was just dumb, then I learned that Manning owns Bud distributers and recalled that Nantz actually said “a lot of the…

Considering a facemask is a penalty in the NFL rule book, you’d have quite the uphill battle to argue it’s not an accepted part of the game and therefore an assumed risk. Don’t worry though, law school gets better once you finish the first year.

It’s called assumption of risk. The guys on the football field are there willingly and understand that a certain amount of physical violence that pushes the bounds of and at times exceeds the bounds of the sport’s rules is to be expected. They therefore have consented to each other doing some shit like this to one…