And the final score was.....? I enjoy Deadspin’s take on games, big plays, athletes, etc. I just wish you’d quickly add the final score more often. I know you guys think it’s “old fashioned”, but it seems like a reasonable request.

Yeah, but not as many kids play lesser tier sports. Football has become extremely popular over the past 40 years, with more and more schools fielding teams. I’m guessing the number of HS football players in America has probably doubled in the past 20 years alone (just a guess, mind you).

True words. Couple other things that stick out to me:

Deadspin’s Resident Recovering Alcoholic Speaks:

This is basically akin to a Klan rally back in the day. I can’t believe they are celebrating hatred and bigotry with such glee. History classes (perhaps taught by robots in the future, but that’s besides the point) will show this picture in the “American Dark Ages” section. I’m happy to be alive, but it’s too bad I’ll…

The NBA is just more clearly rigged by the league and networks, is all. The fact that the Patriots actually had to try and cheat - and not have the championship directly handed to them - is a good example of why the NFL ranks lower on the rig-o-meter.

Yeah it’s rigged. They want storylines - good guys, bad guys, etc. They change the characters every 10 years or so. The NBA does “let them play” to a certain point - it’s not WWF (or whatever it’s called these days), but it’s easy to see which players draw ratings via the networks. The San Antonio Spurs should get a…

The NBA is worse, I think. But yeah, the NFL is pretty bad. In both leagues, the refs can pretty much call fouls any time they want to keep the game close (and keep TV viewers interested). The NBA promotes it’s big stars, while the NFL is more team-oriented. For example, the NBA makes sure LeBron, Durant, etc continue…

So long as they hide under the umbrella of patriotism and stroke the American ego by telling us that we are still powerful while keeping us terrified of foreign boogeymen, they can say and do whatever they want. - Bingo!

That’s the way I feel, too. He’s catering to the absolute worst of America and just look at how many racist, willfully ignorant people have come out of the woodwork. They’re no longer ashamed of their bigotry - Trump has made them proud of it, in fact. Worse yet, politics are so divisive these days that at least 45%…

Are sports supposed to be some bastion of fairness, now?

Non football-related rant: Putting up a wall would be a complete environmental and social tragedy. Migrating animals would get totally fucked. Endangered species like the jaguar are even reappearing in the SW USA, which is awesome. It would cut the USA off from the rest of the world even more, and we’d become the new…

The Minnesota Twins and Adrian Peterson are silently thanking Norwood for bumping their stories off the front page of the sports section. Sigh. Being a MN fan is rough business.

I think we can both agree that America was a much different place 50 years ago, and the NFL was a much different beast.

“semblance of evidence”? Dude, I’m posting on Deadspin at 9am with my morning coffee. If you want to do the research, by all means spend a year studying the effects of pink jerseys on female NFL fandom, and then let me know the results. Also, Professor Evidence, please clarify how many jerseys you exactly mean when…

Women watch the NFL games and go to NFL games because they like the NFL. If they don’t like it, selling them a pink Steelers jersey isn’t going to change their minds! Let women be regular fans and stop pushing this offensive tripe on them.

Also of note in the picture: the visitor’s locker room at Wrigley Field is awful.

Maybe in the batters box it would enable a player to get hit by a pitch more easily? Or at least, perceived.

For anyone interested, here’s a shot of the MLB Uniform Code posted in the visitor’s clubhouse in Chicago. For a larger image click here.

Ahhh! I love PD James and those detective stories, I listen to the audiobooks religiously. I didn’t know she was a woman until recently - the same day I found out she’d died (2014). RIP to a great author. She’s certainly entertained this male fan.