Oh, now genocide is bad?!? Loogit the SJW we got on our hands fella!

Congratulations on living in a less humid Houston.

4?

Considering how shitty of a person he was, I’d say complaining about Andrew Jackson should be allowed in perpetuity. 

This should be mandatory reading at the NFL rookie symposium, instead of having Antonio Cromartie telling them to use condoms and Adrian Petersen handing out his financial planner’s business card.

I know we’re all dying in the Sylvia Plath sense but you’re not dying the way Chloe over there is dying.

Kinda like it’s fucked up that the colts just threw up out there when he was still injured?

Football in the South in particular has long had only a partial veneer at best over the days when black Americans toiled for their white masters. While most of them would never admit it in public, that dynamic remains a big part of the sport’s draw for many.

The Major sport that’s hardest on your body, is far and away the worst for your brain (and long term risks), but pays far and away the least and guarantees nothing in contracts (and has a history of fucking over it’s retirees) is having a problem with players walking away from the game.

With an NFL- promoted soundtrack of shitty country music for a league that is 80% African American. 

Is there any other sport like American football where the fans and pundits feel like the players owe them something? And said fans/pundit industry feel they have a divine right to dictate behavioral standards to the players?

If there was a young man in literally any other profession who made $100 million before he was 30 and decided to retire, he would be lauded. The Wall Street Journal would write thousands of words of wankery praising his acumen and smarts and god bless America.

The fact that the NFL has made itself into a weekly orgy of vaguely fashy American nationalism can only hurt the popularity of the sport outside the US.

Also, he plays for a team with a demented goober billionaire owner on more narcotics than an entire bus of Merry Pranksters who spent years staffing an offensive line of folding chairs while Luck earned a medical degree by observing his shoulder reconstruction. Destroying your body for those fans? How many years can…

Andrew Luck’s retirement will only increase the primal urgency of Football Men to find True Football Believers to play football, so that they don’t ever question their faith in it.

Pretty sure they just lifted the team names from Atari’s Cyberball.

I noted this when I read it, Bel Air isn’t the cities problem. The city of Baltimore has more than enough problems without tossing this one on there as well.

I read over a hundred comments on Baltimore and the Ravens: not a single “waterbilly” or “waterbillies” mentioned. I’m disappointed in you Deadspin, you’re better than that.

“I guess you never realize how racist your team’s fans are until they start a black quarterback.” My goodness, ain’t that the truth. 

I honestly do not think Jackson is a good QB but I hate saying that around here in Maryland as the people who agree with me tend to do so solely in dog whistles.