Why the hell would it matter if they went back to college after washing out of the NBA? We’re conditioned to think that’s bad, when it really would have no appreciable impact in the vast majority of circumstances. Being “tainted” makes no goddamn sense.

If it was really about players, they could have tried to work with the NCAA to get them to back off the entirety stupid “you can’t go back” rule. But we all know it wasn’t for the players anyway.

Because there’s no free labor but highly monetized farm system for the Army. Duh!

Your original point, such as it was, was that it’s pointless to legislate gun control because people won’t follow the laws anyway

So it’s cool if I steal your car then right? Since laws are pointless?

Why should Maryland be left out? I love in Colorado and my cutting boards look just like our fine state

You’re both right. Rogers’ “Diffusion of Innovation” model is the usual framework for thinking about this. I read of laggards, though, the back end is people who need the function, but can’t afford new technology that isn’t totally ubiquitous. Infrastructure and prices eventually take over and make the new thing the…

Easier than calling out China’s human rights record or trade practices. And definitely easier than getting them to put the kibosh on North Korea. Definitely the trump thing to do.

Needs more stars

That’s how you do it. +1

Or the owner. Yeah, that’s it - pain killers are for the owner.

Also 15. Waiting in a parking lot for drivers ed to start. Turned the wheel hard to the side while the key was in but not turned on. Locked the steering column so badly he instructor had to help me get it out.

Certainly the best baseball player, and maybe the best major sport pro athlete, to ever come out of high school in Colorado. (The only others in the conversation are Chauncey Billups and maybe Goose Gossage). That’s pretty goddamn remarkable by itself.

Just let em play for it in the Western Conference Finals.

The Pareto nature of most professional sports, unfortunately, is baked into the design. As butt as the NFL is, they are the only league where a third of the league has a legit chance of winning at the beginning of the season.

Wow. I’m blown away at the football acumen it took to foresee that Peyton Manning would be a good football player.

The fact that your team sucks ass is not my problem. Elway bills himself as some kind of talent-hunting savant, and holding him to a standard is totally appropriate.

Name a successful piece of the Broncos offense that Elway is responsible for.  

Name an offensive player who has impact, at any position, that Elway has drafted. Good luck!

Denver (and Colorado more generally outside of Colorado Springs and the eastern half of the state where nobody lives), is pretty blue now.