I think you would have difficulty getting 15 seconds into an explanation of social contracts with large sections of this country before you were denounced as a socialist.

Because they still have to manufacture some sort of adversity or reason why they are either exactly like you, or actually the underdogs, because being the Greatest Football Team of the Modern Era, having the best head coach of all time and arguably the greatest quarterback ever is actually a hindrance to them, somehow.

Nah he just got...

Yeah, this is one of those cases where, even as you admit that no, not everything’s a metaphor or a microcosm of some larger zeitgeist . . . this is pretty much a metaphor or microcosm for a larger zeitgeist.

I work in extremely good craft beer/brewing and I can tell you some of the insane things tourists say about beer is laughable. 

Rhode Island is the Virginia Beach of New England 

Any decade now!

See I would have come up with two other words; Red State. 

It’s ok, Indiana will pull itself up by its bootstraps any decade now. Republican-style!!!

but as long as minorities are worse off and their reps are praisin’ Jaysus these idiots don’t care that their state is dying. 

I’ve gone through Indiana a couple times. Every time I do I look around at the landscape, the abandoned buildings, the disrepair, and the same two words come to mind:

You have 3 buildings that meet the measurements required to be labeled a skyscraper.  I researched this to make sure of the accuracy, because last time I drove through I thought I saw 4 tall buildings, but only 3 are big boys.  

The residents of this 3 building having, 4 block fucking town screamed and booed at someone who, until that point, seemed to be one of the least booable people in the entire league. The guy that was set up to be hurt by men who were unqualified to build a team around him. It’s a shame and a relief that it came to this.

Andrew Luck 2012: *Takes a sack* Great job, man. Insane hustle. You really got me.

Andrew Luck 2019: You even just look at the ceiling and wish you could stop existing? Like, not die, but just POOF and cease being altogether. Maybe it’s nothing but motionless, soundless black. Complete emptiness. Nothingness. But it’s…

On the one hand, I agree strongly about sushi - especially if you use a lot of Wasabi.

Jesus Christ, Laura! The body isn’t even cold yet!

I think you may very well be on to something here. The fact that he comes from a relatively wealthy family very likely gave him more perspective than other players who did not. It kind of sounds like he loved football, but he knew that it wasn't the only thing in the world. Good for him. 

What it really tells you is that when you come to football purely for love of the game (i.e., especially if you come from an upbringing of privilege) and make a relatively huge amount of money in your early career, it doesn’t matter how good you might have been or how much more money you probably stood to earn, it’s…

My sense is the current generation of football players is a generation that started playing football when the long term risks were less well understood, but has now essentially chosen a profession, and succeeded at it, that has turned out to be more risky than they thought. It is not surprising that a notable number…