Yes, thank you for saying this. This type of complaint comes up all the time in NHL discussions.

Good article, but it would have been more effective as a Ken Burns documentary.

“2) When the NFL gives up it’s non-profit, tax exempt status and starts paying taxes on the billions of dollars it brings in every year then it can start charging the DoD.”

Are you talking about the book that provides the passage excerpted above?

Honestly, this has become one of the best columns currently running on this site. Thanks Albert.

The wave is for children. Just like mascots and all-star games. You don’t need to participate, but complaining about it just makes you like look an ass.

He’s fine. Totally inoffensive. Wide appeal, nothing crazy, as if created in a marketing lab. They should just have him do it every year.

Yeah, I mean — that was much of the point of the ESPN story.

We all know that if you tape from the sidelines you’re the worst cheaters ever (unless you’re not the Patriots).

Ha, the placement of your parenthetical makes it seem like you’re dating one of the horrible ones.

Oh man, that link in the “Is He a Dick” section to Florida players gloating about the Buckeyes loss to MSU two years ago is absolutely precious. And the comments! The comments are great.

Yep, Buckeye fans know this.

oops,

I read the Corrections, and decided to stop reading modern novels for a while. Close to depression. I think I recovered by realizing that horrible characters .

Right, ‘cause Brady actions sure indicate that he doesn’t care.

I like that! They’d have to still schedule the OSU-Michigan game each year though.

Oh man, I had never even heard of Jay Reatard until I saw on article on the AV Club that he had died. Hmmm, I said, might as well check out his music. Amazing stuff. Wish I could have seen him.

Evidently the sentencing phase has a lot of focus on his speech impediment. Lovely.

Wow, that’s some unbelievable privilege right there. I guess Ware is one of the 1% who’s never stubbed the little toe. Seriously, that’s the worst.

I don’t know...they gotta be careful with that out of conference schedule.