With you, although we have a bit of an age difference. I was 12, 13 during the trial, but the media saturation differential can be compensated for by the fact that I was growing up in Buffalo, where it was, at least initially, close to Jesus being indicted for murder.

(Yes, I am a super fucking biased Bills fan, which is why I tossed the Andre Reed thing. And I was happy to have TO when he was here, even if he wasn’t blowing shit up anymore at that point.)

He’ll make it, although he should have been first-ballot. They fucked with Andre Reed until the bitter end, and I don’t think there was really any question that he belonged there. Like you pointed out, WRs have a hard time. I found some of his shit to be a little annoying—Sharpie in the sock, dude?—but no reasonable…

A collection of lawsuits is nothing better than a collection of anecdotes vetted by lawyers until they’ve been tried, and there is scant detail presented here about that end of the process.

He’s providing an alternative, anecdotal viewpoint. My own (apparently equally-worthless, anecdotal) experience substantiates some…

I hope you enjoy getting the rhetorical shit kicked out of you here, because this is going to be an unfriendly audience, but I’m absolutely with you here.

I’ve worked security at a pro sports venue as a second job for a number of years now, and I can state the following things:

1.) I am not a “guy who failed at being a…

Being less of a dick: if he’s going to challenge the clarity of the article, he undermines his argument by misusing quotes when supporting his own inferences.

This is bad Kinja, and I should stop. Have a good one.

Yes, I’ll give you that, but there are spurious logical leaps on both sides here. 260 games in 100-ish years is a tradition, and he’s arguing that a gap in annual contests during the thing we all understand happened and interrupted the normal operation of collegiate and professional sports not being explicitly…

Pretty smug for a guy who is unfamiliar with what happened to a lot of able-bodied college age men in World War II...

Nitpicking: Buffalo police didn’t directly investigate the Patrick Kane thing. It happened in the suburban town of Hamburg. Same DA’s office, though, and they’ll be in the driver’s seat, so the sentiment holds.

Exceptional talent and a career end-to-end class act. Mark Davis doesn’t fucking deserve him, and it’s a telling thing that he chose to spend the final home moment of his first ballot HoF career yelling out the name of his adopted home so the fans can call back one more time.

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU?

I look forward to hearing tales of your compassionate response the next time a huge, bloody, extremely intoxicated guy shows up and demands to be let into your business at 2 AM.

Preach, brother, preach.

How many public figures from the world of sports do you know who can prompt this kind of discussion? If Curt fucking Schilling can attract attention and debate with his inane Twitter bullshit, why not Kareem?

Goddamn, why don’t people talk about Kareem Abdul Jabbar the scholar more? The man is astonishingly well-read and conversant in a ridiculous number of things, and has a number of academic publications. Why haven’t we drafted this guy as one of our leaders in public discourse, I do not know.

SHUT UP BEFORE BETTMAN HEARS YOU.

No, she circled the wagons. And also lost four consecutive Super Bowls. Am I doing this right?

...sigh.

Nah. Give it to a kid. It’s a thing you’ll hang on to for awhile, until you forget you have it and then accidentally toss it when you move. For the right kid, that’ll be the coolest thing he owns for years, and he’ll always remember the time he got a foul ball. That’s how you make a fan for life.

Nope. The New Jersey Devils were the Colorado Rockies in the early 80s.