"He's being cremated, right?"

[cracks a smile]

Neither did the old system. It was only who was voted to be the best, which was never a team from outside a power conference, and mid majors were shut out of major bowl games entirely before the BCS

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The bigger problem is that the entire bowl system is a scam. When mid major/non AQ teams go to bowl games, the cost of travel for the players, staff and band alone usually negates the payout for the game (for most bowls), and schools are required to buy up a certain amount of tickets for the game and then eat the…

"The BCS: Marginally Less Shitty Than What Came Before It" makes for a great epitaph.

To pile on, Richardson ranks 40th among NFL running backs in PFF's rating system. Between Chris Ogbonnaya and Bilal Powell. Giving up a 1st round pick for a non-Adrian Peterson running back was a bad decision to begin with, but giving it up for a bad one is catastrophic

Leyland decided to step down after being offered the prestigious position of World's Greatest Grandpa in coffee mug form

This guy is a pair of black socks away from having the most obnoxious lower body in history

I was under the impression that pushing into a member of the same team from behind was only still a penalty in the South

Wilshere completely smoked the defense

This seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Packers have just 4 active receivers this week, and James Jones seems likely to not play significantly due to injury. That leaves Jordy Nelson and two practice squad level players (Jarrett Boykin and Myles White) as their only receivers. The…

I don't think they were going to show up either way

+1

That's a good point, I forgot about the Schaub injury. Maybe they're trying to hedge in case Keenum turns out to be good? Or at least put up a good game since no one has tape on him a la T.J. Yates a couple years back?

That Packers spread seems a little high, doesn't it? Do they know that they don't even have enough healthy players to get to the active roster max?

Cleveland never comes close enough to winning anything to experience heartbreak. It's more of a general malaise

Cardinals fans know how to be relentlessly self-congratulatory THE RIGHT WAY

Sometimes I wonder if this push for injury disclosure is the result of leagues trying to make fantasy sports more accessible for fans, which increases engagement with the sport. However, as someone who only became a conscious and engaged sports fan in the late 90's and early 2000's, when fantasy sports were already…

10/10 would read full book