I hear you. I'm an ex-college football player myself (in the 90s). NONE of us played thinking there was any possibility we could be senile by our 40s. Physical injuries? Sure. The occasional concussion that you could recover from? Sure. But nothing this severe.

That's a fair point. But we also have to take into account the social pressures on NFL players. The family is concerned about CTE now because his life and the life of his girlfriend ended in an awful tragedy. It would be nice if people in these mens' lives would be concerned about CTE while they are being…

Yeah, and something tells me she wasn't concerned about his mental health when he was making her Lexus payments.

Oh come on. There was hardly any nostril penetration.

I'm just here for the medical "experts" who will snark on him for being too fat, or otherwise diagnosing and judging his health from afar.

One of the most well-deserved ass whoopings in all of NFL history.

All this ubiquitous camera coverage is making it harder for guys to get away with punching dudes in the nuts at the bottom of a pile. This has been standard football practice for many years, especially among linemen.

Yep, I did peep that. They were totally doing lane coverage like on a kickoff. I suspect a lot of special teams coaches around the country made it a point to review this little detail in practice last week.

The thin air is why that kick was attempted in the first place. Denver will always have the advantage with the long field goal records. Teams with a strong legged kicker will try a long one there in that 60ish range when they'd go for it or pooch it in another city. (I think post-Iron Bowl 2013 we can all…

They're pro athletes pulling down six figures a year. I don't think they're all that concerned about whether random Internet people consider them pussies.

Um, no. They could not beat Auburn. But you are right, MSU does deserve the opportunity to get bludgeoned fair and square by an SEC team on its way to another national championship.

[My bad. Old story.]

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Honor?

[Insert Inigo Montoya gif here]

Sigh. How did people ever survive back then without being able take a silly incident like this, turn it into an overblown controversy, and then watch meathead ex-athletes argue about it endlessly on TV for the next week.

Yes, think "back" to Drumline, which was this awesome movie "back in the day," way back in 2002. Is everyone on the Internet a fucking kid? Sheesh I feel old. Anyway, yes, as an HBCU grad I concur that for HBCUs, and for many black high schools in the South, this is what marching bands have looked like since the…

Duly noted. As a native Southerner weaned on football I just didn't know that.

OK, I'll say it: Ya'll could have tipped me off that Subban is a black dude and has a brother in the NHL. (Yeah, yeah, I know, you're all good tolerant folks who "don't see race" and I'm a "black racist" for bringing it up, yada, yada, yada.) But I mean, hey it's not like there's a ton of black goalies out there.

"Do you really want to hurt me?"

Totally.