As someone who’s both a sports nut and former Jeopardy contestant - and I actually won my game on a rare sports-based final Jeopardy question, so it really did come in handy - a brief defense on that situation.

Rodgers also won a Super Bowl in his 3rd season as a starter, as opposed to Peyton in his 9th.

Very true...it’s often forgotten due to, well all of the other stuff - and also that Y.E. Yang has won jack shit since then - but if anything that was the beginning of the end. If you want to go Psych 101 on Tiger there, you can speculate that he might’ve gotten sloppy and inadvertently allowed for his wife to find…

Haha I didn’t actually mean in an understanding sense, most just a timing one. Scoring is already somewhat limited in soccer - hockey too, which has similar “issues” ingratiating itself in America - and if you miss the only goal because you left the room for five minutes, it’s going to grate.

Right, you’re not angry, you’re just telling me to “play the fucking game” and talking about shoving dicks in mouths. Clearly that’s how calm, reasonable people have a discussion.

This is very true, but there’s a wealth of that kind of interesting data in older games that you could just stumble into now and, as you mention, you pretty much can’t anymore. The Citadel in Goldeneye is another example, or the All Bonds outfits. It took over a decade to find those, and IIRC it was eventually through…

You know, people say “cheating” like there’s some kind of Holy Bible of game playing where you’re always supposed to play the game one way and anything else is some kind of moral insanity. You know there are “cheat codes” included, by the developers, in the game, correct? So that “cheating” is ok? What about…

I mean, do elaborate on how exactly people would’ve found this at any point in the next couple of years. I mean, look at the Arkham Asylum hidden room. People played the game for a solid year and eventually the devs had to say “Btw there’s a secret here” because absolutely nobody found it. People are still looking for…

Often, they didn’t. You’ll still hear a story about people finding stuff in NES/SNES/PSX and N64-era games, a decade and change later after pretty much everyone has stopped playing them. Or they used stuff like Gameshark, Action Replay or straight up cheat codes to manage to get to places and items otherwise…

Oh I agree that the constant gameplay improves the sport, but I’m already interested. I can imagine for new fans that can be rather jarring to deal with.

That’s...actually a good point about first half stoppage time. I’d never thought of that. Huh.

Only one of those sports, soccer actually uses any kind of countdown/count up clock (timing sports like track or swimming being different since there’s no designated timeframe) at all, so it seemed safe to assume “sports with a clock” was the subset there, unless you’re just trying to be pedantic. I take it most…

I think it’s also that the soccer clock never stops. It’s like the soccer gods specifically wait until you decide to get up to use the bathroom or grab another drink to allow someone to score...commercials and breaks are too frequent in US sports but we’re still used to some kind of stoppage. I’m honestly convinced…

Eh, documentary vs. feature, those two are definitely going for different things. The Jobs movies (or Departed/Black Mass) are basically covering the exact same ground in even the same way.

I think a lot of that is who won those NBA titles. There’s no way we’re going to be allowed to forget about Lakers and Celtics titles because the NBA would be content with those two teams winning 8 out of every 10 titles for the rest of eternity (split the other two between the Knicks, Heat, Bulls and every few…

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Ah right, Wayne “Fire Sale” Huizenga. But yeah, as another commenter stated, they did at least get pieces out of that first fire sale. The 49ers got Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as their new coach.

I’m more inclined to think he’s just stupid, as opposed to devious. I think York legitimately believed Harbaugh’s unlikability/issues with him and probably some other members of the team would make firing him ok, especially when he hired from in house (hey, everyone likes Tomsula, right?!?) Combine that with Baalke…

I’m biased, as a 49ers fan, but I’d say this one is still worse because it seems like Loria 100% intended for those implosions to happen. Sure, they were really shitty to watch - I don’t remember the 1998 one but felt terrible for those fans in 2004 - but that was pretty much the gameplan. Nobody saw this coming,…

I’m less concerned with the Vikings in general, more concerned that an extremely pissed off Adrian Peterson is going to run for approximately 1,874 yards against that shambling pile of corpses that used to be our defense. The rest of the Vikings don’t need to do shit.