Being forced to be a lifelong fan of a pro team because you happened to root for them as a kid is one of the dumbest and most tautological reasons one can conjure. I understand my situation is a little different, as I may have had more emotional connection to the Vikes if I grew up in Minnesota my whole life and…

I picked the Vikings in 1998 because I had just moved to Minnesota, had gotten into the NFL (otherwise, I would've been a Cowboys fan as we lived in Dallas previously *shudder*), and wanted to fit in at school. The experience of that season goes without saying, but I stuck with them through every playoff failure,…

It seems to fit my two main criteria for comedy sequels: not to be so bad that it ruins whatever you liked about the original and not to be rife with self-referential humor and lame pop-culture jokes that age the movie horribly within five years. The original was a family favorite growing up (maybe biased, since the…

This should be taken as a positive. If Qatar is so against people getting fucked in the ass, then we'll actually see decent officiating at the 2022 World Cup.

Apology taken. Look, I've worked with media outlets before on these "scandal" type of stories, and rarely is it about ideology, but rather the desire to get a breaking news story. News companies know that in the heart of the election season (such as now), any big story about a candidate making an embarrassing gaffe…

I'm not a member of the Deadspin staff in any way, but I'll take that as a compliment, thanks!

I meant that as an example for Republicans. Oppo researchers for both parties have news outlets they can turn to run certain feeds, although they're typically not the best options

"I have no proof it was fed by the oppo campaign, so obviously you're full of lies because you have no concrete proof and disagree with my assertion!"

I feel like this needs to be said every time pro/rel gets brought up: it doesn't solve the problem of having too few good teams, it solves the problem of having too many good teams. The power five Euro leagues all have more clubs with the history, the fan support, and the infrastructure to play in the top tier than…

Both are looking at it in different lights, and that's totally reasonable. Klinsmann doesn't care about whether pro soccer really succeeds in the US, as his concerns lie with player development. It doesn't matter to him if MLS has teams like Rochester in place of the Chicago Fire and is a glorified feeder league for…

That is a possibility, but there are a slew of regional broadcasting rules and such that could make the RSN game swap a little more difficult, like which RSN would get what cut of the money for a game played out of market. Also, this would only really work for RSN's under the same parent company - it's easy to see how…

I didn't even think about that, but it's a good point. RSN's seem like they're both the best and worst things for the sport in this regard.

Dumb idea: why not reduce the number of games, but make them longer? If Bron is right and a few extra minutes wouldn't matter, you could have fewer games, but make up for it with more TV time, which translates into one more commercial break and makes in-game advertising (including the new uniform ad patches) more…

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Holy shit, when did Thomas Kinkade start designing sports logos?

When did Keeler ever say that Yancey wasn't a true native because he failed blood quantum standards? She says "We can't find anything about him that's native," which is a whole lot more inclusive than blood quantum. She, like the other activists, are rightly calling out someone who has changed his story multiple times…

I don't get into blood quantum, either, because that's a colonial mindset

Hey man, this guy has been a fan of soccer since, like, 2006 and watches real shit like the EPL so he totally knows more about how to run the United States' league system than the people who built modern American soccer from the ground up.

Let's play a game: if the league in question has been in existence for much longer than you've been even following the fucking sport, you don't get to snobbishly deride the way it's run compared to its foreign counterparts and lecture on about how it's so beneath your refined, cultivated sensibility about the sport.…

This. I think it's totally fine if you want to follow a UEFA team, but pretentious Americans like Haisley - who even admits he's been into this sport for less than a decade! - turning their nose down at MLS like it's so beneath them is snobby myopic bullshit. The product isn't the best, but it's rapidly improving and…