Abolish the draft and rookie wage scale.

Spanos’s net worth is $2.4 billion, and the chargers have other minority owners who could chip in if need be. I don’t think they are really running up against resource constraints.

The solution is for the team to pay him. They can absorb the cost in any event, they likely have three or four more years of Gordon’s prime, he could easily be a valuable player beyond that, and they have certainly extracted significant surplus value from him during his time on his rookie contract. 

At this point, if I was a player who had a big season under his rookie contract, I’d hold out the next year for an extension, rather than waiting for the final year of my rookie deal. There is just so little leverage by the time you get there.

We all know that agents, attorneys, all have their agenda—by the way, they’re all taking money out of the pie, too, when they’re there. And so the straighter it goes from the source to the one receiving it, nine times out of ten, that’s more efficient.

“I’m just saying, if you have no basis to have a piece of paper—there’s nothing that says a contract executed within the past few weeks or months can’t be looked at and say ‘you know, I think I want a different part of it done this way’ and not play. You get into a different world when you don’t honor agreements.”

“Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers.”

65% of Charger fans have at one point lived in Philip Rivers’ ballsack.

Privatize some things for money.
You don’t care if it’s wrong or if it’s right.

His days are almost over.

But James Washington texted me, called me, talked to me in person, thanking me for that. And so the outside world was killing me for it; he thanked me and that’s all that really mattered. 

Roxanne! You don’t have to put on that red hat.

The Major sport that’s hardest on your body, is far and away the worst for your brain (and long term risks), but pays far and away the least and guarantees nothing in contracts (and has a history of fucking over it’s retirees) is having a problem with players walking away from the game.

With an NFL- promoted soundtrack of shitty country music for a league that is 80% African American. 

The fact that the NFL has made itself into a weekly orgy of vaguely fashy American nationalism can only hurt the popularity of the sport outside the US.

I hope that NFL players take note of the lack of empathy people have shown Andrew Luck during this entire process. Don’t feel guilty about hold-outs for more money. Get as much money as you can and get the hell out before it becomes a detriment to your health. 

A non-guaranteed deal seems nuts for Howard and actually very shrewd for the lakers. For Howard, it not only means if you make a bad joke after a loss and Davis gets pissed at you, you’re gone, but if you tweak a knee two weeks in, youre gone, all with zero dollars. For Pelinka/LeBron, it’s win win all the way. If it…

If there were any justice in this world, this idiot would be sentenced to race the Fridge, or the Freeze, or possibly both consecutively, or consecutively followed by both at once (if he can win both races), but they’re like flashing red and faster than they were before

There’s no way that’s a fat suit. Just look at how his back fat jiggles in the beginning and how the belly is actually moving how a real belly would move. Fat suits aren’t even that realistic in high budget movies.

And there’s something rotten in the crisper drawer, if you know what I mean.