Yeah, I also found it rather frustrating that during the women’s GS, he talked about every skier’s run strictly in terms of Mikaela Schiffren, if he even talked about the current action at all. Everything else was just him talking about Mikaela Schiffren in general. It was like he was trying too hard to create a…

Like Pete Rose! [airhorn]

Mostly Gooners, I would think.

So, as we all know, language evolves, and it’s worth being mindful of the connotations some words or phrases once carried in wide usage. I think it’s worth pointing out that, while someone who grew up white and privileged like me might never have heard of or thought of offensive connotations, the same might not be…

I’ve always been fond of “I’ve been sold a bill of goods!”

I think it’s something of a play on the traditional stereotypes of the British manager as a backwards troglodyte compared to the continental (Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Jup Heynkes, Carlo Ancelloti, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho) and South American (Mauricio Pochettino, Manuel Pellegrini, Marcelo Bielsa) managers who…

Yeah, “Mike Tirico and Katy Couric explain Korea” did not add anything to the experience. Plus, the crazy amount of time spent showing the US team taking selfies further detracted from the experience.

Please don’t put your life in the hands

One thing worth noting is that against the Pats, and Tom Brady, there’s really no such thing as “a good field position” that you can gain from a punt compared to going for it on 4th down. I mean, he had the ball way on the wrong side of the field at the very end, and it still could have come out as a Patriots win. I…

Collinsworth is incapable of admitting he is wrong, and will find a way to talk himself into an absurd position while filling time, and thus can’t just let it go, no matter how dumb he sounds.

It’s heard in just about every meeting when someone goes careening off into the weeds on a tangent that no one else really wants to discuss, with varying levels of success.

That’s really more of a parking lot conversation. Let’s circle back around to it later.

I know frustrated Fitz’s exasperation all too well. At one point, one of my managers is giving us a speech about how we need to not make mistakes. He tends to be long-winded and so this is basically him repeating over and over, “don’t screw up.” Finally, I just say, “y’know, I was thinking about going out there today…

Right?!?!? All I want is for them to just admit that they were a little too restrictive of my exposure, given the way they treated the sibs, but that’ll never happen.

My parents were crazy restrictive about what I could and could not play/watch/listen to/read in our house. I still remember asking them if I could get Legend of Zelda for SNES one time, and they flipped out because “it promotes witchcraft.” To this day, they justify their restrictiveness because “you got to play it…

In your counterfactual, he probably would have gone to City.

So long as he gets to bust out a crappy Scottish accent somewhere along the way, he doesn’t really care.

Wait...Michael Myers as Austin Powers, or Michael Myers as Shrek?

A lot of Ghost BC, mainly.

Look, if he were a better passer, runner, play-caller, and the rules changed, he would be a top-20 contender for greatest of all time.