The word “Indian” isn’t racist or offensive like the Washington football team’s. If we’re going to take every single thing Christopher Columbus did and call it racist, then it’s that stupid old nugget where being a vegetarian or owning a dog means you’re pro-genocide and antisemitic because Hitler was a vegetarian dog…

Heh, you’re not curious at all. Assuming you have kids, which come to think of it you probably don’t, I’m sure you have a compelling reason to ensure they don’t have a 9-1-1 call in arm’s length. I assure you, those other parents aren’t spoiling their kids by getting them phones. They know something you don’t,…

Let it go. Brett Favre is not going to fuck you.

Terry Pluto wrote a book in 1994 called “The Curse of Rocky Colavito” but since nobody remembers Colavito, it didn’t stick. The blogger Peter Pattakos, who paid that redface guy to confront the protester Robert Roche because he was so desperate for a memorable photograph that he staged it, tried “The Curse of Chief…

At first I’m like, “Aw, guy must be a Saints fan. Tough luck.” But then I realized I’d probably have head butted something last night if I were a Vikings fan so I genuinely can’t tell.

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A lot of pro wrestling journalism is written with a sort of toe-dipped-in-the-water tone where the writer is trying to get across that they don’t seriously buy into this stuff. The first journalist I ever read who didn’t do that was David Shoemaker, right here on Deadspin, and I remember thinking, this is neat. Here’s…

If a competition takes place for spectators’ entertainment, this will always happen. I’ve never understood it. An improvement will be accompanied by minor consequences and people will decide that this is enough. No more. Any further improvements are, in fact, damaging to the game. Joe Morgan is the definition of this:…

I mean, you’ve got this veneer of plausibility. The things you’re saying make sense. But is it possible you’re a fabulist and/or a lying idiot? You got the guy’s name wrong not once but twice, and there’s no way anybody who knows anything about all this thinks his name is “Anderson.”

“…these discussions reportedly center only on Chief Wahoo and not the team name, too…”

He’s also one of the greatest pitchers who ever lived, which is, it should be remembered, the matter under consideration here.