"Rolling Stone reports that vinyl sales jumped 52 percent last year"

My favorite bit from the Leon Lett miscues was that after that Thanksgiving Day game incident, SportsCenter ran some piece where school children wrote letters to Leon Lett saying how that brainfart wasn't so bad. One of the letters was just something like: "Hey, at least you weren't that idiot who fumbled the…

We're talking about the officials gathering to make the decision on the field, which means you can't tie in the knowledge that the head linesman was incorrect in his call because the officials aren't privy to that information gleaned from replay.

They still consult the other officials, even if they're not huddling up to discuss it. Officiating crews use non-verbal communication with each other constantly during the game, in addition to the fact that they have microphones to communicate with each other verbally over distance (see: Ed Hochuli using the wrong…

It's not a given that the closer guy is going to be right, but if you were going to play the odds on who's more likely to be right given disagreement between the near and far officials, the far away official is a massive underdog.

The NFL's PI rule specifically allows faceguarding. If the defender has the ball plunk him in the back, and the defender makes contact with the receiver, that is not PI as long as the ball contacted the defender prior to the defender contacting the receiver. The defender is even OK if he has minimal contact with the…

Checking to make sure that the guy in the best position to see the play is not in active disagreement is already part of the job. The referee erred by failing to do that check before he acted on the flag.

The procedure after the referee got the information from the head linesman was exactly correct. Two officials differed in their interpretation of whether or not it was a penalty, and the referee conferred with both to make a decision. He decided to defer to the official who was in a better position to see whether or…

Fouls can be enforced or waived off any time up until the ball is snapped on the next play. But, sure, if you want, let's say that you've started this scenario by making the error of enforcing a flag without checking with your fellow officials or by spotting the ball without noticing the flag thrown.

1) There is no hard and fast rule. What Bryant would have been flagged for is Unsportsmanlike Conduct for a sideline violation. Sideline violations are typically enforced by the officials issuing at least one warning before a flag is thrown for Unsportsmanlike Conduct, and there had been no previous warning.

Forget this play. You're a referee, and you've got two officials in front of you. One of them was standing 10 feet from the spot of the play, the other one was standing 65 feet away, and they have conflicting opinions on whether or not something's a foul. You didn't see the incident, because you were focused on…

Not really. The big mistake there was the referee announcing a penalty flag from an official who was out of position without checking with the other members of his crew.

Doctor Doctopus, he's a doctor with doctor arms.

Third. Dave Foley was in the Rashida Jones episode as the mad bomber, and Kevin McDonald was in the Craig Robinson episode as the alien leader in the Last Starfighter bit.

Yeah, I remember as much that most of what we see of the her is in flashback, but I was trying to remember if we saw her alive in the first issue. My vague recollection is the discovery of her body is basically the last story beat in the first issue.

This is pretty much exactly how I was going to respond. The first arc of Powers deals with a sort-of faded and irrelevant version of the Justice League, of which Retro Girl had been a member. Naming her "Retro Girl" is definitely trying to invoke that feeling, and then is deliberately trying to cast it off by…

Yeah, the concept for Powers is pretty dark. Take your modern "grim and gritty" superhero concepts, and then imagine what a cop procedural focused on that sort of world would look like.

There was a trailer, around a month ago or so. It's referenced and linked in the article.

Yes. While writing The Invisibles, he also wrote a character which was basically his self-insert into the comic and gave him a disease, shortly after which Grant himself got sick in a way vaguely related. He believes he turned his life around by writing stories for his self-insert where he gets better, he's happy,…

In the grand scheme of things, it's not really bad or anything like that, but I do view it as weak. Now, that could be because it has to stand shoulder to shoulder with seasons 5 and 7.