Now wait just a second, how much credit do her breasts get? C'mon, people.

I think lying means by definition that he can't be trusted. If he could be trusted he'd be saying "Sherlock, you need to come back to London, we need you" rather than tricking him.

Ah, the '80s, when you could get away with jokes like that. Good times.

Wait. Your sister took you to the library and used your library card to check out "Flowers in the Attic"? A book that's all about incest?

Well, let's see. It's a Lifetime movie so Heather Graham won't get naked, and it's a Lifetime movie so they'll probably soft-pedal the incest angle just like the Kristy Swanson movie did, it's a Lifetime movie so it's guaranteed to be terrible, and the source novel is a piece of shit.

I just dropped Showtime so I won't be watching this, but the notion that Bryant scheduled USC so his team could get waxed and he could then integrate is a myth. Bryant had already given a scholarship to a black player, Wilbur Jackson, but Jackson was not on the team in 1970 because freshmen were not eligible at that…

Yeah, we can tell, because you quite obviously have no idea what you're talking about. "I hate these discussions about selecting players because they hinge so much on ability", well, what else should players be selected on besides ability? Sports are a business, you know.

I believe George Preston Marshall had a clause put in his will forbidding any of his money from being used to further the cause of integration.

and also douchey

The '69 and '70 teams went a combined 12-10-1, so you are correct, Bama had not dominated in some time.

Treting anything about real life as a spoiler is moronic, and treating the outcomes of sporting events as spoilers is even more moronic. I remember one guy n a bbaseball message board I read getting mad once because a radio station had the temerty to report the result of a game he'd recorded while he was at work.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

Jennifer Ehle is sexy as hell. Goodness.

They're great tertiary characters.

There's mixed opinion on whether or not he would have survived that shot. Throat wound more susceptible to infection, plus his Addison's disease.

I'm not going to click that link at work… but what the holy fucking hell?

It didn't come at the cost of a half-million dead Vietnamese. Johnson could have done all of that without going into Vietnam in force. In fact if he hadn't gone into Vietnam in force he could have won re-election in 1968 and done more.

I think saying JFK's presidency was a complete failure is overstating the case. The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a thing that happened. And JFK's waffling on civil rights is well known but he did send the National Guard in to get James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi.

He actually was fairly bright and well-read. He was hampered by a severe case of dyslexia.

Grantland has a piece that echoes many of the things people have been saying here. Merchant compares the show to a horror film, which is interesting.