I'm a Packers fan, and I figure that Minnesota had a pretty similar attitude at the end of Favre's career.

Agreed: the actual highest percentage play, and what is perceived by conventional wisdom to be the highest percentage play, are often two entirely different things. Going for it on 4th down being a great example of this; "hot hands" being another.

I am a demon who whispers lies while you sleep.

The only way it could have been more Jets would been if the kicker had missed the ball entirely, fallen on his head, then shit himself on national television.

A quick google image search proves you are correct. Another convenient thing about quarterback wives is that they usually wear the name of their home state emblazoned on a sash across their chest.

The Seahawks losing to the Rams seems completely insane.

Man, talk about a trap. It's always people who try to play the long game who get eliminated in Week 1.

Nobody ever got rich betting against Aaron Rodgers. Just sayin'.

I'm a Green Bay fan and my boss is a Carolina fan. Could get ugly.

Yeah, it's only the truly staggering amounts of downtime and commercials that enable the view to float, slyph-like, from game to game. Any sport with actually reasonable pacing would be entirely too hectic to follow.

Yup. The word was carefully chosen.

Well fuck, Siciliano really does look like Paul Ryan, doesn't he.

Every aspect of Ocean's 11 is designed to be, well, snackable.

Is there a factory somewhere that produces these corn-fed, big-haired, pearly white beauty queen types explicitly for NFL quarterbacks to marry?

I think the entire planet and significant portions of Mars were expecting the Pats to trample your guys into greasy smears on the field, so don't listen to anyone who says there's no such thing as a moral victory in the NFL.

Yeah, I remember that being pretty funny. I was certain it was going to be a comet's tail, or the shadow of a mountain when the sun was behind it or something.

No, no, it's even better than that.

She probably got a cold from the last drive of the Dolphins game. That shit probably shortened the lives of Dolphins fans across the eastern seaboard by 3-5 years.

It makes so much sense. They're "issue" videos—funny, well-written, and generally addressing matters of the day—which are beautifully suited to being aggregated and shared. If LWT was confined to the relatively small walled garden of HBO subscribers it wouldn't have anything like the place in the cultural conversation…

Was that not Sega-exclusive?