In addition: Pat Maroon is from St Louis, regularly went to Blues games at this arena as a kid, and said he always dreamed of scoring a goal there.

His full name is Enos Stanley Kroenke: his father was a big Cards fan in rural Missouri, so he names his kid after two club legends from his era, Slaughter and Musial.

It’s the second-best pop-culture allegory to Mormonism.

The crowds, at least, are good.

Six Nations is boring and crap strictly because it has England in it, plus the Northern Hemisphere style of “screw tries, kick all the penalties” is dreadful.

Eh, they already did this better with the Jenny Holzer V12 LMR. Mostly because “THE UNATTAINABLE IS INHERENTLY ATTRACTIVE” and “YOU ARE SO COMPLEX YOU DON’T RESPOND TO DANGER” are much better statements about racing cars and auto racing as a whole than just simply “FAST”.

Can confirm: I saw them play earlier this year (they beat CBC, one of the best teams in St Louis, at home in front of 15,000 people—many of whom wouldn’t even dare otherwise going to ESL if it wasn’t to go to the boat and play slots) and they’re legit.

I went to double-check if East St Louis is in Madison County, but it’s just across the border in St Clair. (Even though I live in STL, my East Side geography is a bit lacking.)

I’d be honestly curious to see how the USAF’s changed since the AFA got hijacked by the evangelicals in CS. (This comes with the catch that while I admire what Mikey Weinstein did in exposing the evangelical push into the Academy, I’m not a fan of him being a bit of a religious fanatic for his own religion.)

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!, I can tell.

Saw them last week on TV: Mullin’s got them looking halfway decent. Still a couple years before they get to be top-25, though.

Jeff Wilkins! Phil Dawson! Chris Jacke! Gary Anderson, who if memory serves is the last guy to wear a single-bar facemask! Randy Bullock, the rare Fat Kicker!

As someone that watched TB-KC: Aguayo was on it today, and yet the Bucs once punted from roughly the KC 35 once (it went for a touchback).

PARE! Loved Pacific Rims, still one of the few books that totally understand the Philippines!

DO NOT TOUCH THE TRIM!

Counterpoint: Kansas won, and we all of us know that the Jayhawks are almost as horrible as Duke is. (Mizzou/K-State/Iowa St/Wichita St/a few others will argue that they’re actually worse than Duke, and they’re entitled to do that.)

Jared Goff: Because as long as Keith Null is around, he won’t be the worst-ever Rams quarterback.

KC’s already said they make more money having an arena without a pro-sports tenant, because they don’t have to block out 41+ dates a year they could use instead for concerts/tournaments/shows like Sesame Street Live.

It was in a Lady Gaga video, too—”Telephone”, if memory serves.