Running backstays, tack, winch, rig. And some connecting verbs. Unless some of those are verbs already, which I don't know.

+1 I have no idea what I just read

“Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers.”

I find that lately I’m agreeing with Coates a ton on a lot of different stuff. Your post further solidifies that.

Ta-Nehisi Coates once described that the way he pulled back from football was the realization that Jerry Jones doesn’t actually care about winning.

“Jerry is just like every other rich asshole owner who prizes belonging more than actually winning, who believes that who you know justifies what you do, and who thinks projecting an aura of excellence creates excellence.”

That plus counting the number of strokes. 

That went away years ago. Accurately timing a backstroke flip turn took serious skill and was a huge advantage in races. Now swimmers are permitted to roll over and take one freestyle stroke prior to making a regular forward flip. I guess juniors race coordinators got tired of kids splitting their heads open on the…

A few years ago one of my cousins married a girl from Nashville. The night before the wedding - after driving around past old plantations all day - we go out for drinks on Broadway, and my only takeaway was that the women there were a perfect analogy to the city, the south, and frankly, the entire country: blonde…

Nashville is the spiritual home of every suburban girl who claims to be “country at heart” because she owns cowboy boots and her parents are racist.

Matt Patricia looks like he has a closet full of shirts arranged by which type of food stains they have on them.

Daniel Jones looks like the actor they’d cast to play Eli Manning in a movie about Peyton Manning’s life.

My brother in law is a Jets fan.  Talk about a guy who makes poor life choices. 

Y’know, I was flipping channels the other day and ended up watching “Avatar” (don’t judge me).

Because shut up, Kyle.

Yeah, but what about Tom Cruise?

The best eggs Benedict I’ve ever had was made with fresh Dungeness crab, but I can definitely get behind salmon (fresh or smoked) Benedict.

Stick to sports.

Really kills the momentum of the fan base. It’s like one moment the fans are going 80 miles per hour, then the next moment *wham* into an embankment.

I’m in the same boat. What really gets me is that almost all the actors in dramas speak almost unintelligibly now. Female actors all do this weird whisper acting thing where normal conversations are spoken in hushed, breathy tones (ie Cersei Lannister, Michelle Monaghan, every character on Big Little Lies). Male…