Let it be decreed that when a team sets out to ‘tank a season’ (a purely North American conceit with structures in place such as revenue-sharing and a universal draft in place), sets out to be intentionally bad to lose more games and ‘earn’ a higher draft placement, in the absence of other mechanisms such as loss of…

Yeah, I knew it was him the first time I saw the meme (GTFOH with Zach Galifianakis), I just didn’t remember him in that role or movie. Someone posted the trailer recently, and I think it looks familiar, maybe I saw it as a kid, or part of it at least on TV, it’s really vague. By now it might be the exposure to the…

Tua lacks the study habits, doesn’t have a motor, football men agree. He doesn’t eat tape, relies too much on his athleticism. Doesn’t go through his reads, he’s naturally inclined to pull the ball down and run.

I (...) have met (..) with a number of (...) Harvard student athletes (...and...) most of them have not been very bright.

Yeah, a tank season rolls off the tongue for fans, is reasonable for ownership and management, but for football players, with their short careers and limited opportunities to win a championship, that’s probably the worst sport to put yourself through the wringer for, subject yourself to the abuse and damage “for the…

Maybe I’m embarrassed that I don’t think I’ve ever watched “Jeremiah Johnson” before, or at least don’t remember it.

The Onion:

Yeah.  I lived through the Reagan era, and that’s when they raised the drinking age to 21 years old, and it’s saved entire generations from the evils of teen drinking.  And nobody dies in car crashes anymore, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s temperate rational approach...

Jeez, off the top of my head, “Three Days of the Condor”, “Butch Cassidy”, “The Sting”, “Waldo Pepper”, “The Natural”, ...

Do you really think Arthur Blank and Bob McNair are going to let the inmates players make that decision?

Drew isn’t crazy, when the pineapple is good and ripe, the core can serve a purpose.  But early on, before it’s fully ripe, it like biting into asbestos-coated fiberglass, like eating porcupine shards.

I get you man.  I quit on the NFL when they stole the Chargers, but I’m still up for some schadenfreude.  Deadspin and Drew do just fine in that department.

It’s kind of telling that he says he’s been doing this for fifteen years.  You forget how much damage a rookie has exposed himself to already.

“Empty the dishwasher, boy!”

“This is mano y mano”

2000 was peak video rental era, though. Pretty much every store had a 5 videos for 5$ for 5 days deal, you could load up on those and have something to do while you recuperated from sundry busted ankles and sprained MCLs.

It’s modestly controversial in Canada too. The thinking in some quarters was that with Canadians being second-most populous on NBA rosters, with some decent talent, Canada had a decent chance at a silver, and as things developed and the U.S. team’s mega-stars all failed to show, maybe a gold. But I guess our NBA…

I remember the rationale for that was that Team U.S.A. was built to beat Team Canada, and no other purpose. The thinking was that Team U.S.A. always got eliminated by Canada, so custom-design a roster to negate Canada’s advantage at centre and on defence, and you have a chance to win the whole thing.

I told you once and I told you twice about these hammy references.

I’d be okay with the Stones songs puns, but referring to one of their horrid later outputs leaves me with Mixed Emotions.