In the 80s office hockey pool era, Wayne Gretzky was so transcendent, would give one team such an unfair advantage that a rule was generally used where you couldn’t draft Wayne as a player, for his total points, but rather would have to select either Wayne Gretzky’s Assists or Wayne Gretzky’s Goals. Eventually, we did…

This thread is like a Chargers home game: deserted.

You know how airlines keep hammering down on pay and benefits and throttling down pilots unions? We’re not getting the best and the brightest to fly our planes anymore. Those guys are needed on Wall Street.

“Who is flying the plane?” ==> “Who’s flying the plane?”

I see it as a near mendel derangement.

Thanks. I’m an old (proof: capitalization, punctuation and grammar used in an online post), unversed in the ways of the cyberfield, and I fell prey to the cropped video too. In that format it did offer an unmistakable glimpse of some sandals, I must say.

Yep. It’s not like a well-placed pun huygens the level of discourse.

Cucamonga?

I know it’s fun to laugh at Trubingski and he’s not the guy with the giraffe neck, but say something funny about the guy with the giraffe neck!

Oh, come on. That is a gratuitously unverifiable statement uttered to appear interesting and subversive. It’s like saying “I’ve been to Pyongyang, actually, and it’s quite nice, great people.” 

[Goes for a quick google.]

My word!...

It boyles my grits that a seminal scientist like Robert Hooke isn’t more well known.  He should spring to mind.

Surprising that a post with physics as its hooke gets so many stars.

Yeah, you’d have to assure your coaching staff financially, maybe grant extensions, to get their buy-in, but imagine the rot, the corruption of that team if the players sense the coaches are in on the losing-on-purpose scheme.  I think everyone understands a GM trading away useful vets out from under a coach, leaving…

I caught sight of that atrocity, a glimpse of it, wasn’t sure what I was seeing, a hat or whatever, for a half-second, and I suffered a spate of “I can’t even”, as the yoots say. Didn’t even bother to click and google and find out, didn’t want to have to muster up some outrage.

Carolina’s Norv Turner-led offense has some real bad ideas about how to pick up a few crucial inches of turf.

For some reason I can’t put my finger on, that description doesn’t quite fit him, I don’t think...

“Crisis of confidence!  OMAHA!  Crisis of confidence! Set! Hut!”

“Motion to amend: that we add in the phrase ‘captured on video such that Roger Goodell might be convinced thereof’, or suchlike.”