Of course, but ultimately, who are the owners trying to keep entertained? The mob.

Why shouldn’t Goodell pander to the mob?

Despite the Patriots schadenfreude (the last pure sports emotion), the punishment is a fucked-up overreaction from a league hyperdesperate to protect its image—

Explain how he is a terrible commissioner with logic that actually addresses performance metrics and standards that actually matter when judging whether or not he is a good commissioner, because none of the things you mentioned actually does that.

None of this sounds like a problem that can’t be solved over a bowl of Skyline chili with their good pal Peter King mediating between them.

If you dug his persona, you forgave the amateurish writing—or even found it endearing, or didn’t care. On the other hand, if the persona struck you as a smug, smirking affectation

Except both Dash and Kelly stay well within certain boundaries. Again I’ll point back to his constant stripper analogies.

Agreed. He’s like an unholy abomination composed of the most awful parts of Rush Limbaugh, Bill Myers and Dane Cook.

I’m also not sure that Cowherd will fit neatly into the current conservative talk radio lineup most of those AM talk radio stations sport.

/forgets where door is

So? The average NFL season ticket holder makes up a very small portion of the people who see the NFL’s various promotions of the military.

Brooks is hard for me to peg sometimes.

I totally agree that the “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The implication being that if we are going to take issue with something, take issue with the recruiting budget, not the fact that the DoD appears to actually be pretty smart about marketing.

But the point of my sentence is they do those things in order to keep their syncretization intact.

Time and again the public has gotten over moral failings of entertainers as long as they can still entertain

I dunno, if the DoD is going to have a recruiting advertising budget, advertising with the NFL in that sort of indirect way is probably pretty good bang for the buck.

But encouraging the league to claw its way up the slippery slope of determining which crimes are beyond the pale only legitimizes the NFL’s self-serving claim that it’s capable of achieving moral high ground, or even that sports and morality should be meaningfully linked in any way beyond being aware of what kind of…

To me, the answer is, if the child is under 11-12, no. Yes, in most circumstances, if you are careful, the risk is low that something will happen, but the issue is that if you wind up out on the tail, the consequences will probably shatter you completely.

I’m a sucker for old action stars playing a run down, exhausted, drained older/middle aged character. I think there’s something about the fact that I have so many memories of when they were younger and now seeing them older that helps reinforce the overall atmosphere around them.

That wasn’t how I interpreted the results at all. From the last paragraph: