If they were gonna be that nitpicky, they should have dinged the woman in the center, too, who clearly said “will.i.am (pause) iambic pentameter” when the correct reply should have been “will.i.ambic pentameter.”

It did find a cure for mediocrity.

It’s nice to see Bills fans support people who aren’t bills fans.

The answer is both simple and obvious: Alabama. Didn’t win their conference, didn’t even win their division, didn’t have to play an extra game against a high-quality opponent. If you’re only going to have a four-team playoff, you have to treat conference championship games as the defacto first round, and conference…

Alabama is run by an arrogant blowhard, fields human caricatures who accomplish nothing in the NFL, beats everyone, is the anchor of a bullshit ignorant state with nothing else going for it, and everyone hates them. They are absolutely the best team in college football.  

I think an expansion of the playoff needs to be offset by one fewer regular season game -- you’d basically be rewarding the best unpaid football players with an additional opportunity to have a career-ending injury.

Which I never understood. It boggles the mind how people chant an entire conference moreso than the school. You don’t hear the ACC chant during the NCAA basketball tournament or win they won the national championship in football in 14 and 16. Only the SEC does this nonsense over all sports.

Honestly, I would’ve picked Wisconsin or Ohio State over us if I was on the committee. But, as a fan, I’m going to lap it up while I can.

Realistically, Alabama is almost certainly better than Georgia, but it would be hard for the committee to justify leaving the SEC champ out in favor a of a different conference champ.

I always chuckle when I think that it took Bill Belichick and Nick Saban coaching the same team together to get the Browns a playoff win. Makes you wonder how both the NFL and college football would be different if Art Modell hadn’t moved the Browns and fired both coaches.

I’ll take it.

Oh definitely. Their psyches were so shattered before he came in and took over, that it was almost sad. If he leaves then who do they replace him with? If a “Michigan man” can’t get the job done and bails for greener pastures, then what?

Even though he hasn’t fulfilled expectations, UM supporters are still scared shitless of him leaving because they’ve invested so much emotionally in him being THE guy who is going to restore UM to their former glory, that if he leaves, they’ll be completely devastated and not see anybody as being capable of returning…

The irony of that of course is that for being Michigan’s pleated khaki savior, he’s only beaten MSU once and OSU none-ce. He’s not a bad coach, but by their standards, he might as well be a bust.

In the biggest games they could play against each other, Tom Brady is 1-5 lifetime against the Manning brothers (AFC Championship games and Super Bowls). 16% winning percentage. That is all.

Hearing announcers like that make you want to mute Joe Buck just a little bit more.

Side note: The Seattle market has been blessed with terrific radio announcers over the years who can paint a picture in your head without driving you crazy. Bob Rondeau is one, along with Pete Gross, Bob Blackburn, Dave Neihaus, Kevin Calabro, Arlo White, and Bob Robertson.

The berets are a low brass thing. Tubas can’t wear the traditional marching hat (shako’s in marching nerd) so they wear berets. The trombones are part of the low brass so they probably make the whole section wear them. I’ve rarely seen a marching band use berets for the full group unless it is a military band. The…

My dad texted me tonight.

Listen. James Harrison may be a sanctimonious blowhard, but he also strikes me as the kind of dude you don’t want to give any extra motivation to fuck you up.