would that not be why Tom referenced it in the last paragraph of the article?

I think it’s wonderful that the same people who see no problem with Marchand’s on-ice behavior get weepy-eyed over Cam Neely’s injury-shortened career.  

Oh we’re the type of team that can’t afford the rent

Best response to hockey flopping:

They both said that in December 1980, too.

I’ll never understand this kind of thing. Aldridge has been in the league 13 years and is a seven-time all star, but doesn’t know to foul down four with 30 seconds left unless he hears his coach tell him to? It doesn’t sound like a JR Amith situation where he didn’t know the score or time remaining, he just didn’t…

... a fourth-line pest is stuck inside the body of that 100-point man.

Counterpoint: The Deadcast actually answers the age old question about a tree falling in the forest.

It is always useful to be reminded just how fucking drunk America was in the 19th Century.

Wrong again, Shildt. The definition of insanity is a bagel sliced like a loaf of bread.

I think it’s kind of a reaction that the Good White People had to the tumult of the Civil Rights movement, honestly. Zeitgeists are by their nature hard to nail down and describe concretely. But looking back on it, I see Reaganism as essentially a truce among whites on all sides of the political spectrum to just…

Fan-friggin-tastic.  I had clicked to another article by the time it all registered and came back to give you your dern star.  Good day to you.

Not shocked to see Mendenhall fanning the flames.  He is a U of I guy.  What the Steelers need are U of US guys.

I think is one of the few times Kinja has really helped improve a post.

Yeah, I get what you’re saying, but as a hockey fan who came of age when the first two rounds were Smythe/Norris/Adams/Patrick division battles, I kinda like the notion that the playoffs start with intra-division blood feuds. If anything, I wish there were more divisional games during the regular season and greater…

While “Lampass” is much funnier (and great nickname for a firefly), it’s actually Lampasas County.

Wait, so that was Simmons interviewing Clint Eastwood at the RNC?

52 kids under him? I thought he was a Steeler, not a Cardinal. 

“It’d be 15 stars if it were in the Tokyo Dome” - Bruce Pritchard

Here’s my lukewarm take on the whole AD situation: