Chip Kelly wasn’t fired though. According to Jed York, the Santa Clara 49ers are a design-centric organization undergoing a paradigm shift, one that requires a pivot away from old influencers in order to regain traction in an emerging market!

+1 burning cross in front of the goal

That was such a quick, lighting-like strike. If only there was a German word for it.

Wow, trump really is returning all these jobs that immigrants stole back to americans.

I would say Rodgers is mailing it in, but apparently no one’s received even a birthday card from him in years.

Thank you for writing such a rich and human piece. She was wrong that there’s no story here — it’s a story that doesn’t get told in this kind of detail nearly enough.

No snark: Thank you for this piece. Masterfully reported, incredibly well-written, utterly important.

Thank you so very much for this piece. It was a hell of a gut-wrench, especially since you make it clear at the story’s start just how things would end. Butt everything about your approach served to drive home the overwhelming senses of wonder and loss. Wonder, at Frey’s absolute brilliance, both in the stories she…

Thanks for writing this. I was a daily reader of the Post back then and the writing staff in the Sports section was amazing. And even at that Jennifer stood out. I had no idea her life had turned like this. To me, she was just a great writer in a stable of great writers, at a paper that, at the time seemed to have a…

Article like this remind me of why I started reading Deadspin in the first place, and why I’m still here all these years later. Thanks.

Thanks, Mr. McKenna, and thanks Deadspin, for this piece. This is what journalism aspires to do: Capture a slice of humanity in great detail so that we can reflect on our world, our culture, and our lives.

This is an incredibly well-written, well-researched, and well-thought-out piece about what was ultimately a tragedy.

+1, This was fantastic even though I feel miserable after reading it.

And if you had any more memories of David Carr you wished to share, they’d be welcome here for sure.

Damn you McKenna. Great piece, and I am glad my office has a door. Hits way too close to home. This disease is insidious. I hope for peace and happiness for her daughter. 

Fan-fucking-tastic piece, Dave. Really well done.

Goddamn great piece, Dave.

Goddamn, this is both outstanding and tragic.

Goddammit McKenna, you are a great fucking writer. I’m so sorry about your colleague.

Sad story, and really hammers home how devastating the effects of alcohol can be, as well as the psychological grip it can have on the individual. Thank you for writing this Dave. Having seen firsthand some of the damage alcohol visits upon not only the user, but families, I wonder why the outcry over tobacco is as…

Thanks for this article. It’s heartbreaking and well written. What an honest to God living nightmare she must have been in near the end.