hahahaha, thank you I knew I should have googled that first. Although “Uber” might be over-stating it. Maybe, ‘Slightly Above Replacement,’ or ‘Shawn Jefferson’ receiver.

Agreed, and if no for Favre Desmond Howard’s kick returning and Reggie White abusing Max Lane all day that group would have a SB Ring too.

He had a great career and deserves more credit for New England turning things around with the Kraft era. As much as everyone is quick to say fans in the northeast didn’t care about the Pats until Brady / Belichek, for my generation it was the Bledsoe teams from early-mid nineties that made us buy-in completely with…

Yes - that will be the deciding factor for us. Luckily there are some good public school options close by but its a lottery system and if it doesn’t go our way we’re gone, and short of winning an actual $ lottery, we’re not able to afford even a moderate sized home in any towns that combine good schools + easy…

This article hits home(!). We are fortunate that we own a 3 bedroom in an amazing city neighborhood that we absolutely love. Both my wife and I can walk to work and are home for dinner with our two kids under 4 nearly every single night. There is a really strong sense of community and more and more families seem to…

Yes, on some of the things she takes on she absolutely does find varying levels of enjoyment in the process just as I do. At the same time, like me, we both have tasks that are not our idea of a good time but for whatever reason we are better suited for than the other parent. And, there’s a series of things in a…

I assure you that is not the case at all. My point is a good way to approach household and parenting duties is to align tasks with interests and skillsets where possible.

Clearly I overstated things in my example of the ‘fun’ tasks. Having honest dialogue about how to divide up household and parenting tasks, and lining those up with relative strengths is not the same thing as one parent looking at a tedious task and saying, ‘well you’re better at all this shit work so have fun, i’m…

I’m not sure where my excuse is ‘gendered’, or even that I’m offering any excuses. By mutual agreement my wife and I divide the work along our areas of relative strength as individuals and parents. My wife is a hyper-organized, type A, individual and I’m more of a B type and I have diagnosed ADD.

I appreciate your response, as I stated in reply to another comment I’m probably over-stating the extent to which all the unpleasant stuff ends up with my wife. Mainly we try to divide the unpleasant stuff along our strengths.  We try to check-in regularly and realign as necessary but the word ‘probably’ in my first…

Thank you - this is helpful to read honest perspective from the other side of this dynamic. I’m probably over-stating the extent to which I am the ‘fun’ parent, and to be clear it’s not a frivolous ‘well I would just suck at that job so I won’t even try it.’ I try to not use my ADD as a ‘get out of doing shitty task…

I actually think about this all the time; what it would be like if I had married a similar type B or someone who deals with attention issues. I imagine its probably easier at first but a challenge once the responsibilities start piling up.

That is definitely something to consider - my kids have never seen me do laundry or my wife take out the trash. I do almost all of the cooking, so not everything is split on traditional gender lines at least.

I don’t need to switch roles with my wife to know that I couldn’t for even a day do what she does for our children while still working full time. There is a Type A / organizational aspect to so many of the day-to-day tasks that fall to her that I simply cannot handle. Playing to your strengths for parenting and…

Blank and Kraft and the Rooney and Mara families.... I get Jerrah is a formidable force within the ownership but good fucking luck going against those four 

I was definitely in the camp of don’t tell anyone until 12 weeks, and even then I would have preferred to just show up one day to a family gathering one day with a baby. I’m superstitious to a fault, and I can’t even watch a football game with the same group of people who happened to be attendance the last time my…

I thought I had read that the screaming thing was traced back to a specific tennis academy in florida that produced seles and several other players around, and after her generation. Though probably psychological it also masks the timing of the contact of the racket and ball, which can throw your opponent off.

If you want to weep for humanity go take a spin through the comment section on PFT discussing McNair’s statements.

Honestly so much of the NFL has a boner for those families that she could probably walk into the league office and with her name alone change field goals from 3 points to 12.

I think when it comes to business related things the owners like Jones and Kraft, have maybe a little more pull than owners who simply inherited their teams like the current generation of Rooney’s and Mara’s.