It allows the Super Bowl to be a bigger event: The host city knows it will be hosting the Super Bowl a couple years in advance, allowing it to spend extra time and money planning the biggest possible event. It also enables the market for Super Bowl tickets to run wild for a long, long time.

In Nate's defense, this is his busiest month at the North Pole.

Everyone wants to give good presents. Well - most people, anyway.

Good point. I'm also 25 and my mother still asks me what I want for Christmas.

I'm 34. My parents hound me for a Christmas list until I give it to them.

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"I hope that Rose comes back next year and is absolutely awesome, because having lots of good players in the NBA playing at their peak is more fun."

Disclaimer: Rose is my favorite player but I'm very objective about sports and wouldn't put him when healthy above LeBron or Durant etc and understand his limitations. This revisionist notion that he didn't deserve the MVP is stupid. He was deserving of the MVP that year, with the caveat that good cases could be made…

KD is pretty much universally regarded as the 2nd best player in the world behind LeBron

So... Chicago guy here, and I don't really do basketball. However when I do watch anything related to the sport it looks like Kevin Durant is one of the best.... Is he better than Rose? Who I am now thinking is a bust due to injuries...

"A little thing that can turn into anything at anytime."

Tip: NONE, FORREST, NONE

"There's nobody there for Alabama" - Every MENSA Meeting

Are you kidding?!?! You're a goddamn hero for the ages! I fainted from drooling reading your menu.

His age and the terrible coach they have are 2 and 3.

which is the real issue. That contract limits his opportunity to win another championship.

As a married guy nothing swells your head for a day or so like having someone interested in you. It is also nice because you are already in a relationship, have no practical interest in the person interested, so you get the nice compliment without the additional stress over how to handle it.

yah, but Kobe is destroying LeBron in cap-use %.

There was actually a test case for the "combine two teams" question in the NHL: Minnesota and Cleveland merged in 1978, and then had five decent years and a finals appearance.