With an NFL- promoted soundtrack of shitty country music for a league that is 80% African American.
With an NFL- promoted soundtrack of shitty country music for a league that is 80% African American.
If there was a young man in literally any other profession who made $100 million before he was 30 and decided to retire, he would be lauded. The Wall Street Journal would write thousands of words of wankery praising his acumen and smarts and god bless America.
The fact that the NFL has made itself into a weekly orgy of vaguely fashy American nationalism can only hurt the popularity of the sport outside the US.
I hope that NFL players take note of the lack of empathy people have shown Andrew Luck during this entire process. Don’t feel guilty about hold-outs for more money. Get as much money as you can and get the hell out before it becomes a detriment to your health.
Seems shortsighted to me. What’s he going to do without football? Other than his family, tens of millions of dollars, a Stanford education, and relative youth, football was all he had going for him.
And it just reaffirms what I would be thinking if I were Luck: I’ve gotten plenty of money, I’m a smart dude who has interests outside of football, and the NFL/Colts/Indy are such a trifecta of toxicity that I’m better off exchanging CTE and more money for lots of money and some sweet, sweet travel.
If I were Luck, I’d…
Dearest Mother,
Wow, they just took his work and commercialized it without giving any of the credit (and corresponding profits).
Nobody star this.
Wow, he’s really lucky, because, while they take drug offenses super-seriously in New Hampshire, they recently repealed the death penalty. Not only that, but hanging was still on the books in NH as one of the possible means of execution, until earlier this year! So, he won’t have to worry about mobs of people…
Like most people, they criticize in others what they secretly despise about themselves, you fat asshole.
The Defenechstration of Houston
Great piece HamNo.
Ummm, in her bag? When my wife gets home and proceeds thru a very similar routine there is often times a “have you seen my phone?” an hour or two later. It’s almost ALWAYS in her bag.
Uhh, the entire blog is about him preferring to play power forward.
The last player to break a Big Mac sign like that was Bartolo Colon at the order kiosk.
Dwight’s greatest contribution as a Laker might have been this gif:
But I immediately blurted out “It’s for a gag!” anyway
Inadequate Man
They should dump it in the ocean next to Osama Bin Laden