This is basically the right attitude. Yes, they likely cheated. Yes, every other team is also looking for edges and skirting the rulebook (see Seattle's PED corps, or New Orleans's bounty system, or, yes, the Patriots' hidden cameras). Yes, sometimes people get caught. Yes, Bill Belichik is a gigantic asshole which…

I feel about this the same way about pitchers using a little bit of pine tar to keep a better grip on their balls in particularly cold or humid weather. It's technically illegal, but it's so universally done and offers such a negligible benefit that it should be legal. And it is de facto allowed, except when some…

'Jackson said yesterday he handed the ball off because he "wanted that ball as a souvenir."'

Unprofessional douchebag.
Seriously. What a fucking piece of shit.

Amen. I hope you always remember how lucky you are and never try to block the attempts of other people to migrate ;).

That's actually the ONLY solution. It's how single payer systems in other countries manage to get lower costs - when a single insurer has 80%+ of the entire population under their umbrella, they have a tremendous amount of negotiating power with the health care providers and the equipment manufacturers.

theres a lot of kissing at superbowl parties?

On most teams-maybe most important job outside of head coach-was the ball boy in charge of rubbing down footballs. Getting them just right.

The last person this is on is Bostick, and fuck that coach for giving him shit when he went over to the sidelines. The ball does crazy shit on onside kicks. Wanna give somebody shit? Mike McCarthy called that game into the fucking ground for GB.

How is this illegal? It's against NCAA rules for sure, but not illegal. The police should not care.

The Veyron was different. It had no competition. It was just the most of everything. How much does it cost? A million. How fast does it go? A million. How many special editions are there? A million.

Don't lie. We'd all check this out.

My parents would have wanted to send me to counseling for my alcohol intake when I was 20 if A.) the news reported how often I got drunk (a lot) and B.) they could afford it.

I love it (and by love I mean hate) when companies just obliviously offer absurdly sub-par wages and then go "Golly gee willikers, nobody wants to work for us, wonder what's wrong with them?"

It's odd to not mention the fact that Pardew had over 160 appearances as a player for Crystal Palace in the late 80's and early 90's. He's moving to a team where he'll have more control and start with at least some support from the fans - an asset he was sorely lacking at Newcastle.

I'm so utterly fucking confused. This is an NFL team. A team valued at $2.6 billion (2nd most in the NFL) with revenues of $428 million and operating income of $147 million, and I'm expected to believe that having to deposit $24 million into an escrow account to pay a guaranteed liability would be the difference…

Well, I look forward to the Bears naming Coach Ted Lasso as Trestman's replacement in 3...2...1...

We do publish a short-form, profanity-free version of each Foodspin recipe over on my personal Kinja blog, for people who just want some instructions they can follow. Here's the one for lobster tails:

My butler read this for me, and agrees with your methods. Me? I think cooking your own lobster tails is as gauche as driving your own Maybach.

If you put Visine in someone's food, I sincerely hope you get arrested for attempted murder.