This is not why ratings are in the trash. Have you failed to watch a single game this year because of the officiating? Did you boycott watching MNF?

Bear with me:

Argumentative: Isn’t “it matters to me” basically the same as “it doesn’t matter”? Like, voting-as-catharsis is great (for you) but it seems to be a very distilled version of modern-leftist-privilege: Something that is about me aught to be important to everyone else.

Just a reminder: There are no real rules. We all just make them up.

Huh? I don’t even understand what you are trying to ask.

Well, you see plenty of American parents punishing their own kids for being gay; at the acme of their reasonableness, they fear their child will lose out of life/love/career opportunities and that it’s a phase/lifestyle choice and that tough love now will be better for them long term. These aren’t aberrant humans,…

What do you expect in this age of Ideological Purity? Trumpism doesn’t just exist on the conservative fringe, folks.

“This just in: Kendra James, mother of 2, was murdered in Portland, Oregon. And guess what? The pigs got away clean again”

Essentially all colleges compete within “conferences”. The Ivy League is both a traditional conference, no different than the Pac-12, or SEC, or Big East (rip); but it’s also a colloquialism for America’s most prestigious universities. So yes, they’re standings are “kept separate” just like every other schools sports…

Hmm. In general I think the punishment is “too severe”, because I suspect this is going on in basically every college team and a fair number of women’s teams are engaged in the same lewd stuff.

And have a nanny or manny.

keep your hipster bacon out of my pad thai

Counterpoint: No one will give you what you don’t ask for.

I’m shocked USMNT hasn’t adopted a “we’ll give you something to fall and writhe on the ground about” and decided to simply being the roughest, toughest, most menacing team in football.

Sometimes failure is your friend, she doesn’t really take a big enough bite to stop play, if she had, I can only imagine it’d be a straight red.

When. These leagues are set up to fail.

Shades of Maradonna! Could have given 2 yellows on the play and if they defense had been 1% more confident, 2 reds.

Your first two points aren’t mutually exclusive: I assume he wanted something realisticish. Take a dose of plausibly defensible science as your base, stretch/adapt/contract as the needs of the game go, and blammo.

Where the fug are the JO crystals?

Hot Tip: Just because a lawyer says something does not mean it’s true.