I’d rather be disliked than incapable of making any kind of coherent point, which is the position you find yourself in. I’m going to make an even stronger assertion than I have so far - I will say that if you took the population of professional boxers as they exist right now, and assembled those specific individuals…

The sins of the father shall be visited upon the son.

I’d rather be willfully dense than naturally dense. At least I can choose to stop being stupid at any time. I never compared weight classes to positions, I was merely demonstrating that there are a massive number of boxers competing in 2018, even as decrepit as the sport is today. So the assertion that the NFL will…

I agree that there’s a significant chance that the NFL ends up where boxing is now, but that’s a long fall from where the NFL is now and it’ll take a good long while. The owners might wise up somewhere between here and there, dump Goodell and hire a commissioner with some actual ideas for revitalizing the league.

If by doomed you mean, “gradually less and less popular as time goes on,” then most organizations are doomed. As to the quality of the boxers, you’re changing the subject. The question was whether there would be enough players to fill NFL rosters. No one said they had to be particularly good. My god, there’s only 5…

It’s like these people have never seen a Xanderpuss comment before ...

Maybe look up how many weight classes there are in boxing and how many people are ranked in each class before you make assertions like that. There are probably close to 2,000 boxers in the official rankings.

Interesting, I did not know that. Any other wisdom you’d like to share?

The logistics of running a single fight card vs. a football game are irrelevant. You obviously have no idea how many boxing matches there are or how many boxers are required to fill all the various weight classes. There are 17 distinct weight classes, each with north of 100 boxers. Many of them may be bad at boxing,…

And the proof that you’re correct is the fact that boxing still exists and that there are full cards on a routine basis. While it doesn’t have nearly the attention it used to command, boxing isn’t even close to going away. So the NFL would have to decline to where boxing is now before we could even have a serious…

The 2007 season and the Super Bowl that followed were the culmination of everything the NFL ever was and ever wanted to be. It was the distillation of all that made the sport exciting and unique. Everything that has come since then is just an echo of how great the league used to be.

My central point is that we never have to experience any POV character suffering through a rape as it happens, nor any POV character perpetrating a rape as it happens, in the books. His world is inspired by a real-life time and place where rape happened a lot, so he obviously felt obligated to reckon with it to a…

It’s hard to divvy up credit, and I’m sure you’re right that they were responsible for some of the good tweaks. I also know that GRRM was actively a part of the production during the early seasons, where a lot of the great character building took place. I have no idea how much he was involved or how much guidance he…

Some attempted rapes, but I believe the only confirmed rape is of Lollys, and that’s only mentioned after the fact, not described in detail.

There is very little, if any, rape in the books. There are attempted rapes. But Khal Drogo did not rape Daenerys in the book, Jaime did not rape Cersei next to her dead son’s corpse in the book, and so far Ramsay has not raped Sansa in the books.

I think they just don’t have very good storytelling instincts. When they’re relying on GRRM’s storytelling, they’re in great shape. But when they feel the need to tweak (like adding in a bunch of rapes that weren’t in the books) they show that they don’t know what they’re doing from a storytelling perspective.

These guys have a great deal of competency as showrunners, but are weak as storytellers. GoT benefitted from the great story they were adapting. When they deviate from the books they lose their way.

The imperial version of Fabreze has a tendency to yellow light-colored surfaces.

This is literally the first time that William was anything other than a name I was sick of hearing.

Weird how they got Dana Ashbrook to time travel from 1990 to portray Bobby Briggs as Scully’s son, particularly when Major Briggs is also Scully’s dad.