Yeah, I went to my first pro ice hockey game two nights ago and immediately noticed a guy scurrying around with a drill after the zamboni did its thing. I guess (much like the FieldTurf-fixers) they just usually don’t get any air time.

Here’s another thing about the goalposts: a lot of schools play on artificial surfaces these days, and it’s my understanding that on a FieldTurf field, the goalposts are sunk into a couple feet of concrete making them nearly impossible to tear down.

Wait, someone went to college in order to prepare themselves for their future career? WHO DOES THAT???!?

My pet peeve on restaurant menus is “homemade”. Did someone make this in their home from fresh ingredients and bring it to your restaurant in their finest tupperware? If not, THEN IT’S NOT HOMEMADE.

I just want to say that I saw Herm speak at a luncheon a couple years ago, and that persona he has on ESPN is not at all an act. I would love to be a fly on the wall for their first team meeting.

Had you allowed the pedant to continue, he would have pointed out that, rather than Jesus’s birthday, modern Christmas ended up on that date because it more or less started as a solstice festival and therefore is supposed to be at the beginning of winter.

Glad to see Ron Rivera did so well on the Panthers’ bye week he got off the firing list!

This is a great example of how watching tape can help coaches: Pete Carroll watches seventeen hours of tape and comes up with a too-clever-by-half trick play, and the Falcons watch seventeen seconds of tape and realize Carroll has an affinity for too-clever-by-half trick plays.

I heard someone saying there is a 100% chance they revisit that absurd gang in Season 3. That would be bad enough, but if they get their own show, I’m tapping out.

How does Ron Rivera keep ending up on the chopping block list, nevermind as a potential midseason firing? Do you just stick him on there to see if we’re paying attention?

“Nev, Barbra Streisand is on Line 2...says she has some advice...”

I have the Maryland cutting board (it was a wedding gift) and Drew correctly identified its only use. Sometimes when we have company we put stacks of crackers on it, next to a (much more agreeably-shaped) North Carolina board with cheeses on it. Pointless? Yes, but pointless home goods that impress people you don’t…

Sure, though it’s important to note that the VAT isn’t materially different from a sales tax (which is what the FairTax is). The business is the one that forks over the money, but those businesses are gonna find a way to make a profit (because capitalism) which means the costs will just flow down to the end consumer.

+1 “safety school” chant

Yeah, I’ve always been puzzled by the reluctance to even attempt to introduce a nationwide sales tax in the US (I don’t think, politically, completely replacing the income tax with a transaction tax would fly here).

Whenever people talk about tax simplification, I always point this out to them. 99% of people have no idea how difficult it is to define a term as seemingly simple as “income”

When I went to South Africa a few years ago almost every sandwich I was served had butter on it. (It had a creamy texture so it was either room temperature butter or margarine.) I think some British people do it too.

Good on him for “playing through the whistle” but the ref blew it. According to the rules, a player is down when “a runner is out of bounds, or declares himself down by falling to the ground, or kneeling, and making no effort to advance” (emphasis added). When he just laid there, the whistle should have blown.

A coworker of mine pointed out that the Browns’ front office has a lot of baseball guys in it, and from what he and I have gathered, MLB tends to be a little less “by-the-book” when it comes to trade paperwork and deadlines. Therefore it’s entirely possible they simply assumed that as long as the deal was on firm…

The former, although it isn’t mathematically possible for half the NFL to go unbeaten in a season due to division scheduling.