Goodness, I can’t stand when people who are supposedly fans of the sport can’t stop horsing around. So very uncouth. 

Again, you are crying about her not researching a freaking truck stop in a throw-away sentence on a sports blog. You’re not in any position to be complaining about how stupid others sound.

You think she needed to do research on Flying Fucking J? Jesus wept, you took an off hand remark and are calling her a smug asshole for not diligently researching the long and storied history of a shitty truck stop , rather than just shrugging it off as “oh hey, the things I’m used to aren’t universal”.

Uh huh, says the person lecturing about how not knowing Flying J makes someone stupid. 

I mean, I love Sheetz, but if someone popped up saying it was apparently a chain of truck shops, I’d shrug. Just because it’s common in some places doesn’t mean someone from California should know them.

I am a Patriots fan. And a fan of defensive football. You know what’s fun? I’m outnumbered on each count by all the people who are not those things. Just like I’ll roll my eyes at games where nobody can stop the other team from scoring, other people can look at this game and go “fuck this noise”.And that’s most fans.

And we’re all going to die. 

What happened was the Patriots running a bunch of stunts and attacking from different angles. They confused the hell out of them and were relentless with pressure. Before the last drive, the Patriots blitzed something like 57% of the time. Sometimes straight ahead, sometime delayed, coming from every possible gap they…

His effort made the Patriots 6/9 in the Super Bowl. Nice. 

I think this this drive represents less that they suddenly got hot, and more the type of offense the Patriots would have gone to if they had wound up in a shootout. The Patriots played conservative all night up until this drive.

As one of the terrible people who enjoyed the outcome, I can respect this take. I think someday, people who hate the Patriots will be able to look at this era as something incredible that won’t be replicated for a long time, but right now it’s little more than an embarrassment of riches for an group of fans that is…

I could see it if McVay was trying to psych out the Patriots, make them fear the run, and then come in with a game plan that deemphasized it to put them on their heels. But this was two weeks in a row. No way they were head faking in back to back weeks, right?

This probably won’t get out of the greys (and hell, he probably won’t ever see it if it does), but Michael, as a Pats fan living in Pittsburgh, what you did was funny, and you getting fired sucks.

I think “alleged” quarterback is more accurate. 

As a Pats fans living in Pittsburgh, this is such stupidity. Deflategate always was bullshit, but local news is supposed to be local. A little jab at a conference rival that got national media attention should earn that person a raise, not a free trip to the unemployment office. 

Don’t you dare leave out Connecticut. 

Yeah, I remember when we were the patsies, the awful years of watching without joy, because that’s just how fandom should work. But it’s isnt about age. Plenty of drunk, mean 50 year old Pats fans who think their success somehow defines the worth of the fans.

Dennis Eckersley is a national treasure  

I’m a fan. We’re fucking awful, as a collective. The douchiest among us simultaneously demand that we have a right to a chip on our shoulder for perceived slights while also insisting that others merely hate us cause they ain’t us.

I’d shoot for a two hour max on the flag football game. 10pm eastern shouldn’t be too late, and 7-9 would be even easier. Reason I say Sunday for the skills is you can map it to the “usual” Sunday routine for fans.