I’ll say this: if the Bengals had been blown out by the Steelers in the 2015 playoffs, I would have been pretty irritated. When they lost how they did, I took the entire 2016 season off except for one random game.

There was never a point where I said, hey, the Jags might pull this off.

Deflategate was a witch hunt but you’re gonna get more eyeballs on the Super Bowl with Brady and the Pats than you are Bortles and the Jags. That’s the theory, anyway.

If he’d been wearing those red gloves in practice the defense would have known not to run into his hand!

I THOUGHT YOU WAS GUS

Re: Prime Time, the Bruce Prichard podcast about PTW was awesome. Watching Prime Time isn’t that awesome. It’s a crime the syndicated shows (Superstars was the main angle advancement show in the ‘80s and early ‘90s) aren’t on the Network but Prime Time is.

Hi Bill!

30 for 30 is fine, some are great, some aren’t, but “hey, we should do some documentaries” isn’t inventing nuclear fission, and nothing he has done since has really worked on a dollar level despite his ability to get the funds out of his higher-ups (Grantland, The Ringer). Also you’re rude as shit.

He was once fairly reasonable but when 30 for 30 happened it was rocket strapped to the ass of his ego and it went into the stratosphere.

Yep, they’re the guys who got C’s in their classes because they were building their resumes, ya know, doing the job they actually were at school to train for. All those guys I knew in J school have good jobs, all the guys like me who couldn’t be fucked do dumb shit like work at banks.

God this was a fantastic post.

So he’s doing Tom Snyder, then?

I guess an MLS Cup for the New England Revolution since this lucky fucker has seen literally all his other teams win it.

I agree with this, actually. I had forgotten about his season tickets to the Clippers. I enjoyed those as well.

When ESPN gave him a national platform back in, oh, 1999 or so, it was a lot of people’s first exposure to what funny sports blog writing looked like. Unfortunately he hasn’t been original since about 2002.

(looks at signature on check) “Looks great, Bill.” (clicks send)

I see where Barnwell got his logic from. I was right even when I was wrong!

When I started reading him I considered him mostly a baseball writer. Now it’s clear he doesn’t even really follow it anymore.

“he’s the most deluded homer in the history of mankind” ding ding ding 

He’s certainly a guy who wrote some stuff. See also: John Feinstein, Bill Conlin, Bob Ryan, those other guys on Sports Reporters who I can picture but can’t name