The correct rule?

Is this your new go to phrase for someone who points something out and disagrees with you?

Big 12 down year? I don't think I've read or talked to anyone who would agree with that - what makes you say that, or was it just supposed to be fodder for comments?

Why is this dumb? As a college football fan I'm excited about having these games on NYE, as are my friends who are fans, so I'm not sure I get the "Because they are dumb, presumably" conclusion to this. Is there some financial angle that I'm not considering? If there is, it isn't obvious to me from this blurb.

If your response to people who are joking around is to get really offended and call people virgins, maybe Deadspin isn't for you.

I read the original post as more of a jab at Goodell than Obama, but I guess my read could be wrong. I thought he was saying "Goodell, you think you're too important to sit for an interview? Even the president did, and he's way more important than you!" Hard to tell sometimes on the Internet...

Even that's a stretch - 6-7, 6-0, 6-3, 7-5 is a pretty comfortable victory. It's like a basketball team winning by 10 - not a blowout, but hardly dramatic.

What are you on about? She's a girl at a bar who you don't know, she has ZERO obligation to help you out in your future sexual conquests.

You've never told a white lie to tell someone "no" without making them feel bad?

Just like Belichick didn't know about the football preparation process until his experts told him what they knew.

If I remember correctly, the first question that Brady was asked during his press conference was the football pressure equivalent of "when did you stop beating your wife?"

How did the Colts defy science? I keep seeing people making this pithy observation but no one seems to have asked what pressure the Colts originally inflated their footballs to.

To be fair, have you heard the questions posed by the media in these press conferences? It has to be hard not to let the contempt show through, and the Pats don't really care if it does.

I think they realize that, but you can't blame them for being irritated if they in fact did nothing wrong here.

Are you implying that he has no ability to learn about it over a multi-day period? Because that's what he says he did, which makes perfect sense.

Ugh... I know it's not exactly the same thing, but this is the same logic that police and prosecutors use to try to railroad people who don't have the "right" reactions when they're questioned.

I just want to say, Ballghazi is a far better name for this story than Deflategate. Wrongdoing is unclear, everyone involved denies everything, and it's going to spawn loads and loads of conspiracy theories.

I keep hearing from the media that the Patriots are mishandling this situation and that someone should "own up to it". That's a great opinion from a moral point of view, but from a pragmatic standpoint they're doing exactly what they should. Deny, deny, deny, and deny in no uncertain terms - unless someone cracks (and…

I have to think that part of it is that everyone is looking for every little thing that they do that might be technically against the rules. It's like the troublemaker in high school who gets in trouble for stuff that everyone else gets away with - people are hyper vigilant when you have a history, and the authorities…

Well, that escalated quickly.