I would totally support promotion and relegation, especially since it wouldn’t be a stretch for football team conferences to be different from those for all of the other sports at the schools.

FBS is home to 130 football teams. Let’s start with one of then - Hawai’i. They start off with Rice, Army, and Duquesne. They mix in Wyoming and Nevada later. If they go 12-0 you want them in the playoff? Nope. You must understand that not all 130 of them play anything close to a balanced schedule. In other words, if A…

I do like character exploration, especially for long-running franchises, as a way to explore what the essence of that character is. Either by playing around with their persona or dropping them in different environments or what have you. But there are far fewer enthusiastic pulp fantasy shows right now than pensive…

You’re still defending a bad system with little more than “well that’s the way it’s set up...”.

Should have gone with dipping chicken tenders in a Coke. You can’t make that stuff up.

1. Conan as commentary about anything contemporary or having to be updated to modern sensibilities doesn’t sound very Conan to me. Is this code for “Howard was a racist lunatic so we need to make Conan not that”? I get that but *strongly* object to making him a tool for somebody’s thought experiment. Conan stories are…

The name and the comment are too on the nose, this feels like a plant.

Thank you for proving every stereotype to be true, you joyless piece of trash.

It looks to me as though Amazon is just buying properties to keep other people from buying them. It seems doubtful that they could carry 13 epic effects-heavy series to term.

While I’m all for a fantasy show that plays around with and deconstructs certain tropes of the genre, if I’m watching Conan, it’s because I want to see a dude whale on an evil frog wizard with an axe in some primordial swamp.

You don’t get 12 straight bye weeks and then get a one-off shot at a playoff team that has had to slug out a tough conference schedule and in many cases and insane conference championship.

“in spite of all the fan complaints, the last four Wheel Of Time books all hit #1 on the New York Times bestsellers’ list.”

“This Amazon version is supposed to be a totally new story written by Colony’s Ryan Condal that sees Conan trying to find a place in a world that no longer needs beefy warriors.”

You know, Robert E Howard wrote a lot of stories about this Conan character.  They were pretty successful.  Maybe someone should try…

Satan.  You hit the nail on the head.  Its DEFINITELY about Satan.

When it’s someone not making a gesture and just laying their hand on their arm during a 8 hour waste of time?

I’m with you - since when is a prank “something a company probably would have done themselves but by other people”? It’s like saying you “pranked” someone by doing their work correctly and turning it in under their name. Uh...good?

Hey now, they actually have a team from a BCS/Power Five school on their schedule! I mean, sure, it’s UNC but maybe next year they’ll add Purdue to their non-conference schedule to really show the haters!

No doubt. Gotta upgrade that slate if you want to run your mouth, that’s a dozen cupcakes, no frosting.

That schedule is hilarious for “We want to be taken seriously!”

This is funny (and a point well made), but it’s only a prank by the loosest definition of the term. Yes, it was not a real McDonald’s ad, but the mere fact that it looked so much like one sort of renders the prank lame.