I agree. It’s an international league (the Heat had Slovenian and Sudanese players in the starting five yesterday; should we play those anthems, too?), so just save it for the Olympics or other competitions of that ilk.

This is also much like the argument in the pros that players need to show loyalty to teams, yet every team will do whatever it can within the rules of its particular league to get rid of a player as soon as he’s outlived his usefulness. (And the same fans will applaud the team for doing so.)

Reminds me of our family dog (RIP...) - if you tossed a ball or something thinking that he’d bring it back, he basically gave you a look like “that was pretty dumb, now you’re going to have to walk all that way to pick it up and hand it to me.”

Yeah, Josh Gordon is pretty much the counterargument to the “it’s just a college kid smoking pot, who cares?” thing. The NFL does, to the point that now one of the most talented WRs in the league can’t even get on the field anymore, and he didn’t even miss all of last season for anything drug-related. It was for…

I’m reading the Richard Feynman autobiography right now, and the dude was obsessed with locks...like he literally was wandering around all of the offices at Los Alamos picking the locks on the filing cabinets while working on the Manhattan Project. So I say just roll with it and indulge the locksmithing desire: if…

Another Panthers fan, so there are at least 2 of us! (It’s almost as if we had enough fans to sell out a 20,000-seat arena on Friday night...with a smattering of road fans, of course. Funny how that works.)

And when the most recent of those times have come around as often as a Mayan calendar cycle, it really stings. Though hopefully we’ll be back next year with all of the talent we’ve got on board now.

It’s like a slashing call that breaks a stick

Literally the only thing I can think of whenever I hear “power surge.”

Yeah. I actually had a friend flying in from the West Coast who got us tickets via her Ten Club membership, so obviously this was a pretty dramatic decision by the band from that standpoint.

Maybe it’s just my naivete. But knowing what PJ is about, I would have expected the band to get who its fans are and play a politically charged concert which energized an audience made up largely of people who elected HB2's current legislative opposition, then donated some of the proceeds from that show to nonprofits…

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/us/…

And those Charlotte area fans often vote for representatives in their state, and considering this is an election year and the memory would be fresh... those fans could do something about it.

As someone who just got burned this week by Pearl Jam canceling their Raleigh show at the last minute, I agree with this completely. Fuck HB2, but doing things like this is way more likely to hurt people who oppose it than have any impact on its supporters.

He upstaged the damn game with that performance.

9 years for me. Mike Ashley has devoured my soul.

Totally reworking the style after the All-Star break this year was a pretty impressive trick as well. So was moving noted headcase Whiteside to a pseudo-bench role and getting inspired performances out of him. He’s definitely a hell of a coach (and I’m not just saying that because he’s in my Kinja handle).

How I feel after this game:

As a Newcastle/Dolphins fan, it is kind of funny that I’ve ended up in some ways with the English version of my NFL team. They won stuff so long ago that no one younger than retirement age even remembers, later on they were really exciting and fun to watch, but didn’t bring home any silverware, and now they’re kind of…

Villa’s owner used to own the Browns, so I guess it’s fitting that he exported the Factory of Sadness across the pond.