Being a football fan, I agree there’s something classic about the non-shticky team names of football clubs around the world. But there is something a bit boring about it for NA team sports. I think it’s because in Europe (and around the world), a football team draws it’s name from the city or municipality or even as…

There may come a day when I don’t click on a link for that video or GIF, alas it shall not be today.  It might be my all time favorite, TBH.  If someone ever wanted me to watch 2 girls, 1 cup they could disguise it as the Raptor fail video and I’d be duped.

This is one area where European sports teams are superior to their north American brethren. No silly, time specific movie referenced corporate scrubbed name. Just direct specific references to the region or city they represent. E.g., Liverpool football club, Manchester United, real Madrid (as opposed to those posers…

The deflating tail is what really elevates the whole debacle.

Different sport but this is very close to the reason the Rockies have a damn dinosaur as their mascot (a dinosaur egg was found at Coors Field’s construction site).

I remember some kid in the 90's telling me that they chose the name Raptors because the first Velociraptor skeleton was discovered near Toronto. This is something I’ve believed to be the truth for 25 years.

Whatever, the fact of the matter is that no Raptors = no Raptors mascot = no inflatable Raptors mascot pratfalls, and no one in their right mind wants to live in a world where this never happened:

And that’s the way it used to be. Most of the people who fought for the US in WWII returned home and resumed their lives. Sure there were things that honored their service here and there, but they didn’t need to go through their lives being thanked for their service every single day. They did what needed to be done…

The whole “every service member veteran must be unconditionally revered” is a stupid narrative that started after Vietnam to overcompensate for the perceived treatment of troops when they returned to the US.

Wait, wait wait... You’re saying all those commercials that promise training so you can get a good job after your enlistment is up are just bullshit to get poor kids to sign up?  Sir, the government would never....

And also the pride you feel when you see 60,000 fans at a sporting event raise their cup to you and your service brought to you by Budweiser. 

And if you can throw in a heartfelt reunion at the airport or a sporting event, that’d be nice.

NO DAMNIT! We mean all the GOOD stories about how serving for low pay in an organization that sends you off on long deployments away from your spouse and children, with no regard for the toll it takes on them, to situations where you might experience the horrors of combat that, even if you aren’t killed, can have…

This was the most interesting thing to happen to professional NY basketball since Clyde Frazier, though.

Always great when some dickhead shouts “DURR SPEAK ENGLISH DURRRR,” and then his command of the written english language is hot garbage. 

Great final line, Don’t be a “Richard”.

The perfection of “Don’t be a Richard” made me suspect it was a plant, but the generic blandness of the “Speak American” guy makes it easy enough to believe regardless.

I’ve been calling NBC Sports for weeks. They kept showing Hurricanes instead of the goddamn Hartford Whalers games.

The weatherman’s mood about the weather is exactly the truth about living in the midwest.