Both of these comments are 100% accurate. Rutgers fans like to tell everyone else we’re NY’s college football team, but we don’t believe it ourselves.

Oh, Rutgers fans know this very well and are totally fine with it. We wanted into the Big Ten in the worst way and are very glad the powers that be bought the bullshit we were slinging about RU bringing in the NY market (when, in truth, the NY market as a whole could give a shit about college football).

Olivia Hussey! My English teacher did the same.

English isn’t his first language?

Hi, and welcome to Deadspin. They do this every year for all 32 teams.

I think it’s one of those things that makes sense internally, i.e., applying the already fucked up logic of the speaker. If you accept that everything is divine providence, then, sure it makes sense that the injury was coming regardless.

More injuries = fewer stars playing = diluted product. No one wants that.

Or possibly just completely sit established starters that don’t need the reps.

At first I thought it was really good satire, but he/she’s serious.

That’s been an issue for me too. I know that’s not what the show is about, but it always helps me get into a show/movie/novel more if I’m provided some kind of coherent back story.

Yeesh, I hope not. Even if fictional, the last thing we need is to add ANY fuel to the anti-vaxxer fire.

My reading is yes, he’s dead, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stay dead (or, similarly, that they consider him coming back Stoneheart/Dondarrion style to be some form of “undead” (i.e., “deceased yet behaves as if alive”)).

I stand by my statement. I have two questions then: (1) Were you born and raised in NJ? There’s a certain level of Jersey pride that comes from that. (2) Where in the state do you live?

Eh, that’s limited to a small stretch of the Turnpike, but it’s the only part of the state most people ever see. Most NJ residents have no issue with that, but the three other things are all legitimate concerns.

Other than the property taxes, the traffic, and the weather 300 or so days of the year, it’s a really lovely place to live.

On the one hand, hey man, it’s just sports, there’s so much more to life. (“Mickey Mantle don’t care about you, so why should you care about him?”)

On the other hand, I’m a Giants and Devils fan, so what the hell do I know about loss and suffering?

Because NY courts are so overburdened, judges will refer things out to “referees,” i.e. attorneys who do the dirty work for the judges.

It’s a NYC metropolitan area thing, i.e., he’s your classic “guido,” who wouldn’t be out of place on “Jersey Shore.”

Pretty much nails my thoughts on all of them.

I can’t recall the description, but I would be down with Brent Spiner.