Ok so.. it's like a little bonus advantage of a fair catch, beyond 'don't hit me'?  And teams don't use it often because it's essentially a field goal try on first down, presumably resulting in change of possession?

Yup.  Not sure how they would have changed the row spacing without tearing out entire sections. 

“may contribute to a smaller seat feel for guests”

Watch this video and imagine it is your child getting hit.

Pfffft. If I had a phalanx of professional runners drafting me I could totally run a marathon in..

That little handle had to do real damage. 

Since it looks like the writers aren’t allowed to post pieces addressing Splinter’s demise at all, I’d recommend re-reading Megan Greenwell’s farewell from six weeks ago where she savages the current leadership of the G/O Media network and their approach to running sites like these. https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/th…

It feels like that comes with the territory of having a tight network of sites — not all will have the same level of “performance” but together they cross-pollenate and make the whole network stronger.

Speaking of slumlords, can we just talk about the demise of Splinter instead?

Oh, there won’t be one. “I see no compelling reason for any of our sites to be writing about the decision to cease publishing Splinter,” said G/O Media director Paul Maidment in a companywide email though everyone knows it’s nonsense.

I'm just here looking for the Splinter postmortem.

Ummmm.. Why is Splinter gone from the top links?

OK I give up.  Why do you type F to honor a dead Mac charger? 

Pokemon questions would have been out of bounds.

This is so fucking stupid it makes me angry. I’m much more comfortable with Dems’ brand of (fake) “hypocrisy” than Republicans’ signature move of being against gays then fucking guys, or being against infidelity while fucking women other than their wives.

It’s Jeff Bezos waiting to smell his belly button. 

The only thing worse than Donald Trump is that there are people you like who think he’s awesome.

I kind of thought only People Magazine believed people outside of the U.K. gave a shit about British tabloid stories. 

That feeling when you see the headline and think “hum, I wonder if he’s Keith Tkachuk’s younger brother.”

So much pop culture wrapped up in this one post.