Ten years ago, almost to the day, a lady with whom I was on a date mentioned, “I’ve noticed that people who know a lot of facts about the world tend to be more liberal.” I politely deflected, saying that I knew plenty of very sharp folks who happened to be conservative based on certain values, yada yada.

The Cubs at least had Wrigley, and it was in Chicago. The Niners have whatever that is in wherever that is.

I understand why people look at this as ridiculous, but based on the thousands of hours of sports talk radio I’ve listened to in Chicago, if the McCaskeys sent out the same question, 87.348% of Bears fans would say they would be happy if the Bears played “Bears Football” (ie letting lower talent players play HARD…

They didn’t inherit their wealth by being the smartest.

Also on questionnaire:

They are all convinced (well, Jones and Snyder certainly are) that their successes are entirely due to their own genius and force of personality, ignoring all the while that a dachshund in jogging shorts could make millions running an NFL team over the last 15 years.

Right? Has not a single one of these supremely rich people who, theoretically have to be at least SOMEWHAT intelligent, ever heard of “diminishing marginal returns”?

I was going to make exactly that point, the growth in viewership and revenue since the early 2000's has been incredible. Even with the slight decline in the past few years, every owner circa 2000 would have pushed their mother off a cruise ship to have this kind of growth over 15 years.

Oh come on, nobody believes you’ve got friends.

Are you really supporting the athlete that’s going to have over $100 million dollars in career earnings, who has dated models, who used to go clubbing with Cuban, has started twitter wars with other players while injured, and has no qualms about sharing his horndog behavior on instagram because his feelings got hurt…

Dude needs to be careful. “Whining like a bitch” is grounds for justifiable homicide in Memphis. “Whoop That Trick” is the team’s anthem.

hey big fan, show ur bricks

And the NFL is one of the few times, IIRC, where our beloved President got screwed over, rather than him doing the screwing-over. He remembers that like he doesn’t remember dead soldiers’ names.

I’m glad to hear this from Jed, but my profile pic will remain the same.

That’s what bread is for!

GAME 2 UPDATE: John Lackey just done got lit up.

It was cute when Tarkanian said it but really was not true. I mean first of all Tarkanian coached at a school much closer to Cleveland St than LSU. But more importantly have you seen what they have tried to do to the big boy schools?

Yep.

Oh, silly child. You think sanity will reign? We’re about two years from the survivors of this whole thing roasting newborns on a spit.

“3 days and he’s fired. You don’t get over the yips.” Dr. House