What’s the over/under on the week in which the Browns finally run out QBs and have to start holding open tryouts? I’m guessing 5.

You jest, but Flacco is probably a really good point of comparison. Good enough to make a credible postseason run but not great enough to have much else to say about him.

“Mykonos Style”

For some reason this author really, really badly misspelled “I’m old and in denial about being out touch with pop culture.”

Well, that’s the trick, obviously. People could already dictate what they sent, but how do you give people control over what they receive - to, for example, prevent harrassment through NSFW images? You could add an opt-in to receive unfiltered messages from a user (or everyone), but for those who would rather not see…

Sure, you say this, but then I follow it to the logical conclusion of “fuck all the guys!” and suddenly I’m a “slut”.

He loves writing, though. He’s been tossing out Dunk and Egg stories for years. He just doesn’t want to write any more Song of Ice and Fire.

I’m not sure if this is better or worse than “Carolina is the best 1-loss team in the NFL right now”, so an upvote you get.

“Internal compliance activity” isn’t of questionable value, at least not to the managerial class. It distracts the productive employees with seeking positive feedback (or, more precisely, avoiding reprimand) through arbitrary ritual. This forces them into a constant state of low-level paranoia about their performance…

Yeah, my first guess from looking at the top picture was arson. There’s a lot more fire in that photo than you can explain with just a phone and some synthetic leather seats. Of course, there might have been a gas tank rupture, but what kind of car has its gas tank in the front seat? Plus, there’s fire on top of the…

You generally have to pay doctors a lot to be corrupt.

You can get a decent discount if you buy a previous-generation phone. Or, rather, by not getting the exact newest shiny toy, you don’t pay the latest-and-greatest premium.

He knows how to finish it, he just doesn’t want to. Writing was all fun and neat when he could add new plot threads and twists, but once you have to start tying them all together, a lot of what makes it the actual activity of writing enjoyable dries up.

This is... well, mediocre Kinja. You can do better.

I think roster size is key, a/k/a at any given level of talent, you’re more likely to get a spot in football than any other sport. Baseball has minor leagues, but the minimum salary for making the 53-man roster in the NFL is something like 30 times what they pay in AAA baseball. One season of the NFL can literally be…

Doomstake.

I don’t think Stephen A. Smith really believes what he says. He figured out pretty quickly that generating controversy was the way to get people interested in what he was doing, and that he could get away with saying things about black athletes that most other sportswriters couldn’t (I think this makes him patient…

Ruffin the pisser.

This. “Strangers offering candy” is basically a myth we perpetuate to avoid thinking about how kids are way, way more likely to get molested by family members or other authority figures than random pervs creeping around in bushes.

It took me an absurdly long time to figure out what I was looking at.