For more on this, let’s go to Mark Brunell.

It’s just a coincidence then that, across the Gawker Media platforms over the past month or two, there have been about a dozen thinkpieces on Franzen in general and Purity specifically that each reach the conclusion that Franzen is a hack. Please do not pretend that Gawker does not have, if not an agenda per se, an…

Nobody gives a shit about the hateboner deadspin, gawker et. al seems to have for Purity.

Honestly, wouldn’t his time be better spent telling us how to make the best French Dip?

Why am I supposed to care about Jonathan Franzen again?

huh??

Purity may be a shitty book (I don’t know - I haven’t read it yet), but it can’t be as vapid and banal as Gawker Media’s essay series on how much Franzen sucks.

We won't understand the true nature of their dislike until there have been at least seven more thinkpieces.

holy shit dude, enough

We get it. Gawker Media does not like Jonathan Franzen. Time to move on.

‘If you don’t sign up for FanDuel right now, we’ll abuse this dog.’

“All DraftKings winners were left by their wives during the making of this commercial.”

In a few weeks we’ll find out Kostek is actually 40 cans of Bud Light in a wig.

“Rashad, don’t score. I’ve got the Cowboys D in my FanDuel league, and I could win $500 here.”

You mean this guy?

My coworker who is a Giants fan put it thusly: “The worst part wasn’t the loss. The worst part was knowing from the first play of the game that this is probably how it was going to end.”

If I were a coach in this situation, I would have pulled my players from the field and refused to call another play until the headsets were fixed. This is a live televised game. The NFL would be embarrassed to sh-t getting caught on live TV offering up a game with sh-tty technology in use. And the Patriots ownership…

Sorry, but a black guy getting bad reception in the Boston area doesn't qualify as shocking news