He had the bad luck of being the guy that Bum brought in after trading away Archie Manning for some magic beans (or over-the-hill Leon Gray). Manning once said that he could forgive Bum for trading him, but he couldn’t forgive him for trading him to the only team that was worse than the Saints.

And don’t forget that in 1979 the Saints blew a winning season because the Saints blew a 35-14 third quarter lead on Monday Night Football and lost 42-35. The QB who led the comeback? You guessed it: Ken Stabler.

Obviously he is beloved in Oakland and rightfully, but as a Saints fan I hated him as our quarterback in the early 1980s.

Mark Cuban is the Nickelback version of Donald Trump.

Maybe he can donate those hefty deposit fees to the families of all those women who have been raped by Mexican immigrants.

I’m sure Joe Torre never played favorites with his picks either. But New York never complained about that.

Serious question: was that just dumb luck or did the craziness have anything to do with NASCAR and NBC forcing them to run a race in its entirety that ended with a frightening crash at 2:30 A.M.? It seems like a bad idea to make people drive 200 mph 4 hours after the typical human’s normal bedtime.

West just paid more than $11 million to GET A RING BEFORE HE RETIRES.

Wouldn’t talking trash about Gary, Indiana be a bigger shot at Chicago than it is at Indianapolis?

I guess I gave Parrotheads bonus negative points because they were the originals.

Parrotheads should be #1.

I watched because there was a weather delay at Daytona. Anyone else?

Japan should be forced to play the rest of the game in Buffalo Bills jerseys.

And yet ABC’s marquee Western Conference game on Christmas Day will probably still involve the Lakers.

But...but...THE PATRIOT WAY!

Backup crew must be working today.

Why is the national media the last ones to discover that David Stern’s NBA is dead and teams like the Knicks and Lakers don’t just land anybody they want anymore just because “they’re the Knicks and the Lakers.”

The Knicks did nothing today, but here is the obligatory Deadspin article about it.

Yesterday, a Deadspin article lamented about (and I’m paraphrasing) overplayed old-white-guy arguments. Well...the most overplayed one for me is how the media has force-fed us the narrative that “The NBA is better when the Knicks and Lakers are good,” or that “the NBA team needs a marquee team in New York City to be…

I’m loving how the NBA is thriving without the Lakers, Knicks and Celtics being good, and that free agents just aren’t lining up to play for them anymore. Maybe there is finally no “birthright” in the NBA to winning anymore. You can have good teams and players in San Antonio, New Orleans, Oakland, Cleveland, Oklahoma…