This. Oh so this. It’s comical you have the likes of Steve Jones using the hard salary cap his own father help institute to justify not paying market value for his running back. Hell even if the NFL went to an uncapped system, the same teams currently dominating would remain the same. Money only exemplifies idiocy.…

Not exactly. Bell was a second-rounder, which means the team held no options on him. Gordon was a first-rounder, which changes everything because when the team picks up that 5th-year option, in all practicality the player becomes a restricted free agent.

Boy aren’t former Patriot-lead teams are dysfunctional. We know Miami is tanking yet Flores want you the fan to think otherwise. Playing hard has nothing to do with the lack of talent under his disposal. I don’t know WTH the Texans are doing. They have a future Pro Bowl quarterback on a rookie deal and yet no one…

You do realize Benson was a POS as well right?

Verlander is winning in life.  Multi-millionaire? Check. Future HoFer? Check. Champion? Check. Married to a goddess? Check check check check check.

The human body isn’t designed to handle this kind of physical trauma. It will fold like an automobile making impact. I mean torn labrums in both shoulders. MLB pitchers are out at least a season for tearing one. 

That was the one that had me rethinking my viewing habits for the sport. He had no idea where he was and couldn’t stop. It was involuntary and very sad to watch. Here is a physical marvel at the absolute peak of his powers and he was rendered to nothing more than a 250-pound crying infant.

Remember boys and girls: this is the same organization that allows coaches (it’s a free-market at the top) to leave one school for the next within 15 minutes of signing a multi-year contract but for the non-paid labor (it’s communism at the bottom; share and share-alike) they can’t even get a bicycle ride on a Schwinn…

Yes it is. When I went to college at DePauw I was flat-out told to stay out of Mooresville (the birthplace of the modern-day Klan) and any other small Indiana town outside of staying on a campus. Indiana is truly the northern equivalent of Alabama.

Whenever one of these shits say something like that, I just casually bring up that fact that without the “Edges” (California, Pacific Northwest, The Eastern Seaboard) their entire existence would be nil. California is the 5th largest economy on the planet by itself. The good ol’ Dixie is solely dependent on the Edges’…

This is a good point. Football for Luck isn’t the end-all be-all for him as it may have been for others from less than ideal economic means. Having said that, Luck played for the love and competition of the sport. That was prematurely taken away from him due to the absurd amount of punishment he took. As the GM who…

Not to mention he got into it with coaches at Ohio State because he wanted to focus on his studies (he was pre-Med at the time) and they openly said he was brought in only for football. 

And it’s starting to happen. Baseball has seen record increases in youth participation over the last 5 years (second only to basketball); whereas soccer and football has gone down.

And this is why I never ever once criticize a player for holding out for more money. The NFL machine will continue to chew them up and spit them out the moment decline hits. 

Ok. So you’re willing for that transfer of wealth to go directly into the pockets of Jerry Jones, Daniel Snyder and Jimmy Haslam because they’re not lowering ticket and concession prices or will never stop asking for public subsidies.

Accessibility. You can play basketball alone, on just about any surface, use close to anything as the hoop and play anywhere (including in your bedroom). Heck growing up we used a shopping cart as the hoop and played in a parking lot after school.

“The amount of money wasted by American school districts on football, far above and beyond any other sport, is just staggering.”

I’ve never seen anything like this. I mean all of these chuds wouldn’t last a second on the football field. Do people realize every play is a car accident. I mean literally that’s what it is. The human body is not designed to take the kind of punishment football doles out.

The last 3 years have opened up the hypocrisy of fandom and American football in general. Athletes are criticized more than ever about damn near everything, but since 45 has been in office it’s taken a nasty turn. Owners can get away with virtually anything and nary a peep. Hell, Bobby Kraft got caught entertaining…

If Dwight think Kobe was hard on him he hasn’t seen anything yet. One fuck-up and LeBron is going to skewer him in person and through social media.