Fantasy football is very popular.  You don’t need wild conspiracy theories like “L.A. Chargers fans exist” to explain these cheers.

Not Pictured: The exact thing that the title of the article specifically refers to.

Hey, Guy Fawkes can bring a lot to a team with his explosiveness

So appropriate for the XFL it's almost too perfect

There was an old saying about the Braves and their pitching staff whenever the playoffs rolled around in the 90's.

Your point is fine, but WAY out of place in a piece about the sports media world silencing the underlying grievances of the HK protestors.

If The Athletic wants a less-obvious way to prevent people from commenting they should just switch to Kinja.

The fuck is up with that headline?

No surprise that Tillman Frittata only cares about collecting more eggs.

Just curious— does that story come in either short and/or interesting ??

This happened to me a few times, then she reminded me of our wedding anniversary.

The human body is ill-equipped to process meat.

“Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers.”

How on Earth was the cheapest ticket you found for a Tigers game THIS YEAR sitting at $100? Did you ask some guy on the street?

I wonder if more people aren’t just heading to their local minor-league teams instead of the majors? The article below suggests minor league attendance has been rising for years, and for me (anecdotally, to be sure) - for many of the reasons above - the time investment, economics, players giving it their all, etc…

there hasn’t been this much fuss about a second Schutt Air since the JFK assassination

I’m so old I remember when this dude was called Wily Mo Pena

Sure, Amell might be embarrassed right now but this serves as a first rate audition for my upcoming epic C’mon, Man, I’m Wide Open: The Christian Hackenberg Story.

It would be really great if, while talking up how great the sculpture is, you actually included the sculptor’s name.

This is a terrific article. Really well done.