I don’t want to be that guy(actually, I do, being that guy is fun) but the franchise history includes Otto Graham and Bernie Kosar regardless of what the NFL says.

And the battle of Antietam Brady. 

Hey, after the holidays I think we’re all a little afraid of being killed by Turkey, amirite? 

Yes. They won with good teamwork. Most championship teams do.

So any time someone says that a player led their team to a championship they’re saying they won it singlehandedly? Are you new to English?

Yeah, no. If you win finals MVP then it is in no way a stretch whatsoever to say you led your team to a championship. 

I am also a fan of the New York Jets. God did not clear an easy path for me as a sports fan. 

Yeah, that never made any sense to me. Although this is like booing Joe Carter or something.

I admit my not seeing a championship from any of my teams in 25 years(and never for three of them) may be colouring this but seriously, if there were someone who led any of my teams to a title I genuinely can’t imagine a scenario where I’d boo them. That, to me, is lifetime pass stuff. 

Hasn’t that always been the case with the NCAA? I remember Chris Weinke winning the Heisman at, like, 28 because he’d played pro baseball for 5 years or so. 

Ok, so let’s say the world’s best distance runner is from Sudan or Rwanda. Are you really going to go to impoverished countries like that and say that if they want their athletes to compete, they have to kick in any money at all to the construction of stadiums in another country? If the country sensibly refuses, are…

I’ve heard various people say that if Toronto had gotten either the ‘96 or ‘08 games than there’d almost certainly be an NFL team in town as whatever Olympic stadium would have been built probably would have satisfied the NFL in the ways that the Skydome doesn’t.

I empathise with Nenshi’s POV there. Some cities, including my own, pay out way more to provincial and federal governments than they get in return and you can twist yourself into a pretzel in trying to justify nonsense in thinking it might get some infrastructure money coming your way.

The thing that’s really encouraging is that Green not being a reliable shooter leaves the Warriors uniquely vulnerable in a year where the Raptors have a real chance to come out of the East.

We can eat in Chinatown and drink our sweet-ass wine:

Yeah, there’s that bit from Louis CK’s show about a gay comedian talking about straight comedians using gay slurs in their act. It serves as a pretty solid look as to how Louis CK saw these things.

Actually, the Patriots aren’t that exceptional. In any league, cap or no cap, teams will occasionally draft generational talents that make them competitive for 15 years or so. In the NHL you have the Penguins and Capitals, who basically made the playoffs for 10+ straight years apiece because they were lucky enough to…

So 70% of the spots being unpredictable isn’t good enough, you insist on 100% or else the competitive balance of the sport needs to be redressed by means of capping player salaries?

So in a labour environment that’s heavily weighted towards business thanks to the assholes who appoint judges and run the labour department and owners who have billions of dollars and the public support of the majority of asshole fans to sustain them during any work stoppage your response to the unfairness of what…

It’s just something I’ll never understand. Even if I agreed with the idea that teams like the Knicks or Dodgers should’t have any competitive advantage over other teams you still can’t get away from the fact that not letting the Knicks or Dodgers pay their players more than other teams flies in the face of the fact…