The Jewish aspect of his background (combined with his reported atheism, which is pretty much the same thing to the average gum-chewing, God/Trump-fearing ballcoach) is a huge part of what this is all about. All of the unproven knocks on him connect directly to “rich kid who thinks he’s smarter” type Antisemitic…

Can someone explain to me why a risk-adverse, publicly-traded company would go out of its way to bury a commodity (in this case, Banks) on TV while it’s still theirs? Wouldn’t the obvious and logical thing to do here be to simply not mention her until her status is certain?

Every time I take even a glance at what WWE…

Stephen A. Smith is pretty much the embodiment of a fart anyway. 

Didn’t make the play. He’s no Eckstein, that’s for sure. Eckstein would’ve sacrificed his whole team’s soul to make it. 

I am torn between knowing Derek Jeter isn’t the worst of the bunch and *needing* him to be as bad at owning a sports team as he was at playing SS #BecauseMasshole. 

It’s amazing how I want to dismiss the idea that Gruden is the automatic answer in this category and then I start thinking about other possibilities and then go “Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you, of course it’s Gruden.”

Half the teams had losing records? Dude, you’re right. Baseball is doomed. 

An awfully weak major league (sic) in which they had to overcome two 100-sin teams just to make the World Series, but...other than that, good observation. 

It’s about at this stage in a quarterback’s decline that he needs to stop capitalizing the word “Truth” in his Tweets as if he can still talk about his faith after the game. God can’t be mentioned when you suck, Derek. Learn the rules. 

Nah, the Jags game was a combined case of Blake Bortles playing stratospheres over his head and the Patriots’ annual struggle to have any idea what they’re doing early in the season on defense. It makes sense that it happened. The Bills-Vikings game requires a departure from logic and reason to accept it (I have not).

The real crime was the mustache. 

Somewhere Jay Cutler is exerting more effort on pleasuring his wife.

The Steelers have Super Bowl aspirations? I guess one can’t literally prove otherwise by watching their defense.

For me the saddest part is when Joseph goes from showboating to thinking “oh shit, I have to get by the quarterback to get in” to “wait, the quarterback’s Nathan Peterman, back to showboating” in half a second flat. 

I heard Vegas doesn’t have enough money to cover in the event the Browns actually won the Super Bowl (after Hard Knocks bumped their odds up). I have to wonder how ready Vegas is for anyone who bet on the Bills to win by 10 or more. 

As a Patriots fan comfortable with the paradigm of “Gronk Catch Not Think”...I’m uncomfortable with the demonstration of higher reasoning here. 

Bix: Love your work (I read PWO and always feel unworthy to comment because y’all are freaks) and especially love that above I learned a couple of new things about the first 2 big HIAC matches.

One thing I’ve noticed about HIAC is that the more they attempt to replicate it with Super Heavyweights and spots and…

I guess I can’t call it an *irrational* decision. 

I kinda disagree, because a call on the field *was made*. If the Patriots (or anyone else) are good enough at the two-minute drill that opposing coaches have to not fuck up to prevent them from capitalizing (they had to run a long way), that adds to the excitement. This especially matters because the gap between team…

Speaking as a Pats fan...once again we benefited from simply being consistently competent. We deserve credit for that (we played pretty well), but the game was largely over at halftime due to the third touchdown and (to name something not covered above) remarkably bad offensive play-calling by the Texans in the first…