This movie's been on FLIX recently and yeah, Spacey's performance is really underrated. He's constantly berated by the salesmen for not knowing how to sell and it seems obvious that he is constantly harangued by upper management for not having better results. It's obvious to come away from that film with zero…

I don't know why I missed this Holland/Feigh episode - a lot of the 'three-handers' on WSGLL I skip for many reasons but in large part because IME the two people presenting the show don't have a strong grasp of the premise themselves. That to me is when this show works really well - the presenter has a really strong…

Wiger in particular is one of those people who has excellent attention to detail and the ability to express those details in an interesting way.

NFL practice squads are a thing - they're extra players that practice with the team and sometimes simulate being next week's opponent's players. When injuries happen, they can get added to the roster. I do believe that when this happens, NFL teams sign players to the practice squad from the street. There are too…

An NFL minor league would attract a higher caliber of talent because it would be possible to be called up to the NFL during the season, something which isn't possible in the CFL.

You're making a false equivalency here that the talent level of the NFL minor leagues would be equivalent to the CFL or Arena league. I think it'd be higher than either one. And the point is they'd get in more games and they'd be real competitions - not that guys aren't going all-out in preseason, but sometimes…

Wow - so you're saying that the problem is evaluating talent against top level competition and then you're saying that the preseason, a place where large portions of each contest is played by players who will never suit up in an actual NFL regular season, is the place to test them? This makes absolutely no sense. …

While this is true, football could be played in empty stadiums and still make a huge profit. There's one-tenth the amount of games on the schedule and yet football's revenues are higher.

No, they don't. They have a league that you are only eligible to play in for 4 years and that the NFL has absolutely no control over how players do anything. I'm talking about an actual minor league where players would have contracts and be professionals. I see why the NFL doesn't - it would probably lose money and…

This is bogus. There are a huge number of ways teams could better evaluate players, including having a minor league like all the other major sports have. The reason they don't is because this way maximizes profit. So yeah, maybe 10 guys a year come into training camp a nobody and come out of it a legitimate NFL…

The constant replays and stoppages buffeted by my increased awareness of the physical toll being exacted out there on the gridiron and a diminshment of my urge to gamble have made NFL Sundays less fun than ever. At my peak of being an NFL fan I found the game comical - mistakes in football are really goddamn funny,…

Oh man, I would too. If they're anything like the stuff someone dug up from alt.tv.simpsons on simpsonsarchive they'll be great.

Seinfeld just spent like $50 million on a garage for his cars in New York City. He's doing okay financially.

I don't understand the general thrust of this thread. Once you already have millions of dollars plus royalties streaming in, if you are a relatively grounded person who doesn't need to own a castle or 700 cars or something, there is absolutely no need to ever again do anything unpleasant in order to earn more money.

Reunion aside, I remember reading that Full House drew ridiculously good ratings for a 20-year old show rerunning on cable. I'm not sure I could explain why one is beloved and the other is largely shunted aside except that Danny Tanner wasn't the focus of every Full House episode and IIRC almost all of the episodes…

Eh, his high school rated it as their favorite show and I watched it in the early-mid 90s as a child. I think the thing about it is that it's not aspirational - whereas shows like Friends and Seinfeld had enough character types that you could see parts of yourself in them, Home Improvement's characters were mostly…

I've obviously heard this joke a million times and never thought it alluded to Tim Allen's prison time - I just figured that all of Tim Taylor's dangerous power tool usage had already landed him on the wrong side of the law intra-Home Improvement intra-Simpsons.

It is flawed, but it'll take a person's lifetime for the NFL to really feel the pinch, so what does it matter to the men in charge? Major League Baseball has been in decline relative to football for 50 years now; they've put the World Series on at 8 pm EST for my entire lifetime and they wonder why a generation of…

This is very useful information that I never would've found on my own. Thank you.

Eh, I'll defend the Twisted World of Marge Simpson as being okay. And obviously You Only Move Twice is 8 minutes of greatness wrapped around 14 minutes of meh. But yeah, a lot of these are not good, especially Homer's Enemy.