So, given that Russia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are all massively oppressive despotic governments, how about *none* of them are cool places for athletes to let themselves be used as pawns in political public relations operations, rather than just say we shouldn’t attack anyone? They’re not “carrying on with their…

Teams about to play the Ravens run a promotion that gets a fan into an actual NFL game. Then, when Flacco lines up at WR, the winner gets to line up against him.

Even

“If he’s so white, why wasn’t he lined up as quarterback?” -Officer on the scene.

Serious FOOTBAW STRATEGERY question here: are both teams just content to play 10-on-10? Do they Ravens actually have a Plan B to throw to Flacco if the other team says, “Screw it, we’re not going through with this charade” and leaves him uncovered?

Before anyone reads more comments, be warned that there are apparently serious comments that KC should not have thrown the ball downfield to a wide open Hill for that final KC touchdown.

Heads up play. Tackling Tom Brady is a serious infraction in today's NFL.

We’re all very proud that you managed to post a soccer article with one paragraph instead of a hundred and forty seven.

...despite the loss, Kansas City has plenty to be proud of...

If you gave the Chiefs an option every time whether to take that touchdown with however much time on the clock or for it to be incomplete and then the Chiefs can try to march the ball downfield more slowly, I think—now I’m no mind-reader, but I am pretty sure about this—I think they’re gonna take it *every time* and…

So if Mahomes is the drug, is Andy Reid’s playoff clock management going to be the withdrawal stage when you run out of drugs?

Except for the fact that those guys are big and strong enough that just that one arm coulda really fucked brady up and maybe took him down. He might have kinda missed, its true, because he was trying to wrap up brady but in the old days (a year or two ago) he woulda gave him a good shot.

There’s no way Tom Brady was going to let go of that ball just because Breeland grabbed his legs. You have to yell “Droppit!” and pull it out of his mouth. It’s so annoying because he knows you can’t throw it for him again unless he lets go of it.

The worst part about this was listening to Massive Doofus(TM) Cris Collinsworth laugh about how funny it was versus the reality that the coddling of quarterbacks have made defensive linemen head cases.

So then maybe the answer is for MLS to expand up to 40, then split into premier and championship divisions. Then they have pro/rel with all league-approved cities, stadia, owners, and rosters.

First four are givens; Nashville was confirmed last December to be joining in 2020.

U S of A Soccer should just go whole hog, copy the UEFA model, have federations in each state, adopt promotion/relegation, have 50 FA Cup competitions throughout each year as well as league and international play (territories can get in on the action too! Go Guam! Go Puerto Rico!), and call it all the UUSAFA or…

At first I was appalled at the tendency of MLS teams to ape European naming conventions (DC United, Real Salt Lake, etc.), then I was amused, and now I fervently pray that the expansion club run by Precourt will be called “PSV Austin”.

“I wish someone would save our soccer team!”