This game is just about the perfect example of all the things that are wrong with the NHL. Terrifying hits, and the fans and hockey writers are arguing about whether a player left his feet or hit the other guy’s head first, etc. What a joke. Hockey is increasingly looking like a sad and dangerous anachronism.

Lots of good advice here, especially the part about avoiding the details about why you’re breaking up.

I was about to make an English units/metric joke, but yours is better.

I very often hear the related argument that you’d have things like 5-on-3s late in playoff games, etc., and that would harm the game. Maybe it would, for the first couple of times it happened, and then guess what? The players and coaches would figure out that those calls would be made and they would clean up their…

Agreed, but my main objection is that calling many fewer penalties is completely arbitrary. What one set of officials or even a single official thinks “should” or “shouldn’t” be called late in a playoff game differs from how other officials see it.

Manziel was a flaming train wreck before the draft. Being drafted and then entering the NFL merely dropped a tanker of gasoline on the fire.

I’ll second that comment about mold.

Yes, they are bungling the broadcasts. I can’t see how anyone could disagree.

So, Philly fans were not just assholish, but conspicuously assholish. I can’t say I’m all that surprised, given what I’ve seen from Flyers fans and fans of some other Philly teams over the last 3 decades. I’ve run out of outrage about it, and just assume There Will Be Assholery when the Flyers fans are involved.

I’ve had massive allergy problems for decades. I had a scratch test years ago (which threw me into anaphylactic shock), and the 69 scratches had an average reaction of 3.9 on a 1-to-4 scale.

Fuckin’ this. Repeatedly.

All these e-mails prove is something we already knew: the NHL is a caveman league, run by cavemen, and scared shitless of losing the dollars and eyeballs of the caveman fans.

It’s positively Trump-esque.

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

Exactly. The assholes on the team likely would not have complained about a kid in the locker room — they would have sworn, told stories about fucking fans, etc. with no regard for who was present. It’s the responsible, concerned ones who would curtail their behavior and therefore feel stifled with a young visitor…

TS;DFR [too smarmy; didn’t finish reading]

You say that as if it hasn’t happened already.

Being another Bills fan, I think the answer is in his age. Fitz knows that this could be (likely will be?) his last (multi-year) NFL contract, and with the bargeloads of gold ingots being steered in the direction of various QBs, he sees a chance to cash some really big checks before he retires.

This whole mess, from the crosscheck of the official to today’s announcement, just makes the NHL look even more like a bunch of amateurs winging it.

Holy fuckolies.