That’s the official, Giants-approved version of what happened. In truth the two Mara brothers in control of the team at the time were squabbling so much that they couldn’t agree on anything and the league had to step in.

In the late 1970s the NFL did step in because the Giants had been a joke for almost 20 years. The league basically commanded Giants ownership to hire George Young as GM and give him cart blanche to run the team as he saw fit.

Not so much this year, but I did well enough last year that there’s still a bit of a halo effect.

I suppose it depends on one’s definition of “career suicide.” I wouldn’t be fired for sitting out the fantasy league, but my prospects for promotion would be quite a bit dimmer. I’m not the only one here who feels this way, I’ve heard similar sentiments from several of my coworkers.

I work in a place where it’s career suicide not to partake in fantasy football. And one’s standing within the pecking order can be affected by the quality of one’s football team (though fortunately job performance does still have some sway). This forced participation, more than anything else, is making me despise…

There are definitely some Reps who are almost never off, and some who disappear if they’re not in the chamber voting. Some of the slackers are fortunate enough to represent districts where gerrymandering, voter indifference, or both, are sufficient to guarantee they’ll be re-elected as many times as they please so…

I started imagining the visual of them all fucking off back to whence they came, and my mental picture resembled Monty Python’s Upper Class Twit of the Year competition.

I mean really, what they’re asking for is a chance to deliver their stump speeches, taking turns as they each deliver a nugget-sized chunk of the same crap they’re spewing on the campaign trail.

From Wikipedia:

I hated them both when they were introduced, but they wore me down and now I love them. Kinda like the TV equivalent of Stockholm syndrome.

Technically, the proper Midwestern celebration is a slightly more enthusiastic nod when you pass a fellow sportsball enthusiast in the hallway the next day at work.

And here I had just assumed based on the headline that it was because she was teaching about evolution or climate change or something like that.

I’m still wrapping my head around how this Mets team, originally expected to be a .500 team, can wind up reaching the World Series and somehow be a massive disappointment.

I totally forgot that it was the Red Sox who won the American League this year. Boston fans sure do have a lot to be proud of.

One of the candidates (I forget which) wants a debate moderated by Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Sean Hannity.

I don’t really know anything about Sefolosha outside this case, but thank goodness for guys like him and James Blake not taking this crap quietly.

Yeah, that was all BS. As if it even matters whether the HC is any good at press conferences anyway. By many standards Belichick is terrible at press conferences (possibly on purpose).

To be fair, they hired Emery and he hired Trestman. From that point of view, the embarrassing Trestman hire is just one aspect of the catastrophic Emery hire.

Clearly we have some work to do.

Excuse me while I go commit some war crimes ...