I grew up near Pittsburgh, too, and I remember watching football as a kid and my grandfather asked me, “What team do you like?” And at the time (I was still under 10 at this point), I based my fandom on logos, and I gravitated a lot toward the Cowboys’ star and the Raiders logo. I said to me grandfather that I liked…

If Brett Favre took a knee it would probably take him a full five minutes to stand upright again.

You gotta know what a crumpet is to undastand cricket.

It started out that way, but as it grew in popularity it began glorifying everything it was supposedly satirizing.

I’m a Pittsburgh ex-pat living in Los Angeles. I would never switch allegiances, but god, Nutting makes it hard. I had literally just texted the following to a friend before reading your message:

Same. There’s not a single idea in the new movie that wasn’t sufficiently covered in the first Blade Runner. 2049 just does it louder (SERIOUSLY DO YOU GET THAT REPLICANTS ARE A DISRESPECTED MINORITY YET? NO? HOW ABOUT A HAMFISTED CHRIST ALLEGORY AND ABOUT AN HOUR OF RYAN GOSLING BEING LONELY AND MISTREATED?) and for…

I’m convinced Gosling won’t sign up for a movie unless it lets him spend what feels like a full hour and half of screentime staring blankly out of windows.

Honestly, I could’ve used more of the quiet beauty of Kong ice skating and less... oh, about the first hour of screentime.

Ohio State gets a pass, even though they are entitled little shits, because they were playing Child Rape U.

In this one he looks like a beefy Richard Horne.

Honestly. “I don’t believe hoodies should be part of basketball uniforms, that’s all.” Well, Stephen A., you’re in luck! They aren’t part of the uniforms.

And the NBA, for that matter. Remember reports of the NBA switching to a new synthetic ball that was cutting the shit out of players’ hands a few seasons ago? I don’t know why leagues even bother.

No way. There was a ton of press, but it was a hard-R movie directed at a niche audience. Tarantino and Rodriguez thought their names had enough cachet to make it work anyway, but they were wrong. It buried itself.

Yeah, good on Rodriguez and McGowan for trying to stick it to Weinstein, but Planet Terror is pretty much the bullshit you have to wade through to get to Death Proof, and I was happy when the extended Death Proof was released on its own.

Last time he played like this was two, three years back when CP was out for a significant period of time with an injury, and Blake started getting “possible MVP” talk.

...as opposed to shooting for the 9th seed with a bunch of new toys that came out of the box broken.

...uncle Michael?

I would move back to Pittsburgh in a heartbeat if it weren’t for all the Pittsburghers.

Seriously. When someone can assure me that rich people won’t just buy their way out of service, *then* I’ll listen to draft pitches.

Snark is the universal language and earnest feeling must be crushed.