+3.08567758 × 10¹⁶ — I love that you know that.

Exactly. It requires only rational thought and knowing the rules, not HAVING BEEN IN THE TRENCHES AND PLAYED THE GAME LIKE A REAL MAN.

It was not indefensibly stupid to pass on that play; it was that particular pass play that was the problem. Throwing into the middle out of a formation that gives away the pass? That was the stupid part. You wanna bootleg, with a throw option? Sure! Even better, play-action Lynch into the line and look for an open man…

+100 — We have a winner.

It's true Jones didn't have to go to the lengths of having a press conference about this, but it's equally true that his having done so is hardly anything he'll have to "live down."

Only thing we need to do now is improve it. Sixteen teams — the winners of every conference in the country, plus the next six best teams according to rankings. That would easily include all the real contenders, plus give an honest chance to all those teams from the non-power conferences who are basically shut out of…

And Denver Post says that Broncos management wasn't planning to fire Fox, but then saw the Glazer report — Glazer is tight with Fox, evidently — and started to wonder whether Fox wasn't unhappy and trying to "keep his options open" elsewhere. Makes some sense, too; your defense isn't very good and your superstar…

I feel like I want to build a time machine and travel back to about 1993 and then rob a bank in Paterson, N.J. #HomeFree

Cops Who Appropriate Fallen Colleague's Funeral to Make Petty Political Point Accuse Mayor's Wife of Being Disrespectful.

Well, A) it's merely one of any number of possible examples, hardly the most important thing in the world I agree, but 2) as a sportswriter whose goal is to write the fullest and most engaging article possible about the game, a real answer and explanation could be quite valuable. For example, if Lynch roared off on…

I agree that would in fact be a pretty innocuous non-answer, if it wasn't deep within the context of him trying to make his point, whatever that was, exactly.

You actually missed the entire point? Wow. Just ... wow.

Except the part about referring to two different things, then yeah.

Oh, no way. It's far better to roll slowly around the lot a few times, then stop right in the middle of the aisle — hopefully a cross-aisle, too — and hold up cars behind you for 10 minutes while you wait for somebody to load his or her groceries, strap their kids in the backseat, adjust their mirror, turn on the…

Indeed, many reporters are astonishingly lazy and ill-prepared to ask even simple, direct questions that do not devolve into that "talk about ... " shit. Even as a longtime sportswriter who needed quotes for stories, I can't fault any athlete for not playing along with that stupid game. But when you're asked a simple,…

Moment I saw that, I wondered how long it would take you to post it. Looks like about 2 minutes. Bravo!

Rex Grossman, Vince Evans, Bill Glenn, Cade McNown. How in God's name is No. 8 not retired yet?

Nobody wants to hear the press complain about its job. That's rule No. 1, period. That said, however, if the Bears had (as I believe they do/did) an established protocol of making an announcement for the reporters interviewing other players in the locker room that the quarterback was about to have his post-game…

Relay runner = 1/5 of actual runner.

They're the Cubs. I'm sure he'll either be terrible or have his arm fall off.