His father stabbed another man to death while waiting in line to see Santa (yes, with kids in tow), so “alright” for him may not be the same as for the rest of us. 

Terrence Howard hasn’t been okay in over a decade

Counter-counterpoint:  The fact that Jackson made those “almost sacks” instead of “actual sacks” was due to good play.  And sometimes the best possible option is heaving it and hoping your receiver makes a play.  Game definitely wasn’t as close as the final score indicated but if Harbaugh hadn’t put them in a hole by…

Meanwhile, at the Lewis household:

The league uses penalties to draw fines, the teams use fines to void bonuses and guarantees. Ahhh, good times.

Good lord. At what point would Deadspin consider creating a tag “NOT INJURIES” for football-related stories?

Karu Daniels (he’s the author for those of y’all not reading the byline) just hit one of my most sensitive pet peeve nerves:

This. Republicans succeeded at creating a wedge issue with gays in the military early in President Clinton’s presidency. DADT was the result: Clinton was able to carve out that wiggle room. For the time, it was progress, and it helped lead to where we are now.

Clinton was more than debate worthy and it didn’t matter, though. I don’t think this election will be determined by the debates.

Actually, there was quite a bit of controversy around it. But, do be more disingenuous.

Culpepper would have an MVP if Manning hadn’t broken the single-season TD record that year

Hes 5-26 for his career against winning teams. He has padded his stats all of his career on cupcakes and garbage time. Defense doesnt win games anymore. Want to know what happens to teams with a good defense and a middling offense because of a QB? They get curbstomped by the Chiefs and Patriots of the league

It’s incredible that despite Gladwell being such a lightweight, Simmons always sounds completely, intellectually overmatched.

This was just a normal Shadowrun session.

Hamilton looks like he sells speed at the bowling alley.

I have nothing to add other than to paraphrase another Deadspin author who said something along the lines of:

Joe Paterno knew in the 70s that Sandusky was raping kids. Forty goddamned years as an assistant to JoePa with Joe knowing that this guy was raping kids and he did nothing.

What album is that Sufjan Stevens song from?

A friendly reminder that there’s a mobile, talented quarterback who’s sitting at home and could maybe actually help the Panthers keep looking something like a respectable, playoff team, and they’re gonna start Kyle Allen and probably Will Grier before him.