The story struck a lot of people, on both sides of the divide, as implausible. But this doesn’t make sense either.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, it’s not a total solution, but I don’t worry about transition situations, I think they’re a small part of the problem, and they can happen at any time during a game, whereas hack-a-Shaq and stop-the-clock fouls tend to pile up at the end of game, making the last two minutes a tedious slog.

Football has the best rule in sports—the ability to decline a penalty. It keeps penalties as bad plays, almost all the time.

Like I’ve already said, I’ve spent too much time on it. I hate the Redskins’ team name, I’ve known it was racist since I was a little child, I didn’t need the journalistic spasm that took place a few years ago to tell me that. But this extension of the already rather vapid discussion of that issue takes it over a line…

You’re deeper into it than I am, or the writer of this article. I don’t know the history of that music, I just chose it as a random use of the word “hail.”

Yes, but the logic hangs on the idea of “hail” being a translation of “heil” which is a word the Nazis use, making it a...dare I say?...verboten word. Similarly, the word “leader” is a translation of the word “Führer”, so anyone who used that word in the...what’s the time frame you’re saying is suspect? the late…

The lyrics of “Hail to the Redskins” are credited to Corinne Griffin, the wife of racist Skins founder George Preston Marshall. There’s no proof that the theme song’s nod to der Führer was intentional.

Then may I say, welcome to America. You’ll need a currency called “dollars” and we drive on the right.

“My words were...not intended as racially motivated.” It is literally impossible to understand his words except in racial terms.  

They interviewed Eric Bienemy and Vikings DC George Edwards, who both have sufficient melanin to satisfy the rule; I don’t know if there was anyone else.

My wife and I play midweight-to-heavy Euros almost every day, but we also can’t afford to stay up-to-date, so our latest discovery is from 2017. For anyone who does “love dry soulless Euros” as the BGG badge proclaims, I highly recommend Pulsar 2849, which is an amazing, intricate dice drafting game. As we play it…

“Think about how ludicrous it would be, in literally any other industry, for a person’s former co-workers to be bitter at him for taking a job with a rival company after being fired...”

“Carville, for his part, doubled down on his statement on Twitter, promising to provide documented evidence of this ongoing conspiracy...”

After all, Stephens fired two shots straight at her opponent on this very point.

“Thomas is apparently serious about Abdul-Jabbar’s new job, or is at least committed to the bit.”

It’s written into the rules that a ball carrier is a different case than a blocker or a defender. The wording is that a runner may “ward off opponents with his hands and arms,” which is understood to explicitly allow stiff-arms.

He carefully considered what he was about to say, making sure he wasn’t being recorded, and then proceeded to go out of his way to say that word to a black woman. So he fully intended to insult and degrade her, that was his purpose. Bravo for her taking action against him.

“...our school and it’s football program...”

Yeah, I don’t doubt Florio has shown awareness of Kramer—it really is crazy that he hasn’t been in all these decades—and Chris Thompson is a fine sportswriter, I shouldn’t call him a “mark.” All this plaintive chorus accompanying T.O.’s moaning is just getting under my skin.

I’m talking to someone in the grays, actually, who said the same stupid thing you did; I just didn’t want to bring them out, and I’m using your post.