Why are cheerleaders still a thing in the NFL...or anything above high school, for that matter? Is it just a ‘tradition’ thing? They’re not a marketing tool anymore since the game has gotten so damn big...I don’t get it.

I’m about a mile west (Roscoe/Lincoln), and if there’s any WS clinching scenario, I’m driving my car out to a lot at O’Hare to avoid any possibility of it getting torched/flipped over.

10-year news reporter here. I think we all have the ‘I need to get out of this’ moments when we cover a story. I’ve had about three of them...yet I keep coming back for more.

Less a fee, more of a policy- why the hell are unsold seats MORE expensive the closer you get to the flight? If I can see on a seat map that half the seats on the flight I’m looking at are empty...how can you charge MORE?!?

Chicago CL has to be one of the worst. It’s practically all BHPH dealer listings, massively overpriced Japanese/Germans, and shitcan GM products with inflated price tags.

I used to serve/bartend at a shitty chain restaurant in the suburbs of Chicago that was in a not-exactly-great area. There was a party of 10 (automatic gratuity!) that sat down, fresh out of church, loud-colored suits, big hats, and all. As usual, absolute pains in the ass. 5 million drink refills, complaints about…

Remind me again how good ESPN’s ‘anonymous NFL sources’ have been over the past couple years. You know, the same ones that said the NFL didn’t have the Ray Rice video. Or the ones that said they’d never seen the pictures of Peterson’s bruised kid. Or the ones that Mortensen used to fuel the whole deflated balls saga.…

Nope, no insight at all. I’ve only been in the industry for more than a decade and am a managing editor in a top-5 media market. But please, enlighten me some more as to how to properly do my job which I’m obviously failing at.

You know what kind of article I’m never approving as a managing editor? Somebody that turns in a 5,000 word piece with more than TWO HUNDRED anonymous, unnamed sources.

108 ‘sources.’ FOUR went on the record...one being an ESPN employee, the other a Senator with conflicting interests (Comcast being his primary campaign donor and having an ax to grind against the league). The rest is all unproven ‘we know they did something, but can’t prove it’ conjecture.

In 2006, I had to go to Indy for a conference, and met up with two old friends from Chicago that I hadn’t seen in a while. We decided to go to the Colts-Bills game on Sunday- the only seats left were upper deck. No biggie. Get up to our seats...they were OBSTRUCTED VIEW. How the fuck do you have obstructed view seats…

Good to know repos didn’t exist before February 2009. I learned something today!

Oh, the rims. Jesus Christ, the rims. In college, I worked at a Nissan dealer on the south side of Chicago. We would get- no exaggeration- people who were months behind on payments and $12K upside down on a 5-year old (take your pick) SUV, Caddy, Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, Maxima, etc...but slapped $3-4K worth of rims…

No offense...but where do you live that you don’t think things like this happen? Go into lower-middle class to poor areas of the country, and this is actually COMMON.

The fact that you reference an IndyCar crash and a sprint car accident to make your point about NASCAR shows me you know nothing about racing,

I’m just impressed the RR even started.

Wonder who Chelsea will buy this week.

Not a funeral, per se...but rather an ashes-scattering. My grandfather lost his brother and sister within maybe 2 weeks of each other (all of them in their 80s at the time), so my family decided we’d take both of their ashes and spread them at their mother’s (my great-grandmothers’) gravesite.

No idea what the hell he was replaced with. Does MNF even have a theme song anymore?

‘Since they took Hank Jr off, I hate ESPN.’ ...ladies and gentlemen, I give you, the American voting public.