Part of the fun of sports is that it lets you be irrational about certain things, like how your preferred team’s success reflects on you as a fan. But I continue to be shocked at the ways college sports fandom can make people cling to truly crazy notions. Like if LSU doesn’t have an honest-to-god live tiger living…

Hey, you really crossed a line with that. If only there were some sort of metaphor that could capture the irreversible consequences of your actions.

Question inspired by the chat image. Will sailor suits ever come back in style for kids? I keep seeing people walking around in full on early 90s acid-washed cosplay outfits. Why that and not sailor suits?

Just 10 days a year? Don’t forget all of the home playoff games the Raiders typically host.

I have a similar anecdote I could tell.

Here’s what I’d like to see (though I admit I’m one of those pinkos that doesn’t watch the NFL): You know how in baseball when a rookie hits his first home run, the whole team doesn’t react and pretend it didn’t happen back in the dugout? I’d like to see an entire team do that on the field for a full game. No…

A big reason for this is that we were literally taught this in schools. My well-meaning educators of the 80s and 90s put us through a lot of units on civil rights and racism in general, especially around MLK day and black history month. Progress sure, but it pretty much all had to do with the historic struggle for…

Counterpoint: Traditional tacos (i.e. just white onions and cilantro - none of this shredded orange cheese and lettuce shit)

I once had 6 hours or so to kill at the Reno airport. Well all the casinos offer free shuttles, so I hopped on to one of them that ended up being right next door to both a movie theater and an In and Out Burger. Got a great meal, saw “Sideways,” and made it back with plenty of time to catch my plane. The only weird…

My first job out of college was with the Forest Service in an area of high black bear activity. There were some documented cases of those smart fuckers actually working a car latch. Usually though they just leaned on one of the windows and allowed their weight to do the work of breaking it (this guy was probably too…

I believe the Red Cross does actually sell your blood at market value to hospitals. Revenue from blood sales is one of the big drivers that keeps their disaster relief operations afloat. Because blood transfusions are way down, their revenue is down, which is fucking them over (and a lot of blood goes to waste now).…

Those 1930s teams did play in the Baker Bowl after all, which was a truly absurd hitters park.

One of my favorite dumb stats about this game, is that it was only the second time a pitcher struck out his age in batters (even though it was his age 21 season, he was still 20 years old at the time of this game).

The other incidentally, was Bob Feller who struck out 17 Philadelphia As as a freaking 17 year old in…