In recent years, you would have gotten a bit of both with an extra wild card team. Strangely enough, though, both this year and last year would have seen an 8-8 Steelers team sneak into the playoffs as the third Wild Card team; over the last 5 years there's always a 9-7 or an 8-8 team that would have been eligible in…

On one hand, that video is just batshit insane, but on the other hand I would really like to be able to push myself hard enough (or long enough) to reach that sort of physical exhaustion. I probably would have quit that race about 12 miles before the finish if I knew that effort would be what it took to win.

They've kept Craig Steltz on the roster; they can somehow manage to keep Conte around by letting Major Wright walk as a FA.

Yeah, any griping about how Cutler wasn't able to get the Bears into the playoffs this year suffers from the same problem as the Romo-haters did. Cutler wasn't on the field when the Packers scored from 48 yards out on 4th and 8. For the love of God, Bears secondary, cover someone! At least stay between someone and…

Even in Ohio, how the hell do you manage to avoid grapes for 18 years? I thought that was one of the go-to foods for toddlers so parents can convince themselves their kids eat something other than Goldfish and Cheerios.

Does this mean Jeff's in third-place all time now?

I have no doubt that Greg Maddux is HOF material, especially if he managed to record a stat that involved a half-inning. Did he go 70 1/3 innings without allowing a walk?

I'll have to take your word for it on "chuckleworthy lines." I don't remember anything that produced chuckles in the theater I saw the movie in, but I could just be trying to block my memory of that experience.

Yes. That's how important to the global psyche Aaron Rodgers is, if you give any credence to ESPN's apparent thoughts on the matter.

I have to disagree with you guys on the relative merits of Live Free and Good Day. That latest movie was just awful. "I know! We'll just vacuum all the radiation out of Chernobyl in a few minutes!" Seriously? At least with Live Free the "plot twist" might have worked if it wasn't a Die Hard movie, but there was…

Isn't that roughly the same surface that the Iggles used to play on in Veterans' Stadium?

I'm not sure if this means we'll get more slobbering over Aaron Rodgers or less from ESPN. It's seemed like I've seen more footage of him getting sacked and breaking his collarbone than was used for Mandela's funeral.

Part of the genius of these recipes is that, unlike baking, you don't really need precise measurements to make them. Your tastes may be different from someone else who reads this; go ahead and play with the ingredients until you find a version you like best and stick with that. Then you won't need this recipe at all.

He's just taking the Browns to the Super Bowl.

Is it not?

And how exactly did a nature walk in southern Illinois get inextricably linked to Kendrick Perkins? That's being unfair to Illinois.

I think we need something more like a Foodspin-type chart, in which case we get: I, II, Balboa, IV, III, getting hit by a car, putting ketchup on scrambled eggs, V.

Yep. OSU hasn't played a home pre-season game against a non-Ohio school for years, and aside from the two Michigan schools playing pretty tough OSU's conference schedule was not tough. I wouldn't have been surprised to see that OSU was favored by more than 28 points for half the games this year.

I happened to be in the courthouse during one of Thomas' appearances for his divorce and I will say that TV does not do his size justice. Even at the end of his career/beginning of retirement, that man was freaking huge.

Payton's numbers probably reflect the fact that for most of his career his QB's were god-awful, and there was more than one game where he had to play QB because all the stiffs paid to play QB had been injured.