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(Not That) Bill O'Reilly
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Within the context of a specific game? Sure, I guess?

You have a lot more faith in the Ravens’ ability to reach the AFC Championship than I do, good sir.

O, it should have been an untimed down and Cinci ball for some reason?

Declined penalties don’t fall within the rule in other contexts, so now you’re doubly rewriting the rulebook to achieve your desired result.

Deadspin et al. misrepresenting Harbaugh to make him sound like a whiney douche? Inconceivable!

It’s not just The Nutty Professor before he gained weight?

I can only speak for myself, but considering this is remarkably similar to what the Ravens pulled in the Super Bowl (holding in the end zone because it’s a safety either way)—nah.

You sound more hungry than furious, but OK.

Slightly different—they committed holdings in the end zone to burn clock before taking the safety, but the Niners still got the ball back with some time on the clock.

Didn’t they change the rule about holding in the endzone after Baltimore exploited it in their Super Bowl win in 2013?

Rhee . . . never faced much of a public backlash for anything contained in Walpin’s report  

My work here is done

See my edit.

2 years removed from a 60 point campaign—he had 75 last season.

That’s . . . not how bankruptcy law works.

Decisions about editorial content (e.g., whether to post a story or the story’s contents, headline or placement) may only be made by editorial, including the Executive Editor. Once a story has been posted it can only be removed by a majority vote of the Executive Editor, the CEO, and the General Counsel, unless

Counterpoint: how much editorial independence did the union ever actually secure for the writing staff? The answer is “no more than they already had pre-union,” and certainly not “enough to insulate editorial decisions from business pressures.”

If the answer is “no,” you better get yourself a union.