Craggs, I think you've been wrong-footed by the RS writer displaying the correct usage of that phrase, which never happens.

This reminds me why Magary still rules. Plus, he got a 99% on the worst Niners ever, except he left out Terry Donohue. The piece of walking syphilis should be #1.

That's so funny it gave me an asthma attack

Glory days. Tom — you and Art Cooper and Granger made me an avid magazine fan, and Elizabeth Gilbert solidified that in short years subsequent. Thanks for years of great reading.

"Sound good to me"

Comment of the year +1

I don't blame NBC for this. I'm a reasonably informed sports fan (writing on Deadspinkija!) and it took me a month to figure out that the CONCACAF Gold Cup was distinct from CONCACAF World Cup qualifying — partly because the former came right on the scene right after the first round of qualifying for the latter,…

I coached under an idiot who said, "Control your breathing." What he meant was for gassed players to try to stifle the audible panting you make when you're recovering from hard exercise. He's a fat fuck, and I run ultramarathons, so I tried to tell him that breathing hard is what your body has to do to process…

You can turn yourself into a Runner, Sean. In fact, you're pretty much there. If I may, you're just kind of fighting yourself. Why are you running? To lose weight and get healthy, right? Well, those are hugely estimable rewards, but you're not giving yourself much in the way of immediate feedback and reward. …

Can't tell you how many people I've bummed out by saying, "Watch the Jamaican team go down hard for doping." This isn't the end of it and yes, Bolt is a transcendent talent and also on the dope. Gay doesn't surprise me either — Americans are the dirtiest in track now that the Chinese swimmers and 70s-era Soviets got…

Oh NO! Bent derailleur hanger!

Monsters. Inked?

I got a 5, but then, I'm not a writer.

Doesn't centerfield always get that? Or is it older brother always gets it?

+1 Jaysus, that's good. Is she still going out with Verlander?

Yeah, you're close, you're on to something with the sheer verticality of football, where there are long running lines before the intersection of crunching tackle. Here's a good version of your basic Jadeveon Clowney/linebacker on running back, but in rugby:

Exactly! Well, violently, but that's the gist of it.

You're on to something with regard to the different nature of the two styles of hitting (I played six years of football, eleven years of rugby at a pretty high level). But it's not so much the passing (though there are brilliant examples of "passing out of contact") — it's more to do with the fact that there are no…

Not nearly as many concussions in rugby — here or overseas — as in American football. That's because you very specifically try to keep your face and head out of contact as shown in this clip — for the obvious reasons. Concussions definitely happen in rugby, but we're taught to put our cheek on their (butt) cheek in…

God, PUSSIES! We found a possum wandering around inside our fraternity hallway; cornered it, beat it to death with a 7-iron and hung it by its tail to our corkboard as bounty. The 80s were way tougher than the aughts