I am constantly befuddled by the pure stupidity of insurance ads. Liberty’s gone all in with “pay us extra in case your brand new car is totalled or so you can have insurance for your insurance”, Progressive’s gone all in on, uh, emasculating their fictional male insurance rep character in a variety of different ways,…

Yeah, given that he just made a 23-yard play and was absolutely on fire, 3rd and 12 with two minutes left just seems like he scores the TD anyway and leaves the Broncos even less time to screw up a comeback.

The Rockies are playing the Phillies and the Dodgers are playing the Giants this last week with a division title on the line and I guarantee you the Phillies and Giants are not going out of their way to start the exact same lineup they would if they were in a playoff hunt out of a desire to “maintain the integrity of…

Team Good Job, Good Effort

It’s *possible* that he has no interest in continuing a professional football career at this point, but we don’t know that since he’s never spoken about it, whereas whatever condition he’s in now he’s almost certainly wildly better than a number of QBs on NFL rosters. I suppose there’s a nonzero chance he turned down…

And as a fun bonus, if he doesn’t end up winning, at least he gets probably five years minimum of $10M a year in salary while doing his best Hinkie at a Sports TED Talk impression.

PS: He doesn’t get shit for winning with Dungy’s players so much as he gets shit for winning against a team that *didn’t change their damn…

I thought it was going to go in another direction too, and I suspect it will down the line. What percentage of these 18-24 year-old streamers even understand what a “self-employed contractor” is? They have any idea what FICA taxes are or that they’re expected to pay both the employer and employee portions in their…

This is like a mobius strip of “he’s good, and is actually way better than he has been, but he was supposed to be even better, but he’s actually surprisingly good in his own way, but this isn’t a good fit for him, but he and his team are making the best of it so it’s all good”. I can’t finish this.

You know when it really hit home how old I was getting? When I heard a Mike Gundy reference on TV and they noted he was now in his 50s.

A certain stripe of white man—one identified largely by the privilege of congratulating himself for his distaste for politics while simultaneously imposing his political preferences onto literally everyone else.

Appeals to authority are a lame debating tactic. Barnwell makes good points, but he didn’t slam dunk this argument into the ground. OK, Dak didn’t have a worse passer rating without Zeke. What does that have to do with how well he does when he has football’s best O-line in history vs an average one? What does that…

The ex-girlfriend in the story, who has been harassed in the fallout of the proposal’s coverage

Sweating is only inevitable if you live east of the Mississippi.

It’s even weirder that a college coach would care about RPOs, it’s nothing newfangled in college in which numerous programs have revolved around various option-based offenses for decades. The RPO is just the NFL’s dumb name for borrowing a concept that’s been successful in college for a long time.

PTI started in 2001, Crossfire started in 1982. If you’re going to blame anyone, blame a combination of CNN and Fox News (started in 1996) who figured out before sports did that the best way to get people to watch shows about political news was to have people arguing with each other about who’s right instead of just…

I’ve never been to New York, but what city are you from where people think it’s not weird to eat thin-crust pizza with a knife and fork instead of picking it up like normal people?

She had just broken to go up 3-1 in the second set, which put her right back on roughly even territory in the match. Then, she played the next service game that would have put her up 4-1 really badly, made several mistakes, and gave the break back, and smashed her racket in understandable frustration after the last of…

I’d just like to say this is shaping up to be a really well-written and informative series that even as a soccer fan I’m learning a lot from. 

When a media outlet is weirdly and repeatedly antagonistic to a left-wing challenger trying to take down an established incumbent, follow the money.

Wait, hold on a second. Hard Rock Stadium has a normal capacity of 65k and has a record attendance of 80k. Preseason International Champions Cup games in the US regularly sell out NFL and even larger college stadiums. How can an actual regular season game featuring perhaps the most popular team in the world only get a…