The football rulebook is too mechanically technical; structural integrity of the game is poor. The very best refs can only catch ~ 70% of fouls and call fouls with ~ 90% accuracy; you just can’t avoid this stuff.

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“I gotta get into MLS!!!” - XII fan

As an OU fan I miss the Leach-Crabtree era. Some great matches between OU, TTU, and the late Texas. But, seriously, the TTU fandom is humiliating itself sporting anti-Mayfield shirts and fuck you chants, and more. That’s some Happy Valley-level shit and it’s not a few idiot outliers; it’s all of Lubbock.

I used to see similar organizations in England outside my university’s fresher fairs. So weird to pass by a table and be offered hammer and sickle swag.

Keep your head on a swivel? People talk about the mind’s attentional resources as though they’re infinitely expandable. It’s like telling an iPad to toughen up and download 100 Mbps.

Could this sound stupider? Let’s see what we can do:

I can’t ever read about this type of thing without calling the David Parker Ray transcripts to mind. Rose & crew: I wish there were a psychometric system in place to assess this type of base reduction of a person to a biological function; to draw a subtle yet important line between casual sex, in which a modicum of…

Thanks for your considered response. I guess I’m not ok with absolving Texas as just another school chasing TV money. As you say, the other majors had cobbled together a culture and vision. Much of that burden lies with anchors like OSU and Michigan having a modicum of shared goals, putting quality products on the…

As an OU fan I hate this hobo’s craphole of a conference. The Longhorns exemplify everything that’s bad about CFB: greed, waste, and astounding  incompetence—that program will make a loser out of anyone and, given enough time, everyone. That’s our flagship school; they call the shots, not Boren. Wish we would have…

I felt so dirty after reading this I cleaned my apartment. You bring me so much pain, Deadspin.

Negative press: Two months ago I would’ve agreed with you but I think the NFL execs are right to be feeling a bit vulnerable about the lowered viewership at this point. There’s a certain existential threat to football these days and if the brand is actually trending downwards then the effects of bad press can be…

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But why? Who’ll take a flyer on Kap at this point? Guy has the stigma of post-jail Michael Vick. He can’t elevate a dysfunctional franchise like Cleveland as starter QB; and who’s going to assume that burden for a mere benchwarmer? I guess if a strong team loses its QB he could do a Sam Bradford-type sub-in, still ...…

PSL-holding Browns fans are spending $1K+ a year basically to self-flagellate themselves each Sunday for a disgusting owner. Las Vegas wants in on this action. Fuuuuuuck this.

Goddamn, Nevada, is life there so depraved you’re willing to sell your soul to watch the fucking Raiders a few days a year? You can watch them right now for free on TV in one of your million sports bars.

America, more than any other country, has been one to give the castouts of other nations a chance to shine. I’m guessing few of our ancestors who came willingly were pumped to move halfway across the world to start all over - they came because they couldn’t hack it in their homeland. The opportunities received through…

“Sweet Malinowski’s libido, a chance to be relevant! Quickly release a statement of grandiloquent bombast condemning the images and capitalism and gendered pronouns and ... huh!? Usurped by the goddamn Indigenous Performing Arts Program!!!???” - The Yale anthropology faculty

JoePa’s ‘entitled patriarch’ vibe had major creep factor outside of PA for at least a decade; the logs were already piled for that bonfire and we all wanted to see it burn. If you can’t see it try to imagine this: The Barry Switzer cult of the ‘80s endured into the 00s and early ‘10s, then: [cue scandal]. (I know what…

One thing I love about Deadspin is the satirical pushback against the bullies of the sports world; this drawn out campaign goes in the complete opposite direction. STL is a shit town with rampant violence and racist idiocy that has like one fucking means to a positive sense of community—the Cardinals—so lets…