I remember Madden 2007 being the peak point for that franchise. The controls were sensible and precise (even on the Gamecube!), the playbooks still had a ton of useful variety, and franchise mode was entertaining without devolving into a superteam simulator.

Then again, my next Madden game was the horrifying Madden…

Still not enough potshots taken at the “12s” from Pierce County. Seattlites are bad (being from Tacoma, fuck Seattle on principle), but the semi-rural jackoffs from south of Seattle are utter shit.

I was a young cowboys fan that got mocked mercilessly for the Romo fumble during those playoffs. When I tried to explain to them that Jason Witten actually crossed the first down marker on the previous play, but all the Seahawks castigated me for bitching about the refs.

After Super Bowl 40, I spent all day gloating…

This is a very salient point. If you spend time socially punishing bigots and racists without thoroughly explaining to them (and those watching) why their views are bad, you’re allowing them to justify their actions freely. In this case, a ton of people never figured out why being racist/bigoted was a bad thing, so…

Is he a dick, or a dick trying to appeal to the weirdly-lucrative “middle-aged racist uncle” demographic?

Conservative humor involves laughing directly at people, not at the concepts or abstractions they represent, so it’s no wonder they don’t “get” memes.

Arguably, the cap for “C’MON JUST FIT” tantrums at the overhead rack should be about 3-4 minutes upon getting to your seat. At that point, you should be turn over your bag.

In a perfect world, we’d time these interactions, and give discounts to sane people that immediately notice their weirdly-shaped luggage won’t fit…

“Friendzone” is where you want to jump the bones of someone, and they’re either unaware of this or desperately hoping you get the hint that they don’t want their bones to be jumped.

It’s much more of a mindset that can poison how you view women, and it’s sad that it’s fed by a fuck-ton of cultural shit. In the few…

My grandfather still thinks Miller Genuine Draft is the peak of beer. The boomers make me nervous.

I don’t mind a little violence in the paint (former center here!) to deal with a hot hand, but if you can’t stop them from shooting (i.e. keeping them from getting the ball), any aggression past that point is a cheap shot.

Seattle fans ruined Seahawks games for me. I mean, these fans get drunk in order to scream for 3 hours, and don’t seem to notice that isn’t exactly admirable behavior.

What drives me insane about this process is that these knuckledraggers get incensed because the the first steps for an arena that might not even get a team was thwarted for what sound like moderately reasonable concerns. If Adam Silver says “we’d like to expand and Seattle is on the list,” then you have grounds to get…

Don’t lump Tacoma in with those assholes. If the NBA offered to let us house a new Sonics franchise in the Tacoma Dome (an already paid-off stadium), we would gleefully take it, if only to irritate those same assholes by moving the team to a “scary” city.

ETA: As an addendum, there are a TOOOOON of Whiskey-Tangos in…