There are no Canadian NFL teams. I know Saskatchewan did that arm-link thing, but I’d be curious to see what the reaction here would be if a bunch of players knelt during the Canadian anthem during a hockey game.

The drug lord, I assume. I’m not sure if it also sounding like “hat” in French was a coincidence or intentional from the start.

Are they called “ball people” because they wanted a term that was gender neutral instead of “ball boy” or “ball girl”? Or was it that they did not want to be called a “boy” or a “girl” and wanted something that sounds more mature? Did “ball child”, “ball kid” and “ball youth” all sound stupid?

The coach deferred to the captain on who should take the shot? Isn’t deciding something like that the coach’s job? I can understand someone else being chosen if the coach picks someone and they decline, but if two people both want to take it that seems exactly the kind of thing the coach should be picking.

The losing players must kneel and kiss the ring of each player on the winning team, while stating out loud at each opponent that they are failures as baseball players. Failure to do this after the game is a 10 game suspension, but their pay is forfeited to the winning players.

I don’t think I understand this situation. In summary:

Oh, I read that and thought he was just disappointed in someone who wasn’t American winning, which didn’t seem that bad. National pride and what-not. But this seems much worse.

Brent Burns is going to win the Norris, and it will be a mistake.

I cam here expecting it to be the tile matching, but was pleasantly surprised. I love playing Mahjong and I’m happy it had you constructing a real hand.

This probably isn’t the point, but can you really call it teabagging if you’re playing as Karin? My understanding of where the term comes from means that she doesn’t really have a... teabag.

BJ is probably the most abandoned nickname, right? I feel like a lot of people know kids who went by BJ when they were little, then at some point dropped it when they learned what BJ commonly refers to.

All Prime subscribers, or all American Prime Subscribers?

You’re right, no one would ever argue something so silly as that. Not even if they needed clicks, or had air time to fill and nothing else to talk about.

That’s even better. Then people can argue forever if he really got a triple-double average or not. He didn’t play every game, so does it really count?

It’s close to the end of the season, and they don’t want to have him injured chasing personal glory right before the playoffs. They should probably rest him the rest of the season as a precaution.

So hockey at the Olympics is going to become soccer at the Olympics. The best countries are going to end up fielding some kids and B-teams. I went to every game of the World Cup of Hockey, and I really enjoyed it, but it is definitely not the Olympics and definitely not soccer’s World Cup.

So, a professional basketball team wants to be treated the same as a co-ed rec league team that plays Wednesday evenings in an elementary school gym?

je nais se quois

I don’t think this is quite the same thing. Canada became an independent country from the UK in 1931, or maybe as late as 1982 if you want to consider the constitution still being British legislation that important.

Shouldn’t Puerto Rico be part of the American team? I know they’re not a state, they’re whatever an unincorporated territory is, but we have three things we call territories and they’re still Canada.