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I guess I’m just saying that GMs shouldn’t be overly protected from being idiots. If you don’t think Bradford is worth $50m, don’t pay him that much. If someone else will, then they should be able to (and give you some money for the rights to poach your draft pick).

Those are questions for the open market to determine. The NFL is far from that.

Andy Dalton is 28.

As a Bengals fan, my hope is that they snag a top-two seed, so their inevitable loss happens a round later.

As a Cal fan, how excited are you for them to knock Texas back out of the polls in two weeks?

The Isley Brothers are great but I actually prefer this version:

Tenth of December, by George Saunders. I recommend it for everyone, but especially 40-year-old dads such as myself.

Ah hah hah hah! I get it! It’s funny because you’re racist!

Automatic +1 for any Matt Levine mention.

I mean, it’s “check up on,” but “shit upon” is fairly consistent with Elvis...so ok?

This was my favorite, from last year:

I mean, they’ve won two of the last three, and both of those were Ohio State’s only loss, so...I think at this point it’s safe to call it a rivalry. Much more competitive than Michigan.

And they were only up by one, which means he shouldn't even have WANTED to score. Sad!

And fuck you right back.

As a Bengals fan, this is the exact right analogy. Burfict is unquestionably dirty, but fuck all the announcers who ride “Ben”’s rapey dick, and fuck Mike “Oops I stuck my foot out” Tomlin.

They were actually really good last year, until Dalton hurt his thumb. They were one AJ McCarron overtime loss to Brock Osweiler (!) away from the 1 seed in the AFC.

Strength varied widely from region to region. We (Harvard) were in the comparatively weak Northeast, although we were probably one of the top ten teams in the country. The strongest teams at the time were on the west coast (Stanford and UCSB played in the final). There were some damn good teams that couldn’t make it…

Iowa had a good ultimate team in the late ‘90s. Must have been all that sweet cash they got.

They just bombed the wrong rock, that’s all: