So this article was written solely so Haisley could refer to MLS as a small-time soccer league, right?

Ugh, another Deadspin commentator trying to deep-dive analyze like he actually played the game or something.

I brought my son just before he turned two. My advice: buy cheap tickets and spend most of your time walking around. The kids have more fun eating ice cream out of a helmet than watching a home run or double play.

Drew, as Collective Soul once said: I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend.

Here’s Drew:

It was never about the anthem.

KFAN! He’s been on the Power Trip and Barreiro.

You haven’t followed the NFL for long if you’re shocked by anything.

Has no prior history of dirty hits/suspensions. Wouldn’t be shocked if it gets reduced to 1 game after the appeal.

Well, kind of, yes

The usual implicit assumption here is typically that the cops are racist and power-abusing. We’ve come to a point where the individual circumstances surrounding an incident aren’t parsed through. Every accusation is taken prima facie as a another example of an implicitly racist law enforcement system.

I think it does, purely because of money. If the readers and ad money dry up a little without the Peter King Name, then SI will need to scale back their NFL coverage quite a bit. Given how poorly pivot-to-video has gone for Fox, Vice, and others, it’s not likely that SI would completely abandon their NFL writers, but…

But that’s exactly it. By never rocking the boat, by never really holding anyone’s feet to the fire- whether players, coaches, execs, NFL brass, etc. beyond maybe wrist-slap efforts at most- he can stay on good terms with everyone, and retain that access. It’s useless- it’s like having the key to every room in a hotel…

Jesus. So many Peter Kings in bibs. 

He may not have called them bitches, but he sure as hell didn’t respect them. I will never understand the Hefner apologists - it is no coincidence that Cosby and Hefner were best buddies and at least one of the Cosby rapes happened at the Playboy Mansion.

I will never understand this dude’s popularity with women. The man basically kept a creepy babe-zoo in his house and only supported ‘women’s empowerment’ as long as it fit his idea of women being naked and not being ~prudes~ about it. If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?

“in some ways, even though his picture is not there, Colin Kaepernick is there.”

If this is the chicken tax of the sea, would that make it the tuna tax?

If we’re gonna do this...

Are you really suggesting that the FBI was tracking a white man based purely on an opinion he held?