If Jerruh, et al. (and really, the League) want to ride atop this high horse of “BUT GOOD SIR YOU HAVE SIGNED A CONTRACT!”—and they seem hell bent on trotting this out every time this happens—then they need to go ahead and guarantee contracts.

I think you’re underestimating how much more athletic even the least athletic qb/k/p is than the average schlub. Those guys at the very least get to sample some of the creatine the defensive line uses.

Wait. A well researched and well written article about soccer that’s also concise? I’m very confused.

Personally, the part that I find most weird is all the fans talking up toughness...as though they wouldn’t retire their job on the spot if they were in his shoes.

Nobody can play the game without needing it at some atomic level, because so much of it is about denying that you actually hate a lot of it but can’t give it up.

This should be mandatory reading at the NFL rookie symposium, instead of having Antonio Cromartie telling them to use condoms and Adrian Petersen handing out his financial planner’s business card.

But like, it’s a really bad standard to decide reporters should ask their subjects if things are off the record. Verlander should have been mindful that a reporter was around if he gave a shit at all.

I feel what’s being lost on anyone justifying the booing or saying Luck didn’t give enough notice is that the guy has been in constant, unending pain for the better part of four years, and that he was still trying to play football. He tried to play through pain, he tried push his body to absorb the punishment and…

#2 is still a shitty and selfish view to have. Especially if you're aware enough to have thought #1.

I read your horseshit. You’re a dickhead sympathizer. It’s okay, just own up to it. 

The “entertainment product” they’re consuming is a football game. If they want to “express displeasure” with the events of that game, fine. If they want to boo when Luck throws an interception or the officials blow a call, fine.

Your usage of ‘quitter’ tells us everything. How dare someone think of his health! Unless one dies on the field, he becomes a quitter?

I think this whole idiotic fiasco is the first real market correction in the transfer market, one that has been needed really since Ronaldo’s transfer to Real Madrid. The prices for the very top top players in the world have grown so onerous that only 4-8 teams could ever really hope to be a part of discussions, and…

At this point Neymar and PSG just deserve each other. Maybe PSG can find some more of Neymars friends who want to fight other teammates and the coaching staff.

Wow, he’s really lucky, because, while they take drug offenses super-seriously in New Hampshire, they recently repealed the death penalty. Not only that, but hanging was still on the books in NH as one of the possible means of execution, until earlier this year! So, he won’t have to worry about mobs of people…

Well, the idea is that people gave him their funds to invest because he was blackmailing them. But the people he was blackmailing are certainly not going to come forward, especially with the level of heat directed at Epstein. This nymag article from last month is super interesting on this blackmail/fake hedge fund…

I mean, she fully committed to the lie, meaning she had to coax her kids to participate in sham photo shoots and whatnot, which seems like a lot more trouble than simply scratching off a check and having a few meetings with administrators to help build a facility for students or even just give a little something for…

“The Steelers replaced an all pro with simply a good back, and did just fine.”

Hahahahahaha! They did just fine, eh? I seem to remember they ended their season having to root for a victory by their hated rivals in order to sneak into the playoffs. And I’m pretty sure those hated rivals lost, and everybody involved had…

Willful ignorance is a hallmark of stupid people. You ever have a boss that loves to tell you that he doesn’t know how to rotate a PDF? Cool Steve, I guess I shoudn’t be mad at you for getting a job out of high school that paid a living wage, and bought your house in 1979 for 55K when your take home pay was 20K. …

“The only thing more tiring than having to write the umpteenth anti-VAR post is having to witness video replay poison this wonderful sport from week to week.”