The mere fact it is Bill Simmons behind it should have been reason alone to not even start reading, let alone your correct thoughts on Malcolm Gladwell.

How would you like to be Greg Gumbel and Trent Green, assigned by CBS to this game? I mean, how do you call this game without saying, “What did I do in a past life to deserve this?”

And we know how Jets draft picks tend to go...

This is definitely not rock bottom yet. There is always that chance the 49ers can snap their franchise worst 11-game losing streak (70th anniversary of the team and they’ve never been this bad.)

1995.

So I am going to give the answer here. No comedy because I cannot live up to anything already said by other posters. I am in tears because of them. My guts hurt.

And Godwin’s Law has been fulfilled.

Both were AFCW teams doing it against NFCS teams to boot. Any other AFCW-NFCS games left?

It would be the first thing coordinated this junk of a team has done all year. I love this team, but the worst season ever is going to end up with the No. 2 pick because of Cleveland going 0-16. And even if Cleveland goes 1-15, they’ll end up with the weaker SOS tiebreaker (Seattle twice and Dallas, among other…

+1.

For those wondering...

This is from the Washington Post last offseason when Cousins was tagged. I provided the interesting paragraph:

I hated the Bud Selig rule for the ASG. However, stop this Cubs had to play Game 7 on the road stuff, to a certain degree.

+1 does not do this post enough justice and someone beat me to the +77 virgins comment, so I’ll just give a +3.14 because everybody likes “pie”.

Let’s consult Troy Aikman shall we?

Oh he covered that in his tirade after the game.

Well it pushed them a lot closer to scoring position when OSU hadn’t showed much all day.

And why my favorite team lost a Super Bowl cause he wouldn’t tell Greg Roman to change the play calling.

As a neutral I think he did make it.

+1 Knee surgery?