so close to becoming an asshole

I suspect quite a number of sports fans care if an American player currently getting lots of media coverage for sudden international success sincerely believes Hillary Clinton ran a child sex slavery ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant and spends his free time reading neo-Nazi material.

“Agonizing over the little mistakes or bad decisions that seem to result in a heartbreaking last-second loss is, essentially, adopting the belief that the loss really is explained by those things. But at a really fundamental level, I don’t believe that and I think it is weirdly Calvinist”

Glad it wasn’t just me!

Post script: Even I want to punch myself after reading my half-assed Slack ranting assembled into a paragraph.

No, I think people are griping because they pathetically put their hopes in a Jacksonville team that does not have a functioning QB.

Some of the throws Bortles missed would be made by D-II QBs. His huddle/play clock management is an embarrassment to every grade school student learning to tell time.

Dilfer was Steve…

Except that second video is really unclear. It only cuts seeing the Pats player holding the ref and the two talking something. Also that doesn’t seem like celebrating, it’s just the ref saying something to the player who then walks away. There is almost no context and it is just presented in a sinister manner to fit a…

Anyone who attends an NFL with good seats will tell you the refs joke with the players all the time. However, I love the free real estate the Patriots have in the heads of most of America.

For real. And since when did literally ripping the ball out of a guy’s hands while lying on the ground suddenly not become down by contact? You can have the tail of your jersey barely brush an opposing player and be down by contact, but having your arms intertwined with the other guy is now Patriots conspiracy.

On a more substantial counter-argument, there were only two holding calls made in the whole game. One for the Patriots and one for the Jaguars, so it seemed that in general the referees had taken a much more lax enforcement standard for this game as I can also point out situations where Jacksonville clearly either…

Watching the Patriots in the playoffs is like watching Hulk Hogan in the 80's. They’ll let you feel like you’re doing well, when all looks lost they’ll ‘hulk up’ and in the end they’ll crush your spirit with one giant boot to the face and a leg drop.

Just stop. It’s not worth your sanity. Just accept that the Patriots have joined cockroaches and Cher as the only things that will survive a nuclear holocaust.

Bleh. The fumble thing was more incompetence than sinister intent.

The sideline pass interference looked legit. And the Gronk hit was a no-brainer.

And the fact is, Brady is going to get PI/Holding calls and Bortles is not. It’s not fair. But Rodgers, Big Ben and Brees would have the same advantage.

Say what you want about bad calls, but seriously with the ref “celebrating”? You could post the whole video where clearly he’s laughing while telling players to calm down and not start a fight.

This is one hell of an article. ‘I’m not saying this game was fixed, I’m simply going to present one-sided evidence to indicate that it was for the team I’m constantly slamming.’

It’s weird to me that people believe a) the Patriots are huge cheaters who were caught cheating by the NFL, and b) the NFL rigs games for the Patriots. It’s not unlike believing that the FBI nailed Hillary for her dangerous and flagrantly illegal e-mail server, and also that they secretly were trying to sink Trump’s…

This whole article is some good Kinja

This problem is rampant; I hear the same thing from guys in my recreational flag football league.

Lowry looked pretty eager, maybe a little too eager for Simmons’ liking. They always say it’s the guards you don’t want to fight. Guys Simmons’ size have never had to fight.

“Fuckin’ millennials.” — Jerry Stackhouse