This year, it was like that with the Falcons. I went to Falcons-Steelers, and it was basically in Pittsburgh. I was one of two Falcons fans in my section. When we left the game the streets were just full of Steelers fans. It was horrible.

You know, I was gonna say doctor's office waiting rooms, but now I just use my phone to entertain me.

If your coworker owns the company, he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

Atlanta

Hawks have the best record in the NBA against the West though...

The hawks weren't really *that* bad last season, even with Horford hurt. That was also the first year of this team playing together under this system. Even without Horf, they took the Pacers to 7 in the first round and came one or two shots away from winning the series in 6.

Because if you jump up for the ball and get hit and land with your feet first or knees and then fall and drop the ball it's not a catch. You see that every day. This is *exactly* the same thing. Dez was still falling from diving for the catch. The feet, the football move, all that is irrelevant. The only relevant…

Ok, so that means any time a receiver goes up for the ball, as long as he gets touched in the air he doesn't have to maintain possession when he hits the ground? Of course he does. It's the exact same thing here. I'm not sure how you don't see it.

It doesn't hinge on the football move. It hinges on the following: "If you're falling as you make the catch, you gotta keep the ball secure until you land, including when you hit the ground". That's it. Since Dez was still falling forward with the momentum from the dive to catch the ball, he had to maintain possession…

A player can catch the ball if it touches the ground *and* it doesn't bobble from the ground contact. Exactly the same as if a player catches the ball on a dive and falls forward, and then after he's had both feet down a knee and been touched the ball *does* bobble from the ground contact. He's still falling from the…

Really not unusual attire in the south.

I agree that it isn't just about Michael Brown. That's my point, I think they have a very valid point about the way black people are treated by police. I just wish the Michael Brown shooting wasn't the poster-example for that.

Officer coulda missed.

Interesting. Hadn't seen that before. From what I understood the majority of witnesses (that seemed verifiably there and had testimony that didn't conflict with visual evidence) said otherwise. For example you have to immediately discount any witness who says that MB did not reach into the police car. His blood over…

I can't breathe protests make sense. That actually happened, and was super fucked up. Hands Up Don't Shoot protests don't make sense to me. All the evidence points to the fact that Michael Brown just didn't have his hands up. I don't get why this cause has to conflate the two.

This is only acceptable if the kid was talking mad shit.

I agree. I just don't get why "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" has to be the rallying cry as it's so specifically tied to this case.

Read the grand jury report. The only witnesses who said he had his hands up in surrender contradicted themselves and each-other and also contradicted the physical evidence for what happened in the altercation, such as the blood trail leading away from Wilson's car and then coming back to where Michael Brown was…

FWIW, the physical evidence (forensics, blood spatter, autopsy) and multiple witnesses points to the fact that "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" never did actually happen with Michael Brown. Disagree with everything else Ditka said and think there definitely needs to be reform in regards to police abuse and mistreatment of…

A subsequent encounter, she alleges, left her with deep bruising on her body.