I remember back in high school having one of those inflatable bladders in my helmet, i almost never played in a game, so i inflated it to be a good tackling dummy at practice, but for game time I deflated it for comfort.. for whatever reason our coach felt all bench players had to be in helmets all game long.

Nothing but Ls? Pretty sure they swept a home-and-home series in there.

I don’t know that relegation is a great idea, but we definitely need something to prevent teams from just deciding they are going to tank for half a decade. It’s clearly not healthy for the teams or the sport.

So, does the NFL do anything at all to help out a player having a mental health crisis or are they just on their own for that?

The Jaguars are so pissed that the NFL doesn’t grant territorial rights anymore.

Fitness is about pain—body wracked with pain—mind overtaken by pain—lungs bursting in pain—muscles seizing in pain—soul melting in pain—vision clouding with pain—world melding with pain, until you live in pain world.

This new curve ball of “Hey mannnn, nationalism is cool mannn. it just means I like the stars and stripes and George Washington mannn. Maybe it’s YOU that’s the racist one” is so mind numbingly dumb and scary and dangerous and fucking evil.

the ~1500 professional-class liberals who were really excited to vote for Hillary Clinton

While I admit I came here for the snarky sports commentary, these long form essays about the influence of sports on culture have been a real find.

Huh. Almost seems as if the mega-rich paid their rightful share of taxes, we’d need fewer nonprofits or something.

You hear that guys? We should be thanking the mega-rich for the crumbs they bestow upon us so they can pay less in taxes.

Seriously, you should change your name to EL-OBTUSO

It’s dangerous for Kenny to publish this already-public information. What if people see this is and realize Stephen Ross is a racist piece of shit?

Chris Simms initially opined that Brown might be dealing with a fungal infection, because something similar happened to him in Tampa.

Pro athletes do tend to have fucked up feet, but more of the musculoskeletal and/or epic callus variety than the “I went on a bar crawl in flip-flops in Yakutsk in January” type.

the left sideline, well out of Isner’s reach.

Any loud phone use should be a war crime.

On the staffing/opex front would note that some of their contributors have day jobs elsewhere. E.g. 2 of the Dallas guys are full-time radio hosts. I’ve always assumed they get paid under some commission structure. But it’s definitely not the primary source of their income. Not sure how prevalent that is - obviously…

In a just world, Fox News would be legally classified as hate speech (and there’d be comprehensive gun control.)

If we come back to baseball using the best players all over the feild, I'm for it.