Contrary to popular belief, one does not need to be in a constant state of stress and anxiety in order to perform well, either in sports or anything else. In fact, the opposite is true. Rest and relaxation are vital to training and performing well in any task.

Grrrr, grit grit grit.

Apropos:

Because white people.

If he doesn’t clean up his act soon, he’s flirting with a multi-game suspension.

This is certainly the first time I’ve ever heard “forcible” as a reason to not flag clear helmet-to-helmet contact by a defender, let alone clear helmet-to-helmet contact by a defender in a context where the QB has already given himself up and can’t be hit at all. Or heard that word at all in an NFL context really.

I’m a big old liberal atheist who celebrates the shit of muscular, American consumer X-mas.

Of course you wouldn’t, Stan.

One in hole!

“Challenge accepted”

“I’d been meaning to talk to him and I got tied up with a few things,” Bowles said of the failure to inform Fitzpatrick.

Thank god that man had a gun to defend himself from the other man who was apologizing. Things might have gotten out of hand.

Yeah I guess you could blame politics but have you heard the music kids are listening to these days?

(Vikings lawyers noted that other than the whole “nuke all the gays” thing, Priefer never said anything “inappropriate” or “demeaning” to or about LGBT people.)

Opposing Player 1: He’s just chilling there

And in an actual game no less.

what are you hoping to accomplish here, exactly?

4 steps is traveling now? Back in the 80s and 90s I saw guys take 10 steps get a kidney ripped out and still score a 4 point basket. Players are soft these days.

It was an acceptable joke. I wasn’t dying with laughter. It worked for what it was.