They're limiting their own window for success. It'll be difficult to sustain long-term success with moves like this.

My first minimum-wage job was in data entry.

Oh man, if I was Strasburg's teammate, I would start hugging him all the damn time after reading that. I'd make it a thing - group hug Stephen after every achievement no matter how little, just because I know how much it discomforts him. After every inning, group hug in the dugout. Just hug him all the damn time.

Mono hit Sam hard.

Tell ya what - I really enjoyed watching that game. I didn’t even mind that I’d started the Cowboys defense (and consequently lost my fantasy matchup). Watching the Cowboys lose in pathetic fashion to an underdog dressed in CFL jerseys - that’s an underrated pleasure.

Doing his best John Carney impression, Bryant missed the extra point wide left.

It would take some extraordinary levels of incompetence from both sides.

I ... don’t think that’s right. My memory is that onside recovery in modern NFL rules is only allowed on free kicks - kickoffs, safety punts, and the fair catch kick. You can’t do it from scrimmage anymore.

Robin Tote, surely.

Hurdling actually isn’t a bad idea, but it’s supposed to be used in one-on-one open-field situations. A big guy up against a single defender in the open field - that defender will usually go low to give themselves the best chance at wrapping up the tackle. When they commit to diving at the legs, that’s when you leap…

So, I got out of work early.

Gareth Southgate has experience staying on the England pitch in disgrace, so it probably doesn’t bother him.

but you’d think at some point they’d be like “oh yeah Foxborough” and try something else.

Well, one possible reason could be because the combined records of the 6 opponents that NE has faced this season have a collective record of 7-22. And 4 of those wins are by the Bills, the only team with a winning record. And that Bills team, too, had a cake schedule including the Jets, the Giants, and the Bengals.…

Nah. Well ... okay, so they had one guy die of a heart attack in 2007. And in 2012, a drunk fan got ejected from the stadium, and while he was hanging around waiting for his brother to get out, he fell into a creek and drowned.

Things that I don’t think I could reasonably expect to get away with:

Other relevant fun facts for bored pedants:

Other relevant fun facts for bored pedants:

I wrote a long comment about this. But actually - just watch this:

Actually, they do. You’re mixing up punts and kickoffs. You can “down” a punt if the return team never touches it, but on kickoffs, the ball is live from the moment it leaves the kicker’s foot. It’s extremely rare, but sometimes a kickoff returner forgets and then the fun begins.