NFL merch sale revenue is put into the pool that is shared evenly among all the teams, so that’s really not much of an incentive for an individual team. 

Okay, he has two guys who used to be good but suck shit now.

At least Shady is exciting to watch at least 3 or 4 times a game. 

Bitcoin is a great example of the limitations of market cap as a meaningful valuation metric. 

I still have no idea what it’s supposed to be promoting, so not really.

You’re correct, the terrible contract they gave him has made it so this obviously correct solution is not feasible. 

The Seahawks are basically last year’s Thunder. They’re a good but definitely not great team, and mostly interesting just to see how far one player can carry them.

They’re exactly Nebraska with orange jerseys, and that’s, uh, not a very charitable comparison. 

I don’t know, the committee has seemed to have a bit less of a recency bias like that than the other human polls. 

Because he’s not a good player anymore. 

He was really really good in a pretty boring way, but even at his peak was maybe 80% the player Westbrook is. 

From a broadcaster’s perspective, that’s literally the only positive about soccer compared to other American sports. You know almost exactly when the games will end!

Yeah, the main difference is that you’re more likely to hear about it when it’s rich people being petty. 

They’re not likely to block a kick from that short of range, so there wasn’t much reason for them to not call a defense that protected against some sort of fake. 

If we want to go by league-average-indexed, he’s the still second best and one of only two that were above average.

This is a pretty good joke making fun of people with ridiculous range anxiety standards. 

“Greek Freak” isn’t just a nickname.

Does anybody actually believe for a second that George Takei is a predatory monster?

I thought that for the first couple angles I saw of it, but I saw another angle later on Red Zone that was pretty definitively showing the ball loose before it hit the pylon.

No one is saying this was some grand scheme to get himself onto the Pats, just that he may have changed his mind about season-ending surgery once the Pats picked him up off waivers.