I think we can agree that Thursday Night Football is somehow a Madden simulation using the engine from 2034; the graphics are indistinguishable from reality but the physics still aren’t quite right.

Great article Jason, took a while but was able to finish the whole thing.

Hmm, so Marcus Thompson is the Gruden Administration’s Maggie Haberman? Good to know.

He looks like Mark Cuban’s deadbeat brother who works at Arby’s and posts Roommate Wanted ads on craigslist; while using the money his brother sends him to keep up to date on his several porn paysite subscriptions.

Did they ever do an inventory of “loving tributes that nonetheless totally misunderstand the source material”? This and Snyder’s Watchmen would easily make that list. 

Rodgers emphatically denied any rift, but eyebrows were raised when he added, “Mike is like a member of my own family.”

cumulatively, loyal brand servitude makes you better at the game than another player who doesn’t bother with that shit.

I could care less if someone considers it a sport. It’s irrelevant and has no bearing on its overall growth and popularity. What is entertaining is how artificial the definitions become whenever this comes up. You yourself pose no consistent definition that aligns with all of your examples. Under your initial…

They’re on top of the world and are in control of the whole game, but can’t stop playing the victim card and whining like pathetic losers about how much everyone is out to get them. It’s not only annoying, it’s completely counterproductive, as they’re going to wake up soon on the bottom of the world, with no one to…

Cheers to Lauren and Laura for 1. calling this asshole out and 2. being able to publicly laugh it off.

Do you think it’s useful to train football players as if they are going to run a marathon?

Muschamp knows Durkin personally and not once has Durkin caused him to exercise to over-exertion and death so Durkin must be innocent.

We’re getting to the point where you have to wonder what schools don’t have a toxic culture in one or many sports.

His supporters say there’s no proof Urban did anything wrong. His detractors say there’s no proof he did the right thing. Both are, for the moment, correct.

No one wants to talk to you, and smearing yourself in shit and screaming your lungs out isn’t going to change that. 

A South-adjacent part of the Midwest. And yes, I didn’t find it shocking so much as eyeroll-inducing.

Dwight Howard is so toxic that one of the league’s most difficult personalities coming off an Achilles tear was somehow still the safer choice.

join the lottery for future Hardrocks.

“I want to play for the 76ers”
“Wait, I don’t want to play for an NBA team”

This story keeps getting better and better. Deadspin should embed a reporter there for a week to do a really deep dive into these guys lives.