Instead of answering your simple and reasonable question, I think I’ll instead lawyer up to the gills and get the State Department to step in and loudly announce that I won’t be doing any talking today. This is sure to put any concerns to rest.

“This has been said many times before, but the Cleveland Browns asked for this.”

‘Boss’ for me is always from a Persian cabbie taking me to LaGuardia.

Tennessee fan and alum here. And, yes, I agree. We’re fucked. Drew’s throwaway mention of the Browns is super important though. Perhaps someone else has pointed this out to Drew, but Tennessee is basically the Browns testing grounds (and has been since Jimmy Haslam bought the Browns). Jimmy Haslam owns the Browns; and…

Driving to Wisconsin from Illinois is exciting because Wisconsin is a fun state to visit for a weekend. There’s lakes, binge drinking, CHEEEESE, all the things you could really need to take a break from IL. Take the skyway into Indiana and see if you feel that same excitement...cause guess what, you don’t. You’re…

It’s hard to think of an American institution better designed than sports to shunt a woman to the side in her own story.

Coleman and Barry Corbin as the General are just making a meal out of the script but never edge over into self parody (and they show one of the other things I love about the movie, how there is no real bad guy; everyone is acting out of their best instincts, but sometimes that leads you into a failure of logic where…

Guaranteed that guy doesn’t wonder when “we’re” going to sign Dak, and pines for the days of Tony Romo. 

I was once scolded by a Packers fan coworker for referring to the Lions and using “we.” I’m not on the team. A few weeks later he referred to the Packers as “we.” When I called him out he said “but I’m an owner.” Fuck Packers fans; your “stock” is worthless.

“You should floss more, your gums are bleeding a little.”

It’s about ETHICS IN SPORTS FANDOM!

I almost think it’s weirder sounding for a fan of a team to go out of the way *not* to say “we” when referring to them. Like, you’ve already taken the (pretty irrational) step of tying your emotional investment to the performance of a group of strangers, it is strange to then turn around and try to linguistically…

best cheap beer: Corona

Lesson that everyone needs to learn: just because someone agrees with you and your platform on one thing doesn’t mean they agree with you and your platform on all things. Not everyone follows a tribalistic mentality.

“I think Duke would have not been thrilled about your not being there.”

I think you could find plenty of examples of high-performing, highly productive people who got away with shit from their employers that less productive people wouldn’t. 

I think, more fairly, their entire position was “they handled everything well up until the point they fined him for something that they had indicated was fine, and was in the rear view mirror.”  

I think it's more about consistency - don't say everything is cool, we have your back, then two weeks later act like it was beyond the pale. Even at the last minute Gruden was acting like being secretly recorded was cool and funny, right before they fined him. 

There’s also the canisters of film that will mysteriously go ablaze, Paramount-style, when Belichick finally retires.

Everybody in Boston thinks they’re Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting when really they’re Matt Damon in Team America: World Police.