Man, I can’t wait to see what the papers will come up with for headlines tomorrow morning!

Hey, what do you expect? He’s a defensive guy!

The same fan threatened to blow up US Bank Stadium if the Vikings signed Robert Turbin.

A scholarship to an SEC school.

It’s the preferred sport of Republicans, climate-change deniers, Christian fundamentalists, and people who think every American foreign policy issue can be solved by the 101st Airborne. The game’s in bed (possibly not quite the right term) with fundamentalist Christianity, anti‑intellectualism, and retrograde ideas…

Listen, I’m an academic too — a historian, actually (btw please don’t with the affected English “an”). And a rabid football fan. And I have to tell you, the smug elite/popular aesthetic you open this piece with is infuriating. Just...get over yourself. Every time I scroll back up to re-read a sentence, I find another…

Holy shit I found something I hate even more than either of their comments.

I was working at a different Gawker blog.

I don’t know how dramatic it is, but I think my route was pretty unconventional, even by the standards here. I didn’t to college, apart from a handful of IT-certification-related classes at the community college in my early 20s (I didn’t finish the certification, by the way). I had a job in IT and was a Deadspin…

Between graduating college and coming on as a Gawker Media intern, I worked as an office temp, an SEO farmer, a door-to-door restaurant website salesman, a comedy club barker, a Xerox digitizer (we unstapled big packets of documents from universities, scanned them, then re-stapled them), intern at a public schools…

I quit academia halfway through my Ph.D dissertation to join the sports blogging world.

I have a geology degree, for some dumb reason.

It’s a shame that original formula Strongbow is not available in the US anymore. That had the perfect blend of “not too sweet” but not being overly dry.

Enjoyed this article more than anything on kotaku for some time, thanks.