How in the world did the ref let the 11th defending player be so close to the ball? Don’t all defenders need to be 10 yards from the ball or on the goal line?

I think you mean "Suarez Luized Luiz ..." (The ball didn't get nutmegged, Sideshow Bob Luiz did.)

Patsy, sweetie, darling, WHAT are you wearing?

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Rarity of antics for NBA seems rare because there are only about 350 NBA players while there are about 1500 NFL players. But if you want to know if offseason antics a truly rare for NBA you’d have to post on Regressing.

The insufferable Red Sox fan behavior seems to me to be generational, not geographical. I have been a Red Sox fan since the '70s. I have observed a definite change for the worse (in my opinion) in Red Sox Nation since the turn of the century. Red Sox fans used to be more humble and less entitled and obnoxious, as a…

My favorite part is at 0:43 where the goal-line ref steps into the field of play to improve his line of sight, then nods to confirm that the ball bouncing slowly into the net, you know, actually bounced slowly into the net.

Surely a writer should know things can't be both numberless and legion, by definition.

This revision also has the benefit of reducing the intersection of "People with flawless British accents and swagger sticks" and "People who eat at Olive Garden", though it is probably still over-represented, being that in reality it is zero.

Yeah, and I don't think Hannibal conquered Italy, either.