It’s the same in this country, saying “I’m not racist, but . . .” makes everything after that Not Racist.

There’s a ton of “character” players that Belichick used without issue: Moss, Dillon, Blount, Meriweather, Browner...

Football is the perfect sport for America because it’s manufactured tribalism that allows us to blather a lot of meaningless nonsense about fake combat none of the fans have any actual involvement with, while scrupulously hiding all the real-world consequences and in the process making a handful of billionaire…

I know this won’t happen, but I wish he would come out and say that the Colts should sign Kaepernick, even as as a backup. That would just be the perfect chef’s kiss to the whole thing...

kinda funny how we all just rolled over on the fourth and fifth amendments out of concerns for “safety”, or the “war on drugs”, or maybe the “war on terror”, or whatever the current extraconstitutional “war” is...

I love old ass farts grumbling about “metrics” as if they are the devil’s work. What Goose, Pinella and his age-addled moron friends don’t get is that batting average, RBIs, ERA....those are all metrics. Numbers measuring outcomes = metrics, you fucking dope.

It depends on the writer. Usually Barry is better about this but Deadspin is for sure not hesitant to omit some facts when it suits a narrative these days.  When you go full editorial, that’ll happen.

Not sure that’s entirely accurate either. From what I’ve seen the league gave everyone a list of acceptable AND unacceptable helmets and gave everyone a 1 year grace period to adopt one of these helmets. Not every manufactured helmet was tested in the proposed list, and it appears that the NFL was willing to test any…

so Brown is going to pack up and go somewhere else if people don’t give in to his demands? I wonder where he got the idea that would work?

Never let your rights and benefits as a worker be dependent on your boss being a decent guy. 

Well, consider this theory in the light that each of the four major North American sports leagues, made up of people doing a job at a level that probably only hundreds, or maybe low-thousands, of people in the world could do. 

In Clipper Mike's imagination.  

I didn’t say they prevented layoffs. I said they ensured things like pay, benefits and what I think you meant to say which is some level of 401k matching.

I’m cracking up about some of the union haters on the grays. Buddy, if you didn’t have to join the union at the closed shop, you wouldn’t keep 2% more of your money — you would have been paid 10% less. 

Plus, it conflicts with their Incredibles message of Randian Ubermenchen.

Or maybe the wealthy professional football team he plays for could figure out a way to get its hands on one for him.

“Why should I buy car insurance? I’m a good driver and have never been in an accident.”

Solidarity with others in the industry, ensuring that good workplace conditions continue if there’s a change in management, giving workers a voice in governance decisions.

Losing 10 Barrel to “the man” hurt, I used to enjoy their Apocalypse often.

Probably because you didn’t read the article.