They’re getting use of a brand new stadium in a huge market for essentially nothing. They don’t give a shit if all the tickets they sell are to opposing fans seeing their team visit LA once every couple years. The money is just as green.

Try the veggie dog. Sooooo good.

They did one survey:  it would be more profitable to become a tenant in the second largest TV market as opposed to (gasp) using thier own money to build a new stadium elsewhere.  Apparently chargers ownership is broke and has to rent instead of own.  Like me!

Mexico City will be to the Chargers as London is to Jags. 

Same. I’ve lived here for ages. Never met a single Chargers fan. Hell, they were even hard to find in San Diego.

You can see Mean Gene starting to crack when he says that. He tries to hold it in, but then the camera zooms in on The Iron Sheik to help hide it. 

Came here to say this.

“You’d think somebody would have done some surveys”

Dean Spanos, in the four-five years of sabre-rattling he did prior to the move, when he couldn’t extort enough money from San Diego’s citizenry to his liking, when it appeared that he would have to pay for his own damn stadium, would try to move the goalposts, and state that a move to his proposed Carson location was…

This is the good shit, Bix. Thanks for putting this together.

This is not in the same hemisphere as a boast because I think the guy’s a douche but I know Simmons - I’m good friends with one of the guys he used to reference in his ‘Boston Sports Guy’ days.

Honestly, this is bad ass. Thanks for sharing.

You have to be massively out of touch with reality to assume everyone that isn’t working on a holiday is getting a paid vacation.

Maybe he was trying to get out early so he could make his ride on the Halle-Bopp comet.

Lebron James, in so many ways, seems like an incredible net positive for the world.

I could never have imagined it when he was being profiled by ESPN when he was like 15 or 16 and I was watching it after school. It’s incredible.

I would be cynical since it’s something that was posted to his social media to make him look good, but I agree. He appears to be a good dad, who makes time for his kids even though he has a million projects he’s always working on. And he’s a good person, who donates more money than most of us would ever see in 10…

No snark: He seems like a good dad. 

Well a prophylactic recall turned me into parent

So last night while drinking too much and checking in on Drew for probably the 25th time that day, I decided to sketch a loving tribute. I use the term “sketch” loosely because I basically just ripped off (and for a good chunk of it I downright traced) the Death of Superman comic book cover. I don’t really understand…

The year was 1988. I cane home from college and went to a local semi-pro hockey game. They were running a promotion where three people were chosen to compete to win fried chicken by shooting pucks into an empty net. My program # was chosen.