“The individual you mentioned has initiated a grievance against the NFL. It would be inappropriate for us to reach out to him until the grievance is resolved.”
Some flavor of that should be the response every coach and executive gives.

Interesting read. I couldn’t find the GMAX numbers for the turf that is installed in Minnesota stadium, so I had to use a slightly less scientific methodology: Aaron Rodgers has broken his collarbone on natural turf (his first break) and artificial turf (yesterday’s break). My conclusion: playing against NFC North…

I’m not sure you’ve walked onto an NFL field that uses synthetic turf. The last time I was in Lucas Oil Stadium I was walking around the sidelines/end zone. There was a slight but noticeable amount of spring to the surface. That’s FieldTurf, which is not the same stuff at Minnesota’s new stadium. However, my buddy…

#6. You can’t freeze ice? Have you not seen the Antarctic? This is how cold it gets:

EDIT: Ok, for the life of me I can’t get the pic to upload. Picture frozen Jack Daniels.

Appreciate the quick reply sir.

Sorry for digging up one of your old articles, but I have a question: is it considered bad form to negotiate with dealerships as a group rather than individually? The suggestion I got was to throw all the dealerships into a single e-mail so they all can see what they’re going up against. The idea seemed a little…

The logic of your statement falls apart when you think about all those players who are playing on bottom half teams but remain on their teams’ rosters. When was the last time you heard about a player walking away from a team without that team releasing them first? Lynch retired, but when he came back he had to get the…

“Kaepernick’s contract was originally supposed to keep him with the Niners through 2020, but the team worked with the 29-year-old to revamp it before he reclaimed the starting job in October.

As part of the deal’s reconfiguration, Kaepernick traded $14.5 million in injury guarantees during the 2017 season for the…

What’s his end game? Sue the League in federal court for damages? How can he claim he’s suffered damages after he walked out on his own contract? Force a team to sign him? Does he think a judge would even want to make that decision?

If you’re coming in from the far suburbs, there are also restaurants in Naperville and Rolling Meadows.

NATO? The North American Theater Owners trade group? I’m familiar with some of their members.

“I promise this won’t become yet another Kaepernick rant, but I just want to note that Cassel was sacked six times on Sunday, averaged a pathetic 4.4 yards-per-completion, and ended up losing to a Miami team that had no-showed over the two previous games.”

When my wife and I were still dating, we would hit up Chinatown on a pretty regular basis (she was living just over the border, in Bridgeport). We tried Phoenix a few times, after each and every meal we’d decide that we could save money by going to China Cafe, as their dim sum was just as good as Phoenix.

I’m a Bears fan, so some people would question how I qualify the word “enjoyment”. But I’m still enjoying watching the game.

“Transport is one of the main greenhouse gas producers...so we are planning an exit from combustion engine vehicles, or fossil-energy vehicles, by 2030,”

Chinatown in Chicago? Yes please. Triple Crown? Ye gods man, no. Suck it up, deal with the wait, and get a table at MingHin. You’ll be glad you did. And if you are near Grant Park or Streeterville you can hit up one of the satellite restaurants. The dim sum is made in the Chinatown kitchen, prepped for storage (don’t…

I *think* hyperspace in Star Wars is technically a second dimension, one where travel between two points would be faster than staying in our dimension. If my memory is correct, then a ship could stop in hyperspace, wait, then start moving again.

The government had the bond and ration programs for WWII. That’s how they got you for “...betraying the troops.”

Grandfathers are awesome. When my dad was a kid, my grandfather would not let him buy Mad Magazines “...because they were subversive.” When I stayed with my grandparents for a summer, my grandfather let me buy Mad Magazines “...because they were subversive.”

Are you talking about the perspective from the cockpit, or observing from behind? Cockpit, sure. From behind? I don’t recall seeing anything like that. Sounds like an excuse to watch the movies again! For “research” purposes, of course.