Um, right, except that there is.

Of course it wasn’t targeting. That’s a college rule.

When dirty players are making hits, they’re usually trying to “send a message.”

Just because Shazier got away with attempted murder last year on a worse hit than this one doesn’t mean that either hit was clean.

Can you blame us? Your team has injured basically all of our players with dirty hits over the years.

Right there with you. This was the first year in a long time that I didn’t mind missing a few games. It just takes a little time to come back from that one, I guess.

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Fair point. I’m just not sure why everyone uses him as the example of being wrong when essentially any other person would be a better example. I guess he’s just the only one whose name we know?

A good episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Revisionist History, also covers this topic. Same premise. Guys know it works better but don’t want to be made fun of. I guess if you’re good enough to hang around the league without it you can have the luxury of keeping a lower FT% to keep cool. I’m surprised we don’t…

As someone else said, the file was so large it couldn’t be easily transmitted over the air.

It wasn’t in the trailer, but I always think of Gary Jules’ cover of Mad World in Donnie Darko as the first time I heard this.

I can’t answer that. I think I started replying to the max of 17 full-time refs you mentioned and then got carried away. Sorry about that.

If I’m not mistaken, being part-time is very important to the current referees. They do not want to give up their day jobs to become full-time.

For now...

Lord, it’s hard to be happy when you’re not using the metric system.

Well, given recent election results, we’re on our way.

I know gay men who grew up in the midwest in the late 80s and early 90s who have wonderful relationships with their families. But thanks for stereotyping yourself.

I think your problems are larger than can be solved in the comments section of a sports-ish blog. Good luck.

Case-in-point. The Bengals. 4th and 1-inch at mid-field? Better punt!

I’ve been a huge Marvin Lewis defender for years, but I think it’s time.