It clearly was a con. I think the question is whether that’s actually even a problem with you (or me, or anyone).

> I’m not willing to risk further damage to my shoulder for a 3rd place team without its star QB, but I am willing to do so for a chance to win a super bowl with Tom Brady

You say that like it’s a bad thing. Seems perfectly reasonable to me

He is fucking lucky to be alive

TIL: Astroturf and brook have other meanings!

Immediately after the game, the San Francisco 49ers reached out to offer the St. Michael-Albertville defensive coordinator a job as an assistant coach.

Caboche only pawn in game of life.

The issue with VAR is that decisions in soccer are rarely based on simple binary questions. Goal-line technology works well because the question is “did the entire ball cross the line?” Rendering decisions on penalties or cards is different, because the question becomes something like “did the contact in this incident…

I don’t want to Monday Morning QB your editor but I think we probably would have figured out “Boston” from the rest of the headline.

And dozens of them are in the Wu-Tang Clan.

It’s in the basement of the Field House, under some old gym mats and Geno Auriemma’s original hair.

If I know my history, there’ll be statues of the loser of the Civil Conflict trophy up all over the south in a few years.

If it makes you feel any better, just remember that this is what their lives have come to. Look at these people for what they are. Old, angry, most likely forced into retiring early, and ignorant. They’ll never change. This is what the rest of their miserable lives will look like. The two of them, sitting around,…

The story’s author takes us into the living room of Johnstown resident Pam Schilling, a 60-year-old retiree who is already keyed up to vote for Trump in 2020:

Because he doesn’t want obstinate Thunder fans blowing up the comments.

farted up 23 turnovers

I’m saying that those two catastrophic global wars that occurred in the 20th century, one of which he lived through, were caused in large part by extreme feelings of national superiority in many nations. Feelings of national exceptionalism, raising the military to such rarefied heights that ANY criticism of a country…

Mindless displays of nationalism are, by and large, stupid and idiotic at best, dangerous at worst. Singing the national anthem before a fucking sports game is a tradition that needs to stop yesterday. Uncritical notions of nationalistic exceptionalism are extremely dangerous, and I forever look forward to the day…

Except those people’s willful ignorance and tacit acceptance of systemic racism isn’t valid and okay, not everyone’s a winner, and you don’t get a cookie for simply having an opinion.

If you are against the kneeling, you are an uneducated (perhaps willfully, on this topic) bigot.

My understanding is that the lineup isn’t technically official until kick-off and substitutions can still be made freely until that point, but instead of looking it up I wrote this comment.