Reminds me of an American Lit class I had at my very liberal British Uni. People were protesting the plight of the Native American and they brought up the Indians and Braves. A very outraged, very 90s student proclaimed, "why don't they just call them the Detroit n*****s?!?" A Lions game has never been quite the same…

I dunno. Dale Earnhardt plastered flat against a wall. Joe Pa, larger than life, propped up by corporate interests. Seems like a work of modern art imitating life!

"He 'paid' for those gifts? If he didn't steal them with a ski mask he is clearly not 'black' enough for the next level."

There goes Brandon Jacobs' chance for a shot with the Colts. Only room for one cancer in the locker room in Indy.

Yes, typical Viking though, had to go to Wisconsin to find a ring.

Beginning a 9 year sentence for gun crime!

Yes. We should stick to only sports related gun crimes and murder. EW can have entertainment and movie theatre related gun crime and mass killing and Fox News and the NRA can have gun killings of the mentally ill and deranged. Done and done.

If this is the next chapter in Vince's career is it Chapter 12?

All of a sudden 'Assaulted Candi' does not sound so tasty!

Rick Reilly was first with this news on twitter.

It will be a traditional Minnesota Vikings wedding: no rings.

Sounds like the most painful sportsman interaction with glass since Steve Young had to look Stuart Scott in the eye!

Rick Reilly here.

There is a national discussion to have here. That said, Costas is the John McClain of this discussion (wrong person, place, and time). But rational, national debates is not something this country does very well. The fact is that if there are no guns there is no gun crime (NOT my point of view, but a fact!) Deadly…

You can certainly make it legal, there are law changes all the time. Make a wrap up tackle legal for blindside 'hits', make them the only legal contact for post change of possession plays (Alabama) there are plenty of things that can be done. Hitting is the problem. Hitting like that is not blocking, (and Gus…

Tackle! A tackle is not a hit. Hitting the knee with the helmet is dangerous, tackling and wrapping up is not. The Football is not football anymore discussion resembles the 'Traditional Marriage' argument, harkening back to a fantasy time that did not exist. Was football football with leather helmets, limited passing?…

Lowlight was Gus Johnson referring to the Badger having his 'bell rung' and being a 'tough kid', the inference of his comments and his back and forth with Mike Perreira (how many versions of him does Fox thaw out each weekend?) was that concussions could be toughed out.

This has an aroma of 'spin' around it which is a little distasteful, but I do think that context is important. That said, I am the most liberal person I know, gun control etc... BUT if you are aware that you cannot remember games, conversations etc... if you know you drink and others know you drink, you have to have…

Must be a Louisville tradition because Bobby Petrino's a massive dick!

KC's mayor is called 'Sly'? Who the hell was he running against?