“weird how he’s grown more obsequious the more powerful he’s become”

It’s almost as if someone who heavily leans on the same tired metaphors for his entire career couldn’t come up with anything new or interesting for his HBO show.

I can’t believe I used to read this idiot.

For what it’s worth, Almost Famous is a good movie.

I find it to be a site that is rumored to exist, certainly

When the Sox (game 4 Starbucks run never forget) and Pats won and he moved to LA his relevance ended. I hate phrases like this but he’s truly a monument to white mediocrity.

I’ve never seen that movie. It’s like what 15 years old and no one ever mentions it? He has to have no readers under 30 at this point.

At this point, doesn’t Simmons have contacts in the Patriots organization he can rely on to offer refuations or push back on some of Wickersham’s reporting? I understand Simmons’s whole persona is embracing the fanboy homer character rather than eschewing it (although 10 years ago I think his fanboy response to this…

It might be worth pointing out that the reason Drew Bledsoe got benched was because of a life-threatening injury.

Ah, so the solution for this strife is for Brady, Belichick, and Kraft to get in a bus and sing along to Tiny Dancer.

I wonder how much money it would take to get Simmons to do a podcast without making even one reference to the Pats, Celtics or Red Sox.

“How does he think this is an argument that supports itself?”

“One week later, it’s hard to decipher what was definitely true, exaggerated or outright wrong in Wickersham’s piece because, unlike with peak Halberstam, it wastes too much time on nonessential stuff, like the opening Brady-gets-pissed-off anecdote (that happens every year, by the way)”

Hopefully people read the entire article because there’s an all time simmons paragraph where he compares the people in the Patriots scandal to the characters in Almost Famous, which sounds like something you would make up if you were trying to parody a simmons article.

Cernovich:alt right::Simmons:pats fans

Yup, those are the voices in my head.

Yeah, I agree. There’s no way the NFL is going to pull a star player in circumstances like that. They’ll wait until after the game and issue some mealy-mouthed excuse about how NEXT time they’ll for SURE follow the concussion protocol because they Care About Their Players.

Concussions are only real when the player sucks.

Aaaaaaaaand the protocol fails again, when it matters most. Man, the NFL just sucks.

“It’s funny to hear a female write about concussions.”