Ultimately, blame Justinian and his court propagandists - the 476 date came out of the context of them laying the groundwork for his reconquest of the west in the 520s and 530s, especially a guy named Marcellinus comes. There’s an article on this by Brian Croke called something like “476: The Manufacture of a Turning…

Yes, thank you, I’m aware of what Late Antiquity means. As a periodization, Late Antiquity can encompass everything up to the middle of the 8th century, from Marcus Aurelius to the Umayyads and (much less commonly) Charlemagne.

I always loved the fact that the original XFL was supposed to be this hard-ass “no pussies allowed” league where there would be big hits and no fair catches and crunching defenses, and they had to change their rules halfway their their season because the games were unwatchable due to those very characteristics.

If we’ve learned anything this week, it’s that there’s no possible way you could become a board member if you haven’t been grossly negligent already for decades.

I’ve got an axe if you want a clean cut, or a chainsaw if you like it messy.

Doesn’t seem fair. Some of those board members probably haven’t even gotten the chance to be grossly negligent of monstrous crimes yet.

Good. Someone bring me the head of both Karyolis while we are at.

“Oh my god I can’t even tell you how much I love receiving unsolicited dick pics.”

Shaw at third, Braun moves to first for the twilight of his career? Have to have room for Domingo Santana. Brewers future looking great, Reds looking up, Pirates trending down. As it should be. NL central is about to be real fun to watch the next few years.

Oh shit.

The Navy is all about tradition, and it’s nice to see these guys keep their grandfathers’ Southeast Asia whore-booze junkets alive.

That, or Trump’s golf outings.

The marlin sashimi will be riddled with parasites of the taxpayer-funded variety.

Beats the crap out of this whiny “article”.

I’d be impressed if he could even make THAT reading comprehension mistake.

We call dose sangwiches, not grinders.

Living Daylights mode (one shot kills), no Lasers, no Power Weapons, no Oddjob. Was the only way to play fair

Many of the prominent 49ers, including Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, etc did not take part in the strike due to their strong feelings for Eddie Debartolo. Ronnie Lott, on the other hand, while being just as fond of Eddie as Montana, felt that his duty was to stand with his less well-compensated NFL brethren

Ratings would dip for a little while, then come back up to the same level eventually as people got tired of not watching.