It’s a little more than promotes. I didn’t start hating him until I learned about this TB12 bullshit.

Chris Weinke? Really? Like, the 40-year-old Heisman winner Chris Weinke?

Prince died intestate; the court determined what to do with his estate, and it didn’t have any official documentation as to how he wanted his likeness treated. I’m guessing none of his public comments really counted for the court, but I don’t know. It sucks.

Another reason to get writing that will and testament.

I love you for this. Fuck James Harrison.

No, it’s worse than that. Collinsworth didn’t even want it to be a reception. He wasn’t talking fumble, he was talking incomplete pass the whole way.

We all guffawed and that and I explained to my cynical children that it’s his job to be positive about everything, and my son said, “except the Eagles touchdowns.”

Yeah, Collinsworth was absolutely terrible this game. He had a storyline scripted in his head, and he couldn’t quite catch up with reality.

Nice work there, Paul Harvey.

Awesome. I appreciate the response, and it seems like you’re evaluating as much on what they attempted as on what they “accomplished.” Many historians and ranking systems are pretty crap and are heavily results-biased in their evaluations. Thanks!

I dig this list. Personally, I’m a fan of Herbert Hoover. He probably gets the worst shrift from history of any president. In the ‘32 campaigns, the argument between him and FDR was that FDR’s plan didn’t do enough (which was true). It’s so ironic that we forget this, but FDR didn’t campaign on a platform of “spend a…

That’s generally the consensus. I think Taft actually has a lot in common with Carter, in that he was personally unreproachable, but his administration didn’t adequately respond to the exigencies of the time.

I’ll, uh, grant you that both Grant and Taft were two very upstanding people, and probably close to Carter in terms of personal morality, but as presidents, they’re also considered about on par with Carter (who I rank higher than most people do, but I recognize my criteria are different than most).

Anyone who still hates Thatcher is all right in my book.

Trammell and Morris were Veteran’s committee picks, not ballot-picks.

The NPR interview with the real-life counterparts was absolutely fascinating, but I’m not sure I’ll spend the time on the TV series itself.

I’m in the “heartbreaker is worse” camp, mostly. I normally agree with Burneko on a lot of things, but it’s not true that the better team always wins in a blowout. Certainly the better team will get blown out less often, and it’s weaker teams that win close games, but the question isn’t about whether your team is…

I spent all season trying not to pay attention, but then I relaxed a little bit and this is what we all deserve. I am so tired of this sport. Why didn’t you post your “how to avoid the NFL” today?

Don’t get me wrong—I’m happy to see them on somebody else’s list. After I left my comment, I dug a bit and saw that Bangin’ wasn’t nearly as popular as I thought, and it was a big drop off from Play Deep.

I got really lucky with Pandora by choosing as my first seed “Neutral Milk Hotel”. I thought it would be interesting to see/hear what I got, and I was right. I like Neutral Milk Hotel now as much for the recommendations I got out of that as for their music (which I love both In Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over…