Interesting is that goals are up in hockey and scoring is up in the NBA as well (too lazy to check MLB).  Seems like a general sports thing, and not so much NFL-specific.

So the general consensus is that last night’s game was incredibly fun and exciting and the greatest game ever played since the last greatest game ever played, blah blah blah. Personally, I don’t enjoy a game that feels like the outcome will be decided by whichever team gets the ball last and barring injury everything…

ftfy

Obviously this was a clean hit, but it still has me wondering: Does the “defenseless receiver” rule also apply to a defensive back going for an interception?

New evidence! https://deadspin.com/new-photos-show-harvard-running-back-didnt-actually-fli-1830523754

This is exactly right. If GWU or Duke or UCLA want to have basketball teams, they either need to run them as separate business entities, the way universities run hospitals, with players as paid employees, or else they need to have pure amateur teams where players have an 18 game season against local teams a school bus…

Imagine being an academic at GW, seeing the salaries attached to these people, and their behavior, and then having to return to your teaching and research.

It’s 2018... If you are a college professor or administrator, keep your partying a hundred miles away from your employees or students. It’s not rocket surgery man.

The story’s biggest bombshell was “five current and former” players saying that Lonergan told his team that Nero masturbated to videos of their practices.

Agreed, and some of the processes around it make no sense, either. The fact that Bell and the Steelers weren’t allowed to negotiate after July, for example. What is the actual point of that, other than to make it less likely that an agreement will be reached? 

I’m assuming by “baggage” you’re referring to the fact that there are multiple photographs floating around out there of him standing next to Ben Roethlisberger

If owners are willing to collude not to sign Kapernick, I can see them colluding to massively underbid for Bell. 

Yup. It’s a rare situation where he was absolutely right but also really screwed up. 

As much as I think Bell was right to just do whatever he thinks is best for him and fuck all the haters, he is going to end up leaving a ton of money on the table. The soft collusion that pervades the ownership ranks of the NFL is going to lead to him getting a much smaller contract offer than if he had played this…

I’ve been to probably 75 Bears games and i don't think I've ever been more excited than when they trotted him out for the 2nd FG attempt. 

It appears the authorities really greased the skids for this hardened criminal but do you really think he deserves any time in the penal system?

We had a puggle that we would catch eating poop directly out of our lab’s ass as it came out if we were not extremely vigilant at poop time. He would also eat shit at absolutely any other opportunity. It caused a fair bit of anxiety for us when we had our first child. The thought that he might eat the diaper off of…

science

I watched in horror as my Dachshund STALKED my red tick coonhound a few weeks ago from across the yard. No sooner than the coonhound was done dropping a big load of steamy shit on top of the snow, my Doxie was sprinting across the yard to eat it. Nasty little fucker he is.

This phenom prompted me to exclaim a famous saying to my neighbors one day as their dog chowed down: