As a Pats fan, I really wanted both of these to look dicey on replay. As a human being with functioning eyes and brain, both of them were unquestionably catches. The broadcasting crew seemed to want to create drama, but (and this is especially true with the Ertz play), those plays resulted in catches by any measure.…

And of those 6 arrests, 3 were for scalping tickets. This is the point where someone mentions snowballs from 1968 and thinks they’re killing it with their hot taek.

Philly fans. New England fans. This is my NFL nightmare.

Big Dick Nick is going to be the new hoagie special at Wawa.

Please have him email me and tell me what the alloys are before I perish.

We’ve reached Peak Fantasy when the anti-fantasy-sports takes are worse than listening to someone talk about their fantasy team. Jesus Christ, that was a death march in text form.

The things that people have the inclination and bandwidth to bitch about will never cease to amaze me.

As a non-Pats fan, let me just say: fuck ALL of you Pats fans.

As a Pats fan, please allow me to say: Fuck these people with a fencepost.

Idris Elba is the clear best choice for the next Bond.

So the Red Sox are still stealing signs then?

 In fairness to the Falcons, the Patriots waited for Freeman to be where they wanted him and then launched Hightower at him. Gameplanning matchups. The Edelman catch is as good a catch as the SB will see - some of those you lose. See helmet and Kearse.
Belichick required McDaniels and his team to have a bunch of…

This point is 20 years old by now, but, boxing, horse-racing, and baseball have all held and lost the pinnacle of the American sports landscape. It can happen. Over a long enough timeframe, it will happen to football, even if it isn’t laid low by its immediate issues.

Fantastic line from the SBNation version of this story.

Better idea:

Isaiah Thomas = Jacoby Ellsbury

To me, a big motivation for this deal was Ainge’s desire to not pay Thomas a max salary without his fan base turning on him. While I know Kyrie isn’t a very good defender, there’s probably a greater belief that he can become one, just from a physical standpoint - everyone seems to think Kyrie is a max player. A lot of…

How dare deadspin publish a post by Mr. Petchesky, with his slavic sounding name, on this, the 5th anniversary of the Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash in Slovenia. I am aghast at the insensitivity.

P.S. fuck the NFL with a football sideways for making videos so hard to share. People recording their tvs with their phones and the NFL flags their videos on YouTube. You know how to get more to not watch your product? Make it hard for them to share fun things assholes.