It was always hilarious to watch Lions fans and the local sports media panic go into full blown “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD EVERYBODY BUY TICKETS!!! WE GOTTA SELL ALL 80,000 SEATS OR THE GAME WILL BE BLACKED OUT!!!” in the days leading up to each home Silverdome game.

Economic anxiety driving support for racist policies is a complete myth. Trump voters were wealthier than Clinton voters. It’s just racism, misogyny, xenophobia, general bigotry of all kinds.

the story’s author takes us into the living room of Johnstown resident Pam Schilling, a 60-year-old retiree who is already keyed up to vote for Trump in 2020

Obviously man. It’s always been about economic anxiety.

But what else could it be about? Hopefully a shit ton of greys can explain this complex issue to me.

Really makes you think this backlash isn’t about respecting the country at all, doesn’t it?

What’s really nuts, is these are literally the people calling everyone else “sheep” and that we all need to “wake up” to the powers of the government, “just look at the set up in Nevada”. Like, dude, your guy IS the government now. They literally talk out of both sides of their mouth at once, complaining about how the…

The most dumbfoundingly stupid part of this is: everything Trump blew up at the NFL for was already happening before Trump blew up about it. These people had heard of Colin Kaepernick, right? They follow the NFL, presumably? They knew that players were protesting? But their opinion of the league only changed when…

These are the same people also turned against their own religion when Trump got in a spat with the Pope.

Normally I’m okay with things that bring the NFL a step closer to self imploding, but...yeah, this is a terrifying amount of cult-of-personality worship going on.

This isn’t nuts, it’s terrifying. These people are sheep, devoted to the ravings of a madman and incapable of contradictory thought. Holy fucking shit are we fucked.

Arena Football had always been fun to watch since it’s more friendly than NFL games but the gameplay is awful to watch

No. They have to shorten one game every two weeks by 5 minutes. That will solve all their problems. Even if those tend to be the most exciting games.

The high strike was gone for 25 years, and nothing could get the umpires to change their zones. They claimed it was because it’s impossible to change mid-career like that.

Cut down commercial breaks from 3 minutes to 1.5 minutes, and give mid-inning relief pitchers three warm-up pitches on the mound and get on with it. Just saved 30 minutes. They lose ad revenue now, but gain viewers for the long term.

It’s what everyone wants.

This summation may have been enlightening except that it was completely nutso. There are legitimate reasons to suspect Barbaro had a pre-existing injury. How about his habit of hanging on the wrong lead in the stretch, which he’d done a number of times. Or the mere fact that he broke down tells you its more than…