A Friendly Correction for those Man-Haters who Delve to be Single

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

2. Through the 80s and 90s, I was a huge Giants fan. I think that was the twilight of the NFL qualifying as an actual sport, as opposed to "sports entertainment" of a kind not too much unlike professional wrestling.

I don't think I've given a twentieth of a fuck about the NFL since 2000. And I don't feel the slightest loss.

(Fortunately, I'd always been more a fan of college ball anyway, and a huge Penn State fan. That's worked out really well for me.)

Was the Sandusky ice cream flavor at the campus dairy as good as it sounds?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Pitchfork does five reviews a day, and gives teasers for each review. When I see a teaser that says, "Mumford & Sons has successfully created perhaps the most adequate commercial rock album of 2015," I click through knowing there may be some good reading there. I guess I also did not even know that Mumford & Sons are loved by the masses and critically reviled. Are they critically reviled? Is it just Pitchfork? I don't even know that. I think part of the reason is that Mumford & Sons, much like Death Cab for Cutie and Better Than Ezra, have picked a name so bad, it ensures that I will never be able to actually focus on their music. This is true even though I saw them (and don't recall thinking they were detestable) in that movie Big Easy Express, which I mostly enjoyed. You pick a bad band name and you're dead to me. My new band is going to be called #FuckYou.

Death cab gets me thinking about bands whose singers sort of talk-sing in a contrived super-sensitive manner, as some NPR hosts whisper-speak through radio bits. This gets me thinking about music which is so utterly gelded, "lullaby" fits better than "rock" or "alternative." And that leads me to Bon Iver, which causes me to wonder, why would anyone want to listen to someone you can barely hear sigh over music as delicate as it is dull?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Was the Sandusky ice cream flavor at the campus dairy as good as it sounds?

Salty, with hunts of ammonia and bleach. Not a crowd favorite.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by notcasesensitive

Except when they do, of course. Tom Brady's 4 game suspension -- too long, too short or just right? I personally think that the best punishment of all for him is having those tweets by the equipment guys go public, making it clear that people who work with (for) him think he's a total douche.

The fact that everyone has limited their focus to the Indianapolis game is a huge win for Brady, the Patriots, and the NFL. They've surely been deflating balls for a long time. And if evidence exists that they did it for the close game against Baltimore (in the cold), there would be calls to strip them of their title.

And another thing! I don't understand why no one is focused on how much easier it is to catch (and not fumble) an underinflated ball. Sure, it's easier to throw, but the true advantage--especially in the cold--is on the receiving end.

Finally, I think the NFL is intentionally overreaching on the punishment because Goodell and Kraft both want it to be overturned on appeal. Win-win. Goodell looks like he's being tough. Kraft gets a slap on the wrist and exposure of the extent of the cheating is limited to that one Indianapolis game (translation: blowout, so no big deal).

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Also, Giselle is one of the least attractive supermodels ever. This means that she is still 1000x more attractive than everyone else, but if I had to rank supermodels, she would be in the bottom 5%.

Too skinny. Nothing to grab. The true runway supermodels are chosen for their ability to look like hangers so they don't distract from the look and flow of the clothes.

TM

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

There is a sizable and really extraordinarily loud group of pats fans in the area totally outraged by this. Generally, these are either people who will bloviate about anything or who need to get a life. Among the football fans who actually have a life, there seems to be a desire to just move on, think of it as something embarrassing that happened that maybe we can all just forget. However, I will be listening to the bloviaters for a while. They are the tea partiers of the sports world.

Everyone knows he's a painful douche, don't they? And his answer is simply, smugly, "Giselle."

My general view of people who hate Brady is this: He's a great QB, he achieved that despite being a very low (4th round?) pick, he gets paid huge amounts of money to advertise stupid stuff (Uggs!), and he fucks a supermodel. Hard to see the hatred as anything but people hating a "player", combined with normal "he's on the other team" sports-fan crap.

My general view of people who are supporting Brady is this: He and his team fucking cheated. Being a great player, or an aging great player, is not an excuse. Fuck him and Belicheck, they should face a stiffer penalty.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Too skinny. Nothing to grab. The true runway supermodels are chosen for their ability to look like hangers so they don't distract from the look and flow of the clothes.

TM

I'm seeing a parallel between how Brady likes his footballs and his women.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

(4th round?)

6th.

As for deflategate, yawn.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

My general view of people who hate Brady is this: He's a great QB, he achieved that despite being a very low (4th round?) pick, he gets paid huge amounts of money to advertise stupid stuff (Uggs!), and he fucks a supermodel. Hard to see the hatred as anything but people hating a "player", combined with normal "he's on the other team" sports-fan crap.

My general view of people who are supporting Brady is this: He and his team fucking cheated. Being a great player, or an aging great player, is not an excuse. Fuck him and Belicheck, they should face a stiffer penalty.

I don't hate Brady. I think he's a douche, but I think that of a lot of people. I actually like the fact that he's not on my TV 24/7 like Peyton. I think people dislike Belichek more than they dislike Brady. It's weird how Popovich's grouchiness is endearing but Belichek's comes off as pure arrogance.

[Replaced_Texan]

How is it that putting three of the best footballers in the world on the same team results in so little ego, especially in plays like this?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

How is it that putting three of the best footballers in the world on the same team results in so little ego, especially in plays like this?

I can think of two ways.

1. None of them is Cristiano Ronaldo.

2. Suarez doesn't like the way his own teammates taste.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

How is it that putting three of the best footballers in the world on the same team results in so little ego, especially in plays like this?

Is this about the Patriots?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

My general view of people who are supporting Brady is this: He and his team fucking cheated. Being a great player, or an aging great player, is not an excuse. Fuck him and Belicheck, they should face a stiffer penalty.

All team sports cheating scandals play out the same way: as visible evidence of the strongest force in the universe — confirmation bias. We also get to hear people claim how unfair it is that a group of innocents have to suffer the consequences of individual misbehavior, as if that has ever really amounted to injustice, as if we didn’t affirmatively NEED group consequences in order to police individual behaviors, as if the absence of group consequences wouldn’t actually allow for this type of shit to happen at even greater rates whenever only an individual would ever suffer for it.

Tom Brady continues to be enormously popular with Catholic nuns in his hometown, FWIW. They didn’t seem to mind when he fathered a child out of wedlock — that didn’t stop him from a church wedding at St. Monica’s in Santa Monica, no siree.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

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TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

My general view of people who are supporting Brady is this: He and his team fucking cheated. Being a great player, or an aging great player, is not an excuse. Fuck him and Belicheck, they should face a stiffer penalty.

We have a problem right now in New England, but it is one many people aren't willing to live up to. Our football team has become the Yankees of the NFL.