The_Hat posted:

That’s just the point. “Redskins” is not a word that comes up on reservations, according to the people I interviewed.

warheadr posted:

The NY Daily News has some strong feeling on the Redskins name

Pron on VHS posted:

Henchman of Santa posted:

Bill Barnwell dropped a totally unnecessary Q and Not U reference in a column last week and I don't know if it was great or just stupid. Which is how I feel about Simmonsian writing in general.

Chris Gaines posted:

I'm aware of the premise of the joke, but man the slur they use is almost on par with the n-word.

swickles posted:

What was that?


Also, the Onion publishes stuff like that and way worse than that routinely.

DangerKat posted:

Wasn't that their Twitter, not a story?

DasNasty posted:

Because basketball is the One True Sport.

Kibner posted:

Because his football teams give him more misery and/or comedy.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I thought you guys bought the Kings

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Replacement theory
Adam Rank sees a startling resemblance between Josh McCown and Hollywood's Shane Falco.

Otto Skorzeny posted:

Great job hiring this guy FO, between this sort of vacuous opinion dump and his terrible regular piece about Clutchiness the quality of your reportage is really elevated.

the author posted:

Just doing my part. Though I can't imagine you being a Jay Cutler fan, since it actually takes effort to reply.

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Heading into the season without a quarterback they felt was a long-term answer, the Raiders selected Wilson with their fourth-round pick this year — a rookie out of Arkansas who had some serious upside. At the time, many thought the pick could bring Oakland great value, considering Wilson was projected as a first-rounder just twelve months earlier.

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By the time the season was set to begin, Wilson was placed on waivers before ever seeing a regular season game — to make matters worse, there wasn't a team in the league interested. Wilson was then re-signed to the practice squad, where he stayed for the remainder of his time in Oakland — even watching undrafted rookie Matt McGloin take over the starting job many thought might be his some day.

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From Oakland's perspective, they probably wish they had just let Wilson remain a free agent from the day he cleared waivers. Then, at least, they wouldn't have today's reminder of what a failed pick it was.

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In two seasons thus far, McKenzie has gotten a pass from me thanks to the mess of a salary cap he inherited. With no cap space (and no first or second round pick two years ago), McKenzie had built in excuses all around him — not to mention a first year head coach.

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While I would vote for Allen's firing at the end of this season, however, I do think McKenzie deserves one more season with another full draft class and some cap space to work with.

If 2014 looks anything like this season, however, it might be time for Oakland to start all over.

Again.

Kalli posted:

You know who else had everything in their past reduced to 'smoked some weed' in the public's perception?

Ehud posted:

i'm dying

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-omar-kelly-dolphins-1226-20131225,0,2410859.story

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The first 16 weeks of the 2013 season have been pro football’s answer to ‘American Hustle’: long, confusing, and plum fantastic.

Fantastic for myriad reasons too many to count for this lazy writer, but now just prelude to the climax of a season regular in name only. You already know it, but it’s worth repeating: 2013 will go out like a lion (not the Detroit Lions, thankfully) thanks to the game’s most historic rivalry. Packers and Bears, Aaron Rodgers and Jay Cutler in Soldier Field for the NFC North title. Professional talkers are using phrases like “high risk, high reward!” and “professional legacy!” Here are the three words I prefer: ‘ooh’, ‘la’, and ‘la’.

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Long, as in… how long ago does it seem Peyton opened the season with those seven TD passes against the defending champs? And will that long ago game – played in Denver instead of Baltimore (where it should been played) – be what keeps the Ravens from defending their crown? The home team has won 10 of the last 11 of those primetime midweek season openers, so it’s fair to assume the Ravens would have won theirs… which would mean Sunday’s game in Cincy would be for the division title, not a fight for survival.

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Lots of people already consider the Packers and Eagles making the playoffs a foregone conclusion, but this season has made making such assumptions an rear end of you… but not me. I’m assuming nothing. In fact, I have more questions than answers. Questions like:

What if Kyle Orton beats the Eagles?

It seems impossible, but I would’ve said the same about Amy Adams being foxier than Jennifer Lawrence ’til I saw ‘American Hustle’.

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And if Cutler wins it, he’ll likely get to keep calling Chicago home for a few more seasons so he and his sizable pals Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffrey can build on Marc Trestman’s promising first season. If the Bears lose, though, Cutler will more likely be wearing a Texans or Titans (or Bengals?) helmet come September ’14.

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Who’ll represent the AFC in the Super Bowl?

Denver has been the best team over the last four months, but that’s not the question posed. A decent case can made for any of the top five seeds… and after the Chargers’ win in Denver a couple weeks ago, it’s not a long shot they could go on a deep run from the sixth spot. At the very least, the six-seed – whoever it is – will be good enough to have a realistic shot at going into Cincy or Indy in the wildcard round and coming out with a win.

Tatum Girlparts posted:

I'm sure they aren't like going 'hey Goldberg you a fuckin Jew???' but going by my experiences there is nothing evangelicals lose their poo poo about more than Jews who remind them that Jews are different than them. If he came out one day and said 'hey guys, let me tell you about my Jewish faith and why it's helped me' he'd get a wonderful combo hit of the typical 'FUCKIN JEWS EVERYWHERE AAAAGH' nutjob crowd and evangelicals clutching their pearls that a dude who doesn't think Jesus is god is telling people he thinks his faith is correct. Tebow's press entirely came from the right wing evangelical crowd hugging him and vowing to protect him from the liberal comunazis who dare to say 'you look like an rear end in a top hat when you kneel down like that mid game'. If he didn't have those dudes he'd just be another good college player who was decent in the NFL.

I mean you're totally right that Jews just don't do the poo poo he did and we're super not evangelical at all, but I'm assuming he's some kinda weird rear end 'gotta spread the faith' type for this so it's a more accurate comparison. Yea in real life if Tim was a Jew he'd just, ya know be a Jew and no one would give a gently caress because seriously except for crazy people who cares if a dude is a Jew we super don't get in your face about it.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

It reminds me of this genuinely amazing book "And the Band Played On" about the AIDS epidemic. In one passage he describes a certain type of white blood cell as "The Quarterback of the body's defensive line" and to this day I wonder how nobody pointed out that makes no sense in editing.

superaielman posted:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/nfl/la-sp-nfl-mock-draft-20140504,0,7318235.story#GlUAZPwDM31LHWCg


Omar.

Chichevache posted:

I think you can only make that statement if, for some bizarre reason, you value contract law above other social and ethical obligations.

Grittybeard posted:

Tied with Ronnie Lott for 7th in career interceptions one behind Ed Reed, was known as a hard hitter. He'd probably be worth discussing just for those things I guess, although I'm kind of the same and never really thought of him as a hall of famer.