anyone who manages to go to a private school in Knoxville followed by Clemson and then the Braves and still turns out to the left of Ronald Reagan has superhuman mental fortitude
last night, my girlfriend said that my idea of dividing a day by 1000 units instead of 24 hours was, and i quote, "the thing you see in a tv show or movie when the writers want to signify to the audience that this person is insane"
i have occasionally described america as a pre-meiji restoration japan complete with about 3,200 yeehaw daimyos, and i'm pretty sure car dealerships are the main source of funding for about 2,500 of them. this would cripple the GOP's fundraising in rural and exurban areas
Mark my words: sometime in the next decade, Democrats are going to kick the tires on lifting the ban on direct-from-manufacturers sale of automobiles. It is going to create one of the bloodiest political fights in a long time
your rivals are ontologically evil and saying "the sport is better when [rival] is good" is the most pussy shit in the world. never show your rivals sportsmanship ever. they don't deserve it.
if the mid to late 2000s Cowboys existed today, they would be getting heat on levels you've never even conceived of. this shit caused the closest thing to mass societal derangement that could exist back then
@ettingermentum
"thanks to my 6D chess moves, I have both raised the salience of an issue everyone thinks I'm ineffectual with AND told swing voters that Trump holds the cards on this same issue"
just real Democratic advisor brain to the core
Source: Nick Bosa has agreed to a five-year, $170 million extension with the San Francisco 49ers, including $122.5 million guaranteed, by a wide margin. It will make him the highest-paid defensive player in history.
I think it's fine for major college sports tbh. a lot of the state flagships are essentially national teams by a slightly different mode and there's a lot of civic pride. no different than rooting for a pro sports team that's far away
no no no no ESPN you can't put Colorado-Oregon on the 3:30 ABC slot and hype this game to hell and back, then say "oh i don't know what y'all expected Colorado was a 21 point underdog"
this wasn't even the most radical idea i had; getting rid of months and just counting the year off by week was the big one. ideally with a 53rd leap week every so often
In 1993 a Boomer assumed the presidency for the first time and the next non-Boomer to take office, almost thirty years later, was from the previous generation
in 20 years the NFL will expand to Europe and a Mitch Trubisky-level QB will be leading the Frankfurt Galaxy to the most heinous 8-10 playoff spot you've ever seen
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pro football hall of fame is basically ideal in terms of who it lets in. just discerning enough to matter (unlike basketball's), not so discerning that people get in blood feuds over it (unlike baseball's)
Reporter: ๐ซถ
Caitlin Clark: "You like that?"
Reporter: "I like that you're here."
Caitlin: "Yeah, I do that at my family after every game.โ
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today is my one year HRTiversary; October 20 will always be a very very special day for me, and it's wild to me how far I've come in a year, and I hope my second year holds just as many wonderful things as the first has brought me
i don't know man. you fired your offensive coordinator in 2008 after you drank a cup of coffee he'd pissed in and then got fired yourself soon afterwards, i'd say that's pretty depressing too!
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) emerged from court proceedings in former President Trumpโs hush money criminal trial calling the Manhattan courtroom โthe most depressing thing Iโve ever been in.โ
haters like this are what make sports fun. you can't just have someone awestruck all the time; you have to have a healthy supply of hater in the ecosystem to raise the stakes and keep everyone going
it's true, you can go to SB Nation and not get paid enough to make rent, or you can go to Fansided and *definitely* not get paid enough to make rent, or you start your own Patreon where you don't have the name recognition to pay rent, or you can go start your own podcast where yo
ads on a college football game 10 years ago: the most horrifying earworm of a commercial you've ever seen from a big telecom company
ads on a college football game today: patriot meal supply gives you all your nutrients in a nucflash situation Powered By AI
"cookout is horrifying" this is literally one of the only good parts about the south you ding dong, eat the damn quesadilla with chicken nuggets out of the styrofoam container and shut up
Daily Wire host: "Football is not for women. There might be some women who get into it. But it's not really for women. It's not for you. You don't understand it. You're not meant to understand it"
you see, I have these things called "parents". I talk to them. they tell me things about the past. some of those things are about work before I was born.
I now have acquired knowledge of work before I was born.
The whole โwork has been miserable since 1980!โ thing, currently all over my timeline, does not reflect almost anyoneโs lived experience, since very few workers today were working then. Itโs, wait for it, a social media narrative youโve picked up
NEWS: Miami TE Cam McCormick has announced he will return for his 9th season of College Football๐
He was in the same recruiting class as Jalen Hurts and Nick Bosa๐คฏ
(h/t
@BruceFeldmanCFB
)
How many years till Sports Gambling addiction becomes a massive problem in the USA. The number of college aged (and younger) kids obsessed with gambling is way too high, and nearly every platform and league are promoting the *f* out of gambling to their fans.
Announcing the expansion of the NFLโs Global Markets Program!
21 teams across 14 markets now have access to grow their fan bases around the world in long-term strategic effort to enable clubs to build their brands globally.
joe burrow's political opinions are absolutely inscrutable; this guy dapped up trump like a dear friend at a UFC event and now is on a call with kamala that's a median voter from ohio if i ever did see one
one day i will make an entire thread, maybe even write an entire piece on how the rationalizing of sports down to the millimeter has defeated the very point of what sports are supposed to be for the public
AMAZING: they have a chip inside the ball and can check in to see if it struck an object (finger in this case) and award a penalty kick on review
meanwhile the NFL is only now beginning look into removing chain gangs
big dog, I know you write science videos for 12 year olds who got put in the class ahead of them but homelessness is very much a simple thing to fix and it's something municipalities have done before; give people housing.
I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument.
I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses.
These words are
@dirtbagqueer
I used to watch like this, but it sucks, actually. you don't actually remember anything that happened because you can't pay attention to 5 games at once
unironically watching one game at a time and checking the highlights of the rest later is a far superior method
me: america is truly an awful country, the death of intellectualism is already here
me, after seeing the evil french twink criticize candy in literally every establishment: USA USA USA THESE COLORS DON'T RUN BUDDY
really the horns down thing is the ultimate embodiment of Texas (both the state and the school) as a concept; talk a whole bunch of shit about how important you are, then whine when people tell you to fuck off or make fun of you
The BYU students in the front row with 'Horns Down' painted on their shirts were asked to remove the shirts after the first media timeout, per
@Mitch_Harper
.
๐ธ:
@sleeslakin
I miss when gambling was illegal, and the only way to do it was placing bets offshore. you had to be a true degen and actively seek it out, and that was a good thing!
now it's just gotten its hand into everything. very sick and disgusting
ESPN has entered an agreement with
@PENNEntertain
to launch ESPN BET, a branded sportsbook in the U.S.
ESPN BET will be available for fans this fall
Details:
we are seeing what two legitimate superstars (Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter) get you when you add them to what's probably a 3-9 football team, and it's the most spectacular 5-7 you've ever seen
no, it doesn't lose $28 billion per year in illegal streams. you cannot lose something you never had in the first place, and it's funny that leagues do not understand that the streams are actually helping their business rather than hurting it
BREAKING: The NBA, NFL, and UFC are planning to rewrite DMCA laws in order to shut down illegal livestreams โinstantaneouslyโ, per
@verge
.
The sports industry reportedly loses up to $28 billion in potential annual revenue due to illegal streams.
@dirtbagqueer
"what if USA basketball in 1992 played against guys that were even worse than who they actually played?" is kinda the vibe I'm getting here
no matter how much we beat any of our 67 different rivals by, it isn't enough. if we beat Florida 95-0 next year, I would ask how come we didn't put up 100. total destruction is the only thing you, as a fan, should care about. anything else leaves hope for your rival
@dirtbagqueer
ESPN legal team advising the social media team on the reasons they can't put "dirtbagqueer" on the tin, gotta be one of my favorite genders
very sorry that this divergent and diverse field of academia doesn't actually fit neatly into a one hour broadcast where 15 minutes of it are ads for underwear
I feel like history departments would attract more students to their classes if they taught more โold fashionedโ military and political history like you hear on podcasts or see among popular press books.
Maybe nobody cares butโฆ
@dirtbagqueer
hate it, and if you tell people you hate it, they say "well you know, moron and dumb were also slurs against the mentally disabled". which is true. but also not within the living memory of most people still alive!