Most global soccer. Cup competitions that go on for months between league matches; European matches played midweek over the course of an entire season; International breaks every couple months over a 2-year competition cycle. The whole system is set up to accommodate it, but it works.
Pass rush has been less important to Minter Ds specifically because the combo of edge integrity, run fit discipline and genius zone coverage schemes gives the QB nowhere to go with the ball.
Great point. Minter’s endless exotic coverage disguises rely upon a DL that can do it all: set the edge, eat up double teams, drop into coverage. That’s what lets the back 7 work its magic.
Hell yeah. Next up: getting a FB/LB/TE with a sweet mustache and an astrophysics major to rock a Space, Bitches tee. Can UGP make them in size XXXXXL to fit over pads on the sideline?
New low for Tom Izzo Eats His Liver time. They seem determined to leave with a Michigan player’s ACL.
That bass riff slaps tho.
There were two types of Fireball Island people: the kids who owned the game and (rightfully) never wanted to play it, and the kids who saw it at their friend’s house, begged to play it, and then retconned their own memory to decide it was awesome (I am the second kind of kid).
Very much so. The whole gimmick was an Indiana Jones-like boulder marble deal that knocked off the other player’s game piece. Except it almost never happened (needed to draw a specific card), and - like mousetrap - it never worked right when it did.
Yes, please. Bring to NHL immediately. And not just to all-star weekend. Make it the sudden death round after the regular shootout in all regular season games. And they have to go to the 2nd goalie next, and then start putting goalie pads on skaters.
Watched Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! and hey, if you built your sense of humor on Mel Brooks movies like I did, you were correct.
Same. 9 year old said unprompted “that seems creepy.”
Feels like a walk down a timeline in which Pearl Jam hears Duritz and decides not to listen to the tape that guy from San Diego sent them.
@gordon9.bsky.social because apparently I can’t tag correctly this early in the morning lol.
@Gordon has nailed it. For me, this is one of the rare occasions when ESPN taking over a broadcast has been to the viewer’s benefit. And the total manifest joy is written all over Steve Levy’s face. This is a real throwback to the days before they had any major rights. Real TheOcho stuff.
Feels like a darn shame neither of today’s NFL games are being played in this storm. Lame.
more and more people are saying fear is the mind killer. folks, the people they—and by the way, very bad deal for the Bene Gesserit, very unfair for the Reverend Mother Superior—there's a box. you put your finger in there. just one finger [makes squished face] not me. i wouldn't feel the pain
Nonsense. With a nickname like that and your charting skills, you could’ve gone far in the Two For The Money expanded tout universe. I’d take the Fishy Forecast over the Sike System any day.
The obvious way that PE can and has made money with universities is by taking their endowments on as LPs in their funds. UM’s investment committee should know from experience what it looks like on the other side of that equation.
So this is instant conservation of vibes from Gwar sticking around, right?
Fixing the uniforms fixes this, right? No more black jerseys, please.
The one place he knows he’ll be safe from Pat Fitzgerald.
As a man of Connecticut, I am always happy to see Donny Marshall on the call. But I refuse to believe Connor Onion is anyone’s real name.
Younger than all three!
I like to imagine an impossibly stunning apparently centenarian Paul Newman as the President in the Spy Game extended universe.
I just rewatched it last week. I had a harder time with the agelessness. Brad Pitt (born 1963) is a sniper in Vietnam in 1965, a spy in Berlin in 1975, Beirut in ‘85, China 2001. Is peak-looks BP supposed to be 55? 60? How old is Redford supposed to be? 80?
It’s so good it might be.
No one would dare violate the sanctity of the three greatest hours of television of the year.
Kudos to Trent Green for highlighting the notion that the only non-sickos watching this Giants-Raiders game are the players on the field, and to the camera operator and broadcast director for serving up a shot of Geno looking up from his back on the turf as Harlan touts his leading the NFL in INTs.
And as the great Tanaitic sages would say of all children who run gap sound defenses: may they never fire obvious and unnecessary zero blitzes, and may they be zocheh l’torah u’l’chuppah u’l’ma’asim toivim, amen selah.
