The Frankish Reich

Britain sucks. Get over your effin Greenwich Mean Time like the Greenwich Observatory is the Center of the World. Yeah, it's 1870. Be normal and go to like Eastern Time or at least Central. Don't wheel out the crappy turf for second class events like American football. And stop being so proud of your crappy music and ugly ass King.

Trevor Lawrence > Josh Allen? (duck and cover)

Can't blame Dorsey. Beautifully designed, just bad execution .

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Problem is the 9:30 a.m. biological clock start. The time change would be largely negated with a late London kickoff.

Players who looked fired up for this game: Epenesa Players who didn't: everyone else

I think we need a QB with a bigger arm

we have 28 rushing yards

Not like the Jags are sharp as a tack either. Just a crappy Thursday Night Football style game. The results will be determined by a bad bounce/luck, etc.

I'm bored.

Bill Maher is 100% correct here. It was maybe only 10 years ago (15?) when I first heard someone use the term "my truth." As in, "my truth is that ... ." I didn't even know what to make of it then. I've since come to realize that people are saying that it may not be objectively true, but I feel that it is true, and that that's what matters. No, it isn't. Your feelings do matter, but feelings are not equal to objective truth.

The question was this: Make America Great Again like the way it was in [blank] year. So the suggestion was: how about 1960? So the truth is: yeah, how about official segregation, black kids can't go to the University of Mississippi or Alabama, black people are precluded from having their votes counted, etc., etc. And the Cold War was at its peak, soon to be followed by the US and USSR coming to the brink of a nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba. Oh, and life expectancy for men in 1960? 66.6 years. So maybe 1960 isn't the best example? Maybe there's a better year? Maybe not. I get it. People see today's problems and are nostalgic for a bygone era. I would love to see a world again in which the term "school shooting" didn't exist. But nostalgia is no substitute for hard-eyed realism. We have problems, and the solution to those problems exists in looking forward, not backward to some legendary age when all was right with America.

Trump is usually careful to stay just this side of the racist line, but now he's eagerly crossing it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/politics/trump-immigration-rhetoric.html Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. This is indefensible. The white, northern European blood of our country? It's that great replacement theory. Disgusting.

Didn't you say you're black? I'm not gonna presume to speak for your experiences, but while 1960 may have had stronger family structures, it also had official segregation (really American apartheid) in a huge swath of the country, and lots of other things that don't exactly look like they were "great" in retrospect. That's what happens with nostalgia. When you really examine what life was like, must people have no interest in going back to some bygone age.

I'm not there for the game 😭 but there's some really good airfares for early next year, so we are hoping to take a quick trip. I will definitely check this out (hadn't heard of it before) ... thanks for the tip!

Interesting comparison. I saw something similar too with the Denver Nuggets last year. We had just hit the point after 2021-22 where there was a lot of talk about the current roster not being good enough to get over the hump. A couple roster tweaks, a run of good health, and they're NBA champions. So yeah, when you've got a proven regular season winner sometimes it may be best to stay the course and your playoff luck will start to change.

It was really about Billy Beane’s (hmm, Billy Beane, Brandon Beane, coincidence?) understanding that winning a short baseball playoff series rewards different roster construction compared to finishing with the best record in a 162 game season. Specifically, we saw that although the A’s had the deepest and objectively “the best” starting rotation, they didn’t have an absolute shutdown/one game is all the matters dominant ace. They also didn’t have the dominant closet. They did everything right when you are constructing a team with the idea of winning 100 games and winning the division every year. But a 4-7 game series (including off days, requiring less pitching depth) is a different animal. I’m not saying the Bills are in the same situation, but there are commonalities.

Ol' Tarheel spreading his joie de vivre in Merry Old England. Maybe he and Russell Brand can hit on some 15 year olds.

Geez, I can't think of anything obvious to differentiate the two ....

It's the old, old rule. An officer guarding a secured governmental facility may use violent force when an intruder who has bypassed security measures tries to break down a door/window to approach a government official. Really. You guys need a reality check. Byrd, the officer, said he didn't know if she was armed or not. Tell me: how was he supposed to know? It's not like she went to the front security desk and passed through a metal detector. And to boot, a lot of you guys are the gun nuts who defend a homeowner shooting a guy for knocking on a door or prowling around a home. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

That's the way to earn the respect of the Secret Service! Ashlii (sic) Babbit: intellectually subnormal weirdo who got what she asked for.

Only a big deal (well, medium large deal) because of kickoff time.

I don't think you're a baseball fan ....

The difference: say what you will about her (and I am not a fan myself), Nancy Pelosi kept control of her own loony left flank. The Republicans have no one who is willing or able to control their loony right flank.

The Moneyball era Oakland A's? "My [crap] doesn't work in the playoffs" -GM Billy Beane