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HOT SPORTS TAKES - A man who won't stand for the anthem is an act that we as Americans shouldn't stand for (1 Viewer)

I've had like 3 Marshawn hot takes that I can't get off the ground because PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY WRITING SERIOUS VERSIONS OF THESE.

Still, I have my hammer line in place.

"Because one day Marshawn you'll be lonely and you will look around that empty life of yours and you'll know why you are here." ????????

 
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TobiasFunke said:
This one is so hot it actually reads like parody:

As career winds down, Duncan remains a starTim Duncan was selected for his 15th NBA All-Star game on Thursday, and it flies in the face of everything for which the modern NBA stands.

The NBA is about preening drama queens who are marketed ahead of their teams. It’s about aerial acrobatics and TV commercials and impatient men who aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifices to win it all.


Every year, Duncan faces being shut out of the All-Star game because he’s none of those things.

In a world of high-wire showoffs, the Big Fundamental is the guy with his feet on the ground. Literally. You couldn’t slip a sheet of typing paper under Duncan’s feet as he jumps.

Duncan doesn’t seek the limelight, so no one has to face-palm when nonexistent embarrassing photos hit his imaginary Instagram account. He hasn’t taken his front office hostage, demanding the maximum contracts he deserves.

Instead, he has agreed to smaller paychecks in order to help mold a championship team. And he is not making up the lost income with national endorsement deals, because he doesn’t have any.

Duncan’s public image could be best described as “enigmatic.” He might be duller than the fine print in an earnings report, but fans and media don’t really know because he keeps to himself.


Duncan’s selection to the West All-Stars is a tribute to the enduring greatness of one of the best players of all time.

If this were the Academy Awards, Duncan would be getting the Irving Thalberg, a special award given to someone who should have gotten a lot more attention and many more awards over the years.

Now 38 years old and in his 18th NBA campaign, Duncan enters every year being written off as too old to make a difference by the nation’s sports media.

That assessment usually is followed by a season in which the Spurs win at least 50 games and, in most cases, go deep in the playoffs. Duncan and his co-conspirator, coach Gregg Popovich, are the only constants on a team that’s made the NBA Finals six times, winning five and coming within seconds of a sixth title.

The Spurs, under Pop’s leadership and Duncan’s wingspan, are considered to be one of the most well-run and successful sports franchises on the planet.

And it all started in 1997, when the Spurs beat out the Boston Celtics for the No. 1 pick in that year’s NBA draft and selected the lanky, inscrutable kid from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Duncan’s reputation as a blue-collar basketball god began at Wake Forest, where he was All-ACC for three years and All-America for two years. He was college basketball’s Player of the Year, winning the Wooden and Naismith awards as well, in his senior year.

He set the NBA on fire in his rookie season, averaging 39 minutes, 21.1 points and 11.9 rebounds per game.

These days — even though he’s playing 30 minutes a game and logging 14.7 points and 10.1 rebounds — his teams are better.

Duncan has proven the concept of addition by subtraction, to wit: by playing less, scoring fewer points and being a presence, the rest of the team’s players have gotten better. The Spurs are a more lethal team in the autumn of Duncan’s career than they were when he was a spring chicken mopping the floor with the leagues’ other dominant players.

Even though he still can turn it on if he has to, those days are long gone. And as Duncan sees the light at the end of the professional tunnel, honors such as Thursday’s will become fewer and fewer.

A young Duncan was selected as an All-Star starter for eight straight years.

Now, he focuses on using his skills to improve the Spurs, not his own bank account. Kobe Bryant would not understand that.

And he has chosen to stay on his small-market team. LeBron James would not understand that.

The narrative in San Antonio had been that Duncan would be snubbed by All-Star coaches, as he has been snubbed by All-Star voters in recent years.

Duncan knows the truth. Sharing the spotlight has helped get him rings, but it does not get him an automatic starting job on the All-Star team.

He has willingly opted to be a team guy, giving up money and touches to make sure the team around him could win five world championships. A seat on the All-Star bench is a perk.

Duncan accepts this. It’s time we accept it, too
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Oh for ####s sake! I am a Spurs fan (as you know TF) and this garbage makes me throw up.

Having said that, I can assure you that my dad is sitting in his tighty whities and white T at the kitchen table reading the hard copy of this over his morning coffee and loving every line of this drivel. :lmao:

 
Buck Bradcanon said:
TobiasFunke said:
This one is so hot it actually reads like parody:

As career winds down, Duncan remains a starThe NBA is about preening drama queens who are marketed ahead of their teams.
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Oh for ####s sake! I am a Spurs fan (as you know TF) and this garbage makes me throw up.

Having said that, I can assure you that my dad is sitting in his tighty whities and white T at the kitchen table reading the hard copy of this over his morning coffee and loving every line of this drivel. :lmao:
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I think that's my favorite line in the piece.

 
Sammy3469 said:
Buck Bradcanon said:
TobiasFunke said:
This one is so hot it actually reads like parody:

As career winds down, Duncan remains a starThe NBA is about preening drama queens who are marketed ahead of their teams.
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Oh for ####s sake! I am a Spurs fan (as you know TF) and this garbage makes me throw up.

Having said that, I can assure you that my dad is sitting in his tighty whities and white T at the kitchen table reading the hard copy of this over his morning coffee and loving every line of this drivel. :lmao:
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I think that's my favorite line in the piece.
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That was a good one. There's a lot to choose from. You can lose some gems if you're blinded by the heat, like this one:

Every year, Duncan faces being shut out of the All-Star game because he’s none of those things.
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Duncan has been selected to the All-Star team 15 times in 17 opportunities, and one of the seasons he didn't make it was when he was injured and was out until after Xmas.

 
Buck Bradcanon said:
Copied PFTCommenter on it Tobias. Hope you don't mind. Straight fire.
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Not at all. It's a piece of work. One of the best I've ever seen.

Yet another crazy thing is that it actually kind of sells Duncan short in the midst of giving him an amazing fluffing. He's a legit all-star this year, not a legacy pick. Most people who are complaining about the Cousins snub think he should have gotten Durant's spot, not Duncan's.

 
I'm a little bit afraid this one might be satire.

Charles Barkley, you go girl.Our greatest modern-day sports philosopher dangerously ripped into a crew of people slightly more sensitive than Trekkies, Stars Wars geeks and coffee-house hipsters when he took aim at the world of sports analytics.

“I’ve always believed analytics was crap,” Barkley said this week on TNT’sInside the NBA. “It’s just some crap that people made up to try to get into the game because they had no talent.”

Amen. These people belong in the same sentence as referees, sports journalists (guilty as charged) and agents. About 98 percent of us were not good enough to play, so we talk about it, write about it, theorize about it and now offer mathematical formulas that these self-important people really do believe affect the outcome of a game.
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“What analytics did the Miami Heat have? What analytics did the Chicago Bulls have?” Barkley said in an epic rant. “What analytics do the Spurs have? They have the best players and coaching staffs who make players better.”

Beware, Chuck. These nerds have memories longer than a jilted lover, and they know how to use a Google Docs spreadsheet to prove that not only are you incorrect, but that your Hall of Fame career was nothing, and that you are a failure.

But Barkley is only slightly wrong when it comes to his scathing indictment on the growth industry that is analytics. A lot of smart people believe it has some use. It undeniably has had an impact in matchups, and it has helped grow a new sector of the sports economy.

My deep annoyance at this influx of numbers and situational stats has been met with scorn and criticism because this batch of nerds refuses to admit that, at its core, sport is simple. That’s why we love it in the first place. See ball, hit ball. Ball go in hoop. Ball go across line.

The other irritation is the claim by these myopic dorks that there is no other way around the math. Meanwhile, they dismiss the most obvious points, including:

▪ Few human beings can hit a 99 mph fastball that cuts.

▪ Other than time, no one could stop Michael Jordan.

▪ One of the bigger reasons the Stars’ season stinks is not because of a failure of analytics, but rather their second-highest paid player is a goalie who has not been stopping many pucks.

▪ Dez Bryant caught that ball (sorry — can’t let that one go).

Analytics has existed for decades. It just didn’t have a cute name with an office, a title and a bloated salary. It was called “The Ted Williams Shift.” It was forcing a guy to his weak hand. It was “the quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard.”

Now, in an effort to get better, teams employ fleets of analytic “experts” that allow them to remain in denial about sports’ inescapable truth: It’s about talent, not spreadsheets.

As smart as Mark Cuban is, his stacks of analytics didn’t compute until Dirk Nowitzki became the best player in the world and an unstoppable fourth-quarter player in the 2011 NBA playoffs.

“This analytics stuff has gotten in the way. Most of these owners are really bright, bright businessmen, and they got a lot of their success on information. I don’t think basketball is about information,” SMU basketball coach Larry Brown told our Drew Davison on Wednesday. “It’s about teaching and putting people in position to be successful. I also think both college and pro have suffered because there’s not enough teaching going on.”
But what does Larry Brown know? He only won an NCAA title. An NBA title. He has more than 1,000 victories and is regarded as one of the finest coaches alive. To the analytics crowd, he’s an old-timer who refuses to modernize.

Analytics in baseball has unearthed a few gems, and it has exposed some flaws in scouting, but that’s about it.

In the film Moneyball, Brad Pitt played Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane, who fired his assistant because they didn’t agree about philosophy in scouting. In real life, Beane never fired Grady Fuson, who left the A’s for a giant check handed to him by the Rangers. In real life, Beane rehired Fuson when he became available.

What analytics has done is improve scouting a bit and find a few more players, but more than anything else, it created a new sector of fans and employees who are convinced everyone else is stupid. They have their points, and some of the numbers can be fun, but the sad truth is they are wasting their lives on this stuff like the rest of us.

It’s just sports.

It’s simple.

It’s see ball, hit ball.

No calculation can ever change that.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article9760319.html#storylink=cpy
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Mr. Pickles said:
Chase Stuart had a lot of hot takes in his day.
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If you were referring to the above, that wasn't really what I was getting at. I know who Burke is. Chris Brown has been citing over to him from Grantland since about '11 or '12. My point was that for all the snark about Deflate-gate, the counter-narrative HST snark guys had to be given pause by his reasoned analysis about why the deflation might matter. And so went the narrative war, back and forth, snark and reason, science and bombast.

Anyway, carry on.

 
TobiasFunke said:
roadkill1292 said:
Brief hijack. Analytics suck the fun out of sports, including fantasy football.
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Not sure if that's a hijack, since that's perhaps the quintessential sports hot take of the last decade. Seems like half of them revolve around this proposition.
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When I first came here in '02 and saw what Joe and David and the boys were up to with their fancy computers, I knew my days in the game were numbered. I remember thinking "what fun is all that?" and then seeing dozens of posters gobbling it all up and calling for more. Sigh. Just seemed like one more thing I liked but wasn't gonna be any good at.

 
The little boy with a Michael Carter-Williams jersey will never understand why his favorite player is not a Sixer anymore. How are we supposed to explain to a child what “optionality” is?

Last week, in his latest venture into a murky future, GM Sam Hinkie traded the NBA rookie of the year because he wanted more options. In Hinkie’s twisted world, the correct term is “optionality” – the process of turning the known into the unknown, a tangible reality into a vague new promise. Or something like that.

In case you missed my previous remarks in this space about Sam Hinkie, here is a synopsis: He is the biggest fraud I have ever encountered during my 40 years in sports media. He is a charlatan, a snake-oil salesman. He is the Pied Piper of the young and the naïve, people who are not savvy enough to spot the con.Sam Hinkie never saw Carter-Williams as a 23-year-old point guard still learning his craft. Carter-Williams is a real person, with all of his flaws and eccentricities.

Hinkie prefers blank spaces on future draft boards because they never throw the ball out of bounds or miss an open three-point shot. Analytics is theoretical. Real life is not.

To these cultists, nothing can penetrate their admiration for a man who has accomplished nothing, a mysterious figure with a network of enablers who are hypnotized by his elusiveness. Through it all, none of these people – my most recent Internet poll had his number of admirers at 52 percent – has any interest in simple logic.

The real story of the Carter-Williams trade was that it involved a player Hinkie himself had drafted. Didn’t the GM’s extensive analytics research reveal that Carter-Williams was not much of an outside shooter? There was no computer analysis that revealed a tendency to turn the ball over? These flaws were not evident 21 months ago?

When Hinkie traded his own hand-picked point guard at the deadline last week, he revealed two things he would prefer to hide for as long as possible. The first is that his ability to evaluate talent is vastly overrated. And the second is that he has no actual plan to rebuild the team.

How can I be so sure? Well, let’s start with the basic ingredient in every rebuilding plan, the players. Does Hinkie have any specific college stars in mind right now? No, doesn’t know where he will pick in the lottery this year, and even less of a notion of whom, or even what year, all of these future picks will be.

Plus, all rebuilding plans need a timetable. Hinkie used more than 300 words to say nothing when asked for a date when the team will be a contender again.

The follow-up question was: How will we know?

“We’ll all know,” he said.

And so it goes, one insultingly vague answer after another, spouted in a mumbo-jumbo style by a man asking for blind faith in a city of cynics. Of course, in Hinkie’s analytics world, there are no doubters. A carpetbagger who emerges from his cocoon a few times a year, he even has the audacity now to imply an intimacy with the fans.

"Our fans understand that what we are trying to do is build something great, “ he said.

Not really. The father of the little boy with a Michael Carter-Williams jersey called my WIP radio show last Friday. He doesn’t understand at all what Sam Hinkie is trying to do.

“What do I tell my son?” he asked me. “What am I supposed to do now?”

I told him to buy the kid a jersey representing a Philadelphia team not run by Sam Hinkie. After all, the fans have “optionality,” too.
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This one has it all.

 
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Frostillicus said:
Analytics is theoretical. Real life is not.

Well, let’s start with the basic ingredient in every rebuilding plan, the players. Does Hinkie have any specific college stars in mind right now? No, doesn’t know where he will pick in the lottery this year, and even less of a notion of whom, or even what year, all of these future picks will be.
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This one has it all.
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beyond mind-numbing.

 
"Dad...did the Patriots really cheat?"

I immediately knew I had a problem when my 7-year-old son came down the stairs without his beloved Tom Brady jersey this morning.

"Well maybe Randy. The NFL is still looking into it. Nobody knows yet." I tried to explain the situation to him, but to be honest, I am not sure of the answers myself.

"But you said cheating is bad and cheaters never win. If cheating is bad, can I still root for Tom?"

My heart broke. You've finally gone too far New England. You've finally gone too far Bill and you've finally gone too far Tom. I hate to have to explain this to my kid. I mean, when does it stop being a game, and when does the NFL start to impact life lessons?
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:thumbup:

 
HOF nominee here...

To understand Chris Borland’s decision to retire, look across the country, at another prominent young former NFL player: Aaron Hernandez.

Hernandez is a year older than Borland. He, too, could be starring in the NFL next season, but he is in a Massachusetts courtroom instead, on trial for murdering his acquaintance Odin Lloyd. The trial is not going well for Hernandez, and even if he is somehow acquitted, he faces another trial for a separate double-murder case.

It sure looks like Hernandez will spend the rest of his life in jail.

And when he sits there, at age 50, he may be better off than if he had stayed in the NFL.
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Don Quixote said:
HOF nominee here...

To understand Chris Borland’s decision to retire, look across the country, at another prominent young former NFL player: Aaron Hernandez.

Hernandez is a year older than Borland. He, too, could be starring in the NFL next season, but he is in a Massachusetts courtroom instead, on trial for murdering his acquaintance Odin Lloyd. The trial is not going well for Hernandez, and even if he is somehow acquitted, he faces another trial for a separate double-murder case.

It sure looks like Hernandez will spend the rest of his life in jail.

And when he sits there, at age 50, he may be better off than if he had stayed in the NFL.
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Holy ####, dude. That just bounced off of some planet that I don't even know and scorched back to earth and killed a bunch of dinosaurs that were 2,000 years old.

 
Good Posting Judge said:
Thought most of the Borland scorchers would be going the other way, but it's a molten-lava take nonetheless.
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Commentary on the Hot Take aside, there is a surprising lack of that kind of stuff out there on the webs today. Public sentiment has changed and most observers, both in the media and general public, are pretty supportive of Borland's decision.

 
roadkill1292 said:
Good Posting Judge said:
Thought most of the Borland scorchers would be going the other way, but it's a molten-lava take nonetheless.
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Commentary on the Hot Take aside, there is a surprising lack of that kind of stuff out there on the webs today. Public sentiment has changed and most observers, both in the media and general public, are pretty supportive of Borland's decision.
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*Mike Florio's entrance music starts playing*

http://deadspin.com/retiring-from-nfl-to-juggle-grenades-is-a-bad-idea-say-1691918793

 
Good Posting Judge said:
roadkill1292 said:
Good Posting Judge said:
Thought most of the Borland scorchers would be going the other way, but it's a molten-lava take nonetheless.
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Commentary on the Hot Take aside, there is a surprising lack of that kind of stuff out there on the webs today. Public sentiment has changed and most observers, both in the media and general public, are pretty supportive of Borland's decision.
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*Mike Florio's entrance music starts playing*

http://deadspin.com/retiring-from-nfl-to-juggle-grenades-is-a-bad-idea-say-1691918793
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HE'S DISRESPECTING THE SHIELD, GOD DAMMIT!

 
Capella said:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2015/04/12/jordan-spieth-changing-of-the-guard/25686819/

Christine Brennan (the worst, seriously) dropped this huge turd yesterday.
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The little things are telling with these two golf princes, separated at birth by 17½ years. This week, Tiger again showed he simply cannot stop himself from swearing into open microphones when he said a particularly bad word after a terrible snap-hook off the tee into the trees on No. 13.

A couple of hours later, Spieth made his way to No.13, to the same spot, and also hit a poor tee shot into the trees.

His epithet?

"Oh, Jordan!"

One is 39. The other is 21. I think we're trading up.
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:lmao: Jesus F'ing Christ.

 
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This is a great way to start a true dumpster fire of a hot. sports. take.

When Jordan Spieth won the Masters on Sunday, we won too. People who have grown sick of self-absorbed athletes won. Parents and coaches preaching sportsmanship in youth sports won. Those young athletes won, too.

Seriously, this HST was conceived on her walk down to the food stand on the corner, put in a barrel, and lit with lighter fluid.

(I wish I had those fire icons so I could rate it.)

 
This more-than-adulation of our athletes was on view after the marathon attacks. The "Boston Strong" motif was worn and recited by citizens proudly wearing Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Patriots gear -- literally the uniforms of our civic belonging.

By far the most effective public spokesman for Boston in that post-marathon moment was Red Sox great David Ortiz, who memorably in front of a full Fenway crowd that "this is our [expletive] city."

What if it had been Aaron Hernandez who had said that?
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SeveredHorseHeads said:
This more-than-adulation of our athletes was on view after the marathon attacks. The "Boston Strong" motif was worn and recited by citizens proudly wearing Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Patriots gear -- literally the uniforms of our civic belonging.

By far the most effective public spokesman for Boston in that post-marathon moment was Red Sox great David Ortiz, who memorably in front of a full Fenway crowd that "this is our [expletive] city."

What if it had been Aaron Hernandez who had said that?
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Fantastic.

 
One of the best ever.

Mexico only got into the 2014 World Cup because of those very late US goals at Panama. Mexico had lost to Costa Rica minutes before and was effectively dead -- and completely out of the World Cup -- until the US scored.

 
What did the MVP know and when did he know it?

You'll have a hard time getting a real answer to that question. Just like the President that inspired that famous question, we protect our MVP's.

What did the MVP know and when did he know it?

All we can do is guess. His handlers have given him Secret Service levels of plausible deniability. We must not tarnish the Office. He's the Golden Boy, a hero to many. He did it the right way, working his way up from a draft afterthought to the face of the NFL.

What did the MVP know and when did he know it?

And that's what we cherish. That's what we tell our kids. You can go from humble roots to the highest Office in the Land! Some might say Super Bowl MVP holds more sway than being President, in fact. More kids know who you are. My kids certainly do.

What did the MVP know and when did he know it?
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wdcrob said:
One of the best ever.

Mexico only got into the 2014 World Cup because of those very late US goals at Panama. Mexico had lost to Costa Rica minutes before and was effectively dead -- and completely out of the World Cup -- until the US scored.
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This is something we would never see Al Michaels do :)

 
I just showed that video to my smoker and the fire lit instantly.

 
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"Dad...did the Patriots really cheat?"

I immediately knew I had a problem when my 7-year-old son came down the stairs without his beloved Tom Brady jersey this morning.

"Well maybe Randy. The NFL is still looking into it. Nobody knows yet." I tried to explain the situation to him, but to be honest, I am not sure of the answers myself.

"But you said cheating is bad and cheaters never win. If cheating is bad, can I still root for Tom?"

My heart broke. You've finally gone too far New England. You've finally gone too far Bill and you've finally gone too far Tom. I hate to have to explain this to my kid. I mean, when does it stop being a game, and when does the NFL start to impact life lessons?

Welcome to the new reality for Roger Goodell, who is facing his worst crisis in his time as NFL commissioner. And as far as I can see, there is only one thing he can do:

After a decade of cheating, Goodell needs to blow Tom Brady and Bill Belichick out of the NFL.

That's right. Suspend the duo for the Super Bowl, if not more. You don't want to play by the rules? Then you need to teach them a lesson. Like I do with my son. You need to not let them play.

The proof that the Patriots are habitual cheaters has been there for years. From Spygate to deceptive play calls to deflating footballs so your QB can get a better grip...I mean, it's gone too far.

"But I don't want to root for Seattle daddy. They have mean players."

This is where the NFL is in 2015. On one side of the Super Bowl you have a loudmouthed, arrogant cornerback along with a running back who grabs his crotch every time he scores a touchdown. And on the other side you have a gang of cheaters who can't even go through one playoff run without having "-gate" added to the narrative.

"Dad when does baseball come back?"

That was the last thing my son said to me as I dropped him off at his mom's this morning. I told him in a few months, but the reality is, it's not soon enough.

Maybe we'll do something else Super Bowl Sunday. Maybe I'll take him bowling or to putt-putt and show him how to play fair in real life.

Because if the NFL isn't willing to be good role models, it's time to take the air out of their product.
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Throwback Friday hot take

 
Capella said:
Premier said:
"Dad...did the Patriots really cheat?"

I immediately knew I had a problem when my 7-year-old son came down the stairs without his beloved Tom Brady jersey this morning.

"Well maybe Randy. The NFL is still looking into it. Nobody knows yet." I tried to explain the situation to him, but to be honest, I am not sure of the answers myself.

"But you said cheating is bad and cheaters never win. If cheating is bad, can I still root for Tom?"

My heart broke. You've finally gone too far New England. You've finally gone too far Bill and you've finally gone too far Tom. I hate to have to explain this to my kid. I mean, when does it stop being a game, and when does the NFL start to impact life lessons?

Welcome to the new reality for Roger Goodell, who is facing his worst crisis in his time as NFL commissioner. And as far as I can see, there is only one thing he can do:

After a decade of cheating, Goodell needs to blow Tom Brady and Bill Belichick out of the NFL.

That's right. Suspend the duo for the Super Bowl, if not more. You don't want to play by the rules? Then you need to teach them a lesson. Like I do with my son. You need to not let them play.

The proof that the Patriots are habitual cheaters has been there for years. From Spygate to deceptive play calls to deflating footballs so your QB can get a better grip...I mean, it's gone too far.

"But I don't want to root for Seattle daddy. They have mean players."

This is where the NFL is in 2015. On one side of the Super Bowl you have a loudmouthed, arrogant cornerback along with a running back who grabs his crotch every time he scores a touchdown. And on the other side you have a gang of cheaters who can't even go through one playoff run without having "-gate" added to the narrative.

"Dad when does baseball come back?"

That was the last thing my son said to me as I dropped him off at his mom's this morning. I told him in a few months, but the reality is, it's not soon enough.

Maybe we'll do something else Super Bowl Sunday. Maybe I'll take him bowling or to putt-putt and show him how to play fair in real life.

Because if the NFL isn't willing to be good role models, it's time to take the air out of their product.
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Throwback Friday hot take
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Too soon. My face just recently stopped peeling after the first time I read that.

 
I get the feeling there will be a lot of hot takes about the NFL, too. I don't think we can exclusively look for the traditional "think of the children/integrity/hall of fame/blah blah blah" ones; I think there will be plenty coming from the would-be grizzled cynics whose take on the whole thing will be contrarian yet trite at the same time.

eta* Yep, Shutdown Corner just advocated that Brady retire from the NFL to show Goodell who is really boss, and another Yahoo! writer suggested that PED use now come under game integrity issues. Goodell hate going strong, driving those grizzled, in-the-know types batty, helping them turn the knobs on their own gas grills for some hot takes.

 
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Awesome take on my wife's FM pop music radio station in the car this morning. The dj's put together a bunch of hilarious quotes playing on the double-entendre use of the world "balls" - inflating balls, deflating balls, how guys like their balls, rubbing balls - it was an awesome hilarious take.

 
Skip Bayless -

“As a member of the media – even though I know it’s cute and great for social media – who wants to ask the players about the game in a business setting, it is counterproductive,” Windhorst said. “It takes away from being able to ask the questions.”

“She did steal the show last night, which was exactly what I didn’t want to happen,” Bayless said. “[steph] had a job to do. [Journalists] are on a tough deadline. They need their quotes and they need to feed their sound or their tape or write their stories. They need quick quotes from Steph about what happening in the fascinating conclusion to the game. I wanted to hear about it because I’m such a Steph fan. I’m sitting in my living room watching this live feed, and Riley is adorable but I’ve seen enough. I’m trying to listen to what Steph’s saying and I can’t even follow it because he can’t complete a sentence because she’s interrupting. After I while I have no idea what Steph said and I badly wanted to hear what he had to say. It got completely disrupted by little Riley stealing the show…it really hurt the process of the journalists getting their quotes from Steph.

I don’t hate children, I’m not an ogre,. The NBA’s going to have to make a call to preserve the sanctity of the postgame.

 
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