Football
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Don’t take someone else’s headache
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Talent is intoxicating. Especially true, exceptional talent. The problem, then is then now you’re drunk. And responsible for it.
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I don’t want a right to coercive prayer
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In advancing a right to pray, the Supreme Court is now pretending your right to refuse doesn’t even matter.
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We’ve run out of excuses for football
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Football is killing people. And because it isn’t happening on the field, we can pretend like it isn’t happening at all.
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When we hate cheating…and following the rules
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Imagine if Mitt Romney got caught stuffing ballot boxes in 2012. Well, not actually Mitt, but staff. Volunteers, actually. You’d be pissed, right? That’s serious, land his ass in jail stuff. Now imagine that election law only says that it is against the law to stuff ballot boxes. It doesn’t say what it means or…
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The Beast Doesn’t Need to Speak
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It is easy for the guy on the top of the pyramid to demand that the ones at the bottom do their jobs. To him, it is irrelevant that his job is actually to carry a football and get the snot beat out of him. That the “other duties as assigned” include ridiculous press conferences full of…
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How the 2014 Super Bowl should effect the draft
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If this Super Bowl has taught us anything, it is that the cult of the quarterback needs to end. Like John Elway and Tom Brady can attest: your team may have the best quarterback, but that doesn’t mean you’ll win. In fact, history doesn’t side with the better quarterback, but with the better team. Here’s…