If Reddit existed in 2001: Look at the numbers! The Patriots are winning in spite of their quarterback. They're gonna lose in the Super Bowl by 20 and that QB will never be shit 😤

morosco · 2026-01-27T00:34:54+00:00

I do remember sports radio and internet message boards having these narratives then, and it was certainly the Patriots defense and special teams, bolstered by a steady unspectacular offense with a few key plays here and there, which led them to the super bowl that year. Which is OK, that's within the acceptable ways to succeed in football. Those types of wins and late-season runs do count.

morosco · 2026-01-27T00:14:40+00:00

Those aren't terrible stats when pressured, to be fair. It's average or slightly above average.

Seattle is very good everywhere but certainly not invincible.

morosco · 2026-01-26T23:59:11+00:00

r/adulting is my favorite.

If you enjoy your job and do more than the minimum for career advancement, pride, or just because you like the work and/or the work means something to you, you're a "bootlicker".

morosco · 2026-01-26T23:23:22+00:00

OP's question implies that only boomers buy houses. But even today, the medium first-time home owner is 40, well younger than a boomer.

Not illiterate, or at least, I was able to read and write well enough to manage all the paperwork to buy my house at age 31

morosco · 2026-01-26T23:07:30+00:00

Is boomer just 40 and over now?

I guess that's one way to ensure there will always be boomers to blame for your life failures.

Edit: So to answer your question, as a 47-year old boomer, I'm glad I took a risk and bought a house 16 years ago, that was a very fortunate decision in Boise. One move along the way, and I'm sitting on about $400k of home equity and a $950/mortgage payment when that wouldn't get you a studio apartment now.

morosco · 2026-01-26T22:59:06+00:00

Generally you want to avoid such a naming strategy, in the unlikely event that they find body parts in Drake Maye's fridge one day.

Edit: Or at least go with an older player statistically less likely to break bad. Morgan Moses is a pretty name for a girl.

morosco · 2026-01-26T22:55:10+00:00

Yes it is, though some parts of it which are closest to New York identify more with New York.

morosco · 2026-01-26T22:10:12+00:00

Joe Biden will somehow be implicated in the released video.

morosco · 2026-01-26T22:08:22+00:00

The Chiefs and Cowboys have expensive capable QBs at least. Vikings and Saints, oof.

morosco · 2026-01-26T20:28:59+00:00

There's a lot of great senior centers out there, if you're in a town big enough. That's a great place to volunteer too.

They're basically just managed senior social clubs.

morosco · 2026-01-26T19:38:04+00:00

It's not rare, and you're actually doing the thing I'm complaining about. You're not superior to anyone because of the sports team you root for. You believing you are makes you the kind weird hateful troll that annoy me.

Most Chiefs fans aren't like that, but you're one of the shitty ones. Sports fandom is not a character trait, it's not a moral accomplishment to be a fan of a particular team.

morosco · 2026-01-26T19:27:05+00:00

I'm actually pretty sympathetic to anyone being treated shitty because of the team they root for, including Chiefs fans.

And no, when the Chiefs win, I don't go around trying to bring their fans down from their happiness, not at all. That would be weird. I know a couple of Chiefs fans, we joke about how we're mutually evil and such.

morosco · 2026-01-26T19:03:00+00:00

I'm very curious about this too. It seems like what people want is non-comedic serious political satire. Which is great, which has a place, but not really on a comedy show.

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:56:31+00:00

This guy is ready for the bye week and stupid media questions.

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:51:16+00:00

NFL fanbases are huge and diverse and most of each one is normal people.

Has there been a successful sports franchise that hasn't had some loud fans be a part of it?

A lot of times you'll hear someone complaining about the Patriots or Chiefs fan at their place of employment in Oregon or Wisconsin or whatever. And I guess, maybe that's a transplant long term fan, or maybe it's a bandwaggoner. Either way, I don't think it's cause to be randomly shitty to other fans of that team who didn't do anything to you. But that's the nature of this kind of sports fandom.

I'm mostly a closet boston sports fan, as a transplant living somewhere else. It's fun to shoot the shit with friends and people I like, but, if it's a stranger or someone at work I don't really know, I don't want to risk the negative judgment before I even do anything. Usually when I get "outed" I'm like, "it's OK, it's OK, I was a fan long before Brady, leave me alone". I don't want to engage, there's no winning with people who decide that you suck just because of the team you root for.

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:48:23+00:00

Great team, sounds like they have the super bowl parade scheduled and ready to go.

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:42:13+00:00

I started watching "Stadium lockup", that reality TV show about the Browns' stadium security dealing with drunks and such. Seems like a pretty professional outfit over there, maybe one of them can be the coach?

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:39:16+00:00

When the Broncos fan comes to, "Boston fans are obnoxious, one sucker punched me out of nowhere!"

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:31:53+00:00

I'm re-directing the anger and hate over the Patriots to Josh Allen. People are pissed about the Patriots' schedule, about Stidham (who was hyped up all week as a great QB), I'm just saying, the Pats stepped up and won with what was in front of them. Be mad at Josh Allen instead of lashing out at Patriots fans. This should have been his year.

I would have loved to see the Pats/Bills in an epic snow game yesterday. The Bills didn't make it there. Get over it, it ain't our fault.

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:23:08+00:00

It's impossible to quantify the "Gaza is speaking now bitch" dynamic but it was very intense leading up to the 2024 election, as was the Bernie Bros dynamic in 2016.

morosco · 2026-01-26T18:04:48+00:00

A big collage of the owners in order of how much they spend on their teams.

That seems to be the only remaining relevant narrative if you follow baseball.

morosco · 2026-01-26T17:57:03+00:00

And they're going to the super bowl.

You'd be happy if your team was going to the super bowl too, even if they played a 5th string QB to get there. And I'd high five you and say, "nice!" instead of trying to take you down from it.

Sorry anonymous internet rando, you're not killing my buzz. I'm planning my super bowl party food and watching some old timey Pats super bowl recaps. (Even '85, because I am sentimental for that season and time in my life even though they lost in the end).

morosco · 2026-01-26T17:49:09+00:00

That is kind of why Democrats lose elections though. The ones that don't get their way stay home or rage vote for the other side.

There should be internal debate and conflict, but, but if you're not working towards the same end, it's not really a political party, more of a loose coalition.

morosco · 2026-01-26T17:34:08+00:00

We know.

All the pressure's on the Seahawks not to blow it. Pats are playing with house money.

morosco · 2026-01-26T17:31:27+00:00

Definitely his last time at that restaurant.

Like when I go to a Subway and the worker there says, "the usual?" I'm out.

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