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January 23, 2015
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Caption for the first photo in fatty's link:
Marshawn Lynch's $20,000 fine for grabbing his crotch after scoring a touchdown in the AFC Championship was too light, Phil Mushnick writes.
I can't believe that Mr. Lynch got off so lightly by the NFL. Shit, I can't even believe that security didn't apprehend him and toss him in jail. And how the eff did he get to the Boston area so quickly after the NFC Championship game?
posted by NoMich at 10:44 AM on January 23, 2015
Marshawn Lynch's $20,000 fine for grabbing his crotch
I don't understand the fine. Was he not just checking the inflation?
posted by Howard_T at 02:27 PM on January 23, 2015
Yeah, it's a commercial for GoPro, but my GOODNESS there is some serious skill on display.
posted by grum@work at 04:32 PM on January 23, 2015
Hey, those kids are pretty good. Some NHL teams should give them try-outs. Except that Crosby kid was travelling there at the beginning.
posted by NoMich at 04:47 PM on January 23, 2015
Rcade, are you in on this lawsuit?
posted by bender at 10:47 PM on January 23, 2015
I declined to join the suit because they weren't asking for enough.
Every football game I watch now consists of me muttering either "Dez woulda caught that" or "that's a football move" after all pass plays.
posted by rcade at 11:13 PM on January 23, 2015
Shit. Ernie Banks has died.
posted by Scottymac at 01:33 AM on January 24, 2015
I never got to see Ernie Banks play shortstop. I wish I had.
I thought his trademark "Let's play two" was coined early in his career. I had no idea he came up with it during the soul crushing 69 season, which I watched unfold in front of me game by game in seeming slow motion horror. The worst part of it was that there was an air of certainty and inevitability to the collapse early on.
Thank goodness the other players had Mr. Cub in their midst to help take some of the sting out of it.
That was one hell of an infield. RIP
posted by beaverboard at 09:24 AM on January 24, 2015
I never got to see Ernie Banks play shortstop. I wish I had.
I did, at least on TV, and he was worth all of the accolades. Really wish he could be resurrected so we all could watch him "play 2".
posted by Howard_T at 03:48 PM on January 24, 2015
Phil Mushnick is very upset at the NFL inaction on the big controversy. You know the one, Marshawn Lynch's crotch.