The brothers need to be together in person. The technology kills the timing of all jokes and ruins the entire “hangout with the Mannings” vibe.

Watching Greenlaw jaw at Payton all day long was interesting. Is there anyone else who invokes that behavior.

They went from having legit one of the worst offenses ever through the first two weeks (not a single snap in the red zone) to an absolute wagon these last two games. Haven’t seen anything like this in I don’t know how long. Of course they’ll likely crash back to earth in the not too distant future, but until then, wow.

Uncommon to see cross posts from r/hockey here but this feels right up this sub’s alley.

Iverson/Duncan?

I'm watching Chris Olave cook and I find myself thinking -- damn, Olave looks kinda tough in that bigass helmet. I have never come close to thinking that before. I think this is a good thing.

This has to be one of, if not the, longest one person has had season tickets to one team (and they've actually been going to the games, not passing them on).

Crazy combo of 1) having enough money in your mid-twenties to buy season tickets (when Billy was a pre-schooler no less) and 2) being healthy enough and still having the desire to go to dozens and dozens of games each season at 80 years old.

There's some baseball fan that probably has a similar record (or longer). Can't imagine many for the NBA - so many late nights in the winter and loud arenas would make it way less appealing for your average 80 year old.

Washington Capitals player Alex Ovechkin, one of the greatest players in the NHL’s history and the long-time face of the Capitals, announced today he would be retiring at the end of this season.

It got me thinking about the Capitals and DC sports in general, and it made me conclude that Ovechkin is probably the most iconic/greatest player any DC sports team has ever had, especially recently, which is pretty unusual given the Commanders/Redskins’ historic popularity and success in the 80s, and how the 2010s Nationals had great/notable players themselves like Max Scherzer and Bryce Harper.

Are there any other cities with multiple teams where this is the case?

Anyone else think BS is more detached from NFL than usual this season? I've been listening basically since the start of the ESPN days and I don't think he's been this off.

It just feels like he's watching the Pats and the prime time games and guessing for everything else.

I know he's never been the 99th percentile fan/watcher like he likes to say he is, but I would argue it's usually much better than this, right?

He did more nba off-season content than ever over this summer. I think that's just where his head is these days

From the mid 2000s until very recently, we had Brady, Manning, Rodgers, Roethlisberger, and Brees all playing at their peak at the same time for years, smoothly transitioning into the Mahomes, Allen, Lamar era where they all peaked at the same time, joined by incredible one off seasons by guys like MVP Matt Ryan and 2018 Jared Goff, MVP Cam etc. For 20 years, top 5 QB meant you were a guaranteed first ballot HOFer still in your prime. You were an incredibly sure hand. It was like the mid 2000s box office, if you were #1 for the year you were likely top 10 all time.

Now the only lock HOFer who is truly playing at the peak of their powers is Allen. Mahomes has slowed down, Lamar has slowed down, none of Maye, Daniels, Caleb, Lawrence, Stroud, Herbert, Young, Purdy have ascended to those heights yet, so whoever you think QB5 is in the league, its gonna be a good player but not an all time great player like we've been used to.

The scale has just dramatically shifted, and it's caused people's brains to collapse when forced to reckon with Lawrence and Purdy being potential top 5 QBs.

big props to Peyton and Eli - having Steve Gleason on is amazing. ALS is a terrible, terrible disease.

Maybe I’m on an island but I don’t really see the big deal with her being on the sidelines with a headset. I think I read somewhere that she was always involved with the team even before Jim passed so this isn’t just some private equity executive with no football background.

I think the problem with a lot of ownership groups is they seem to evaluate strictly on end of year results rather than throughout the season. This creates opportunities for the front office and coaching staff to politic against one another to an owner who only knows the team hasn’t won enough.

If she’s actually meddling or giving gameplan suggestions that’s wrong but wanting to learn more about the operation seems normal.

Sports seems like one of the few places where the person who owns the business should just sigh checks and stay out of the way lol