Balloon Juice - Sports Mania

These findings don’t surprise me at all:

– When given three choices to describe how close they feel to their favorite sports team (1- not close, 2-close, but can survive without them, 3- very close), 75% of respondents claimed they had a very close emotional relationship.

– 92% of respondents claimed they are stressed/nervous when watching their favorite sports team play a critical game.

– 75% of respondents claimed they become angry/irritable after their favorite sports team loses a critical game. 63% claim they have been depressed or have cried after their favorite team lost a critical game.

– 21% of respondents claimed they have gotten into a verbal altercation with someone who taunted them after their favorite team lost a critical game.

– 93% of respondents claimed they feel a friendly connection with other fans of their favorite team. Only 21% of respondents claim they are more likely to befriend a person knowing he is found of a team they root for.

I personally think Browns fans suffer from a genetic defect, and have been known to cross the street to avoid someone wearing Browns gear, so as to make sure I am not tempted to say something rude.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

I was promised a recession.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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