We pick it up starting 2015, in a retrospective (though clearly NOT exhaustive) of the ridiculousness of sports and everything surrounding it the last ten years:
- 2015 was, in fact, the most posts in a year, over 550.
- Started with the whole apparent coronation of Seattle, with the rig-job over Green Bay in the NFC title game. (And Packers fans wanting to kill the guy, thinking the game was on level. Reminding us of the Fail Mary replacement ref.)
- Forgetting that you don't run the ball at the 1 yard line when you Marshawn Lynch. *destroys TV set*
- Chant by the fans before that year's Wrestlemania in the new 49ers stadium: "RUN THE BALL! RUN THE BALL!! RUN THE BALL!!!"
- Firings of both Keith Olbermann AND Bill Simmons.
- Pacquiao-Mayweather finally happens, and the only winners are everybody we don't want to win.
- International soccer finally blows it's stack, eventually costing Sepp Blatter his job.
- A bunch of the usual suspects, until we hit a September which literally had A HUNDRED POSTS.
- Referee attacks in high school football games, including an intentional one in Texas, started the fire.
- And another in San Antonio a week later. And another in Tennessee the week following, after the first Texas one was swept under the rug, with the full advice and consent of Team "Friday Night Lights".
- Then the exposure of the fraud which is Grift Kings and Scam Duel.
- Then we enter 2016.
- The NFL's failed LA Experiment officially begins.
- Getting raped in a "football town" is only worth $900,000 to win a Heisman and make the NFL.
- Then Chris Wideman attacks an NFL referee, apparently concussed. The league does not believe he was concussed, yet keeps the suspension at 20 games.
- Then the Deadspin end of Gawker Media with the Hulk Hogan verdict, sending the entire site into a tailspin from which it STILL has not recovered, and probably shouldn't!
- League of Legends blows up it's North American credibility, days after a Korean world champion of Starcraft is exposed as a match-fixer because of the lucrative Korean e-sports gambling market.
- Then the Rio Olympics and the burgeoning problems of exposing the Sochi propaganda drug exercise of the Russians.
- Another football season full of the usual madness...
- But then the National Anthem protest counter-protests kick in - something which is now costing the NFL double-digit percent in viewers per year. So bad that a Sunday night World Series Game 5 beat the football prime-timer by 30%.
- A classic take of NFL ineptitude. "How'd he miss that?"
- And then an admitted rigged high-school playoff game in Illinois -- which led to a state championship.
- Into 2017...
- By this point, things are repeating quite a bit: Super Bowl here, soccer there, the occasional e-sports moment or two...
- The bullying of Mauro Ranallo off his first WWE TV stint...
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