Can a quarterback be so bad that you can’t tell if it’s intentional grounding?

a “Space Force”, if you will

When I heard the part about “in the Situation Room” I thought of “The West Wing” and imagined John Amos telling them to get the fuck out

If I get to pick who they sock, sure

time to re-subscribe to the NYT

Kirby Smart tried to get Arch Manning. Instead he's winning with Gunner Stockton - who's having a better year than Manning. That's the story with Smart at QB: He goes after five-stars and experienced transfers, and often gets them. Then he wins with other guys. www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

Looking forward to hearing Mike Johnson say “Hmm, I haven’t heard about any of this”

"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible

This is absolutely necessary, our city is being menaced by roving gangs of dog walkers and aunties pushing strollers

The pale blue dot

The reason nothing is happening in this football game is that each team has like six players from Georgia’s 2021 and 2022 national championship defenses on it

Another really good magazine bites the dust: RIP Charlotte magazine, 1968-2025. I was proud to be a small part of its history, but this is a tragedy for the city, where one media outlet after another has been going down or getting hollowed out into an Easter Bunny chocolate shell.

Aaron Rodgers still knows how to hit a wide-open receiver (the Chargers’ safety)

Charlotte Magazine announced it was closing its doors this week 3 of my favorite writers penned must-read obituaries for the magazine that was. All are nominally about the institution, but they're really about people, about creativity & about how the former gave space for the latter to thrive (1/5)

Panthers have laid an egg the size of the Goodyear Blimp

Panthers trying as hard as they can to lose to the Saints and I think they’re gonna get there

Pour one out for Charlotte magazine. I can't thank the place or its people enough, but here's my best effort: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/pour-one-o...

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Don’t show me the standings, UNC is spiritually the ACC champ

There is another

Auburn has one (1) good offensive player but he’s Cam Coleman and he’s incredible

And by the way: that was the perfect Gus Johnson Game

I love that Cignetti normally comes off as a hardass but today he’s like “holy hell, that game was WILD”

Sounds impossible to say this, but Indiana can’t be killed

That Ally commercial where the guy proposes at the cookout … you better be 100% sure she’s gonna say yes, because otherwise your friends would roast you for the REST OF YOUR LIFE

I’m now convinced Kirby Smart made some sort of deal with the devil that involves giving up a TD to everyone in the first quarter

Here's my Saturday edition of The Writing Shed ... I pour one out for a great local magazine, plus links to Colbert, the Doobies, and the value of a Golf Buddy. (Your Golf Buddy does not have to play golf.) tommytomlinson.substack.com/p/the-launch...

I mean this with kindness: no one who isn’t in Charlotte thinks about Charlotte

This game (full sound) is what will now be playing on loop in whatever afterlife people who don’t return their shopping carts go to; I’m just trying to warn you guys

The Broncos throwback uniforms are roughly two trillion times cooler than their normal ones

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Can you show me where it hurts? (pause) TIN ROOF! RUSTED!

Gonna be really disappointed if Jersey Mike’s doesn’t start giving out free subs at the next No Kings protests

So bummed to see this, not just b/c several friends work there, but because our city needs and deserves a magazine as good as this one has been. charlotteledger.substack.com/p/breaking-c...

Hell yeah brother

I did an extremely nerdy college football thing--tried to figure out the actual best CFB teams this season with something beyond analytics and vibes. Here goes. tommytomlinson.substack.com/p/the-true-t...

CITY TO TRUMP: DROP DEAD

FROM WAY DOWNTOWN

There's no better place to write about deserving Hall of Famers than Cooperstown, right? I had to.

COWBOYS TRADING DEADLINE NEEDS: new owner

Sort of embarrassed that the Panthers only scored 30 on this Dallas defense

Curious about the Nieman Fellowship? Join us for a live Q&A session to learn what it’s like to spend a year studying as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University this Friday, November 7, 1:00 PM ET.

From my buddy Joe Person, Panthers writer for @theathletic.com: Carolina is just the second team since 1970 to have a winning record through nine games while being the underdog in each of their games.

Damn, Seattle’s playing like they’re the Indiana Hoosiers or something

Bears-Bengals is an amazing Big XII Game of the Week

TWO PUMPS FOR THE PANTHERS

Man, Greg Olsen is so good

It's hard to believe the season is over, but what a series to end it on. Take a journey with me as I try to encapsulate a wild Game Seven from Cooperstown.

Why yes, A-Ron Rodgers did the same Key & Peele pumps that Rico Dowdle just did