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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know the special teams is bad, but a 51yd field position difference on a very basic missed call doesn’t help

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s cold comfort for sure, but it’s better than doubling down on a bad decision and not admitting your mistakes.

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Was that in the same Super Bowl where the Bengals only avoided getting blown out due to a massive missed OPI on their 75-yd TD and Odell’s ACL disintegrating?

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s not correct though either. The closer to the end of a game, the more important a high-leverage play is, because there’s less time to react to the outcome. Broncos could still have won w/o the pick 6, they couldn’t have won if this play were called correctly.

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely horrible. On a truly phenomenal play

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Of course it’s supposed to be fair. The NFL isn’t designed to have some good divisions and some trash ones. 4 divisions of 8 teams would be better at this point.

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Niners are likely the 1 or the 6. But your point stands with either the Rams or Seahawks.

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I know you only post it when there’s something interesting or funny to show, but do you have the Rams Goff/Stafford chart updated for this season?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

The Fencingtracker.com page for Stephanie Turner, who competed in a mixed gender foil event on 3/23 and finished 8th of 32 competitors

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Transphobes regularly argue trans women shouldn’t play sports if they’ve gone through male puberty because it provides too big an advantage, but this story shows even when a trans athlete ***didnt*** go through male puberty, they’ll be just as vicious and cruel and outraged

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I think this is a really bad proposal, but it’s come about because the current division system & associated scheduling is not fit for purpose

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports
Michelle R. Martinelli
For The Win

They’re lying about transgender people in this world. They’re lying about what LGBTQ+ inclusion in society really means, and they’re lying about trans people in sports. They’re lying about a “transgender cult” and “transgender insanity,” about teachers indoctrinating kids with “transgender ideology” and about “making mice transgender.”

Right-wing activists, anti-trans bigots, many politicians, the president — they’re lying to you about many things but especially trans women and girls in sports. They’re lying about transgender athletes supposedly ruining women’s sports, and they’re lying about this being a ubiquitous “problem.”

They are deliberately and strategically lying about trans folks’ lives, about trans athletes and about their own disingenuous motivations for pushing these lies. They don’t care because they keep doing it.

Worse, it’s working.

They're lying about trans people, especially trans women and girls in sports, probably, in part, because the actual data doesn't support their arguments.
Yet several states have their own bans against trans athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender identity, despite expert estimates of fewer than 100 trans high school athletes nationwide. In 2022, Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed an anti-transgender bill - it was eventually overruled by the legislature - and outlined his rationale. Along with the high suicide rates for trans youth, he noted that of 75,000 high school athletes in the state, four identified as trans and just one student was playing girls' sports. A whole state bill targeting four athletes, but really, one.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

women's sports are thriving and growing in every possible way—participation, fandom, financial support, etc. the only actual existential threat to them I can think of is "Republicans saying we need to ban them after falsely claiming they are overrun by trans athletes"

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Even in terms of TOP, yards/play and total yards. Plus eagles got the fumble luck. Could argue if Rozeboom knew how to take a pursuit angle Rams win going away.

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Couldn’t get past this sentence without furiously nodding in agreement: “We do ourselves an enormous disservice by focusing on the word “valuable” in the MVP award.”

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nedbartholomew.bsky.social @nedbartholomew.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The 4 team divisions are the problem. You’re never going to get even levels of quality between divisions that way. It’s obviously not ‘fair’ that (e.g.) the chargers have to be better than the chiefs over the course of the season to get a home playoff game, and the whole AFC south sucks most years

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Can we just take a moment to acknowledge how preposterous it is that a player on SJSU was outed as trans by a teammate and is now being bullied by half her opponents, lawmakers, JK fucking Rowling, the ICON TERFs et al, and yet we are supposed to accept that *she* is the one endangering *them*?!?

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