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Why does the passer rating exist?

03:05 PM ET 11.11

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If you've ever read an article about football, which you likely have if you're reading this, you know what the passer rating is - the NFL's version of a credit rating, which very few of us fully understand but most of us accept as a measure of worth. Unlike a credit rating though, passer rating has no bearing on reality, so why do we keep track of it at all?A basic explanation of the passer rating is that it combines every major statistic a quarterback could accumulate, puts them in a formula and spits out a value from 0.0 to 158.3. Of course, my first reaction, inspired by my 5th grade math…

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What is wrong with the NHL?

03:32 PM ET 06.30

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Obviously, the main thing that's wrong with the NHL is relatability. Unless you grew up playing a sport, you're not going to be very inclined to play it. Of course, even though most kids play soccer no one watches that but that's a story for another time.More relevantly though, the NHL is in a pretty terrible bind. Who thought that expanding a league way beyond the talent pool then enforcing a salary cap which limits each team to one or two star players would make the league worse? Well, as much fun as watching 28 interchangeable, mediocre teams play eachother night after night is, I would…

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If I had one wish...

04:26 PM ET 06.23

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If a genie came to me and offered me one wish, it wouldn't be a tough choice at all. Sure, world peace would be fun, and getting rid of poverty go over well with the ladies. But as a good sports watching American man, there's really only one option - I wish that 2/3 of Boston's sports fans would ****!I know that Yankees fans can be abrasive, and Phillies fans can be mean (they booed Santa!). But some Boston fans combine both of these things with just a touch - okay a lot - of arrogance that makes watching sports with them all but impossible. Patriots and Red Sox fans flat out ruin…

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