@sunnyright Any corporation would have fired a CEO for the Lewinsky affair. Politicians freely engage in insider trading and now Presidents can run crypto scams and give shockingly corrupt pardons.
We have higher standards for corporate summer interns than U.S. Presidents.
@MattBruenig@DKThomp I think Biden and Trump would have both benefitted from not actively causing inflation and then gaslighting people about it and blaming b.s. like "corporate greed."
@cjscalia People like to call bands The something. My favorite band is the Old 97's, and it feels strange that their name is just "Old 97's."
Also, apparently The Eagles insisted that their name was just Eagles which fortunately no one respected.
@BudElliott3 It is purely scheduling affiliation now. In the B1G and ACC you can play approximately half the conference in a season (SEC a bit more), there's no meaningful "champion" and a committee picks 24 teams. Conferences are just media deals.
@CharlesFLehman I think it also works because everyone knows that Trump isn't actually religious and it seems rude to pretend to believe him (kind of like when the Trump DOE investigated Princeton after it performatively confessed to systemic racism).
@MrJuansWorld@slmandel The NFL has 16 teams in each conference and has a playoff to determine the conference champion. The B1G and ACC have 18 teams and will declare a champion based on regular season only. No, CFB will not be "just like other sports."
@dennisdoddcbs@slmandel That was when the Big Ten had ten teams (I would welcome the return of that). If the winner of The Game is in a three way tie with Oregon and Indiana and schedules don't overlap, good luck.
@pzmakris@slmandel In the last five SEC championship games, the lower ranked team is 3-2. You must have correctly bet all those games?
And going into the 2025 Big Ten championship game, Ohio State was undefeated, ranked no. 1, and favored.
@itmeolliev@slmandel You understand that the Big Ten used to have ten teams and everyone played each other every year, and now they have eighteen teams?
So yeah, it's hard to declare a champion among a bunch of teams that don't play each other. Other than that, great point.
@Alt_Azn I like to ask liberals if they think America was founded on Asian supremacy since Asians are more successful than whites and it's impossible that any group just has more talent or work ethic than any other.