"My contention is that prior to the Trojan war, the political structures of the Greek kingdoms, especially in the island territories could most aptly be characterized as...
Ofc that's your contention. You're a young aristocrat who just finished listening to some wandering poet, probably that hack from Pylos. You'll be convinced of that until next month when you hear the bard from Sparta. Then you'll be taking about how the kingdoms of Mycenae and Thebes were models of divine rulership back in our grandfathers' time. That will last until next year when you're back to regurgitating Mentor's speeches about the sacred bonds between king and people and the divine right of succession.
"Well as a matter of fact I won't because Mentor completely overlooks the importance of...
"Mentor completely overlooks the importance of the council of elders in tempering royal authority, especially in matters of inheritance..." you got that from Halitherses' speech at last year's spring festival, right? Yeah, I heard that too. Were you going to plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or is that your thing. You come to a feast, quote some elder, and pawn it off as your own idea to impress Penelope and embarrass my son Telemachus?"
optimist: the glass is half full
pessimist: the glass is half empty
hockey player: we just gotta play the right way, get pucks in deep and be strong on the forecheck
One of the most disingenuous lazy arguments we will now see is "You wanted Tomlin gone, this is what you get". Many exciting candidates were available for the Steelers. Being disappointed again by ownership decisions has nothing to do with wanting to move on from the inability to win a playoff game.
All the players in dark green are starters that Mike Tomlin inherited from Bill Cowher who started on both the 2008 and 2010 teams. Light green means they started in '08, but not '10. Draw your own conclusions...
The idea that Mike Tomlin - who had a Hall of Fame QB and home playoff games followed by the highest priced defense in the NFL - dragged seven mediocre rosters to the playoffs and that’s why they lost officially the last bastion of narrative idiocy. It can’t get dumber than that
It’s been 2 minutes…I was assured by nearly every member of the national media for over decade that Tomlin would already be leading another team to 10-7 and 14 point blowout playoff losses by now. Hmm.
Wherever there’s a team that is in need of regular season parity, meaningless wins, and losing by 11+ in every playoff game the last 5 years, have no fear…he’ll be there.
Anybody else find it interesting how the national media narrative around unanimous first ballot hall of famer Mike Tomlin (53 yrs. old) has shifted from “he’ll get picked up by another team in a second” to “he’ll make a fortune and be perfect for TV” now?
It’s an absolute shame John Schneider and Vladdy were such anti-NY rat fucks that we couldn’t root for such a well rounded team like the Blue Jays in the WS. Anyway…hope NY NY hits hard in the locker room tn celebrating your ALDS World Series victory.
@RapSheet@PrioritySports Credit to Tomlin and the @steelers organization for this one, they know they’ll never have to pay playoff win incentives as long as Mediocre Mike is still running the show