Nate Janson

World Class Fisherman and All-Star Armchair Quarterback

[StatMuse @statmuse]

Passing touchdowns this season:

2 — Case Keenum
1 — Drake Maye

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

WHAT WATCHING USA WIN GOLD IN OT FEELS LIKE

[Nate Janson @natejanson11]

#targetedbycbssports

[Nate Janson @natejanson11]

#targetedbyfox

[Stephen S. Dwyer @SDwyerEsq]

Denver has never won a super bowl without a Colts drafted quarterback on the roster...

Thank God we've got Sam Ehlinger

[kstate_MAN @kstateman14]

Major sports franchises lost in the last 75 years

Missouri:

St. Louis Browns
St. Louis Football Cardinals
St. Louis Rams
St. Louis Hawks
Kansas City Kings
Kansas City Athletics
Kansas City Scouts
Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas:

[Zack Kelberman @KelbermanNFL]

Pro tip:

If you wanna gauge someone’s football IQ, ask for their opinion of this guy

[Nate Janson @natejanson11]

Bunch of bums #kroenkesucks

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

Boys night out 🏈

[Andrew Cooper @CoopAFiasco]

Rashee Rice will actually have to spend 32 days in jail if you count the two games against Patrick Surtain II

[Gateway Grinders @gatewaygrinders]

Shedeur Sanders get ready to learn kakaw buddy

[cobra. @cobrastats]

Here's 2019.

13 of 16 teams with 1 or fewer transfers. Lot less alphabet soup.

[Nate Janson @natejanson11]

The SEC is lame. I once ran into a chick who thought it was the only league. #mississppipeople

[Cyclone Larry @CycloneLarry69]

I did it, I found the worst person on the planet

[Barstool FSU @FSU_Barstool]

Their starting QB is out which means they shouldn’t be in playoffs right…right?

[Alexander Newman @AlexNewman55]

Take me back

[Thomas Welch @twelcher15]

NFL in LA going entirely according to plan. Thank god the Rams left St. Louis for this.

Congratulations to the San Francisco 49ers on the extra home game. #FTTB

[A Downs of Swords @BallFromGrace]

Moses also had someone upstairs giving him signs

[AB @AB84]

Democrats been in office 12 out of last 16 years and still say they want change 😂

[Mike Scollins @mikescollins]

it would be so legendary if they did this for the funeral procession