DMN in the House

Finally upgraded to 2k24, and settled on a Jordan era (1991) Lakers team. Magic is out with HIV, but he's on the roster, so I might have him return next season, we'll see. Just started, so I don't have much to say yet, but, man, having the 'NBA on NBC' music for the quarter and half music of games really hits different. Brings back a lot of memories of watching 90s basketball.

Whatever it is, they should keep doing it. They may never beat the Las Vegas Raiders. Sorry @Meacon Keaton, I still love you. Bowers and Meyer is absolutely going to terrorize defenses.

Nah, I still get to laugh at Denver's, even with Bo Nix. Man, we should probably go defense, but Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer two TE sets sound fun.

FaLOLcons.

They're giving Reggie Bush his Heisman back. I might be a (an? That sounds weird) UCLA fan, but it's a long time coming, shouldn't have taken it away in the first place.

I'm just going to say it, I'm tired of playing the fucking Oilers in the playoffs.

The Dallas Cowboys have already moved from ALL IN to ALL OUT.

BRB, gonna go re-enact the plot of Celtic Pride with Nikola Jokić.

Probably going to end up facing the Nuggets. Might as well do it in the first round, had LBJ and AD at the healthiest they'll be in the playoffs. If the Lakers can somehow get past them, I think they have as good a chance as any team in the West to go all the way.

Honestly, draft stuff has kind of died down recently. I saw a tweet that was basically 'no teams are talking and none of them have decided on who they're taking', lol. I think outside of Caleb Williams at one, and Jim Harbaugh wanting to draft Michigan Men, everyone's keeping their mouths shut and watching what happens.

The fact that either fail to understand, or have no respect for, the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work is unsurprising.

It was probably an unnecessary comment, but I was more just trying to draw a parallel to our current political climate and polarization. I see a lot of looking back and thinking it was better, even I fall in to it some time, so it was more a comment on that than towards anyone or any place specifically. I definitely agree that most posters here who are American and old enough to really remember it understand it. (Edit: I should say that I'm pretty sure most of our fellow non-American posters get it too, tbf. This is a pretty progressive and educated board). On a side note, I remember when the Bronco chase happened, because they went up the 405, which was literally three-four blocks from my house at the time, you could see it from my bedroom. It's kind of surreal looking back at it.

I think I saw that the HOF put out a statement about his football exploits remaining in their archive or something similar. I'm not sure what they could say, really, he was already in the Hall when everything happened. I'm sure the NFL doesn't want to touch it with a ten-yard pole. I have seen quite a few postings on Reddit of the jurors from the case talking about it being 'revenge' (not their words, I can't remember the exact wording) for Rodney King. I wish I could say it's hard to understand how polarized Los Angeles (and honestly, the country as a whole) was on the issue of race, but I'm sure even people who weren't around or old enough to remember can understand that now.

None of that mattered once Fuhrman took the fifth on planting evidence despite answering other questions. That was a killshot of reasonable doubt.

Is saying he definitely did it, but, between the LAPD and the prosecution he was rightfully acquitted because his defense team was able to bring reasonable doubt into it, a hot take? He got off because Mark Fuhrman was a dumbass Nazi who tried to frame a guilty man, Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden were woefully outclassed by Johnnie Cochran, daddy Kardashian, F. Lee Bailey, and the rat looking guy who was friends with Epstein who's name I forget, and because the LAPD were incredibly corrupt and racist (and still only the second most corrupt and racist police force in Los Angeles). It's also come out that he allegedly sexually assaulted and battered two women when he was at USC. Hell of a football player, though. Kind of like Chris Benoit in that regard.