“Contractors are hired as contractors for THIS VERY REASON.” Read more

This is the most biased and ridiculous article I’ve ever read by deadspin. Read more

If you took out all the jobs that are in this daisy chaining/sub-contracting/sub-sub contracting that goes on in business today, regardless of the field or industry you are in...the national unemployment rate would be about 19% right now... Read more

Chicago disagrees with several of the things Kester mentions in his to-be book. Some would call him being creative even
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I did a search through a newspaper database that has lots of national publications and goes back more than a century, and the first reference to “testicular fortitude” I found came in 1984. It was in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by a former speechwriter for Gerald Ford named John Mihalec, blasting likely… Read more

Before Yu-Gi-Oh got popular in US, I also want to say it was before the Crazy Bone phase too. Gosh, I feel baby-face.

once Simmons played the testicular fortitude card, the damage could not be reversed.

...its fight song at the time vowed to “fight for old Dixie”... Read more

Somehow this was a thing that I missed. When were these printed? Read more

Bill Simmons joins the Kiss My Ass Club!

Hell, I think I still have a box of ‘em from the WWF days.
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That is the best lede ever written on deadspin dot com. Read more

Lets get ready to suck it.

All ESPN is doing is making Bill look like the victim here. I'm already a fan and as such would probably follow him anywhere but they just look like a lapdog for goodell by making moves like this. Read more

I’m right there with ya... Read more

yes, I”m sure my high school band director used it in the 80s, in the early 80s to be precise.

Presumably this isn’t a new phrase. Read more

I remember my dad using that phrase as a kid in the 80’s. Maybe Foley popularized it to some extent, but I'm pretty sure that variation of intestinal fortitude has been plenty common long befor Foley. Read more

For what it’s worth, I had no idea that wasn’t just a commonly used phrase. I’ve heard it a thousand times in conversation or writing. Whether a pro wrestler coined it or not, I think it’s way beyond that and just part of common American vernacular now. Read more