Nice Work, Baltimore

Way to screw it up for everybody. The Jets held up their end of things, but you blew it.

(Actually, if somebody had to lose to the hapless Dolphins, it couldn't've happened to a better team. Well, OK, the Cowboys, but I really do hate the Ravens, whose defense is the absolute pinnacle of the strutting, dancing, chest-pounding horseshit that infects the NFL (and most pro sports) these days.

(Shut up and play football, already. If I want to see chest-thumping and bellowing, I can get a Tarzan movie from Netflix.)

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