Happy Monday. Let’s hit a few quickies and get this week started.
THE WORLD’S MOST ENDURING FORMULA. How many different ways are there to write about resurrection of Texas’ biggest sports rivalry? Simple: take the number of weeks that exist between national signing day and Labor Day weekend and multiply by a fucking billion. This is one of your classic hemming-and hawing headlines, but the piece opens bravely with a quote by Joni Mitchell. It only gets more cliched from there. Yet another reason to play the dang football game: we won’t have to devour such excruciatingly crafted styrofoam peanuts like this anymore.