Carolina Panthers: America’s Adorable Existential Crisis on Cleats By “Jet-Lagged” Julio Navarro, Senior Correspondent for Dave’s Locker The Carolina Panthers, for the uninitiated, are an American football franchise named after a predator that hasn’t prowled the Carolinas since the 19th century—an irony not lost on a planet that now watches apex predators mostly on streaming…
Bryce Underwood, the 16-year-old quarterback who has just committed to the University of Michigan for 2025, is already being hailed as the LeBron James of American football—a comparison that, like most things American, is half hyperbole and half prophecy. While the rest of the planet sorts out minor inconveniences like climate refugees and supply-chain famines,…
Middle Tennessee vs Wisconsin: A Microscopic Proxy War for a Planet That Can’t Even By the time the final whistle blows in Murfreesboro this Saturday, roughly 97 % of humanity will be blissfully unaware that Middle Tennessee and Wisconsin just re-enacted the global balance of power in 60 tidy minutes of American football. That’s fine;…
**The Global Trade Route Nobody Talked About: Khalil Mack’s Journey from Fort Pierce to the Edge of Civilization** While the world obsessed over supply chain bottlenecks and cryptocurrency volatility, a different kind of international commerce unfolded on NFL fields across America—one involving a 6’3″, 269-pound outside linebacker who treats quarterbacks like fragile exports that need…
