In the wee hours of Superbowl Sunday, I sit here reading the freakishly partisan comments on some of the polling diaries and it makes me want to shout: “This is not a sports blog!”

In the comment zone of a sports site, you see people posting mash notes for their team, exalting in the fact that they can be completely partisan, as rude as they want to be, and profess a knowledge of the deeper realities of the sport that also happen to confirm that their team is going to annihilate the other team which will be too busy blowing goats to even score a point. Just in case I need to spell this out: Please stop writing comments as if this were a sports blog and you were just supporting your hometown team.

To drive this home, below the fold I offer “What football would look like if it worked like the Democratic Primary.” Read it and count with me the ways in which treating DKos like a sports blog is killing lady liberty.