Can We Stop Referring To It As Record-Breaking These Days?

On an unrelated point, the SMB's very own Seattle Seahawks have crawled despairingly into the playoffs this year. With a stunning 7-9 record.

Now, we are not exactly American football fans, but only the most appalling heathen would fail to support his local sports teams. But what's really galling about the situation is that everyone appears proud of this. "Look at us, chaps," they cry, "We're record breakers!"

Of course you're bloody record breakers. You broke the record of no one ever being as appalling as you but still fluking their way into the playoffs. You are the statistical outlier of failing to improve in any way on the prior year's awful performances, but somehow managing to be rewarded for it by the odd law of fate.

I'm just sayin'.