[xemdetia]

What a terrible URL: http://.../football/bill-belichick-patriots-might-be-a-mac-g...

I think there is a lot to be said about the fact that any event that has as much tech as an NFL broadcast and that it is never setup permanently will always run into some issue. The base complaint seems to be just that the league gives him the stuff too late to work out any unforeseen issues, and so it just is a sprint to troubleshoot week after week where he could just show up with briefcase full of printed plays and this just not be a problem. It's not like he has a shortage of bodies for manual labour on the sidelines.

[danso]

I think this article was submitted yesterday with the original headline. Looking at newsdiffs, looks like this is a case where a copy editor tried to be clever, and later on, people realized that the clever bit resulted in a tangible inaccuracy:

http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/www.nytimes.com/2016/10...

[freehunter]

I know that the writers come up with the original title which is transferred to the URL and the editors change it to fit the style of the newspaper a little better, but the editors should have the ability/responsibility to edit the URL as well. I agree the permalink is a little ridiculous.

[Twirrim]

your URL got shortened in the most bizarre way (I swear I'm seeing this happen more and more often on HN)

[freehunter]

He intentionally removed the domain name to highlight the rest of the permalink. It's the same URL as linked in the title, but he's highlighting the "bill-might-be-a-mac-guy" part of it.