In this final stretch before the NFL playoffs, when the weather turns as bitter cold as it was at MetLife Stadium, it’s essential for teams to be able to run the football.

He said that he is not "bitter" about his rejection by the Saints, but added: "I've still got the letter at home, tucked away in a drawer."

“All of a sudden my body decided that alcohol is poison,” she told me recently over a bitter grapefruit mocktail at an Italian restaurant.

After finishing one drink — a concoction of orange juice, cranberry juice and something bitter, she said — at the celebration, the woman says she began to feel lightheaded and found an empty bedroom to rest.

The latter tracks are bitter reminders that the band’s fiscal woes were never too far out of earshot.