Athlon's Essential 11 Links of the Day: September 5, 2014

This is your daily links roundup of our favorite sports and entertainment posts on the web for September 5:

• Celebrate Seattle's reign with 19-year-old Seahawks cheerleader Christian, who's back for her second year with the squad.

• Eddie Lacy of the Packers wore a sweet Hulk t-shirt last night. Didn't prevent a concussion, though.

• Aaron Rodgers avoided Richard Sherman during last night's Seahawks beatdown, but he couldn't avoid him after the game.

• The real stars last night were Beast Mode and Percy.

• Celebrities took to Twitter to pay tribute to Joan Rivers when news broke of her death. Even Barry Bonds devoted one of his first-ever tweets to the subject.

• Early-season intersectional showdowns like Michigan State-Oregon are even more important in the playoff era, says Stewart Mandel.

• There's an epic high school football showdown tonight in South Florida. I'll meet you there.

• Last night, a college football team racked up negative-100 yards in total offense.

• Cincinnati chili has its detractors. It also has this unbelievably hideous t-shirt.

• After killing with LeBron's letter, Frank Caliendo does Allen Iverson's "practice" rant with the voice of Morgan Freeman.

• Celebrities reading mean tweets about themselves is Kimmel's greatest contribution to western culture. Here's the NFL edition.

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