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  1. Browns fan here, so permit me to be a bit bias about the Steelers... They greatly improved their QB squad. However, it's going to be a sheet-show no matter what. Wilson went there thinking he was a shoe-in for the starting position. Steelers went with him because Denver ate the rest of the contract. They boot Pickett to make it obvious who is starting. And now they get Fields? Wilson is not going to be happy. Fields won't be happy either. Sure, both think they're going to or should be the starter. But how well will they work together in the lockerroom instead of creating factions to support them starting over the other guy. Browns had many times two above average but flawed QBs at the same time where the team as a whole couldn't function because half wanted QBA and other half wanted QBB to start. You wind up with basically nothing. Players dog it when their guy isn't starting, in-fighting, etc. You need a clear starter. I know you say you are going to have a competition and no one's job is guaranteed, but you have to at least know that's just to avoid complacency by the starter. If you don't know today when trading for Fields whether he's QB1 or QB2 or if the future starter is still in the draft... then you're just throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks. In the end, this feels like a Tommy Maddox situation. Remember him? Good, serviceable. Wins some games as long as he's not the weapon needed to win the game. But he can lose some games if you put them in his hands. But he played long enough to get them to Roethlisberger and the rest is history. Fields isn't their answer. But he might make them get over the hump enough, long enough, that they can work for QB1 in the 2025 or 2026 draft while assembling the rest of the roster around Fields/Wilson and and just plug in the future franchise QB later the way Roethlisberger was installed with the likes of that D, Bettis, Ward, Randle El, etc.
  2. The fact it was a typo makes so much more sense. Because I was really questioning where you were coming up with that statement. No sweat though, I've forgotten to put in the 'not' part of a sentence before and had some really odd conversations afterwords.
  3. That's not a league, though. Regardless it's names intentions. It's just an expansion of the old Champions Cup, a tournament of league champions from around Europe. Which slowly started allowing more and more teams to participate and having a group stage that's a few games long. Teams playing in the Champions League still play their regular league schedule and compete for its championship at the same time. Now, if you'd like to say that the CONCACAF Champions Cup is the premier 'league' of North America, I think you'll get some push back.
  4. That's been a thing on this board for a while. For historical context, I would prefer it not to be that way (the perfectionist in me wants to say the 1936 Boston ******** rather than Commanders, simply because Commanders is a recent name change). If anything, I'd rather it just be censored or as I just did, asterisked, and not try to retcon historical records with a name that didn't exist at the time. As for colors in old photographs, there's a lot of factors. Film fades. Photographs fade. Different light/speed settings, ambient lighting with clouds or stadium lights, angle of the sun, sweat, fabric... And also the NFL and most leagues didn't become particularly annoying about color consistency until much more recently. I'm old enough to remember as a kid having Cleveland Browns shirts/hats/jackets in various shades of orange or brown and yet nobody questioned it. Nobody cared about the exact specific shade of orange or brown. As long as all the uniforms matched on game day it didn't matter if the shading was slightly lighter or darker.
  5. Having or not having the 'best' players in your league isn't the only metric for a country's major leagues. If you want to get specific, then, there isn't really a 'major league' in soccer internationally. Not the EPL, not Serie A, not Bundesliga, none... Because they are a few 'great' teams that draw all the stars and a bunch of essentially AAA teams who cosplay as top tier teams. In EPL, you can name the 4 or 5 likely winners of the league five years from now and probably be accurate. For every Leicester City, there's dozens of champions claimed by the repetitive, expected contenders. MLS will never 'be that' because the league structure is far more American and they're not going to let Orlando or Kansas City or Nashville flounder as cannon fodder just so a few LA/NYC teams dominate the league year-to-year buying whoever they want. In US sporting culture, an European-styled league will not survive if it's the same few monied power-teams winning titles year after year after year. Most of the country is probably annoyed that Kansas City just won a title two years in a row. Can you imagine if the NFL had a Bayern Munich-like team who have won the Bundesliga TEN STRAIGHT YEARS? There'd be 500 people at non-Bayern games.
  6. SLC has the benefit of being a mostly laid out grid, with freeways that are all adequately sized running in north/south or east/west directions mostly. Even the 215 loop runs more in a square than a circle. Putting a venue anywhere on the west side of SLC along the 215 near 80 or 201 would work fine. Even off 201 near Bangerter, or anywhere along I-15. There isn't 'one side' of SLC that is economically better or worse for location. It's not like DFW where the northern suburbs far outweigh the south, for instance. The only real limit is the mountains to the east. Anywhere else will work. The only real negative for SLC is that many of the locations around the freeways are heavily industrial or warehouses. Or heavy residential. There's not a lot of in-between.
  7. The perfect time for DHL to swoop in.
  8. Also, the Blue Jackets have done a lot for the Fury. Both online, and at their games.
  9. It's really just strange that they're in Henderson at a 4000 seat arena built for the VGK minor league affiliate and hosts things like NBA G-League and indoor football. It's a busy arena. But Las Vegas has a ton of arenas. They're clearly aiming for the suburbs, but only the southeast suburbs. Potential fans from west (Summerlin) or northern tier along 215 aren't driving to Henderson. The hope is Henderson comes out en force. But they've got a lot of options in that arena now. I can't even think of all the arenas along the strip now. Especially ones that can handle a volleyball setup. The notable ones at casinos are Orleans Arena (9,500), MGM Grand Garden Arena (17,000), Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay (12,500), and T-Mobile Arena (17,500). I believe UNLV's venues are off-limits thanks to the Allegiant Stadium deal. But that's four much larger venues even if they're in the 'tourist' area that locals try to avoid when possible (though not for NHL/NFL games). Orleans has hosted many minor league teams over the years. While MGM is more for concert events, and only hosted two minor league seasons. Both in 1994. An indoor soccer team and the AFL's Las Vegas Sting. No seasonal sports team since then. While Mandalay Bay's arena has been the home of the Las Vegas Aces WNBA team and Las Vegas Desert Dogs NLL team.
  10. On android, use your brower to access Apple TV and you can watch it. Apple doesn't have an app that works for Android (or at least most android systems).
  11. An unbelievable opening set.. and not one official account on Twitter has posted the score. In fact, the league and Mojo account hasn't acknowledged anything since the game started. And the Rise stopped tweeting after it was 23-23. Ended 36-34 for Mojo.
  12. Coyotes move to Atlanta. Jets move to Phoenix. In ten years, the Atlanta Coyotes can move to Winnipeg. It's the circle of life.
  13. Unfortunately this Orlando-Las Vegas game has been rather... blah. And you can really tell this is a small arena and struggling to get crowd noise into the broadcast.
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