The_Admiral

They were smart to turn it down, as that first year in the West was on the verge of being historically bad.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Before the Bobcats joined the league, there wasn't a Southeast Division. The Hornets were in the Central Division as they were in Charlotte until the Bobcats necessitated a 15th team in the West. Why would Memphis and Milwaukee swap? Memphis is west of Milwaukee, and farther from Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and Indianapolis than Milwaukee is.

Oh no, he's going to threaten to assault members of the press with it! Oh wait, wrong red/navy team, lol

He'd probably go down easier without pads bigger than Luxembourg.

Why is an American League pitcher holding a bat?

Not only do the Bucks have to contend with perennially successful college basketball programs in their midst, they fail to exploit the extended Wisconsin market that the Packers and Brewers have (and kinda need to have). You get past the suburbs and there are just too many people who traffic in worthless canards like "it's a streetball thug league" or "they don't try hard" or my personal favorite, "they don't play defense." The Bucks have a very nice arena that charges low rent and still doesn't make the team enough money, they want a new one, Milwaukee doesn't see fit to give them one. They're not long for this world, probably gone by 2015, all parties involved will be more than happy with Marquette holding down the fort, and kids who want to follow the NBA can just follow the Bulls like many of their elders seemed to do in the '90s.

I view Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area as single markets because that's exactly what they are according to Nielsen and the Combined Statistical Area listing from the census. To wit, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles-Long_Beach-Riverside,_CA_CSA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland,_CA_CSA http://www.tvjobs.com/cgi-bin/markets/market2.cgi Baltimore-Washington is the only one that's a little iffy. They're separate television/radio markets, but compose one CSA. I think as the sprawl continues through southern Maryland, there will be fewer reservations about lumping Baltimore and Washington together.

The Falcons and Cardinals are the worst offenders when it comes to wonky numerals, yeah. I can't stand the Eagles' typeface at all, but I know I'm in the minority on this, and I'm largely okay with it. Actually, the Chargers' white uniform was a little problematic in that the yellow got lost against the white. I suppose this could've been remedied by going blue/yellow/blue on the numbers instead of blue/white/yellow, but then you lose the harmony of the whole set or something. Still better than powder blue that looks green.

Man, all those new NFL proprietary typefaces are such a waste of time. I get the idea, but it's still irritating that it has to be done. Once upon a time, every single team except the Bears used the same varsity block. Simpler times indeed. You'd think those Chargers jerseys were already kinda hard to counterfeit, wouldn't you? I didn't find the home uniforms bland. You get so much pop between the three colors. Everything's too muddled now.

I loved that Chargers uniform too. There was really no need whatsoever to replace it.

You just don't understand college football. These student athletes and their coaches are what make America great. We can't have government intervention to make them do unconscionable things like play in-state schools, or forgo their exams for playoff games, or hold offseason jobs, or spell their own names in order to pass courses. When you tear at the fiber of college football, you tear at the fiber of America. Football.

Best suggestion I heard was for Texas to go independent and start "The Texas Channel," thereby bringing insane amounts of money to Texas athletics, even more than they would by linking up with the Big Ten Network, since niche cable channel carriage is pretty much what post-secondary education is all about.

Texans

That '71 Bucks team was a pretty big deal. Oscar and Kareem, two of the ten best players ever. Compare that to those forgettable Bullets, Warriors, and Supersonics teams that won titles in the '70s.

Well, they won one, and they play there, so.

Anyone else reading Purple Rush's post as a free-verse poem?

Madison Square Garden really anticipated the '90s. If teal and fuschia could make it there, they could make it anywhere.

Oh, no, I don't think they do that. Raising banners for finishing first place in the conference sort of diminishes the whole banner concept. Same with retiring #1 for the fans because the fans are #1. I'd like to see a goaltender come in and demand that #1 be unretired for him. I wonder if the fans would allow an Ilya Bryzgalov or whoever to wear their number.

The Clippers can't. The Lakers don't allow the Clippers to use their proprietary lighting scheme. Haha. Poor Clippers.

Bleh. As (sort of) a fan, I'm not a fan. I much prefer dark arenas in basketball and hockey, so that all the attention is on the field of play. You don't leave the house lights on at movies, plays, the opera, what have you, so I see no reason to do so at sporting events, unless you're doing a whiteout or something. The Blackhawks keep the United Center house lights dim to off, but have the ribbon boards and those dopey "Madhouse on Madison" signs on, which looks a little eerie.

So then it's not just that picture.

That San Jose arena feels oppressively bright.

Welp, I'll file this one away in the "unlikely utterances of the Sports Logo folder" collection.

Then why don't you put them in the same division and have their game be the last one before the championship game?

Still not understanding how a championship game precludes a Michigan-Ohio State game in the last week.