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The_Admiral

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  1. "OHHHH AWWWW JIM WHAT A SMART MOVE TO SET UP 1ST AND 10" - Tony Romo on Roquan Smith picking up a 15-yard penalty for just knocking a guy on his ass unabated
  2. The stadium should be playing the original version of a Black Eyed Peas song
  3. Agreed. We went over this weeks ago but Brady was a passenger for the whole first act of his career who got by on O-line, defense, run game, special teams, and boy-next-door-good-looks narrative.
  4. I don't think so. Reid isn't on the same level as Belichick in terms of building a system that was damn near foolproof and plug-and-play. The Chiefs are doing it with talent more than process. Their offensive line is a bunch of lunkheads who almost screw it all up; Brady's line was nearly impervious. Chiefs defense is fine; Patriots defense was unstoppable until Belichick seemingly got bored doing defense. We're not getting 20 years out of the Chiefs. I will give you that both teams get deus-ex-machinaed out of trouble by the refs but luck is the residue of design and you see the same thing with the Packers and Steelers as much if not more; besides, we live in a world where success comes by working the refs so they may as well reflect the zeitgeist.
  5. Poked around the Columbus-GR game and I thought it was pretty well done. I feel like they could stand to tighten up the time between points but short of just tossing them a new ball out of nowhere I don't know how you'd do so. Sometimes the delay kind of exists in this valley between basketball starting up right away and tennis having ample time to break down the last point. I think the biggest challenge they have in telecasting is that net sports are very kinetic and dynamic but the camera work is necessarily kind of static. It's a wider shot than we're used to with basketball or hockey. It almost seems like they came to this realization in real time, as the first set was pretty much parked on a wide shot but there was more zooming and panning as the match went on.
  6. The Ravens fanbase necessarily has a larger quotient of white people who quote The Wire, so they're easily more contemptible than Minnesota's brand of affable snobbery.
  7. Relative to the other leagues, Latter-day Saints are underrepresented in the NHL. Derek Ryan is the only active one, and the only other one I remember before that was Brent Peterson, the old Barry Trotz assistant. I think Mormons have early-morning religion classes that preempt the 4 a.m. ice time of legend, but more than that, hockey's youth culture of binge-drinking and sucking your friends' dicks to show that you're not gay doesn't jibe with Mormons' upright cultural mores. I know the demographics of Utah are shifting, so maybe there could be a situation where the Jazz are the team for Mormons and the, let's say Coyotes are the team for gentiles, but then you're splitting up a market that's already small and marginal to begin with.
  8. I'm not a professional, I'm just in favor of logos.
  9. Search Instagram by "Dubai"
  10. I hated that Steelheads rebrand. "Mississauga Majors" had a nice ring to it, and it kept continuity with the St. Michael's team--they just happened to grow up and move out to the suburbs, as one does. (City Catholic team moving to the burbs reminded me of DePaul basketball moving to Rosemont for 30some years. Toronto is just Alternate Chicago.) But Maple Leafs uniforms with a fish with its mouth hanging open? That's no good. There was no reason to scrap a heritage brand, absent licensing issues, I suppose. Chatham is probably the biggest hole on the map now that North Bay is accounted for again and Belleville is in the minors. Lansing has Michigan State and Battle Creek seems a bit too far west.
  11. I've been saying it wouldn't. But maybe I'm wrong and now the churches out there all have hockey rinks in them.
  12. Is that a competition, or is it two people who happen to be shooting around at the same time?
  13. Someone here explained to me that the '96 Jazz palette was a subtle '90sization of the Mardi Gras colors: purple carried over, green became the teal-ish green they used for the evergreen trees, and yellow became copper. This doesn't account for the sky blue, but it's an interesting breakdown.
  14. The OHL's strength has always been away from Toronto, but the GTA grew so much in the '90s that it was fool's gold to the OHL the way Phoenix and Raleigh were to the NHL. Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Kitchener, and Guelph all together with Hamilton and eventually the Marlies in the AHL just put too much strain on Toronto and points west for sub-NHL hockey.
  15. It's a nice traditional name if you think of it as organically coming from an official "Washington National League Ball Club." It didn't, of course, but it's a good story, and certainly better than Wizards or Commanders, and better for NLers than it was for ALers. I think DC on the caps, Washington on the roads (2005-2007 script), as intended, would have been fine.
  16. That's not really the issue so much as the OHL's overexpansion into the GTA never making sense in the first place. Why should the team even be in a position to relocate down the street from Mississauga to Brampton?
  17. Yes, I distinctly remember an interview where Selig said "well, personally, I'd like to see the Washington Senators, or Nats for short," and the curly W sort of became the interim logo, then stuck around. Then the mayor said they couldn't be the Senators because DC can't elect any. I'm also all but certain that the Nationals' script was originally blue with gold beveling and red trim to match the road script, because that logo existed on the mothership for a long time, plus a few weird spots here and there on the Nats' site, but not really anywhere else. They pretty clearly made it red to match the W hat, which was stupid.
  18. There's so much they could have done with that shade of green but they dropped it.
  19. But it turned out New Jersey Transit really was the absolute worst. Conrail and the Penn Central both had quintessentially 1970s logos and I believe both failed spectacularly.
  20. I recall Brampton being an even bigger flop in the OHL than Mississauga was. Well, one way or the other, a suburban arena is going to waste.
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