The_Admiral

Diamondbacks and Rangers in the World Series was a flaw.

I think you're correct about the gatekeeping, but I am going to keep doing it anyway. I think the ascension of our subculture to something knocking on the door of the mainstream has made sports aesthetics objectively worse, whether that's the neverending stream of goofy Brandiose designs or infinitely modular NFL uniforms tailor-made for a "you know we had to do it to em" world of breaking down each element in an infographic someone was underpaid to make. We'll agree to disagree.

Let me tell you something, there has never been a worse time to chase girls who took AP English than when their god-queen is dating "durrrr i like sqwurls"

The brilliance of it is that "he has delivered nothing but pain, misery, and disappointment" sounds like it was translated from the Japanese. I am disrespectful to dirt. Can't you see that I am serious?

What do you think has a greater influence on people involved in the NFL: the fashion world, or Brazil?

Okay, then you explain what it is instead of being too cool for the room.

DSA-affiliated aldermen are going around telling anyone who'll listen that they're actually incompetent dolts who never should have been elected in the first place. I would expect Chicago to return to comfortable and familiar authoritarian rule by the next election if not sooner.

I didn't want the Star Wars warehouse here, either, but I'm not sure why the Friends of the Parks are protecting a parking lot. Also, presumably the old Soldier Field would be demolished and reverted to greenspace. The now-demolished Arlington Park would be better suited to alleviating our housing shortage than a Sports Containment Zone that no one can drive to.

Something else I've noticed about every week's "you know we had to do it to em" reveals on Twitter is that they're using "x" where it doesn't really make sense to do so: "[Seahawks logo] x [Titans logo]" in the above graphic. This is fashion/hypebeast culture bleeding in. The teams are playing against each other, the game is Seahawks versus Titans, not a hot fire-emoji collab between two amazing brands. Or is it?

I'll allow that it was the right move to go back to the colors, but the logo itself was not great. You had the banner and wordmark forming a Chevrolet logo, the afterthought "Los Angeles," and the speedline Kings script, which now feels as dated as the 1998 script they've clung to. The standalone crown, maybe cleaned up and simplified a bit, should have become their canonical primary logo when they shook off the last of the purple.

I was going to guess because he breaks through defensive lines like the Kool-Aid Man but he's a corner. He'll look good in the defensive backfield behind Hambone Reed, who, friends aver, is really just a big old teddy bear off the field.

The existence of Hollywood Brown and Cadillac Williams made me think of how it'd be fun to have a whole squad of, like, '70s black guys. A running back named Buttermilk Jackson because "his moves are, quote, smooth like buttermilk." Even just more food-based named would be great, so like if you had a change-of-pace who went by Short Stack. Wide receiver, obviously Downtown Jones because he takes it all the way downtown.

God damn the 17th game. The 2002-2020 matrix was nearly perfect.

Too much math! Me caveman. Me like when man hit hard. Makes soft pensive piano variation play. I mean, I get your point, but the juice ain't worth the squeeze. Play the games on the schedule and do your best and more likely than not it all ends up making some degree of sense. If I wanted college voodoo math, I'd watch college.

I hate the 17-game schedule so much, too, but was it possible to do that at 10-6?

That Oilers script looked so good in the endzone. Also, when did Nashville switch to plastic grass? They'd been a grass team since the stadium opened. Not a fan.

It's the football version of hockey's "coach messes with the lines too much"

Will the Patriots have a true general manager after Belichick? Didn't Parcells quit after '96 because Handjob Bob was being his own GM?

In this picture, you can hear the vague WUH WUH WUH WUH WUH WUH WUH

That sounds cool, like lowbrow British comedy. Would there be slide whistles and fast-motion?

People are allowed to lament their alienation from a sports league they used to like with one exception.

We could use a good field-level crowd for a World Series win again. If the Cubs had done it at Wrigley, I think we could have gotten away with it. It'd be iconic. Every win now is just guys hopping up and down in a circle.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/nfl/chicago-bears/bears-doing-due-diligence-on-viability-of-building-a-stadium-on-the-south-lot-report/3296774/ The Bears are now claiming to look at the parking lots next to Soldier Field. Some of you may remember that George Lucas was going to build his Star Wars museum here but couldn't get it done. This, I think they could get done. The kinds of tax breaks it would take to get it done would probably require Brandon Johnson to sell out the idealists who elected him, but he's due for that.

All you can do to win the lottery is buy a ticket. He's bought a lot of tickets.

I am dreading a Philadelphia-Baltimore Super Bowl. That is just too much Mid-Atlantic for America to handle.