The_Admiral

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.

Joyless know-it-all Yankee fans still exist; they all moved to Jersey and called Francesa's show. Thank God the rest of them didn't all come here.

Yeah, bent up your own ass, what a stupid post

Easton Stick, JoJo Wooden, Brick, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that they're Chargers?

That doesn't really make sense, but not much about this does. Apparently the plan is to scale down Capital One but book concerts there, except concert tours would likely hit the NBA/NHL arenas in every market and not a 10,000-seater in DC. They'd also burn off some summer dates with Mystics games. Whatever. The other thing that doesn't make sense is that it's not even a full-on Escape To Suburbia like moving back out to Landover or out to Tysons Corners or the greater Dulles hellscape, which, by the way, arguably the most terrible, America-at-its-worst part of the entire country. No, it's just over the river to Alexandria, which is notoriously old-world and stuffy and probably kind of resistant to a giant suburban Sports Containment Zone being built on what remaining open space they have. And the arena they have now is new-ish, well-maintained, and centrally located in a metropolitan area that all but requires public transit. I'm reminded of Mr. Burns: "I'd trade it all for a little more."