The_Admiral

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."

My understanding has always been Wizards on the Maryland side, Capitals on the Northern Virginia side, which would track with the black/Jewish core most NBA fanbases have

Hey T! I said these guys look like one of those weight loss commercials: before, and WAY before!

There should be a territorial-draft rule where every team gets a Guy With The Perfect Name. Giants, Tommy DeVito. Bears, Ed Zybikowski. Vikings, Lars Gunderson. Panthers, also Ed Zybikowski, but you get so much more house for your money there and don't have to worry as much about The Blacks.

The Devils tried to do this to a lesser extent with Ilya Kovalchuk and it was still so egregious that the NHL said "nope, screw you, that's too obvious even for us." Congratulations on being less responsible than the NHL.

They just had significant renovations like 15 years ago. The stadium's fine. The location is fine. The issue is that you have an owner who has hated his customers for 43 years.

That looks like the old Teflon roofs at the Metrodome and Hoosier Dome. Yeah. That's at night. The Raiders didn't play a lot of night games between the L.A. Coliseum ban and being on Pacific Time, so most people's mental picture involves the sun and natural grass (and probably infield dirt).

They wanted to be the down-south version of the L.A. Raiders, which made sense on some level. Saints look close to great today, and I appreciate the Superdome post. People don't talk enough about what a terrible stadium the Superdome is. They get Super Bowls, and Saints fans are loud, but I think it looks just as bad on TV as the Jones Dome ever did.

You also need the zoomer blaccent word vomit in there, "you already know we tried to tell 'em [that we'd be wearing blue pants with white socks, apparently]"

Oh, those terrible Canucks uniforms. Let's never see those again. Now that NHLuniforms.com works again, I can really "appreciate" how 2002-03 was one of the ugliest seasons any league ever had.