The_Admiral

11 hours ago, throwuascenario said:

Why don't they just leave the Wizards at Capital One Arena and move the Capitals to Virginia or vice versa if they're going to have two superfluous arenas anyway?

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."

On 12/13/2023 at 10:53 AM, Dynasty said:

The only convenience I see about Alexandria is that it gets the players in and out through Reagan quicker. The Downtown arena provides an arguably equal travel distance for those in Maryland and Virginia, but moreso for DC residents. I don't know where most of Capitals and Wizards fans are within the DMV (despite being a resident of the area myself), but it would be a big disservice to the Maryland population north/east of the city. The Beltway sucks. You can't make them take the Beltway.

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

7 hours ago, Sport said:

 

I am so delighted by the entire Tommy Devito cinematic universe.

 

Tone, dis guy's a friggin gabagool!

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

1 minute ago, Discrim said:

This Tommy DeVito cat...name wise, a Houston Texan by that name would be weird.  A New York Giant by that name is so perfect it's ridiculous

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.

2 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

Also, the natural light gets in Allegiant just fine in my opinion.

 

Also the complaints about the Superdome being dark is funny because I loved how dark and grungy the Oakland Coliseum use to look for night games.

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.

On 12/8/2023 at 11:03 AM, Michael Bolton said:

Potentially unpopular take, but even as a uniform detail enthusiast, I find these reveal tweets absolutely cringey and just stupid. What other league in the world tweets out "here's what color our helmet, pants and SOCKS will be next weekend." I miss the days when you found out what teams were wearing when they ran out onto the field on Sunday/Monday. Throwback announcements once or twice a year are fine but these "helmet -- jersey -- pants -- socks" detail announcements make my eyes roll further back in my head than human anatomy allows.

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. 

2 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

So yeah, I can sense the "small-market" owners whining about wanting a hard cap at the next CBA negotiation, leading to another work stoppage.

Probably. You can't sell hopelessness in 24 markets, and "actually, Ohtani is a worker" won't get much play outside of Defector in current economic conditions.

We really spun on a dime from "this is an unwatchable aesthetic atrocity" to "let people enjoy things"

8 hours ago, Cujo said:

Sean McDermott said he wanted the Bills to come together like the 9/11 hijackers. *facepalm*

 

Imagine sitting on this story for four years, keeping it in your back pocket for when McDermott inevitably loses the room, only to drop it weeks after a top story in America was "Zoomers read bin Laden's letter to America, declare him 'low-key based'"

2 hours ago, gosioux76 said:

Or maybe a lot of people just really think the dissenters are wrong.

Meta-contrarian fever: catch it!

11 minutes ago, who do you think said:

 

Been on NBA reddit or any equivalent social media space lately? The disproportionate amount of gushing over a literal nothingburger (not a real trophy, nobody's season on the line, winners get some extra strip club money), the most visible posts/people treating it like March Madness, and negative opinions being either being downvoted off the page (reddit) or flooded with L's, clown emojis, and whatever else (everywhere else) makes it pretty obvious.

 

> maybe people are just having fun and enjoying things

 

So much fun that they're ready to pounce on any and all dissenters en masse.

A funny thing happened around 2013 where the insular boosterism that long defined NHL fandom and media coverage shifted wholesale to the NBA. Maybe it's astroturfed, maybe it's not, but a lot of people are, as it were, just playing for the love of the game.

How many in-season tournament finals did Jordan ever get to?

12 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

I also think that in 2020, had the Rams trotted out a road jersey that was a copy of the royal throwback but with white and navy only and changed nothing else about what they wore in 2019, this board would've exploded with applause.

I would not have applauded. That's a terrible, brand-diluting idea. It astounds me that people think sports teams' color schemes should be elastic. It would be like saying that the flag of France should be blue, white, and red in France but navy blue, white, and navy blue whenever it appears in another country. What are we doing here?

I still don't see the value in silver as a secondary color instead of black. They've been cardinal and black going back to the Chicago years; the uniform has no black and the logos have no silver. Why change now, and so clumsily at that? Nothing was stopping them from creating a canonical Football Cardinals uniform except themselves.

On 12/4/2023 at 3:01 PM, ruttep said:

By the way, nhluniforms.com has been down for several days now -- if it's gone forever, does anyone know any other good NHL uniform databases?

The proprietor posts here. Hey @AndrewG70 what's goin on

2 hours ago, infrared41 said:

(I was born on the cusp of Gen X and Boomers. I don't know what I am. )

Obama's generation. People thank you both earnestly and ironically.

9 hours ago, OnWis97 said:

Will there be a banner (please, no)? T-shirts (probably but I'd never get one)?

I think it's really lame that the losing team's T-shirts are getting donated to Montenegro. I mean, they're not the poorest country in the world, they just had a few bad Tuesdays and Fridays for a couple months.

8 hours ago, AHcreative said:

I'm not saying that navy isn't more drab than royal, only that I liked the contrast a lot and thought it to be a really unique color scheme you don't really see much in sports.

It's the color scheme for Notre Dame, one of the three or four most famous college programs in the country. People had seen it a lot.

25 minutes ago, Silver_Star said:

 

I could see that. I seen some that has done versions of that style in royal blue and athletic gold before. Here is the link,

 

 

Getting warmer. Retire the goathead and the wordmark and lose the white between blue and gold on the home uniform. With no sleeve logo, you can move the numbers back there instead. Not sure what I'd do for numerals, but not the St. Louis ones.

I do like white pants on the road for the Rams because I think they're too gold-heavy otherwise. If you make the sleeves blue, you can get an old New York Jets thing going where sleeves and socks match. 

Like the Patriots before them, the Chiefs are built around drawing timely pass interference calls and this week they didn't get them. Shouldn't have needed the refs to beat the mediocre Packers anyway.

18 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

More proof that Cox was a better central character to the show than J.D. ever was. He was funnier, had more character development, and could carry a dramatic scene far better.

I've said it a million times and I'll say it a million times more, that 2006-2008 run of My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, The Office, and 30 Rock on NBC Thursday nights was untouchable. Pound for pound, a better lineup than any of the Friends/Seinfeld years that had crap at the bottom of each hour. (Both iterations ended with ER, though, which when you think about it, is weird.)

But to stay somewhat on topic, that was also when football and hockey came back to NBC, it was the best presentation of the NFL on TV, and it seemed like everything was really turning around for the network. Now it's just Swivel Chair American Idol, but the football is still pretty good.