The_Admiral

2 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

And WNYW just switched to the Cardinals-Cowboys game. At HALFTIME!

Reporting from WFLD, which couldn't: you missed another touchdown, it's 41-0 halfway through the third.

This almost feels like a Trestman game except that Trestman's teams actually had serious talent on them, like Lance Briggs and Jay Cutler and Matt Forte. They were just coached by the weirdest dude of all time. This is different in that everyone on this team just sucks bad.

6 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

I absolutely HATE watching the Bears play. Why are they always on TV?! 

I think one more touchdown before the half is all we need for A More Competitive Game, right? Well, not we. You. I'm stuck with them all day.

David Fales. Man. Had to dig deep for that one.

Fields won't finish the year as starter, whether by injury from one of his ten sacks a game or the team pulling the ripcord. They'll call it by Thanksgiving.

DC was still a hole at the time, albeit one that the Orioles were able to plaster over well enough at the time because they were still rolling up through '97 or so. (Of course, it's still a hole! hey heeeeey!) It was a Baltimore/St. Louis NFL situation where they were keeping it set aside for relocation, in this case for the Astros. This line of thinking has yielded not only baseball's problem children but also the Jacksonville Jaguars, so maybe leagues should stop doing that.

Speaking of uniform violations and passing trends, remember when players would cut up their socks and put them on their arms? Turning the No Fun League into the Life Goes On League.

1 hour ago, Old School Fool said:

Player involvement in a look is just as important as anything I would say

The Raiders have had the same uniform for 60 years without soliciting player input. Sometimes there's value in being part of a cohesive whole that was there before you and will be there after you.

Always liked this Bears uniform but they're like the only team that's not doing all-white! Then again, the key to that set was the sock stripes and jersey stripes matching, which in the I'm a Gangster I'm Iced Out Like a Freezer era wouldn't happen

The Moose wore this as a throwback circa 2009, where it was kind of an unwitting prelude to the eventual Jets redesign:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f0SEPYrlH1Y/Tin8z4N0f9I/AAAAAAAAEq0/lw8e9iMmVgE/s1600/moosemilitary.jpg

The logo nerd paradox: alternates must be developed to meet fan demand, but rules can't be enforced because no one cares.

The Haters may have won this round but I still believe that Frederick, Maryland is a two-team market!

Suspensions are a little too strict, but there needs to be a hard reset of expectations when it comes to uniforms. That applies to players and manufacturers. The NFL has most of the top brands in sports but they're diluting them beyond recognition. White tights instead of socks, Personal Opinion footwear, alternate helmets, they all have to go. 

I have a hard time seeing St. Louis get back in the game. Isn't the Jones Dome going to be demolished soon-ish? It's hard to imagine a replacement, especially after they just committed to the soccer stadium. 

Las Vegas Jaguars while leaving the Raiders alone would have been an interesting alternative.

Dave Portnoy back in the news as the WaPo unsuccessfully tried to intimidate the sponsors of his pizza party into backing out by threatening to name them in a hit piece. Didn't seem to work. The whole dynamic between Portnoy and the media class at this point is sort of like if Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner took place on the Acela.

Without even considering that it's $2 billion to build it in a suburb of nowhere, this push to build a million SoFi Stadiums after the players' union just came out and begged to stop playing on plastic grass is ill-timed.

Just now, SFGiants58 said:

I can’t explain why, but I used to get him and Jake Plummer confused. I guess Broncos quarterbacks from the interregnum between Elway and Manning just meld together for me.

Lenny = White

Carl = Black

Plummer = Stache

Orton = Neckbeard

Wholly unnecessary, go away

Jimmy Clausen was the quarterback in the game against the Seahawks where the Bears punted on every possession. And that was way before the Bears were irretrievably awful! 

2 hours ago, Fowler said:

Nashville 

Charlotte

Portland

Orlando

Salt Lake City

Montreal

Mexico City

Raleigh 

San Antonio 

 

So who wins?

 

I've never seen so many impressive craft brewing scenes in one place!

5 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

I’m sure Nashville has a nice minor league history that had a good following, just as every other moderately sized city in the US does. And I’m sure they think their history is “special”, just like all of those other moderately sized cities do, too

I bet they have a really impressive craft brewing scene.

1 hour ago, SFGiants58 said:

Chicago deserves the QB jersey meme more than the modern Cleveland Browns.

I think the Bears had it first -- I remember the names of Henry Burris and Craig Krenzel scrolling on the screen whenever they played the Packers and their one or two quarterbacks in the same time. The Browns stole it when they solidified their place among Really Bad Teams, those thieving magpies.

There seems to be some disagreement as to whether the feds raided Alan Williams's house. As another Bears coaching luminary would say, it's not his raid, but he's in that raid.

On 9/20/2023 at 12:44 AM, Old School Fool said:

Fox is the best network for football and you can't tell me otherwise. 

Now that the technological innovations of 1994 are commonplace and all their big personalities have left the booth (or are wheeled out of the retirement home for a few hours), Fox is arguably an even more conservative presentation than CBS.

For all the sturm und drang about the Bears in my lifetime, for the most part they've just been mediocre or had a really bad season in between less bad ones--all things Bears are always just at such a fever pitch that everything seems better or worse than it really is. It's only now that I think the Bears have truly reached the depths of Really Bad Teams, where they cannot do anything right at any level. They're in that Lions-Browns-Raiders tier of pervasive organizational incompetence that even the Lions and Browns are slowly leaving behind.

For most teams, a coordinator abruptly resigning under mysterious circumstances and the quarterback telling the media "I don't like being coached, I think I should just get to hang out and do whatever" would be a really bad season. For the Bears, it was a really bad day. There are 15 more weeks of this.

8 minutes ago, MrAstrodome said:

Can't they just sublimate stripes onto the leggings? Just get a vector file (and it has to be vector, if a raster file's resolution's not large enough, it'll look like crap) of the stripes and print it. 

Nike has just found its newest uniform trend: jpeg artifacting

If the Blue Jackets had reservations about Babcock, which at this juncture would have been totally fair, why did they jump headfirst into bringing him on? If ever there were a case to hire a guy as an "executive consultant to hockey operations" or whatever before naming him coach, like the Blackhawks did with Joel Quenneville in 2008, this would be it. If this is the new, feelings-friendly NHL with its BIPOC TikTok Teen Task Force, then you need to keep an eye on him for a while to make sure he's not too weird for it, which, apparently, he was. 

Aside from all that, though, Babcock, like Quenneville, is unhireable not because of personal transgressions but because they were actual hockey coaches who believed in sustained puck possession, which, more than being weird, simply has no place in today's league.

12 hours ago, TBGKon said:

https://www.mlb.com/rays/ballpark/historic-gas-plant
 

The Rays have an official site with the new ballpark details 

Did Robin DeAngelo consult on this? "Not only does everyone hate Tropicana Field because it's such a bad place to watch a game, it was also racist to build it. Therefore, it is anti-racist to replace it. Anyway, I'm a billionaire and I need money."