The_Admiral

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."

The week 1 Monday doubleheader was fun because you'd get an obligatory Raiders game and some weird cobbled-together broadcast team for some novel background noise, but those weren't concurrent games. Why not give people an alternative to Sunday nights, too? 

14 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

Isn't LeBron a DeShaun Watson fan?  If so, yikes for the Lakers Superstar/Unofficial Lakers General Manager.

being unfair to LeBron alert being unfair to LeBron alert whoop whoop whoop

3 hours ago, BBTV said:

WHY DID THEY APPROVE THE DESIGN?  It should be illegal to approve a design, get a park built, then complain that people can't enjoy the park because of the design that THEY CAME UP WITH AND APPROVED, then ask for more money to build a new billion-dollar Costco to play in.

Bear Down, Chicago Bears...

1 hour ago, Cujo said:

 

The NFL pits 10 games against each other on Sunday afternoons... 

It's not a-cute to be willfully obtuse.

I figure running games on ABC and ESPN at the same time is just a continuation of the NFL's tendency toward too much of everything, like Sunday quadrupleheaders, 17th games, and Thursday games all year. I don't like it because yeah, I don't need two games to flip between on Monday night. It devalues something the NFL has gotten right, which is Monday Night Football creeping its way back to ABC. That should be a really big deal. Why compete against yourself?

5 hours ago, pelicanfan said:

 i gotta admit the sponsor patches actually add a nice touch to the jerseys.

I feel like at this point the Patriots are doing throwbacks to when Tom Brady wore throwbacks more than to when the actual team wore this and was bad. Seeing these jerseys has me thinking about all the games I watched the Patriots dominate in when they were throwing back to teams that were bad.

On 9/14/2023 at 11:05 AM, Oso said:

I get mod-edited every time I post the Matt Christman "SHUT UP! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP," so rack it yourself and pretend I did.

16 minutes ago, Dynasty said:

Does NBC really need another New England Patriot on their crew?

Football Night in America has really gone downhill from when it was Bob Costas and the other guys at the Rockefeller Center. It doesn't feel like it used to, where it was positioned as a successor to NFL Primetime and an honest attempt at a marquee preshow for the marquee game. Now it's just more people in another studio. If anything, it feels like ESPN's NBA studio shows that never go anywhere.

2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

It's more like a guideline

It was a hard and fast rule at one point because one time they had to waive it for Yom Kippur, but it seems like the NFL has thrown out all its scheduling rules now that the conferences' road games aren't bound to their networks. 

The league waive the rule about not scheduling the Jets and Giants at the same time? RedZone is just bouncing back and forth between NY teams getting owned.

18 hours ago, JohnnyCowboy5 said:

Ice looks good, but I can't get over what a downgrade it was to go from yellow seats to black seats. It really gets in the way of being the spiritual continuation of the Boston Garden that the naming rights and being next door to the old one would suggest.

To be honest though I would not want to go through an NHL player's phone because there's a 72% chance you're going to find him sucking off another guy and explaining it away with "yeah that was me doing an impression of him and how gay he is"

"Hockey players are tough"
"Let's share pictures of what we did on our summer vacation"
"WHOA BUDDY NOT THAT TOUGH"

10 minutes ago, Old School Fool said:

 

It's what the endzones were in the Georgia Dome.

Right, but it looks like they got it slightly wrong.

Cardinals in all red against Giants in white, with mostly red, is a really unaesthetic game. 

What's up with the Falcons' endzones? I don't remember much about the old Falcons wordmark, I think it was just Helvetica Bold Condensed or something, but what they have today looks like Arial.

On 9/14/2023 at 2:54 PM, LMU said:

The problem that has to be solved with natural grass in domes is how it'll be stored/maintained when non-football events are taking place.  It's great in theory to have natural grass at SoFi but what do you do when the building is taken over by Swifties and the Bey Hive for weeks on end?

Yeah, it's a real head-scratcher. Maybe the Rams should have built a stadium that accommodated natural grass in one of the most pleasant climates in North America, knowing that everyone hates plastic grass and gets hurt on it.

The Bears are just astoundingly bad right now. Add another quarterback to the reject pile.

It looks like they're wearing some sort of bluish graphite color there. Not even remotely green. I can't believe this relic of 1990s sports design where teams all thought they were painting basement rec rooms has hung around.