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It was a Negro League team doing what they had to do. I love this as a throwback for the Giants. I would love it if they would pull out a San Francisco Seals look as a regularly used alt at some point, though. This would be fantastic as a regular Sunday alt.

Not so fast, my friend. The reason I’m a Bucs fan in the first place is because before that I was a Vols fan. A fandom picked up from an entire neighborhood of UT fans/alum in Germantown, TN (basically inside of Memphis, for those who don’t know). I’m sure Memphis has less UT fans than Nashville or obviously Knoxville, but they aren’t full on slouches, either.

Does Dak have some dirt on Jerry Jones or something? I think he still has some promise. People might be surprised.

The Niners made a deal for that pick and I think even they were shocked that the Bears (I think it was the Bears?) took the deal. It was a case of the dog finally catching tue car tire. Once it has it, it doesn’t actually know what to do with it. They didn’t necessarily need a QB at that time (they had Jimmy G and he was probably not gonna stick as “the guy”, but he also was serviceable), but they already put so much into getting that pick so they sorta had to pick one. Problem is they panicked and picked the kid made out of glass rather than the speedy guy with a ton of questions. It’s just another example of the Niners overthinking things and having some real dumb luck mixed in with it. It’s almost as if Montana/Young put a QB curse on them. They’ve had the most dumb luck timing with QBs. Whenever there’s a real game changer, they’re picking late. Whenever they do have a high pick though, there’s almost always slim pickings or two guys that are close, and they’ve consistently gone with the wrong guy. When I was a young kid I ditched the Niners, who are a league icon, for one of the sorriest teams in the history of the NFL. Since then I’ve seen my sorry ass team win two Super Bowls, while the Niners haven’t won any. I guess that’s why you play the games.

Why did they pick him in the first place then? They traded up to get a third overall pick, and just turned it into a fourth round pick. 3D chess, man!

Niners are really dumb. This is gonna come back to bite them, I just know it. Why in the world would they make this trade with Dallas, of all teams? Niners trading Trey Lance to Cowboys.

Comiskey was somewhere in between old Yankee Stadium (a festering toilet by the end) and the Oakland Coliseum (second most dilapidated stadium of all time just a smidge behind Aloha Syadium in Hawaii) by the end, so I doubt it. The White Sox situation feels sort of like an alternative timeline A’s situation. Two AL teams that basically gave their market away to the NL team, which was also poorly run, and it boosted the profiles of both of those NL teams to the point that there probably isn’t any coming back from it. White Sox situation initially feels worse because they actually got a new park, but I’m pretty sure had the A’s erected some bull:censored: little yard right before the “ballpark renaissance” in, like, Emeryville or Vallejo or wherever, they’d probably have all of the same issues the Sox do.

Prior to the Chargers current look, Wyoming was my least favorite uni set in football. They’ve always looked upside down.

I don’t really know what it is that I dislike about it so much, but something about their current look just feels so off to me. It’s strange because I was in the same boat as everyone else in DESPERATELY wanting the powder blue set back as the primary. But there’s just something about the current color combination that just looks bad to me. Almost amateurish, in a sense. Like I mentioned before, maybe it’s them playing under the roof that washes them out (I doubt it though because I have basically this same complaint about their road set). Maybe it’s the weird materials that Nike uses. I’m not sure. Probably a combination of a lot of different things. But from the very first time I saw them, I was really underwhelmed and disappointed by the Chargers current look. I want so bad to like the powder and yellow sans navy look for them, but I just don’t.

Too much of a USC vibe for my tastes with that road uni. I’m with @oldschoolvikings on hating uniforms that have different colors for the three big uniform pieces (helmet/jersey/pants), but mine is slightly modified. I can give most of those looks a pass, unless the helmet is the lightest element of the uniform. For example (and I know this is an unpopular opinion), the Chargers current home set paired with the yellow pants (rather than white) is probably my least favorite look in NFL history. Goodness does that look bad. Reminds me of a JV football team wearing old slapdash versions of what the varsity team had left to hand down. I don’t really like the Chargers current set anyway (it looks so disappointingly washed out), but this is the worst look for them by a country mile. Woof. And again, I’m not sure if it’s because they play under that weird roof now, but I just can’t get over how washed out/faded this whole thing looks to me now. Here’s a picture that points it out better to me. It looks like that jersey has seen years of wash cycles. I find it to be so bad while watching chargers games on tv that it’s actually distracting.

Yeah that’s nice in a vacuum, but it gives off real strong Oklahoma State vibes. Pass.

I’m fully prepared for the Cardinals to piss everyone off by wearing the red jersey/pants combo all year without deviating.

I actually don’t hate this Better than the orange lids they’re rocking now.

To be fair, those are a pair of Vans Ultraranges, which are basically Vans version of “athletic” shoes. So while it’s technically a skate shoe, it’s built more like a traditional running/athletic shoe.

I used to get yelled at for wearing Vans to baseball practice. I’m still mostly a wear skate shoes to do everything kind of guy, so I approve. I climbed a mountain last week in a pair of vans, which I also wore to my wedding the month before. Lorenzen and Cotham both wear Vans, I think.

Jordan is for sure “The” guy, and he wins on that combined with the myth building his era helped to create. Jordan was amazing, and absolutely the most killer instinct player I’ve ever seen (Kobe is that way, too. But Kobe also had at least one time where he nearly cost his team a title, so he can’t ever be in that echelon. To be fair, nobody but Jordan can), but part of that is that he came along at the PERFECT time. There wasn’t social media to point out every flaw, and he wasn’t constantly scrutinized from the time he was playing high school basketball. And although he had a relatively short sample size (sort of. 15 seasons and six titles) he hit on every single chance he had. Some of that with Jordan is absolutely luck. Tom Brady is the only other athlete who comes close to having as good of fortune as Jordan did. Lebron has basically all of the things Jordan had, but less luck. He also has at least five additional seasons, which lowers your chances at having that good of fortune. I have to put Lebron ahead simply because while he didn’t have as flashy of a career as Jordan did, he probably had a more reliable one. Somehow people downplay that Jordan just up and retired in the middle of his prime, which I’ve always found so weird.

Yikes. Casual take of all casual takes.

And there it is. The death knell to any interest I had left in college sports. It had been waining since I graduated a decade ago (I’ve grown firmly into the opinion that if you’re a big college sports fan and aren’t a college student, or at least around that age, you’re legit weird and need to reevaluate your priorities), but this officially kills it. College sports is officially dead on the west coast. Long time coming, if you ask me.

Oh, I know EXACTLY why you feel this way.

The only thing dumber than pitchers throwing retaliatory pitches at players is fighting in hockey. It’s some sideshow garbage that has hurts the legitimacy of the sport and makes it even easier to not take seriously. I get it “Tradition” and “strategy”, but it’s stupid and is off putting to most people.

Unfortunately, this is probably true.

Who said I was vindictive? I was just stating the truth. Houston didn’t want to cave to Adams, but then basically did the exact same thing to bring in the Texans (Public money was still like 65% of the funding for NRG). I’m just saying it seems a little foolish to take such a hardline stance that you lose the team, and still end up on the hook for nearly that much for a new franchise with no fan history. Also why am I getting piled on for throwing a little friendly trash talk Houston’s way? That’s been en vogue since like 2017. Don’t blame me, blame the Astros.

It’s mostly just a gentle ribbing for all of the controversy recently. That and the Rockets were annoying as all hell during the Warriors run. I’m a Giants fan so I mostly think it’s funny as all hell what happened to the Dodgers in 2017 rather than outrageous, but yeah, that was kind of outrageous. Also I feel like Houston barely put up a fight to keep the Oilers, only so they could be replaced by the most generic and forgettable team in the NFL. I really don’t get some of the 90s NFL moves. Oilers, who rocked, bounced because they were scared they wouldn’t get a new stadium, just so they could get replaced by an expansion team, the Texans, who are a snooze fest, who had basically zero issue getting a new stadium. It all just seems so frivolous, shortsighted, and reactionary. It’s like Jacksonville getting a team over Baltimore which led to the whole Browns controversy. Like, ultimately, was ANY of that actually necessary?

I remember this well. My dad’s family is from Memphis and I remember my cousin bringing home a Tennessee Oilers shirt. I also remember him throwing it away when he found out they were going to be based in Nashville (I also remember everyone being really pissed they weren’t getting a home game vs Dallas) Memphis wasn’t having any of that, being a two year stop on their way to Nashville, and I’m pretty sure they ended up in Vanderbilt’s stadium for the second year as the Oilers.

No city deserves this kinda smoke more than Houston. Well done, Titans.