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The only top level league that would make sense for NDSU at this point is the Mountain West, and even that’s a huge stretch.

Oh it’s there. I was just in Idaho a few weeks ago. Let me be more specific, Oregon is the Alabama of the pacific coast. Idaho is technically in the west, but I’d give it to the Midwest in a heartbeat if they wanted it

This last part is true. As for the Civil War thing in Oregon, it only makes sense in the idea that Oregon is basically the Alabama of the west. You get north of Sacramento and it’s a big chunk of basically nothing until Eugene/Springfield. “The State of Jefferson” is as close to backwater as we have.

Reno doesn’t want the Knights. Despite being in the same state as the Vegas teams, the area still lines up a LOT better with the SF Bay Area. Northern Nevadans mostly hate Southern Nevada, and due to how absolutely empty the state is, they don’t really mix together all that often like you would see with other rival cities.

Gross.

Hopefully they just get rid of that bowl game. There really isn’t any reason the Phoenix area should be hosting the Fiesta Bowl AND some other third rate bowl a few days prior.

I miss those summer nights as a kid where I would stay up ridiculously late and watch replays of some weird obscure sports league like Pro Beach Hockey.

Oh yeah, I see what you’re saying. Maybe, but they also sell a 5950 on their website that’s even closer. I think they just just wanted to get cute, and it didn’t work.

Doubt it, considering this was their BP cap last season This is dumb for so many different reasons. Nobody in the area uses the Biggest Little City moniker, let alone calls it the “BLC”. Also, real solid choice going with a UNLV style red cap right in the epicenter of Wolfpack territory More importantly, ew. These are just gross.

SBC football, Pawl.

Oh, cool! I feel so free now!

I mentioned on here that the day Dale Earnhardt died was one of my worst ever sports days, because it was a totally different, very real sense of sadness. This past Sunday felt VERY similar, and I’m not even a Kobe fan. This kinda stuff just makes you realize how meaningless all of this sports stuff is in the long run, and how depressingly senseless life can be sometimes.

Yall just got awarded an MLS team, isn’t that enough for you?!?!... ... ... ............ what?

Bucfan/Red Wolf 2020: Make Baseball Teams Move Again

Hmm, that’s weird. I didn’t know Sacramento had a Coliseum Complex. Also, they can’t get rid of the Marlins. What would Billy Gil do then?

November 1st, 2010: Giants beat the Rangers 3-1 to clinch their very first World Series in San Francisco. January 26th, 2003: Bucs beat the Raiders like they stole something in Super Bowl XXXVII. June 16th, 2015: Warriors win their first title since the 1970s and end four decades of futility. The five years since have been absolutely CRAZY (or absolutely infuriating, depending on who you ask), but that first one was so great. And people didn’t completely hate the Warriors just yet! None of these come even close to the best day I’ve ever had as a sports fan, though. October 21st, 2019: Sacramento Republic FC is FINALLY awarded their MLS expansion bid. After all the frustration we went through along the way, and all of the hard work we all put in over the course of the past half decade plus, we finally made it. Hard to top that feeling. I’m sure the first game in 2022 is going to be awesome, but it’ll take a lot to top October 21st, 2019.

Man, that's a whole lotta words to have such a bad take.

This whole thing is a grift, y'all.

That whole year sucked. West Virginia vs Missouri would’ve been awesome, and then they both totally face planted and we ended up with the most boring national title game I can ever remember.

Anyone else having issues on mobile with the page randomly jumping around with no prompts? I’m pretty sure I just unintentionally reported a post while trying to like the post above

Not sure if this one really counts within the spirit of this thread, but Caleb Moore's injury which led to his death at the 2013 Winter X Games is probably one of the most brutal things I've ever seen live. The fact that he was able to get up on his own accord and walk away from it makes the whole thing even more surreal.

You can see from the International Space Station just how Chinese AF that cap is

I mean, I sort of get it with Flathead Lake being so close by, and you can never have too many Moose (Mooses? Meese? Moosen?) as sports logos, but, it's just... Ehh. The name is still kinda lame.

Deadspin was great because I discovered it about the same time I started having a bit of an existential crisis (if you will) about my own sports fandom. The older I get and the more I get into the real, working world, the more I look at pro sports and think to myself, what is this really adding to my existence? There was a stretch for YEARS where my sports fandom basically defined who I was (At least, I thought it did), and it wasn't until I saw "my teams" win titles where I truly realized it wasn't going to fundamentally change a single thing about my life other than draining my already limited funds on cheesy, ill fitting championship merchandise I'll never wear. Maybe it's kind of pathetic to admit that pro sports really had such a huge hold over my self-worth well into my 20's, but I got to the point where I felt pretty lost and sort of embarrassed that I had essentially "wasted" so much of my time putting my energy and emotion into something that not only didn't give a single :censored: about me, but didn't even know I existed. Deadspin was one of those outlets that kind of put that all into perspective for me and helped me to discover that I wasn't alone in feeling like that. I'm not going overboard and saying that "Ohh Deadspin changed my life!" or anything, but in a way it sort of did. It opened me up to some of the things that were problematic about being such a loyal sports fan, and exposed a lot of the warts within the entire culture that just maybe weren't the most healthy outlets. I used to always say that "Oh, sports are just entertainment and I'll never let it effect me so personally", but that was me just lying to myself. Sites like Barstool really do try and put up that façade that your passion is all that matters and questioning anything about it is stupid. Deadspin was one of those sites that (While I understand their own flaws) sort of forced you to do a bit of self evaluation when it came to how you look at and consume sports. Personally, I feel like I'm better off for having an outlet like that, and while I understand how it had gone off the rails a bit, I'm sad to see it going away.