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Jesus. 

Is that pink? 
 

Despite recently getting Inter Miami, who looks pretty good, this league REALLY sucks at the branding part of all of this. There’s nothing about this branding package that’s exciting, and the colors are either gaudy (magenta and purple?) Or totally boring (navy and red, snore). That crest is pretty brutally bad, too. This is pretty similar to Cincinnati. They had a really solid (not perfect, but good) look in USL, and transitioned to an MLS package that was a total downgrade. 
 

This is what has me terrified for Sacramento’s entry into this league. They’ve been fighting for YEARS to maintain their badge and colors, but apparently they’ve had some really serious problems with the league getting that approved. I have this sinking feeling that we’re going to end up with something stupid like Sacramento United wearing purple and black. If that happens, any interest I’ve had in this whole thing disappears.

You lost me completely when you eliminated the most superior name of all time, the St. Louis LazerSnakes.

30 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

North Dakota State would not be a fit in the MAC.  They would be the farthest team from everyone else if that happened.  Right now the Western most school in the MAC is Northern Illinois.  If the MAC wants to add more schools, they'll take them from the Missouri Valley Conference.

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. 

1 hour ago, colinturner95 said:

Fake.

http://www.fantasymaps.com/stuff/idaho.html

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

On 6/28/2020 at 7:53 PM, the admiral said:

While I understand that "civil war" can refer to any internecine conflict, it's unusual that it wound up in Oregon, when you would expect it in either 

 

1) a state where the two universities are clearly in the northern and southern parts of the state, hence, a clear allusion to the American Civil War

 

2) a border state like Missouri or Kentucky.

 

It doesn't mean anything to me because I don't live out west and I don't like college sports, let's just not pretend this is improving anyone's material conditions. It's cheap talk and you get what you pay for.

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. 

32 minutes ago, MBurmy said:

I still think they should've gone for Reno (to bolster their fanbase across the state).

 

Oh well, I suppose there's a place in the ECHL for the Reno Bronze Knights.

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. 

5 minutes ago, JayMac said:

So the Camping World Bowl becomes the Cheez-It Bowl...what does the old Cheez-It Bowl become now?

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. 

3 hours ago, Gothamite said:

Maybe the city has a trademark on that design. 

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. 

On 2/5/2020 at 7:27 AM, OnWis97 said:

In the old days I should have changed my name to Politic.

 

Between this and FiddleStick, it feels like a whole new world.

Oh, cool! I feel so free now! 

44 minutes ago, QueenCitySwarm said:

FTFY

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

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what?

2 hours ago, Red Wolf said:

 

Let's combine our powers to continue to push for the A's to Sacramento and Rays to Memphis just like that other post I made that might have been in this thread or maybe a different one.

Bucfan/Red Wolf 2020: Make Baseball Teams Move Again

On 12/4/2019 at 8:24 PM, Wings said:

The A's need to give up on the waterfront pipe dream and build at the Coliseum Complex. If not, then get the F out. 

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. 

This whole thing is a grift, y'all. 

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. 

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Caleb was injured on January 24, 2013, during the Snowmobile Freestyle part of Winter X Games XVII, which was held in Aspen, Colorado. He was attempting a backflip (a trick he had done several times before) when the skis on his snowmobile were snagged on the ground as he was about to land. As a result, Caleb was flipped over the handlebars and upon landing, was hit by the snowmobile... Caleb was able to leave the scene under his own strength and he was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital to be treated for concussion. Doctors there discovered bleeding around the heart, and he was diagnosed with a heart contusion. He was airlifted to St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, to undergo heart surgery. While he was being transported, Caleb suffered a period of cardiopulmonary arrest due to presumed unrelieved pericardial tamponade. The lack of oxygen to his brain during this time of hypotension caused anoxic encephalopathy. The fact that a brain complication had occurred was announced by a family spokesman in the days after the accident. Caleb remained unconscious after arrival at St. Mary's Hospital, and his condition did not improve over the next several days. He was pronounced dead at 9:30 AM on January 31.

2 hours ago, monkeypower said:

Here's a pic of the Montana logo on a hat from some guy on Twitter. The embroidery isn't half bad I don't think.

 

 

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. 

21 minutes ago, McCarthy said:

 

 

I think this hits why I liked Deadspin all this time. Sports are great, but many of the characters and the owners are huge f****** a*****s and there's a lot of internal conflict you have to put up with just because you like baseball or hockey or football, even. Lots of other sports fans are stupider than s*** and for a while it was like "I like this too. Does that mean I'm stupid?" It's okay to enjoy them, but also don't be a wanker dork and carry on about enjoying them, The Ringer. They also always recognized the inherent irrationality in supporting a specific team of professional mercenaries who aren't from that city while also fully embracing the rationality of ":censored: you if you're a [blank] fan". 

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. 

3 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

The Giants built their own park.

In San Francisco, of all places! 

The logistics were a bit different back then, but not by that much.