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  1. I watched just about all of the racing at Daytona this week. Qualifying, Duels, trucks, ARCA, Xfinity, the 500.

     

    This was my favorite part.

     

    A 41 year old fence company owner from Indiana just won a 4th-tier series race that pays like $25k to the winner and you'd swear he just hit Powerball. I absolutely love it.

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  2. On 2/14/2023 at 1:26 AM, infrared41 said:

    Field Fillers

     

    Slap's got some good videos. Not sure if you've seen the Brock Beard "Rise of the Field Fillers" series he mentions in that video, but it's some pretty obscure '90s-'00s NASCAR stuff. Can get monotonous at times, but it's very nostalgic for me.

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  3. On 2/4/2023 at 9:55 AM, BBTV said:

    Was unable to find the first proposal of the "gorilla rule" (which I think started in my NFL plan, but eventually did make it to MLB and Soccer), but this made me chuckle:
     

     

     

    I had forgotten all about this. Re-reading this made my night.

  4. 22 hours ago, the admiral said:

    Oh, I can! Freshman year of high school, I brought a can of grape soda with me to lunch and one of the girls who mainstreamed in from the Catholic school looked at me with disgust and said "what are you, black?" I mean, looking at me, olive-skinned on my best day, but point made. Sprite may have LeBron in commercials, but he hasn't ejected white people from the premises for drinking it; I think it's pretty much for everyone. 

     

    Sure - I didn't mean "only _____ people drink _____" like it's, I dunno, Black Rifle Coffee or something.

     

    I guess "social implication to drinking _____" is different than "heavily marketed toward _____," which is more how I took it.

  5. On 10/9/2022 at 12:31 PM, the admiral said:

     

    7-Up, Sprite, and Sierra Mist are clear lemon-lime sodas. 7-Up makes you burp more than the others. Mountain Dew is a different soda altogether. It's neon-green, syrupier, and I think it includes orange juice concentrate as well as other citruses. It has also always been coded as downmarket, whether explicitly blue-collar or just gamers. There's no social implication to drinking Sprite that I know of.

     

    Really? This surprises me.

     

    Apart from Mountain Dew and its XTREME!!! branding in the '90s (which morphed into the "gamer fuel" branding today), I can't think of a stronger tie between a soda and any demographic than Sprite and the Black community. Going as far back as I can personally remember, almost every Sprite commercial I can think of features either hip-hop artists (KRS-One, Nas, ATCQ) or basketball players (Grant Hill, Kobe, LeBron). I'm sure there are outliers, but I can't think of any.

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  6. 54 minutes ago, B-Rich said:

     

    Note the "Spurs" and "San Antonio" appear to be cheap one-color iron-ons, not sewed-on lettering as it was in Dallas.

     

     

    I was aware of this brief transitional color scheme, being a self-professed ABA fan (or as big of a "fan" as one can be of a league that ceased to exist 11 years before I was born).

     

    Your point about the "cheap one-color iron-ons" is a good one, never really considered that - it's especially weird considering the Spurs seemingly reverted back to this "cheap" look almost a decade later.

     

    Take a look at the following 3 jerseys and tell me which order you'd assume they were worn in:

     

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    Makes sense that those would be in order, right? The plain white "San Antonio" font on the first black jersey is clearly a holdover from the red one, right?


    Wrong! The red jersey is from the 1973 preseason, as you said. Then the third "black-on-black" was worn from 1975(6?) until 1981-82, then back to the boring plain white font from 1982-83 until 1988-89!

     

    It's like they discovered a stash of old jerseys in 1982 and decided they'd trot them back out. I feel like there's got to be a story here - or not? Things were weird in the early '80s NBA.

     

    Bonus: here's David Robinson wearing the plain white script jersey, which he never wore in a game (unless there's another "old jerseys in the preseason" situation), as the "Spurs" wordmark was added to the front for the Admiral's rookie 1989-90 season:

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  7. 15 minutes ago, BrySmalls said:

    Has anyone bought jerseys off Poshmark? If so, was the quality exactly like the photos or were you duped?

     

    It's all going to depend on the seller. I've bought and sold dozens of items on Poshmark.

     

    As a general rule, if they're using only stock photos (no photos of the actual jersey) then it's 99.9% going to be fake.

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  8. Bubba's win at Kansas should theoretically shut some people up, but now they're only whining louder because of course they are.

     

    "he only won because he was driving Kurt's car" ... "Denny let him win" ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

     

    Bubba/Denny finishing 1-2 (either order) is my optimal NASCAR result. Happy for him!

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  9. On 9/7/2022 at 9:03 PM, Dalcowboyfan92 said:

    North Wilkesboro coming back from the dead and taking something from Texas (in this case; the All-Star race) is poetic justice for 1997.

     

    Hindsight is obviously 20/20, but I think they made the right decision in trying to strike while the iron was hot. I don't blame them for trying. It just didn't end up panning out at the end of the day. But, admitting mistakes were made and attempting to atone for the sins of the past shows they realized mistakes were made and want to try to make things right.

     

    It's a great gesture that I'm very glad to see happen. I never went to North Wilkesboro as a kid, it closed just as I was getting to the age of being able to go to Cup races. My dad and I went to Darlington, Rockingham, and Charlotte together but never made it to NW.

     

    I'm excited for it and will definitely look into going. My wife and I went to the late model race at the end of August (the one Dale Jr. raced in) and had a blast - it truly felt like I time traveled back to 1995. It looked, sounded, felt, and smelled exactly like going to those early-mid '90s races with my dad.

     

    That said, traffic was definitely an issue that I hope they can mitigate somehow. We got there around 5pm for the 7:30 start and that included waiting in about an hour of traffic. It got even worse toward start time, and they actually delayed the green flag for almost an hour to allow the crowd to file in. Granted, that was on a Wednesday evening, so plenty of people were all cramming in at the same time after work. North Wilkesboro + Wilkesboro = population of less than 8,000 and the infrastructure just plain isn't there for big crowds. US-421 runs alongside, but doesn't provide direct access to the speedway - the only way in/out of North Wilkesboro Speedway is a single two-lane road. Current capacity of NW is listed at 18,000 and the race sold out, I'm sure there were 20,000+ total people there. I have no idea how they did it back in the '90s with crowds of 50 to 60,000. Being on the weekend helped, and I'm sure there were a lot of campers, but yikes! The '95 and '96 Cup races were paired with a Saturday truck race (looking this up, I just found out that the Busch series only raced at NW from '83-'85, which I find odd), but man... 60,000 people there sounds like a transportation nightmare.

     

    Anyway, good on NASCAR. I'm excited to see what happens with it.

  10. On 9/5/2022 at 5:35 AM, DoctorWhom said:

    Nice to see the 43 in victory lane again. Happy to see Eric Jones get a win. 

     

    But yeah, these cars are absolute :censored:ing trash. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw so many cars break down in a race.

    Busch got screwed, his engine dies while he's leading  with 20 laps  left,that sucks. 

     

    If NASCAR has any more problems with these cars, they might as well be racing pintos. 

     

    lol, what?

     

    KFB blew an engine, Truex lost a water pump belt, and who knows what happened to Harvick. That's 3 cars, not a quarter of the field. It just happened to be 3 playoff guys. Sometimes parts fail, them's the breaks.

     

    I was in Darlington on Sunday and it was awesome. Great weather (the initial "shower" was a little exaggerated, I felt maybe 15 medium raindrops over about 10 minutes, but I understand the restraint after last week's debacle), once the clouds passed, it cooled off and was very comfortable. The racing itself was a little ordinary, especially considering it was Darlington - but I think once Elliott and Harvick were out of contention, the rest of the playoff guys seemed pretty content to hang onto what they had and not take any huge risks. That didn't make for late-race drama like Larson/Creed/Gragson on Saturday, but it's like that sometimes. I thought Larson and Chastain were done early, but seeing them both battle back to something respectable was intriguing.

     

    Would've loved to see Denny get the win, but nothing wrong with 2nd and it's always a treat to see the 43 in victory lane.

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  11.  

    Queens University of Charlotte to the A-Sun.

     

    Interesting move here, as Queens is currently a non-football playing member of the DII South Atlantic Conference. Private Presbyterian school with ~1600 students. They've had some good basketball seasons recently, but that doesn't quite move the needle like football does. Does this somehow fit in with the A-Sun's underpants gnomes mitosis scheme? (brand new sentence) I don't even remember anymore.

     

    Either way, this is a bit of a head-scratcher. As far as NC schools moving up, I would've picked Winston-Salem State, Wingate, and (I can't believe I'm saying this) Fayetteville State to go D1 before Queens.

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  12. I'm absolutely in love with the 49ers changes. Sure, they're small - but they fix the two things I've been anal about since the 2009 set debuted.

     

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    I hated - hated - the "new" wordmark. Sure, the font matches the "SF" logo - but the "SF" logo is itself rather unremarkable, a holdover from 1950s-60s helmet logos. If not for the warm and fuzzy feelings from championship years past, they'd be better scrapping it and starting over. Basing the wordmark off an otherwise-subpar helmet logo is a bad move. I personally refused to buy any merch with this logo on it, and only own a few jerseys with this wordmark. It's just plain not good.

     

    The "saloon" font is much, much, much better.

     

    The truncated "Reebok stripes" in 2009 were a disaster from the get-go. The switch to two stripes in 2017 was a band-aid that looked okay but stopped just short of doing it for me - 3 stripes are perfect.

     

    I'm ready to buy a new jersey immediately!

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  13. I stumbled across this line of 1990s NFL coats while browsing Ebay, and noticed some rather interesting patches on them that I'd never seen before and thought would be of interest here.

     

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    First, the coats are made by a company called "Triple F.A.T. Goose," which I had never heard of. Apparently the "F.A.T." stands for "For Arctic Temperatures" and they're still in business making higher-end winter wear. Judging by the logos featured on the coats (mainly the pre-1996 49ers logo), these were made in the early-mid '90s - I'd guess 1992-1995. A Google search only shows a few teams in this particular style (Packers, 49ers, Cowboys, Browns, Giants). Given that these coats were likely quite expensive, it can't be a coincidence that those were all popular teams in the early '90s and are mostly cold weather cities. I'd imagine there are probably Bills, Vikings, Bears, Jets, and Steelers coats out there in this style - Buccaneers, Chargers, Saints, Cardinals... not so much.

     

    Anyway, the logos in question:

     

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    An eagle (duck? goose?) carrying a football while running across the crossbar of the goalposts (???) with some unnecessarily-intricate design flourishes and a banner beneath. My favorite part of this is undoubtedly the 60 yard line!

     

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    The "NFL" wordmark superimposed on what looks like a very bloated, pre-forward pass era football with too many panels on it.

     

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    An eagle swooping down onto (or is it carrying?) a shield logo with uneven stripes, a smattering of differently-sized stars, and this time, a too-skinny football that still has too many panels on it. I get a 1940s-50s vibe from this one, and with a few tweaks, this could make a somewhat believable "alternate history" NFL league logo from that time - similar to the delightful 1950s CFL logo with the red/yellow/green maple leaf.

     

    Information about this line of coats (when they were made, exactly which teams were made, how/why these pretty goofy fake logos made it into actual production) is probably pretty scarce, but I at least thought these were interesting.

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  14. On 3/29/2022 at 9:52 AM, Sport said:

    The other 8 seeds were Seton Hall, San Diego State, and Boise State. UNC and those schools are not the same even if they were technically "graded" the same. It's not chalk, but it's also not like a surprising Cinderella Run like Boise State would've been. I'm reminded of that 2014 UK-UConn final when Kentucky was an 8 seed and lost to UConn who was a 7 seed. 

     

    For the rest of this group, you cannot deny that this Final Four is a real who's who of hateable programs.

     

    Absolutely. It's always much more fun when there's a Loyola-Chicago or Butler in the Final Four - or even a "big school not really known for their basketball program" like Texas Tech or South Carolina. UNC certainly isn't one of those.

     

    I'm a mid/low-major guy. I get why this Final Four isn't the most appealing - my post wasn't about that. It was the premature complaining about hearing about Duke-UNC all week for me - my sports media consumption this week has been mostly normal (PTI, ATH, Kornheiser's podcast, and maybe leaving the evening Sportscenter/SVP on in the background) and it's been far from a profusion of Tar Heels/Blue Devils hype. By the way some people were acting earlier this week, you'd have thought ESPN was changing all their graphics to shades of blue and having the hosts wear either devil or ram horns.

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  15. I realize I'm likely biased because I'm from the Carolinas (despite having allegiance to neither shade of blue), but I'm already seeing entirely too much anticipatory bickering over UNC-Duke. Y'all are just complaining because you like to complain. Whether you like it or not, this is a big sports story. 

     

    I'm not going to call UNC-Duke the single greatest rivalry in all of college sports, but it's in the top 5. Imagine if any of the following happened:

    • Ohio State and Michigan played for the national championship and it was Woody Hayes or Bo Schembechler or Lloyd Carr's last game
    • Auburn and Alabama played for the national championship and it was Bear Bryant or Nick Saban's last game
    • Kentucky and Louisville met in the Final Four and it was potentially Adolph Rupp or Denny Crum's last game

    ...those would all be a big deal, because the odds of this happening are pretty damn slim. UNC and Duke have never played each other in the NCAA Tournament before, much less the Final Four. UNC was an 8 seed - it's not like this is chalk.

     

    Will there be too much sports media attention focused on this? Yes. Deal with it. Surprise: that's what 24-hour sports networks do. It'll be a mild inconvenience for you to flip the channel or turn the TV off altogether.

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  16. 2 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

    Thanks for the info!

     

    I'm shocked that mascots were paid before the athletes were allowed to be, though in hindsight, that shouldn't be surprising. Are cheerleaders paid?

     

    I'd imagine there's a lot of competition to be Ramses or Otto or whoever. I'd be pissed if some jerk in LA got paid for commercials if I were the official mascot.

     

    Yeah, pay was certainly a point of contention at the time. However, I didn't get a scholarship for being the mascot. Obviously, not all athletes do either, but that was the rationale - at least then. Some places (mainly larger universities/programs) have full rides for their mascots. I didn't, so I was essentially a "student worker" paid for my time just like someone working at the library or whatever.

     

    As for cheer/dance, it's really a mixed bag. Some places have full or partial scholarships for cheerleaders. Some pay them. At some, it's a volunteer "club" just like other club sports and other on-campus organizations. As you can expect, there's a pretty direct correlation between the quality of the cheer/dance squads and how much money the university puts into them. At Winthrop, the pep band was an "on-campus job" and the members were paid by the hour just like I was - no scholarships. I'm not sure if that's still the case, though.

     

    There is absolutely a ton of competition to be the mascot at larger programs. At Winthrop, I was one of a handful (probably a half-dozen, out of ~6,000 students) to try out. It was the same at UNCG, I helped judge the tryouts they held to replace me as I was leaving. I only remember 4 or 5 students (out of ~15,000) trying out. And yeah, if I were at UNC or UCLA, I'd expect as a point of pride to be the one actually in the suit in the commercial - doubt it would usually work that way, though.

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  17. 14 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

    @sc49erfan15i I just saw two commercials in a row featuring NCAA mascots. Do those mascots get paid for their time? Is the mascot at the school at time of filming the guy in the commercial? Or do they bring in someone else to wear the costume?

     

    This is an excellent set of questions that I unfortunately don't have a full answer to. I would imagine it varies from university to university, mainly depending on how many mascot suits they have. Bigger schools have multiple identical suits, so Brutus Buckeye or whoever can more easily meet demand and be in multiple places at once. Winthrop had 3 suits - a new one that was first preference, an old one (that wasn't quite identical) as a backup, and a really old and incomplete one that was only used when absolutely necessary.

     

    I can only speak definitively from my own experience when it comes to commercials, and I was only in one (local, low-budget, and probably lost forever) commercial during my time as a mascot. It was basically "they're shooting for this commercial on Thursday the 28th from 1-3pm, can you make it? If not, we'll find someone else." I got paid my normal "outside" rate, which I was more than okay with. I had two pay rates, one for anything directly related to the university ($15/hr for games, events on campus, etc.) and another for any other purpose ($40/hr for kid's birthdays, local business promotions, this commercial, etc.). One thing they did right was that any time I was asked to make an appearance, I was getting paid and travel time was included. Student Union wants you to be there for 30 minutes as they're on campus promoting an upcoming event? I got paid for the full hour.

     

    As for national commercials, it's probably a mix. I shared mascot duties for the Greensboro Grasshoppers with a guy that was UNC's Rameses. I remember him talking about getting flown up to D.C. during the summer break to tape a commercial for the next year's ACC tournament. In some instances, they probably send the "real" performer. In others, they probably just ship the suit, likely with ridiculously detailed directions on how to put it on. Heck, I could easily see there being a few former mascot performers in the L.A. area or wherever that get first call when Nissan needs to shoot their next commercial. "Alright, you're going to be Maryland's Testudo and the Seton Hall Pirate this time!"

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  18. A post with @B-Rich mentioning New Orleans and @leopard88 mentioning Lafayette College? I'm only "needs stripes" and "today we are all _____" away from bingo! I kid 😁

     

    I have nothing else to add to this post except: that the wolf logo is indeed pretty bad; and I also had the opportunity earlier this season to announce some men's and women's basketball games at Loyno, but I turned it down (a 2-hour drive round trip meant I'd essentially be breaking even after getting paid). Now I wish I would've done at least one of them - announcing for a national champion, even if it's NAIA, would've been pretty cool.

     

     

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  19. Fontana turned out to be much more entertaining and less of a cluster than anyone thought. Cars still have problems with flats after spins (not to mention the perplexing tow truck situation, did they not think this through?). There seemed to be a few more spins than normal,  but I think that was more attributable to the terrible racing surface than the next gen car. There weren't many "ugh this next gen car" moments.

     

    I'm tired of Kyle Larson, would've loved to see Suárez pull it out, but it was overall a pretty good race.

  20. Last night was the most deflated I've felt about sports in a very long time. For some reason, this felt worse than the Chiefs comeback in the Super Bowl. I didn't expect the 49ers to get this far, but it still sucks.

     

    On the plus side, my best friend is a lifelong die-hard Bengals fan, so the 49ers coughing it up saved my friendship and group chat a lot of potential anguish over the next 2 weeks. I'm all in on the Bengals.

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  21. 1 minute ago, GeauxColonels said:

    I really hate what this is doing to the Southland. Selfishly, I’d like to see the Southland try and get some DII teams from the east (Alabama, Georgia, Florida) rather than stretching even further into Texas.

     

    Did you see the deal McNeese was reportedly given in order to stay in the Southland?

     

    Apparently it includes hosting rights for the 2023-2026 championships for men's/women's basketball, baseball, and softball + no exit fee if McNeese leaves the Southland for an FBS school.

     

    Insane.

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