Red Wolf

4 hours ago, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:

December 1st, 2007.

 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=273350277

 

I'm going to brag and boast and say that nothing can top this perfect storm of awfulness.

 

Let me quickly set the scene: WVU is ranked #2 in the BCS, #2 in the AP poll, and #1 in the Coaches poll.  A win against bitter rival Pitt guarantees a trip to the National Championship.  Pitt is 4-7 and a 28 point underdog. I'm a wide eyed freshman ready to burn some frickin couches.

 

Long story short -- Offense can't get moving, defense can't stop LeSean McCoy, Pat McAfee misses some kicks and next thing you know, WVU loses 13-9 and Rich Rod is on his way to Michigan.

 

Try and find a comparable loss, its difficult.  In what other instance can you be one win away from a championship appearance only to lose to a terrible giant underdog?  With the FBS Playoff now in effect it can't happen there.  A similiar loss today would just prevent you from making the Playoff, not the title game.  It can't happen in the Final Four, any team you play there would be better by comparison than a 4-7 28 point underdog.  Etc, etc.  Let this be the hill I die on, worst sports loss ever!!!

 

Ipso facto, worst day of my life as a sports fan.  And obviously, its not like WVU is some consistent powerhouse that always gets cracks at title runs.  That adds to the sting.

I actually attended the national championship game that year. I remember being fascinated by the idea of seeing West Virginia vs. Missouri. Instead, both lost and we got Ohio State vs. LSU. Granted, maybe my trip was more fun because the title game was in New Orleans that year and involved LSU, but seeing two schools who were historically almost good enough get a shot would have been really cool.

8 hours ago, AustinFomBoston said:

Except they absolutely demolished the Cowboys earlier that season. 
 

Giants (also Baltimore) were the only teams that  really threatened them. 
 

Packers would have been fun matchup to see. 
 

The only way to know for sure is to get the entire NFC to conspire to let Washington win the conference and see if they magically beat the Pats.

On 10/20/2019 at 11:38 AM, AustinFomBoston said:

I also hate the 07 Cowboys & Packers.

Patriots would have beaten either of those teams if they didn’t allow the :censored:ing Giants to win. 

Cowboys would have won. Whatever deal with the devil the Patriots made came with a clause that said that they couldn't beat anybody from the NFC East in the Super Bowl. There's no other explanation for losing to Eli Manning twice and making Nick Foles look like Joe Montana.

3 hours ago, Bucfan56 said:

 

Huh. My calculations are just a tad off somewhere, then. I had Branson, Missouri as my worst city. 

My numbers capped the population too high for Hillbilly Vegas to be considered. There's just too much data to sift through if you drop below a certain population. I'm actually training an AI to eventually evaluate smaller cities and make decisions on what to do with them and how best to deal with humanity in general. We're currently calling it Skynet, but that's just a working name.

Just now, SFGiants58 said:

St. Louis isn’t that awful! There’s one place that’s far creepier: 

 

[picture of Anchorage]

The science is a bit flawed in that it's exclusively based on places I've been. Don't tell the other scientists though.

2 hours ago, Buc said:

 

Just out of curiosity, what city in your experiments comes in ahead (or behind?) it? Asking for a friend........

Despite being the worst city, it has baseball's self-proclaimed best fans.

6 hours ago, Camden Crazy said:

Just because you personally believe it’s not a cool city doesn’t make it objective fact.

We've actually run experiments and found that Las Vegas is the second worst city in America.

On 9/1/2019 at 2:58 PM, DG_Now said:

Houston Nitro

 

Also, TIL the WNBA Houston Comets disbanded in 2008.

Houston Heat in honor of Harlem Heat who were actually from Houston.

Atlanta Nitro because of obvious reasons.

On 8/31/2019 at 2:19 PM, Ice_Cap said:

A different face and flames won't necessary save it if UAB decides to take the XFL to court over it. 

UAB can get in line. Vince stole my idea of naming a Seattle team the Dragons and there's a post or two somewhere on this sight to prove it.

Mod edit is the star of this thread.

Also, Qatar can suck it.

On 8/20/2019 at 8:41 AM, Red Wolf said:

Probably not actually important enough, but I could see somebody taking inspiration from that. Similarly, I've been joking for a while that Seattle will be the Dragons after famous wrestler Daniel Bryan's indie nickname of the American Dragon.

How do I go about suing these hacks for clearly stealing my Seattle Dragons idea?

10 hours ago, DDR said:

 

The Pythons. Must. Pose.

"We're thinking of having you do three games with the Heartbreakers, trading wins."

"That doesn't work for me, brother."

48 minutes ago, buzzcut said:

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Well hell, I guess I'll be a Dallas fan then.

1 minute ago, Ice_Cap said:

It would be hilarious if, after the song and dance about the new XFL not having anything to do with WWE this time around, Vince just named all the teams after wrestlers. 

Texas Rattlesnakes would resonate with more people than St. Louis Vipers, just sayin.

18 hours ago, Maroon said:

 

And he's important enough to name a football team after him?

Probably not actually important enough, but I could see somebody taking inspiration from that. Similarly, I've been joking for a while that Seattle will be the Dragons after famous wrestler Daniel Bryan's indie nickname of the American Dragon.

37 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

[heinous video removed for space purposes]

 

This is just a friendly reminder about the kind of guy Jim Hellwig was before WWE and his estate whitewashed him.

 

WWE had a pro-LBTQ+ thing recently that co-opted the Warrior gimmick. On the one hand it feels kind of insulting to use somebody who had such heinous views, but it's also kind of fun that somebody like that had their trademark image used for something they would have hated so much. With WWE I assume it was an embarrassing case of misguided pandering, but hopefully it was expert trolling.

I'm more annoyed by a team not using an obvious geographic identifier. Sure, a team called Golden State or New England covers a large geographic area, but you have a better idea where they're at than Sky Blue or Reign FC. Same goes for pro teams using (North) Carolina, because then you don't know if you're talking about Charlotte or Raleigh. It would be one thing if it were a Minneapolis-St, Paul situation, but the North Carolina cities are pretty much on opposite ends of the state.

46 minutes ago, Cosmic said:

That’s true. At a minimum, Vince does bookend bros.

"Bro, hear me out. If the Angels want to take Major League Baseball to the next level ya need a swerve. Personally, bro, I'd have the Angels turn on Anaheim and Los Angeles, bro. They'd never even see it comin'. Ya move east and become the Inland Empire Angels, swerve everybody and just staht prinin' money, bro. We'd be off to da races, bro."

1 hour ago, GDAWG said:

 

It would not be him because he did not say "bro" at all. 

But... he did say "bro." It was literally first thing he wrote. I will grant that it can't be Russo because he didn't say "bro" enough times.

9 hours ago, the admiral said:

Yes, that's precisely what this tedious CCSLC hobbyhorse needed, LeBron James wearing a shirt about himself

I'm sorry, but if anybody that can shed light on the intricacies of Southern California geography, it's a basketball player from Northeastern Ohio. Please take your sarcasm elsewhere.

I joked that Seattle would go with Dragons as a reference to famous professional wrestler Daniel Bryan's indie nickname American Dragon forever ago. Make it so!

1 hour ago, AustinFomBoston said:

So If I'm understanding this right; The Rays, a team that can't even get a new stadium built in 1 city, are demanding that 2 cities build them a new stadiums?

It's so ridiculous that it's almost like it's some sort of negotiating gambit where they don't actually expect to get two stadiums.

1 hour ago, BringBackTheVet said:

I've done a 180 on this one.  I used to hate the Cleveland deal, but then I've put myself in the Dawg Pound's shoes, and would I root for the Cleveland Jaguars?  It's just a reminder that it's not my team.  Would "Baltimore Browns" make any sense to a reasonable person that's just getting into the sport?  No - it's absurd.

If the Cleveland Jaguars is all you can get, it's what you'll root for. Baltimore loved the Colts so much they named their CFL team after them and pretended to care about CFL, yet they still love the Ravens.

3 hours ago, Bucfan56 said:

Man, I've seen some BAD takes on here over the years, but the "They should ditch the A's moniker if they move" take is probably the worst one yet. 

 

I mean, that's an impressively bad idea. 

I could maybe buy into it if they hadn't played in multiple cities as the A's prior to Oakland. Even then, I prefer teams keep their nicknames when they move.

7 hours ago, BringBackTheVet said:

So... you’ll be a One Man Gang?

I'm reclaiming the OMG initialism for the betterment of humanity.

2 hours ago, BringBackTheVet said:

If I lived in Oklahoma City and the A’s moved there, I wouldn’t give a damn about Jimmy’s foxx or Reggie Jackson or Mark McGwire. That wasn’t my team, despite what the record books say. 

 

Sports isnt real. It’s for fun and enjoyment. The marketers would have a better chance selling the OKC Baseball Thunder than the “Athletics”. 

We already lost the Houston Oilers' uniforms. I will riot all by myself on the streets of Little Rock, Arkansas if we lose the Athletics' uniforms.

8 hours ago, rams80 said:

I'm basically saying NMSU has already begged for at least MWC membership.

Hell, they've begged for at least Sun Belt membership. Granted I'd love to have them for basketball, but it seems unlikely, even if something wacky happens with Little Rock or Arlington.

26 minutes ago, Ice_Cap said:

No more prestige events for dictatorships, please.

22 minutes ago, dfwabel said:

You were first, but I've the same idea.

It's a nice idea, but authoritarians tend to be better at paying the right people to do the wrong thing.