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  1. I could not agree more. Instead of running 500 qualifying laps, we actually had a race that rewarded driver skill. As you said, we saw that with the top three finishers in the race. The top five were all drivers who know who to properly run at a short track. The gun it and run it guys never really figured it out. Yesterday was good lesson for everyone on how important the drivers and crews should be in a race. Horsepower isn't the issue. Trying to fix what has been...I'll be generous here...a problematic car has been the issue all along. If I had my way, the Cup Series would dump the NextGen car and make a Cup car based on the current Xfinity car. (For my money, Xfinity has the best racing in NASCAR these days.) In its quest to make Cup racing less expensive and create more parity, NASCAR left out the main ingredient - good racing. Finally, to the fans who think anything short of an Atlanta finish every week is an abject failure, a good race is way more than just the final three laps. Do you get upset when you watch a baseball game that didn't end on a 3 run HR in the bottom of the 9th? Do you expect every football game to end on a last second go ahead TD? Point being, there's a lot more to this than "go fast, turn left." Bristol showed you why yesterday.
  2. If we're lucky, Goodyear will see all the positive reactions to the race and do just enough tweaking that we're not running on cords after 40 laps.
  3. I'd argue that it's more a matter of the Steelers consistently being stuck in the dreaded middle than it is poor personnel decisions. It's hard to grab elite players when you're always picking in the lower end of the draft. The last time the Steelers had a top ten pick in the draft was 2019. It was pick #10. I think the Steelers were a decent QB away from being a real problem for everyone in the playoffs last season. Could they have made a Super Bowl run? Who knows, but I know a Mike Tomlin coached team isn't going to wilt in the spotlight when they see Mahomes like other teams usually do. If Tomlin can crack the code with Fields or find a way to resurrect what's left of Wilson, they'll be in the hunt for the AFC North. Again.
  4. That race was old school short track stock car racing. It would have been better if the teams had known going in that tires weren't going to be indestructible (like they usually are with the NextGen car), but other than that, it was a good race. Record amount of short track lead changes and they could actually pass...for once.
  5. Exactly. Tomlin has made the playoffs with teams that have 5-12 talent. That's not luck or getting all the calls. What's funny is he'll do it again next season and people will be right back here wondering how it happened...again. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you. Mike Tomlin is a great coach.
  6. Sure do. He brought the Steelers back from deficits of 24-7 and 33-21 to beat the Browns in the 2002 playoffs. The Steelers scored 22 points in the 4th quarter. I still can't believe the Browns let Tommy ing Maddox do that, but they did.
  7. Dak needs to be accused a couple more times before he's ready for the Browns.
  8. There are two current QBs in the NFL who have been charged with sexual assault - both of them now play for the Cleveland Browns. this team. I'm done.
  9. I think it's in Kentucky. Maybe Indiana. I'm not sure.
  10. To borrow a phrase, you can't fix stupid.
  11. Fair enough. What's appropriate clothing for a tornado? I ask because we have tornadoes here in Ohio and I want to make sure I'm appropriately dressed for 200mph wind and flying debris. Got any suggestions for a hurricane? What does one wear to avoid getting struck by lightning? There is, in fact, such a thing as bad weather and that includes -40 degree wind chill weather.
  12. Not to mention, it's all hot in Salt Lake City in the summer. Best I can tell, there are no plans for a dome for the new Mormon Municipal Temple Field.
  13. We already have a similar committee. With regard to spaces, See Red Comet above.
  14. The new name is pre-approved, but the M-XII rejected the underscores by a vote of 21-6. As a result, should SLC happen, your new name will be "I am a flaming communist d-bag whore." The Majestic X-II Committee on Names of Users, Agriculture, and Transportation believes this is a just and reasonable compromise. The Majestic XII have spoken.
  15. Yeah, that kid the Packers drafted from Cal to sit behind Favre for a couple seasons was a total bust. Last I heard, he ended up on the Jets roster last season but he didn't play much.
  16. Add in 2001 and that's four memorable finishes in the 22 years before the reconfiguration. FWIW, I liked the old Atlanta races too, but I can't blame the track for trying to put on a better show. I agree that there were too many wrecks, but Atlanta is what it is now. It's plate racing and all the stuff that comes with it. We can accept that or we can complain about it, but the current configuration ain't going anywhere.
  17. I like this version of Atlanta a whole lot better than the previous version. It's entirely possible that my memory is failing me, but I seem to remember Atlanta races mostly being pretty boring before the reconfiguration. For example, I looked up the 2008 spring race. Kyle Busch was 3 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. It looked more like he was qualifying than it did like he was winning the race at the checkered flag. In 2018, Kevin Harvick won by 4 seconds. The only exciting finish that comes to mind at Atlanta is Harvick and Gordon in 2001. I'm not saying there weren't others, but I can't think of any. Give me this over watching the best car cruise around like he's in a different race every time. The new Atlanta is awesome.
  18. No argument here. It was the saving fuel thing again. Parade until the last few laps followed by a crashfest when everyone tries to make a move. I suppose we were lucky that the caution came out late and spared us the crashfest.
  19. Jesse Love might be good. The kid is flat out dominating Atlanta at the moment. EDIT: He's not as good when his car has no fuel.
  20. Add in the fact that the Cubs and Wrigley were in 68% of the movies made in the 80s and here we are.
  21. Not according to him two years ago.
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