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13 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

Weather satellites and technology are better, not tv meteorologists. They just relay us what the Weather Channel is telling them. Their only real talent is being able to work a green screen backwards.

Where did I say that local TV weather hairdos are good at forecasting weather? I said weather forecasting is better and it is.

5 hours ago, Burmy said:

So now we're cancelling games because of "forecasted" weather...I miss the old days when the call was made on the actual gameday.

If it ends up being nice and sunny, then it was called for nothing...

Weather forecasting is much better now than it was in the "old days." For example, last week a meteorologist I follow on YouTube said that Minneapolis was going to get blasted by snow this week. Guess what happened in Minneapolis this week. It snowed. A lot.

If the forecast says there is a 99% chance of rain and the radar shows that it's 99% going to rain, what exactly are we waiting for? I like that teams are being proactive and not making fans waste their time sitting around for 4 hours in the rain to see if the game gets called.

2 hours ago, McCall said:

The returners can only move once they catch the ball or the gorilla is within 5 yards of them, in which case they must run towards the gorilla, to make the catch. This will be known as a "Kamikaze Kick-Off". If they make the catch AND survive, they get the ball from the 50 yard line. If they only make the catch, the surviving team members get the ball from the 40. If the returner survives, but fails to make the catch, from the 30. If they fail to survive or make the catch, the ball is given to the kicking team, barring a touchback.

Works for me.

14 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Maybe instead of kickoffs they could do free kicks like after safeties? Then a team could either kick it off or punt it, and the “on-sides kick” would just be a special punt that either falls fast, or is so hard that it bonks off of someone’s helmet and is caught by the kicking team. 

We gotta get the gorilla involved in this somehow.

2 hours ago, McCall said:

Tomorrow?

It actually happened on the first day of Spring Training, but it's not official until tomorrow.

4 hours ago, tBBP said:

 

And by that time the Pittsburgh Pirates will have been mathematically and unilaterally eliminated from playoff contention...

That's already happened, my friend. In fact, the Pirates are currently eliminated from playoff contention through 2027.

6 minutes ago, rfraser85 said:

 

True, but that's kind of my point. Cautious optimism is a good thing, and all the D-Day talk gets old. I'm not asking everyone to say "The new jerseys will be awesome!", but some teams did correct the Nike errors (Browns, Bucs) and Nike is capable of getting a new uniform set right (Chargers). So I want to acknowledge when someone suggests a quote about a uniform may not lead to disaster. 

CCSLC lesson #2: Know when someone is joking.

3 hours ago, rfraser85 said:

 

It's nice to see someone urging calm while we wait.

This your first day here? We don't do calm in these parts.

39 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Way better?  Meh.  IIRC that player unveil was the first time anyone saw that black to red gradient and the WTFs could be heard from miles away.  

Those WTFs were heard in Antarctica. Good lord, those new Falcons uniforms were awful. They still are, they just don't elicit the WTFs any more.

41 minutes ago, Jezus_Ghoti said:

"Understanding our surroundings from a geographic standpoint, there will be nods to that and I think people be really excited about it."

Narrator: They weren't excited. In fact, they thought it was all very stupid.

13 minutes ago, tBBP said:

1 hour ago, mmejia said:

The most common elements of Colorado are quartzite, sandstone, agate, and gabbro. So make of that what you will. 

And weed. And fentanyl. And too many soccer moms rolling around in Chevrolet Tahoes.

"The joint the horse is smoking represents the indomitable free spirit of the frontier that still lives today in Colorado. The sandstone and icy blue highlights on the pants stripes are a tribute to the Xanax addicted soccer moms who populate the Denver suburbs. The sublimated 5.2  at the top of the left pants stripe recognizes the miles per gallon they get in their Chevy Tahoes."

11 minutes ago, BBTV said:

It's not even worth wasting bandwidth posting about this.  Anyone getting fired up about it is fooling themselves.

You're expecting rational behavior where none exists.

1 hour ago, WSU151 said:

"What's important for Broncos fans? Wanting to evolve and be new and different but also be respectful of our history and our traditions,"

The old "looking forward while respecting the past" bit. The next time that approach results in a great looking uniform will also be the first time. On the bright side, the Nike-speak will be glorious. "The horse stomping across a snow covered mountain sleeves signify that Broncos Country has never lost the pioneer spirit of the 1850s. We ride in all weather. The icy blue stitching you can barely see represents the battle tested craftsmanship of the frontier. The arrow stuck in the horse's neck honors the brave wagon trains that were attacked by the Commanche. "

I hope I'm wrong, but I think this is going to be a disaster.

You have our sincere condolences in advance, Broncos fans.

Signed,

Browns fans in 2015.

2 hours ago, CitizenTino said:

No color version for the Browns either, only monochrome. Speaking of which, are the Browns hiding in plain sight that they are officially changing back to white facemasks?

Probably not, but one can hope.

35 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

You also share a birthday with a certain historical figure from Austria. 

Yeah, I don't like to draw a lot of attention to that one. I much prefer people going with "you were born on 420? That's so cooool!"

In a related story, Don Mattingly and I were born on the same day and we were both scouted by Major League Baseball teams. He did a little better than I did with the baseball thing.

36 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

This is also something important to remember. If Easter is closer to the end of April, baseball is already starting and college basketball is done. 

 

For example, Easter is on April 20th next year. (Nice of them to have it on my birthday. Wonder how they feel about the weed thing.)

24 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

I don’t think the link to Easter itself would work because of the religious aspect of it (which I understand Christmas too, but that’s been mostly drowned by capitalism).

Exactly. Easter is the one mainstream Christian holiday on the calendar that is actually more about Christianity than it is about selling stuff.  I'm not at all religious and I'd still find a sports tie-in with Easter to be pretty weird and uncomfortable.

That aside, Easter doesn't fall on the same day every year so your tie-in would always be changing.

17 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

That will be $33,355,000 to do a buyout if they want to get rid of him. But hey, I’m sure the boosters are more than capable of solving their “can’t adapt to the NIL and experienced mid-majors” problem with a flash of the checkbook.

Yeah, I can see where NIL is a problem because this is the first time Calipari or Kentucky has had to deal with paying players. Before NIL there wasn't a cleaner coach or program in all of college basketball. (I somehow managed to keep a relatively straight face while typing that.)

2 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

I saw on some show yesterday where the idiots were getting all worked up at how Dave Roberts was avoiding questions, and how that meant he "must know something and doesn't want to blow the whistle", and it's like no - of course he's been instructed to not comment.  I get that media has to ask and hope for a slip-up, but "no comment" doesn't mean anything more than "no comment".

The first thing any lawyer is going to tell their client is to shut up and don't talk about the investigation or the case. Period. Anyone who doesn't understand that is either an idiot or a talk show host. In the case of talk show hosts, it's generally both.

1 hour ago, LMU said:

I know that the Padres have a tenuous TV rights situation right now but you'd think they'd actually afford to supply their players with gloves that don't explode on *checks schedule* OPENING DAY.

That'll teach Cronenworth to wear a Wilson glove. No way that happens to a Rawlings.

58 minutes ago, sky1324 said:

That race was fantastic. Don't change a damn thing about the tire. Driver skill actually mattered for the first time in a long time and it showed with Hamlin, Truex, and Keselowski taking the podium. By the end of the race, drivers were getting 60-70 laps on those tires and especially now that teams can prepare for it you'll see the stronger, better preserved tires next time.

 

I have to wonder - with the calls for increased horsepower, maybe there's another way to get what the fans want. I think the stiff, aero-dependent car bodies are actually the biggest problem. Part of what made NASCAR of the 80s and 90s so great was that the cars were basically giant boxes being wheeled at crazy high speeds. Take the nerds away from the aero sims and let the cars be ill-handling. With some compromise from the involved parties (Chevy/Ford/Toyota, NASCAR, engine makers, Goodyear) maybe we can weaken the aero and tires just a bit and bump up the HP slightly, to say, 750, and then we'd see better racing?

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.

39 minutes ago, PrimalCookie said:

I'm scared Goodyear will overreact and go back to the standard bricks they usually make.

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.

41 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Great coach... or a curse on the organization.  Here me out - if he's constantly going 9-7, 10-7 with 5-12 talent, then it's probably masking their flaws on the personnel side, which is preventing them from making meaningful moves necessary to seriously compete.

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.

16 minutes ago, See Red said:

That race was a s*** show but kind of fun watching Hamlin and Truex navigate the lapped cars knowing they were all ticking time bombs.

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.

1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

Mike Tomlin can turn sewage into whiskey and a lot more people need to appreciate that.

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.

1 hour ago, Sykotyk said:

 

In the end, this feels like a Tommy Maddox situation. Remember him?

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.