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It's as offensive as you want it to be.

49 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Future Cleveland Browns QB, Dak Prescott!

Dak needs to be accused a couple more times before he's ready for the Browns.

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.

6 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Nothing at all against the fine people of Cincinnati, but if not for the Reds and Bengals, would >90% of Americans have any reason to know about it or even where it is? 

I think it's in Kentucky. Maybe Indiana. I'm not sure.

15 hours ago, raz said:

Does Atlanta deserve a third chance? 

No.

3 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Fine. Bad weather exists.

How about I put it this way -- if this were such a dire situation, why did so relatively few people develop frostbite? I'll guess it was because they didn't handle the weather properly.

To borrow a phrase, you can't fix stupid.

12 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

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.

4 hours ago, Cosmic said:

https://fox4kc.com/news/70-of-chiefs-fans-who-suffered-frostbite-at-bitter-cold-playoff-game-need-amputations/

FOOTBALL WEATHER!!!!

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

 

Thanks for the laugh.  "Selling out all season long in SLC"?  You're telling me that a small-ass place like SLC is going to sell out 81 games a year?  Games where they'll sell that low-alcohol beer?  Getting to games isn't exactly convenient in a place as sparse and sprawling as the SLC area, and... 81 games.

 

It's a complete joke.It will never happen.  If you'll excuse me, I'm gong to half for a few minutes.

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.

31 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

I think the committee may need to reach out to the group that handles extraterrestrials, infectious disease, and sea-mammal affairs (I assume that's who handles IT) to work on a system upgrade that will allow for spaces.  Right now I'm not sure it'll work.

We already have a similar committee.

With regard to spaces, See Red Comet above.

On 3/3/2024 at 8:14 PM, BBTV said:

There is 0.0% chance of a permanent MLB team in SLC.  I'll change my user name to "I__am_a_flaming_Dbag" for a year (like we made that one guy do) if it happens.

 

Let's take it to the next level: "I_am_a_flaming_communist_dbag_whore".  We can pressure the 30ish members of the XII to get that cleared.

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.

10 hours ago, dont care said:

He’ll definitely be a backup, or the starter who’s only the starter because they want the rookie they drafted to sit behind him an learn, which has never worked.

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.

59 minutes ago, dont care said:

2000 labonte vs Dale, 2005 Edward’s vs. Johnson, 2011 Gordon vs Johnson, yea some were blow outs but that really can happen at any track that isn’t a super speedway. The finish was cool, but does it make up for half the race being under caution? 

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.

1 hour ago, See Red said:

*shrug*
 

I like this configuration/package for Atlanta. My only complaint is that I wouldn’t have it right after Daytona. 
 

It’s been a fun race so far. The kind that I don’t feel like an idiot for watching every lap of. 
 

edit: what a race!

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.

30 minutes ago, See Red said:

What’s the deal with Austin Hill?  Haven’t followed closely the last few years but a lot of people seem to dislike him winning. 

No idea. I like him.

4 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Race was an absolute snooze fest and Austin Hill winning was the NyQuil to end it all.

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.

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.

5 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

I'll take it in a different direction -- it shows the pull created by being on WGN all over the country and creating the mystique that is Wrigley Field.

Add in the fact that the Cubs and Wrigley were in 68% of the movies made in the 80s and here we are.

6 hours ago, dont care said:

I’d love to see Larry Mac back in the booth but apparently he doesn’t want to do the traveling for it.

Not according to him two years ago.

54 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

This Daytona 500 broadcast on FOX has been absolutely brutal.

 

Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick are horrendous in the booth. Harvick I can give a pass to as it’s his first 500 call and is doing his best to make something out of nothing with awkward dead air time, but Bowyer is in year 4 and monotone as ever.

 

Bless Mike Joy for being the GOAT.

 

If you made a drinking game out of taking shots every time FOX did in race picture-in-picture, you’d be obliterated by mid stage 2.

Agreed. FOX used to be the gold standard and now it's just awful.  Bowyer needs to be in the studio. Harvick is new to this so I'll give him a pass, but and I don't think he's ready yet.  Since we're on the subject, what genius at FOX decided that the best use of Larry Mac was to stick him in a closet studio in Charlotte? FOX needs to fix the booth and the solution is just sitting there waiting to happen; put Bowyer in the studio, demote Harvick to Xfinity and the trucks until he either gets his chops or proves he's not capable. Then you bring back Larry Mac and sign Jr. before he makes a new deal with NBC. Problem solved.

10 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

William Byron wins.

 

Hendrick goes 1 and 2

Thanks for verifying what I just watched.

On 2/10/2024 at 1:33 PM, MJWalker45 said:

Paying them legitimately, am I right? Texas A&M bought Eric Dickerson a Trans Am, and he never played a down for them. 

Dickerson said he had to take a pay cut when he left SMU to play for the Rams.

11 minutes ago, dont care said:

Like if Denny Hamlin won a race, I see it more as "Denny Hamlin wins a race " rather than "Joe Gibbs Racing wins a race."  

It's both.

3 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

I think the thing I’m taking most from it is that the Taylor Swift machine and the NFL machine are really similar in that they’re there mostly to extract cash from people.

Whether or not the NFL and/or Taylor Swift extract that cash is entirely up to the people who have the cash they're trying to extract. Ain't no one forcing people to spend their money on the NFL or Taylor Swift.

3 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Seems like a funny coincidence that the affable dummy the league has really been pushing as their friendly face just so happened to end up with the friendly face of that other economic machine. It could totally be a coincidence because like I said people date.

My limited understanding of the situation is Kelce had a thing for Taylor Swift for a while before he finally decided to say it,  rolled the dice, and asked her out. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't believe there is anything more to it than that. The NFL capitalized on their relationship and I don't have a problem with it. Frankly, I can't blame the league for taking advantage of the opportunity to possibly bring in new fans any more than I can blame her for being on camera at games. She's not in the production truck calling the camera shots.

3 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

But you have to understand that this more of a combination of entertainment ventures than it is a relationship (at least for anyone who isn’t those two), and yeah, I’m sorry but that can be annoying some times!

I don't think that's what is happening here, but even if it is, what's the issue? As I said before, no one is being forced to spend money on any of it.

That being said, I can understand how it might be annoying at times.

46 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

I guess, but the complaint is about the 6 seconds Taylor Swift is shown on screen at a time.

 

How are you supposed to be prepared for that?

Not giving a seems to work for me.