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floydnimrod

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  1. I had no idea the Blackhawks were using this, but I most meant professional football (I know USC use/used this)
  2. I've never seen these before, but I wish someone would the use this font with these 1s
  3. APPARENTLY the last names on MLB jerseys have always been the exact perfect right amount of size and I'm one of a handful of people who didn't see that. (I'm joking!)
  4. People weren't complaining about because it wasn't part of a larger problem and there wasn't momentum in people having to say something about to keep up. I'm not sure I really noticed it either until now. Given the choice between these and last year's, I'd 100% choose last year's name size. But it made me realize that those weren't all that great either. I don't need to see the leftfielder's name from an airplane. I know we've been shown these two options, and this is likely the only two we have, but sometimes a third option of something in-between is best (I promise this is not a metaphor for anything else). If we had something smaller for our entire lives then they switched to the large names, we'd be losing our damn minds, too. We like it because it's what we're used to and there's no fault in that.
  5. Oh the new letters are definitely look worse (still can't wrap my head around why the Verlander letters look so big still). But I don't think they need to be as big as they used to be. I know we all fear change but holy they looked awful last year too.
  6. I know there's a lot wrong with the new jerseys and we're all enjoying the pile on, but is it possible that last names were way too damn big to begin with?
  7. I'd be willing to bet a hundred dollars they finish at least 2nd. They literally just finished 11-6. it's not like they went 2-15.
  8. This is what every fan says about an announcer when the opponent has good players. Guarantee Bills fans will say Romo's too excited about Patrick Mahomes because football fans are too soft to hear positive things about a player wearing a different shirt.
  9. This whole time I thought they were literally taking the Pop Tart costume that the mascot had been wearing all day and were eating it, which obviously makes no sense, but it doesn't mean I'm not disappointed by it.
  10. 100% serious question: Does there exist a fan of an NFL team that likes their team's playcalling? I don't think I've ever heard it be complemented in my entire life. If everyone's "bad" at it, is anyone bad at it?
  11. Ugh. I was genuinely pumped yesterday when the Toronto news first came out. This was the most boring option all along.
  12. While understandable, I think any coach that tries to promote their team after their championship game should have to say which teams they think should not be in the playoff.
  13. As someone who can only listen to their team on the radio, I also found myself listening to Benetti and Steve Stone because they were a great pair and fun to listen to. I'd say Benetti might be my favorite broadcaster across any sport (along with Kevin Brown and Adam Amin). I feel like Detroit needs a whole new both based on reviews from last season so we'll see who he's paired up with.
  14. ESPN just wrote a whole article on the "Too Small" gesture, which I feel is equally as dumb. NBA players seem to be the most unoriginal people on planet earth and they're so damn corny all the time.
  15. While I agree with all of this, as someone who is likely never attending an MLB playoff game, I do love meaningful afternoon baseball in the middle of the week. Makes the work day easier. The only half decent thing about the Covid sports schedule to me was that there were NASCAR races on Wednesday afternoons. It was great. More weekday afternoon sporting events* *as someone who's watching from home
  16. I've come around on the Phillies. Outside of the Dodgers and Astros (their only redeeming quality is Dusty Baker) they were the only other playoff team I didn't want to win. Their uniforms are so blah and I find their ballpark boring visually. I routinely forget they even exist. But I've always liked Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber. As someone who wanted the Braves to win the last series, it all flipped when Bryce Harper did the stare down. That was pure magic.
  17. I want Gonzaga to in it every year haha. Selfishly I didn't want FAU or SDSU in the Final Four because I don't like not knowing any players on the championship teams and can't remember the last time that happened for me.
  18. FAU is a fun team/story, but I can't stand their uniforms. The Navy aways have the vertical striping pattern seen on Miami FL's uniforms (one Adidas template), but the shorts have a diagonal stripe that in no way matches what's on the jerseys (a different Adidas template used by a lot of smaller schools). I have no idea how this happened and whoever was in charge of making this decision didn't see how awful it looks.
  19. I run a Pool where you draw teams but the only thing that matters is if they cover the spread (gives everyone a chance no matter what team they draw) and between this and the Alabama/TXAMCC games, some last-minute buckets made a few teams change hands. Also, I don't think there's a March Madness announcer (very few in general, actually) that I don't like, but they already confirmed Ian Eagle will be taking over the Final Four calls next year on TV. It's not a bad choice, but him being younger than Harlan kinda bums me out, hopefully he can do the Super Bowl when Nantz gives that up? (Harlan doing the Masters would be something though I'd think Andrew Catalon takes that over as he's already on the broadcast.) Unless I have a monetary investment in the network I'm not sure why I'd give two :censored:s about the ratings. I root for basketball, not how many other people are watching the same game I'm watching.
  20. Do you feel like when you're attending the first/second rounds (especially the first) that you're missing out on all the other games? I've always wanted and have had the opportunity to attend the first weekend but I was always afraid I'd get four duds and miss 12 exciting games. I went to the Final Four once and obviously wasn't missing any other games so that worked out.
  21. Only slightly due to the transfer portal, there's been a lot of turnover in season this year. Texas gets a new coach midway through the year and still almost becomes a #1 seed. Kansas gets a #1 seed then their coach has a health scare. Arkansas has one of their best players leave the team for a bit, and now he's back and they look really good. Creighton has their best player miss a lot of time early on, then they fight back through the Big East, and are, at their healthiest, a lot better than their seed suggests. Xavier looks great for most of the season, then Freemantle goes down with an injury. He's likely their fourth best player but the dropoff between Freemantle and Hunter isn't as big as the dropoff between Hunter & Edwards. Tennessee looks good all season then Zakai Zeigler gets injured. TCU looks fun for most of the season, then Mike Miles gets hurt. They get him back then their best big man leaves the team as soon as the Big 12 tournament starts. Also, Gonzaga, Baylor, and Michigan State have had relatively quiet seasons for their programs and they're all there in the second round. March Madness continues to be the best sporting event around. What a fun time. "[College] Basketball is my favorite sport." - Kurtis Blow
  22. March Madness doesn't even have it's own thread here.
  23. I find it funny that ESPN pretends every year they have the bracket selection show. They used to have something the hour after the real one on CBS, but only in the last handful of years to they try to have one going at the same time that runs on like a 10 minutes delay.
  24. Howell was a rookie last year (he had a great career at UNC). He was on the team all year. Heinicke had to play because he was the guy that got them to the playoffs that one time. Wentz the guy with committed money. Howell was just the odd man out. Rookies come along at different speeds.
  25. I'm not sure how regional/memorable this thing is but I used to go to the Adidas Tent Sale every fall when it stopped by Turfway Park here in northern Kentucky. I started going back when they had the NBA deal and tried to find and buy the strangest sports shirts they had. I found a bunch of, while not too obscure, but strangely specific shirts and my mom made them all into a quilt, which also includes a Seattle Sonics 1995 Inaugural Edition Season shirt? I think it was just for the rebranding? Because it makes no sense whatsoever. I can't upload pictures for some reason but I also managed to find: A Utah Valley University 2012 Great West Basketball Tournament Champions shirt A Maritime College Basketball Shirt (I've never tried to figure out where this was located) A 13-0 Notre Dame Football National Champions Shirt from 2012 (a year in which they were neither of those things)
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