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I don't know why we have to be gatekeepers of who gets in the Hall of Fame. I love the whole Hall of Fame process and I find it fascinating, especially as it shifted into electing guys that I saw play. I want Rolen in there. Wagner and Helton, too. Put all the borderline guys in. Celebrate the game before it's dead. We could induct Kenny Lofton and Alex Ochoa tomorrow and I couldn't give less of a :censored:.

Mike & Cris likened it to playing one of the service academies in college football in that their offense is hard to prepare for. As a Cincinnati fan whose team struggled against Navy every year, that's exactly what this feels like. 1. I hope this dispels the notion (along with Geno Smith, Brock Purdy and others this season) that the moment a starting QB goes down, the team's season is over. 2. Tyler Huntley was so fun to watch in college. Even as a Bengals fan, I'm glad he's doing well.

I think the Texans have one of the best uniform sets in the league (everything but their very plain pants stripe used by seemingly 75% of football teams everywhere and it never matches the sleeve striping). There's been a call for them for the past 5-10 years to change it, because it was introduced after 2000 and every uniform released after that date (no matter how "mild" compared to its counterparts of the same era) must be changed. If the Colts had introduced what they currently wear in 2001, people would hate it by now, but because it's old as hell it's grandfathered in. I must say that I do enjoy the Colts uniforms, there's just a ridiculous double standard. Houston's uniform is 90% USC's football uniforms, which are by no means outdated. If they change, it'll be to some trendy thing now like super plain uniforms with no/minimal stripes and a very specific number font and that's it. Which will look as dumb in five years as people think piping on football uniforms looks now. I wouldn't mind the Texans wearing this for the next 50 years.

As someone who lives in Cincinnati, I honestly don't really feel anything about the new playoff proposals. After watching Monday's game, I think I'm done with football for the year. A freak accident has me spooked. As expected, after everyone seemed to be trying to one-up everyone about how much they personally felt that football was just game, we're back to the belief that football is the most important thing going on. I was hoping, despite the unfortunate events, that we could have rode that wave that these games really are completely unimportant. (Come join me! Sports are fun! You don't have to watch just to be mad!)

There's no way any of these players/staff should be expected to continue. Just call it a tie.

Watching highlights of the Frank Gore Jr./Southern Miss game and WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE NAMEPLATES FOR SOUTHERN MISS. Every name apparently had to take up the entire nameplate, and then the letter size was adjusted based off of that. I'm not sure I really understand what any manufacturer is doing anymore, but it's almost as if Adidas has a "cheap" uniform option for smaller schools in order to make their big brands look even better. I can't think of anyone with sight can see take any look at those and think "This is a good look for our football team." Even the number fonts for both USM & Rice are god-awful.

I remember when Steve Nash was hired, Durant said something along the likes of Vaughn being the real head coach anyway (or his head coach or something like that). I figured this was only a matter of time.

My favorite part of this whole thing is Ross mentioning in his postrace press conference that it was a move he tried on NASCAR 2005 on the Gamecube, at the fictional Dodge Raceway. Dodge Raceway is having quite the comeback this year as it was a racetrack inside of a football stadium, and a go-to comparison for the Clash earlier this year for fans of a certain age.

Ross Chastain with the funniest move I've ever seen. Denny Hamlin is an all-time great driver, but I just don't like him. So I'm glad he missed out on the Championship 4.

Wasn't John Hunter Nemechek Denny's initial plan to fill in for Kurt? Not sure what his schedule is for the rest of the year.

As someone who likes Bubba Wallace, today was a big "yikes" on his part. Larson said it best, that Wallace's day wasn't over until he spun him out. And it sucks for Christopher Bell, too. The anger directed at the AMR safety guy, and at Marty Snider during his interview seemed really childish. Though I probably would have come off the same way given that the interview was like 10 minutes after it all happened. I know "they get paid a lot so they should just deal with it" is the go-to response, but there's not a person on the planet who wouldn't look like a total jackass being asked any questions after your angriest moments. Although to be honest, if I was Bubba Wallace, Kyle Larson would be the last person I'd ever let off easy (based on his early 2020 incident). Not excusing the wreck retaliation at all, but I didn't mind all the shoving afterward, I kind of enjoyed it.

Of the four major US sports leagues, I feel like the Pro Bowl was the one most people wanted to be changed, as the sports doesn't it lend itself well to a game of varying levels of effort and injury scares. However, I feel like this is about to be a conversation on the medias about how every league needs to do this. The NHL and NBA have made a few changes in the past ten years or so, while baseball hasn't done much with it. And I think that's fine. I haven't really watched the Pro Bowl in about ten years, so I don't really have thoughts on it even though we're all supposed to have thoughts on everything all the time. But Ihaven't been more plugged into the NHL/NBA/MLB ASGs than I am right now. I really enjoy them. I don't need to them to be cutthroat Pete Rose-style (insert any other garbage person here) events. Most people who chime in on how each sport needs to change their ASG format aren't going to watch them anyway.

As someone who fell in love with baseball due to the '98 Sosa/McGwire HR chase, this is, to me, the most exciting HR year we've had since then. As someone who didn't like Barry Bonds, I'm somewhat biased here, but the fact that there are two milestones being chased/accomplished makes it more exciting.

He did it last year all year I believe and split some lower-grade games the year before with studio work. He was on the call of Kenny Pickett's fake slide last year and his call of the replay was tremendous. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's nice when announcers bring some personality to their job.

With Cleveland bringing back an old logo to put at midfield, I really wish the Bengals got rid of the Tiger B altogether during their uniform redesign, and brought back an actual Tiger logo to be everywhere. The 97-03 set of logos were great and would still be around if the team wasn't complete ass at that time.

So I assume the best team's players are now going to make the NFL minimum since they'll be playing an NFL-length schedule? Let's add a conference tournament while we're at it.

Hold on, is this thread a sport?

My interest in each sport somewhat waffles over time. As of right now, I can't watch any Cincinnati Reds games, and while I can listen to them on the radio I haven't found the need to do so this year. I had sworn off the NFL but Joe Burrow is just cool as hell and he somewhat reeled me back in. My interest in NASCAR/F1/Indycar is as high as it's ever been. Similar to what someone else said, Cincinnati's arrival to the soccer scene forced that into my overall interest. Having my childhood hockey team be good again sucked me right back into watching hockey every night. I'll also echo what someone else said about the NBA. My team, Memphis, is finally really good, but the game's just seem so tedious. I'd be much more inclined to maintain interest if these was literally an old-time ESPN sportscenter, that just showed the NBA highlights form the previous day. Not a 12-minute condensed game on YouTube, not just one dunk on Twitter I scroll past, just a full-on show dedicated to just that. I'd watch that all day. I did it as a kid and I'd do it again. COVID cancellations kind of threw my whole sports world for a loop and forced me to re-evaluate. I feel like I'm "full" at the moment and don't need anything else in there. I could get into lacrosse, UFC, or cricket but I just don't feel the need. I like watching the Premier League, but I feel like it'd take a back seat if it was on at any other time of day, or it would at least compete with the NFL/NBA/NASCAR for my attention when it's on. I'll watch the majors for golf, and keep an eye on other tournaments as it's the sports league my dad plays the closest attention to, and now my mom will watch it with him on Sundays which I just think is absolutely adorable. With horse racing I'll watch the Triple Crown because those are such an event and the overall history of the whole thing. As much as I love to play, my interest/knowledge of what's happening in tennis has waned to the point that I'll maybe catch the Wimbledon final, but I'll likely be tuning into all of Serena's upcoming matches. College basketball is probably the sport I've attended the most, and it's my favorite overall, but it's on the verge of just being completely ruined at any moment which is such a shame.

Am I the only person who doesn't know what the Crawsover is? When did all these NBA players start playing in a bunch of Pro-Am tournaments? Shouldn't unnecessary non-team basketball be outlawed in their contracts? I know the internet is full of a bunch of people who have no idea who they are, so they just start calling things "mid" out of nowhere, but this reminds me so many internet basketball people started talking about whatever the Drew League is despite not knowing what the hell it was the day before.

This is why I'd never make it as a ref (saying this as someone who 100% agrees all the points you made). If I was refereeing basketball, every time a player complained to me about a call I'd be mentioning all the mistakes they made during the game as well. Which I would find hilarious but would obviously distract from the the game more than all the complaining already does.

As someone who likes college basketball 100 times more than college football. I hate all of this. I never really thought I'd say this but I think I have less than ten years of giving a :censored: about either of these sports. Obviously money is THE factor here, but how does this pay off if the best team from the Big Ten/SEC ends up at like 9-3?

I wear my Avs shirt today and they score 5 goals in the first period. Living in a city that didn't have an NHL team growing up (Columbus is a 2 hour drive away, but they didn't exist until I was 10), like most kids in the 90s I gravitated towards the team that was good (Cowboys/Yankees/Bulls fans) and I settled on Colorado (and a small thing for the Mighty Ducks largely because of the movies/Paul Kariya/Teemu). I didn't quite understand it all at the time, but I cried when they won the Cup in 2001 when I saw Ray Bourque crying. It was one of three times in my life that sports made me cry. It was the first time someone I truly rooted for won anything (the only other times this happened since have mostly been non-team sports, or liking a singular athlete on a team, so it's it doesn't quite feel the same). I've been waiting for 20 years for the Avalanche to make the trip back to the final, and this is the best I've felt about it since I was a kid. Also, I think Colorado's uniforms make more overall sense now and have been cleaned up somewhat, but I really miss the black pants. I actually only wear my Avs shirt with black shorts. It just feels right.

This is very sad. John Clayton was one of the faces of ESPN football at the height of my fandom. It's weird but I was thinking about him a few days ago.

So Joe Buck obviously had Sunday afternoon football, the occasional Thursday night game, then the playoffs, in addition to all his baseball work. Do we see him doing anything else at ESPN? Sunday Night Baseball (eventually)? Any college stuff? Basketball?

I haven't watched Monday Night Football in years, partly because I'm in bed before the game is over, but it also just doesn't feel like a big deal anymore. I think Buck and Aikman together can elevate the broadcast. The issue is obviously the baseball part of it for Buck. He's a very good baseball announcer, and I'm not sure who is next in line at Fox. Is it Joe Davis? Kevin Burkhardt? If it wasn't clear already that Thom Brenneman goofed it, it certainly is now. he could have been the next man up for both the Football & baseball spots. (Thom is obviously a dweeb, but I never got he hate for him as an announcer. The only thing I can find on him - and Buck or Romo or Collinsworth or anyone else - is that he says nice things about the other team sometimes which is treated like the biggest crime of all time.) On the football side of things, if Buck leaves, I really hope Adam Amin gets a look. He's great. It's weird that Fox just doesn't seem to have the stable of announcers that CBS & ESPN have. I really hope we find a way to get Kevin Harlan on a TV Super Bowl call before he retires.