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floydnimrod

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  1. 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)
  2. But you can't make a tired point unless you take it out of context
  3. The weird part about the post is they talk about lefties and righties and then show the picture using a bunch of pitchers who will never bat. The dumb part of about the post is that it's happening. (I speak for a small number of Reds fans/Cincinnati natives when I say: please take as many shots at Pete Rose as possible. That guy is a butt.)
  4. I think Cassius Stanley in 2021 was in the G-League at the time of his participation. I know he played around 20 NBA games that year, but I can't remember if they were before or after the contest.
  5. I've been waiting for Mac McClung to have an NBA moment. And this counts! I also really like that Jae'Sean Tate was throwing passes to Kenyon Martin Jr. for his first attempt. They're teammates now and they're dads were college teammates at Cincinnati. Also, yes, the Dunk Contest has been meh the past year or two, but every year that happens people want to shut the whole event down, because god forbid we don't have a take on everything that happens, even if we don't really watch it. This was a good dunk contest! And they'll continue to happen before, after, and around bad ones. We didn't shut the Super Bowl down after the 49ers beat the broncos 55-10 or the Seahawks beat the Broncos 43-8 (unintended Broncos pile on, yeah!). It's fine. Sometimes events are duds, and it doesn't have to be this big statement because we have nothing better to do.
  6. As a Bengals consumer in Cincinnati my Facebook and Twitter are out of control. There should be a mandatory hourlong wait period to grow up before posting.
  7. I feel like I'm pretty decent at recognizing NFL referees faces but I have never seen this main guy before in my whole life. Are crews restricted to one conference during the regular season? Is he an NFC guy?
  8. Most times I've ever watched any sport with other people, or at the venue itself, somebody says this same exact thing like they invented calculus. Sometimes, if people like Jim Nantz weren't tremendous at their job, I wish we could just watch sports with no sound but the game audio. No announcers, and more importantly, no noise from anyone else in the room thinking their a broadcaster giving us golden nuggets like "the playcalling!" or "Halftime adjustments!" at any given moment.
  9. Very happy the Eagles made the Super Bowl. I don't know what it is about the 49ers but I found that whole team completely boring, almost forever. Anytime they've ben in the Super Bowl I wish someone else was there instead. I only rooted for a small number of teams harder than I did for that Eagles team with TO & McNabb to win the Super Bowl. I also often forget that the Eagles won the Super Bowl a few years ago because 1: I feel asleep in the third quarter and 2: I don't think there's another city other than Philadelphia where I routinely the forget about their teams existence (the Phillies) or their teams' success (the Phillies & Eagles). Even though I just said I wanted that mid 2000s Eagles team to win, I sometimes think my mind's playing tricks on me that they were actually in the Super Bowl. If you asked me every day of the week when the last time a Philadelphia team was in the championship game in any major sports, four of those days I'd probably say the 2000-01 Sixers. Side note: as someone who loves the Teal Eagles and their current number font (I'm not from Philly nor do I care about the team so my opinion doesn't matter) I keep getting hung up on how much their new wordmark matches nothing else about their brand. I'm just waiting for new uniforms for them with big chunky Chargers-style numbers (but less curvy).
  10. Kevin Burkhardt is like the over simplified "game manager" moniker that we give to quarterbacks. He knows his role and lets Olsen do his thing, which has helped him be good. In a way I can't explain, he has "studio host energy" and he's great at that during the World Series. I don't think even he imagined he'd ever being calling the Super Bowl on a national television level, much less this soon. Volunteering myself as the one goober who does watch based on who is announcing. Can't say that I really hate any of the current teams at any network, but if it's not my team and I have the choice of to see Kevin Harlan's or Ian Eagle's games I'm tuning in there. I even started tuning into MNF for the first time in over five years because Buck & Aikman were over there. When I found out I couldn't watch Reds games due to the wonderful bankrupt network they play on that no one in town see, I got MLB TV for free and chose to watch Orioles & White Sox games because I find Kevin Brown and Jason Benetti to be some of the best around and an absolute joy to listen to. (I will admit that baseball announcers are much more a part of the event than football announcers are given the amount of down time.)
  11. The debate part of this is dumbest part! I can't think of a good reason to write a thousand words on this unless I had a vote. I'd honestly be the worst HoF voter of all-time because I would have voted for Sammy Sosa every year, but not Bonds, Clemens, or McGwire.
  12. 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:.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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!)
  16. There's no way any of these players/staff should be expected to continue. Just call it a tie.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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