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So, um, Super Bowl!

Who's the Rasputin in that scenario, Texans have Easterby for that job.

3 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Lol the Rams aren’t beating the Chiefs. Can’t close vs football’s Mariano Rivera. No way. 

Rams have yet to not play like ass for at least one quarter; they get their  together for a full game, they can and will beat anyone.

That said, they just survived the biggest single outburst of Touchdown Tom playoff devil magic since 28-3, if not period, so.....

Grand Canyon's the wrong flavor of Christian for the WCC, probably.  (Also there are still aspects of their academic profile that could scare off WCC presidents *cough*kinda sorta still for-profit*cough*)

We're all on to Bills-Chiefs rightly, but holy crap the Rams beat playoff Tom Brady, in a game where the full array of Brady devil magic was on display.   So happy right now.

8 hours ago, DoctorWhom said:

Is anyone else concerned that if the Rams win the Superbowl, you'll see a lot of new GMs try to copy them by mortgaging their teams future for some All Star player rentals?

You mean like what Tampa Bay did last year?

Hot take: Baseball postseason is a giant plinko game anyway, so why should we care so much about it when evaluating individual performances.

(Sarcasm) Western Illinois is totally a Chicago school.

$37 million for complete anonymity and the chance to play a sport?  man sign me up for that; I can buy a jeweler with the change in my couch cushions if I want a ring.

West Coast expansion in 1967 was motivated by concerns about the ultimate goals and intentions of the Western Hockey League; much as with the Dodgers and Giants' moves in the 50s killshotting the Pacific Coast League's major league ambitions, setting up shop in LA and San Francisco put an end to any major league aspirations for the Western League.

2 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Honestly the entire NFC west was pretty overrated this season. Cards we’re hot out of nowhere, Niners are the same roller coaster they always are, and the Rams had the makings of a “super team” that played at about a quarter that level. 

My working theory has been that the Rams figured that all they needed to do was get into the playoffs, so why not spend the regular season  ing around and seeing what works and what doesn't work.  Tonight may have seen some of the fruit of that approach.

1 hour ago, DoctorWhom said:

 

Or they could have just moved this game to Monday night where no one would watch it anyway.

As long as this foolishness continues, Monday is going to be a 4-5 matchup probably to make sure there's no impact on divisional round scheduling.

12 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

How in the world did Indy choke today away? They looked like the best team in the AFC like three weeks ago.

 

Can't tell yet if week 18 was a good or bad idea.

Carson Wentz's unvaccinated ass got COVID.

3 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

I'm sorry Pat Shurmur is WHAT?! Dude's an idiot and it is mindblowing he can still find work in the NFL.

Game 256 272 being a full on Disgrace of Gijon scenario would be my everything, it needs to happen.

UIC looks to be all but a lock for the MVC

3 hours ago, DoctorWhom said:

Good win for the Cardinals, Division hopes are still alive. All they have to do is beat the Seahawks. 

And Dallas got another taste of the Mike McCarthy experience at the end. LOL

 

So when they win tonight, I believe the Packers lock up home field  & the bye,  right? 

Check the scoreboard again; the Rams won.

The one enjoyable thing for sure from 2021 in sports for me has been the Rams functionally killshotting the Pete Carroll and Russ Wilson era in Seattle over their 3 games this calendar year.  That is nice.

In fairness to Seattle, Chicago has lost 7 of their last 8 and is definitely giving off the vibe of a team that is merely playing out the string with their dead coach walking.  Also they play on Monday this week anyway.

Probably very hard actually between installing the ice plant and ripping up the floor to install the rink (typically courts are laid down on the ice.

3 hours ago, mcj882000 said:

To be fair, I'm not sure if people expected SLC to have a basketball culture either prior to 1979. If what I've read in the past was right the Jazz weren't even expected to stay there, hence why they kept their extremely regional name; but then they did.

They had an ABA team that was pretty successful on the court there, and sufficiently successful off the court that they were able to make it work until the collapse of the ABA's western flank (and the owner's other businesses failing) in the final season; St. Louis was even going to move there under a "Utah Rockies" moniker had there been a year 10 for the ABA.

Good win for the Rams, but it bodes ill for the future that teams know they can convert an onside kick any time they want to against this team.

3 hours ago, the admiral said:

Great, if you can figure out how to exist in three places at once, you have something going.

Also, you're trying to make 3 home arenas with less than 6500 capacities work in what I am informed is still a gate-driven league. Bigger clownshow than the last couple of years of the Virginia Squires in the old ABA.

Trying really hard to see how this isn't a nakedly bad faith attempt to drive down league revenues for revenue-sharing and salary cap purposes.

2 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

 

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/bettman-on-arizona-coyotes-issues-nothing-to-see-here/

HFboards got really high on Chase Field earlier this week.

Yes, the baseball stadium.

Send help.

6 hours ago, Sport said:

 

 

The correct answer is the Red Wings and I'm gonna tell everyone why. Outside of some loose O6 connections the Red Wings have no real rivalry with the Canadiens or Bruins, if we're being honest. You could argue the Leafs are a rival dating back to the Norris, but that fizzled when Toronto went to the Eastern Conference in the 90's and I don't think it's heated up since being together in the Atlantic. The Blue Jackets have no real rivalries with anybody (and they never will if they go back west), but putting the Red Wings in the East means you've lost actual rivalries with Chicago, St. Louis, Colorado, and Minnesota. They did damage in the West and a lot of the Western Teams punched back over the years too. The Ducks, Flames, Sharks, Canucks, and Kings all have history with them as well. They haven't had any impact in the East. I still don't even really consider them an Eastern Conference team and culturally Detroit is more similar to those cities than any on the East Coast too. The Jackets, on the other hand, never made any noise in the West so there's no benefit to going back. They have done some things since being in the East, though, including being the last team to beat Tampa in a playoff series and they eliminated Toronto in the bubble. Those rivalries are budding and it'd be a shame to cut them short now.

Also time isn't a factor because most Detroit fans don't live in the Eastern Time Zone.