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I've always wondered why, when it comes to colored sweaters, why the pants are always either the same color as the jersey, or darker than the jersey, but (with very rare exceptions) seldom lighter than the jersey. The Rangers wear blue over red, the Blue Jackets wear blue over red because Doug MacLean wanted to imitate that from the Rangers way back in the day, but every other contrasting colored sweater/breezer combo is lighter sweater/darker breezers. The Hurrcanes wearing red over black looks like trash to me, but if they're going to do any more mixing and matching, I'd actually be really interested in seeing what the black sweater over red breezers would look like. It's a lighter red than the Coyotes when they did that so I think it could have more promise.

Even hockey was better when replay decisions weren't announced and you knew what the final decision was based on whether the referee gave a washout signal or pointed straight to center ice. These aren't flags in football; we can figure out for ourselves why an out or safe decision was made. There's very few cases where it delves into a bit of minutiae that isn't readily apparent, and only on those occasions is any kind of formal explanation of any value.

Talk about the biggest loser in all of this, eh? Davis left Fox for CBS because being on the #2 team and CBS having an extra playoff game guaranteed him a playoff game every season, whereas he only got one every two years at Fox. I understand he couldn't foresee what happened here, but my goodness, you have to think he would've been the front-runner for the promotion alongside Burkhardt and, well, obviously that window is completely shut.

Is Bieber purposefully trying to get his Canadian citizenship cancelled at this point?

It helps now in retrospect that they were able to extend Lindholm, but I don't see why they shouldn't be going for it. The East is pretty evenly balanced. I don't see any potential matchups where I'd honestly be surprised if a certain team beat the other. If the Bruins stay in the Atlantic bracket, that's gonna be anyone's to win. Four teams all pretty ridiculously matched up.

Feel like the thing I'm finding most annoying about Romo is that he tries too hard with his sarcasm at times, trying to be ironic about things. "So everybody expected [unexpected current score] when this game began", and especially when he does stuff like that in the first half of the game. When you get a marquee game that lives up to its billing and it comes down to the 4th quarter, that's when Romo is still at his best, doubly so if it's the postseason. That his bloom has begun to come off the rose suggests to me a case of him holding back more, and I dunno whether that's a personal decision or CBS wanted him to tone that stuff down (or the NFL pressured him through CBS). Ultimately, there's still not a color commentator I'd rather have on a game across the other networks, though Greg Olsen is very promising.

That's not entirely true. Lou Boudreau was calling shifts against Ted Williams when the Red Sox would play the Indians back in the 1940s. (source) It wasn't a new creation, it just wasn't thought of to be used as a standard defensive alignment against left handed batters with pull tendencies (which is most of them).

I'm having a hard time understanding why the Buck situation is being painted as a 100% either/or situation. Kenny Albert's done work for both Fox and NBC during the same time frame. ARod was doing SNB for ESPN and studio commentary for Fox during the same time frame. What exactly would prevent the two networks from coming to terms that would allow Buck to do MNF for ESPN and retain other gigs he's had at Fox? I'm sure. if both the World Series and being Troy Aikman's booth partner is a big deal for him, that something can be worked out.

Not for nothing, but both the Jackets and Stars records are propped up nicely by having really good records in the coin flip competitions. Columbus is 19-25 in regulation. Dallas is 20-20. Detroit's OT/SO record is also propped up by this, both in number of "wins" and overall OT/SO games played. Their 13 regulation wins is 5th fewest in the entire NHL with only Philly, Chicago, Arizona, and Montréal doing worse.

If you won't, I'll do it for you. SPOILER: everyone dies

Would have to strongly agree here. Kurt Warner had...five great seasons was it? Just spitballing from memory without looking it up. GSOT Rams which then fizzled out badly for him in 2002, and which point he was basically a journeyman backup for the next several seasons or so before he suddenly popped up good again in Arizona, and even that ended up being only about 2.5 seasons before retiring. One of those guys who, when he was good, he was really good, and I have no problem at all with him being in the HOF because the F stands for "Fame" and you can't argue against how famous the late '90s/early '00s Rams were. He's not far away from being a 3x Super Bowl winning QB. And maybe as @Sec19Row53 also alludes to, the NFL is so much more pass happy these days so maybe I'm not being fair to Warner in that first paragraph. The GSOT Rams played like a team that was about 15 years ahead of their time, knowing how the modern NFL looks, and they were doing it at a time when defensive backs were still able to be much more physical on receivers. So if he got a bump thanks in part to that, he deserved it. (This was a bit OT from your post. I do agree 100% with your claim. It's not Stafford's fault he was often surrounded by incompetence in Detroit. Him being a Super Bowl-winning QB is way overdue.)

Why would this game be any different than all the others like it that preceded it? 2018 AFC-CG was basically the exact same type of 4th quarter madness where the team who won the OT coin flip won the game. Nothing changed after that and that was literally a CCG. Regardless, I've long said OT should be the 4th quarter all over again. 15 minute period and however it ends is however it ends. I've never liked sudden death in the NFL. It doesn't fit with the way the game is played like it does in hockey, or like it would in soccer.

I might go to my grave pissed off that Todd Bowles called a blitz in that situation against the NFL's best quarterback against the blitz this season. When it mattered most, the guy just couldn't help himself. He loves calling blitzes and he was gonna take everyone down with him if it got burned.

Would be super appropriate really since it the Bengals now who have this generation's Joe Cool.

Big Ben going out Dan Marino style.

When a QB begins to slide, the play is dead at that moment. So the answer to that question is no, it doesn't work that way.

With Bengals vs. Titans and Bills vs. Chiefs widely expected...wonder how many times we're gonna hear about the latter game being the "true" AFC-CG in the coming week, fair or not.

I'm irrationally bothered that the last play Josh Allen is going to play tonight ended up robbing him of a perfect passer rating. 20/24, 306 yds, 4 TD, 0 INT = 158.3 passer rating After the last passing play, however, he's going to end up at 21/25, 307 yds, 5 TD, 0 INT, and a 157.4 rating. His YPA dropped from 12.75 to 12.24, so that's why (12.5 is the minimum required to be eligible for a perfect QB rating). Damn. We were so close. Only three perfect passer ratings in playoff history, last one coming in 2003.

Amazing how something as simple as orange socks instead of black elevates the Bengals uniforms significantly, and that's even with the acknowledgment that black socks themselves would've been just fine.

I feel sad. This absolute insane confluence of circumstances, leading us not only to where the final game of the season could've ended in a mutually beneficial tie but that we also were literal seconds away from that actually happening...odds are, this will never happen again. It's cool to witness a rare circumstance when it's happening but it's sad once it's over and you'll never (expect to) experience it again.

Even if Tom Brady is no longer with the Patriots, there's always plenty of joy to be had in the Patriots losing in the playoffs. I mean, 'mate, you're a Ravens fan, you've faced the Patriots four times in the playoffs in recent years while never once facing the Chiefs (usually 'cuz you lose before you get to them, admittedly). I don't know how you could even feel this way. Unless what you're saying here is that a Patriots/Chiefs AFC-CG in and of itself is already a lose-lose for everybody else, no matter who wins it. I could understand that POV a bit better, but while I will fully acknowledge having biases here (and last year's Super Bowl isn't one of them, I swear), I find these Chiefs teams a whole hell of a lot more tolerable than I ever found those Patriots teams. Frankly, when the Chiefs are on their game, they're really fun to watch and I've never been able to muster up any real disliking for them. Of course there is Tyreek Hill over there who's human rights record has a few undesirable notes on it, to say the least...

Being down our top 4 receivers and top running back - losing three of those players during the game - definitely doesn't help. This was like the Black Knight trying to defeat King Arthur after King Arthur had already hacked off both arms and one of his legs.

The real problem with the 2PC attempt - although this isn't intrinsically a "2PC" issue - is that they scored too early. Even if they convert it, is anybody betting against Rodgers getting into field goal range with 42 seconds and a timeout to work with? He did it in even less time against the Niners earlier this season. I understand taking the chance to score the touchdown when you see the endzone open in front of you, I really do, and obviously there's no guarantee you'll score on a later down anyway. Regardless, once you've scored in that situation, I too would rather kick the extra point and see what happens from there. I had less of an issue doing it against Pittsburgh two weeks ago because that really was an "all or nothing" play for both teams there. Barring a kickoff return, the Steelers were screwed if the Ravens convert the 2PC. Green Bay...probably still wins.

"Ce qui est clair: c'est que le prochain DG du #CH parlera français" Gee whiz, c'est une surprise.

While I still don't like the jerseys, I will say they do look better (to me) when actually being worn by somebody than they did in that leaked image. Might just be damning with faint praise though.