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I don't like the spaced out stripes, and if they were going to do something with hints towards the original black jersey design, they could've at least put a white shoulder yoke on it. Also, the front crest somehow looks comically oversized.

Georgia absolutely wins the championship if they make it into the field and I'm relieved I don't live in a world (yet) where Georgia is a 3x national champion. My program sucks these days; Georgia not winning the NC is all I've got to hope for.

I can't even think right now when the last time a national championship was played between two teams who have gone decades since their last win. This isn't 2016 World Series levels of droughts involved for either side, but Washington hasn't claimed a national championship since 1991, Michigan since 1997. (Almost) always nice to see some fresh blood in the championship game.

Michigan was facing 4th & 2 from their own 35 yardline (or thereabout) with a little over 3 minutes left...full credit for going for that 4th down and trusting the offense. Handsomely rewarded.

Liberty University is a disgusting school created by a huckster televangelist.

Packers were down for one year and they're already set at QB again for the next decade. Maybe not a HOF QB (but maybe!) but jeez. Turns out they can keep getting away with it.

Week 17 results: Week 17 winner(s): @Dynasty, @logo-maker, @Sport, @Walter Sobchak, and me (first time all year!). Week 18 schedule: Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore Houston vs. Indianapolis Tampa Bay vs. Carolina Atlanta vs. New Orleans NY Jets vs. New England Cleveland vs. Cincinnati Jacksonville vs. Tennessee Minnesota vs. Detroit Philadelphia vs. NY Giants Dallas vs. Washington Seattle vs. Arizona LA Rams vs. San Francisco Chicago vs. Green Bay Kansas City vs. LA Chargers Denver vs. Las Vegas Buffalo vs. Miami Here's to a happy 2024.

Obviously you were watching the Eagles game which was at the same time today, but the Bucs were also absolute ass today in a game where they could've clinched the division and given themselves a de facto bye week next week, and Baker had a lot to do with that.

NY Jets vs. Cleveland Detroit vs. Dallas Tennessee vs. Houston Atlanta vs. Chicago Miami vs. Baltimore New Orleans vs. Tampa Bay New England vs. Buffalo Arizona vs. Philadelphia Carolina vs. Jacksonville Las Vegas vs. Indianapolis LA Rams vs. NY Giants San Francisco vs. Washington Pittsburgh vs. Seattle Cincinnati vs. Kansas City LA Chargers vs. Denver Green Bay vs. Minnesota

How is trying to trick the defense through administrative stuff like that any different than trying to trick the defense through gadget plays? I'm not really seeing the problem here. The defense might be coached up to be on the look out for sneaky stuff, but that doesn't mean they're always going to catch it when it happens. I think it's worth noting again that Dallas had just called a timeout, and they probably wanted to keep the last one no matter what just in case Detroit converted their 2PA, so if anybody got lost on defense even for a moment in trying to figure out assignments, they were out of luck and having to hope for the best. Obviously whether it would've worked or not, we have no idea, because the referee declared the wrong player eligible. We can't know if Dallas would've successfully defended the play or not if they knew Decker was eligible to receive a pass.

26 games was the longest in-season losing streak of all-time (2010-'11 Cavs). 28 games was the longest losing streak altogether; the 2014-'15 76ers lost their last 10 games and then the '15-'16 team lost their first 18 games.

#58 Sewell isn't over there for no reason whatsoever. If he's over by the referee, it's because he was instructed to be over there. In all likelihood, he was there along with Decker and Skipper to try and confuse the defense. I mean, the referee does have to disclose to the defense any players reporting as eligible who would otherwise be assumed ineligible, but this stuff still happens very quickly. More importantly, Dallas already called a timeout, so if anybody got confused on defense, they would be penalized if they needed to call a second timeout (would've moved the ball to the 1-yardline). Furthermore, look at the formation initially, and Sewell was split wide before motioning back into the line. In addition, in most tackle eligible situations, it tends to be the "extra" tackle (I don't know a better way to phrase this right now) who is that tackle eligible (after all, they're in a position usually occupied by a tight end, 3rd man away from the center). Usually your tackle eligible won't be a normal tackle because it leaves your line extremely unbalanced. In any case, #58 Sewell and #68 Decker were the two players on each end of the line, #70 Skipper wasn't even lined up in a position to be an eligible receiver, so of course he would have no reason to report. However, the moment referee said #70 was the tackle eligible - and only #70 - the play was f--cked no matter what happened. If an OL doesn't explicitly report as eligible, then they're assumed ineligible, so the Cowboys had no reason at all to concern themselves about Decker being a passing option on that play, so if that play had stood as a 2PC for the Lions, then the Cowboys would be the ones with a grievance on that play. Either way, somebody was getting screwed. To make matters even worse, look at the thumbnail of the video the NFL uploaded for the game. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lions+cowboys+ending ("Crazy ending"; it would be useless to embed here because it just gives a gray box saying "can't watch on this website", and I don't feel like screenshotting and uploading to Imgur.) A pissed off Dan Campbell reacting to getting screwed by the referees. This league is shameless.

I'm a big fan of going for 2 and the win in those situations, but after the penalty and getting pushed back to the 7...insisting on going for 2 from there feels like it crosses the line from "bold" to being just plain reckless to me. 2PA's from the 2 is about a 50/50 proposition, so you can definitely justify it. I have no idea the percentages from the 7, but it's definitely less than 50/50.

Week 16 results...sorry for being later than usual. Week 16 winner(s): @logo-maker, @TrueYankee26, @tigerslionspistonshabs, @Walter Sobchak, @JerseyJimmy, and @SFGiants58 Week 17 schedule: NY Jets vs. Cleveland Detroit vs. Dallas Tennessee vs. Houston Atlanta vs. Chicago Miami vs. Baltimore New Orleans vs. Tampa Bay New England vs. Buffalo Arizona vs. Philadelphia Carolina vs. Jacksonville Las Vegas vs. Indianapolis LA Rams vs. NY Giants San Francisco vs. Washington Pittsburgh vs. Seattle Cincinnati vs. Kansas City LA Chargers vs. Denver Green Bay vs. Minnesota No MNF this week.

Ravens wearing all-white...really wish the Niners hadn't chosen tonight to wear their throwbacks with white pants.

New Orleans vs. LA Rams Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Buffalo vs. LA Chargers Washington vs. NY Jets Detroit vs. Minnesota Cleveland vs. Houston Green Bay vs. Carolina Seattle vs. Tennessee Indianapolis vs. Atlanta Jacksonville vs. Tampa Dallas vs. Miami Arizona vs. Chicago New England vs. Denver Las Vegas vs. Kansas City NY Giants vs. Philadelphia Baltimore vs. San Francisco

It's completely the right decision of any top rated prospect on a non-playoff team to opt out of the bowl game. Ever since Jaylon Smith got hurt in the Fiesta Bowl as a top-5 lock, this has become the standard practice. Can't blame any players for protecting their future over meaningless bowl games. The obvious downside is that bowl games that used to mean something have now become mostly obliterated between opt outs and players hitting the transfer portal between the last reg season game and the bowl game...bowl week used to be a marquee event, now it feels like a huge waste of time, which is a shame.

This is almost certainly more coincidental/cultural/whatever, but I can tell you that using "x" where we normally use "vs." is standard practice in Brazilian football. "Palmeiras x Flamengo" yada yada. (Of course, "vs." doesn't exist in Portuguese and their equivalent word would be "contra".) I guess the only point in writing this is to say that it's not an entirely unprecedented practice.

The Saints have four different uniforms in their collection and all of them have combinations that look fantastic. Primary black: with gold pants and black socks Road white: with gold pants and black socks Throwback white: with white pants and black socks Throwback black: also with gold pants and black socks (no black helmets) They have four different uniforms, which means they have enough to work with to keep everything "fresh" throughout the season. If they stuck with those four looks throughout the season, they'd be the one the league's best looking teams every single week. S--t, if they even did as much as have black pants with a striping pattern, at least those would be acceptable in design even if they'd still be an inferior option to wear compared to gold pants. It's painful as hell that they wear stripeless black pants as often as they do home and away, and that they often wear stripeless white pants as well. They actively choose to look far from their best more often than not. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. (But at least, socks aside, they look good tonight.)

Week 15 results: Week 15 winner(s): @Dynasty, @Sport, @TrueYankee26, @Walter Sobchak, @oldschoolvikings, @JayHawk786, and @Maroon Week 16 schedule: New Orleans vs. LA Rams Cincinnati vs. Pittsburgh Buffalo vs. LA Chargers Washington vs. NY Jets Detroit vs. Minnesota Cleveland vs. Houston Green Bay vs. Carolina Seattle vs. Tennessee Indianapolis vs. Atlanta Jacksonville vs. Tampa Dallas vs. Miami Arizona vs. Chicago New England vs. Denver Las Vegas vs. Kansas City NY Giants vs. Philadelphia Baltimore vs. San Francisco

Baseball equivalent for "we suck hitting with runners in scoring position".

In the same way...sometime after the 2021 NHL season ended, NHL Network had something of a "Lightning day" where they aired the broadcasts of all three Cup-winning games they've played in, and one thing struck me immediately looking at how they celebrated in 2004...the process of hoisting the Cup, who got it in what order, how long they held it, etc. looked so much more spontaneous than what we see today. It seems so much more choreographed these days. Captain gets the Cup (obviously this part of standard), does a lap around the ice, then usually a highly respected veteran in the locker room gets 2nd lift (bonus points if they were Cup-less), does a lap around the ice, so on and so forth...like, it just looks like the same thing over and over again. There was something I appreciated more about watching the celebrations where it was more like each player couldn't wait to rip the Cup out of another player's arms...captured the organic ecstasy much better.

I've seen the Mets 1969 World Series winning video before, but if you're gonna do a compare and contrast of Yankees and Mets fans, the argument would be a little bit stronger if we didn't have videos of Yankees and Mets fans doing the exact same thing in response to a championship (World Series or LCS). It's not lost on me that, for Yankee fans of that generation, a 12-year stretch of no success at all could culminate with that kind of ecstasy after winning a back-and-forth series in the 9th inning of the decisive game...you don't need to explain Yankee history to me, I'm extremely familiar with it...but if you lament the Yankee fanbase as having more loutish people today compared to in the '60s and '70s..."norm at the time" to describe massive field storming doesn't really cut it for me. It's one thing you never see today, probably due to far more advanced security measures but I'm also going to assume "security measures" existed in 1976 too.

Definitely the reaction of cultured students of baseball to storm the field and make running the bases to finish a pennant-winning walk off home run completely impossible.

The Colts throwbacks are pointless because they're barely different than their current uniforms, their current uniforms are already a long-time established classic, and they're simply an inferior version to what they usually wear.