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1 hour ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

This puts him in the company of bums such as Don Mattingly and Ted Williams.

Not disputing the wider point, but worth mentioning that they did play in eras were much fewer teams made the playoffs

"The legendary 2016 playoff team" seems like quite some claim as well

Considering how much the "rookie QB" stereotype seems to have been shed in recent years, I was mildly surprised to see that Mac Jones is the first to lead a team to the playoffs in five years, and that the last rookie to win a playoff game was Russell Wilson a decade ago

58 minutes ago, Bruhammydude said:

Two great uniforms on their own

Lol no

5 hours ago, VampyrRabbitDesign said:

Guess the new kits for the team from the Queen City are good as place as any to start, and for my money, it's the best kit the team has ever had.

Considering they're the first kits the team has ever had, doesn't that kind of go without saying? 

Although, I do agree that that is one hell of a nice look.

Keeping a team in the desert where its been shedding money consistently for a quarter of a century just to maintain a neat divisional alignment would a peak OITGDNHL self-own

WTF even is this league this year?

Is there any single team which is actually really good?

The Lions going 0-1-16 would be so perfect

Interesting day in Europe, Juventus lost at home, Man City lost a League cup tie for the first time in 5 years, Bayern went down to their heaviest defeat since 1978(!), and Ronald Koeman has been sacked by Barcelona.

There was a Jamaican sprinter 10-15 years ago with the marvellously unlikely name of Steve Slowly.

23 minutes ago, OnWis97 said:

Either that or he'll steer into the skid. There are a lot of outlets that will love his POV, particularly if he's willing to paint himself as a victim and loudly display a lacking understanding of the First Amendment.

This is depressingly true.

Yelling red-assed football coach who was brought down by his outdated/downright offensive attitude to issues of race and gender is in pretty much the perfect spot on the venn diagram for a lot of the absolute worst people

On 10/7/2021 at 8:18 PM, Sport said:

I guess I want to know when that change happened.

2019 was the Panthers first season in the "new" templates

3 hours ago, Red Comet said:

Last time I remember a decent halftime show was Prince. 

Obviously not on the same level as the Purple One was, but I remember being pleasantly surprised by J-Lo and Shakira a couple of years ago

13 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Last year was the Weeknd, right?

It was

1 hour ago, monkeypower said:

The Zach Wilson effect.

Not just Wilson.

I'm assuming Kyler Murray is the reason most of Oklahoma's getting Cards-Titans, and also that Justin Herbert is why southern Oregon gets the Chargers-WFT matchup.

City of Glendale's only ending the lease so they can renovate (the former) Jobing.com Arena into a parking lot

4 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

England's was just as bad

On paper I'd be inclined to agree with this, but it's worth noting that England are yet to concede in the tournament, and in the 17 games they've played over the last 9 months or so post-lockdown they've conceded a grand total of just 5 goals!

On 6/1/2021 at 11:00 PM, GDAWG said:

 

Oracle Park is a beautiful stadium.  Better than that monstrosity the Rangers are playing.  

This is the lowest of possible bars to clear

I may be wrong, but isn't the case with MLS that their preferred option is an SSS, but they'll allow otherwise as long as there's ownership crossover between the team and the stadium, because it's about not having their teams be tenants of somebody else. Hence how Arthur Blank's Atlanta FC are allowed to share Megatron's butthole with the Falcons, NYCFC sharing with the Yankees, and I assume the Sounders must therefore share owners with the Seahawks.

Good day for West London teams

England's 1986 FIFA World Cup squad had two players named Gary Stevens

Pretty much all I know USA for is having been the home of Raw for years and years.

The FA cup up to it's old tricks again, Leeds beaten 3-0 at 4th tier Crawley

Chara was a Bruin for 14 seasons, during which he captained them to a Stanley Cup win and two other finals appearances. Before that he was an Islander for three and a half (so long ago he debuted in the gd fishsticks template(!)) and a Senator for four plus the lockout year - YMMV on whether or not those two fit in this thread. Him playing a year or two at the end of his career as a low line minute-filler for the Capitals definitely fits this thread.

Head to head has been the Champions League's first tiebreaker of choice for a while now, and (this bit may well be new) the current second tiebreaker is goal differential solely in head to head games, not more generally - so United are done regardless of the PSG outcome.

As to why they're restarting it, if PSG win then they overtake Leipzig and win the group, which then impacts knockout round seedings.