Alex Houston

Okay, that makes sense if you're discussing the stadium situation. And yea, I've never been thrilled with Plattner behind the gun but SFGiants was making it sound like there was way more dysfunction across the board and I was like, "The hell are you talking about?"

Trainwreck? Really? In what ways? I've heard some criticisms of San Jose but "trainwreck" is a whole other level now.

I know it was a long and drawn out process, so in some sense it must be nice as a fan to finally know the team is relocating and you don't have that "what if" question lingering over you every season. If what I read is correct, I hope the team are able to get new owners and be able to make an investment that can actually let this team prosper and become their own minor success story of Sun Belt hockey, like the Preds, Bolts and my Sharks. Rest easy Coyotes. I'll always remember you for 2012 and those delightful kachina jerseys. Please join the league again someday.

Dear San Jose. Please stop winning games. This is not how we get better odds at getting Celebrini. Please understand how the draft lottery works. Your begrudging fan, A. Houston.

Not much to add at this point that hasn't been said. I'm rooting against KC moving forward. They've gotten rings and have become a new dynasty when we could be benefitting from an age of parity, or at the very least, more teams playing for titles besides San Francisco and them. I tire of their faces and while the first two were fine, this one has been the limit. I'm sure though Mahomes gets at least one more in this decade and continues the comparison talk to Brady, which is kinda weird because once New England was finally done I was more confident we'd need to wait at least another decade or two before we'd see a team get to a Super Bowl a bunch of times within a decade or so. Was it a good game? No. But it was a fun one and I guess that's all we can ask for.

I can't just drag an image in this forum as easily as I should, but I saw a Tweet with a list that shows recent failures of this with the following teams: 2007 Chargers 2009 Jets 2009 Vikings 2010 Jets 2010 Bears 2014 Colts 2015 Cardinals 2017 Jaguars 2019 Titans 2020 Bills 2020 Packers

You should never want the Steelers to win. There's your first problem.

Ah, I didn't know we were continuing this into the postseason. Houston vs. Baltimore Green Bay vs. San Francisco Tampa Bay vs. Detroit Kansas City vs. Buffalo

You know what, at this point I accept my spot in midcard Hell. I more or less hovered around 10th or so place since the halfway point and that's just alright with me. Was a fun one and I think this was the first one I completed in full in quite some time. Happy 2024 folks. 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

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Dang. I continue to hover around five games back of first in this logjam near the top. Got to take a risk here and there to try and break through. Raiders Vikings Steelers Lions Saints Bears Falcons Packers Dolphins Chiefs Texans Niners Rams Cowboys Ravens Eagles

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Dang, still five wins behind the leader. Let's see if I can cut it down this week. Cowboys Titans Falcons Lions Texans Patriots Steelers Dolphins Bucs Niners Rams Chiefs Jags

To echo McCarthy's point, Steelers fans aren't used to the suck anymore. When your franchise hasn't gone through a sustained period of crap, you forget how spoiled you've been and how sports aren't designed for the same seven or eight teams to be stalwarts, winning divisions and fighting for titles. I'm living it now with the Sharks and although I bitched about rooting for a bridesmaid team, I'll admit that years of no postseason activity is worse than I expected.

Wow, still hanging around, only five games back of the top. Has this been one of the closest standings in years as we get to December? I think it may well be. Like I've said before, I'm at the point where you got to take a leap on two or three teams to try and close that gap. Lions Cowboys Niners Dolphins Bucs Giants Steelers Titans Jags Saints Rams Broncos Eagles Chiefs Chargers Bears

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I appreciate those trying to incorporate the loon somehow. Be kinda funny to see one of those choices make it into the final few for serious consideration. Also a fine chuckle to the one that submitted "bayg" with a plastic bag on it. Now that's someone we got the assignment!

Funny cause the finalist banner looks better than the championship one. It just seems like UConn's name up top is an afterthought and I don't care for the "champions" name being smaller than the year of the title. They should switch it.

Yea, I hate on Vegas for many things, but the banner is actually surprisingly fresh.

It still amazes me that Roundball was written by John Tesh of all people. Had you put that on Millionaire back in the day, I'd likely be walking home with the $32,000 safe level prize. Also, I'm not sure which the name of it but sometimes the bumper music for the MLB on TNT has a riff that sounds kinda similar to me to the one from "In Too Deep" by Sum 41. I assure you this is a weird comparison that only way weird mind would make, but like that wrestling theme comment DGNow made in that thread about underlying similarities, once I heard it I can't unhear it.

Your mom probably knew the guy behind the Max Headroom incident, didn't she? Was she the one with the fly swatter? Don't lie know Admiral.

Damn, even with two pretty good weeks back to back, it somehow feels like I lost ground. I get the impression that if I can't sneak into that top ten in the next two weeks, my chances of getting in the top five of the table is pretty much all for naught. Oh well, still proud of the record overall. Bears Colts Ravens Steelers Jaguars Vikings Bengals Bucs Lions Falcons Cowboys Seahawks Raiders Bills

Steelers Chiefs Falcons Saints Packers Commanders Ravens Bucs Browns Panthers Raiders Eagles Bengals Chargers EDIT: Hey @Kramerica Industries, not sure when you review the picks but I made some changes if you put them in an Excel sheet or something of the sort.

True, but how often does the trend get bucked like that? I mean, I hope I'm wrong and Arizona can pull it off and they damn near did last night. But with how decisively Texas has played for good chunks of this postseason, I'm having a harder time believing they can botch this in some significant way.