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  1. What was the initial incident that caused them to pull her credential? I can't actually find the inciting issue and can only find the after-the-fact back and forth.
  2. Saw DC United and FC Cincinnati kick it around yesterday. My thoughts: 1. Cold. 40 degrees in March is colder than a 20 degree Bengals game in January. I don't know why. 2. FCC has to work so much harder than they did last year. They miss Vazquez. 3. My first time seeing D.C. United since going to this game as an 8 year old in the first season of MLS. That game was in a mostly empty Ohio Stadium. Yesterday's was in a filled soccer specific stadium. We've come a long way.
  3. Good point. That's what this reminds me of. Templated changes designed to reduce drag across teams in terms of manufacturing are framed as "Innovation". Same thing is how the Jets went from this to this
  4. You guys talked about this BS yet? First of all, the headspoon piping looks like it's off a bootleg that got the proportions incorrect, but the biggest issue here is the piping on the sleeves is no longer piping, as in another layer of fabric sewn on top of the sleeve. Instead it's a cuff with a stripe that's supposed to approximate piping and it's thicker than the headspoon piping. Don't like it! The Reds themselves have a history of striped cuffs, but that was a deliberate choice with their pullover unis from 72-92, but this is the work of the current template cutting corners. Are the other teams with sleeve/headspoon piping doing the same thing?
  5. Can't get over how dumb and bad the names look on these.
  6. It's sad because buying an authentic was worth the money at one point. It was sturdy materials and it felt good. Now the authentics, what the players are going to wear this season, look like the knockoffs! I think people should buy from dhgate! If I wasn't already pretty much done with collecting jerseys then Fanatics has made that decision for me. I'm not the only person to make this observation, but there's this growing feeling right now that every product in practically every industry feels worse than it used to and it's because of guys like Rubin. I've told my fanatics story, but I'll tell it again. I bought a Reds hoodie with the Mr Redlegs logo on it so I could wear it to opening day. That was a month before the game so I figured I was safe. Opening Day came and went without my fanatics order arriving for the game and when it finally did show up that Reds hoodie quickly became a red hoodie because the graphic completely disintegrated off of it after a couple of washes. I guess I should just be grateful it showed up at all and that the logo was oriented correctly while it was on the garment. I'll never buy from them again after that and I hope more people follow so their only choices are get better or get replaced by another supplier. Until their crappy monopoly of sports is broken, I'm only buying from Homage, Ebay vintage pieces, and fan made unlicensed gear.
  7. We all knew about Fanatics' humorously bad issues with quality in outfitting us grimy fans. They cornered the market so why would they care about the quality of our gear when our only other option for teamwear is "Don't Buy It"? What's baffling to me here is the actual quality of the ON-FIELD product is now suffering because of this cheap ass company. I never thought they'd have so little pride in their work that the quality issues would flow up.
  8. The Chiefs have that thing that the Patriots had in the latter Brady years where they're obviously good, but teams also seem to self-immolate against them in playoff games. It's like they think they have to play perfectly to beat KC and in doing so hand them assists all over the place. They could've easily had losses in all of this Super Bowl, last year's Super Bowl, this year's Ravens game, this year's Bills game, the AFC Championship last year against the Bengals, the 13 seconds game against Buffalo, etc. Time after time an opponent short circuits and muffs a punt or donates a defensive TD like Hurts did a year ago. The last time a team didn't give them any wiggle room was the Bengals in 2021 and the Chiefs haven't lost a playoff game since. You do have to hand it to them.
  9. I've done it probably 50 times, but my parents are there and I'm weird. For a normal person, I don't think the Columbus Blue Jackets have taken in Cincinnati as well as the NHL might've hoped in 1997, but large nearby population centers to draw from was the pitch when they were selling Columbus as an expansion market in the mid 90's. I remember when I first moved back here in 2012 there were three instances where I informed a Cincinnati resident that Columbus had a team in the NHL and they were blown away. That's how anonymous the Blue Jackets were. That's also Cincinnati, though, where many people here are deliberately uninterested in anything that happens outside of 275. Cleveland seems to be more into the Blue Jackets, but that's probably because they've had the CBJ AHL farm team for at least a decade now. You're right. If you plopped a new arena on the river tomorrow I think most people here would ask for an NBA team first. I also think the NBA would make more sense. Indy is only 100 minutes away, but I can count on one hand the number of people I've met here who are diehard Pacers fans. I played in the Gardens multiple times, but never saw a game from the stands. It did feel like going back in time. What I like about the Coliseum is it's like a mini-Joe Louis or a mini-Nassau. They don't make them like that anymore either.
  10. That was the pitch of Columbus back in 97. Growing city in an open spot on the map without a major pro team* and they could draw from nearby cities, including the other C's, without much trouble. Cincinnati and Cleveland were overextended with their sports then and still are now and Cincinnati has added an MLS team in that time without adding that many more people. I think time has proven Columbus to be a good idea for an NHL market. In spite of never really being a cup threat, and then some now-sorted issues with the arena, the market has grown up with the franchise and attendance is relatively stable to good. It's been nearly a decade since I worried about relocation. Part of the reason Columbus doesn't feel like a place people are from is because we never had a major Columbus team to take pride in. The Crew are changing that, but if the Blue Jackets ever put together a consistent champion and contender then it'll blow that up. We're going to be as annoying as Ohio State football fans. Beware. I got a few texts asking me what I would do if we got an NHL team here in Cincinnati. As a day one CBJ fan** I don't think I could bail, but I'm not not rooting for Cincy to get a team - I just don't think it makes any sense. But I also don't have to make that choice because it's not happening. I know a fluff job when I see one and Gary and Bill were just trying to pad their list of potential cities so they'd sound more impressive. I'm sure Gary Bettman did have a phone call with a Lindner kid, but we don't have an arena***, we're too close to Columbus, and we're already strapped with NFL, MLB, MLS, and college sports. If I was King of Hockey I'd move the Coyotes somewhere else and keep it at 32. I know expansion fees are tempting, but 32 is the perfect number for a North American sports league and they have pretty much every hole plugged. Any more than 32 feels like asking for trouble. *ignoring that OSU sports sucks more oxygen out of the room than most major pro sports franchises. **literally day one. My 13 year old behind was in section 211 on October 7, 2000. ***I went to a Cyclones game a couple weeks ago. That arena is fun in that you can still experience an old-fashioned BARN in 2024 without any extravagances of modern indoor stadia. I almost hope it's never replaced.
  11. I also think a part of the problem is everyone reads angrier on social media than they really are. I could see something and be like "wow that's really dumb", but it comes across as "WOW THAT'S REALLY DUMB, YOU SON OF A :censored:!!!!!"
  12. That's really only happening if you choose to make it happen. In the real world nobody cares if you pull for the 49ers, which I am so they can tie the Steelers at six Super Bowls. The online poisoned whackjob faction you speak of is unimportant. Their opinions don't matter and I'm not gonna spend another second worrying about what kind of person rooting for the 49ers makes me with regards to Taylor Swift because it also doesn't matter. Also I don't like the idea of this Chiefs team winning back-to-back Super Bowls in two seasons where they weren't really all that great in either year. They remind me of the 16 and 17 Penguins who were a good team, but only won back-to-back titles because they got really good at gaming the system to their benefit.
  13. We've also had one of those in this Chiefs dynasty they're in the midst of right now and it sucks, though, 2021 is great solace. It is nice to at least have that. All of 2022 was annoying from my perspective because it was like the Bills got more credit for almost beating the Chiefs in 2021 than the Bengals got for actually beating the Chiefs. Didn't make sense to me.
  14. If it weren't for the Bengals the Chiefs would be in their fifth straight super bowl. You're welcome, America.
  15. Like the guy at the Super Bowl that asked Doug Williams, "How long have you been a black quarterback?"
  16. Nightmare wildcard weekend for the Browns? They get obliterated by the team they traded a haul of picks to for the Walking Pornhub Clip and then watch the QB they dumped win a playoff game with another team. Only way that could’ve gone worse is if the Steelers won. And I’m really glad the Steelers didn’t win. To call them frauds would be inaccurate - Occasionally frauds look good and trick people into thinking they’re good. Not once this season did they look good. Only in the playoffs due to a Steelerian lucky run of seeing backup QBs on the schedule. It’s a lot harder when you have to play an actual starter, eh?
  17. The NFL loves the Steelers and they hate blowouts. If it was a 0-0 game at that point I guarantee that's called a fumble (correctly).
  18. Sounds like a reward for the higher seed. Not sure what your point is.
  19. America's Team in that America loves to watch them lose playoff games. It's my favorite annual tradition. Also thought this was funny. The Lions win also means the new belt holder for longest drought without advancing in the playoffs in North American sports belongs to the Cincinnati Reds (1995). The Bengals held that title for like a decade and now it's on to our crappy baseball team. Maybe this is the year. It's impressive what you come up with. He'll play for the Packer for six more years? That's pretty good. Your takes don't even make sense. The Packers were the first 7 seed to win a game in the new system and I think they proved that they belong. How does that reward mediocrity?
  20. The year that got away for the Bengals. Injuries to the QB and key receivers and still went 8-3 outside of the division and only lost one game all season to a team who missed the playoffs. The story is they missed the playoffs because they went 1-5 in their division, who all made the playoffs. 9-8, winning season, and still finished in last place. That's almost impossible.
  21. The Lightning are so frustrating. With that name they should be the Chargers of hockey, but instead they're Maple Leafs 2 with a new black alternate every few years that does nothing to move me in any direction.
  22. I've been offered free tickets by two different people this week. I declined. Weather's supposed to be less than great and I don't need to see preseason football. I'll watch it at home and root A first for me is this is the first time I've worried about the Browns. I think they're gonna smoke whatever AFC South lamb they get to play in the first round and it wouldn't surprise me if they're playing the Ravens for the AFC in three weeks, which is a sentence that makes me want to ralph. That's a team without a glaring hole and will be a tough out.
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