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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. 

16 hours ago, infrared41 said:

The Browns are starting their fifth QB of the season - the immortal Jeff Driskel - and it's not because of the usual Browns stuff. It's because they're locked into the #5 seed in the playoffs. Seeing this team sit everyone because they're in the playoffs is something I haven't seen since...now that I think about it, I don't recall ever seeing this.

 

All I can figure is that the end is nigh.

 

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. 

As much as I really hate Michigan, I am glad Alabama lost. They shouldn't have been in the playoff to begin with.

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Had one bad week and fell from second to sixth. Brutal. 

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12 hours ago, Silver_Star said:

I believe the longhorn logo is finished and they need a new logo that looks better. 

 

Could not disagree more and think that would be a terrible mistake. You can't improve upon a perfect sports logo. Especially when the replacement logo would be tasked with the difficult rubric of representing the silly and abstract concept of "Texans" while also adding in the extra degree of difficulty in trying to distance itself from and outshine the original (perfect) logo. That's a near impossible target to hit and a rubric that even the original logo didn't have to contend with. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. 

3 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

In a perfect world, maybe. This assumes that stadia are available and other scheduling conflicts avoided (such as the Giants preference to avoid Jewish holy days in their home schedule). It's another solution in search of a problem.

Now, if as King of Football you are creating a stadium for the Jets and Chargers, then disregard this message 

The problem this solves for is teams like the Lions and Vikings playing each other twice in the last 3 weeks and the Bengals having to start their season with the Browns and Ravens. Also this makes the schedule more balanced for teams in your own division because you play common opponents around the same time rather than months apart. And yes if I was King of Football the availability dates would be sorted out, easily. 
 

Edit: Also, the Chargers would play their home games in San Diego. 

I was putting around in the ESPN playoff machine last night and I discovered that the Lions and Vikings haven't played each other yet so their next game will be the first against one another and then they turn around two weeks later and play their second game. That should never happen! You know what else shouldn't happen? Playing divisional opponents week 1. 

I've said this before, but if I was King of Football* (and I should be!) the schedule would break down like this and I'll use the Bengals as an example because I have their schedule off the top of my head:

Weeks 1-4: Play your cross conference opponents in the division you're scheduled against that year. For the Bengals that's the NFC West. They're the least important games for tiebreakers and whatnot so this gives teams time to get their feet under them before they get to the games that matter the most. 

Weeks 5-8: Play the first game against your divisional opponents and bye week #1**. Two divisions get their bye in Week 5, two in 6, two in 7, and two in 8, but every team in the division gets their bye week in the same week. Keeps things tidy for scheduling and keeps things fair for teams in the same division. 

Weeks 9-11: Play the opponents who finished in the same slot in their division as you did in yours.  Using the Bengals, the Vikings, Chiefs, and Bills were those opponents. 

Weeks 12-16:  Play the in-conference out of division opponents and bye week #2. AFC South for the Bengals this year. 

Weeks 17-19: Finish with the second game against your three divisional opponents when the stakes are highest. 

*Also if I was King of Football the Pittsburgh Steelers would be fined 100 million dollars annually and every one of their fans would have to do 1,000 hours of community service every year for the rest of their lives as punishment for the countless atrocities they've committed over the last 50 years. And every one of their games would begin with them trailing 7-0. I think that's very benevolent considering that I, as King, could just end the entire franchise with the wave of my hand. 

**Week 1 starts a week earlier so we can add a 19th week so every team gets two bye weeks. 

24 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

It's actually pronounced like Jif

26 minutes ago, Kramerica Industries said:

 

There was also the aspect where the Chargers kept doing things to keep the tie alive to begin with. They were down 15 points late in the 4th quarter. Get one touchdown - get a stop - convert countless 4th downs including (if I'm not mistaken) a 4th down to score the second touchdown as regulation expired, and then converting the 2PC after that, then both teams trading field goals in OT (Chargers again converting at least one 4th down in the process, IIRC), before culminating the way it did...like, that game could've ended earlier if the Raiders made any number of 4th down stops previously, including some 4th-and-very-longs, and they couldn't do it. It was patently absurd.

Right. Both teams were actually trying to win and the tie still almost happened naturally rather than in some weird gentleman's agreement. But I do believe in all the craziness at the end of OT that the Raiders had had enough and were about to make the safe play that guarantees their playoff spot and run the clock out, but Staley, like a bozo, gave them more time to consider their options. 

10 minutes ago, Dynasty said:

 

Yes. That was when nearly the whole country was rooting for a tie just to keep the Steelers out of the playoffs. Probably one of those sports moments where all fans, rivals or not, united for one cause. Shame on Staley for spoiling that.

It would've given Ben Roethlisberger an off-screen death, which is what he deserved, but getting his head kicked in in his last game was good too. 

I wanted the tie for that reason, but mostly because it was such an unlikely outcome and the whole prisoner's dilemma thing was discussed all week that it would've been a fun historical curio. Whenever they do playoff scenario discussions there's always the scenario like "Team X will make it if Team A wins unless Teams B and C tie" and in the back of everyone's minds we always go "psh they're not gonna tie", but in this case it came so close to happening! It would've been cool for a game to end with both teams celebrating. 

What's your favorite Brandon Staley moment? Blowing a 27-0 lead to the Jaguars in the playoffs is good, but it lacks that one dumb guy pretending to be a smart guy move that became his signature. Mine's when the Raiders seemed content to run out the clock for the tie and they both would've made the playoffs, but Staley called a timeout so the Raiders said "Alright fine" and then got 15 yards on a draw and won on a field goal.

9 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

Easton Stick. Sounds like a baseball bat.

 

When I was a mediocre high school hockey player in the mid 2000's the Easton Synergy with the Sakic curve was the coolest stick you could have. 

Note the time stamp on this tweet. The Blue Jackets ended up winning this game in overtime. 

I hate this team. 

I don't think the Predators have ever looked good, but the EDGE uniforms were in the bottom three of EDGE disasters and may have been the worst. 

YUCK 

I wouldn't be sad if the logo and yellow jerseys got a full makeover. 

12 hours ago, the admiral said:

 

There should be a territorial-draft rule where every team gets a Guy With The Perfect Name. Giants, Tommy DeVito. Bears, Ed Zybikowski. Vikings, Lars Gunderson. Panthers, also Ed Zybikowski, but you get so much more house for your money there and don't have to worry as much about The Blacks.

I am so delighted by the entire Tommy Devito cinematic universe.

Tone, dis guy's a friggin gabagool!

The Cincinnati version of this would be if a dude from the west side who went to Elder, no, La Salle named like Brayden Niehaus and whose parents own four Gold Star franchises somehow fell ass backwards into quarterbacking the Bengals. 

LOL weeks like that are why gambling is for suckers. 

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5 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

The Chiefs did their heel turn last night and people are out for blood.

 

Too bad I can't see replies in the X app. This thread looks like fun:

 

 

 

LOL Josh Allen is all of us. He does not give a fuCCCCCC.

The funniest part of this is  they're all furious over for a correctly called penalty. HE'S OFFSIDES! IT'S NOT EVEN A JUDGMENT CALL! That's as objective a penalty as they can get. 

The Chiefs are throwing a royal diaper fit in KC and it’s honestly embarrassing. For them. This isn’t even a judgment call like, idk, a hold or a DPI or a late hit that helped them win the AFC Championship game and Super Bowl a year ago. Your guy practically lined up in Lawrence, Patrick. It’s so easy to be onside! It’s not not a penalty just because something cool happened after the flag was thrown. 

1 hour ago, FiddySicks said:

 

Both of these are true simultaneously. 
 

Speaking of that, @Sport instituted a ten year moratorium on complaining about your team after winning a title (good rule). Giants are in year nine, and boy do I have some bitching to do. Can’t wait. 

Hold your horses. Theres a multiplier on that and a whole complicated equation if they win multiples in a very short stretch. Boston fans, for example, aren’t allowed to complain about any sport until 2055 and that’s only if they don’t win another in that time. I’ll have to crunch some numbers and get back to you on when you’re allowed to :censored: about the Giants. 

On 11/27/2023 at 8:47 AM, Sport said:

 

Some of you might be tempted to take the Steelers seriously and I am warning you do not fall for it again. Look at their schedule and then look at who they have left. That is a bad football team living off of a Steelersy run of fortunate scheduling.

As I was saying. They're not good. I never thought they'd lose home games to both the Cards and Pats, but maybe everything going their way all the time is regressing to the mean?

On 12/3/2023 at 11:59 AM, Dilbert said:

Chapman made some questionable calls on both sides. I thought he was constantly late to the whistle throughout the game as well. PRO has really got to reign it in for all officials for next season. We could not connect on passes, and we could not pick the ball from Columbus all night.  Acosta was selfish for staying on, but Pat should have known better to take him out, even when Acosta said no. That, combined with  key back line guys out (Miazga shooting himself in the foot for the playoffs, Hagglund out for injury), and tired legs, especially in the last minutes of overtime (Acosta and Barreal) killed us.

It was an awful choke. They officially became a Cincinnati sports team on Saturday night. 

8 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Long-winded ranting and a growing madness regarding the bizarrely-blessed nature of a person/thing. Sometimes it’s better to back away and realize that it’s an entirely optional part of your life.

Honestly I'm not ranting. This is just something to pass the time while on zoom calls.

I care about justice and can't believe any sports fan supports what is clearly a business decision going out of the way to spit on competitive fairness. Unless your dad is Bob Iger or you're an Alabama graduate then you should all be on my side. If that makes me Frank Grimes then I'm Frank Grimes. 

8 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

 

College football is the most awful sport we have for a variety of reasons that are well-documented (and I can’t quite say here because forum rules). The sooner it dies, the better.

I didn't watch it for two years after the manufactured farce that was Alabama/LSU national championship rematch and I didn't miss it. The playoff brought me back because it felt more likely to avoid a major miss and I don't think they've had one until now. 

The conference realignment stuff feels really cynical and I'll probably be more checked out next season even with the expanded playoff. 

8 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

 

Also, the one dude complaining about the NIL and transfer portal? Those are good additions to the game. Anything to give the players any kind of above-table compensation/agency is a good thing. 

No argument there. The players getting paid and being allowed agency to move where they wish is a positive development. 

17 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

For a not insignificant portion of the fanbase, the injustice is part of the appeal.

And, apparently, so is shilling for ABC executives, for some reason.