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The Flames should put that logo on the shoulders of the primary uniforms in place of the flags. It'd make a bad uniform slightly tolerable.

hahahaha this thing. Is Provo the home of Centrum Silver?

Simmons' podcast is the only one worth listening to, but it's getting old for me. Every time he mentions something from the tv show he insists on saying "on my eitch bee oh show". We get it, you have a TV show and it's on HBO. Congrats!

"Wrestling is fake!" crowd is pretty stupid. No effing s###, nitwit. Nobody is pretending it's real anymore. Mad Men is fake too. But winning a championship belt is not unlike winning an award for acting. It's an achievement the company gives out to guys they think have earned it and it takes actual work to get to that stage so the kid's reaction isn't that out of line, even if he understands it's scripted. I don't watch Wrestling because I can't get past the acting or the idea that if guys really had beef with each other they probably wouldn't discuss it in the ring on microphones. I won't begrudge anyone who likes it though. I can understand the appeal on an intellectual level, but I don't seek it out, which is why you don't see me in the Wrestling threads. I like the behind the scenes shows that show the actual human side of these people (except for the Divas show because that's some reality tv fake stuff. They're hot, but that novelty wears off pretty fast). Tough Enough was great when that was on MTV back in the day, and just some of the docs and other specials about life on the road as a pro wrestler have been really compelling. the DDP/Jake the Snake/Razor Ramon documentary was truly inspiring.

Best State Flags: Ohio Maryland New Mexico South Carolina Colorado Arizona Alaska Overrated: Texas Tennessee California Worst State Flags: The ones that just put a seal or photo with lettering on them such as Washington or Wisconsin or Kentucky.

That corresponded with their new uniforms in 1997.

Apologies if this is already a thread, but watching the Olympics, especially during the Parade of Nations I like to take note of the different flags. Speaking from a strictly design perspective here are my favorite non-USA flags: Bahrain Jamaica Bahamas Cameroon Sweden What are some of your favorites?

damn.

He had the misfortune of losing an extra 5th Super Bowl with the Falcons Glenn Parker also of the Bills lost a 5th Super Bowl with the Giants in 2000.

1. that's not happening 2. RIGHT NOW it's his wrong uniform because he spent over a decade with another team so a recent acquisition belongs in this thread. It's not a devolution at all.

I've been pushing for a doc on the league called "Lockout to Lockout" which would chronicle the sport in that 10 season period from 95-04, which would cover sunbelt expansion, Avs-Red Wings, the dead puck era, and the league's financial hardships. or just Avs-Red Wings deserves it's own story. The only thing that tried was Adrian Dater's book and Adrian Dater sucks.

There's been like 3 hockey 30 for 30's and one of them was about how a con man almost tricked the NHL into giving him a team. I don't think we'll be getting many more. Meanwhile there's at least 6 more basketball 30 for 30 in the works all about some unremarkable team like the 1998 Atlanta Hawks, probably.

Their being lame is why I don't listen to this podcast because they are lame a lot. I don't need comedy bits from my hockey podcasts and I get enough hockey cynicism from Twitter. If there's anything I can't stand it's people who laugh at their own jokes and think they're funnier than they actually are. No thanks, Puck Soup. Oddly, Wyshinski is listenable when he's with Jeff Marek on his other podcast. I like Olbermann so I listened to this and there's a good story in there about Lindros, John Leclair, and the Rangers partying after an ESPY's show in the 90's. I can't really comment on the Strombo stuff because I've watched 0 seconds of Hockey Night coverage. I think KO would be good on a hockey desk show. Hockey could really use a personality who shows up and drips knowledge and doesn't sound like he's faking his interest.

I'm late responding to this, but my favorite scheduling quirk was that the Buccaneers didn't visit Buffalo until 2009. 33 years! The Bills and Bucs had met 8 times before that, but somehow all 8 games were played in Tampa. Explain that one to me.

I'd hang that on my wall right now. My apartment is desperate for some artwork. Mings, there is something about the geometric blocks that I'm really drawn to. That's my favorite of the 4 you've posted. I also really like the piece of pie. I'm thinking I'm gonna need to get into this.

Good analogy. Their current tabs at the top of the page are NBA FREE AGENCY - THE UNDENIABLES - SPORTS - POP CULTURE - TECH - PODCASTS WTF is the undeniables and why should I click on that? Sounds like something Sportscenter would've done one summer when they don't have any sports to cover. Remember "Who's Now?" or the Mt Rushmore nonsense? Here comes Stephen A Smith and Barry Melrose to talk about The Undeniable blank in blank. NBA free agency is a bigger deal than "Sports"? Eat me. Pop Culture might as well just say Game of Thrones. Tech, I don't care. Podcasts - Simmons puts out one podcast every week now and it's always with his goofy buddy Joe House who I find annoying so unless he has a guest on I want to listen to no thanks anymore. All the other podcasts are pretentious or hosts who are both pretentious while also just too excited to be there. Lower the personality volume a notch. I listen to podcasts so I don't have to listen to morning talk radio. So far it feels like Grantland except Simmons is too busy with the show to be an effective editor. I'm also not a fan of the art direction. There's too much garbage to sift through and things aren't well organized and I don't have the energy to go through all that.

Well yeah, but for right now it's appropriate for the thread. Especially jarring because he's going from one of the best and most prestigious uniforms in sport to hockey's version of a Nascar livery.

PK Subban as a Predator.

It's irritating to me that the HBO show is making Simmons' podcasts fewer and farther between. I've wanted to hear his take on the NBA finals since Sunday. Seems like the kind of thing he'd bust out a quick podcast for regardless of how busy he is with the new show, but his last podcast was Jimmy Butler 7 days ago and I'm not listening to that. By the time he gets around to talking about the last 2 games of the Finals I probably won't be interested anymore. Also, I didn't get the coverage I was looking for from the Ringer NBA podcast on Game 7 or from the actual website. @DG_Now is right. It was a "why do I care what these people think?" problem. I tried the Ringer NFL podcast again and I couldn't get through it. Robert Mays has this rhythm...of speaking...that's...just really annOYING....and I can't sit through it. will see what Any Given Wednesday is all about tonight, but I don't have high hopes from what I've heard. Ben Affleck swears a lot when discussing deflategate. So it's gratuitous bad language and Boston sports bitching, which is absolutely the last city that has any right to bitch about anything.

They're timestamped to the mid 90's for sure, but that's a good uniform and I will always believe that. If the Islanders had been an expansion team in that era nobody would've batted an eye at their whacky uniforms and those colors are really cool. It just didn't work for a team with their history. An interesting concept series that I'm too lazy to do would be to approach the Islanders as if they were a 90's expansion team and evolve their fisherman uniforms to the present day with those logos and colors. It would've been interesting to see how they would've approached the EDGE in 2007 if they were still using those logos and colors.

Wendel Clark's brief stint with the Islanders coincided with the fisherman unis

Yes the nu Browns comparison is dead on. They can't get out of their own way while also not catching a single break. The Browns would be in a better position right now if they drew prospect names out of a hat and same goes for the Blue Jackets. Is it fair to continue to blame a guy who hasn't worked for the team for 9 years now? Probably not, but the franchise was worse than an expansion team when he left. Expansion teams have hope for the future and they get to pick high in the draft. Maclean scorched the Earth, made the franchise undesirable for free agents, and built a big league club eternally incapable of making the playoffs, but never bad enough to draft higher than 6th. And then ownership who doesn't know a thing about hockey (Younger McConnell once said Pat Burns won a Stanley Cup with the "Detroit Blue Devils" on microphone at a Ken Hitchock milestone celebration) hires Scott Howson. I'll give Howson credit for getting the team to the playoffs, and finding some NHL talent in the latter rounds (Matt Calvert, Cam Atkinson), but just the most awful trades. Howson was so bad the league made us hire Craig Patrick and strongly suggested we hire John Davidson. They Ted Stepiened us! So far I like Jarmo, he's building through the draft and the Lake Erie Monsters are some evidence he knows what he's doing in the draft, but he's made some headscratching deals himself (Jared Boll extension, Horton for Clarkson, Dalton Prout extension). Jury's still out on him.

Here's a long post that you probably didn't ask for, but I'm killing time at work: I don't buy that the market is inherently unable to compete. Columbus is a fine place to work and live and our dancing fat guy just lost 100 pounds! It's a management problem. Ownership swung and missed on the first two GMs. We wind up on the ass end of talent because Doug Maclean thought we'd never sit through a slow build, that we were stupid college football fans who would never embrace the game unless the team signed some names and was good right away, and didn't bother to even try building a farm system. That predictably backfired when A. we weren't good right away B. left nothing in the cupboard and no developmental system and C. doomed us for a decade of "bad, but not bad enough". We picked in the Top Ten in 12 of the last 16 drafts and somehow managed to avoid drafting: Kovalchuk, Heatley, Spezza, Ovechkin, Malkin, Crosby, Ryan, Toews, Kessel, any of the Staals, Kane, Stamkos, Doughty, McDavid, Eichel, and more. Maclean probably would've ruined those guys, but to go through that minefield and not hit on a single one is ridiculous. Only twice did we draft in the top two and in those instances we took Rick Nash who is a nice player and a good soldier for longer than he could've been, but of the last 15 #1's might have a hard time cracking the top ten, and Ryan Murray, who's been too injured to even know how good he could be. Couldn't even have the fortune to suck in a year when a truly great player was available. Of course, there's always good talent available in the back half of the top ten and the CBJ did a poor job scouting and developing those guys, but still, if we'd landed Malkin and Crosby instead of Alexandre Picard and Gilbert Brule things would be a lot different. Hell, if Maclean had taken Kopitar like his scouts wanted things would be a lot different. I don't put any of that on the city or being 30th in line. I put that on hiring the absolute wrong guy to start a franchise with.

There's definitely this "Cool Kids Table" aura surrounding The Ringer that wasn't as prevalent at Grantland. They're just a little too excited about how smart they are. I gave their NFL podcast a shot and those guys know what they're talking about, but they REALLY want you to know they know what they're talking about. I found it borderline unlistenable.

I don't like The Ringer's layout. Also, I was reading something and they had a footnote and I clicked on it expecting a popup or a bubble to expand. It took me to the bottom of the page and then I had to scroll up and find where I was before. What do you guys think of the name "The Ringer"? I don't like it, but I can't articulate why. I think because it's such a try-hard and it's obvious. And their explanation for it was basically "names are hard to come up with, the ones we didn't pick were way worse, all the good ones are taken already" You know who has a good title? "Garbage Time with Katie Nolan"