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In those days NFL Primetime was great because they gave so much time to each highlight. Now it's like 30 seconds at most and they don't even show you all of the games before they send it back to Ditka and Keyshawn. I think, it's been years since I watched an NFL show. I only watch the games now and my life is better for it. I keep hearing about how sportscenter and shows like it are in the toilet because people already know what happened in the games due to the internet and that's why they need to have more discussion/debate and more analysis and I don't agree at all. People have already seen all the games? I don't know if that's true. I don't go out of my way to find highlights from out of market games online. How do you fix sportscenter? I'd love to see someone try this - Do the exact opposite of what you're doing now. Lean into the overknowledged sports fan and hit em with the highlights again. Do more, longer highlights, use personalities to read them. The last sportscenter I watched they had the most bland, non-talented dork running the show and I thought "this is what passes for SportsCenter anchors these days?". Show a 2 minute highlight of the Braves playing the Reds, but goof on how bad they are. Fire Stephen A Smith yesterday. Knock it off with hot takes, don't #embracedebate. If a game happened that day and it's MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, NCAA, and yes MLS/EPL/important soccer then show the damn highlights. Make it the one stop shop for everything, a true sports center. Be the best highlight show anywhere, better than anyone on the internet is doing and people will go out of their way to watch it. People are already cutting the chord left and right and their subscriber numbers are plummeting, which could be wholly unrelated to how bad sportscenter's gotten, but if that's the case you might as well give that a try while you're sinking because your debate bull that everybody hates clearly isn't working and that's why Fox's gathering of the juggalos (Cowherd, Whitlock, Bayless) is so disappointing. No, don't do exactly what everyone hates about Espen. Do the opposite! Did sportscenter work in the 90's because we weren't informed yet or did it work in the 90's because they were best at showing sports highlights? I think it's more of the latter than the former.

This is so NHL. Those are still 8,000 pairs of eyeballs on your advertisers you numbskulls and those are your fans who clearly enjoy the watch parties. Why sh!& on that? Hey this fun thing that you're doing? Yeah, it's working too well. Shut it down and make everyone watch on their own TV. We need that tiny 8K blip for our numbers because we are a rinky dink league on a rinky dink sports network and we're worried about what 8,000 people will do to the ratings. We don't care that you enjoy it. This is sports. Sports are not meant to be fun.

I saw him first with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks

They are better than their current EDGE uniforms with black and khaki because obviously, but if the Penguins adopt the direct throwback for their full-time uniforms I don't think that is the answer either. They need something that is mostly black with small touches of yellow here and there. The throwbacks are just so yellow heavy and there's already a black and yellow heavy team in the Eastern conference. The Bruins should be the black-yellow-white team and the Penguins should be the black-white-yellow team.

I found it to be an incredibly frustrating/annoying listen for this reason and Simmons isn't a good enough host to keep him contained or to remind him where his train of thought was going. If you have a lot of "irons in the fire" it's important to circle back and conclude each one. The guest isn't going to do that on their own so the host has to be the one to do it. Simmons was doing the opposite - interrupting Kilborn mid story to talk about something entirely different.

The Sacca interview I thought was interesting because Sacca did most of the talking. Simmons should've read the vibe and just started firing questions when he could instead of trying to relate himself, or worse, sports, to what Sacca was talking about. I don't really have interest in the restaurateur episode because I know what he'll try to do. I like the conversations Simmons has with someone on his level like Michael Rappaport, who is a little annoying, but his enthusiasm overrides his annoyance. Or other sports personalities. But like Louis CK seemed too smart for Simmons to keep up with.

Does John Buccigross know he's selling these? http://sportssquatch.com/collections/hockey-jerseys/products/bucci-overtime-red-hockey-jersey-1

I definitely don't agree with Curt Schilling in any way and I think memes (his favorite thing and the thing that got him fired) are generally idiotic, but that game is essential to that story. You can't cut that out. Would've been better to just not air that particular 30 For 30 anymore if they have an issue with his participation in it. EDIT: Bill Simmons, another former Espen employee, is in that one, isn't he? Did they leave him in the doc?

Obviously personal attacks about appearance or threats are outside the lines and women in sports have to deal with this :censored: every time they send out any tweet regardless of the tweet's content. If the reporter tweets poorly they deserve all the ridicule a man would receive, but dummies don't know the difference between attacking the content and attacking the person's appearance and it happens more with women. Using Darren Rovell as an example - He is a tonedeaf idiot who has a poor grasp on when is and is not an appropriate time to tweet about sports business, but I don't think many people who react derisively to his tweets attack his personal appearance. They attack him for being a dumbass, which he is. Mary Kay Cabot is a reporter on the Cleveland Browns beat and I happen to think she's not very good at her job, but it's not because she's a woman. She'll send out a bad opinion and the responses are sexual and demeaning in a physical way and that's obviously not okay. There is a double standard and a meathead problem.

He was also a #1 overall so pretty high profile pick by the Bruins.

I was always aware Bayless was playing a character, but that doesn't make it any less annoying. It's almost worse. Like, if Trump is actually the nutjob he purports to be then he's just another loon and you can forgive someone for being mentally ill, but if it's an act like Paul Manafort says it is then he has deliberately chosen to be this much of an a$$hole in order to pander to the dumbest people in the country and I have even less respect for that. Same for Bayless and SAS. Anyone can go on TV or write a dumb tweet and shock jock an audience. Bayless didn't invent that and that deserves no recognition or respect. As journalists both he and SAS should be embarrassed and they can be embarrassed all the way to the bank, but they've lost all credibility and respect within their profession. If it were me that would eat at me.

Thank god. Not that I ever watched First Take because I graduated from High School and I don't huff radiator fluid for fun, but it'll be easier to ignore him on Fox, unless they try to jam him into their NFL coverage. He's such a jackass and a professional one at that. I'm glad he'll have less of a platform to spew nonsense. We'll look back at the decision to go all-in on #EmbraceDebate as the moment that initially crippled the giant. I hate when people choose salary over legacy: https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/575465882761043969

This may just be my browser, but starting today when I scroll to the bottom of any page there's a bunch of sponsored clickbaity bullcrap. Anyone else getting this?

I think contrasting color panels on baseball hats is a design feature best left in the past. And I don't think it looked particularly good then either.

Not saying I'm funny, but memes are shorthand crutches for unfunny people to participate in being funny, which is why almost zero memes work for me. The Crying Jordan one is especially tiresome because it's so easy for dummies to do and takes no thought. UNC loses NCG on a buzzer beater and 15,000 knuckleheads crudely paste Jordan's head on top of Jordan even though that wasn't even close to his actual reaction. His actual reaction was actually pretty awesome. There is no originality anymore. Everything is hack. It's so easy that until recently I (incorrectly) assumed there was some backstory that I didn't know about. I should've just known that "HA HE SAD JORDAN SAD HE HAZ JORDAN SAD HEAD NOW HA" was the entirety of the joke. Excuse me for expecting a little more out of an internet joke. I like my comedy to be nuanced and multilayered. I guess the ones where someone finds a creative way to implement Crying Jordan are okay, but at best I'm giving those a shrug rather than a groan. Also, why Michael Jordan? What about his sad face is any different than say the millions of pictures of Kim Kardashian crying? I'd rather she be the one to gain ignominious meme status. She's far more detestable and doesn't actually have any talent.

I don't think they made money in their first run because they weren't trying to make money, at least not early on. ESPN was footing the bill so they were free to be advertisingly spartan by design and they even mentioned that they wanted to start with a simple, uncluttered home page that felt more like a news paper than a website. Now with the HBO show, and a podcast network that's allowed to have personalities employed from other sports networks, and without a sugar daddy conglomerate as large as Disney I expect them to push more advertisements. Simmons definitely does more plugs in his podcast now than he did in the old BS Report. I have to think that if Grantland would've stuck around they would've started to go about searching out more revenue creating avenues.

^ I've never understood the need for the first initial when two players share a surname. Their numbers should be sufficient to differentiate the players.

Cleveland was all about the R&RHOF connection in the 90's. You don't see as much being made about it in regards to Cleveland-centric designs anymore.

Me too. Could've been a better alternate than the dissected Tbird logo they used as their secondary logo (or alternate primary? IDK how that worked)

Good thread idea. That's sad news about Craig Sager. I always liked him and his drive to be our version of "whacky suit guy". I watched my first college basketball of the season last weekend and I really wanted to give that Doug Gottlieb a two handed knuckle sandwich. He was tough to listen to.

those are strange as well.

I love those uniforms.

This is great because I hated when someone would knock a post out of the park and I couldn't give them a pound because I already liked too many posts about sock stripes or whatever that day.

I'm sure someone's asked this already, so I apologize for repeating this, but do we now have an unlimited number of likes?

I'd say it was an evolution, but the changes weren't insignificant. They added outlines to the numbers and the sleeve stripes became yellow-white-yellow sleeve cuffs. 1995 1996 But yeah the helmets, pants, socks, and road shoulder stripes all stayed the same.