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Crew fan. That was bad. Cucho's card was.... Ugh. Glad we tied after that but shouldn't have been that rough

And I thought Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino was a long name.... Complete 180 from Iowa Wild or Iowa Cubs.

https://www.cbs42.com/sports/usfl/despite-rain-fans-support-birmingham-stallions-during-victory-parade/ https://abc3340.com/news/local/fans-gather-in-rainy-victory-parade-held-for-birmingham-stallions-latest-usfl-championship-win For the short notice, rain, and the fact that almost anyone who DROVE to Canton wouldn't be back in time for the parade, it seems better than I was expecting.

Much preferred the Coliseum thing over city street racing. Instead of all the turns having two long straight aways and then two, one block turn arounds would've been cooler. Get those cars up to speed on a good half mile to 3/4 mile run.

From Wikipedia: "The Boston Marathon began on 19 April 1897, and was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics. It is the world's oldest run annual marathon, and ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events" So yeah, I think Boston can lay claim to marathons.

Not really sure, but I'm not a fan of city nicknames being used in place of more common locations. City, State, Valley, Bay, Lake, Region, etc. So many names are reused (I'll admit Spire City seems unique) that something like "Queen City Monarchs" would have you questioning where they're from. Trash City Rocket Pandas has about as much meaning as their correct name.

Funny thing came up with an interview with Joe Thomas years ago around his retirement. The big guys on the team always wanted to wear the dark pants and not white pants. So, when left up to the team, players have a large block who will probably always favor the dark pants. And if you ever saw the nearly seethrough white pants stretch, you can understand why the bigger players would prefer the darker colors. White pants were just more common because you could just bleach them and they'd be clean. Modern washing doesn't have as many issues. Especially these fabrics

Thing about it is that ESPN has always cycled through talent when they started to get too pricey. Their finances are tied up in huge rights fees to air games. Who talks about them during the game or the hours of dead time matters very little. People are still watching Lakers-Warriors regardless who is calling it. Honestly, ESPN's campus in Connecticut may be their downfall. In the 80s, Bristol was a fairly 'rural' area far from NYC that was cheap. Now, anywhere in CT is expensive to live in. That affects their costs for every employee they have. Both talent and operations. They can only go so cheap and get new people when they let others go. And with consolidation, there's a huge number of out-of-work TV sports operations people. They Disney deal put a lot of them out of work at the regional sports nets and they're all clamoring for work.

Given that the game is two weeks after the semifinals, it's predetermined location and they're wanting a big show of it, it makes sense for now to keep it in a dome. Later on after a few years they can move it and risk an outdoor venue. For TV, I think the 23 title game was handled like a major event and not just another game. A rainy, sloppy, lightly attended neutral site game could kill any interest other than the train wreck factor

Wonder how much the Pirates could've gotten from the fox affiliate in town?

As far as I'm aware, Acrisure is available. You just have to be willing to pay. And it won't be cheap. Being grass is also a problem with field prep. If they did get a lease they could afford the cost to paint the field any more than the white outline will probably be too much.

From what I've seen, they had a deal with a few TV/radio channels to have discounted tickets for the South Final. Looks like it worked.

Should have two mascots. One brown and 'alive', the other gray and in robes like the logo.

Just a minor note, since the Browns relocation in 1995 there was an influx of Steelers fans (combined with them being successful while the new Browns struggled for decades) that has led to the Steelers being a very popular team in Canton, Akron, Youngstown, etc. Maybe not the most followed team in a particular locale, but it's definitely more than a blip. Honestly, Columbus has been a confluence of all three teams. And honestly Bengals fans don't exist too far up I-71 from Columbus. You might see more Bengals fans up the I-75 corridor toward places like Findlay, Lima, Wapakoneta, etc. I explained this to someone else. Cantonites that are Steelers fans are Steelers fans. They're not fans of Pittsburgh. In fact, they probably despise Pittsburgh in almost every other aspect and very rarely do you see Pirates fans anywhere in Ohio except maybe right along the Ohio River (East Liverpool, Steubenville, Martins Ferry, Bellaire, Shadyside, etc). Penguins had a little more following years ago because Ohio never had an NHL team and paired with the Pens being successful. But I can say that Pens fandom in and around northeast Ohio is definitely diminishing and only had a blip increase when Crosby had the back-to-back titles and it's waning again. If only the Blue Jackets had success. They'd easily take over. Back to Canton though. They'll come out for the Steelers. Not for the Dollar General-brand Steelers.

Was going by odds of having it happen. It's on-par with Perfect Games and No-Hitters when comparing cycles and natural/unnatural cycles. If it were easy to game, the numbers would be much different. Or even to the point that no one would even care about it. If the argument against a cycle is used, than a triple play is equally as uninteresting as it's a fluke. Many are from players running on a pitch and getting tagged out on a blooper to shortstop, or just bad baserunning. There's been 733 triple plays in MLB history. Only 13 have been unassisted. Yet somehow that's always a highlight reel play. When that takes perfect conditions to happen: two on, no outs. A cycle can happen with any runners, any outs, any count, and still only happened 343 times.

It's in terms of odds of happening. There's a reason why it's the better hand. Is a rarity. The fact 318 no hitters in MLB history and 343 cycles. 23 perfect games to 18 natural cycles. 10 unnatural cycles. If you don't understand that rarity is intriguing in its own right you won't understand most sports statistic accomplishments. I saw Tulowitzki's cycle in Colorado and it was hugely cheered by fans.

Canton is 94.6 miles from Acrisure Stadium. Canton is 129.1 miles from Lower.com Field in Columbus. So, other than being Ohio, no the black/yellow is not at associated with Crew. In fact, the Crew had an uphill battle going with that color scheme since day one. Sure, there's a lot of Steeler bandwagon fans in Columbus and transplants (from out of state and eastern Ohio that is heavily Steeler area), but that put a lot of Browns/Bengals fans disinterested in ever visibly supporting the Crew day-to-day. It really is an odd decision by MLS/Lamar Hunt back in the 90s to go that route for colors. As for the USFL switching to an Ohio or Canton branded name was just too late in the game. They were stuck with the Pittsburgh name and the already planned Pittsburgh rebrand. Pittsburgh has no other stadiums. There's Acrisure (65k or so), PNC (35k baseball that is probably a definite no), and then... a few high school stadium sin the 10-14k range nearby. North Allegheny HS, Woodland Hills HS,... then some nice ones such as Pine-Richland, Mt Lebanon, Upper St. Clair, etc. But all far too small. The few colleges in and around Pittsburgh (Duquesne, Carnegie-Mellon, Robert Morris) have very tiny stadiums. In the 1k-4k range. The only really big stadium closer to Pittsburgh that could work isn't also in PA. WVU in Morgantown is 75.2 miles from Acrisure. Slippery Rock University is 51.2 miles north of Pittsburgh. Seats about 14k. But a huge track, almost all bleachers, and in a town roughly bigger than the university. Canton only got the hub because their relationship with the league hosting the playoffs in 2022. If they knew going in that there WASN'T going to be games in Pittsburgh, I doubt Canton is anywhere close to hosting a hub. Detroit gets all 4, or they go all-in getting a PHI/NJ hub setup in eastern PA. They just gambled on Pittsburgh and lost.

If you're playing poker, getting 5 diamonds is good. Getting a 10, J, Q, K, and A of diamonds is far better. See the difference?

No. The black and yellow maulers rebrand was planned before they gave up on Pittsburgh. Going to Canton was so late they couldnt rebrand again. So they just stuck with Pittsburgh and tried to make it work

Rebrand was planned before they gave up on playing in Pittsburgh.

Was told that the league wanted to rebrand Pittsburgh but was just too late before the season after already planning the color switch.

I hope they use the original team names and if they go with cities and not just the nicknames.

Three games delayed due to weather and one postponed entirely. Two shocks of the night were Chicago winning at Portland, and RSL won surprisingly easily at STL. LAG had a shot at a win, but blew it late. Austin winning big was a surprise. 3-0 and it never felt like it was even that close. LAFC with the first minute goal that held up to win 1-0 over Seattle. Though they had a handball called back for a second goal late. Cincinnati has clearly established themselves as the king of the mountain. Only a matter if they slip up later in the season, or a fluke playoff loss. But if they give up the Supporters Shield that would be a shock. The West playoffs are wide open.

Never been to a college hockey game. But have to imagine like any other collegiate game I've been to in other sports that the atmosphere is much livelier than a pro game.

Think holding on to Delmarva is more important when they have Philly and Washington to contend with nearby. Meanwhile, western Maryland is either already lost to Pittsburgh or ardently 'anti DC' and sticking with Orioles anyways through state allegiance.