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He only lost the starting job because of injury. Sure, Ben was drafted to be the future starter. But they didn't expect him to have to go in Week 2. And that's why their offense was so unbelievably vanilla. Hand off to Bettis again and again and again. He only averaged 21 pass attempts per game, 187 yards per game. His SB winning season in 2005, he averaged 22 pass attempts per game, 198 yards per game.

The drones are really my biggest complaint about a USFL broadcast. If not for them, I actually favor their production of games over the XFL. But not with the drones buzzing around. Also, agreed about the crowd noise. They do have the crowds miked up, so they're using that I think as their barometer to how much and when crowd noise is added. So it just makes anything inaudible as a low roar. Since I doubt they have someone manually changing things for each play. But they messed up their scheduling. These games need to be true doubleheaders on one ticket where you'll see some carry-over from one game to the next. People aren't going to buy single game tickets for a team that doesn't actually represent their city. Yesterday should've been 2 Detroit games and today the two Birmingham games. I know maybe Mothers day they figured just shove the games out there and not worry about crowds. But, it does look bad when there's a stadium shot and it's just a few dozen people

I agree. But then it should've been an Arlington themed logo.

They bought the entire league. Everything. If there were issues with rights, they'd never be able to get away with things like DC, Houston, St. Louis, etc using the same names or reusing the Guardians or Vipers logos. It was mostly a refresh with a new 'cutting edge' look where Vince with XFL 2.0 was going more for a 'patriotic hometown feel' to the names/logos after the brash Degeneration X style of XFL 1.0.

You really trying to say the D\R logo is an upgrade?

It really bums me out that they scrapped that perfect helmet/primary logo they had in 2020 for this. And it doesn't even look right for a team named Arlington Renegades. Dallas Renegades, sure....

And there's no way that the XFL was going to reserve dates for all 8 host venues. Plus, there's the problem with weather. Having a dome meant great game conditions no matter what (and I take it SA had bad weather today). To get it on ABC, meant preplanning the date and time. It would've sucked if DC earned the right to host and Arlington had to host it because the date was unavailable at Audi Field.

I think a lot of Roughnecks fans had bought ahead of time and decided they weren't going to let their tickets go unused.

Especially baseball. It's no longer the 'low cost' sporting option. You need people with money to attend 81 games a year. You need to cultivate a fanbase that will make local television and merchandising to be profitable. MLB doesn't have a lot of markets. if they want more teams they're going to have to cannibalize LA and NYC area. A team in NJ maybe? A team in Ontario/Riverside/San Bernardino? Where else can currently support an MLB team that isn't currently being crowded out by the other four leagues (yes, including MLS). I just don't see it. Plus, MLB is not aimed at young people. It's not the young person's cheap game.

ESPN pays so much for rights fees for all the properties they air they can't do anything more than the bare minimum. And they rehash the same thing five different ways because they can't risk putting something against their own big name property they're paying for. All 22, in Spanish, Through a Dirty Fish Tank, in Black and White... Just turn to the ESPN the Ocho for that.

Not the original Defenders though.

Honestly, with Florida up 3-1 and Hurricanes winning the likelihood of Carolina-Florida in the ECF feels like a Bettman fever dream.

MetLife does, but only NJSIAA championships (they also play at Rutgers). NYC used to hold their city title at Yankee Stadium but stopped during covid and played their last titles at Abraham Lincoln HS in Coney Island.

It isn't really that 'they're all the same' it's that when one new popular idea comes up everyone wants to mimic it until the next new fad. MLS 2.0 level stadiums like HDC, DSGP, Toyota Stadium, Rio Tinto, etc were simple bowls with one large concourse at the top of the seating (mostly) that may or may not have some type of roof or awning structure. Mostly for aesthetics than functional. MLS 3.0 saw the newer SSS that tended to fully enclosed, rounded corners/roof/etc like KC up through Minnesota. Even Orlando was fully surrounding the field, doubledeck, etc. They looked 'major league' even if they seemed smaller. This newest level of MLS stadium went block with major roof features that cover the stands and contain the environment. Columbus, Nashville, St. Louis, this new venue. It's the fad.

Have you watched any of the games? This is possibly the nicest endzones all season. DC uses a plain blank endzone at Audi Field and Arlington's field is green endzones with the wordmark, nothing more. Same template here and used elsewhere.

I just want to know what type of person assumed a team was named the 69ers....

Hate to break it to you, but any name change was going to see the wrong name be used from time to time. We're still hearing "San Diego Chargers" and how many years has it been?

As a Cleveland sports fan, I wasn't thrilled by Guardians (especially with an XFL team just using that name), but it fit. It's a little clunky but it's still the same number of syllables and rolls off your tongue fairly well. Image wise, the team still 'looks' similar. Just that baseball G logo is god awful. if they weren't going with a major change and going with Spiders, Guardians at least feels Clevelandy.

Yeah, I agree there that his insistence on not changing the name led to the desire for a fullscale rebrand. But, that would've been like Cleveland losing the red/white/blue colors in a rebrand. Everything about the Washington name change was done so haphazardly. So many college teams went from (Commanders) to Redhawks, Orangemen to Orange... etc, that it seemed like such an easy thing to change up to that point. But by digging in their heels they couldn't then just go 'oopsy, my bad' and go with a minor tweak. But with Snyder gone... I think giving the fans the 'Skins' name they still love would go a long way to ingratiating themselves into the fanbase and staying true to the desire to no longer be a native themed team.

I know i'm in the minority but I still wish they'd kept the Skins part of the name and just went Pigskins. Kept the old uniforms and colors, still could be called the skins, goes with the hog motif they love, and just switch out the logo for something different. Pigskins also has a long time football reference that would fit. Hell, Cleveland basically just swapped "In" for "Guar" and went on with things. Washington decided that aside from barely keeping their colors they wanted a whole new direction and went along with it with all the furvor of MLS teams naming the last dozen or so teams between FC, City, and United... It's plain. it's boring. And it has nothing to do with anything about Washington except the very tenuous grasp of "Oh, but Commander-in-Chief"... But there's a team named the Chiefs AND you can't call back to another native-themed name even when you try to avoid it.

Browns one was just weird. Bengals and Jaguars both look..... questionable. Rams looks like a character from Zootopia

Greatest logo ever. RIP

Pretty soon they're going to be taking attendance by name.

The funny thing is that ANYTHING can be specimen. Even this:

Looks like the South has a black base and the North has a white base.