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The post office site is about the best they'll find inside the city. The team, in the 90s, had the option of being part of the gateway complex that built Progressive and RMFH. But passed on it and the land that became the stadium was only secured for two stadiums. As for why the city is playing hardball? They just spent $200m two years ago to renovate the stadium and now want an entirely new stadium. I personally want the browns to get a dome so the stadium can be used more than 12 times a year. But it's probably not going to be inside the city limits. Berea is not a bad location as road infrastructure and airport are right there already suitable for the 70k venue.

Pretty sure the state law only restricted them to the state and not a particular jurisdiction. So potentially a move to Toledo would be allowed. An out of state move like the Crew tried under Precourt would result in a local buyer who wants to keep them in the state the option to buy them first. Though the law was never truly tested as MLS really didn't want to be the bad guy in it when the Haslams popped up with the big money to build a gleaming new stadium for the team Precourt just claimed couldn't survive in Columbus. And in the end the law helped everyone. Columbus got their wealthy owner and shiny new stadium. Two championships. One of the best rivalries in American soccer. Precourt moved to Austin and got what he wanted with an irrelevant expansion team. Win win win. As Michael Scott would say.

The league had a deal with the NFL where NFL owners got new teams at a very discounted price and the NFL was given an option to buy 51% of the league. The NFL changed their bylaws to allow owners such as Jerry Jones to buy teams. But the NFL did not exercise their option. Those extremely discounted teams sold to NFL owners hurt the league as they were still relying heavily on expansion fees. At the start of the NBC era, the league consented to two teams being sold and relocated because they were stalwart franchises. Albany to Indianapolis and Iowa to New York (Long Island). The league positioned themselves so they'd become profitable when the NFL took over or if the NFL owned teams would be viable that would carry over into TV contracts, ticket sales, etc for other teams. Neither happened. And NBC got back into the NFL and was unhappy with the afl ratings in the spring. The growth in neutral viewership never happened. And the TV execs focused on major market teams like Colorado, Dallas, Philadelphia, Georgia, New York and Los Angeles instead of focusing on the better actual match ups each week. In addition, the AFL changed some very fundamental rules of the game that made the games unwatchable up longtime fans. 40-50 pt games were common. But with the defensive restrictions, elimination of Ironman players, increased penalty yards on flags, etc made 70+80 pts common and 99 the record by New York. Partly the Ironman AFL game was just different than outdoor football but NBC wanted to promote NFL castoffs rather than the Ironman stars of the game that neutrals wouldn't know about. QBs like Garcia, Bonner, Dolezel, and Pawlawski they thrived in the afl were often ignored in favor of guys like Damen Wheeler who was not as suited for the afl but played for LA so we featured a lot. Imagine the NFL tried implying Fields was better than Mahomes because Chicago is on TV more often than Kansas City. Now some were kinda smart. Jones brought in Dolezel and one reason Andrew Wang bought the Barnstormers to move to NY was because Garcia was what made the team good enough to be worth it over just buying an expansion team. Garcia was the highest paid player in the league and might still hold that record. $500k for 3 years. $166k a year over 20 years ago was a great gig. In the end, the AFL couldn't grow further. NFL owners realized growth had stopped before their teams became profitable so they bailed. The infamous missed season was a result of the players being lied to that the league was successful so wanted their fair share not realizing that it was bluster to try to garner new owners. In the end, the NFL owners given sweetheart deals is what doomed the league. They bought teams for a third what other owners had paid for expansion teams. That growth fund the league relied on disappeared. Old teams that had built fan bases with cheap tickets couldn't compete with the big market teams who had $300 front row seats. Even if 90% of the arena went unsold or was comped out.

Because the team wouldn't be in the city he's a councilman of.... They'd hate that any business is moving to another jurisdiction

I know that Utah now apparently has a law that Utah has to be the name and not Salt Lake. But it would be pretty cool to see the Salt Lake Bees have the Salt Lake A's across town.

He's a councilman for the city of Cleveland. Of course he's going to have issue with the team moving out to the area around the airport. Nobody else in Cuyahoga County or the state of Ohio would care if the browns were in the suburbs. Hell, I think a stadium in Richfield would probably be more beneficial for all the fans driving to the games. The lakefront location only really benefits the Mentor and northeast Ohio shore fans. Everyone else would be better served by a stadium south of town along 480 or 271.

Players can switch sides mid game as long as there's a timeout.

I know the reasons, but this game really feels like the Lions in special jerseys. Endzones in the blue match too much with the BattleHawks even though they're road. All white, silver, and blue just fits too well with Ford Field field than the Panthers colors.

Browns fan here, so permit me to be a bit bias about the Steelers... They greatly improved their QB squad. However, it's going to be a sheet-show no matter what. Wilson went there thinking he was a shoe-in for the starting position. Steelers went with him because Denver ate the rest of the contract. They boot Pickett to make it obvious who is starting. And now they get Fields? Wilson is not going to be happy. Fields won't be happy either. Sure, both think they're going to or should be the starter. But how well will they work together in the lockerroom instead of creating factions to support them starting over the other guy. Browns had many times two above average but flawed QBs at the same time where the team as a whole couldn't function because half wanted QBA and other half wanted QBB to start. You wind up with basically nothing. Players dog it when their guy isn't starting, in-fighting, etc. You need a clear starter. I know you say you are going to have a competition and no one's job is guaranteed, but you have to at least know that's just to avoid complacency by the starter. If you don't know today when trading for Fields whether he's QB1 or QB2 or if the future starter is still in the draft... then you're just throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks. In the end, this feels like a Tommy Maddox situation. Remember him? Good, serviceable. Wins some games as long as he's not the weapon needed to win the game. But he can lose some games if you put them in his hands. But he played long enough to get them to Roethlisberger and the rest is history. Fields isn't their answer. But he might make them get over the hump enough, long enough, that they can work for QB1 in the 2025 or 2026 draft while assembling the rest of the roster around Fields/Wilson and and just plug in the future franchise QB later the way Roethlisberger was installed with the likes of that D, Bettis, Ward, Randle El, etc.

The fact it was a typo makes so much more sense. Because I was really questioning where you were coming up with that statement. No sweat though, I've forgotten to put in the 'not' part of a sentence before and had some really odd conversations afterwords.

*This was a response to a typo.*

That's not a league, though. Regardless it's names intentions. It's just an expansion of the old Champions Cup, a tournament of league champions from around Europe. Which slowly started allowing more and more teams to participate and having a group stage that's a few games long. Teams playing in the Champions League still play their regular league schedule and compete for its championship at the same time. Now, if you'd like to say that the CONCACAF Champions Cup is the premier 'league' of North America, I think you'll get some push back.

That's been a thing on this board for a while. For historical context, I would prefer it not to be that way (the perfectionist in me wants to say the 1936 Boston ******** rather than Commanders, simply because Commanders is a recent name change). If anything, I'd rather it just be censored or as I just did, asterisked, and not try to retcon historical records with a name that didn't exist at the time. As for colors in old photographs, there's a lot of factors. Film fades. Photographs fade. Different light/speed settings, ambient lighting with clouds or stadium lights, angle of the sun, sweat, fabric... And also the NFL and most leagues didn't become particularly annoying about color consistency until much more recently. I'm old enough to remember as a kid having Cleveland Browns shirts/hats/jackets in various shades of orange or brown and yet nobody questioned it. Nobody cared about the exact specific shade of orange or brown. As long as all the uniforms matched on game day it didn't matter if the shading was slightly lighter or darker.

Having or not having the 'best' players in your league isn't the only metric for a country's major leagues. If you want to get specific, then, there isn't really a 'major league' in soccer internationally. Not the EPL, not Serie A, not Bundesliga, none... Because they are a few 'great' teams that draw all the stars and a bunch of essentially AAA teams who cosplay as top tier teams. In EPL, you can name the 4 or 5 likely winners of the league five years from now and probably be accurate. For every Leicester City, there's dozens of champions claimed by the repetitive, expected contenders. MLS will never 'be that' because the league structure is far more American and they're not going to let Orlando or Kansas City or Nashville flounder as cannon fodder just so a few LA/NYC teams dominate the league year-to-year buying whoever they want. In US sporting culture, an European-styled league will not survive if it's the same few monied power-teams winning titles year after year after year. Most of the country is probably annoyed that Kansas City just won a title two years in a row. Can you imagine if the NFL had a Bayern Munich-like team who have won the Bundesliga TEN STRAIGHT YEARS? There'd be 500 people at non-Bayern games.

SLC has the benefit of being a mostly laid out grid, with freeways that are all adequately sized running in north/south or east/west directions mostly. Even the 215 loop runs more in a square than a circle. Putting a venue anywhere on the west side of SLC along the 215 near 80 or 201 would work fine. Even off 201 near Bangerter, or anywhere along I-15. There isn't 'one side' of SLC that is economically better or worse for location. It's not like DFW where the northern suburbs far outweigh the south, for instance. The only real limit is the mountains to the east. Anywhere else will work. The only real negative for SLC is that many of the locations around the freeways are heavily industrial or warehouses. Or heavy residential. There's not a lot of in-between.

This has got to be a joke, right?

The perfect time for DHL to swoop in.

Also, the Blue Jackets have done a lot for the Fury. Both online, and at their games.

It's really just strange that they're in Henderson at a 4000 seat arena built for the VGK minor league affiliate and hosts things like NBA G-League and indoor football. It's a busy arena. But Las Vegas has a ton of arenas. They're clearly aiming for the suburbs, but only the southeast suburbs. Potential fans from west (Summerlin) or northern tier along 215 aren't driving to Henderson. The hope is Henderson comes out en force. But they've got a lot of options in that arena now. I can't even think of all the arenas along the strip now. Especially ones that can handle a volleyball setup. The notable ones at casinos are Orleans Arena (9,500), MGM Grand Garden Arena (17,000), Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay (12,500), and T-Mobile Arena (17,500). I believe UNLV's venues are off-limits thanks to the Allegiant Stadium deal. But that's four much larger venues even if they're in the 'tourist' area that locals try to avoid when possible (though not for NHL/NFL games). Orleans has hosted many minor league teams over the years. While MGM is more for concert events, and only hosted two minor league seasons. Both in 1994. An indoor soccer team and the AFL's Las Vegas Sting. No seasonal sports team since then. While Mandalay Bay's arena has been the home of the Las Vegas Aces WNBA team and Las Vegas Desert Dogs NLL team.

On android, use your brower to access Apple TV and you can watch it. Apple doesn't have an app that works for Android (or at least most android systems).

An unbelievable opening set.. and not one official account on Twitter has posted the score. In fact, the league and Mojo account hasn't acknowledged anything since the game started. And the Rise stopped tweeting after it was 23-23. Ended 36-34 for Mojo.

Coyotes move to Atlanta. Jets move to Phoenix. In ten years, the Atlanta Coyotes can move to Winnipeg. It's the circle of life.

Unfortunately this Orlando-Las Vegas game has been rather... blah. And you can really tell this is a small arena and struggling to get crowd noise into the broadcast.

Columbus in the red really works well. Glad they went with that over black/gray/anything else. Omaha's feels so busy, but it works well as long as they're not going up against a blue or black primary team.

I loved the Pit Spitters identity. Got to go to a few games when in Traverse City. My daughter liked the logo as well and has worn the shirt I got her since then. Goes with the Cherry industry of the area. The michigan/mitt logo is perfection. The colors/clean look of the uniform. And it doesn't feel forced as all. "Angry Cherries" or something goofy and over-the-top.