Luigi74

If the rumors are true and it's Acrisure, I'm really hoping the blowback is huge and The Rooney's back out and take less money from a local company. I know that'll never happen.

What happens with Oregon and Washington all depends on the B1G landing Notre Dame or not. If the B1G can get Notre Dame there's a good chance they add another team(most likely Stanford) and stop at 18 or get up to 20 by raiding the ACC. If they can't get ND, then you'll see Oregon, Washington and maybe another team or two from the PAC12 along with 2 or 3 teams from the ACC.

The biggest reason GM kept Buick was due to the brand being tied at the hip with GMC Trucks, plus Buick fit nicely between Chevy and Cadillac, while Pontiac and Saturn were on par with Chevy.

I doubt anyone involved knew High School basketball numbering rules.

Nice! Earlier this year Michigan brought back the retro dark blue and yellow "Water-Winter Wonderland" plates, a lot of people have ditched the Pure Michigan plate for it. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/12/02/michigan-license-plate-water-winter-wonderland/8838020002/

It is, they don't have to give up any draft picks and if he's a bust they can draft a QB next year when the talent pool is deeper.

Swann and Stallworth not going in earlier or in the same class is due to the "voting" system the HOF uses. There was a bloc of writers who represented the Raiders, Cowboys, Dolphins, Vikings, and Packers, who weren't going to let more 70's Steelers in unless more of their guys went in.

They've always had two weeks and in some cases a week to get the field ready, I understand that there's always going to be a time crunch but that shouldn't be the excuse for the weak looking fields we've been getting. For some reason the NFL has an issue with using the conference logos, not just on the fields the hats both teams wore on Sunday just said Conference Champions with no conference name or logo. I'm assuming there's some ultra corporate speak reason for phasing them out.

Yeah a kick down the middle with some loft so it comes down around the 10 was the best option, any return burns clock and if the returner gives himself up they're starting around the 10 with 12 seconds left in the game. If they were worried about the kicker shanking it by not going full blast jump offsides before the kick and get moved back 5 yards.

I vaguely remember someone on either The Sports Writers on TV or The Sports Reporters, suggesting a first team to score 8 points overtime format, this would have been around the time college started overtime. Sure the team that wins the toss still has an advantage but it gives the D a second chance to keep the game going.

I think Carr saying the Raiders were going to let the clock run down is just him and the Raiders sticking it to their division rival Chargers. They were in the shotgun so it's doubtful they'd risk a bad snap if Carr was going to take a knee, he'd be under center if that was the plan. Had they not picked up a yard their FG attempt would be 56 yards, I bet the Raiders attempt that kick, their in a dome so it's highly unlikely the kick is short and returned, plus the fear of a block returned for a TD is pretty much the same at the distance they ended up kicking at.

Cleveland is in the same boat as Pittsburgh when NBA expansion comes up, there really isn't enough corporate money in the region to spread around among four major league teams for sponsorships, suites and so on, same when it comes to disposable income for the fans attending the games and their general interest.

Outside of the first home game no one went to Maulers games so there's no real history besides the cool painters hats they used to sell. Plus everyone who went to that first game was there to throw snowballs at Cliff Stoudt, not cheer on the Maulers.

Unless they're going to play at Highmark Stadium, I doubt they'll be a Pittsburgh Maulers. Even though the region is football crazy there's no way minor league football will draw more than a few thousand people to games.

Most of the team already having Super Bowl rings is the reason the 2010 Steelers went with an AFC Championship watch.

That was a play that shouldn't have been reviewed, it was a clear catch, run and fumble with clear recovery by Seattle, when the Seahawks spiked the ball was irrelevant since the call for the review guaranteed they'd get a shot at a field goal. The over/under for the game was either 42 or 42.5 in most sports books, going to OT all but guarantees that the final total is 43 or more.

Watt and Bush both played in that game, when those two are healthy the Steelers D is one of the best in the league. I think the Steelers would have traded up(the 5 to 10 range) the past few seasons if they saw there was a "QB of the future" for the taking, but there really wasn't.

Was Colorado State even on the Big 12's radar? To me it seems like they'd be #5 on the list behind the 4 teams that were added, maybe even a notch above BYU since they don't bring all that baggage.

ESPN is the one pulling the strings, if the Big 12 goes kaput Texas & Oklahoma can start SEC play before 2025 and the remaining Big 12 schools combined with the AAC is an upgrade from the current AAC. Bowlsby is fighting this since he's out of a high paying cushy job that pretty much anybody could do.

Raiding the MTN West and AAC for their better schools and basically form a new conference that would use the Big 12 name. I can't see the Big 10 adding Kansas and Iowa State just to help them out or as a knee jerk reaction to what the SEC is doing. Maybe the PAC12 looks east and takes Texas Tech, OK State, Kansas and maybe New Mexico or Houston to get to 16 with two 8 team divisions that sort of make geographical sense.

No one from the PAC12 would move to a Big 12 that doesn't include Texas and Oklahoma, without those two schools the Big 12 is slightly more attractive than the AAC. The Big 12 will raid the AAC and MTN West for their better teams and the PAC12 will stay the same unless something crazy happens like the Big Ten expanding to 20 teams.

The Big Ten isn't going to add a school in a state they already have a member, so no ISU or Pitt. Would the Big Ten look west? The PAC12's media deal is up in 2024 so no GOR holding schools down like the ACC targets, plus culturally the nine PAC12 AAU schools are more of a fit than the ACC schools,

They have but the Lakers rings take it to the next level.

The ring ceremony was on before the game the other night, those rings looked comically huge on the players fingers.

It looks like most of the Fox owned and operated stations east of the rockies are showing the game, those stations would be in Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia, Orlando, Tampa-St. Pete, and Washington DC, for some reason the FOX O&O's in Atlanta and Houston aren't carrying it. The other cities were probably slated to show it before the scheduled got trashed thanks to the Ravens. I'm a Steeler fan(moved away from Pittsburgh) living in Detroit and we weren't getting the game if it was played on it's original date since the Lions were playing at the same time. I can see two reasons why the game isn't being shown in more markets, the first being the NFL doesn't want to devalue Sunday Ticket more than it already is by making the game national and local stations not wanting to give up the revenue from their ad slots during syndicated shows and local news.