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Mark Shapiro is that you?

Kobe Bryant, first player to play 20 seasons with the same NBA team, opening the 2015 season playing against Kevin Garnett.

Kobe Bryant's first ever game in 1996 he played against Kevin Garnett.

I like that the trophy isn't on the face, that's becoming a bit cliche. Of rings I've seen anyways.

I'd try the following events at fixed listed locales in a rotation for a few decades... politics be damned, they're killing public pocket books by going new every f'n time...

Summer Olympics:

Sydney Australia

Tokyo Japan

Beijing China

Moscow Russia

Athens Greece

Paris France

Barcelona Spain

Los Angeles USA

Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Cape Town South Africa

Winter Olympics

Pyeongchang South Korea

Beijing China

Sochi Russia

Stockholm Sweden

Lillehammer Norway

Munich Germany

Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy

Bern Switzerland

Lake Placid USA

Calgary Canada

Some co-hosts for FIFA WC, because I'm re-writing the rules...

World Cup

Australia/New Zealand

Japan/South Korea

China

Germany

France/Belgium

United Kingdom/Ireland

Spain/Portugal

USA/Canada

Brazil/Argentina

South Africa

I'm still not sure if I like alt unis in MLB postseason. Even the Blue Jays' blues while great, seem a bit less formal.

Get off my lawn & stuff I suppose.

Washington NFLers' yellow pants & white tops looked great.

Notre Dame (all sports): My dad is a huge ND fan, as was his dad before him. My parents were raised Catholic, and I'm of Irish heritage. Plus I like wearing Kelly green.

See, I can respect that.

It's ND fans who became fans because the tv told them to which make my eyes roll.

Chronological order... the genesis of my overall sporting interests kicked in around 1987 when I quickly began understanding different teams, sports, & leagues...

Maple Leafs - because my father & family watched them... I used to watch HNIC on a b&w rabbit eared tv in my bedroom because that was awesome. A Leafs Stanley Cup would nearly trump every championship combined of my other fav teams. Being a Leafs fan is life... sure any Jays run is sweet, yet it does not hold a candle to a deep Leafs playoff run no matter what. Like Brian Burke said dead panned to Bill Simmons- take franchises like the Red Sox, Notre Dame, Cowboys, & Lakers -combined- & they don't come close to offer what it is to be a Leafs fan, a Leafs supporter in Toronto, in Canada... not even close.

Blue Jays - because they were so accessible compared to the Leafs... daily games during summer holidays from school + cheaper tickets... + from the time I got on board in 1987, they'd been on a full upswing towards winning a WS or 2. 1987 is still one of their best teams ever imo 96 wins losing only because the Tigers were amazing.

Argonauts - because home team, & the 1987 Grey Cup even though they lost is still the greatest football game ever played imo.

Patriots - because the Bills were accessible via Toronto's American tv feed from Buffalo, yet they were annoying. I would see the Bills play at Foxborough & see a lot of (probably Maritimers) Canadian Patriots fans in the stands & I liked that... once Bill Parcells & Drew Bledsoe got on board, so too did I. Ty Law is my all time fav Patriot, the 'Bills game' (gifted calls on a final drive) is still my fav Patriots game. Having witnessed 7 Super Bowl trips makes no sense to me when other franchises barely go once every 20yrs.

Florida State football - I wanted to get into NCAAF & since I hated Notre Dame, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, the Big10, Big12, & most every other stupid school that didn't have the balls to play a pro style offense let alone send yearly talent to the NFL, I quickly jumped on the FSU bandwagon. Annual Miami & Florida games are icing on the cake - football factory state of Florida, & FSU plays both every single season.

Raptors - because the NBA was interesting enough & it was fun to have a home team.

TFC - because while I thought MLS was bush league, I knew that TFC's mantra was to think bigger & bolder. Apparently so too did a lot of Torontonians because TFC leapt to model franchise status, wins & losses be damned.

I've been an England footy supporter only because Canada f'ing can't ever crack the damn 100 lately... which is beyond absurd, it's criminal.

I'm a mild Liverpool supporter in so much that I want to root for someone in the EPL & most other teams are pansies.

To your championship experience mention, I've witnessed as fan looks like 14 titles.

Clippers look like a Walmart greeting crew.

Bledsoe only wore these for a short time. This is clearly the Tom Brady era unis.

I was born in '98, so to me these are the correct uniforms for Drew. IIRC, that picture is from the AFC Championship in '01, which is the last time he saw playing time as a Patriot.

I'm a Patriots fan circa 1993 when Parcells took over & I quit the stupid Bills who I only followed because I was a kid + geography.

Anyways, Drew Bledsoe remains my fav Patriot... I liked that he was essentially a video game QB for his era & he performed as such. Those teams were fun before the entire planet hated on them with Belichick.

My favs of the SB era have been Ty Law, Kevin Faulk, & Gronk.

Brian Stork is the first player of both my favourite teams, Seminoles + Patriots, to win back to back championships via NCAA + NFL.

#mindblown

Incredibly(?) he's only the 5th player to ever accomplish the feat...

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24999609/

William Floyd FSU + SF

Courtney Upshaw Alabama + BAL

Randall Gay LSU + NE

Tony Dorsett Pitt + DAL

I'm tired of the 'loveable' Cubs label.

We get it... the Cubs are forever losers. And?

I hate when guys like Iginla and Jagr become rent-a-players at the end of their careers. Sort of tarnishes they're main career team "feel" when they wear 17 other sweaters in the league.

I don't mind all of them. Jagr remains more productive than most because of his size, patience, stickhandling, & able to create space without speed.

Guys like Iginla & Recchi, those are players I get tired of... chasing rings instead of playing for fun.

NCAA should have a champions league format.

Did you fold the Texans?

nm, I see you made up a lot more other teams elsewhere

There is a lot of discussion of the Canucks jerseys going on in the NHL Jersey thread... I like the set as is.

I like the orca C... also unpopular.

Oh man, I wouldn't wish that upon poor Peyton.

And I don't think the cap penalty would have mattered. Peyton is a smart guy, there is no way he honestly would have thought that he was a better fit in Washington than in Denver. The only players that come to Washington are free agents looking to get PAID so they can coast the rest of their career comfortably. Peyton isn't that.

And last part of my self-deprecating rant: If that picture above was real and Peyton did sign with the Redskins, is there ANY chance he'd still be playing right now? I say, none whatsoever and his legacy would be tarnished. You'd have to remember his career in spite of what he did as a Redskin. If that picture was real, realistically we'd all be talking like: "Wow, can you believe it's already been 2 years since Peyton Manning died? Remember him?"

Was it Mike Shanahan at the helm? I suppose they might've had 10 win potential.

Haynesworth & Mr. Glass Griffin III didn't help reality.

Golf should ditch its current dress code. Golf is on a steep decline, let us play in t-shirts, shorts, & sandals if we want.

Blue Jays current 11 game win streak, they've trailed in only 2 of 100 innings.

Try breaking this one: Ed Ruelbach two complete game shutouts in one Day!

MLBPA would probably disallow that to even occur.

Since 1986, the New York Giants have won only a single playoff game whereby they didn't end up playing in a SB.

There has never been a documented perfect March Madness bracket.

The odds are 1 in 9.2 quintillion. One in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.

So when Warren Buffett offers his $1 billion perfect bracket prize... don't think too deeply about it.

This has nothing to do with uniforms, but rather with stadiums- this is an unpopular opinion, anyway, and I know I may catch some flack for this: With some areas being plagued by droughts, I wouldn't mind some stadiums in those areas in baseball or football switching to artificial turf; the turfs today are MILES better than the stuff put out in the 1970s and 1980s.

{shots fired}

It'll take more than a couple years... maybe if ppl are dying from thirst for another 10+, then sure the SoCal & southwest teams might go for it... just to look like they're trying.

Toronto can't wait to get rid of its turf, the 2nd last in MLB with TB. 2018 aiming for.

You could, & should, switch Cleveland & Boston. Otherwise the terrorists win or something.

I don't know if this is unpopular,but I like patches.

You are going to have to get more specific here, patches don't look bad, unless they are sponsors or a bad looking championship logo.

My fav looking patch was the NFL's 75th.

So where to for 2022?

I say USA with a couple opening games in Canada.