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On 12/13/2023 at 4:21 PM, DG_ThenNowForever said:

It'll be fun when Buffalo gets its Super Bowl in a few years.

 

People who complained about Detroit and Jacksonville will feel silly. Buffalo in February for the Super Bowl is going to be hilarious.

Dear God please no. Some "celebrity" from The Real Housewives of Duluth would tweet out they were bored while they were in town, and it would live in our collective psyche forever. People are just starting to forget about the Anderson Cooper Dyngus Day scandal!

Von Miller's on the field today?! 

Don't beat your girlfriend (on video), kids.

4 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

And yet, this misses what may have been the worst officiating blunder. There's a difference between judgement calls, and not officiating according to the rulebook.

Following the stoppage for review that determined that the runner was down by contact, their should have been (1) a 10 second runoff, and (2) the clock should have started when the ball was made ready for play. Getting game operations like this wrong is a bigger problem than making a crappy call on a judgement call (both ways).

 

Reasonable minds can disagree on whether something was or wasn't a penalty (not sure where the reasonable minds above), but if you can't properly follow operational rules, what the hell?

My mind is a little foggy, but that was at the end of the game when the Chiefs were driving? I remember thinking the officials basically gave them a free timeout for no reason.

9 hours ago, BBTV said:

I can’t believe McDermott kneeled on the ball going into OT, considering the way they were shredding the eagles D. It wasn’t much time, but he had TOs, and just need d to get to FG range which would have been two or three quick sideline passes. 

For me, this goes for many kneel-downs to end a half... if you think the defense has a better chance of scoring than your offense when you have the ball, why even play the game?! If you're on your own 15 with 5 seconds left, that's one thing; if you've got a reasonable shot, might as well take it.

2 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

Brady is the GOAT. Belichick was a long for the ride. We had our question answered for real this season.

 

Those Pats won because they had Tom Brady. Any team could have had him but the Pats made that pick.

Not that anybody cares about defending the honor of 2010s AFC East but me, but I found my note on Google Keep. From 2010 to 2018, the Patriots were 70-20 (.778) out of the division in the regular season and 43-11 (.796) in the division. If they had a .778 winning percentage in their 54 division games in that time, they would have lost about one more game over nine years. Not one game per year... one game.

4 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Lol Rex Ryan. Right to his damn face.

 

 

 

 

Alex Smith obviously didn't read my post here on CCSLC where I actually did the math and the Patriots' winning percentage was basically the same in-division or out. Yeah, they dominated their division, but they also dominated everybody else, too. I can't find it now, so I'll have to re-do it at some point (and hope the math didn't change too much since then).

The NHL, as usual, has stepped in it again. After saying he would pay the fine to wear the mask in warmups, the NHL threatened the Wild with double secret probation or something. Now, we get to see what the league will actually do about it. 

Amazing mask, btw.

6 hours ago, Cujo said:

There's no way

 

Reminds me of when that girl tried to blackmail Jagr but he wasn't married and he didn't really have anything to hide. Belichick's divorced, right? Good for him for doing anything other than football.

6 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

Allen felt pressured and threw it away. By the book, that's a flag. What am I missing here?

The pressure was not that bad, and the receiver stopped running after the ball was in the air. It was just a miscommunication. It may have been slightly overthrown, but it was definitely not throwing the ball away.

2 hours ago, Cujo said:

Really surprised Jets-Giants didn't results in a tie. 

 

That being said, the right team lost.

The Giants really should have gone for it on that 4th-and-1 with ~30 seconds left. They had had remarkable success running the ball in the second half considering they had completely given up on passing and everybody knew it.

The penalty that basically ended the game in OT was really dumb (on the player, not on the refs). They needed some baseball-like situational awareness in the defensive huddle. Doing a horribly blatant PI gives the Jets the game anyway, so it doesn't really matter if the DB gets beat there. Just play defense and there's still a chance he doesn't catch the ball!

No game has ever deserved to be a tie as much as this Jets-Giants game.

Just now, the admiral said:

Ayyyy!!! Tommy DeVito!!! MY GUY!!! NOO YAWK NUMBAH ONE BABY

Flag. And now he used up his one pass attempt per half.

If you say every team sucks and they have no shot at winning the Super Bowl, you'll be right about 97% of the time.

Dr. Josh Allen and Mr. Hyde. Very scary.

4 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

The year after the Saints cried about blowing the NFCCG. It was a mess because refs would still miss PI under replay.

Did they get rid of PI reviews? I just remember the success rate getting them overturned was pretty atrocious, so I thought maybe coaches just stopped challenging.

On 8/31/2023 at 8:05 PM, the admiral said:

Didn't it have some work done when they built out the Harborcenter around it? How'd that whole thing end up going?

Harborcenter has a second floor skybridge to the arena, but I think the arena itself is virtually the same as in 1996. New paint to replace the 90s office park terra cotta scheme, some new seats, ribbon board, a couple generations of jumbotron, but I think that's it. I've heard stories of things like hot water not working in some bathrooms, but for something built in the 90s (not like it's depression-era plumbing and electrical), that seems like they're maybe letting little things go on purpose so they can cry poor.

I think newer arenas have a little more room on the concourses, but there's really not much I would change. There's a cool project that's already happening to turn an old railroad terminal behind the arena into (finally) a proper light rail station for the arena. That's probably all the arena really needs. Since 1996, there's been a tempo-permanent "station" for the arena that's literally 10'-15' long. There's not many things the Buffalo light rail does well, but bringing people to the arena is one of them; it deserves a nice station down there.

Edit: A little tldr for "the whole thing"... the Pegulas seem to have bitten off more than they could chew trying to get into the restaurant and entertainment field, but things seem to be pretty steadily growing/renovating in the Canalside/arena area even with them pulling back. One of the encouraging signs is ugly little pieces of land finding uses. There's a building going up completely encircled by an off-ramp clover leaf. I think the final pit from the former Aud site is finally getting built up. There's a rich developer from DC who's been buying up everything that's not nailed down in the whole area, but he actually seems to get projects done. Overall, it's promising tortoise-like slow but steady improvement in the area.

The unifying superstructure behind the Bills and Sabres is being dissolved. Maybe that belongs in the Good Business Decision Aggregator? Several reports over the years that it was a pretty dysfunctional place to work. Some speculation that the Sabres will start looking for public handouts for their arena; it will be 30 years old in 2026, and I don't think it's ever had what could be considered a "major" renovation.

I guess I don't really understand how affiliation deals work. Carolina was going to fire the coach in Chicago? But they don't own the team?

RIP Rick Jeanneret. Called Sabres games for 50 years. Absolutely iconic voice. He's a bigger part of Sabres history than any individual player.

14 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

And to play devils advocate about something else that keeps coming up …

 

Ohio State joined what would eventually become the Big Ten in 1912, I believe.  I’m wondering what was more difficult… traveling between Columbus, Ohio to Iowa City in 1912 or Traveling from Rutgers to Los Angeles in 2024?

In their first year in the Big 10, 6 out of their 7 games were at home! 

I'm convinced the only reason the Coyotes have this current (bad) owner at all is because of the gambling license. It's the sports equivalent of hiding Grandma's body so you can keep cashing her Social Security checks.

12 hours ago, Nordiks_19 said:

I know it's only a tribute to the Nuggets, but i wouldn't mind seeing an alternate logo/jersey with these colors, i like how the yellow pops without being too agressive.

 

You have to at least do Year 2 to see if the numbers get better. It's a tough time to start a spring football league, with AAF and XFL 2.0 in recent memory and the USFL competing for eyeballs and players. The best thing XFL 3.0 can do is keep existing and it will give an implicit reason to care.

On 6/2/2023 at 7:34 PM, VampyrRabbit said:

75 years since the Porsche 356 was launched. The company was actually founded in 1931, but Porsche wants to keep that quiet for reasons that should be pretty clear considering it was a company founded by an Austrian in Germany during that time.

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a German company what they were doing in the 1930s and 40s.

No matter who wins, there's a decent chance of having a second Conn Smythe winner cast off from a basement-dwelling Sabres team.