Cosmic

44 minutes ago, the admiral said:

 

I remember when Bill Parcells got in trouble because he said "we're working on what we used to call 'Jap plays'" and ESPN kept running it over and over while talking about how terrible it was. Let's take another look at this shocking footage.

 

Anyway, the Raiders will probably fire Gruden FUH CAWWWSE not entirely because of the enormity of his remarks but also because they have him signed to a terrible contract, he has underachieved, and this is the deus ex machina they need to get out from under it. Same math equation as the case of Dan McNeil making fun of Maria Taylor's leather dress.

It's also the Mike Richards math that got his contract halfway cancelled for a crime he never ended up being prosecuted for.

2 hours ago, See Red said:

For what it's worth, Urban Meyer is under NFLPA investigation for cutting players in part because of their failure to get vaccinated, which violates the CBA.

I wouldn't want players around who could randomly cause me to forfeit games, either.

6 hours ago, BBTV said:

What do the new owners actually retain other than the ip?  It's not like there's franchises, or players that are signed, or really any tie to the former league other than the name and logo.  Maybe some tackling dummies or blocking sleds.

 

They're basically starting from scratch, just with a pre-made logo.

I tried to find details about what kind of XFL assets were actually sold without reading an entire court filing, and I saw that they still had nine employees while in bankruptcy. It's a tiny connective thread, but The Rock and his partners bought an actual business that was still paying employees. This isn't like dusting off USFL identities after 40 years.

Really bizarre to hear an ESPN talking head calling out NHL players by name. I don't think the Good Canadian Boys are going to like this deal.

3 hours ago, ManillaToad said:

defunct teams:

Seals/Barons - 6 yrs in San Francisco, 9 in Oakland, 2 in Cleveland

Standard disclaimer that the Seals should really be considered the Sharks.

On 4/4/2021 at 3:17 PM, CS85 said:

 

Bones Coffee comes to mind.  I'm not a big flavored coffee fan, but I had a couple that were alright.  Unfortunately my wife then bought like 14 pounds of Bones Coffee for me that I have very little intention of drinking anytime soon, but their packaging is cool.

My wife found this stuff somehow, and she even saves the labels to display around the house. "Honey, why has the picture of us at the cabin been replaced by a maybe-problematic Jamaican skeleton coffee label?" The mugs are really high quality; if you can get them on sale, I highly recommend them. As far as the coffee, I drink anything from Starbucks to Bones to Great Value and don't really notice a difference.

Four teams have lost 14 in a row since the shootouts started. Two of them are the Sabres.

17 hours ago, Sport said:

 

I think they kind of got f***** by their covid pause and people aren't really giving them the benefit of that doubt. The Devils are dealing with the same thing. They were 4-4-2 on January 31, had to take two weeks off, and they're 2-14-2 since then. I don't think they're good as it is, but shutting down for two weeks while their opponents kept playing and training combined with now having to play a compressed schedule. I think it's a little unfair to call them the worst team ever. 

Are people really trying to claim they're the worst team ever?! You probably only have to go back to last year's Red Wings to find a worse team! These people obviously haven't been watching the Sabres for the last ten years, either! In the lockout-shortened 2013 season, the team had a respectable 48 points in 48 games... the next year, they had 52 points in 82 games! In the McDavid/Eichel tank year, they traded Michael Neuvirth because he was too good! 

I think they're a mediocre team that also is demoralized. The Devils thing is pretty insane... from 2 positives to 17 right around when they were playing the Sabres, but the Sabres don't get the benefit of the doubt because they haven't actually shown much recently. The rain isn't the reason I didn't run that 5k today; it was never going to happen. It'd be like if your Jackets got screwed on that disappearing penalty in a 4 goal loss.

On 3/15/2021 at 7:45 PM, DEAD! said:

... and we would have had the Buffaslug forever be a symbol of success!

First season out of the lockout was still the goat head, then a season with the slug on the old template, then Edge hit.

On 3/15/2021 at 9:07 PM, the admiral said:

on the ops side, man, they just can't get the right people to hire the right people.

I don't know how much they meddle, but I don't tend to blame them for the Sabres' failures. They tried stuff and it didn't work. The same way Jamarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf, etc. would have gone #2 or #3 overall if they weren't picked #1, I don't think anyone was really criticizing the GM hires at the time. The losing culture became a boulder rolling downhill at some point, and it's hard to snap out of it. Now, I think the pandemic has got the Pegulas on the ropes and they're cutting back instead of investing money to turn things around, but that's almost a separate issue.

5 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

The Arizona Coyotes are going to announce their plan to fill the arena to capacity for every game in two weeks.

A million K-pop stans have already registered online for tickets to the first game.

The one that always bothers me on my local sports radio is the tax relief attorneys. I’m sure there are some legitimate reasons for their services (I’m fat from a glandular disorder!) but maybe just pay your taxes?

8 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

 

Maybe a dumb question, but did the Oklahoma team actually pay for that old Las Vegas Aces concept from the boards here?

1 hour ago, andregunts said:

 

um...maybe up to 5,000 human deaths? 

 

Im gonna go look that up, I didnt know it was so much. Lord have mercy

And they confiscate the foreign workers' passports so they can't go home. You know, standard construction stuff.

Surely there’s examples where it doesn’t look like this, but the very rectangular jaw in the UAB logo reminds me of a dragon dance costume. The red and yellow don’t hurt, either.

It's not horrible enough that it demands an immediate return; we should at least give it a few months.

3 hours ago, Ice_Cap said:

Team identities were the best part of the AAF. The XFL 2.0 will be a sharp looking league if they can rise to that standard. 

To be fair, were there any good parts besides the team identities?

Hi, yes, I ordered the Fourth of July sherbet, but I received the Bastille Day sherbet. Please give me a refund.

13 hours ago, Red Comet said:

 

Thanks for the rabbit hole. One minute in and they're playing a recording of the National Anthem by a "Grammy Award winner". I'd say who it was, but a plane was flying over the stadium at the time so I couldn't make it out. Here's some testimony from a guy who actually runs a semi-pro league.

 

The saddest part? The only comments on the video are a guy who "hopes he can go pro" and another guy replying hoping he does too. 

That’s Whitney. They’re playing a full YouTube video for their anthem, not even just the relevant part. 

^^^ Pretty low contrast for, you know, a flag. They’re supposed to be easily identifiable from a distance. 

34 minutes ago, Red Wolf said:

 

But... he did say "bro." It was literally first thing he wrote. I will grant that it can't be Russo because he didn't say "bro" enough times.

That’s true. At a minimum, Vince does bookend bros.

22 hours ago, d11king said:

 

Bro I came in here like damn the Angels opted out? Why they don’t talk about it when I watch the games (I live in LA) & I come here I see the XFL, NFL, NBA, CFB and X-Games being mentioned.. I hit that back button like where tf am I lmao

Vince Russo, is that you?

15 hours ago, who do you think said:

Montreal and Toronto aren't special. Sorry.

@Ice_Cap is too kind to come right out and say it, but yes, the Montreal-Toronto dynamic IS special and unlike anything that we have in the US. Canada is not a very populous country (number 39 in my program, number 2 in my heart), and there’s a lot of elbow room. Almost a quarter of the population lives in those two metro areas. The Montreal-Toronto duopoly and the fact that they represent fundamentally different populations that have been in a frequently-awkward union for hundreds of years is quite simply something that we don’t have in the US. Rivalries aren’t guaranteed by city affiliations, but they can juice the odds. Yankees-Red Sox is an all-timer, but Patriots-Jets not so much. However, that Patriots-Jets game probably still means more to those fans than a game against another random bad team, like Bills-Jets or Bills-Patriots.

10 minutes ago, Cujo said:

"Buffalo -- You Can See Canada From Here"

(That patch of land behind the ship is Canada)

12 hours ago, McCarthy said:

the Browns players' contracts were shifted to a different franchise the same way they would be in a trade

And what exactly did the Browns get for that whopper of a trade? A three-year vacation?

16 minutes ago, Survival79 said:

 

It'll be interesting to see what Sternberg has to say today. Hopefully, someone will remind him of his promise.

 

May 2007: Principal owner Stuart Sternberg clarified comments in a The New York Times story, saying there is no deadline for a new ballpark and he will stick to his promise to never demand one. When Sternberg took over the team in October 2005 he pledged he would never demand a new stadium, and Tuesday he reiterated that promise. "Absolutely,'' he said. "I was extra clear a year and a half ago, and nothing has changed.''

 

never adverb

nev·er | \ ˈne-vər \

Definition of never

1: not ever : at no time

2: not in any degree : not under any condition

You're focusing on the wrong parts. "never demand ONE" "never demand A new stadium"... If he demands two, and he maybe gets one, well now that's a horse of a different color.