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On 1/6/2022 at 12:58 PM, DTConcepts said:

 

Update: I bought the Stars jersey too. I also found this in another box and, of course, got it for myself:

It's been a good week for 90s NHL jerseys, but a bad week for my wallet!

My absolute favorite Capitals jersey.  I am a sucker for the blue-black-bronze era Caps.  

11 hours ago, JerseyJimmy said:

road pinstripes are the epitome of drip

 

I feel like road pinstripes (and, for some reason for me, these specific Twins uniforms) just scream late-90's/early-00's baseball aesthetic, and I absolutely love it.  I would love to see more road pinstripes.

49 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Nobody cares about anyone's predictions.  Isn't there a predictions thread?

 

My prediction?  They'll figure out how to make Ben Roethlisberger be an actual super hero, possibly with laser vision and the ability to fly.  It's well known that I'm no Andy Reid fan, but they'll be facing four teams this weekend - the Steelers, the referees, the networks, and the league.  As much as it would benefit the league for Mahomes to win another one and become even more of a star, they can never pass up a fairytale ending for a Steeler.

The worst part is our game against them yesterday was remarkably well-refereed, to the point where I don't think I complained about the refs a single time the whole game.  You know the NFL is gonna have to make up for Ed's little boy Shawn Hochuli making it tougher for the Steelers to get in in the first place.

2 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

Yeah, but your team has two Super Bowl titles and is consistently competitive. Doesn't getting a consistent winner cancel out losing NFL football for a dozen years?

Fair.  And I do think that my generation, having grown up with the Ravens, has definitely eased that sting.  It just kind of shocked me because you almost never hear about the Colts leaving anymore with the general NFL fanbase or in internet discussions, especially from someone outside of Baltimore.

1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

The Indianapolis Colts are going to choke in front of the worst team in the NFL and a bunch of fans dressed like clowns.
 

I’d feel bad for them if they didn’t leave Baltimore on the Mayflower trucks and ended so many Chiefs seasons when I was growing up. 

Just want to throw out props for being one of the first times I’ve ever seen people outside of Baltimore acknowledge the fact that Baltimore had their team ripped away from them too. Everyone seems to conveniently forget that point. 
 

On another note, I haven’t been this glad to see a Ravens season end since the one where Flacco tore his ACL and we ended up with a top 10 pick (2015? I think?). There has been very little joy in watching this team the last month and a half. Lost 6 straight to close out the year and 5 of those were by 3 points or less. Ridiculously bad close game execution. No Lamar for the last month. It’ll be nice to watch NFL football without having to worry too much about who’s winning, although the Steelers getting in really throws a damper on that. They seem like a slam dunk one-and-done but if anyone can pull an undeserved, referee-assisted playoff win out of their you-know-where, it’s the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1 hour ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

Didn't this graphic come from the team? They're really just going to let their new logo hang out for the world to see before it's revealed? I hope they would have better QC than that. 

 

Commanders could have been one of the options but chose to go with something else.

Expecting better QC out of a Dan Snyder-owned team, talk about an evergreen joke.

5 hours ago, LA Fakers+ LA Snippers said:

I put him in the same conversation as Matthew Stafford (pre-Rams); decent franchise QB, just saddled with a mediocre team year after year. Carr’s career may end up like Phillip Rivers, where he was a pretty good QB, but as someone mentioned on this thread, he never “mattered”.

Slightly Worse Matthew Stafford is about the perfect description for Carr.  Good-to-great QB that can absolutely uncork a deep ball TD when he wants to and put the team on his back if need be, but as you said, cursed with trying to drag a mediocre organization kicking and screaming to relevance.  On the flip side, because he's had such a crappy team and organization around him for so long, it's covered some of his legitimate flaws because everyone just assumes that anything that goes wrong with the Lions/Raiders is never Stafford/Carr's fault (which, to be fair, is usually correct).

14 hours ago, Cujo said:

NFL Black Monday Update

 

GONE

Matt Nagy

Vic Fangio

Matt Rhule

 

MAYBE

Mike Zimmer

Joe Judge

David Culley

 

WELL, THEY'RE INTERIMS

Darrell Bevell

Rich Bisaccia

 

SURPRISE 'MUTUAL PARTING OF WAYS'

John Harbaugh

Pete Carroll

I would be incredulous if this happens.  Sure Harbaugh has his flaws but he is unquestionably an elite coach and the Ravens have about 50 more issues they need to address before Harbaugh if they want to bounce back next year.

Lost by 1 in Pittsburgh. 
Lost by 2 in Cleveland.

Lost by 1 to the Pack. 
Had the worst defensive performance in franchise history while also playing QB3 who was signed off the street in Cincy. 
Lost by 1 to the Rams. 

Two of those losses came on failed 2-PT conversions that could’ve easily been successful. 
Most of our early season wins felt fraudulent. 
 

Not sure if I’ve ever been more ready for a football season to be over. 

4 hours ago, Red Comet said:

I guess letting Russ cook ended up like this:

4 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

What, it's just an ordinary Seahawks seas...

 

 

OH MY GOODNESS!!!

 

This team has needed a reset for a while and now might be the best time.

These both get POTD nominations from me for the Spongebob references. 

DP

21 minutes ago, Sport said:

I don’t feel bad about torching the JV Ravens. Not even a little bit. Bengals already creamed them at full strength in their house earlier this season so it’s not even a given that the true Ravens would’ve won today. 

I'm happy for y'all, I really am.  You guys have suffered a lot over the last decade-plus so to have some actual exciting young talent must be really exciting.  Besides, if anyone is gonna win the division, I'd rather see you fools win it than the Browns or, god forbid, those-who-shall-not-be-named.

I'm just completely checked out of this football season.  It's really hard to get invested when half of the team is sitting on the sideline and every single game we have another cornerback or offensive linemen going down with an injury.  The 2021 Ravens were a house of cards from Week-frickin-1 and the only thing staving that off was Lamar Jackson playing like an MVP again.  Once the Dolphins decided to just blitz him with everything they had and Greg Roman refused to adjust, then he got hurt, the season was in the toilet.  Then add in throwing away the Pittsburgh game and losing in heartwrenching fashion to the Brownies and the Pack and I'm just kind of done.  As long as the Patriots/Steelers/Chiefs don't win it all I'm not too pressed.

2 hours ago, Kramerica Industries said:

 

Even if Tom Brady is no longer with the Patriots, there's always plenty of joy to be had in the Patriots losing in the playoffs. I mean, 'mate, you're a Ravens fan, you've faced the Patriots four times in the playoffs in recent years while never once facing the Chiefs (usually 'cuz you lose before you get to them, admittedly). I don't know how you could even feel this way. 

 

Unless what you're saying here is that a Patriots/Chiefs AFC-CG in and of itself is already a lose-lose for everybody else, no matter who wins it. I could understand that POV a bit better, but while I will fully acknowledge having biases here (and last year's Super Bowl isn't one of them, I swear), I find these Chiefs teams a whole hell of a lot more tolerable than I ever found those Patriots teams. Frankly, when the Chiefs are on their game, they're really fun to watch and I've never been able to muster up any real disliking for them. Of course there is Tyreek Hill over there who's human rights record has a few undesirable notes on it, to say the least...

Yeah I meant the second one. I do find the Chiefs more tolerable than the Patriots but only slightly if I’m being honest. The amount of media attention/adulation/constant praise/hyperbole that Mahomes and Kelce and Hill and their offense gets (no matter how much of it is deserved; spoiler alert: much of it is) is just exhausting. Tyrann Mathieu comes off as arrogant. Tyreek Hill is a bad person. I for the most part don’t have a bone to pick with their fans, they suffered enough so they deserve to see some success. And Arrowhead has always been loud no matter what the team’s record has been, so they deserve props for that. The fact that they were Lamar’s main kryptonite the last 3 years didn’t help either. 
 

But even despite how much I loathed the Brady-era Patriots, I strangely couldn’t help myself from being happy when the Bucs and Brady won last year because of how much the Chiefs needed that slice of humble pie. They essentially did what they wanted to the entire league for the better part of 3 seasons and I think they started listening to their own hype a bit too much. Watching Brady and the Bucs defense completely dismantle them was something I enjoyed far more than I thought I would. 

Has everyone conveniently forgotten that the Chiefs are on like a 7 game winning streak? If they keep this up they'll ravage through the AFC and probably beat the Patriots in the AFC Championship game to do it because there is no joy in life and there most certainly isn't any joy in football.

I don't really want to talk about the game today.  I'm frankly kind of done with this season.  I'm not even mad or salty, I promise.  I'm just tired.

The Premier League granted a similar exemption to Ronaldo to let him wear 7. They both get (and deserve, frankly) special treatment after the amount of legendary football they’ve played for us over the years. 

2 hours ago, Glover said:

 

Claypool has quickly become one of my least favorite Steelers. Remember last year when he said "the Browns are going to get clapped next week so it's all good" on his livestream after the Browns ended their season? I'm not sure what was more embarrassing - the Steelers playoff performance or the fact their butthurt receiver was trash talking the team that just spanked him. He went on to say the Browns were acting classless because they were making fun of Juju's dancing. I personally couldn't care less if Juju wants to pretend he is iCarly and make a million videos of himself dancing, that is his choice. But don't be surprised when the other team mocks you for it - especially after you belittle your opponent to the media with the "Browns is the Browns" comment. 

 

Sorry for ranting, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, Chase Claypool is chump. 

I've never heard an athlete make a comment before that was so reminiscent of a basement-dwelling Redditor when someone talks trash about their team.  Him saying that is the absolute embodiment of immaturity.  The worst part is is that the dude is a WR1.5 at absolute best (and that's while playing opposite a legit WR1 (Diontae Johnson) in an offense that usually has to throw close to 50 times a game because their O-line is nonexistent), so it's not like he's the best player in the league to be able to back it up.

I'll never hate another Steelers player like I hated Hines Ward, but Claypool is doing a nice job carrying the torch for the Steelers' WR room.

13 minutes ago, Sport said:

It was 23-0 at halftime and my Steelers friend texted me and said "we look like ass. This is over". I said "I'm going to bed because it's not over and I don't want to watch the Steelers come back and win and be pissed off or watch the Steelers come back and sweat through them almost winning and be pissed off." I watched half an episode of Star Trek Discovery and fell asleep instead. Looks like I was right and I'm very pleased with my decision. 

Yeah but you did miss Chase Claypool acting like a complete knucklehead and doing the whole “move the chains” celebration that dudes do, except he spent 5-10 seconds doing that when the Steelers had no timeouts and desperately needed to spike the ball. 
 

Steelers players acting immature/cocky and costing their team in the long run, name a better duo. 

Absolutely. It’s been a combination of good coaching, high-end talent bailing us out of awful situations (that we largely put ourselves in), and pure luck. It was bound to run out at some point. 
 

With Humphrey now confirmed out for the season, if we manage to sneak into the playoffs we are the biggest one and done lock you can have. Sometimes injuries ruin your season, it sucks but that’s football. At least I get to enjoy Lamar Jackson being my quarterback (although even that hasn’t been very fun the last few games). 

Yeah my family and I were lambasting the call initially by Harbaugh but after cooling down a little bit I completely understand why.  The defense allowed 17 points in the 4th quarter.  They were gassed and almost certainly would've given up a TD on the first Steelers possession.  Marlon Humphrey also got injured so we had no corners.

You won't find many bigger Lamar fans than me, but he cost us that game.  Took six sacks and by my memory almost every single one of them were a result of him holding the ball too long.  And that INT was inexcusable.  That honestly is what cost us the game, it's at least a three-point swing in a game we lost by one.  Tough scenes.

The offense has not looked good since Miami.  Roman and Lamar need to find a way to beat the blitz or it's curtains for this offense in 2021.  A combination of Lamar getting the ball out quicker and Roman scheming up quick passes to the middle of the field (or at least letting Lamar hot route/audible at the LOS) will be a huge help.

When Pittsburgh wins, America loses.

I miss the days when the TurdBurger was the worst jersey in NHL history. 

That Preds jersey is laughably bad

Baker and Lamar trying their darndest to give the game away to other

This game confirms two things: the Rams are overrated, and the Packers are the best team in the NFC.

Just now, Glover said:

Steelers getting smacked. Love to see it. 

I don’t even care if it’s worse for the Ravens. I live to see the Steelers get humiliated like this.