B-Rich

I am (as many of you know) as big an LSU fan as there can be, and back even in my college years LSU-Tulane was a big, VERY spirited rivalry (in all things, not just football),  but I am happy as heck for Tulane and that incredible win. 

Oh, and LSU absolutely DESTROYED  Purdue in the Citrus Bowl.  35-0 at the half, 63-7 final.  And next year looks promising. 

21 hours ago, GDAWG said:

Oh...he gets to return to the LA Coliseum when they play UCLA.  I'm sure he had success there against the Rams when he played for the Falcons and 49ers. 

8 hours ago, GDAWG said:

Oh right.  Still when he returns to the Coliseum, FOX is probably going to play highlights of his playing days at that stadium playing as a member of the Falcons and 49ers. 

Couple of things:

1. Don't forget, he also played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington (Commanders) and Baltimore Ravens, too.

2. Rams were long gone from the Memorial Coliseum by the time Deion began his NFL career; they were playing in Anaheim until they left for St. Louis in 1995.  The L.A. Raiders were playing in the Coliseum until 1995, when they returned to Oakland.

Actually, as a player who spent his time on NFC teams while the Coliseum was still an NFL venue, not sure he ever played in that stadium-  somebody else can look it up if they want. EDIT/ UPDATE - I actually went ahead and looked it up--  he never played a regular season game in the Memorial Coliseum.

51 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

Longtime College Football Bowl Game Has A New Name (msn.com)

Cheez-Its is sponsoring the Citrus Bowl as well as the Cheez-It Bowl

 

I WOKE UP FEELING THE CHEESIEST, COACH!!!

8 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 ...deny the Super Bowl LVII Champion Apparent Philadelphia Eagles their thrown... 

14 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

Illinois, TCU and Tulane should make the New Year’s Six though, so at least there’s that. 

On 10/26/2022 at 2:15 PM, kimball said:

Excuse my ignorance, but what uniform number rules?

Dont care has it right.  The rule is still followed in the NCAA, and most amateur competitions mandate that only these numbers be used. 

Thankfully, when I played basketball in college intramural leagues and later men's rec leagues, I was able to keep my lifetime soccer and football number of  12 (or when I was called for a foul, "one finger, two fingers")

This takes me back to my childhood, even though I didn't see them in this 1st year of existence, but began seeing them the following year when they began play at the Superdome.

Note Pete Maravich wearing #44 before they changed the uniform number rules and he went with #7.

Pelicans played the Nets in Brooklyn last night for their season opener and completely dominated them from the get-go, leading in double digits for most of the game.   Zion is BACK; scored 25 pts, 9 rebounds and four STEALS.  New look (meatier and new 'do) Brandon Ingram put in 28, C.J. McCollum scored 21.  Bench and backups looked good; we are deep. 

Watch out, Western Conference.  

Texans, Texas Stars, something like that.

6 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

That was the HemisFair Arena, prior to their move to the Alamodome,

Ah, yes, the HemisFair Arena.   Saw ONE Spurs game there in the spring of 1983, my freshman year of college during the one year I spent at Trinity University in San Antonio.   Playoff game against the Denver Nuggets (in their rainbow unis) that night;  very high scoring game-- the Nuggets under coach Doug Moe were known as a high scoring, no defense team.  Spurs were a good team that year with the George "Iceman" Gervin and Artis "A-Train" Gilmore; they won the Midwest Division and had the 2nd best record in the Western Conference (behind the Lakers). 

Went to the game with my roommate and his girlfriend;  afterwards we went to top of the Tower of the Americas. 

Damn, I'm old...

All of my life, I've know the San Antonio Spurs uniform and colors were black, silver and white.  That was what they were back when I first became aware of them in 1976, when they merged into the NBA;  that's what I've seen them wear ever since (notwithstanding the 'fiesta' logo background in the 1990s).   I, of course, was fully aware that they had moved from Dallas when they were the Chaparrals since the ABA's founding. 

Then today online, I came across this photo of James Silas:

Which kind of piqued my interest.   A little Google research later, and I found these, as well:

Apparently, from what I can gather, these were ONLY worn in the 1973 preseason, before the classic Spurs logo was developed and the silver and black unis were available.   These unis are almost certainly holdovers from their red, white and blue gear as the Dallas Chaparrals (Chaps).  Note the "Spurs" and "San Antonio" appear to be cheap one-color iron-ons, not sewed-on lettering as it was in Dallas.

On 9/24/2022 at 7:45 PM, tBBP said:

And also don't look now, but Florida State ain't wasting no time on Boston College, already up 21-0 in the first quarter. We'll see if they can pour more on while holding BC off...it'll say a lot about their mettle if they can blow BC out. But there's still three quarters to go, and my Seminoles ain't quite back jusssssst yet, so we'll see how this plays out.

I am in favor of every win that FSU can get; it makes that 24-23 loss by my LSU Tigers on Sept. 4th much more understandable and palatable. 

Panthers going with a white jersey, black pants combo, which I don't think I've ever seen.

Not just the combo, but the black pants in general.

3 hours ago, officeglenn said:

 

WIZ or we riot!

 

Nah, gotta go WAY back to the NASL Kansas City Spurs (1968-70):

Kinda neat that Sporting Kansas City recognized their championship in 2019:

On 9/16/2022 at 11:14 AM, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

It's the same reason that the new USFL used the established USFL team names, even after the league decided not to refer to the histories associated with those names. The recognition and the goodwill associated with those USFL names was enough reason for the USFL to use them

Similarly,  every team in the upper Pacific of the MLS (now) uses the old NASL name -Vancouver Whitecaps,  Seattle Sounders, Portland Timbers, and San Jose Earthquakes because those teams were so fondly remembered and soccer fans wanted those names back. 

If Tampa Bay could ever get back in  to the MLS (unlikely with Orlando in there now) they would no doubt want to go with the NASL Rowdies name,  which is still in use for their USL team.

(Tampa Bay Mutiny, like many of the original MLS names was STUPID and the logo used  for the name was even worse... by my count only HALF of the original 10 MLS team names remain). 

35 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

BEST

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WORST

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That's it for this week. Thanks for taking a look. Tune in again next week to see if my position on socks has changed.

Agree with most of your stuff, especially the lack of Purple socks for the Vikes, the fugly all-blues for Buffalo,  the train wreck of the new Titans look,  and the Bears needing to go back to all-white. 

Bonus points for not putting the Saints all-black look in the "Best" category.  It's a hideous combo that I'm not happy has sort of "taken hold", and I am so over people (mostly younger) saying they like the all-black look because it's "bad-ass". 

From Yahoo sports:

"The mugs were being sold by a team truck just outside the stadium. They featured the "W" logo in front of an outline of Washington state. The Commanders' field is located in Maryland, but the Washington in front of their name refers to D.C., not Washington state."

https://sports.yahoo.com/commanders-embarrassingly-try-to-sell-mugs-with-outline-of-washington-state-behind-team-logo-191145851.html

geez, can this franchise get any worse? 

Going to my first Albuquerque Isotopes game Friday night.

And it's beach towel night.

Any tips?

On 7/14/2022 at 7:38 PM, Dilbert said:

Whats the Municipal Auditorium site like? I know that place has been virtually untouched since Katrina.  Could that be an option for a stadium development? Metairie seems out of the way

7 hours ago, GeauxColonels said:

Out of the way for people living in the city, sure. But I would think a USL club would pull a decent amount of support from Metairie, Kenner, the River Parishes and the Northshore. For those people, a Metairie site is more convenient. It obviously doesn’t have the panache that a downtown stadium would have, but I don’t think that would make it a bad location. I also don’t think the Municipal Auditorium site is big enough to put a stadium. It’s a relatively small space locked in by Congo Square and the Mahalia Jackson theater. You’d have to re-route Basin St maybe through some of the existing surface lots to make it fit, IMO. But you’d also have to fight preservationists that wouldn’t want to see the Municipal torn down. Other than the riverfront, the only other place in the city that I think might be viable would be a lakefront location over by the UNO arena.

 

Two or 3 years ago, I would have said that a location in the city would be fine, maybe even desirable. I’m not intending this to start a political debate/discussion, but I don’t want to go into the city at all right now with the way crime is. Hell, we’re leaving for vacation on Saturday morning and will probably go out of our way to go around the city rather than take I-10/610 through it. I would much rather a suburban site with the current environment.

GeauxColonels is  correct about the size limitations at the Municipal Auditorium site, and the preservation angle.  What he left out, but touched on in a tangential way with his reference to out-of-control crime, is that no one is going to want to put a soccer stadium in that site,  almost adjacent to not one, but TWO public housing sites, or "projects" (Iberville and Lafitte), regardless of how "prettied up" they have been via the HOPE VI  redevelopment process. 

It's a sad state of affairs...  the Municipal Auditorium building has been empty for over 15 years. 

FIFTEEN YEARS. 

It's a travesty, a disgrace, but typical for what passes for "governance" in the City of New Orleans.  See this article for a pretty good history of the situation, decay, and the city's dereliction of duty:

The Drama of New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium

But get this-- that particular article was written 5 years ago.  FIVE YEARS.   What's different at the site?  Not a damn thing.  For quite some time, Mayor Latoya Cantrell had announced plans to convert the building into a new City Hall, but last December the City Council passed a resolution preventing those plans.

And if nothing is done in the next few weeks, the City will lose out on over $39 MILLION in "free" FEMA money to fix up the building for a new use.  See:

• New Orleans Municipal Auditorium needs urgent attention, or the city loses out on big money
• The clock is ticking on FEMA funds for restoration of Municipal Auditorium; City doesn’t have current plan to use them.

Re:  Metairie; it's far from "out of the way".   New Orleans is not like other cities: bounded by water and swamps on almost all sides, it's very compact.    Zephyrs Stadium is only 8 miles/15 mins.  from the downtown Superdome and Arena. 

Compare to,  for instance in MLS, Austin FC's Q2 Stadium in Austin, which is about 11 miles from downtown Austin,  or FC Dallas' Toyota Stadium, which is about 30 miles from downtown Dallas.   USL-wise, it's shorter than the distance between San Diego Loyal's new Snapdragon Stadium and downtown San Diego (about 10 miles), or San Antonio FC's Toyota Stadium, which is about 12 miles from the Alamo in downtown S.A.

The bigger issue to me is what kind of place the ownership wants-- a very safe, suburban location geared more to families with kids, or a more urban environment favored by the young hipsters that seem to be the target demographic of soccer these days.   The last paragraph of Geaux's post is getting to be a very common theme amongst a lot of the far suburban and exurban folks in this region, which would include the populous moneyed bedroom communities on the north shore (of Lake Pontchartrain) (and St. Tammany is the 4th largest Parish in the state).  Simply put, they won't come into the New Orleans city limits for anything-- Mardi Gras parades, sporting events, concerts, or even travel through the city (there have been a slew of random shootings at and into cars traveling on I-10 on New Orleans East)-- because they are scared of the rampant crime there .

Just my two cents, but a downtown stadium, in my mind, will likely cost the team money.  I think it will be a lot easier to get the young hipster types to come out to the near suburbs for a soccer game than it will be to get those moneyed families to come into the heart of the city. 

29 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

New Orleans will be a great fit for USL Championship. Several regional rivalries from Birmingham, Memphis as well as the Texas clubs. They got plenty of time to get things going. Ive heard everything from building a new soccer stadium to playing at Tulanes football stadium and renovating the Shrine on Airline (former MiLB baseball stadium).

Yessir.   Looking forward to it.

Tulane won't work, though-- field is too small and tight, and can't be expanded. 

After that, internecine politics and money come into play.  The wheels are already rolling on the former Zephyr Field:
The Shrine on Airline could get a major facelift in Metairie. Here is the latest idea:

But word in the circles is that  the ownership group is favoring a more in-town, edge of downtown location, something more "hip" and "happening".   Namely a stadium in the planned/proposed River City development: 

New Orleans is set to get a soccer team, but where will they play?

More word on the street is that Gayle Benson was looking at that River City site as a place for a new arena to replace the Smoothie King Center. 

So you've got suburban jurisdiction vs. urban jurisdiction, and major league vs. minor league. 

Hang on, kids, it will be a bumpy ride over the next few years as this all gets sorted out. 

On 6/28/2022 at 11:55 AM, GDAWG said:

A lot of people think that the second hub would be Philly, to build the Stars fanbase.  

1983 - Philadelphia Stars in the USFL Championship

1984 - Philadelphia Stars win the USFL Championship

1985 - Baltimore Stars win the USFL Championship

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..

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2022 - Philadelphia Stars in the USFL Championship.

Damn,  with a winning record like that,  you'd think the Stars would have a fanbase already. 

On 6/7/2022 at 12:44 AM, who do you think said:

If each team now has a 150 mile protection zone, that would leave Vegas and Seattle as pretty much the only expansion options. 

Not sure how much effect that "protection zone" is going to have-- Seattle is less than 150 miles from Portland (Moda Center  is only 145 miles  from Climate Pledge Arena). 

Kansas City is also out there, with the relatively new T-Mobile Center and no other winter sport competition.

17 hours ago, Dynasty said:

Is there a reason as to why their mascot is a wolf?  A Rambler is someone out in country, is it not?

The wolf is on the family crest of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Namesake of the school.

The Shield of Oñaz-Loyola is a symbol of the Ignatius family's Oñaz lineage, and is used by many Jesuit institutions around the world.

As the official colors of the Loyola family were maroon and gold, the Oñaz shield consists of seven maroon bars going diagonally from the upper left to the lower right on a goldfield.   The Loyola shield features a pair of rampant gray wolves flanking each side of a cooking pot. The wolf was a symbol of nobility, while the entire design represented the family's generosity towards their military followers.  According to legend, wolves had enough to feast on after the soldiers had eaten. 

Still better than this logo of Loyola New Orleans, which we discussed in this thread:

I like the old hobo rambler imagery better: