dont care

On 11/22/2023 at 10:18 PM, Nordiks_19 said:

Anyone knows if jerseys with ads sold well last year ? 

Probably not because they only sell them at the arena

3 hours ago, monkeypower said:

I was at the Saddledome last weekend and I counted 46 banners spread across 4 teams. That's got to be one of the most in terms of teams and combined banners, right? The only ones off the top of my head that I can see being higher is Staples and the TD Garden, but those both have less teams. Any other thoughts?

 

For the curious, the Hitmen have the most with 21, then the Flames with 18, the Roughnecks with five and the Wranglers have two.

 

The Flames and Hitmen banners are on big pipes at the opposite far ends of the arena, while the Roughnecks are on the first blue rafter to the left of the scoreboard (in this picture below from however many years ago) and the new Wranglers ones are on the first blue rafter to the right of the scoreboard (not in this picture).

 

I'm in the Saddledome mostly for Hitmen games and first noticed last season that they started pulling the Roughnecks banners up into the rafters for those games, which I overheard an usher answering someone else saying that those were pulled up because of the Flames flamethrowers. Two weekends ago I was at a Hitmen game and the Wranglers banners were down as the Wranglers had only raised them the day before but during the Hitmen game last weekend, the Wranglers were pulled up also.

 

I'll be at the Ducks game in Calgary this season and plan to attend at least one Roughnecks game, so I'll have to remember to see which banners are out when.

TD Garden isn’t close, the Celtics hang less banners than the hitmen. Now if the hung individual banners for their retired numbers rather than consolidating them the Celtics would nearly double them. Regardless the bruins wouldn’t have enough banners to top them still I believe.

10 hours ago, BadSeed84 said:

 

There was a rumor going around they may have white helmets for this.

They would have had to wear them in the offseason, and throughout practice this week to break them in. If they haven’t been seen yet they aren’t wearing them.

18 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

A thick orange stripe (or two thinner ones) running vertically from neck to cuff on top (sans TV#) and the same on the pants would improve that look.

Stop trying to make this a thing. It only worked for the aggies. Not every team needs racing stripes.

On 11/19/2023 at 5:55 PM, Chawls said:

Shout out to #33 for the Texans, who ran out wearing red socks. It definitely improves the look. 
 

Not with the biker shorts

Being found no guilty does not and never has meant innocent. It just means guilt was not found based on the evidence provided. You have absolutely no knowledge of case law, and how there are plenty of people that get found “not guilty” not because they didn’t do the crime but based on having a legal team find every loophole to get the verdict they want, or an inept prosecution. The OJ Simpson trial being a perfect example of this.

13 hours ago, PittsburghSucks said:

 

Why are they still using the Deshawn spunk graphic?

13 hours ago, VampyrRabbit said:

That uniform is beautiful, the A is one of the best in all of sports and I dig how the teal and the black is bordered by the copper, as oxidization of copper produces teal and black compounds. And the off white worked too.

What black?

15 hours ago, throwuascenario said:

 

I 100% agree with this. They went about this in the dumbest way. They had a QB they had shown they could win with. No one has ever won in the NFL with a QB on a contract like this. Giving up the picks as well just made sure they couldn't even bring in good players on rookie deals either.

 

I see it the opposite way. They weren't one player away. They were zero players away. They were already a contender and likely would've been a serious threat in 2021 if Mayfield hadn't gotten injured. They completely didn't need this.

 

From an off-the-field standpoint, I don't agree with the witch-hunting and don't have any problem giving someone with no criminal convictions a spot on their team.

 

On the field, the trade was a disaster from the start. They gave a record setting deal to a guy who had most recently taken his team to a 4-12 record before trying to whine his way into forcing a trade. For the trouble, they gave away a ton of draft picks and set a 3-year window on a team that was already contending and was going to be contending for years.

 

I still think the Wilson trade was much worse though. Similar scenario but if Watson was 10(?) years older and was playing like the worst QB in the NFL.

 

Lots of draft trades have turned out just as bad pick-wise but the contracts are what set those two apart.

 

 

Actually, in a society where innocence is presumed, "innocent" and "not guilty" are the same thing. You are innocent until you are guilty. If you are not guilty, you are innocent.

 

And you don't think that having a civil lawsuit of this nature being dragged out and affecting his ability to play might tip the scaled toward him settling even if he was innocent? Don't you think a lawyer would know that going in?

Being found not guilty isn’t the same as innocence, and never has been. Being found not guilty means that the prosecution couldn’t make a case to find the defendant guilty “beyond reasonable doubt” which is a much higher threshold to prove rather than civil cases that just need a “likely” level of proof to win a case

1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

Dude clearly needs to touch grass, not smoke it.

Smoking it might mellow him out…

On 11/15/2023 at 5:53 PM, Green27 said:

TCU has a new helmet with a new version of the blood frog.

 

Cougs going with a (new?) Wazzu wordmark helmet and all anthracite for Senior Day vs Colorado (hoping CU doesn't wear grey pants or helmets). 

 

 

That TCU decal ends up looking hot pink rather than blood red, especially up against that red face mask that is clearly a darker color.

This “tournament floor” is the most hair brained scheme ever conceived 

18 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

So you think they had an entirely new set of pants created that are a slightly darker gray?  For this once a year combo?

 

Not out of the question I guess, but seems surprising.  

That’s what the lions do…

On 11/9/2023 at 12:22 PM, SFGiants58 said:

It also has the unfortunate context of being adopted the season after Tom Brady left. They’ll always be the “regression to the mean” set, tainted by their association with the team falling apart.

 

This is the same issue as the Cavs’ early 2010s uniform set, after Lebron left for the first time. It looked good, but it was tainted by that association with the “austerity” years in between Lebron’s two tenures.

You’d have a point if Lebron didn’t come back and win in those uniforms

18 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Most NFL teams would benefit from UCLA style striping or just solid color uniforms.

That would make the NFL look like every other spring league that just recolors templates for each team. No thanks.

7 hours ago, 8BW14 said:

A couple days late but what would be the point of firing Belichek  midseason? The season’s already lost. Let the guy finish the year with some shred of dignity. Maybe they’ve already made the decision to move on and that’s fine, but he deserves to at least kinda appear to mutually part ways or go out on his own terms, however they choose to phrase things.

Belichick signed a multi year extension this past offseason, I don’t think he’s the type to admit he’s done and Kraft probably wants to get him out now and get a new regime asap rather than trying to play catch-up again next season.

1 hour ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Forget the conspiracy theories about  the Chiefs.  Somebody tell me why the Cowboys seem to get to play the Giants about 4 times a year.

It probably seems that way when they also have to play the commanders

I really don’t know why the current logo gets so much hate. I like it far more than the old logo. It looks fiercer, contains all the colors, has more depth being 3D

On 11/5/2023 at 12:26 PM, Pyromania1983 said:

They're trying to make it similar to European soccer where the tournament games are interwoven into the regular season schedule, but matter for a different purpose.

Maybe they should look around and see this isn’t European soccer, and even in European soccer their tournaments don’t count towards the tables.

17 minutes ago, ruttep said:

 

I can when for two full seasons the ONLY uniforms they wore were all navy and white jersey with navy leggings (Even now, the only games over the last couple of seasons that didn't feature an overload of navy were three silver pants games and three throwback games). Other teams that occasionally wear all navy (Seahawks, Texans, Bears) have other pant and sock combos that they can mix in (and do). I'm still not convinced that the Patriots are going to do the right thing and make their silver pants their primary, especially since Robert Kraft is apparently fond of all navy.

It’s still not NFNS. It’s just an overuse of navy

On 11/5/2023 at 10:15 PM, ruttep said:

Which is my point. The Patriots focus on navy as their identity at the cost of all their other colors. They've had silver pants this whole time, and have worn them a total of three times, all in the last two years. They went from terrible uniforms that stuck around due to success to terrible uniforms that just seem to be NFNS (navy for navy's sake, they even wear navy leggings every time they wear the white jersey). I'd actually consider the jersey itself to be an upgrade from the Brady era, but the rest of the uniform drags it way down.

You can’t call something NFNS when they have had navy for over 2 decades

13 minutes ago, McCall said:

Hypothetically, even if they succeeded in him selling the A's (and getting an expansion team in Vegas in return), in about 10-15 years, you could probably copy and paste this article, swapping out "Las Vegas" with whichever city they're trying to relocate to to get out of the Coliseum.

If they are still in the coliseum in that time it will be filled to the brim in human feces.

8 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

And that's the position they've put themselves in. Brady's Patriots never won a huge road game either.

So the never beat Peyton in Indy or Denver, never won in Pittsburg or Baltimore, never won in San Diego, Lambeau Field, or KC. I guess we’ll just forget Brady beating mahomes in his own stadium to go to the Super Bowl.

7 hours ago, Unocal said:

This NFL season has been predictable as hell.

 

Cincy, KC, Philly on top.

 

The NFL needs a new scriptwriter

This has been the least predictable season in recent history. Yeah the good teams are going to be on top because they’re good duh. But each individual game has been a crap shoot. 

19 minutes ago, M4One said:

The full colour courts plus the giant trophy make it look like it's CGI.  That's the best way I can describe it.  It looks like the players were taken from another picture and superimposed onto the court.

Agreed, I saw a highlight of Steph’s game winner last night and I wasn’t able to tell if the court was superimposed or not until i got on here to confirm.