Red Comet

1 minute ago, Glover said:

This is kinda his schtick. There was a similar tantrum after Carolina beat the Islanders. It has run its course, but at least he is sticking with it. 

It's an annoying schtick, but alright. 

5 minutes ago, JerseyJimmy said:

wow guys, the heckin sunbelterino underdogs beat the big bad blue stat-- uh, blue blood! so freakin epic!!!

 

hey Panthers, I hope Toronto go full New Jack on your ass. how did both 1-seeds lose to Miami teams?

Uh, I don't think anyone gives af about the political angles of this, man. I think people just find Boston insufferable even if they agree with their politics. 

At the very least, it would be quite the unexpected result from the perspective of 48 hours ago and frankly right now if the Arlington Renegades manage to pull it off. Defenders/Renegades reminds me more of the Mass Effect morality system then it does a football game IMO. 

Still, I think the Defenders win by 10 but I also thought the Renegades were going to get completely BTFO by Houston so who knows? 

Maybe the Leafs can win the Cup now that the Bruins have been eliminated. 

Dean Blandino calling Arlington Dallas is one thing but the color commentator  just called Houston DC. 

Wow

And holy hell, I might actually be out $200. Renegades look great right now. 

Picture is the jersey I might wind up sending to @Ferdinand Cesarano

Houston punches back against Dallas Arlington with a Cox rushing TD from a yard out. Renegades 14, Roughnecks 8

Aaaand then screws up the kickoff with the Renegades scoring another TD. 

And Perez throws a bomb to put the Renegades up 14-0. 

Not what I was expecting. 

Travis Kelce is just a one-in-a-million combination of size, speed, elusiveness to baffle any defense. Pretty sure every fanbase has screamed “Why won’t they cover him?” by now. 

40th anniversary of one of the best manager tirades of all time.

15 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

 

At the very least, he could be a wildcat guy for a team.

The Wildcat? I know it feels like the financial world is on the brink of collapse, but that doesn’t make it 2008. 
 

But seriously, the Chiefs have always been shredded by mobile quarterbacks. :censored:ing Johnny Manzel looked like a pro against them. It’s why I lowkey thought the Eagles were going to win the Super Bowl. 

2 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Or having rich parents. 

Which would make the bragging even more insufferable 

Intelligence is getting into Stanford. Wisdom is knowing that no one wants to hear you brag about that crap and that if you’re going to beg them for welfare, maybe insulting them isn’t a good idea. 

On 4/24/2023 at 1:30 PM, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

By virtue of the Renegades' entire season, they came in second and qualified for the playoffs. 

 

However, in the games immediately after Perez's arrival, they beat Orlando (who, despite finishing with the worst record, had just beaten D.C., and were in the midst of Dormady's run as the league's hottest player) and then were robbed against D.C.

 

While we didn't get to see what the Renegades would have done to Houston in the last game of the season if they had needed to win that game, we may rest assured that it would not have resembled their performance in what was essentially a scrimmage.

 

But we're sure going to see that on this coming weekend.  I don't purport to be conversant with the Texan idiom, but I suspect that a cry of "yee-haw" or "boy howdy" or some such will be appropriate for the beating that Houston is about to endure.

Sorry for the double post, but if the Renegades do manage to win the XFL Championship, I’ll send you a Luis Perez jersey.

Of course. As much as I hate this current format, I understand that this format is how it was set up and the players and coaches knew this going in and planned accordingly and had it been the format everyone besides Ferdie wants then they'd plan differently and we'd have a different season. 

That being said, it's still stupid because anyone with half a brain could see something like this coming. 

EDIT: And here are Week 10's TV ratings and I do emphasize TV because streaming isn't included. Would be interested to know what those numbers are. 

Looks like they finished with an average of 622,000 viewers.

2 hours ago, 4_tattoos said:

Well... it looks like Red Bull Arena is now available for American football. At least for one off games.

 

https://hbcusports.com/2023/04/24/east-coast-hbcu-football-classic-to-feature-grambling-state-and-hampton/?fbclid=IwAR3iruCaia50zC4q0xufXTn0PExgKy02kFZParA1DV__3kwlQO28mNE-Zh8

 

I’m more surprised that they didn’t play this at Philadelphia Union’s stadium. Feels like it would be more successful there. 

I think it would just be less complicated to just have the division winners face the two teams with the best records that didn’t win their division. 

Sucks the Battlehawks didn’t make it, but, they should’ve beat Seattle when they had the chance.

Still, I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the quality of the XFL’s play so far. I look forward to next week’s games. Particularly DC vs Seattle

B-Based

Considering that I don't think I've ever seen people talk about the Arizona Cardinals this much, changing the uniform is a good idea on paper. They really don't have a legacy as franchise age alone doesn't make a legacy. So, why not get a fresh coat of paint? It's easier than actually putting a good product on the field.  

6 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

I don't know.  I dig him.  

 

"...which is even worse than if he had spiked the ball into the ground on every snap."

 

And his thoroughness should be commended.  Some of his audience might indeed have come rather recently to football (or to baseball, as he has a new channel, JaguarGator7, covering that sport), and he is doing the good work of educating them about history.  He is much younger than I had originally supposed, and he somehow acquired a lot of knowledge about events before his time. He is passing this gift on to others.

To each his own. Again, he's really knowledgeable and that's always a plus, but he's too pompous for my tastes. Social graces don't hurt. 

I wish I had never heard of JaguarGator9. Smart guy but the man can’t help himself from talking down to his audience as if they’ve never heard of football or whatever sport he’s covering before.

Things make a lot more sense if you think of head coaches like politicians. Makes sense why a promise from them is worth nothing. 

2 hours ago, Luigi74 said:

The NHL had to expand into "non-traditional" markets due to population decline in "traditional" markets, plus the owners wanted the expansion fee money, "copying" the NBA wasn't the reason.

Pretty sure the Canadian dollar’s value against the US dollar was a reason too. But as far as I’m concerned, abandoning a solid source of revenue and money for something that might potentially make more money doesn’t sound like a strong business plan. I get why they did it, I still think it’s stupid. 

I think it's a lot simpler even if I agree that there's some of that subtext in what the NHL is doing: 

Gary Bettman was hired from the NBA. Gary Bettman wanted to make the NHL as big as the NBA. So he expanded into non-traditional markets like the NBA, experimented with ridiculous uniform trends like the NBA, had lockouts like the NBA and now wants to have engagement on social media like the NBA. Slow monkey see, slow monkey do three years later. 

Neko Sparks? Is this some kind of joke? Sounds like the NHL is about to get zapped to the extreme.