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1 hour ago, rams80 said:

 

Shades of Kansas City in the late 70s/early 80s.

As a reminder, that didn't end well for everyone; my money is that even if the As move to Vegas, they are going to be relocating again in a couple of decades at the latest.

Need I remind you all that a goddamn indoor soccer team outdrew the Kings by a factor of 2 in the early 80’s? Kansas City has the college basketball hall of fame now. Failing at selling basketball here is like failing at selling football in Texas. Mahomes wants an NBA team here and unlike Vegas, we actually have an economy that isn’t based on one industry so maybe Round 2 will work out. 

After watching yesterday’s shameful display, I think the Chiefs need to go in a bold new direction. Steve Spagnoulo needs to be fired and replaced with an orangutan. Half the plays will be better than what Spags calls and the other half involves flinging feces at the zebras. No matter how you slice it, it’s an improvement. Reject Spagsanity, return to monke.

If Texas can handle two teams in the same league, then Canada can do the same. Would actually be nice to see a regular north of the border rivalry. 

That and proving Sam Darnold’s issue was Adam Gase and a franchise named after a disaster more than anything else. After seeing what happened with Ryan Tannehill when he was coached by someone competent, I shouldn’t be shocked but still.

On 10/4/2021 at 1:06 PM, leopard88 said:

I'm curious to hear a neutral (more or less) opinion on this --

The Ravens decision to run a play with :03 left to keep their 100 yard rushing streak alive was:

A.   An egregious affront to the principles of sportsmanship and the unwritten rules of the game; or 

B.   Simply part of playing until the end of the game (and if you don't like the decision, then stop them from picking up the necessary yardage)

Late, but B. This is a non-issue. Maybe don’t take the play off if it looks like they’re going to not going to take a knee. 

4 minutes ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

These halftime shows seem a bit like SNL. People look back so fondly at a couple shows from the past that they refuse to acknowledge that anything since then is any good. Prince's performance is often labelled the best halftime show of all time, so I don't think much is going to top that, but that doesn't mean we won't get some other great performances.

 

It was pretty clear after the Janet Jackson incident that the producers decided to play it safe for a while by going with some conservative, classic rock musicians with a catalogue of hits that most people would be familiar with (McCartney, Springsteen, Tom Petty). Then they course corrected a bit too much, which is how we ended up with the Black Eyed Peas.

 

This seems like the best possible option. You've got a genre that has more relevance with younger audiences than rock does, but the focus is on the legends of that genre that'll be familiar to the older generation.

SNL has sucked ass since Chris Farley died. The wrong late night sketch show got cancelled IMO. RIP MadTV.

I’m enjoying this new ball-control offense the Chiefs have. CEH is giving me Priest Holmes vibes. Too bad the defense is on par with the Vermeil era Chiefs right now otherwise I could enjoy it more. 

Seems like the Super Bowl halftime show is more of a confirmation that it’s only downhill from here when it comes to musicians. Last time I remember a decent halftime show was Prince. 

2 hours ago, dont care said:

One of the most exciting players who was also a trash human being.

Uh, yeah, in a league where wealth, power and fame intersect along with the very rare human specimen that can play in the NFL, you’re going to have a lot of sociopathic pricks at every level. And no matter what anyone does to try and change that, it’s always going to be that way just donning a more socially acceptable face. Same goes for every industry/field where money, power and fame intersect. 

I don’t know, I’m with Charles Barkley when it comes to athletes and being role models. 

FYI Josh, getting caught smoking weed here is a $25 fine. Don’t ask me how I know.

Andy Reid leaves Arrowhead Stadium in an ambulance.

I want to know who used a monkey’s paw to wish for Eric Bienemy to be an NFL head coach because you might just get your wish. Or I would say that if it wasn’t a preliminary trip for precautionary purposes. Absolutely fine, nothing to see here, move along. 

That game was painful. Still, can’t expect to win a game where you turn it over four times. The Chargers aren’t terrible either. Not pressing the panic button unless they lose to the Eagles next week.

Bio says he was born in Baton Rouge and played at LSU. Guy must’ve assumed that every investigator/cop is bribable per the custom in Louisiana. He was quite mistaken.

1 hour ago, the admiral said:

Jim Hughson retired just before the season. Wasn't expecting that. He really got on my nerves with his Vancouver homerism during the Blackhawks-Canucks rivalry, but he's certainly one of the great voices of hockey, and it'll be strange not to hear him.

 

EDIT: I think I pointed this out already, but the Gretzky hire is a reprise of Turner going out and grabbing Cal Ripken Jr. for their new baseball coverage. They pulled out all the stops hyping the presence of Cal Ripken Jr., who turned out to have not a single interesting thought.  They were fortunate to hit on the Shaq hire, but Shaq was a known commodity as a Personality, it was just a matter of whether he would jell with the crew, which he did. Gretzky borders on a known non-personality.

Its why I think if Antonio Brown can keep his stupid ass out of trouble, he might make a great commentator. I think Gronk or Travis Kelce would as well. Why? They’re interesting. Drew Brees right now is so bland I’m paying more attention to his suspiciously thickened hairline than I am to anything he’s saying. 

26 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

And hopefully it’s the only time this year he plays in LA.

Here’s an Athletic article regarding expansion possibilities for the Group of 5 conferences with emphasis placed on the AAC. I archived it so anyone can read it. It’s pretty good and breaks down the case for and against each prospective candidate. 

>Lil Bow Wow

Is this the first time he’s encountered the famous Atlantan Athletic Apathy?

Agree with DG about the stupid video game shots, everyone in my house was bitching about it whenever that showed up. 
 

Still, that was one hell of a game. Cleveland is the team to beat in the AFC North, prove me wrong.

Even if our defense sucks, our offense scoring three times as fast as the average offense gets us back in any game.

2 minutes ago, dont care said:

Was he ever considered a bust?

Maybe as late as 2019, but not afterwards. Barring some special cases (Josh Rosen), I don’t think you can declare someone a bust after a one or two seasons but that’s just me.

Hey, am I going crazy or is CBS using some kind of video game filter in their broadcast? I had to do a double-take and make sure I wasn’t watching Madden when the game started due to how some of the shots looked.

Also, get the D together, Chiefs.

Hey, that monkey’s paw is going to curl whether you like it or not. People wanted equal coverage and now they’re getting it. It just happens to be the most inane sort of coverage. 

45 minutes ago, the admiral said:

I'd agree it's a little overblown. I think that the extent to which the Gawker house style has percolated through the rest of media has been a net negative, but I don't it's spread far and deep enough for us to pin too much blame on them just yet. Jia Tolentino is at the New Yorker and is more or less on her best behavior, for instance.

 

If anything, I would skip one level above Gawker and cast a critical eye to Something Awful, which not only -- in conjunction with private universities -- produced a lot of the Gawker writers, but also produced a lot of the Gawker-adjacent, if you will, media personalities who started Weird Left Twitter and now litter the podcasting and publishing scenes. Diminishing your adversaries by responding to their wordy screeds with "pee is stored in the balls" or "fill my hole, daddy" predates or is outside of Gawker, and if that's a problem with discourse, it's beyond that website.

Goons really are the scourge of the Internet. It was also the first site to host goatse so the site producing a bunch of huge gaping buttholes was only a matter of time. 

And even with the WNBA being the gold standard for women’s leagues, it still pales in comparison to what the NBA makes.  Doesn’t help that women’s sports is still ultimately a very niche market and that even most women understand the skills canyon that separates the WNBA and NBA. And because of the physical strength, speed and size gap between men and women that men dominate completely, I don’t think that canyon is going to close. 

Amazing. Mizzou leaves the SEC because we’re sick of Texas ruining yet another conference and now one of the projected ideas is to put us in the same division as them.

Inviting the Southwest Conference refugees into the Big 8 was a mistake.