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Reading that article, it sounded more like the original USFL owners want to find out who just got loaded from selling merchandizing rights that they have no right to and are willing to work with Fox. I don't know who just earned ill-gotten gains but it should be interesting. 

As for reviving Firefly? That show is neat, but I liked it better when it was called Cowboy Bebop. 

Intro is amazing and there is no other reason at all why I'd post it. 

On 5/26/2021 at 6:25 PM, Sec19Row53 said:

Am I the only one who tunes into ESPN to watch live sports, and never any other time?

 

I think since Sunday Night Countdown jumped the shark back when it was acceptable to use the phrase 'jump the shark', that's my only use for ESPN.

I watch UrinatingTree, Pat McAfee or various cable era sports pundits that post clips online for my coverage. Why pay over $1,600-2,000/year for basic cable and maybe 100 channels when I can pay less than $900/year for Internet while getting similar quality content? It’s a basic economic question and that will doom a lot of ESPN’s assets long-term. 

1 hour ago, Skycast said:

My bad, there is one: http://usfl2.com/

 

But dang it wasn't easy to find.

Site is pure bare bones and that is clearly an indication of a great start. Social media isn’t much better.

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And somehow looking at this operation, Fly By Night is the phrase I can best think of. And the song. 

Nostalgia pandering has gotten way out of control. Why can’t people just create new things instead of just rebooting the same thing over and over again?

Also, alternative football leagues need like a million different things to go right just to get a foothold. The Spring League has a nice niche as it is, why are they risking that? 

49 minutes ago, bosrs1 said:

Also shocked no one remembered the longest such non-SSS situation in the league up in New England. 

Robert Kraft owns the New England Revolution. My guess for having them still play at Gillette is so he can fill dates where the stadium would otherwise sit empty. After all, he did fund Gillette Stadium entirely out of his own pocket so it makes sense he’d want as many dates filled as possible.

If Horace Stoneham taught us anything, it’s that you should visit stadium sites day and night. 

15 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

It's not a requirement.

 

- signed, the Seattle Sounders and NYCFC

NYCFC isn’t for lack of trying, though. Just a cursory look into the situation tells me I really need to look into that whole saga because it looks like one hell of a doozy. I don’t think NYCFC is in any danger of moving at all but it really is reminiscent of the DC United situation with RFK and that team’s near 2 decade long fight for a stadium site.

Not to mention that solar powered desalination is becoming more and more of a thing.

Granted what MIT has is merely a small-scale functional prototype but I can only imagine that the demand for something like this plus drastic upscaling as fresh water sources get harder and harder to come by will only get bigger.   The conversation on water reminds me of what I heard about oil growing up and now the issue isn’t peak oil supply as it is peak oil demand. Difference in this scenario is that water is a hell of a lot more renewable than oil. You could probably repurpose those oil pipelines for water as oil demand keeps declining. Granted you’d have to clean the hell out of them but there you go.
 

If Vegas is going to decline, I don’t think water demand or supply will be the main factor so much as it is Vegas (and Nevada by extension) losing its exclusivity on sports gambling and thus down the line it’s relative exclusivity on high-end gambling+entertainment. And as more and more states legalize sports betting, the countdown to that time has long since begun.

30 minutes ago, DukeofChutney said:

Pardon my limited knowledge on this, but could Detroit or Cleveland just refuse to move? Or does the league reserve the right to move a teams division?

 

I remember that the Royals were approached to move to the NL Central before the Brewers but they refused and then you had the situation with the Astros this past decade. So, the team would have to consent to relocating to another division or league. 

11 hours ago, DEAD! said:

With probably the exception of NFL stadiums, it is probably best that arenas and stadiums be built at urban areas. A few years back, I was driving or taking transit downtown once a week on a weeknight, and, while there was traffic, it was going generally against the rush-hour flow. I would have dread it if an arena or stadium was built at a suburb on the other side of town. I would be battling rush hour traffic from people that live on the other side of town. 

One thing I have noticed from some arenas is how some owners also decide to build a condo or retail tower beside the arena. 

I think a NFL stadium would be only exception because games generally happen on a weekend/once a week and it's treated more like going to an amusement park. Sure, any public transit is welcome and should provide "event schedule/rush hour"  level services, but, if the game is on a Sunday afternoon, you are probably going to be scheduling the whole day around the game anyways. 

 

I was about to say, anyone thinking you could plop a place like Lambeau, Gillette or Arrowhead in the middle of a downtown has a couple of screws loose. Baseball or hockey/basketball? Sure, as long as the city in question has the infrastructure to handle transportation of people to and from the game and there’s a decent nightlife to be had after the game. Some places, however, would be disastrous to have a downtown stadium right now. Like Kansas City as the only mass transit we currently have aside from the bus system is a 2 mile long streetcar from the River Market to the WWI Museum. Trying to get 30-40,000 (maybe more like 20-30,000 but still) people to a baseball stadium for 80 or so nights a year would be a disaster right now so naturally the idea is under consideration. 
 

Of course, as for the Rays right now? Looks like Nashville is back on the menu, boys. If this move does happen, my guess is that the Tigers or whatever the team in Cleveland is called by then and the relocated Rays would switch divisions. First they need a stadium, however. 

At least Austin has a pretty bright future. The only way a team stays viable in Vegas is if Vegas maintains  its relative monopoly on high-end gambling/entertainment. Forget the potential future water issues, what do you think is going to happen the more states legalize sports gambling and/or decide to host their own palatial casinos? 

Only in Wisconsin would you see uniforms that cheesy. 

We haven't even seen how Las Vegas will truly support the Raiders yet as the pandemic sabotaged their debut season there. 

Why the hell are people thinking that they can support the A's and now an NBA team?  

No, they should keep the Athletics name. Also, IIRC the only reason the Supersonics name didn't move to Oklahoma City with the team is because the City of Seattle made a similar agreement to what the City of Cleveland made with Art Modell except apparently the Thunder would hold all the history until the Sonics return to Seattle. Considering that Oakland didn't attempt to do that with Mark Davis vis a vis the Raiders, there is no way that Oakland would do that for the A's. 

Just paid $7/mo., somebody else match me bro! Or just get rid of ads for me, that would be great too. 

This isn’t even the first time the A’s have been outclassed in their market by their National League counterpart after long overshadowing them to the point they want to move. Same thing happened in Philadelphia. 

I always thought the rationale behind Vegas is the increasing trend of fans traveling to see their teams play. Hell, I remember when the Vikings came to Arrowhead and it seemed like a third of the stadium was screaming Skol. In 2019 too, so it wasn't like this was pre-Andy Reid. And that's to a place that is a cow pasture compared to Vegas. So, sports leagues decided to combine Vegas's tourist destination status and gambling and thought it would be a great experiment. I don't get the logic either, but I'm not some big-brained accountant working for a sports league. 

2 hours ago, LMU said:

Oakland and Alameda County are just as guilty, if not moreso, for how we got here.  If you manage to lose three franchises in a short timeframe there's a common denominator.

Oakland is ran by dribbling morons? Say it ain’t so.

1 hour ago, Digby said:

Very busy sports calendar right now but CBS Sports Network has been on a professional pickleball marathon tonight.

11 minutes ago, Digby said:

I don’t even get why it’s played at a faux-pro level. Just play tennis...?

Might as well have pro kickball at this point. 

Social media is cancer and I have never had my opinion of someone improve after reading their social media feed. 

Just get me one season of Gary Thorne and Bill Clement and I’ll be happy.

Or hell, put Steve Levy on lead broadcasts. 

37 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

What browser are you using (mobile)? Samsung's browser MIGHT have been the issue for me.

Safari. I don’t get it nearly as bad as I did with Android Google but it is still an issue that happens a lot more than it should.

EDIT: I’m a dumbass, it’s Google Chrome on Android not Android Google. 

So, how would we go about making it so that mobile version is actually usable and not a haven of viruses? 

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

 

I did a full erase and factory restore of my phone, so it was basically a brand-new phone.  Didn't 'restore from backup' - started out brand new.  So no chance of 'viruses' or any bugs or whatever.  The first site I came to was this one, and on the very first visit, got hijacked every single time by some site claiming that my phone had a virus and I had to click somewhere to pay them to repair it.  Couldn't stay on the site for longer than around 10 seconds before it got redirected to either a virus-scam site or a gambling site.  After another restart, I'm not getting hijacked, but I'm dealing with 1" of usable space on the phone because of the pop-up ads and other nonsense - on a brand-new phone.  This site (not its content or members) is crap.

Yeah, I encounter that a lot too. I would gladly donate a chunk of change so this site can have some decent anti-virus protection. Love the community, love the members, hate the redirects.

On 4/15/2021 at 8:41 AM, MJWalker45 said:

Louisville Extreme uniform found on Phenom Elite Instagram. Not sure if the rest of the uniform was officially released.

Everything I’m seeing with this is so 90s it hurts. To the extreme.