Red Comet

I don't miss ties in hockey. I don't miss teal and purple being popular colors. Yes, as a 90s kid I know this is blasphemy, but y'all can bite me. I don't miss the NHL lacking a salary cap. I'm glad I never grew up when the NFL lacked a salary cap. I don't miss the Arena Football League. I don't miss MLS teams playing in NFL stadiums. I don't miss Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football. I don't miss being a fan of a team that always dominated in the regular season but whiffed in the playoffs. Derrick Thomas deserved at least one Super Bowl ring. EDIT: It's not something I don't miss (because I barely remember it being a thing) but until I saw games from the 70s and 80s, I always thought it was weird that my Dad would ask me what the score was. When I finally did see said games, it became a lot more understandable. Thank God for scorebugs.

My guess is that while podcasts might decline in absolute number, local radio is probably going to get hit harder in percentage terms. Thus, even if podcasts decline, they are still more competitive economically than having to pay for a radio station and maintaining that radio station and the talent. Its like how even if blogs became less prevalent, it still didn't stop the decline of newspapers as the underlying economic fundamentals that caused such a shift were still there.

Sounds like ESPN was the original "compensation by exposure"

I miss NHL teams wearing white at home. Heck, I miss knowing what NBA uniform goes for what occasion. I miss National Hockey Night on ESPN. I miss official NFL video games that aren't Madden. I miss Keith Jackson. I miss Nebraska being a football powerhouse. I miss the annual Kansas-Missouri Border Wa-I mean, "Showdown" at Arrowhead Stadium.

Welcome back. Hockey has really taken off here since the Mavericks showed up. Give it 20 years and maybe, maybe we'll get an NHL team again.

Vancouver has their affiliate in New York State. Since when have NHL affiliations made sense?

Well, I'll play Devil's Advocate as to why the World Cup should stay in Qatar. By about every moral standard short of sociopathy there is no denying that Qatar has committed atrocity after atrocity against the workers building their stadiums. As a proud American, I would love to see the World Cup relocated to the US for 2022 if only to right blatant wrong that occurred at the final stage of voting. However, I'm not going to be arguing from a moral perspective. But, rather a realpolitik perspective. Even if Qatar did manage to host the World Cup, they would likely find themselves deep in debt and left with stadiums that would likely not be maintained as much after the festivities end if other nations are any indication. So, why should we allow Qatar to not only abuse their workers but to also $500,000,000 a week preparing for the World Cup? Because although Qatar is a nation of 2,000,000 people, not only produces the world's most natural gas, they also produce a disproportionately large amount of oil for a nation of its size. So, if we have a nation that is spending about as much on the World Cup project as their annual gross domestic product and there is nothing to show for it? In a country where said abused workforce is the majority of the country's population? Well, in a region that has already been wracked with turmoil over the past decade plus so many workers dying in vain, I don't think its going to have a very pretty result not just nationally or regionally, but also globally as well.

But seriously, I read more into this story and it's actually going to have a more kid-geared presentation on Nickelodeon along with the normal broadcast on CBS. It's not going to be Spongebob for 3 hours followed by the Houston Texans playing the Cleveland Browns or whatever irrelevant game the NFL would allow to be stuck on a kid's network.

Ohhhhhh! Who's high on coke with ideas that are jokes? Viacom's C Suite!

Eh, was fun to imagine the Blues having an AHL team in-state. Oh well. Not surprised that Lamar Jr. is relocating his NAHL team to Johnson County, Kansas though. It's the Orange County of Tornado Alley so it's not surprising that the sport with the richest following would be moved to a county with a median household income of over $85,000.

I could see select dates (home opener, Finals games) being in the Sprint Center due to what I'd think would be high demand. I don't think it would or should be a full-time arrangement unless this hypothetical Kansas City AHL team has ticket demands that will far outstrip Silverstein Eye Center's capacity (5,800).

:censored: you, DeVos. I'm just glad that pulling two minor league hockey teams is the worst thing the DeVos family has come up with.

The reason the IHL went without affiliates was that the NHL thought they were getting too uppity. I'd give my left nut to see the Blades come back, ngl

While I'd love that (AHL is the best level of hockey Kansas City can get right now), doesn't the AHL have enough teams for each NHL team? Who would the Blues buy to move to Kansas City?

Guardians of the Galaxy. Main character is from a farm near Kansas City. Personally, as someone from there? I'd probably call them the Kansas City Viceroys to keep the city-wide theme of teams being named after rulers.

New York Avengers. Why not?

Well, another name for New York is Gotham, so.... Makes me wish a team had a white helmet, purple jerseys and green pants.

Just realized something and I feel really stupid for not noticing it earlier. The green part of the Vipers primary logo? It's supposed to be a viper's lower jaw with the yellow part being the fangs. The snakehead should still be the primary logo, though.

I'd love an AHL Franchise (especially with the Blues), but this. A Kansas City AHL team is going to have to come from an underperforming team at the box office and we all know that those aren't exactly uncommon at the minor league level. The Chicago Wolves for a time were the only televised hockey in Chicago thanks to Dollar Bill Wirtz. I don't quite see them leaving anytime soon if the Blackhawks near-dynasty didn't run them out of town.

Two named after pirates too.

Like this nice bit of grainy footage indicates. EDIT: Nevermind, this is the Freeman Coliseum. Still incredibly empty.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the primary goal of the minor league system?

I could see this being popular with the fraternity crowd. Hell, I kind of want to get a hat with the logo too just for the hell of it.

And then we'll have the Reno Bronze Pages in the ECHL.