RyanMcD29
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Wasn't it true that Bettman and the owners steered Winnipeg & Hartford away from Minneapolis-St. Paul in hopes of landing an expansion team there, which they did with the Wild. Now we're stuck with the endless Coyotes saga and Raleigh seems ok for now but who knows.
Now, what if the Canes played in the TWC Arena, the Panthers played in the AAA with proper stadium renovation?
Eh, I think the Canes are much better off in Raleigh than Charlotte. Sure you have research triangle college hoops, but you're not competing against the Panthers and Hornets for ticket dollars. Plus IIRC the transplant population's higher in the Raleigh-Durham area than Charlotte.
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As long as that attachment simply consists of a load of photos of Paul 'Biz-Nasty' Bissonette going to town on some dry wall
"Please silence all phones"
OH HO HO JUST WAIT FOR THAT SANDSTORM THAT'S GONNA BLOW BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR ALL THOSE EAS TONES
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Please tell me that's Mr. "I Won't Talk For 4 Hours And I'm The Clear Swing Vote But Say Those 19 Firefighters That Died Literally (1) Two Days Ago Envoke Some Spirit and Courage To Pass This Bill" who didn't have an e-mail account.
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I'm apparently the one person who thinks Utah's new football uniforms are actually pretty good. Could use a little less detail on the mountains on the sleeves, but I do like the idea. It's like everything's either too plain or too out there for people, then Utah does something in between, and people still hate it.
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Also in a totally separate unpopular opinion, I'm totally fine with baggy pants or shorter socks in baseball. I remember how uncomfortable wearing stirrups over pants were back when I played Little League, so I can sympathize with the players on that. I guess having pants that stop just before the ankle to show off the color of the socks would be the perfect happy medium.
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Because this:
How is this any different than what Nike always gets criticized for?
Who would've thought this look would be lightyears better than what they have now. That switch to nike really cost the Seahawks. I'd love to see a remake of these uniforms, and they'd sell like hot-cakes.This is my favorite Seahawks look from the 2002-2011 set:
Neon "volt" color? Check.
No real design other than contrasting sleeves? Check.
Yet because it's not Nike, it gets a pass?
Looks 10 million times better
Than this:
going into my usual unpopular opinion that the Seahawks' Nike redesign has really grown on me and is an upgrade over the Reebok redesign, but I think the lime green jerseys would've worked really well if the green was more like the graphic and not what it ended up becoming IRL. It would also probably work better with the uniforms now given the navy sleeves wouldn't stick out as just floating around like they did in that
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http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2014/06/03/coyotes-owner-sued-deal/9942991/
A Scottsdale public-relations firm has sued the owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, arguing that the team stiffed them on nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
The Coyotes owner, IceArizona, had hired the firm, Rose+Moser+Allyn Public & Online Relations, to help the team defeat a referendum attempt in 2013 that could have pushed the Coyotes out of Glendale.
But the public-relations firm claims IceArizona reneged on the deal, which included the sponsoring of the Scottsdale Polo Championships for five years, according to the lawsuit.
The agreement required IceArizona to pay the polo tournament, which is owned by the public-relations firm, about $250,000 if the referendum attempt was defeated, according to the filing with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
IceArizona purchased the Coyotes last summer in a controversial $225 million deal with Glendale. The ownership group hired the public-relations firm to help fight a petition to put the deal up for a public vote.
The firm expected a $25,000 base fee and, if successful, sponsorship for the polo tournament and two front-row hockey tickets for eight games per season over the next five years, according to the filing.
Rose received the base fee and a 2013 sponsorship, but Coyotes general counsel Craig Tindall wrote in an April e-mail that the team would not sponsor the event this year, saying that it did not appear the event would benefit the team.
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Villasenor, who was charged with paying Rose, said checks for the base fee bounced because IceArizona President and CEO Anthony LeBlanc did not wire him money on time.
I wonder what the p.r. firm did to help fight the referendum. Maybe hired some of those dinguses we saw speak in July. Anyway, lol at breaching a contract for a polo tournament.
Oh, also, the city lost like $9 million on the Coyotes this year. Guess people didn't pay for parking.
BUT AS A FORMER FIREFIGHTER I KNOW THOSE 19 FIREFIGHTERS THAT DIED IN A WILDFIRE LITERALLY YESTERDAY HAVE THE SAME COURAGE AS US TO KEEP THE COYOTES IN GLENDALE AND THEY'D WANT US TO VOTE YES or whatever
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I've noticed a couple members have broken avatars (I get a broken image icon), which in turn screws up the front page and whatnot. Is this something on my end? I'm using Firefox 27.0.1 on my Mac, FWIW
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The Orange need to wear orange. The Cardinal need to wear cardinal. Same goes with the White Sox and Red Sox with white and red respectively. If your team has a colour in its name, it shouldn't wear alternate colours.
Syracuse has a very long tradition of wearing navy in football. Other sports I agree with the point, but nobody seems to realize this when they go all "THEY'RE THE ORANGE THEY SHOULD BE WEARING ORANGE" when it comes to football (as in the jerseys. Pants and helmet should obviously be orange)
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These black Flyers jerseys were pretty good.
If they had a hem stripe in the same scheme, they'd make an excellent third for the Flyer's current set.
I don't think that's too much of an unpopular opinion among us Flyers fans. It's when they became the default away jersey that people (including me) had a problem with it. The Flyers are orange and black but that was a great alternate.
Pretty much my opinion on them as well. They worked for an alternate pretty nicely, but it was overload when they adopted black as their full-time uniform for the entire 2000s. Don't think black would work too well with the current set for a recolor alt, however.
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Here's one that I'm sure won't go over too well:
I prefer alternates that are recolors over totally new designs (this does not apply towards baseball or soccer but certainly does for football, hockey, basketball, and other sports)
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Here's one I haven't thrown out there, but will definitely be under the "unpopular opinion" criteria
With the exception of the Boston Celtics and Celtic FC, in almost all cases I prefer a darker green to kelly green. Yes, that includes the Jets (if Nike could ever get the greens to match like they were prior to the 2012 takeover) and the Eagles. The Stars are in a shade darker than kelly too, right?
I also think the Bucks are better off being a green/red team than a multi-green team.
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Depends on your definition of "wasteland". For bigtime college football, yeah - the northeast is a pro region. A lot of that IMO has to do with the sheer number of ivy league and other top tier insitutions that don't play or or aren't D1, plus that there are so many transplants in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, DC, etc. due to the economic conditions in those areas and the amount of jobs / good schools. It's just not as partisan as certain parts of the south, where everyone in a 100 mile radius of a SEC school is born there, grows up there, attends said school (or not even), and lives there as an adult. Obviously that's a dangerous generalization, but I'm exaggerating a little bit to make my point. It's different - not better or worse, just different.
Pro fandom is more regional and less partisan than college, since out of say 6M people in the Phila metro area, they may have gone to 000s of different colleges which dilutes the fan base of any of them, yet most of the non-transplants will follow the local pro team.
It could be argued that the same factors that make the northeast such a "wasteland" for big time college sports are the same factors that make it the best region for pro sports.
For the most part, I think this is pretty spot-on. In fact, I think it's entirely accurate to say the northeast outgrew its need for college athletics quite some time ago... at least when it comes to the more "mainstream" sports like football and basketball. What interest there is in college athletics out there seems limited to sports like hockey and lacrosse, that never truly caught on in the rest of the country.
Well, sorta. Basketball's still pretty big at a lot of schools (and I'm not just saying the Syracuses, UConns, Villanovas, and Pitts of the Northeast, but quite a few of the mid-majors too, especially with the Big East/Catholic 7 schools and the NYC/Philly schools). Football? Yeah, besides Penn State, which is more of a midwestern school anyway, it's by the wayside. At the FCS level, most of the schools that are dropping their teams are coming from the northeast, and really outside the Ivies and the Patriots there's only the CAA playing it. And then at the FBS level there's BC, Pitt, Rutgers, and Syracuse who are in the semi-relevant tier, followed by Temple, UConn, and UMass where it's always teetering on a debate whether or not they should field teams and focus elsewhere.
tl/dr version: It applies for football, but college basketball's nowhere near dead in the Northeast.
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Rutgers is the only school that does relatively decent in recruiting.
ppppppffffffffttttttttttttttttttttt (nobody besides PSU does anything in recruiting)
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If I had a penny for every thread these days that gets locked at "Business of Hockey" for the loosest technicality of it not being "Business of Hockey," I'd be rich.
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If the Sharks must go the "eliminate stripes to improve performance" route, I would've liked them to have a teal and white version of this (with updated logos and whathaveyou)
The stripes on the sleeves they had with this are much better than traditional striping without any on the hems
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So no more PARTY CITY FLORIDA PANTHERS PRESENTED BY YOUR SOUTH FLORIDA LEXUS DEALERS POST-GAME CELEBRATION (regardless of outcome) HAND MADE BY MOES' SOUTHWESTERN GRILL WELCOME TO MOEEESSS! CEELLLLEEEBBBRAAATTTEEEE GOOOOD TIMES, COME ON! AND LOOK WHO'S DANCING WITH STANLEY C. PANTHER AT THE ADT DANCE DECK SERVED BY BUD LIGHT, IT'S THE GEICO GECKO when this sale goes through?
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That's exactly what I do anyway
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On Long Island (and probably Metro-North and NJ Transit land) you get to pay to park before using public transportation!
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Milwaukee Bucks - Pittsburgh Mountaineers (Yellow and Black)
Now that will go over quite well
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Can we just make the whole state of Arizona a parking lot?
Too bad the parking deal for the Arizona state parking lot means more than half the cars' parking fees go to a manager
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Sooooo when's the next lockout?
Eight years. Because
it.It's happening for sure. It's only been 6 months and already Mike Smith (MIKE SMITH!?!?) got a 6 year, 34 million dollar deal from the league owned team that doesn't have any money.
Didn't you hear the RSE guy last night? Mike Smith's a future Vezena winner!
and the best captain in the world Shane Doan!
/KingsCoyotesHandshakeLine.mov goes here
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THEY STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO MOTION ANYTHING yes I know it could've been made easier with a city manager but still holy crap
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Yes, that :censored:ing Bon Ton at the huge mall in Syracuse is the most important thing at that mall because it's an anchor tenant based on this logic. Oh lord
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Welp, that basically seals it about keeping the team
YES, KEEPING A HOCKEY TEAM UNDER CITY PAYMENTS = FIREFIGHTING
it.
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Yeah I don't think the teal flaked helmet was received that well around here. But I agree, that would work better with the current look.
The Jaguars below the neck have grown on me. Say what you want about Nike's NFL redesigns, but there's no way you can tell me the Reebok ones that came before are better than what the Jags have now (besides the botched helmet), bearing in mind the Jaguars were emphasizing the black on the previous set more than they did with the teal anyway.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: Obviously the original sets still blow away the current sets. I'm just comparing the Nike redesign neck-to-toe to Reebok's redesign neck-to-toe.