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21 hours ago, ManillaToad said:

everyone I know calls them the Skins or the full old name that's banned on here. Obviously that's just anecdotal, but I can't help but think that type of thing will stick around if the team stays in nameless limbo instead of just adopting a new identity and moving the hell on

I don't know anyone who uses the old name. Also anecdotal.

2 hours ago, MCM0313 said:

Could the Bengals possibly look worse, though?

Considering how many people HATE the Rams new look, and consider how many also thought their update would be a slam dunk classic, YES the Bengals could possibly look worse.

1 hour ago, MCM0313 said:

Even so, I hope Mixon or Burrow or one of their other young foundational players can get that proverbial ball rolling. 

Careful what you wish for. Player involvement doesn't offer much more than fire emojis.

41 minutes ago, floydnimrod said:

The ads at the bottom of the page now pop up or change while I'm typing. This happens about every 8 seconds, but i becomes the "active" part of the web page, so I have to click back into the reply box every 8 seconds.

This has happened to me for awhile. I thought I was imagining it. It's only certain style ads - ones that have an almost 'dashboard' shape to them.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

I wonder if Chris' book has ads on every other page and in the middle of some.

I paid for the autographed version, so mine doesn't.

One of these years, there will be two threads. One for real news, and one full of speculation and lists of teams that people want to change 

4 minutes ago, Magic Dynasty said:

Is anyone else having problems getting rid of the top screen ads? I'll click the X, but it just refuses to go away. Usually if I spam click it'll eventually close, but still. Gets pretty annoying.

I disregard them unless I'm trying to get at notifications. It's easier that way. Of course, that might be the cause for periodic inaccessibility when in phone, but I don't know.

10 hours ago, infrared41 said:

Today was a CBS doubleheader day. Maybe that has something to do with it.  

Speculation on the 506Sports Twitter feed revolves around this: 

I'd think that explanation from last week about ensuring they're giving Sunday Ticket a minimum number of games applies here as well. I'm curious how they ended up with these markets though. Were these the markets that would have shown the game if it was on Sunday?

The important part of it is that Sunday Ticket has to ahve a minimum number of games. If these markets have already met that threshold, then they are more likely to get this game. The "last week" part of this has to do with a game between Denver and Tampa Bay that was similarly blacked out.

EDIT:

This is done to protect the Sunday Ticket package. That package is contractually provided a minimum number of games. Re-scheduled games have chipped away at that number, so certain areas aren't allowed to have this one broadcast to assure that the NFL delivers its quota to Sunday Ticket.

21 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

I'm assuming those markets get it because they would have had it had that game had it not been moved. Lucky for those markets they get bonus football on Sunday.

That sounds good, but there's no way Green Bay or Milwaukee would have gotten Pittsburgh-Washington rather than Chicago-Detroit.

The same can be said for Chicago and Detroit!

On 11/21/2020 at 5:03 PM, MJWalker45 said:

Ontario is one of those travel hub cities that have a bunch of airlines running through them. That probably helps keep travel costs down for teams that drive and fly coach.

I hope nobody is going to drive there. I get it - low level football will drive. Ugh

23 hours ago, BBTV said:

Watch yourselves... you might get talked about on BASS if you don't stop complaining.

If you're talked about and don't listen, does a tree make a sound when it falls?

Or something

Side banners / mobile ads have been noticeably strong the last few days. It's making navigation on the board difficult at best.

4 hours ago, JayMac said:

To add to your fact, Robin Roberts, Phillies hall of fame pitcher, is the only pitcher in history to beat the Braves in those three cities.

66.7% of all players in MLB history with the first name of Robin are Hall of Famers.

Damn you, Ventura!

5 hours ago, Seadragon76 said:

 

No, that's the nickname. The High Desert Storm will be playing their games in Redmond, Oregon. This marks the first Oregon based team in the AWFC.

 

A few things @GDAWG didn't mention...

 

National Arena League: Along with Louisville and Tampa Bay getting the boot, they added a team in Albany, New York... That's right, the Empire is back.

 

Indoor Football League: Along with Oakland and Quad City sitting out this season, the league has added two teams: Massachusetts (a former NAL member who left before the 2020 season) and Northern Arizona (expansion franchise)

 

Champions Indoor Football: The Wyoming Mustangs play in Gillette, Wyoming. Gillette is actually one of the biggest cities in Wyoming, so this works out well for them.

 

American Arena League: This league has had the largest expansion of the leagues so far as four teams are set to join next season - The Allen Tiger-Cats, The San Antonio Gunslingers (Who are planning to play in the Alamodome), The Topeka Thundercats and the West Texas Buccaneers (playing in El Paso). The league also added 5 teams from a semi pro league as well.

Adding 5 teams from a semi-pro league?

WARNING WARNING WARNING

12 minutes ago, the admiral said:

[snip]

By the way, there's no link or byline in that, but everyone who read it knows who must have written it and where.

Unless a person I follow had pointed out who said it, I would have had no idea who wrote it.

Nor would I have cared. Do I think he overstates the importance of it? Yep (MLB trade deadline is a bigger deal).

It's the league he covers. What else is he gonna do?

4 hours ago, Digby said:

Has it really been 15 years since Monday Night Football moved to ABC??? Jeez. I'm old. And still not even used to that.

Do you mean ESPN? You're right - you really aren't used to that.

14 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Why? 

Because?

PT Barnum?

7 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

 

Because part of me wants a league like this to take off even though I know damn well it won't. 

Gotcha. I hope it succeeds, but don't expect that it will. The assumption stated of fans wanting more football is wrong. Fans who want more football want more of THEIR football. That is far most often NFL or NCAA D-I FBS.

3 hours ago, Red Comet said:

 

I'd like to see who else is investing into the Neo-Neo XFL before I can say anything about longterm success. The Rock is very charismatic but does he have the resources to run a league at massive losses for a few years? Time will tell. 

 

But, I can safely say that if he does have financial backers and it still fails? Well, that tells me that TRUE ALTERNATIVE FOOTBALL LEAGUES will never work and nothing will ever make them work short of the NFL declining massively in popularity like horse racing.

Why would it take this iteration to change your mind?

2 hours ago, leopard88 said:

Am I the only one who has had to log in back in every morning for the past week or so?  I also get an error message preventing me from accessing the board unless I go to notifications and click into a thread that way.

I've been getting the logged out notification as well. I found that if I just click on a forum from the main page, it recognizes me and I am logged back in. I get an errror message if I log in, also, but can click on the board header and it lets me in that way, also.

This is from my laptop where I have it set to remember me here.

On 9/17/2020 at 4:43 PM, Sodboy13 said:

Oh, I am of the belief that the league is going to be down to 28 teams by the time the 2022-23 season starts, and I do think Ottawa, Buffalo, and Florida are your prime candidates for getting vaporized, alongside Florida.

 

The Coyotes are the easy punching bag because we've been discussing their persistent failures and edge-of-doom existence on this board for over 11 years.

Wow -- I didn't know it was so bad in Florida that they could get contracted twice

The 2019 Green Bay Packers led the Detroit Lions for zero seconds total in 2 games.

Green Bay won both games.

13 hours ago, the admiral said:

 

I was thinking a variation on the same thing myself. Yes, there are supper clubs in southeastern Wisconsin, but they tend to be on lakes with lots of trees around them: Delavan Lake, Oconomowoc, Paddock Lake, towns like that. Some of the unincorporateds have establishments I guess you could call "supper-club-adjacent," like a bar and grill that has Friday Fish Fry, a relish tray, and paneling, but again, also lake towns like Como or Silver Lake or Okauchee. I think Wilmot has a joint like that near the ski resort.

 

But Beloit? No, not really part of lake country and the attendant supper club culture -- you feel a very real shift in the landscape just west of Delavan, where the lakes and hills and woods give way to crushing dullness and the feeling that no one is coming here to get away from anywhere else, rather, the other way around. And then you have Janesville, Beloit, and Rockford, which form what expert demographers have deemed a Column Of Sadness. That's all post-industrial blight, no supper clubs there. More like Beef-a-Roo and truck stops. Maybe someone tries to open a pizza joint in a disused factory and then it goes out of business in three months.

 

So yeah, it's a really stupid name for Beloit. You can't do whimsical Wiscaahhhnsin yah-hey-dere stuff for what is, like you said, a border town, and not at all a whimsical one. Any effort of Brandiose to gin up some rich cultural tapestry for poor old Beloit will just end up being more depressing than if they hadn't tried at all. Call them the Snappers, design better merchandise, and quit overthinking everything.

That does it - I'm driving past Lucky Chucky's Supper Club on the way home and taking a picture for this thread.

#GoSnappers

21 minutes ago, JayMac said:

I don't have any numbers in front of me but I'm sure a random 2006 episode of NCIS or SVU would outdraw a current PL match...good job NBC Universal. 

You say that sarcastically (I assume), but I bet you're right in this sense. It may cost them less to air that old episode than to air a live sporting event. Losing less money means the same as making more in this case.

It's like they took all of the failed ideas that the Green Bay Bullfrogs nay Booyah didn't use.