TrueYankee26

The Spring Football curse is close to over barring COVID roaring back or another disease spreads around the globe.

 

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/06/27/fox-wil-bring-usfl-back-for-a-second-season/

1 hour ago, LMU said:

Well, firstly the intent of that ball isn't exactly obvious since it could have just as easily slipped out of the pitcher's hand and Trout was intentionally walked anyway.

 

BUT, if it was intentional, it wasn't what started the whole chain events but was in fact a retaliatory move for this:

 

There's a discussion in a social media thread that I've been following that makes a good point that this whole melee kind of puts a nice bow on (especially the development that the two beaning attempts [one successful] were orchestrated by an opener who was inserted in the lineup at the last minute).  It can truly be argued right now that the Angels are approaching the Astros in being a villain/pariah franchise, as this organization:

 

*Had narcotic and spider tack trafficking rings operating under its roof (not even including the steroid shipments being mailed to Glaus at the stadium years back)

*Treated (and continues to treat) minor leaguers in the organization subhumanly

*Manipulated the city government to enter into a backroom below-market value stadium deal while blatantly circumventing state housing laws (which has been killed due to a scandal that caused the mayor's resignation and has gotten the Feds involved)

*Has an owner who constantly meddles in the front office to the club's detriment due to his own ego (Pujols, Hamilton, Wells, Matthews Jr, Cozart, etc), fires GMs who refuse to be yes-men, and who hasn't sat down for an interview with the media in at least two years

*Is wasting the careers of two generational talents

*Continues to alienate its fanbase by embracing a larger media market that fans don't identify with

*Favors ego-driven splash hires in other aspects of the organization over the actual fan experience (hiring Matt Vasgersian as PBP despite him being forced to call games on delay from monitors in New Jersey)

A well run Angels squad would have been a force to be reckoned with on the field, in the stands and at least top 5 in team value. What a waste. Tragic.

Y'all beat us twice in the last 8 years in the Eastern Finals, excuse me when I say I am not sad with the result. 

23 minutes ago, TBGKon said:

Recovering from Covid i read.

 

 

Same thing happened to Silver in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Crazy.

 

Congrats to the Avalanche the Lightning reign of terror is over

2 hours ago, McCall said:

I think you think people care about this more than they do.

The very last page said otherwise with the amount of reactions I got. So much for "not caring".

15 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

This poor kid cant catch a break. Last year she went to San Diego to visit her favorite player Joey Votto when the Reds were in town. He got ejected in the first inning. Today she went to see Jesse Winker (former Red now with the Mariners) in Anaheim. History has now repeated.

2021:

2022:

Damn that has to be devastating.

 

In happier news, Yankees bleacher creatures going wild over a little girl's bottle flip

 

 

1 hour ago, the admiral said:

There was or is a Sinclair in Wisconsin Dells, I think. Seeing the big dinosaur is always a nice treat. Cute vestige of the old roadside-attraction America. 

 

I don't think I see Unocal 76s around here as much as I used to. Are they gone completely?

Exists in both coasts and Texas now.

 

Oh my Lord in heaven.

20 minutes ago, ninersdd said:

Crazy stuff going down in the OC! 

 

Following a real brawl. About time we see hatred and passion like this in MLB.

29 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Yeah - it sure sucks to be [checks standings] playing at a .722 clip, far and away the best in baseball, and have tied this game up.

 

Inexcusable. [Inigo Montoya] You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

 

As I have said I will be happy to be wrong. But if this team goes into the postseason playing like they have been vs the Astros they will be remembered like the 2001 Mariners.

Well I am happy to be wrong.

 

But still inexcusable nevertheless.

On 6/20/2022 at 3:40 PM, the admiral said:

Guess I never really demanded modernity from gas stations. I appreciate the continuity of a Shell station that hasn't been updated since 1996. 

 

Marathon's a weird one. We have a few around here, but they seem to be an endangered species. Chicago has always been a Mobil and Amoco (BP since '02 but they're easing Amoco back) town. It's like seeing a Superamerica. It feels misplaced.

In New Jersey, these brands popped up in the last decade.

 

Amoco, 76, Conoco, Phillips 66, Speedway (when they were Marathon owned), even Sinclair. And for North Jersey where I live, a lot more Wawas.

 

I predict Chevron and Texaco may come back within this decade the way things are going.

LMAO this team may get no hit again.

 

What a joke. Frauds.

A followup to the Gladiators of the Gridiron Football League story..

 

3 years after the GGFL's founding in 2022, the NFL is sweating bullets. They lose CBS, elite college prospects to this new fledgling, monied league,  even some stars like Tom Brady jumps to the Gladiators of the Gridiron Football League in the 2024 season, as he recently led the San Francisco Wolves to an undefeated season and an Emirates Bowl win over the New York Pride, who won the first two. Goodell quickly reverses the ban on people involved in the GGFL. He also formed a partnership with the Saudi government that sends NFL ambassadors there to promote the century-old league. He quickly announces expansion teams in markets that were abandoned recently and even the past. Also a return of the Central divisions that were scrapped in 2002 so both conferences have 5 divisions, for a total of 10. The NFL playoffs expanded once again, this time to 20 teams.

 

American Football Conference

AFC Central

Chicago Tigers

Columbus Panhandles

Dayton Triangles

Detroit Wolverines

Louisville Breckenridges

 

AFC East

Boston Patriots

Buffalo Bills

Hartford Sea Monsters

Miami Dolphins

New York Jets

 

AFC North

Baltimore Ravens

Cincinnati Bengals

Cleveland Browns

Milwaukee Badgers

Pittsburgh Steelers

 

AFC South

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Jacksonville Jaguars

Memphis Express

Nashville Titans

 

AFC West

Denver Broncos

Kansas City Chiefs

Las Vegas Raiders

Los Angeles Earthquakes

San Diego Chargers

 

National Football Conference

NFC Central

Akron Pros

Cincinnati Celts

Muncie Flyers

Rochester Jeffersons

Toledo Maroons

 

NFC East

Boston Yanks

Dallas Cowboys

New York Giants

Philadelphia Eagles

Washington Commanders

 

NFC North

Chicago Bears

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Minnesota Vikings

St. Louis Stallions

 

NFC South

Atlanta Falcons

Charlotte Panthers

New Orleans Saints

Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

 

NFC West

Arizona Cardinals

Los Angeles Rams

Portland Thunder

San Francisco 49ers

Seattle Seahawks

 

NFL TV Rights in 2025

AFC: CBS (was with NBC from 2022-2024 due to Paramount Global being banned from covering the NFL, Inside the NFL went to Peacock during that time)

NFC: FOX/Tubi (Tubi gets 1 exclusive national game of the week, which is usually the less glamorous game but sometimes big market teams show up so FOX Corp can get more subscribers into Tubi)

Sunday Night: USA and NBC (USA gets less glamorous games)

Monday Night: ESPN and ABC (ABC gets select games)

Thursday Night: Amazon Prime (Weeks 2-9), TNT & HBO Max (Weeks 10-17)

Some games (Mostly London and some Holiday games): NFL Network, Nickelodeon, Tubi (Nickelodeon also simulcasts Super Bowls on the year CBS gets it, as well as some Thanksgiving and Christmas games, and a Wildcard game)

 

Schedule Format

More or less the same format the NFL has today but with 22 games

After over 100 years, the NFL faces their toughest competitor. One that threatens to run the NFL out of business. A rich Saudi businessman born in New York named Kamil Abdulaziz* dreams of creating a competitor league to the NFL. The NFL rejected his bid to purchase his favorite team, the Jets, and he took that personally like Michael Jordan. so he creates the Gladiators of the Gridiron Football League, with Vince McMahon, Paramount Global and Warner Bros as co-founders. Abdulaziz gets a lot of interest from NFL teams to join but the shield gave them an ultimatum: if they join the GGFL, they would be banned for life from the NFL even if the GGFL folded and wanted to join the NFL again, so they backed off. The NFL did the same to Paramount and Warner, but that did not deter them. So Abdulaziz recruits businessmen from Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf countries to own the GGFL teams. The teams would be in almost all existing NFL markets plus markets underserved or deserted by the NFL.

 

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

Boston Barons

Buffalo Stampede

New Jersey Cardinals

New York Orangemen

New York Pride

Philadelphia Keystones

 

Mid-Atlantic Division

Baltimore Blackbirds

Norfolk Cavaliers

Pittsburgh Yellow Knights

Richmond Rhinos

Washington Colonials

West Virginia Bears

 

Midwest Division

Chicago Hussars

Cincinnati White Tigers

Cleveland Comets

Columbus Cadets

Detroit Saracens

Indianapolis Chariots

 

Florida Division

Fort Lauderdale Caimans

Jacksonville Ducks

Miami Bottlenoses

Orlando Swans

Tallahassee Braves

Tampa Swashbucklers

 

Southern Division

Atlanta Vultures

Charlotte Cheetahs

Memphis Dogs

Nashville Catfish

New Orleans Crayfish

St. Louis River Dragons

 

Western Conference

Lone Star Division

Austin Rustlers

Dallas Rangers

Fort Worth Armadillos

El Paso Xolos

Houston Wildcats

Lubbock Vaqueros

San Antonio Eagles

 

Mountain Division

Denver Mountaineers

Kansas City Butchers

Minnesota Loons

Milwaukee Moors

Omaha Big Green

Phoenix Firebirds

Salt Lake Hornets

Wichita Reapers

 

Northwest Division

Boise Pacers

Portland Power

Oakland Jumbos

Sacramento Lumberjacks

San Francisco Wolves

San Jose Hammerheads

Seattle Ospreys

Spokane Gunners

 

SoCal Division

Anaheim Missions

Bakersfield Bulls

Long Beach Scorpions

Los Angeles Vipers

Riverside Magic

San Bernadino Matadors

San Diego Sailboats

 

The regular season is split into the Spring and Fall seasons. 24 games with 2 bye weeks = 26 weeks. Spring season and Fall season have 12 games (13 weeks).

 

Eastern Conference teams: 10 division games, 6 intraconference games, 8 interconference games.

Western Conference teams (Lone Star and SoCal teams): 12 division games, 7 or 8 intraconference games, 4 or 5 interconference games.

Western Conference teams (Mountain and Northwest teams): 14 division games, 7 or 8 intraconference games, 2 or 3 interconference games.

 

Season starts after the Super Bowl, and the Playoff system is the same as the NFL. Spring Season concludes with the Alpha Bowl in June and the Fall season starts on the Last Sunday of August and concludes on the last Sunday of December with the Omega Bowl.

 

The winners of the Alpha Bowl and Omega Bowl (unless 1 team wins both, which means the team with the best record of the non bowl winners gets the bid) meet in the Emirates Bowl which will take place in stadiums around the world, which takes place in the same day as the Super Bowl. It gives players the chance to travel the world as well as compete in a high stakes football game. The winner of the Emirates Bowl not only wins the Emirates Trophy, which is a 24 karat gold Stanley Cup like trophy with Arabic accents and some elements of the host city (eg. London would have the Big Ben tower and Paris would have the Eiffel Tower next to the trophy), every single player earns a million dollar bonus and the winning franchise goes home with 25 million dollars.

 

CBS, CBS Sports Network, Paramount Network, Paramount+ The CW, TNT, TBS, TruTV, HBO Max are the broadcasters.

 

*Once again, a made up person so any semblances to a real person is coincidental..

Reminds me of Valero who also made their name lowercase

 

While the new canopy seems to be a mix of Valero and ExxonMobil with the blue light on top above the name

1994 NFL season: San Francisco-based team (49ers) wins a title in the 75th season of the league on ABC after winning 4 titles in the previous decade.

2021-22 NBA season: San Francisco-based team (Warriors) wins a title in the 75th season of the league on ABC after winning 3 NBA titles and winning 5 Western Conference titles in the previous decade.

On 6/1/2022 at 2:59 PM, TrueYankee26 said:

Don't know if anyone posted this but

 

1994 NFL season: San Francisco-based team (49ers) wins a title in the 75th season of the league on ABC after winning 4 titles in the previous decade.

2021-22 NBA season: San Francisco-based team (Warriors) wins a title in the 75th season of the league on ABC after winning 3 NBA titles and winning 5 Western Conference titles in the previous decade.

And it has happened.

 

Congrats Warriors!

5 hours ago, Shumway said:

 

We won?

Thank you from a Yankees fan

Yeah, that is the end. Rangers had a memorable season. I love this team and appreciate them forever.

For all the struggles of the Reds this year they did not lose 14 in a row.

 

Heads have to roll in Anaheim.

Something different: since this is a pointless realignment after all lol I made one for media companies.

 

• Warner Bros. Discovery buys Paramount Global and reforms The WB and UPN after the CW gets taken off the air.
• Comcast buys Electronic Arts. (a merger that almost happened in real life)
• Fox Corporation (21st Century Fox) and News Corporation unite after splitting in 2013, and buys Sinclair, thus forming 22nd Century Fox and getting back the Bally RSNs they sold from the Disney purchase of 21st Century Fox assets and renames them Fox Sports Net again.
• Walt Disney Company is at it again. They purchase Sony and then Apple buys the combined Disney-Sony Company.
• Not to be outdone, Google purchases Netflix and forms channels and movie studios of their own.
• A disgruntled man from San Antonio called Jason Terry Allen* graduated from UTSA and went to apply for a job at NBC but gets harshly denied. He gets hired by Disney as first a janitor, then he becomes a costume wearer for Mickey Mouse and gets a job for WABC but gets fired. He forms a company called Atlantic & Pacific Communications (A&P for short) and in no time it gets big. They purchase Microsoft.
• Three Networks following the A&P model - New England Communications (formed by Kelly McDoogal* after he gets fired by WBZ), Dixie Heart Corporation (formed by Chester Lester* after he was laid off from a CBS station in Arkansas) and Empire Communications (formed by Juan Castellanos* after quitting his job at WNYW and his side gig at Uber Eats) form a company called Liberty Enterprises.

Broadcast Channels:

• ABC, 20th Century Network, Sony Network & Univision: Owned by Apple.
• CBS, The CW, UPN & Ojo**: Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Global.
• NBC, Telemundo & Sky America: Owned by Comcast.
• FOX & TeleFOX: Owned by 22nd Century FOX.
• Amazon Broadcasting Network (ABN): Owned by Amazon.
• Tribune Channel: Owned by Nexstar-Tribune Media.
• Google Network: Owned by Google-Netflix.
• A&P Network 24/7: Owned by Atlantic & Pacific Communications.
• The New England Network (serving New England, Atlantic Canada & Quebec), Dixie Heart Network (serving the South), Empire Network (serving the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (except New England) and Ontario and Quebec) & Yankee Network (serving everywhere else): Owned by Liberty Enterprises.

Streaming Networks:

• Disney+, ESPN+ & Hulu: Apple
• Paramount+ & HBO Max: Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Global
• Peacock: Comcast
• FOX+ & Tubi: 22nd Century FOX
• Prime Video: Amazon
• Netflix: Google-Netflix
• A&P All Access, APSN+ & Hudu: Atlantic & Pacific Communications

*Made up people. Any resemblances to real people are coincidental.

**Channel created by CBS to serve the Spanish speaking community

Gotta add Robinson Cano in this thread again. This time as a Padre.

 

On 5/31/2022 at 2:46 PM, Ark said:

 

No, the Angels.

I second the Angels looking like the Phillies statement.

Don't know if anyone posted this but

 

1994 NFL season: San Francisco-based team (49ers) wins a title in the 75th season of the league on ABC after winning 4 titles in the previous decade.

2021-22 NBA season: If the Warriors win the NBA Finals, then San Francisco-based team wins a title in the 75th season of the league on ABC after winning 3 NBA titles and winning 5 Western Conference titles in the previous decade.