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  1. 3 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

    Does Cincinnati get his bones, though? I mean his name is literally on the collar of their jerseys. 

     

    There's enough bones in the human body so that each player on Cincinnati and Cleveland could get one, and each team could choose one time during the game to bring out their bones (clip that for the 'no-context posts' thread).

     

    I assume the popular bones would be the bigger ones like the femur, but I'd love to see them somehow piece together a hand and throw it so that it bats down a pass, or piece together a foot and throw it such that Deshaun Watson gets kicked in the face by the decayed foot of his own team's founder.

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  2. 41 minutes ago, McCall said:

    They still get paid for a certain amount of time even if it's called not long after employee start times.

     

    Some travel a ways, or have to pay for transit, and also coverage for kids, so it's not worth it.  As a former stadium employee (granted for football which was only postponed once in my tenure) it's really not worth it, even for the ones that need every $.   The certainty of the situation and the ability to have time to replan for child care or whatever else, outweighs the hour of minimum wage (or whatever) they'd be paid.

  3. 39 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

    Hell, why not have different animals for different stadiums? Thanksgiving afternoons would certainly be spiced up with a lion on the field. 

     

    5 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

    As long as the Bucs can shoot off real cannon balls from their ship, I’m good with it. 

     

    Can't start going with team-themed gimmicks.  Don't want this to get gimmicky and silly.

     

    Besides - what are the Browns going to do - excavate and bring out Paul Brown's skeleton for a play?  To let the defenders throw his bones at the other QB?

     

    I don't see a need to fix the gorilla rule and make things even more complicated for average fans to understand.  The only reason I'd change it to pythons or condors is if the gorillas went on strike.

     

    Please stop with these silly and impractical rule changes.

  4. OMG replay officials make about the worst call I've ever seen on a cut-and-dried out-of-bounds call.  How the hell can reviews occur when they're plain and obvious, and then the referees announce that it's clear and obvious the other way?

     

    Not sure what the spread is in this game, but it's basically like saying "we've reviewed the call and determined that 2+2 = 5".

     

    The funny think is that this is about the first 30 seconds of NBA basketball I've watched all year, and I turn it on during a replay that to my naked eye without any context should not have even occurred, and then they reverse what seemed like a completely obvious out-of-bounds play.  And it decides the game.

     

    Anyone who thinks there's not fixing or "tilting" going on is a fool.  Literally anyone that doesn't think there's some manipulation is a fool.

     

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    I watch 7 minutes of basketball (that represents 40 seconds of action) and see a total fix.  If anyone saw that replay (the first one) and can argue that it should have been overturned, I'd love to hear the explanation.

     

    Referee bullcrap reversal of a clear call decides the game.  It's so bad they shoudl be suspended and investigated for gambling.

     

     

  5. 20 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

     

    Weather forecasting is much better now than it was in the "old days." For example, last week a meteorologist I follow on YouTube said that Minneapolis was going to get blasted by snow this week. Guess what happened in Minneapolis this week. It snowed. A lot.

     

    If the forecast says there is a 99% chance of rain and the radar shows that it's 99% going to rain, what exactly are we waiting for? I like that teams are being proactive and not making fans waste their time sitting around for 4 hours in the rain to see if the game gets called.

     

    To be 100% fair, the forecast for Phillies opening day last year was horrific, and they postponed it a day ahead of time like this year.  It ended up being 80 degrees and sunny, while the next day ended up being a typical early-spring cloudy-chilly day.   But there wasn't a single model that predicted anything other than rain.  Something flukey happened.

     

    I'd much rather err on the side of giving the fans the most time necessary to make a decision.  And it's one of the several reasons I hate this new scheduling format - it creates more situations where fans can be held hostage because there's fewer opportunities (none, in some cases) to make up games, so they just have to sit through delays.

     

    No new stadium in any northeast or midwest city shoudl be constructed without some kind of Safeco-ish umbrella-ish cover.  Not a full dome, but a cover.  Prices are too high to have to sit or wait through multiple delays or get rained on or have a clinching NLCS game like in 2022 where the field was a complete trainwreck and pitchers could barely grip the ball.

  6. 4 hours ago, Burmy said:

    So now we're cancelling games because of "forecasted" weather...I miss the old days when the call was made on the actual gameday.

    If it ends up being nice and sunny, then it was called for nothing...


    Lame take, especially for weekday game days where people have to take off from work and then may have to take off a second day, or drive down to a game (which can be hell) and be held hostage till the make up their mind. 
     

    Fans should always be given as much notice as possible - especially in a case where there’s a built-in off day and it’s not a situation where they can’t make up the game. 
     

    The first week or two of the season should only be held in places where it doesn’t rain or where there’s domes. It’s downright stupid to open in Philadelphia, or even worse Detroit, or Chicago, etc. in March. 
     

    EDIT also for the stadium employees and vendors, it’s better for them to not have to pay for transit to/from a game that get cancelled and they make no money, then have to do it again the next day. 
     

    Bad take. 

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  7. I think if they’re going to legislate gorillas out of the game, they could be replaced with giant eagles or condors or some bird that could either 1) snatch players up in its talons and carry them to… anywhere it wants to, 2) intercept balls, or 3) block field goals. 
     

    it’d be the same one play a game rule, there’s just be a much lower injury risk (except in the case where the bird carries the player away and drops him somewhere from a high height). 
     

    I think giant snakes are also a good alternative, but large birds could work too. 

  8. 4 hours ago, Red Comet said:


     

    The best time to deploy a gorilla would be 4th and short. Can’t do a toosh push with a 500 pound ape who can bench press a Chevy truck in the way. I’m calling it the Kamikaze Kong formation. 


    Again, it is, and has always been, one play a game. 

  9. 1 hour ago, McCall said:

    The returners can only move once they catch the ball or the gorilla is within 5 yards of them, in which case they must run towards the gorilla, to make the catch. This will be known as a "Kamikaze Kick-Off". If they make the catch AND survive, they get the ball from the 50 yard line. If they only make the catch, the surviving team members get the ball from the 40. If the returner survives, but fails to make the catch, from the 30. If they fail to survive or make the catch, the ball is given to the kicking team, barring a touchback.


    What if he makes the catch but the gorilla rips him in half and carries his upper body (which still has the ball) forward into the end zone? TD for the kicking team? 
     

    But remember, gorillas can only be deployed once a game (though I have to re-check the rules on this), so I’m not sure if kickoffs are the best place. 

  10. 40 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

     

    We gotta get the gorilla involved in this somehow.


    I heard there was an uptick in gorilla concussions (but maybe it was concussions caused by gorillas?) but either way, they’re now unionizing, with Dr. Zaius (a chimp, yes, but still an ape) as their chief negotiator, so in the event of a strike, we may need to find some scabs. 
     

    Im thinking that since we’re tinkering with the rules in order to reduce concussions, what about deploying gigantic pythons or boas to patrol the deepest parts of the field, so they can wrap around runners that break through the secondary and bring them down? Or maybe once a game, you can let one loose against the offense and it can wrap and sack the QB?


    Like maybe a few defenders hold it and then throw it over the line when the ball is snapped so that it can wrap the QB around the neck or waist?
     

     

  11. Maybe instead of kickoffs they could do free kicks like after safeties? Then a team could either kick it off or punt it, and the “on-sides kick” would just be a special punt that either falls fast, or is so hard that it bonks off of someone’s helmet and is caught by the kicking team. 

  12. BLUE COLLAR, because marketers will have you believe that every city is BLUE COLLAR and that everyone in every city BRINGS THEIR LUNCH TO WORK IN A PAIL.  If you'll excuse me, I'm off to my management job in a downtown office building where I'm going to post on blogs about how certain athletes aren't "philly guys" because they're not BLUE COLLAR like me.  Hopefully my assistant doesn't disturb me by bringing me my coffee while I'm in the middle of posting.

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  13. 8 hours ago, burgundy said:

     

    Yes, the kicker needs to get the ball somewhere between the 20 and the goal line. If it lands in the endzone and stays inbounds, the returner has to either down it for a touchback to the 30, or they can choose to return it. If the ball hits inside the landing zone and bounces into the endzone, then downing it would be a touchback to the 20. If it lands short of the landing zone, regardless of bounce, the ball is placed at the 40.

     

    I wonder if we'll see some attempts at low-angle, line-drive kicks to try and bounce them into the endzone. They don't need the hangtime anymore for players to get downfield, and the coverage can't even move until the ball is caught or touches the ground.

     

     

    So the hardest sport to explain to anyone just got exponentially harder.  It's no wonder the sport isn't followed globally nearly as much as literally every other sport.  Way too much "if then then that, buttttttt if this and this, then instead of that, there's this, but this can be negated if the player does that, but only if there's 2 minutes or fewer left, otherwise that becomes this again, and this is nothing.  And now let's talk about tackling.   You can tackle like this, as long as you don't do that, but if you can do that, but if you only do it half way, otherwise this happens, but.......

     

    I don't even know if I hate the play or not because I've never seen it, but I hate that the rules get more and more complex and difficult to follow every year.  I'd be almost embarrassed to have to and explain the rules to someone that's never seen it before.

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  14. So the "onsides kick" is now a totally separate "thing" from a kickoff.  The cool thing about it was that it was sorta like exploiting a loophole in the rule, and could be done by surprise.  But now if you have to declare your intent and there's totally different formations, it's fundamentally different from a kickoff, and is essentially a special "gimmick" play that can be used to retain possession.  And when it's so premeditated, and with the rule changes of the past few years, it's basically complete chance that you'll get it as opposed to having a good play ready to go.

     

    I'm all for player safety and if the stats show that the new kickoff is safer then ok, but there should still be some loophole to allow for an "onsides kick" within the new formation (though I have no idea how.)

     

    Question though - since the touchback is now the 30, does the kicker need to pooch it to fall in the "zone", rather than use his full leg?  I do like that part - kickers have become way too much a part of the game, so anything to reduce their impact - whether it's pushing the kickoff back to the 30 (or even 25 based on today's kickers) or narrowing the goal posts is a-ok with me.

     

    With today's kickers, if you get a touchback and start on the 30, you only need to get 27 yards to have a shot at a 60-yard FG, which is no longer a mind-blowing achievement.  It kinda defeats the original intent of the game, and the goalposts should be narrowed to reward teams for gaining yards, not just having a good kicker.  

     

     

  15. 1 hour ago, WBeltz said:

    They wear them in the post-season.


    Some teams have rotating captains during regular season (hence no patch) and then permanent ones for playoffs (hence patch). The eagles were a team that didn’t use regular season captains or patches until the Pederson era, but I think they had post season patches before the.  

     

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  16. 2 hours ago, Cujo said:

     

    Googled this also -- It was Eric Dickerson who opted out of TSB, partly because of the truncated name. I knew that story had applied to someone. Just assumed Cunningham because of his lengthy name

     

    According to UW, Dickerson was "Dicker" in TB, but wasn't in TSB because of a dispute over his NIL, but they omitted him altogether rather than go with "RB Colts".  I didn't remember this.  I have the original game, so may try to validate this later.

     

    And apparently the "QB Club" thing may not have happened until after TSB, but the three QBs that were omitted (including Cunningham) had already left the NFLPA.

     

    https://uni-watch.com/more-than-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-tecmo-super-bowl/

  17. Is there a new template this year other than the silly "V" one that most teams used last year?  I'm noticing that some 2024-specific replicas, even the $$350 style, are on a template that doesn't have that "feature".

     

    (this is not the top-model one, as Fanatics took that one down overnight, but the cut was more/less the same - definitely not the "vapor hyper super ultra mega fuse" or whatever dumb-ass name they call their dumb-ass crap.)

     

     

    mens-nike-saquon-barkley-midnight-green-

     

    EDIT: something else I just thought of - since Jason Kelce and Fletcher Cox are technically still on the roster since their retirements aren't technically effective yet, if you order their jersey, do you get the one with the new wordmark that they'll have never worn and never will, or one that's last-year's stock?  Ones with the old wordmark aren't on sale, which is what I would have expected, but that just be because Fanatics doesn't even realize that anything changed.

  18. 7 hours ago, Cujo said:

     

    Could be wrong, but I wanna say I head Cunningham opted out of the game because his in-game name would've just read 'CUNNING' and he wasn't for that

     

    I think it was more to do with him and some other QBs leaving the NFLPA and signing some deal with NFL Properties that gave them personal control over their NIL, and TSB probably wasn't paying enough for some of them.  I vaguely remember the QB Club seceding from the PA, and it causing some tension between the two camps.

     

    EDIT: yeah a quick Google search confirms that at least most of my old-ass memory is right... or close enough.

  19. Is there really still a Shohei story?  This won't be a thing in a week.  Whether he did anything wrong or not, unless MLB games are involved by him or his guy (which is unlikely), it's not going to be a thing.

     

    It'll be July and someone will be like "just remembered about that Ohtani thing... what ever happened with that?  Eh, I really don't care."

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  20. philies are not giving out a pennant to fans on opening day, which shows that they're not going to hang a lame-ass wild-card pennant like some lame-ass teams do.  This would have been the first opportunity they had to do so, as they've never made the playoffs and not won some championship along the way.  Pleasantly relieved by this.

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  21. I'm a weirdo in that I think "word" helmets in HS and college are cool.  I like the Gators, UCLA, the ILLINOIS , et al.  There's just something refreshingly "amateur" about it that warms my heart.

     

    The worst helmets in HS or NCAA are any that use a "paw print" logo, which seems to be the default for low-budget high school programs named after something with paws.  When in Jr High, if we played one of those teams (and we played at least 3 teams that used the same stupid paw every year), I always thought their cheerleaders looked stupid with paw prints painted on their faces.  Why would you want to look like some animal just ran across your face?

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