Sportsball WTF
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
bean brawl
Oh come on! That was not a bean ball. I couldn't tell where exactly he got hit but it definitely wasn't the head.
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@boomzilla I couldn't tell for certain, either, but it looked to be on or near his hands. Where it bounced from there is anybody's guess.
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It looks like houses aren’t the only things going for 30% over asking these days…
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Kinda a double feature with the climate change thread in the garage, but I think it’s more relevant here because lol hockey club cancelling a fan event due to snow (in May!)
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@izzion the snow is a false flag
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So the Golden State Warriors are playing their first road game in the NBA Finals, and their players noticed that the home team hung their net incorrectly.
No points if you can guess what city they're playing in.
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@izzion By two different pitchers, but to the same three batters.
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At least college has quaint regional rivalries and long standing stable traditions
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@izzion Great, more teams for IU to lose to every year - and they get to spend half a day of travel each way to do it.
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For those of you that have not been blessed with a handegg obsession:
- The Cleveland Browns were one of the first NFL franchises but have been perpetually bad.
- So bad that the ORIGINAL Browns moved to Baltimore and gave up the franchise name and history to escape the stink.
- The new expansion Browns haven’t won anything of consequence in over 20 years.
- They had a decent rookie quarterback that led the team to a playoff win within his first three seasons, but has had some injury struggles.
- They picked up his 5th year option but instead of extending him with a full contract they traded for Houston's Deshaun Watson (giving up a ton of draft capital for Watson plus giving him an extension that was probably bigger than they would have given Mayfield, their current QB).
- Mayfield publicly requested a trade in the wake of all of that.
- After the Watson trade, news surfaced that the NFL is seeking to suspend Watson for the entire 2022-23 season due to violations of their personal conduct policy (alleged sexual misconduct with massage contractors).
- Today, Cleveland paid Carolina $10.5M to take Mayfield off of their hands and send back a conditional fifth round draft pick (effectively a throw away pick).
Hence “taking the Browns to the Super Bowl” is a great euphemism for a really severe need to go #2.
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@boomzilla To add insult to injury, or vice versa, or something:
his team has lost every game they’ve played since getting the exam.
Oof!
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
Wait, what?
Did he record himself while having the exam? ()
Or is said exam public? ( )
And why would you such a thing in the first place? ( )
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I’m not sure why Benavides decided to do this. Perhaps it was a promotional stunt supporting men’s health, or just a means to entertain fans at the ballpark.
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Sounds like something that belongs in the Kink thread.
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This is sports. When you hear the buzzer, stare at the sports. You should now feel mentally invigorated.
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When ESPN needs to fill the programming time because not even ESPN can make baseball coverage entertaining:
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If you watched ESPN2 during its stint last weekend as "ESPN8: The Ocho," you may have seen some odd, meme-friendly competitions, including corgi racing, precision paper airplane tossing, and slippery stair climbing.
Or you might have seen "Excel Esports: All-Star Battle," a tournament in which an unexpected full-column Flash Fill is announced like a 50-yard Hail Mary. It's just the latest mainstream acknowledgment of Excel as a viable, if quirky, esport, complete with down-to-the-wire tension and surprising comebacks.
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@HardwareGeek You couldn't get a more stereotypical profile shot of these folks if you tried.
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Maybe not technically unassisted double play, but unassisted double play.
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@boomzilla
How do you even recover from getting TOOTBLAN’d like that? He ended those careers!
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@boomzilla That post crashed my phone.
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@HardwareGeek my mom had issues with it too.
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Because nothing says the Hooters brand like sweaty, "big boned" guys.
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@izzion Expanding from cheesecake to beefcake?
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion Expanding from cheesecake to beefcake?
Guess they saw "" and said, "why not?"
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Because nothing says the Hooters brand like sweaty, "big boned" guys.
Hey, there's no reason straight women and gay men can't have fun too.
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@Zerosquare said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Because nothing says the Hooters brand like sweaty, "big boned" guys.
Hey, there's no reason straight women and gay men can't have fun too.
There's already musical theater.
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https://www.outkick.com/south-carolina-has-to-rename-its-rooster-and-fans-want-cock-commander/
The University of South Carolina's mascot is the Gamecocks.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear Cock Commander is decent, but Cockommander seems better from here.
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@Dragoon LOL, so the 7 was two safeties and a field goal!?
Heh...even the announcers sucked.
"58 total yards at halftime."
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@boomzilla There were like 6 other opportunities for safeties too. Every time I saw them snapping into the endzone I thought that was going to be one of the safeties.
Honestly, besides the 20 yard punt fail and the missed field goal, special teams and defense won the game. The special teams delivered at least one of those safeties on a silver platter and there were a few opportune times for an interception and fumble recovery.
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@The_Quiet_One but there were a lot of dropped passes. Or balls thrown behind or beyond receivers. The offenses really really sucked.
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
two safeties and a field goal!
When your defense scores more points than your offense.
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
two safeties and a field goal!
When your defense scores more points than your offense.
As a Power 2 team vs Paycheck U.
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After a comedy of errors in overtime that saw Houston win the coin toss and then take two sacks and two procedure penalties (one declined in favor of an incomplete pass) before punting the ball away, and then Indianapolis drove the field to inside the 20, needing only a field goal to win, they ran 2 plays for a loss of 7 yards and then missed the field goal…. the two teams are taking their sister kissing goodness to sharing first place in the AFC South after week one.
It’s the first time in 9 years Indianapolis didn’t lose their season opener.
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@izzion Possibly unpopular opinion, not sure, but really ties shouldn't be a thing in the NFL. If both teams suck so bad they can't score as much as a field goal in 10 minutes, you can't give them mercy. Have them fight it out until a clear victor emerges. If it takes 6 hours and the practice squad to come out because the second and third+ stringers have collapsed in exhaustion so be it.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Sportsball WTF:
Have them fight it out until a clear victor emerges.
To the death! If no other benefit, there will be fewer players in the world.
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@The_Quiet_One
My understanding is that the practice squad isn't even on-site on game day, and even of the full 53 man roster there are at least 7 people who won't have been expecting to play that game (due to the game day roster being limited to 46). So I could see the problems with playing until they drop.On the one hand, the college overtime system has the virtue of playing until there's a winner and not having any of the "win without the other team getting the ball (as many times)" problems of a sudden death system. On the other hand, especially now that they've moved the
penalty shootoutdueling 2 point conversion threshold to after 2OT, it usually degrades into silliness.On the gripping hand, why not just go 10 minute periods with "silver goal" rules?
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
@The_Quiet_One
My understanding is that the practice squad isn't even on-site on game day, and even of the full 53 man roster there are at least 7 people who won't have been expecting to play that game (due to the game day roster being limited to 46). So I could see the problems with playing until they drop.I'm aware of that. So therefore I suggest they fly them over to where they are playing (or just call them up at home and drive over if it's a home game) and tell them they get to finish the game!
I would also be open to offering whatever local high school or little league football team wants to take a hand at finishing, since the big boys couldn't.
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@dkf said in Sportsball WTF:
@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
corgi racing
Finding small enough jockeys is difficult.
Also, dwarfs are terrible jockeys ... they insist on taking their battle axe with them
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@The_Quiet_One said in Sportsball WTF:
Possibly unpopular opinion, not sure, but really ties shouldn't be a thing in the NFL.
I agree, they're all absolutely awful.
OTOH, I'm not sure why you want to restrict that to the NFL. The NBA ones, for example, are not much better.
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Coulounised version of this:
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And as usual, the domestic version is a far cry from the real thing.