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Total Meatlove posted:It's weird watching from outside the US because the response to a team saying 'build us a stadium or we'll move' would be utter laughter. There's actually precedent of owners living up to those promises to move, especially in the NFL most notably with the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis who "packed up overnight" (though it was actually a decade in the making) and ~12 years later in 1996(?), the Cleveland Browns leaving town to become the Baltimore Ravens after Cleveland refused to negotiate to Art Modell's wishes. This move was notable because Baltimore essentially became an expansion team and all the Brown's records, etc. remain in Cleveland and they returned several years later in 1999 The Oakland Raiders moved from Oakland to LA in 1982 then back to Oakland in 1995. The LA Rams (in LA for 50 years) moved to St Louis in 1995 and now there is interest in having them move back to LA. (I'm less familiar with the Rams' and Raiders' stories - though with the Raiders you can probably just say "Al Davis" and that would be an accepted answer.)
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I'll own up to not understanding TEAM sports. I get following a tennis player or golfer or boxer/fighter, because watching anyone be extremely talented at something and becoming enamoured makes sense to me, but team sports... you're literally cheering because your town's name is the same as the team, and they play there sometimes. The outfits, the players, the coaches, the mascots... they all change. Like... what's the point?
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geeves posted:There's actually precedent of owners living up to those promises to move, especially in the NFL most notably with the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis who "packed up overnight" (though it was actually a decade in the making) and ~12 years later in 1996(?), the Cleveland Browns leaving town to become the Baltimore Ravens after Cleveland refused to negotiate to Art Modell's wishes. This move was notable because Baltimore essentially became an expansion team and all the Brown's records, etc. remain in Cleveland and they returned several years later in 1999 It's not that everyone thinks they're bluffing. More like "We're gonna move to LA unless you give us... one BILLION DOLLARS! " "Ok  ". However I have to say this time John went a bit too far with his whiteness gag. 
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Jul 15, 2015 00:27
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It's entertaining, it's a hobby, the players don't tend to all change year in and year out (see: most famous QBs), and it's a way you can tell people from another city that you would otherwise not have anything in common with to gently caress off and like it.
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Strobe posted:It's entertaining, it's a hobby, the players don't tend to all change year in and year out (see: most famous QBs), and it's a way you can tell people from another city that you would otherwise not have anything in common with to gently caress off and like it. Yes, but as soon as that star forward or QB or whatever moves to another team, they're traitors and over-the-hill, and overrated, and they probably use PEDs now and cheat on their spouse. Conversely, if a lovely person but great player comes to your team, they suddenly can do no wrong, and gently caress all the haters. Once again: idgi?
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Jul 15, 2015 00:32
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Gaz-L posted:Yes, but as soon as that star forward or QB or whatever moves to another team, they're traitors and over-the-hill, and overrated, and they probably use PEDs now and cheat on their spouse. Conversely, if a lovely person but great player comes to your team, they suddenly can do no wrong, and gently caress all the haters. I can't speak for everybody, but I generally respect players that aren't blatantly crooked or giant douchebags (gently caress Jameis Winston). Obviously there are people out there who are giant dicks about everything they like, but if that was the only way we judged things there would be nothing safe ever.
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I suppose my view might be a little warped, considering I grew up near Glasgow, which is basically the textbook example for 'go into the wrong bar wearing the wrong colour shirt on game day, and there's a non-zero chance you will be murdered'.
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Jul 15, 2015 00:51
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Gaz-L posted:Kinda hard to maintain it after that deposition came out.
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Gaz-L posted:I suppose my view might be a little warped, considering I grew up near Glasgow, which is basically the textbook example for 'go into the wrong bar wearing the wrong colour shirt on game day, and there's a non-zero chance you will be murdered'. No it's exactly as loving stupid as you think it is and as LWT pointed out last year it's even more hosed up in the for-no-good-reason college-funded minor leagues. See: Penn State football idolizing a pedophile and the total shitllord that enabled and defended him and seeing nothing wrong with this because he was good at coaching literal slaves to wins in a boring lovely sport. Trying to understand America's love affair with football is second only to trying to understand the rest of the world's love affair with soccer and why the paint drying/grass growing leagues have not taken off.
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Jul 15, 2015 01:22
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Life is loving miserable and sports can often make it better through a variety of means. That's it, that's all it took to understand the fascination with sports. No one's surprised or cares when you don't enjoy sports but pretending it's unfathomable is loving dumb.
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Jul 15, 2015 01:34
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It's all bread and circuses. The problem is that in the US there seems to be a lot more emphasis on the circuses part than the bread part.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:It's all bread and circuses. The problem is that in the US there seems to be a lot more emphasis on the circuses part than the bread part. well, y'know, carbs and stuff
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Jul 15, 2015 01:53
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What if we made it gluten-free bread?
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Veskit posted:If your aussie football team or whatever the gently caress you guys play said we're moving to a new city would they have an option of a place to go? The teams aren't owned by old rich white men, they are practically owned by the league and the teams supporter base/members so they can't really hold the league/city to ransom anyway.
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Gaz-L posted:What if we made it gluten-free bread? Who wants gluten-free bread? Are you going to offer people non-alcoholic beer to go with it, you monster?
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Jul 15, 2015 02:10
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Josh Lyman posted:What is going on in this thread? Sports man. Sports. Also, what's going on with the HBO Go site? The full episode won't load.
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Jul 15, 2015 02:23
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Josh Lyman posted:What is going on in this thread? BigRed0427 posted:Sports man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7u9hP4r1S8?
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Jul 15, 2015 02:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8flLpb3zXA&t=81s
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How the gently caress did John say that stadiums look like they're designed by coked-up Willy Wonka, start talking about the Marlins, and not once mention what happens when they hit a home run?
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Jul 15, 2015 07:55
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That Whoopi montage is just... wow.
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Jul 15, 2015 09:52
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Awful lot of shut-in basement dwellers revealing themselves in here this week 
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:How the gently caress did John say that stadiums look like they're designed by coked-up Willy Wonka, start talking about the Marlins, and not once mention what happens when they hit a home run? Well, my money is on believability. When you're doing a satirical bit on the design insanity of some of the modern stadiums out there, you must be believable or people will, well, not believe you, and they'll assume you're blowing things out of proportion or outright lying to make a story where none exists. If he said anything about the home run routine at that place, people who didn't already know it was true would assume he was making it up, either for laughs or just to be mean.
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:How the gently caress did John say that stadiums look like they're designed by coked-up Willy Wonka, start talking about the Marlins, and not once mention what happens when they hit a home run? I think it's because the dinger machine has been around a while and CLEARLY he couldn't top the comedy stylings of the MLB photoshop thread that one time.
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Jul 15, 2015 14:59
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Wait, that thing's real? I thought it was from a sports anime or something.
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Jul 15, 2015 15:55
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YggiDee posted:Wait, that thing's real? I thought it was from a sports anime or something. Oh, it's real. Too bad no one's ever around to see it.
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webmeister posted:Awful lot of shut-in basement dwellers revealing themselves in here this week ....I'm honestly not sure if this is directed at the people who are saying they enjoy watching professional sports, or the ones that are saying they don't enjoy/get it.
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Jul 15, 2015 16:21
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Please someone find that dinger gif thread in the MLB N/V thread it was way too loving funny.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urCG4A4fa6k
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The dinger machine has no place in a ball park. It should be in the National Gallery or some branch of the Smithsonian. Its a national treasure that should be celebrated at every moment. As a resident of Miami Dade county, I would be more than happy to give my tax dollars to the statue. The rest of the stadium is actually pretty cool, but the dinger statue is true art.
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Jul 16, 2015 09:34
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That Dinger machine is not real. It's cut footage from a Beatles music video and you are bad people for lying to me. That or it's what you see while having a Stroke.
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Jul 16, 2015 12:48
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"Flamingos are go!"
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Jul 16, 2015 15:14
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I'm surprised that they didn't include Whoopi defending Michael Vick/dog-fighting on her debut episode on the View
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swickles posted:The dinger machine has no place in a ball park. It should be in the National Gallery or some branch of the Smithsonian. Its a national treasure that should be celebrated at every moment. As a resident of Miami Dade county, I would be more than happy to give my tax dollars to the statue. The rest of the stadium is actually pretty cool, but the dinger statue is true art. Little known fact: that moving home run statue thing? It's run by a steam engine whose boiler is fired by burning taxpayer dollars.
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tarlibone posted:Little known fact: that moving home run statue thing? It's run by a steam engine whose boiler is fired by burning taxpayer dollars. That is an odd way to spell the Miami metro rail. 
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tarlibone posted:Little known fact: that moving home run statue thing? It's run by a steam engine whose boiler is fired by burning taxpayer dollars. A superior cultural product than anything the NEA has funded over the last decade.
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Veskit posted:Please someone find that dinger gif thread in the MLB N/V thread it was way too loving funny. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3469773&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=46
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Mr. Fowl posted:"Flamingos are go!" "They look very nice"
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Kevyn posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3469773&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=46 IT"S STILL THE FUNNIEST THING THE WORLD
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Kevyn posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3469773&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=46 Please come back, Gendo.
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Gaz-L posted:I suppose my view might be a little warped, considering I grew up near Glasgow, which is basically the textbook example for 'go into the wrong bar wearing the wrong colour shirt on game day, and there's a non-zero chance you will be murdered'. The problem here is that you're confusing sports with organised religion.
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