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  1. They started them in the intro comments.
  2. This show is a lesson in how to kill suspense and make your tv show feel super slow. (Despite having some of the best acting talent in the world) 0:00-5:00 Drop big hint at what's going to happen in this episode. 5:00-50:00 Slowly, slowly, slowly reveal what you hinted at. 50:00-59:00 Reveal what you hinted at in the first 5 minutes. They did the exact same thing to the entire series. Showed us Arquette in jail at the start. So the mystery/suspense was gone within the first 10 minutes. There's just not that much going on and they already told us how it ends. Different editing/directing could have made this a much more interesting show.
  3. 24-21 = SEC domination signed, ESPN
  4. So many ejections this bowl season than all year. 2 or 3 in the OKstate game yesterday.
  5. The mediocre Auburn team that beat MNC Alabama by 12 points in the last week of the regular season? That mediocre Auburn team? And sports are all about underdog teams that 'would never beat' more talented teams. In fact, my favorite moments in sporting history involve teams that 'would never beat' a more talented team. If the favored team won all the time, sports wouldn't worth watching.
  6. so now its impossible to not lower your head and smash a guys head while he's already being tackled. ESPN makes these games so hard to listen to. They're SEC partnership has made it 'almost impossible' to call a game without rooting for all things SEC.
  7. ACC has nobody other than clemson. swap UCF and Clemson and UCF wins the ACC.
  8. There's nothing 'malicious' or hateful or 'antisemetic' in that statement. Unless you infer a lot of things that weren't actually said. At most, it was 'insensitive'. But you made a good point in the other post. If you're super famous and you're out there promoting social justice for your team, then it's probably a little hypocritical to make 'insensitive' references to other teams. All things considered...okay, yeah, a little backlash is probably deserved.
  9. I need to stop visiting the political board. I'm flailing at windmills.
  10. Is there more to the story? Was something more said somewhere else? Because I'm not really seeing the antisemitism in the Lebron tweet. If he'd said 'get that Serbian money' would that be offensive? Connect the dots for me. Unless the news is that people look for reasons to be offended. In which case, I've already been made aware.
  11. Why are you posting random dudes overreacting to things on twitter?
  12. Up by 2 points against the Jazz, with 10 seconds to go, Westbrook bricks a 3 pointer...(on a night that PG13 was on fire)...reminding everyone that he's still Westbrook. Two points would have sealed the win. But Thunder still get the victory. Westbrook with a foul/block on the last play. Jazz missed a free throw. Thunder win by one.
  13. The rare triple negative. Bravo to you, sir.
  14. A strike hurts a little more if you're an NFL player. Their career windows are much shorter than the NBA/MLB. You miss out on a single season in the NFL...that might have been one third of your career football income.
  15. I wonder if the presence of Carmelo last year showed Westbrook what a me-first personality does to a team. Because it's one thing when you're doing it, it's something else when you're watching another guy do it. it's a lot easier to see how it hurts the team. However it's happened, Westbrook is playing point guard now and the Thunder look a little dangerous. Their defense is fun to watch, which is really saying something for an NBA game in December.
  16. Notre Dame comes out in favor of 8 teams. (ESPN article if you want to go read it) The more voices the better. Will be interesting to see what scripted things ESPN will say during blowout games. They're married to the SEC and I can only assume there's language in their contract about pushing the SEC agenda. But a bigger playoff would add 8 massive ratings games that would benefit ESPN in a very direct way. It hurts to do it, but I'll listen to Herbie read from his script during the end of a few bowl games, and I guess I'll know where ESPN Corporate stands on the deal.
  17. What's a 'fluke team"? A team that won a conference championship with less talent than their conference rivals? Why not just put the top 4 recruiting classes in the invitational every year, then. Why bother playing the games at all? *cough* Bama *cough* Baffling to see how many people prefer eye-test champions to actual, on field results. It's like some of you don't actually like sports. It bothers you, if a less talented, but better coached team wins. If you win the most games in your conference, then you've proven, ON THE FIELD, that you're the best team in your conference. And you go to the playoff. How can anyone argue against this?
  18. From the article... "As one Power 5 athletic director said, “Sometimes it feels like they’re deciding based on recruiting rankings and not the games actually played on the field.” This rings true. And ranking high school players has got to be the most subjective thing in a sport filled with polls and votes and eye tests.
  19. Thank you Notre Dame for excluding the Big 10 from this years 4 team invitational. And thank you to UCF for proving that 80% of universities will never, ever, ever be invited. Proposal's not perfect. You still need an eye-test to determine top group of 5 team. *cough*16 teams is better*cough* But what they're proposing is 1000% better than what we have now. You've got an objective selection criteria that everyone understands and requires zero eye-testing--Conference champs. And every team in the country starts the season with the legitimate hope they could play themselves into a national championship game-. As it fucking should be.
  20. We live in an age where anyone with a phone can broadcast, to a GLOBAL audience, every moment of their life, 24 hours a day. Have something to say? Point your phone at your own face and click the button. Talk incessantly about god, or God, or republicans, or democrats, or race, or chem trails. Regardless of your profession, your race/gender, you are as empowered today as any human being has ever been, in all of history. The people who are complaining that they can't be heard, are just annoyed that the other 7.5 billion human beings can also broadcast their lives...and this has made it very hard to get attention for their pet cause. At this point, its the empowerment of the common man that is frustrating the common man's need for attention.
  21. Who said anything about 'silencing certain populations'? He never said anything like that. Stop putting words in people's mouths, so you can argue with them. Personally, I turn on a game to watch a sports competition and ESCAPE the nonstop, everywhere coverage of opinions on politics/religion/gender/race. There are roughly 200 million other places where people can voice their opinions. Nobody is being silenced in America. You can broadcast your own fucking TV station on Facebook, twitch, youtube...FOR FREE.
  22. Maybe not in 'your' lifetime...but for people who aren't going to die within the next 10-15 years, they'll see a 16 team playoff. It won't be fan displeasure that changes it--I agree with you there. It'll be ad revenue. And to a lesser degree, conference/university displeasure. "Should I sponsor this exhibition bowl game between Tulane and Louisiana, or should I spend my ad money on a first round of a 16 team playoff game between UCF and Georgia? Hmmm..." I agree CFB has been comically slow to adapt to transportation advances. The first 40-50 years of your 140 years, when the bowl system was created, teams had to ride trains to opponents fields because fucking cars didn't exist yet...hence, 1 game regional 'playoffs', aka bowl games. But I'm confident that greed/ad revenue will get us a real playoff before I'm dead.
  23. QUESTION 1: Would you say a 16 team playoff which allows every division I football team in the country a chance to compete is better or worse than a 4 team playoff where 80% of the teams are disqualified before the season starts, rendering their entire seasons irrelevant nationally? Since the answer is obvious, unless you're a troll, feel free to skip to question 2 QUESTION 2: If the existing bowl system dies because of a 16 team playoff, would your feelings be hurt? QUESTION 3: Is it, in your humblest of opinions, truly inconceivable that there will ever be a 16 team, or dream big--a 32 team, playoff?
  24. When Westbrook plays as an actual point guard--distribution/penetration/defense--and Paul George plays as the primary scorer, OKC looks like they could darkhorse their way deep into the playoffs where a few lucky bounces could make things very interesting. But there's nothing in Russ's history that would indicate he'd be willing to accept a pure point guard role, so I won't get my hopes up. OKC has all the pieces they need right now. Bench and support players are strong this year. Defensive intensity is up. George looks rejuvenated. Carmelo cancer has been excised. They're running actual plays at the ends of games, instead of Russ dribbling until there's 3 seconds on the clock before chucking up an off-balance three... The fate of this team depends on Russ's ability to accept the role of all-star point-guard, instead of trying to be the superstar shooting guard.
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