Sports general discussion thread

[red_5ive]

You got to wonder why you go somewhere that the NFL considers so dangerous that you can't let your players leave the hotel.

And then there were the field conditions last night with players slipping left and right. I know zilch about soccer and what the req's are for fields, but apparently the stadium being primarily a soccer field is different and slipperier than an NFL field? I also wonder being a different region if the soil composition comes into play? Either way, it apparently wasn't optimal for American football, and I wonder if that score being as close as it was may have been far different on an NFL field, and if maybe one of the teams would have ran away with the win instead.

I'm really starting to dislike these international NFL games. Or should I say, IFL?

 

[DXCHASE]

Absolutely! I played the "big 3" in the U.S. growing up, and I thought sports like bowling were inferior, having never tried them. Then one day I ditched school I think my junior year in H.S. and went bowling for the first time. Damn was I wrong! It was loads of fun! I've only played as a rec/social activity over the years, but haven't gone since before covid.



Congrats on the league win! That sounds like a lot of fun! Glad to see couples doing activities together!

Thanks! Theres a good social aspect side playing on a league, getting to know a bunch of new people and then showing off your skills lol. 50-50 raffles, mystery scores (a random number is drawn and if you bowled that number in any of the games, you get prize money), and drink specials specific to league bowlers. So its a good time for the money even if i didnt know anyone there outside my team yesterday, thatll probably change by the end which is a ways off.

 

[Brian Boru]

Bowling is a sport right?

Yeah sure—getting popular too, a lot of people have heard of the season-ending Super Bowl.

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Football—#58 Ireland v #4 England

2 Irish lads score for the Irish manager's team for a nice 2-0 win—woohoo

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/cx2ldk0gr90t

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Nice to see grass roots dev in NYC learning 2m:

Play Rugby USA Attends Munster Rugby School of Excellence

 

[ZedClampet]

Tenn 51 - NC St 10

Announcer: Wow, not one could have predicted this score.

TN fans: I know, right? How did we give up 10 points to these clowns?

 

[red_5ive]

Evidently the Bears gave Williams last season's tape on how to run the offense.

 

[Brian Boru]

 

[ZedClampet]

Louis Rees-Zammit, the former rugby player trying to make the NFL, was cut by the Kansas City Chiefs, but was then picked up by the Jacksonville Jaguars and placed on their practice squad. Jacksonville has been rumored for awhile to be moving to London, and some fans are speculating that's the only reason they picked up Zammit.

“I don’t listen to that kind of stuff. I know what I’ve got to do to be successful and they can write all they want.

“I’m working really hard on this dream and I’ve got to try and do as much as I can every day to be a better football player and a better person.”

The practice squad generally consists of developmental players. They practice with the team, but cannot play in games.

Also, the prospect of Jacksonville moving to London is pretty interesting. Apparently the UK fans are getting more and more knowledgeable about football. When the NFL first played there, the fans went crazy every time someone punted to the other team But now they seem to have a much better grasp of the game.

Frankly, though, Canada would have seemed like a more natural choice for the first international team. They already have the Canadian Football League, which apparently does very well. On the other hand, that may also be the reason the NFL has never put a team there.

 

[ZedClampet]

I can't watch the Tennessee football game. I'm too embarrassed. We're winning 65 to nothing at half. Stop, please. They agreed to play us for $600,000.00, not get stomped to death. We aren't impressing anyone. Everyone knows they are one of the worst teams in college football. We're just looking like bullies. If we score more than an accidental touchdown in the second half, I'm going to be very disappointed in the staff.

edit: I don't feel bad now. We tried to end the game by agreement at half, and they refused. Also, I was way off in what we paid. We paid them $1.5 million. That's beat to within an inch of life money.

 

[Brian Boru]

We paid them $1.5 million

Huh? What's that about, isn't there a fixture list for the season?

 

[Dead2009]

Time for college football ALL DAY LONG lol.

 

[Zloth]

Time for baseball playoffs! And somehow, KC is in it! They set a franchise record last year by losing 106 games, and this year they (barely) make the playoffs!? I guess last year really was a 'building' year after all.

 

[Zloth]

Well, KC got knocked out by the Yankees, just like old times.

Meanwhile.... You want to talk close?

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/cCGpUX2AGzY?si=CcAizC-j5OuzuAR0

 

[ZedClampet]

Huh? What's that about, isn't there a fixture list for the season?

Tennessee has 8 teams that are automatically on the schedule every year. These are other Southeastern Conference teams like Alabama, Florida and Georgia. To fill out the rest of the schedule, we have to go out and find other schools willing to play us. So generally teams schedule smaller schools and use them sort of like scrimmages. In turn, they pay the smaller school quite a bit of money, which helps them run their athletic department. The bigger program still makes money off of these games from ticket and concession sales (the games are always a home game for the big program) and from television. So it's a good deal for everyone, except maybe for that 180 pound linebacker from the smaller school who got flattened by the 350 pound offensive lineman all day. But even he gets to brag that he played against this big school that had a bunch of future NFL players on it.

 

[ZedClampet]

According to AI--because Google kept giving me crap--the average Premier League game and the average NFL Sunday afternoon game both average about 12.5 million viewers (to be fair about it, most Sunday afternoon NFL games are only showed regionally and the national evening games do much better), and the Vols Saturday afternoon game drew 14.7 million viewers. Not too shabby.

We beat Alabama 24 - 17, but we are 6 - 1 and not likely to make the playoffs. We still have a small chance, but we'd have to win the rest of our games, and we won't beat Georgia in Georgia. I should get a "we'll make it next year" tattoo because "this year" is always just out of reach.

 

[ZedClampet]

I never knew kickers could be funny over the radio. I'm listening to a high school football game. One of the kickers is having a night. He managed to kick a kickoff 7 yards. The next kickoff was described as follows, "he set the ball on the tee and started strolling back into position but suddenly did a little pirouette and took off running towards the ball before the rest of the players were ready". This kick traveled about 20 yards and was returned 40 yards by the other team. The next kickoff went 15 yards.

I looked it up and they have a girl's soccer team. I think it's time to see if any of them want to play football.

It's a deep backwoods school with only about 180 students in total for 4 grades. I doubt there are any boys who would have played soccer before.

I just, while writing distractedly, found the game on the Internet and watched the last kickoff. He ran really fast toward the ball and then basically stopped when he got there and kicked it...

It's actually still going on. I doubt anyone wants to watch, but just in case..

https://www.wate.com/sports/high-school/coalfield-at-oliver-springs-october-24-2024/

 

[red_5ive]

I never knew kickers could be funny over the radio. I'm listening to a high school football game. One of the kickers is having a night. He managed to kick a kickoff 7 yards. The next kickoff was described as follows, "he set the ball on the tee and started strolling back into position but suddenly did a little pirouette and took off running towards the ball before the rest of the players were ready". This kick traveled about 20 yards and was returned 40 yards by the other team. The next kickoff went 15 yards.

I looked it up and they have a girl's soccer team. I think it's time to see if any of them want to play football.

It's a deep backwoods school with only about 180 students in total for 4 grades. I doubt there are any boys who would have played soccer before.

I just, while writing distractedly, found the game on the Internet and watched the last kickoff. He ran really fast toward the ball and then basically stopped when he got there and kicked it...

It's actually still going on. I doubt anyone wants to watch, but just in case..

https://www.wate.com/sports/high-school/coalfield-at-oliver-springs-october-24-2024/

Funny you should bring that up about girl's soccer. My wife's niece played soccer throughout grade school and high school. She was good! Well, the football team did exactly that her senior year and made her a place kicker. She was also top 5 at homecoming. At the homecoming game, she not only won homecoming queen, but then had to suit up after the ceremony for the homecoming game, where she also kicked the game winning field goal. Story book...

 

[red_5ive]

Damn that was a great series. The teams were a lot closer in this match up regardless of it being a 4-1 win for the Dodgers. I had to step away a number of times throughout the series as my nerves kept getting rattled lol. I really thought the Yanks were going to take it with the Dodgers starting pitching situation being what it is, but of course I'm happy to celebrate the win! And it's also historic and a bit of a tear-jerker for me as the first 2 world series games I saw as a kid was the back-to-back loss to the Yanks in 77/78. And now I got to see it be 2-2 in my lifetime, and who knows when they'll meet again next in the WS?

Go Blue!

 

[ZedClampet]

Damn that was a great series. The teams were a lot closer in this match up regardless of it being a 4-1 win for the Dodgers. I had to step away a number of times throughout the series as my nerves kept getting rattled lol. I really thought the Yanks were going to take it with the Dodgers starting pitching situation being what it is, but of course I'm happy to celebrate the win! And it's also historic and a bit of a tear-jerker for me as the first 2 world series games I saw as a kid was the back-to-back loss to the Yanks in 77/78. And now I got to see it be 2-2 in my lifetime, and who knows when they'll meet again next in the WS?

Go Blue!

Congrats!

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Tennessee unveiled this year's Venom uniforms from Nike.

 

[red_5ive]

Congrats!

*****

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Tennessee unveiled this year's Venom uniforms from Nike.

That looks awesome! Kind'a gave me Tron: Legacy vibes lol.

The orange black color combo has really grown on me. Case in point, for the past year or so it has been the color scheme of my PC peripheral backlighting.

 

[Brian Boru]

orange black color combo

Great timing from Vol, O&B combo is a big Halloween color combo, harvest & death—harvest the points, kill the opposition

Chicago Bears logos too, last time I saw 'em—which was a long time ago.

Anyroad, looks great

 

[ZedClampet]

Great timing from Vol, O&B combo is a big Halloween color combo, harvest & death—harvest the points, kill the opposition

Chicago Bears logos too, last time I saw 'em—which was a long time ago.

Anyroad, looks great

Yeah, they pretty much do it every year for the game closest to Halloween. In fact, the first time they wore black/orange was during an Oct 31 game. If they wear alt uniforms any other time, they are gray/orange. They would have worn them last weekend, but they didn't have a game, and they won't wear them during the 3rd week of October versus Alabama because that is their oldest rival, and they wear their traditional orange/white.

 

[ZedClampet]

What happens when you act like you're on a message board in real life and tell future NFL Hall of Famer Jason Kelce that his bother is a "f**homophobic slur**"?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1852771295554830663

View: https://x.com/CrossingBroad/status/1852771295554830663


Actually, you take less damage than deserved, but lose your phone.

 

[ZedClampet]

Tennessee was named the #1 college for sports fans by USA Today. I think it was a reader's poll, though, so I'm not sure that counts for anything.