1) Penguins
2) Pirates
3) Steelers
That's just my personal one. I obviously love hockey so much more than anything and would love to go to a Pirates playoff game deep in the postseason. I like the Steelers and follow hard, but NFL is such a turn off to me at this point, i'd go with Pirates over them.
Baseball is basically a bunch of adults role-playing a spreadsheet without the charm of dungeons and dragons and severely overpriced beer. Football is a masterclass in irreversible head trauma, medical malpractice, and ******** military analogies.
Fair enough, but hockey isn't?
The penguins pissed away years of having top players in their prime, while.the pirates have a shoestring budget in a non cap league and still compete. Big difference there.
You can't be serious.. 16 teams make the nhl playoffs for christs sake... and the pens.division was complete garbage that one year. So.bad that they clinched it with 20 games left or something.
With the resources available to them, the penguins have been a huge disappointment. Just because you hate Nutting doesn't take away what the pirates have done.
Anyways the one thing the pens do great is market to a younger demographic, especially the college one. I really do wonder what will happen when.crosby and malkin or.at the end of their careers.
Well said. Baseball is too boring, football is too violent.
More or less violent than football?
And what happens if the Pirates never win anything while McCutchen is in Pittsburgh?
Despite being a Steelers fan, I agree with the general sentiment of your post, however the bolded is false. Recently they have outlawed headshots. Compare today's NFL to 10 years ago to 40 years ago when WRs would just get forearm shiver to the head after forearm shiver to the head. It has changed.The entire game of football is essentially based on hitting poor people in the head over and over and over from high school through the pros, and then lying about how well they're dealing with concussions. Besides, love it or hate it, the NHL has at least been concerned enough about the legal ramifications of head trauma to institute more robust concussion protocols and to change the rules to discourage the more dangerous hits to the head. The NFL lied repeatedly about head trauma and has tried to wiggle out of its own responsibility for creating a new neurological disease, and that's not even taking into consideration the exploitation circus that is college football.
Football is never gonna change, as long as the NFL is in business. Changing tackling rules and instituting better injury protocol would deprive the average fan of his big hits and viewership will decrease. That's bad for business. And the NFL is nothing but a corrupt-ass bidnes with absolutely no regard for the health and well-being of its employees.
In summary, **** football and **** the entire football industry. It's a mug's game and I refuse to be a part of it.
They still for the most part made the best of what they had and made good moves as far as the fo goes.
Meanwhile the penguins surrounded Crosby with garbage for years and allowed a coach and gm to stay way past their expiration date, while hiring yet another unproven coach.
For the record I.still love hockey the most, but the penguins have squandered their gifts for the most part. They managed to mitigate the advantage of having the top two players in this league.
Okay, but guess what? The Penguins core actually won something, the Pirates core hasn't even come close. Maybe it's time to stop looking at the Pirates as the little engine that could and start having greater expectations for them.
Like being the 2nd best team in baseball currently? With a window just opening, kind of like how the Penguins started out?
Okay, but guess what? The Penguins core actually won something, the Pirates core hasn't even come close. Maybe it's time to stop looking at the Pirates as the little engine that could and start having greater expectations for them.
Nobody would pat the Penguins on the back for being a strong regular season team after their third year of making the playoffs.
Again, what is wrong with raising expectations for the Pirates in the postseason?
The expectations are there. And they've still done better the last three years than the penguins.
These alleged "diehard" Pirates fans have no damn clue of how they got to this point. And the corrupt media suddenly has amnesia.
A few questions for Bucco Nation:
-in 2007, why did it take so long to hire a new president?
-who were some candidates for Pirates president job?
-where did Frank Coonelly come from, where did he work prior to becoming Pirates president?
-who hired Frank Coonelly? Bob Nutting or was it really Bud Selig?
The FACT is in 2007 NO ONE wanted the job. A president of a major league baseball franchise is a license to print money, yet NO ONE wanted the Pittsburgh Pirates job.
Why not?
The FACT is in 2007 Bud Selig sent Frank Coonelly, a lawyer with NO experience, to Pittsburgh with instructions that the club be run as a legitimate baseball TEAM instead of a family college fund.
By 2007 the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club was the laughing stock of North American sports. There was a well publicized fan walkout that summer, one that the corrupt regime and local media hoped no one would notice.
But Major League Baseball leadership sure did take notice.
The Pirates were an embarrassment and drag on the entire game. Hell, some considered the club a borderline criminal enterprise, pilfering the local community and humiliating the other owners.
Major League Baseball had to step in and takeover.
Bud Selig hired Frank Coonelly. MLB turned the Pirates around.
So, instead of praising analytics, wiz kids, advanced stats, voodoo pitching coaches(pharmacists) and other ******** TRUE Pirates fans should instead give all glory where it is due: to the hated Bud Selig, he saved the Pirates.