Arizona Coyotes Lounge XXIII

[Dirty Old Man]

Watching the Sabres and Wild. Olofsson scores in OT and the goal song is...Abba? (Gimme Gimme Gimme)...indeed it is. But apparently in Buffalo, every player picks his own goal song... and if our old friend Ilya Lyubushkin ever scores at home, they'll play something called "I Am A Gummybear". Google it, it's hilarious.

 

[Canis Latrans]

Watching the Sabres and Wild. Olofsson scores in OT and the goal song is...Abba? (Gimme Gimme Gimme)...indeed it is. But apparently in Buffalo, every player picks his own goal song... and if our old friend Ilya Lyubushkin ever scores at home, they'll play something called "I Am A Gummybear". Google it, it's hilarious.

I wish we had Lyubushkin and Bryzgalov on the same team. They are kindred spirits.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Watching the Sabres and Wild. Olofsson scores in OT and the goal song is...Abba? (Gimme Gimme Gimme)...indeed it is. But apparently in Buffalo, every player picks his own goal song... and if our old friend Ilya Lyubushkin ever scores at home, they'll play something called "I Am A Gummybear". Google it, it's hilarious.

Can't believe no one went with Big Balls by AC/DC.

 

[bluesXwinXtheXcup]

Watching the Sabres and Wild. Olofsson scores in OT and the goal song is...Abba? (Gimme Gimme Gimme)...indeed it is. But apparently in Buffalo, every player picks his own goal song... and if our old friend Ilya Lyubushkin ever scores at home, they'll play something called "I Am A Gummybear". Google it, it's hilarious.

My song after scoring a goal would be:

 

[MIGs Dog]

Even if you are a Georgia fan, did you enjoy last night? Worst defeat in bowl history comes in the championship game. Not a good look for college football.

 

[Vinny Boombatz]

Didn't watch it, but saw the score later, stopped watching years ago when it seems that there are about 2 to 3 programs who are the only ones that can win.

 

[Vinny Boombatz]

Btw, with Maccelli - we win 42% of the points
without Maccelli - we win only 29% of the points

Maccelli adds that extra offense to something other than the Keller/Schmaltz line to give us some scoring.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Even if you are a Georgia fan, did you enjoy last night? Worst defeat in bowl history comes in the championship game. Not a good look for college football.

Georgia's one of my alma mater's big rivals, but we have this weird SEC conference-kinship thing where it's fine they're so successful (complaints about the SEC are music to our ears, trust me)...so last night was completely predictable, went exactly as I thought it would, and I stopped watching late in the 2nd quarter. UGa had a couple of "brain fart" games (Missouri, Ohio St), everyone does, but that game last night was never gonna be competitive, and it wasn't.

 

[Sinurgy]

Georgia's one of my alma mater's big rivals, but we have this weird SEC conference-kinship thing where it's fine they're so successful (complaints about the SEC are music to our ears, trust me)...so last night was completely predictable, went exactly as I thought it would, and I stopped watching late in the 2nd quarter. UGa had a couple of "brain fart" games (Missouri, Ohio St), everyone does, but that game last night was never gonna be competitive, and it wasn't.

Time to get used to more of this stuff as the playoffs expand and there are more cinderella teams who will win a few games they shouldn't then get absolutely destroyed in the finals. Not looking forward to it at all and generally speaking I hate what's been done to college football the past couple of years. It's like they're actively trying to destroy it.

 

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I like the playoff system. The NIL + superconference thing is the problem.

 

[Sinurgy]

I like the playoff system. The NIL + superconference thing is the problem.

I'm not really a fan of the playoff system, I wish it'd go back to the BCS. 12 team playoff seems particularly egregious. I do agree NIL and super conferences is worse though.

 

[awfulwaffle]

Even if you are a Georgia fan, did you enjoy last night? Worst defeat in bowl history comes in the championship game. Not a good look for college football.

Yeah, but I mean they beat the #2 team in a thriller the game before that. I liked the fact they didn't have Alabama in as a 2 loss team, what can you do.

What's worse, the TCU quarterback entered the transfer portal not long after. THAT is what is not a good look for college football, all these kids getting up and moving on to a different college. They need to change the transfer rules, because that is my biggest gripe with college sports.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Yeah, but I mean they beat the #2 team in a thriller the game before that. I liked the fact they didn't have Alabama in as a 2 loss team, what can you do.

What's worse, the TCU quarterback entered the transfer portal not long after. THAT is what is not a good look for college football, all these kids getting up and moving on to a different college. They need to change the transfer rules, because that is my biggest gripe with college sports.

I watched some of Coach Prime, the Deion Sanders documentary. It was better than I expected. Deion was able to get the top recruit in the country to come to Jackson State. Still, as soon as Sanders bolted for Colorado (I don't blame him), the top recruit and several other players immediately followed. The situation is worse than in the NFL, where at least most players are on multi-year contracts.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

I watched some of Coach Prime, the Deion Sanders documentary. It was better than I expected. Deion was able to get the top recruit in the country to come to Jackson State. Still, as soon as Sanders bolted for Colorado (I don't blame him), the top recruit and several other players immediately followed. The situation is worse than in the NFL, where at least most players are on multi-year contracts.

Yeah, I just read the Pac12 tried to capitalize on the Coach Prime hype by having Colorado play a kickoff classic ("week 0") game this year, and ASU jumped up and volunteered to be the opponent, but somebody somewhere is putting the kibosh on the idea as it would have one or both of the teams playing 9 weeks straight or something... (personally as a Gator and a guy who dislikes self-aggrandizing bigmouths in general I hope Sanders falls flat on his face, but that's just me).

I can sort of see both sides to the transfer portal thing - on the one hand, it is kind of annoying that students on which a school invested a lot of time and energy (and, well, money) can just bolt from one school to another like that, the old rule of having to sit out a year was pretty effective at keeping it from happening...but on the other side, there's the "freedom!" issue of: why shouldn't a kid be allowed to change schools if the other school will have him? - students do that all the time for a number of reasons: closer to home, failing out of the harder school, money, etc. etc.

 

[MIGs Dog]

dislikes self-aggrandizing bigmouths in general I hope Sanders falls flat on his face

I never was a fan of "Prime Time" the player, but I admire him as a coach. He motivates and holds people accountable. I think he's a good influence on the "kids." Will almost certainly have success in Colorado, but probably not to the same degree as Jackson State.

students do that all the time

True. The Universities are also making millions off of their "free" labor. I know... they're getting a subsidized education, but the money raked in by the major schools far exceeds that paid out in scholarship. The players should be able transfer at will.

 

[TheLegend]

Oh hell yeah!!

 

[Sinurgy]

I never was a fan of "Prime Time" the player, but I admire him as a coach. He motivates and holds people accountable. I think he's a good influence on the "kids." Will almost certainly have success in Colorado, but probably not to the same degree as Jackson State.



True. The Universities are also making millions off of their "free" labor. I know... they're getting a subsidized education, but the money raked in by the major schools far exceeds that paid out in scholarship. The players should be able transfer at will.

I don't think it's particularly good solution. Money has been corrupting college football for quite sometime but instead of putting pressure on them to fix the system, we just encouraged them to let the players get in on the action. I'd greatly have preferred a more creative solution like capping coach salaries and putting rules in place that forces all profits to be used on scholarships for athletes and non-athletes. That way college football isn't making millions, they're instead giving 10's of thousands a chance to go to a university and not come out buried in debt.

 

[MIGs Dog]

I don't think it's particularly good solution. Money has been corrupting college football for quite sometime but instead of putting pressure on them to fix the system, we just encouraged them to let the players get in on the action. I'd greatly have preferred a more creative solution like capping coach salaries and putting rules in place that forces all profits to be used on scholarships for athletes and non-athletes. That way college football isn't making millions, they're instead giving 10's of thousands a chance to go to a university and not come out buried in debt.

It would be hard to determine what constitutes profit. Unlike a business, there's no incentive in college sports to be profitable, only to cover expenses and support ALL sports programs. At most schools, football and basketball revenue fund the entire athletic department.

Oh hell yeah!!

Great cast. Should be funny. I have the entire Mel Brooks collection on DVD.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Thanks to those that told me to keep watching Andor...it got better. The dialogue is superior to most other Star Wars offerings. I also liked how they portrayed rebellion as messy and confusing, with shifting loyalties and hidden agendas. Too bad season 2 is over a year away.

 

[TheLegend]

This doesn’t look bad either….

 

[bluesXwinXtheXcup]

Had a date night with the wife in downtown Gilbert tonight.

Had a drink at Sohol, ate at Culinary Dropout, then watched stand up at JP's Comedy Club.

Fun times

 

[Jakey53]

Had a date night with the wife in downtown Gilbert tonight.

Had a drink at Sohol, ate at Culinary Dropout, then watched stand up at JP's Comedy Club.

Fun times

Legend show take note.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Interesting study on sports injuries. What major N American sport has the highest injury rate? Nope, not football; it's basketball. Football is actually the lowest. What provides the surprising results has to do with the number of games played as well as the number of minutes of game time. The avg NFL game is only 11.5 minutes of actual play. If you are a starter on offense or defense, you might only play 5 minutes per contest.

At the high school level, girls' soccer produces the second-highest concussion rate. Scary.

The most common injuries in hockey are to the back and groin.

Severity, Not Frequency, Sets Football Injuries Apart

NFL players are hurt at a lower rate than in three other pro sports leagues, but face more concussion risks.

www.wsj.com

 

[rt]

Interesting study on sports injuries. What major N American sport has the highest injury rate? Nope, not football; it's basketball. Football is actually the lowest. What provides the surprising results has to do with the number of games played as well as the number of minutes of game time. The avg NFL game is only 11.5 minutes of actual play. If you are a starter on offense or defense, you might only play 5 minutes per contest.

At the high school level, girls' soccer produces the second-highest concussion rate. Scary.

The most common injuries in hockey are to the back and groin.

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Severity, Not Frequency, Sets Football Injuries Apart

NFL players are hurt at a lower rate than in three other pro sports leagues, but face more concussion risks.

www.wsj.com

Basketball players are wimps and consider a hangnail a long term injury requiring acute medical care.

 

[TheLegend]

Time to go here…..

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Looks like Disney’s putting some real money into the Mandalorian now. Some potential there.

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