I remember reading the comments below the announcement expecting rage/anger/relocation grief, and mostly it was “[shrug] at least it’s not Quebec City”

Penguins have had it happen a couple of times, Flyers went black as primary for a few years, Panthers switched colours, Senators in the early 00s.

Also the Leafs and their old white alternate, in a universe where everything makes sense.

Their name makes sense: Brooklyn is on Long Island, and is within the City (and State) of New York.

The wave is garbage, but it’s also the only thing some fans seem to be able to do unprompted by the jumbotron. I’m neutral.

Surprised he tied him with his knee there, that usually leads to deuce.

Same with the 48 game NHL seasons.

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Will, congrats and good work.

I knew Jezebel would have the good sense not to put “Oh Canada” in the lede.

Thank you.

You’re greatly confusing the point: I’m not saying the teams/players were bad, it’s that the product on the field wasn’t as good as it was in other years. There were great baseball players/teams in the deadball era, but it was unwatchable.

Dolphins fan, actually.

The 1970s are pretty universally held as seeing the destruction of passing football in favour of running and defence. Rule changes fixed that.

1988-1993 was a morass, especially for an AFC fan. Favre and his breakout started to improve things.

The funny part is, every guy who meets the description you list above tends to laugh along with it.

The NFL has always been an organizational mess, they’re just brilliant at having NFL Films memorialize everything perfectly on the field, even the awful 1970s and early 1990s eras.

It’s like 4 bucks a month, max. WHY.

I wish we got those ads in Canada. The Old Spice ads here have a pale white guy telling us to vote Liberal for some reason.

I remember that, and I remember one of the more perverted students in the back of the class openly celebrating. Our teacher, a really personable probably age 28/29 woman, just went “You should wait until you see a real pair, it’s even better.”

Looking back, she took quite the professional risk there.

1990s television, Simpsons excluded, was focus-grouped mush.

GET THOSE HATS OFF MY ASTROTURF

TSN.ca used to have a fun feature in their detailed player profiles that let you change the team theme around them (For example have Martin St. Louis show up with TML colours/logo). It was lots of fun on deadline day.

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