Random Other Sports Musings

[Guest]

A lot of the 2-team ones are pretty good. Houston and Pittsburgh stand out among the 3+ sport teams.

[Andy]

The Atlanta Thrashers don't exist anymore.

[jersey cubs fan]

The Atlanta Thrashers don't exist anymore.

Neither do the NJ Nets.

[Warpticon]

The Pittsburgh one is amazing.

[Cubswin11]

IDK if this belongs here or in potpourri but I'll put it here, this live WSOP final 2 on ESPN right now is weirdly amusing and entertaining.

[sneakypower]

IDK if this belongs here or in potpourri but I'll put it here, this live WSOP final 2 on ESPN right now is weirdly amusing and entertaining.

i'm staying up to watch it in hopes i'll finally be able to see a person in a Lions jersey winning something

[Old Style]

I watched until the end. The Riess kid was catching a bunch of great hands but Farber was playing like the amateur that he was. He let Riess push him all over and slowly choke all his chips away until he was crushed.

[sneakypower]

it was pretty irksome they aired it on a 15-minute delay, but WSOP tweeted out immediately as it happened that Riess had won

[Banedon]

it was pretty irksome they played it on a 15-minute delay, but WSOP tweeted out immediately as it happened that Riess had won

 

Twitter = spoilers. If there's something...anything you don't want to be spoiled about, ignore/turn off twitter. It's never, ever not going to be that way.

[Banedon]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/c2f193e2f4cf3296c6ecacde835e072d/tumblr_mvt59mmdgM1s3dn7vo1_1280.png

[Guest]

And then you get to the mlb playoffs and all hell breaks loose

[Banedon]

And then you get to the mlb playoffs and all hell breaks loose

 

Yeah, that chart would be almost more interesting. How closely regular season success translates to postseason success in each sport.

[jersey cubs fan]

The NFL is a league for pussies.

[SouthSideRyan]

The scales really shouldn't be the same on those graphs.

[imb]

nba, three vaginas

[Sammy Sofa]

I wanna get all up in that MLB.

[jersey cubs fan]

I wanna get all up in that MLB.

http://i.imgur.com/W1CKfRx.gif

[Guest]

The best and worst winning percentages vary greatly from league to league. To normalize the data, this graph would make a lot more sense if it were based on a team's 1-30(32) ranking by record in year 1 & 2.

[fibro]

Brian Holloway blames Michael Jackson for the patriots losing to the bears in the 86 Super Bowl.

 

The Sullivan family, the owners of the Patriots of the time, cut a bad deal and lost a fortune on the Jackson's Victory Tour, which precipitated the sale of the team. Holloway believes the Sullivan family had been forced to put the team up as collateral to Jackson, who took over as owner right before the Super Bowl. During Super Bowl week, Holloway claims that the coaches came to the players and told them that they were going to play right into the Bears' strength and throw the ball the entire game. If you check the game's play-by-play, the Patriots did pass the ball on six of their first seven plays, resulting in zero completions, two sacks, and a lost fumble. Holloway claims that nobody in the locker room understood the move and suspicions kicked up immediately after the game. Later, Holloway says that he was approached by storied Boston sportswriter Will McDonough, who reported that Michael Jackson had wagered a lot of money on the game and had requested the passing attack as a way to ensure that his Patriots wouldn't cover the spread.v

 

That is from a foot note in the grantland article about what happened to Brian holloway's house.

 

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9893855/brian-holloway-house

[biittner77]

Brian Holloway blames Michael Jackson for the patriots losing to the bears in the 86 Super Bowl.

 

The Sullivan family, the owners of the Patriots of the time, cut a bad deal and lost a fortune on the Jackson's Victory Tour, which precipitated the sale of the team. Holloway believes the Sullivan family had been forced to put the team up as collateral to Jackson, who took over as owner right before the Super Bowl. During Super Bowl week, Holloway claims that the coaches came to the players and told them that they were going to play right into the Bears' strength and throw the ball the entire game. If you check the game's play-by-play, the Patriots did pass the ball on six of their first seven plays, resulting in zero completions, two sacks, and a lost fumble. Holloway claims that nobody in the locker room understood the move and suspicions kicked up immediately after the game. Later, Holloway says that he was approached by storied Boston sportswriter Will McDonough, who reported that Michael Jackson had wagered a lot of money on the game and had requested the passing attack as a way to ensure that his Patriots wouldn't cover the spread.v

 

That is from a foot note in the grantland article about what happened to Brian holloway's house.

 

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9893855/brian-holloway-house

 

Right... because Craig James was going to run right over the Bears defense.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Not sure if there are any other MMA fans here other than me but uhhhh...Anderson Silva is dead.

[NewUserName]

I used to follow horse racing quite a bit and have been to several of the major events in my life. Now I have no idea what horses are even racing today or how any of them did in the pre-derby races.

[SouthSideRyan]

Brian Holloway blames Michael Jackson for the patriots losing to the bears in the 86 Super Bowl.

 

The Sullivan family, the owners of the Patriots of the time, cut a bad deal and lost a fortune on the Jackson's Victory Tour, which precipitated the sale of the team. Holloway believes the Sullivan family had been forced to put the team up as collateral to Jackson, who took over as owner right before the Super Bowl. During Super Bowl week, Holloway claims that the coaches came to the players and told them that they were going to play right into the Bears' strength and throw the ball the entire game. If you check the game's play-by-play, the Patriots did pass the ball on six of their first seven plays, resulting in zero completions, two sacks, and a lost fumble. Holloway claims that nobody in the locker room understood the move and suspicions kicked up immediately after the game. Later, Holloway says that he was approached by storied Boston sportswriter Will McDonough, who reported that Michael Jackson had wagered a lot of money on the game and had requested the passing attack as a way to ensure that his Patriots wouldn't cover the spread.v

 

That is from a foot note in the grantland article about what happened to Brian holloway's house.

 

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9893855/brian-holloway-house

 

Did Jackson own the team in week 2 when they rushed for 27 yards vs. 179 passing?

[SouthSideRyan]

Never really looked at the stats of that season. Holy [expletive] were they good. Funny thing is, team that put up a good fight against them? 2-14 Bucs. Lost by 10 and 8 Led at the half both games.

[SouthSideRyan]

And the Pats rushed 11 times for 7 yards.