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  1. Derwood
    no team should be in a bowl game if losing said bowl game will result in a losing record on the season
  2. Derwood
    i am completely ambivalent about this PSU game tonight
  3. Derwood
    speaking of JJ Reddick, who DOESN'T love those instructional videos calling him the best pure shooter ever?
  4. Derwood
    Rick Neuhisal, some on down
  5. Derwood
    good to know that athletes keep getting smarter
  6. Derwood
    :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
  7. Derwood
    Tom Bradley (DC at PSU) has denied being contacted by WVU, which means he's absolutely interviewing
  8. Derwood
    And, those who took the over just won. see? too bad i don't gamble
  9. Derwood
    First rule of the Holiday Bowl: ALWAYS take the over
  10. Derwood
    sure, it's not mutually exclusive. but there is a reason Alabama and Auburn fans are so nuts about their schools. Generally speaking, the Alabama and Auburn fans that are maniacal, unreasonable didn't attend either school nor any university for that matter. Is Alabama the only state in which that occurs? Ohio State - Michigan is a huge rivalry. There aren't uneducated people in that portion of the nation that speak confidently yet inaccurately about their programs? i spoke nothing of uneducated. My point simply was that for states without NFL teams, the college team BECOMES the NFL team (in terms of fan loyalty, etc.). One could (correctly) say the same for Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc. My statement was in no way negative towards those fans
  11. Derwood
    sure, it's not mutually exclusive. but there is a reason Alabama and Auburn fans are so nuts about their schools.
  12. Derwood
    I don't blame SEC fans for being maniacal about their football. For many of them, it's all they have: Big 10 states with pro teams: Indiana: Colts Illinois: Bears Ohio: Browns, Bengals Pennsylvania: Steelers, Eagles Michigan: Lions Minnesota: Vikings Wisconsin: Packers Iowa: n/a SEC states with pro teams: Florida: Jaguars, Dolphins, Bucs Louisiana: Saints Tennessee: Titans Georgia: Falcons Kentucky: n/a Alabama: n/a Mississippi: n/a Arkansas: n/a South Carolina: n/a
  13. Derwood
    agreed. It should be Tampax Field at Massengil Park, brought to you by Vagisil
  14. Derwood
    wins and losses don't mean anything
  15. Derwood
    lol Purdue won lol
  16. Derwood
    oh great, now we have a PADRES fan on the board
  17. Derwood
    oh well
  18. Derwood
    some player on aTm is out for the Alamo Bowl. don't know how important he is
  19. Derwood
    there's also dodger stadium and angel stadium - neither bearing a corporate name. my point is, a team like the cubs does not have to put a corporate name on the ballpark to be one of the larger-revenue teams in the game. wasn't the Angels stadium called Edison Field for a long time? 6 years from 1997-2003. interesting, since it was a 20 year naming rights deal
  20. Derwood
    should've landed A-Rod when the fire was hot
  21. Derwood
    Penn State downs the mighty Toothpaste U. to go 7-4
  22. Derwood
    there's also dodger stadium and angel stadium - neither bearing a corporate name. my point is, a team like the cubs does not have to put a corporate name on the ballpark to be one of the larger-revenue teams in the game. wasn't the Angels stadium called Edison Field for a long time?
  23. Derwood
    Why is this so hard to grasp? Yes, we all understand that the primary purpose of an MLB team is to win the World Series. That's obviously the first and foremost concern for all the players, fans, executives, and the city as a whole. But why the oft-used implication that this can come at the expense of practically everything else? Winning may be everything, but when you're a fan of a sports team, it's not the only thing. Willingness to throw aspects that make the Cubs the Cubs under the bus just to win a World Series is disgusting ... if you renamed the ballpark to Tampax Field, and the club became the Chicago Hygenics, and the uniform colors switched to pink and powder blue, and the place was plastered wall-to-wall with Massengill advertising, but - oh! Hallelujah! - they win the World Series, is it really worth it in the end? Are you satisfied with having sold a part of your identity for that victory? Maybe my example is blowing things way out of proportion, but no more so than your original premise. The ballpark's name is important, more important to most fans than some may realize. And selling the naming rights - altering a core factor of the team and changing something all Cubs fans relate to and identify with - does not guarantee anything, nor do I think it would change much in the way of team payroll. not winning is what makes the Cubs the Cubs. so yes, i'd like to change some tradition
  24. Derwood
    ](*,)
  25. Derwood
    there are 100 things more important to worry about with the Cubs than this If the Cubs win 10 straight world series in Tampax Park w/ Wings instead of Wrigley Field, is this really a problem?
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