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Great win last night. Craw came up big. One more until the Olympic Break. 1 behind the Ducks (both 59 GP) and 4 up on the Blues (4 more GP).
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Ugh Iowa. Is the Big Ten not as good as we thought or are these teams just beating up on each other?
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2013-14 Defending Champion Blackhawks Regular Season Thread
UMFan83 replied to Drew Doughty's topic in Other Sports
Damn, Kaner has like emotions and stuff. RIP to his grandfather. http://deadspin.com/patrick-kane-honors-dead-grandfather-breaks-down-after-1515831526 -
I totally see SSR's reasoning, but I can't agree with the bold at all. Maybe I'm just a big wet blanket but I find the bleachers totally miserable. The view of the game kinda sucks. You can't really lean back so you're kinda hunched forward uncomfortably the whole game. You have to worry about someone saving your seat when you get up to go the bathroom or buy beer or whatever. And I'm all about stupid drunken antics, but the level of such douchebaggery is tenfold there. I'm not saying there aren't fun aspects of it but the drawbacks are too much for me. Totally agree. I like doing the bleachers thing once or twice a season, but to have that be your seat option for every game? And even if someone loves the atmosphere I don't know how they could think they're the best seats; you can't see [expletive]. He DID say he's right out of college, so I guess that explains, but the old man side of me thinks that sounds like a nightmare. Agreed on the bleachers. Fun once in awhile, but you have to either get there early or sit in the CF bleachers. However, if the Cubs were ever in the world series and I was able to get a free ticket anywhere but 100 level or better, I'm choosing bleachers. Also, there are a ton of douchebags there. I was at an NSBB meetup in 2006 and almost got into a fight for making fun of Dusty Baker, wtf?
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I gave up after 3. But even with all the pages of texts that still not the full findings presumably, so might as well wait for the official report before I flip my thoughts one way or the other. The only stuff worth reading are the texts at the very end after Martin left the team (~10/31/13). The rest of it is bro's talking about going out and getting laid, even all the way up until a day or two before he left. The texts definitely paint Incognito in a completely different light although I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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Boozer doing everything he can to get amnestied this offseason.
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To see how badly Manning played last night and know that Rex's performance was significantly worse than that is nauseating. I remember when the Bears led that game 7-0 and had the ball at midfield before the offense ever saw the field. That was the last good feeling I had about the game. I still had a pretty good field when Thomas Jones ran the Bears down the field and Rex found Moose in the end zone for the 8 point lead. After that, the Bears forced a punt and drove the ball to midfield and then the real back breaker occurred when Benson fumbled it away. Ugh. Even after that, I still felt good even though the Colts had taken a 19-14 lead in the 3rd quarter. The Bears had a 2nd and 1 from the Colts 45 and were moving the ball well on the drive. Rex holds onto the ball way too long and takes a sack, then fumbles the snap on the next play and before you know it, its 4th down from the Bears 33. Ugh. But of course despite all that, the Bears were only down 5 with 12 minutes left in the 4th and starting to get some momentum on a drive, having gotten it to their 40 when Rex throws a terrible ball that is picked for a TD. Game over. Ugh.
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To see how badly Manning played last night and know that Rex's performance was significantly worse than that is nauseating.
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The point has never been you need an elite QB to win a Super Bowl. Or that a defense can't win one for you. The point is that you cannot stay consistently good while depending on an elite defense. To be dominant on defense you need several studs on defense. That route gets expensive in a hurry as members reach free agency and get to move on. And then they get old as well. If you are fortunate enough to draft as well as Seattle has on defense all within a couple years and then also have the fortune of drafting a quality QB in the third and have him contribute immediately, you can replicate their success. But that's not a recipe for a decade of contending. Seattle also has 2 1st rounders on the offensive line and another 2nd. The the point is, as always, is that you need to draft well to be a good team. Not surprising. Surprising is the fact that the Bears have been able to tread water for so many years with one good draft over a decade ago and not much else.
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Edit: Sorry I don't know how to make the image smaller so I put it in spoilers
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Harvins gonna win the Super Bowl MVP in his 3rd ever game with the Seahawks. Weird
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Peyton Manning should thank Sexy Rexy everyday for allowing him to at least win one Super Bowl.
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Blah. Worst offensive performance of the season + Yogi shooting 8-9 = IUs ownership of UM for the entire history of both programs continuing* *Trying to jinx
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High of 50 low of 34, NYC really lucked out today considering there were highs in the teens earlier this week.
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Damn great finish to regulation for Duke/Cuse
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Are Wisconsin and OSU both going to be unraveled on Monday?
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Thank you for introducing me to this.
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If it makes you feel any better, Nebraska is 10-1 at home this year, with their only loss being by 1 point to Michigan.
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Fixed. There's been some positive news but I'm at all convinced he's coming back this year.
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I love ESPN's latest bracketology. They have Iowa St as a 5 seed and Iowa as a 4 seed in the same pod, meaning they would be set to play each other in the Round of 32
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2013-14 Defending Champion Blackhawks Regular Season Thread
UMFan83 replied to Drew Doughty's topic in Other Sports
Is this like 2 seasons ago when we were actually leading the west halfway through the season and then went on a 12 game losing streak and lost to the [expletive] Coyotes? -
What a weird night in the Big Ten
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Haha Ohio State
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They aren't going to go 3-7 the rest of the Big Ten season. They have 4 games left against the ranked B1G teams, 3 of them at home. Even if they lose 3 of the 4 games, they would need to go 3-4 against Illinois (twice), @ Penn State, @ IU, @ minnesota, vs. Purdue, vs. Illinois to finish .500 in the Big Ten. Anyways that won't happen. They will go at least 2-2 against the ranked teams, will win their other home games and win at least 2 of their 4 road games. That should put them at 7-3 the rest of the year, finishing 12-6 and 23-8 overall.
