UConn James

‘I’m done clapping. It’s gonna be ALL fist-pumps this year. Like this!’

Let me first say that I haven’t seen football video game graphics in a minute and WOW. Besides the scoreboard only showing a charging bill logo, put the brightness low and squint ever so slightly and it’s pretty believable… besides them having Milano being black. But damn. Who was simulating this for the Bills? Dick Jauron calling plays and a 4-year-old with the controller? Suddenly remembered we have Steph Diggs with 1 minute left to play.

Hoping he heals his ankle (was it?) 100% before he does anything. I had a “minimally displaced fracture” in my ankle in mid-November and x-rays were good in February, but the thing is still very sore after too much activity.

King Charles = Supreme Leader Snoke In a few years, we’ll get “Somehow… Queen Elizabeth II has returned.” #MayTheFourthBeWithYou yesterday #RevengeOfTheFifth today

Minor nitpicks against the current unis. The biggest by far is the black outlines. There’s really NO need in the age of HDTV. The red jerseys do not have black outlines. Several teams have gotten rid of such dark outlines for the better. They appeared when the stadium exterior was painted black… crossing fingers 🤞that maybe when we move into the new stadium, that can be remedied. Awaiting an announcement for the red helmets. Now that we have 17 and likely to be 18 games in the next CBA, an additional set seems fine without diluting the primary. A few teams have yet to do reveals of uni sets that we’ve heard things about since the one-shell rule ended last June, but it was either too late to do something or the supply chain had issues. Seattle, LA Rams, Tampa Bay, Titans teased an Oilers throwback this past week. We’ll see if they fill these doldrums of the year b/w schedule release and training camp with some uni reveals.

Maybe downstate toward NYC?

You mean… trampled his 🍒🍆?

Curse of the President’s Trophy.

“Influencer” 🤮

Aaaand a commercial on our whole clock. What a surprise. This has never happened before.

Not technically a show, but a clip showing Mark Hamill Himself explaining the Force to the actor doing the motion capture stuff for the Jedi: Survivor video game. “You’re not playin’ baseball!” 😄😆 So great to see MH involved in SW in doing the Mandalorian cameos, etc. after he had vocalized frustrations with how Luke was used in the sequels. I think at one point it was being reported that he was ‘done with SW.’ Here’s hoping the new people in charge — Dave Filoni has complete creative control as of ~ last year — continue to include him and use Luke wisely. Seeing him in the announced post-sequel ‘Rey rebuilds the order’ movie would be fantastic to give him better plot & writing to work with, if only as a Force ghost.

Thank you, everyone! Surgery went fine, he’s currently resting / regaining consciousness, and will have visitors soon.

I’m just wondering if it would be OK to start an ongoing thread where folks here could post to when they are seeking prayers / thoughts and such? Rather than them popping up separately here on OTW? My dad is currently 12 minutes on the operating table for a triple bypass. This has all been kinda shocking over the last few days when he first had the chest pain on Monday evening. He’s always been like Superman for us, but even in his “better shape than most people half your age” condition… Superman is facing a tough fight here with the surgery and a projected 6 month recovery.

Per Paul Lukas’s Uni Watch page: Though Lukas doesn’t mention it here as he does for several other teams, the new template also seems to push the BILLS chest wordmark down lower due to the collar change. (I’m not a fan of these wordmarks, small or large. But at least we don’t have BUFFALO emblazoned across the chest like the recent ARIZONA reveal. Act like you’re in the big league, not some D-3 team that feels they need to remind everyone what ass-crack part of the country they’re located in.) So we’re back to a bit of the incomplete toilet seat collar, albeit slightly less obnoxious in width than last time. I share the SMH 🤦‍♂️ about so many collar styles — there is a photo set showing the line-up — in the course of 10 years since the change from the navy monstrosities. IMO, it would be a better look to just go with a same color as the jersey collar, like with the 64-65 throwback sets, rather than something that changes so often with the whims of Nike design. There’s also curiously been no word yet about a possible Kelly-era red helmet throwback set. A couple-few teams that didn’t have enough time after the league dropped the one-shell rule last June have announced this offseason they’ll be adding throwbacks / alternates using a second helmet color.

The Sergio Garcia way ⛳️

But in the playoffs…. When nothing changes, then nothing changes.

HOW many threads have there been about Brady & Giselle and his baby-momma Bridget Moynihan? Sports is entertainment & celebrity and I’m not going to say I like it, but American media & society is obsessed with celebrity, both in building them up… and tearing them down. This is literally the first I’ve heard about this. Respect to the Buffalo media for not running with it if there is any There there. But if / as rumors swirl more, some may be driven to reporting it.

A vocal set of Star Wars “fans” just love to crap on the sequels and Daisy Ridley, but I for one (for the most part, but Ruin Johnson did really screw things up pretty bad) enjoyed them. Watching some of the deleted scenes, including Luke’s third lesson that didn’t make it in 🙄😠, helped. Twenty minutes of Canto Bight that was entirely pointless but he skimped on Luke and Jedi training. So happy that she’s getting another turn at it and this time with Dave Filoni now at the full creative controls for all of SW. Better writing, better & more cohesive plot, and now filming in The Volume makes so many more things possible on budget. (I dunno if Favreau will have much input, as he seems to enjoy / focus on the Mando stuff.)

You’ve obviously never seen a Terry P. interview before. The family has been occupied for the last almost year with Kim’s condition following the cardiac event. She was the public face to the franchise and if she were able would have been doing a presser / presentation / etc. They have seemingly hired someone to do her former job and Ron R. seems to be the point person for stadium issues. Terry belongs on the background. You don’t want him at a microphone.

I’ve been listening to a bunch of the Red Sox games on my stereo radio for the past 5-6 years. It’s kinda nice to experience it like that / how most people used to / nostalgically. Pretty ridiculous about all the blackout stuff, especially when it was the COVID times. They just refuse to accept that many sports have become better on TV. Go to the stadium and you’re looking at a small screen or the Jumbotron to be able to see anything from a lot of seats. They can’t offer a team’s full slate? Our regional network NESN has started an online streaming option for cord cutters (I’ve been OTA antenna-only for 20+ years now), but it’s a ridiculous price $50 per month iirc. For one channel. That’s not what a la carte pricing was ever dreamed as by anyone other than a greedy network. So screw that. Other than the odd game on FOX or ESPN+ (which are often blacked out, even if it’s a sold out game vs the NYY), if I do want to actually watch, I’ll visit a Reddit page.

Yeah, that was kinda brutal. The UM guy and FAU cheerleader were the only ones who could carry a tune. But at least they did sing it with an upward whatever it’s called on the “that our flag Was STILL THERE!!!” line. It kills me when people take steps down on that. That’s supposed to be sung with exuberance, and most singers make it sound like a death dirge.

I don’t get to watch them much during the regular season, but when it’s tourney time…. It’s just been such a treat to see my alma mater team playing great 🏀 when it matters most, and for them to be so successful since I started attending there in ‘99. I’m hoping to go to campus on Monday night to the watch party at Gampel, along with a friend who designed the old 80s-90s UConn logo and sculpted the Husky statue outside of the arena. I mean, I’m not much one for big crowds, but it would be nice to experience it once in my life. I have some second cousins on FB who live in San Diego and who’ve been posting about SDSU through the tourney.

We did bring in Al Holcomb as a Senior Defensive Asst in early-mid Feb. who had been a DC before. That was the move that told me Frazier was on the outs. Might be that he will serve as McD’s defensive aide-de-camp the way Bienemy was OC to Reid, taking on DCish duties during the week, but the playcalling will be McD. I seem to recall McD did his Carolina DCing from the booth where he could see the field better. Doubt he can really do that as HC. Maybe the new technology stuff / tablets / etc. mitigates this?