Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #187: Dank Nugs

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Yeah, but I already have a copy of Perfect Dark HD that I can play with an Xbox controller, which makes the game that much better.
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Perfect Dark is the best.

Teddy Bridgewater is in during garbage time for the Saints up 48-7

Didn't they re-release Goldeneye a few times too? Though I think it might have sucked?

SpeeDLeemon posted...

Teddy Bridgewater is in during garbage time for the Saints up 48-7

Very unlike Brees to pass up an opportunity to pad his stats

He passed Favre today on the TD list. Congrats to Brees

SkynyrdRocker posted...

I cancelled my Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu order from Amazon. I just wasn't excited about it

I'm not excited AT ALL but I'm still buying it because I already made the order and I'm not about to cancel an order now

The Patriots got blown out by the Titans lol. The Titans aren't awful or anything but they're probably the NFL team I most often tend to forget about.

I'm sure they'll still coast to another playoff bye though

STLCards1991 posted...

I feel it must be said that Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the best games I've ever played in my life. It's massive and incredible and I hope it never ends.

I just finished God of War which was great, and I'll probably start Red Dead soon; maybe today. I want to see what all this fuss is about.

I've watched a couple Titans games this season and they're one of the most boring teams to watch this year.

(Secret Brag: I don't work tomorrow and I'm stoked to stay up obscenely late getting deluxe baths in Red Dead)

Mariota seems like such a perpetual disappointment. He's basically in the Alex Smith tier of QBs who aren't good enough to win you anything significant but good enough to not want to take the risk of moving on. I guess he is better than Famous Jameis at least when you look at the big picture

I predicted Mariota would be really good in the NFL, but I admit that I was wrong. He's just okay.

Of course Alex Smith is better and giving up on him seemed to pay off for the two teams who did it before (at least for a little while), so I dunno, maybe the Titans should give up on Mariota. But the Niners and Chiefs also were able to line up replacements in his backup and obviously for the Titans Blaine Gabbert isn't the answer

He's at the end of his contract so they're going to have to decide whether they don't want him at all or if they're going to pay him too much for too many years. Letting him go and drafting a QB to start week 1 isn't ideal, but neither is tying up your salary cap with mediocrity.

Lol George Dubya did a weird interview on Sunday Night Football

John Harbaugh gonna be done with Baltimore at the end of this season. Broncos could probably use a new coach...

Edit: I mean, they definitely could use a new coach, but officially who knows what that hack Elway will do with Joseph

Gotta start fresh for LAMAR JACKSON. So hype

Are we seriously gonna have the fucking Skins win the NFC East

Kirk Cousins at Washington in the WC game is a real possibility

Good to see the raiders lost again. Jon gruden is the best coach.

Chewster posted...

Are we seriously gonna have the fucking Skins win the NFC East

Kirk Cousins at Washington in the WC game is a real possibility

Kirk losing 35-7 in Washington is a big time hell world outcome so it seems plausible to me.

It feels like we're going to get the Saints in the Super Bowl, which blows. I mean, who else do you trust in the NFC to get there, the Rams? They've been hyped up all season (and earlier) and that never seems to work out unless the team is the Patriots. Of course I'm sure a couple people here wouldn't be happy with the Rams going that far either.

The Rams are quite good. I was just looking at their stats and honestly....... wtf. This is so unfair. Todd Gurley is gonna have like 2200 all purpose yards and 30 total TDs

In the AFC I'm going to have to bandwagon my division rivals because the Texans are obviously a joke and rooting for the Steelers is almost as gross as the Patriots

There are very few teams I don't want to see in the Superbowl and it changes year to year. I usually don't like seeing teams go year after year (except for the Bills because it was to me at the time wondering if this would be the year they won). Normally I wouldn't want the Patriots in it again but I would be okay if they were playing against the Saints or Rams. I like when teams are evenly matched (or close to it) not when one team is favored by quite a bit.
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I don't think there are that many plausible matchups where one team is a huge favorite. Stuff like Saints vs. Titans maybe, but come on, that ain't happening. And I'd still probably rather see the Saints cruise in a boring SB over the Titans than see the Patriots even appear at all

Guess it goes without saying that I've slowly been getting super excited about this NFL season...
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I know the Vikings will get embarrased by da Bearz on primetime. Reasons why:
1. It's the Vikings
2. It's primetime
3. They rarely do well at Soldier Field
4.Why not?

Rest In Peace Stan Lee

RIP to a legend

He was 95?! What a life. I hope I get to 75...

He died before his daughter could spend all of his money

Melo's reps are trying to find him a new team (he hasn't been waived by the Rockets officially yet fyi). I have a hard time picturing what NBA team would want him at this point. If he wants to just go chuck bricks and not play defense somewhere then maybe he can do that on a tanking team but there's no real reason for a tanking team to add him unless they just feel like doing him a favor

He should go back to New York!

He should go play in China. He'd get a bigger payday there than anywhere in the NBA at this point, and the Chinese fanbase is actually extremely cool.
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I really can't see him fitting in anywhere, which is sad. I love Melo. Maybe China is the answer.

I blame the Knicks for ruining him.
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He has always been a flawed player

I don't know why you guys are talking about who's going to win the Super Bowl. It was decided in week 9 when the Packers lost to the Patriots. Continuing the trend from 2010 and 2014, the Packers will win the Super Bowl. History is on our side.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

I don't know why you guys are talking about who's going to win the Super Bowl. It was decided in week 9 when the Packers lost to the Patriots. Continuing the trend from 2010 and 2014, the Packers will win the Super Bowl. History is on our side.

If this happens I will become a Packers fan. Not because I'm really sure it won't happen, but because of the old philosophy "if you can't beat em, join em"

What the fuck is this
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25259058/golden-state-warriors-offer-100-monthly-passes-no-view-court

Lmao who would do this. Why

SpeeDLeemon posted...

What the fuck is this
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25259058/golden-state-warriors-offer-100-monthly-passes-no-view-court

Lmao who would do this. Why

That sounds identical to Twins/Timberwolves standing room only tickets, where you're not assigned a seat but after 15 minutes of game-time you can stroll down to one of the top 10 rows and take one of the many unoccupied seats.

Does anyone have any good "moving down closer to empty seats" stories?

I'm sure I've done it before but can't really think of any specific examples. I've never gotten right next to the field or anything. Usually it's just like going from the upper section to the upper-middle section. Or just moving down within the same section since the ushers don't usually care beyond what section you're in

My friends and I had upper deck seats when we went to two games at Wrigley, and we tried to get behind home plate and were rejected. But we did end up sitting in the section behind that section so that was somewhat cool. 8th and 9th innings. I normally don't try to move that far down, but it's fucking Wrigley so we tried

Was that at all close to home plate? One time I got free Rockies tickets and they were two or three sections back (up?) from home plate. Being right behind home plate would be cool obviously but I think it's weird in the upper sections. That's the only time I had seats like that

The section behind home plate isn't very deep as far as I remember. We were pretty close, but being right behind home plate in that section would be very different, yeah

I actually have a couple.

One was from earlier this baseball season. A group of us had cheap Twins tickets, and were trying to meet up with a group of friends who had lower level tickets. It was around the 5th/6th inning in the Twins were getting blown out by the Brewers, so we walked down to the field level around 3rd base. Usually you have to show your ticket before going into that part of the ballpark, but we somehow snuck by and sat in some empty seats by our friends, but shortly after, the ushers/security found us and asked us to leave, so we did. As we were leaving, this guy behind us said something like "I'm a season ticket holder and we're leaving, but if you want our ticket stubs you can sit in our seats the rest of the night"
He gave us 4 ticket stubs (thanks Tony) for some seats right by our friends. We got into the line to enter the lower level of the field, and the usher kind of rolled her eyes at us and said "Ok fine, but you have to sit in these assigned seats." We hadn't been misbehaving or anything but I get the staff was just doing their jobs.

[this isn't related, just me bragging] A few years ago, a friend from high school asked me if I wanted to go to a Twins game because his uncle had good seats and I was like yeah sure. Turns out they were 3rd row seats against the Angels right next to the dugout. I would see into the dugout and hear the first base coach throughout the whole game which was really cool. I also saw a sports news lady do the Ice Ice Baby dance in the dugout between innings, and she pulled it off.

another time, when the vikings were playing in the outdoor college stadium before their new stadium was built, I was at a preseason game and there was a huge thunderstorm and tried to get everyone to evacuate. We didn't evacuate (just hung around in the concourse) and sat in the first row behind the endzonefor the rest of the game, after the game finally resumed. It was cool (saw a TD right next to us) but it was just a dumb preseason game.

looking at pictures, it looks like the section behind home plate is about 15 rows, and we were sitting in probably the 2nd or 3rd row of the next section, so not really all that close nah. But definitely worth getting as close as we did I guess because I doubt I'll be back there

Stlcards1991 and I moved down to the green seats right behind home plate in a 15 inning game. We probably sat there for three minutes then Adams hit a walkoff homer. It was awesome seeing him blast I from that angle because usually I'm not great at seeing where it's going in person but I immediately stood up and started yelling. Which would have been embarrassing if it hadn't gone out but it was such an obvious bomb

SMH and you still hate baseball (MNTwins1991 I mean)

Anyways, more sad news today: The Nathan Peterman era in Buffalo is officially over

Not three minutes, three innings. We got to enjoy the seats.

oh wow I actually posted a photo from behind home plate on facebook. Makes me happy because all of my pictures from my trips are on my old laptop which I don't know if I could get to run

https://imgur.com/a/OBM8vzt

(I just looked it up... that is Rockies pitching legend Justin Miller at bat)

Wow who the fuck is Justin Miller