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invisibleman18 wrote:
A team moving cities seems bizarre but I gather it's not uncommon in US sports. So what do you after they move if you've supported them as your home team? My cousins in LA are happy as they have never really got into NFL due to having no team to support (their big things have been the Lakers and Dodgers). One of them has just posted on Facebook "can't wait for football after 20 years!" Ridiculous that a major city didn't have a team.

They had the Raiders and lost them.

jones

They had the Rams themselves for a long time before they moved to St Louis. Apparently every NFL team has had several big moves, the Rams moved from Cleveland to LA, then within the city, to St Louis and now back. That would be the equivalent of Arsenal moving originally from Istanbul to Greenwich to Hackney then Moscow and back to Islington.

Tony Montana

We actually moved from Woolwich to Highbury which is seen as scandalous by Spurs fans.

jones

I know that of course, that happened about a hundred years ago though and is in no way comparable to this situation.

What's funny with Spurs fans by the way complaining about them being the "real North London club" is that Islington was always part of London whereas Tottenham wasn't incorporated into Haringey until 1965. So even though Arsenal didn't move to Highbury until 1919 we're still the first North London club because Spurs were a Middlesex club for another 46 years.

arsedocmd

In cricket news, another rohit sharma century down under but he just gobbles up a lot of balls. No concept of rotating the strike. Lazy .

mohan

You cannot put the losses on him, surely. Bowlers have been toothless. Batsmen in the final overs are bang average these days.

arsedocmd

Not putting the losses on him but it's a significant factor, and personally i hate that quality in players. It was rife in the subcontinent pre-dhoni days, everyone playing as they wish, least bothered about the team.
Playing away from home especially in australia, we need all the help we can get and rotating the strike during early overs vs hitting during the death for a new batsman-- i think the former is easier to rectify.
Having said that , I think yesterday's particular game was majorly affected by the dropped catches more than anything. How Ishant sharma is still a fixture is a mystery to me.

Tony Montana

What a game between Arizona and Green Bay. It was more memorable than Pittsburgh and Cincinnati for the right reasons.

Jens

Tony Montana wrote:
What a game between Arizona and Green Bay. It was more memorable than Pittsburgh and Cincinnati for the right reasons.

Absolutely. The last five minutes of regular time was something else. Incredible how close Green Bay were able to make it leaning on their 5th and 6th string Wide Recievers. Also makes them look kind of daft for not giving those guys more chances to play earlier in the season ahead of Cobb, Jones and Adams who have all been underwhelming since September.

Arizona is a strong team but I do not buy into the notion that they are the favourites to win it all. The winner of tonights Seattle @ Carolina are for me the pick to go to the Superbowl from the NFC. In the AFC I don't see anyone stopping the Patriots. I think Brady and Gronk go to Denver and beat them handidly in the conference championship. The one team I could have seen stopping the Patriots would have been Pittsburgh, but they are decimated by injuries on their star players.

Patriots vs Carolina/Seattle in the Superbowl is a toss up.

Bryant

😆 Seahawks getting manhandled today!

Bryant

One thing that I don't like about Carolina: they tend to always take the gas pedal off or struggle during the 2nd half.

Jens

Bryant wrote:
One thing that I don't like about Carolina: they tend to always take the gas pedal off or struggle during the 2nd half.

Yep, if Seattle didn't suffer such a complete meltdown in the 1st quarter this would have been a game.

Jens

If Hauschka had put away that 2nd quarter field goal this would have been a one possession game. Seattle still needs some mad stuff to happen to win, but they have certainly done well to make this a ball game after what happened in the 1st half.

Bryant

Can't say this is the first time I've seen Carolina hang on for dear life this season. They've played this sort of game vs. the Colts, Giants, Saints, and the Packers.

Bryant

Roethlisberger doesn't look limited today. This should be a good game.

mdgoonah41

nice to see the rocket win again. tied for the most masters titles now.

arsedocmd

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0UW04N
Match fixing inn tennis, probably one of the easier sports to fix

Tony Montana

Peyton v Tom for the last time.

arsedocmd

'gaylestorm'

Bryant

Speaking of ridiculous player power, GM Lebron James has fired the coach of the Cavaliers. They had the 3rd best record in the NBA.

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