The Swamp

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2017 2:28 pm**

1. Suicide
2. Anxiety
3. Depression

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:19 am**

Defunct/relocated sports franchises, based on how much I miss them despite having little to no personal connection:

1. Montreal Expos
2. Quebec Nordiques
3. San Diego Chargers
4. Houston Oilers
5. Hartford Whalers
6. Seattle Supersonics
7. San Diego Clippers
8. Minnesota North Stars
9. Wimbledon F.C.
10. Baltimore Colts (CFL)

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:29 am**

Personally the team I miss most is the Hartford Whalers. I can see the Expos as a distant second. No other teams I care to list, except to say that I'd imagine that Cleveland fans miss the Browns.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:36 am**

None of these affect me in any way so I'm going with uniforms I want back:

1. Sonics
2. Whalers
3. Oilers
4. Nords
5. Expos

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:41 am**

They need to give us the Oilers name back. I don't know a single fan who likes the current team name.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:44 am**

Unless you're actually from Connecticut or that area, I'm not sure why anyone would give a shit about the Whalers moving. Based on their attendance, almost no one in Connecticut cared about them so why should anyone else? Seems like some kind of collective twee ESPN/Chris Berman nostalgia for a failed franchised that should have been moved long before it was.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:47 am**

brian wrote:Unless you're actually from Connecticut or that area, I'm not sure why anyone would give a shit about the Whalers moving. Based on their attendance, almost no one in Connecticut cared about them so why should anyone else? Seems like some kind of collective twee ESPN/Chris Berman nostalgia for a failed franchised that should have been moved long before it was.

Logo-based love!

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:48 am**

Giff wrote:They need to give us the Oilers name back. I don't know a single fan who likes the current team name.

I actually think the Texans have one of the least-bad names and visual designs of the recent expansion teams, but yeah, the Oilers should ideally still exist.

brian wrote:Unless you're actually from Connecticut or that area, I'm not sure why anyone would give a shit about the Whalers moving. Based on their attendance, almost no one in Connecticut cared about them so why should anyone else? Seems like some kind of collective twee ESPN/Chris Berman nostalgia for a failed franchised that should have been moved long before it was.

It seems like the Whalers somehow ended up as the go-to symbol of teams with a quirky regional identities getting uprooted and moved to sprawl-y Sun Belt locations that weren't really clamoring for them. Luckily Hartford can still sell out their civic center for other events.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:53 am**

I wanted Apollos FWIW. I wanted to stick with the space theme. Toros was my second choice. Texans is just so vanilla especially when they're not ever going to be anywhere near the most popular team in the state.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 12:02 pm**

Breakfasts come and go, Rene.

Now, Hartford, the whale ?

Hey, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 12:26 pm**

If 1/100th of northeasterns who wear Hartford apparel now went to a single game per season then, the Whalers wouldn't have left.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 12:27 pm**

mister d wrote:If 1/100th of northeasterns who wear Hartford apparel now went to a single game per season then, the Whalers wouldn't have left.

They really are the Ironic Confederacy

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 1:14 pm**

Giff wrote:
Breakfasts come and go, Rene.

Now, Hartford, the whale ?

Hey, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.

I enjoyed this post.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:33 pm**

A_B wrote:
brian wrote:Unless you're actually from Connecticut or that area, I'm not sure why anyone would give a shit about the Whalers moving. Based on their attendance, almost no one in Connecticut cared about them so why should anyone else? Seems like some kind of collective twee ESPN/Chris Berman nostalgia for a failed franchised that should have been moved long before it was.

Logo-based love!

Those were some cool - or at least unique logos.

This team was only around for a couple of years, but it's a pretty cool logo...

Here's one from my childhood (WHA era)

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:44 pm**

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:54 pm**

In reality, the Sonics are #1 here. Them moving was the worst at least since the Browns ditching Cleveland.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:02 pm**

mister d wrote:If 1/100th of northeasterns who wear Hartford apparel now went to a single game per season then, the Whalers wouldn't have left.

Connecticut never would've been awarded an expansion franchise from the NHL had it not been for the WHA / NHL merger. Pretty sure the Whalers actually started in Boston, actually. I went to probably 15-20 games as a kid in CT (I moved to FL in '85).. Thing is, the Bruins were New England's NHL team, upstate NY had the Sabres.. NYC had the Rangers.. and LI had the Islanders. The Whalers' base was Springfield to New Haven, and probably 25 miles in each direction in CT, but once you got into MA that range diminished considerably.

It's a loyalty thing more than anything.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:38 pm**

sancarlos wrote:

LANNY!!!

That's the result of the trade that traumatized all Leaf fans of my generation.

I will go to my grave believing that Harold Ballard was the worst owner in the history of North American sports.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:56 pm**

Ted Stepien will never be beaten for that honor.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 7:41 pm**

Until either of them became so parsimonious that the best players on the team choose to throw the championship round, neither of them have anything on fucking Comiskey.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:39 pm**

You fuckers never heard of Hugh Culverhouse?

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:27 pm**

brian wrote:Ted Stepien will never be beaten for that honor.

Yes, yes he has been.

Unlike Stepien, Ballard owned the richest team in the league and used it a personal piggy bank. I should also point out that under his ownership there was a pedophile ring running out of the building as well.

You really should get acquainted with this piece of shit.

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-14/ ... af-gardens

In 1972, Ballard was convicted on 47 of 49 counts of theft and fraud. He was found to have diverted money from the Gardens' accounts to his own.

The 69-year-old Ballard was sentenced to three years in federal penitentiary and, after several weeks' assessment at Millhaven Prison, was assigned to the minimum security Bath Institution. There, he spent his days operating a fork lift in the supply department.

All the while, though, he ran Maple Leaf Gardens business affairs from a public phone in the prison's visitors' room.

Stepien was brutal, Culverhouse as well. But try to imagine the Yankees if Steinbrenner hated the fans so much he wanted the team to lose.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:40 am**

L-Jam3 wrote:parsimonious

I'll admit I had to look this up. Great fucking word. I need to see if I can work it into a conversation today.

Posted: **Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:35 pm**

i own this sweater

Pruitt wrote:
sancarlos wrote:

LANNY!!!

That's the result of the trade that traumatized all Leaf fans of my generation.

I will go to my grave believing that Harold Ballard was the worst owner in the history of North American sports.

Posted: **Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:23 pm**

Famous (TV, sports, politics, etc.) people I’d like to drink a beer with, ranked:

1. Stone Cold Steve Austin
2. Joe Thomas
3. Don Callis
4. Barack Obama
5. Chris Sabo
6. Sue Aikens
7. Joey Votto

Posted: **Sun Dec 03, 2017 7:19 pm**

L-Jam3 wrote:In reality, the Sonics are #1 here. Them moving was the worst at least since the Browns ditching Cleveland.

Subscribe!

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:51 pm**

NBA Players Who Sound Like Members of a 1999 Hip-Hop Group If You Add "The" Between Their Names

1. Rasual Butler
2. Tarik Black
3. Iman Shumpert
4. RJ Hunter
5. Thaddeus Young
6. Dante Exum
7. Ron Baker
8. De'Aaron Fox
9. Rodney Hood
10. Tim Hardaway Jr.
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.
360. Rudy Gay

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:54 pm**

Ryan wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 1:51 pm NBA Players Who Sound Like Members of a 1999 Hip-Hop Group If You Add "The" Between Their Names

1. Rasual Butler
2. Tarik Black
3. Iman Shumpert
4. RJ Hunter
5. Thaddeus Young
6. Dante Exum
7. Ron Baker
8. De'Aaron Fox
9. Rodney Hood
10. Tim Hardaway Jr.
.
.
360. Rudy Gay

Draymond the Green
Eric the Money
Jay the Humphrey
James the Harden

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:11 pm**

"Kris Dunn" - Havoc

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:12 pm**

These are all correct. Keep going - this is a book you guys.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:17 pm**

"Kevon Looney" - Yukmouth

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:17 pm**

Shelvin Mack seems like a careless oversight.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:18 pm**

Shabazz Napier takes the #1 spot if you've never heard his name spoken outloud.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:19 pm**

359. White rapper J.J. Redick.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:22 pm**

Serge Ibaka
Cameron Payne
Ish Smith
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Kemba Walker
Bam Adebayo
Udonis Haslem
D.J. Augustin
Jodie Meeks

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:53 pm**

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:19 pm 359. White rapper J.J. Redick.

JJ the Ridic

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:56 pm**

Ryan wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 2:22 pm Bam Adebayo

Winner

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:45 pm**

Women who currently make me feel uncomfortable for being attracted to them:

1. Ariana Grande
2. Selena Gomez
3. Oldest daughter from Modern Family

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 7:04 pm**

Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:45 pm Women who currently make me feel uncomfortable for being attracted to them:

1. Ariana Grande
2. Selena Gomez
3. Oldest daughter from Modern Family

It might comfort you to know that they'd just view you as a gross old man.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 7:49 pm**

Ariana The Grande

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