The Swamp

My workout wear is sorely lacking in performance cardigans.

Oh God. Oh God no. No no no no no.

She needs looser pants.

I'm quite surprised to see that apparently take place in Florida.

That really looked like a Kids in the Hall skit.

Holy shit, I've seen Prancercise in person! I keep telling my wife that there's a lady that walks down Bayshore and dances around. I never knew this phenomenon had a name.

The Sybian wrote:That really looked like a Kids in the Hall skit.

Those girls are much hotter. What?

I need to burn that image out of my mind. I couldn't stop looking at the camel toe. Awful. I guess that's what happens with depends and yoga pants.

One cool as fuck engineering feat...

RVP et al schooling some kids.

If you like that check out the Monta Street Soccer guys and their travels (New York was interesting). Edgar Davids is involved.

The Gambler gets one MJ

P.D.X. wrote:RVP et al schooling some kids.

That's like letting Prince Fielder take BP against a little leaguer.

Now at Universal Studios Orlando:



Flaming Moes!

I tend to hate shit like that. But man is that cool.

Pretty awesome.

Hope they keep this up.

The absolute worst commentator you'll ever hear

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91-Year-Old Iconic Photographer Art Shay Talks About His Prolific Career

degenerasian wrote:Hope they keep this up.

The absolute worst commentator you'll ever hear

I watched most of the second half of that game, and my first (and last) thoughts were that the guy calling the game must have won a "Be an announcer for a day" type of contest.

Scottie wrote:

That's great.

Pruitt wrote:

degenerasian wrote:Hope they keep this up.

The absolute worst commentator you'll ever hear

I watched most of the second half of that game, and my first (and last) thoughts were that the guy calling the game must have won a "Be an announcer for a day" type of contest.

I love the Sky show Fox Soccer used to show where they invite one fan from each team to call the game. Always moments of hilarity. Plus, the ribbing and over-the-top homerism is fantastic.

Ottawa will once again have a team in the CFL.

Before clicking on this video, try to think of the absolute worst team names you've ever heard.

Now make way for a new contender...

I was this close to posting their new name/look in the uniforms/logos thread yesterday. And I read a half-dozen articles about it; in each of those the comments were almost entirely negative. But it occurs to me that all of that was English media. The team effectively has a bilingual name. In French it is the Rouge et Noir. That makes sense, historic and contemporary. One of the biggest college teams in the country is the Université Laval Rouge et Or (Red and Gold). English people are missing that it is aimed at a French demographic and, it being Ottawa, there's a huge element of PC to it.

Having said that, yes, RedBlacks is unspeakably fuckawful. There's a thousand things wrong with it and nothing sensible. It's not a real word, for one. It doesn't describe any actual entity. It's just the two dominant colors of their uniform, stuck together. Bruce Arthur said that they might as well have called themselves the ShoulderpadHelemts.

If the idea was to appeal to both English and French (that area is heavily bilingual), why not pick one of the thousands of words that the languages share and are typically spelled the same? Or at least pronounced the same? That's what the Ottawa NHL team did.

Scottie wrote:I was this close to posting their new name/look in the uniforms/logos thread yesterday. And I read a half-dozen articles about it; in each of those the comments were almost entirely negative. But it occurs to me that all of that was English media. The team effectively has a bilingual name. In French it is the Rouge et Noir. That makes sense, historic and contemporary. One of the biggest college teams in the country is the Université Laval Rouge et Or (Red and Gold). English people are missing that it is aimed at a French demographic and, it being Ottawa, there's a huge element of PC to it.

Having said that, yes, RedBlacks is unspeakably fuckawful. There's a thousand things wrong with it and nothing sensible. It's not a real word, for one. It doesn't describe any actual entity. It's just the two dominant colors of their uniform, stuck together. Bruce Arthur said that they might as well have called themselves the ShoulderpadHelemts.

If the idea was to appeal to both English and French (that area is heavily bilingual), why not pick one of the thousands of words that the languages share and are typically spelled the same? Or at least pronounced the same? That's what the Ottawa NHL team did.

Yes why is it that it sounds so much better in other languages. As you mentioned there is the Laval Rouge et Or.
Italian Serie A teams are called by their colours.

Milan: Rossoneri
Inter: Neroazzurri
Roma: Giallorossi
Lazio: Biancocelesti

Oh, for sure. Sometimes it works. As with the New Zealand All Blacks.
I would imagine that in most, if not all, of those cases it is because the nicknames evolved naturally. Liverpool FC, for example, are simply The Reds. Those teams existed long before marketing a team's brand became a significant part of operations.
Forcing RedBlacks on people while claiming it is the city's heritage is incongruous. It's not the city's heritage, you just made it up a couple of weeks ago!

It gets worse:

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Cam Cole wrote:So Ottawa's CFL entry wants to make sure media spells team name REDBLACKS in all caps. Good luck with that.

According to team President Jeff Hunt

Red stands for desire, black stands for power.

So there you go.

There's something about this that's so redblack, it's like how much more redblack could this be? And the answer is none. None more redblack.

I don't understand why they couldn't have just used "Rough Riders" like the old team. Not like it's already taken.

Since they already used another name that was in use, why not take another name that's already taken? Ottawa Eskimos or Ottawa Stampeders.

One of the names they were kicking around earlier was Ottawa Nationals. That would have been nice. And it is historically an Ottawa sports team nickname.

The only way it could be any worse is if they were called the Ottawa Redblackskins. Sorry, Ottawa REDBLACKSKINS.

Scottie wrote:It gets worse:

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Cam Cole wrote:So Ottawa's CFL entry wants to make sure media spells team name REDBLACKS in all caps. Good luck with that.

Team President Jeff Hunt is now requesting that media write the REDBLACKS name in comic sans only. No other fonts are permitted, as they do not reflect the city's heritage.

Pruitt wrote:According to team President Jeff Hunt

Red stands for desire, black stands for power.

So there you go.

So, the Ottawa Candidates, essentially. I hate it slightly less.

Scottie wrote:There's something about this that's so redblack, it's like how much more redblack could this be? And the answer is none. None more redblack.

That's awesome. Should be a CFL Fantasy Team name this fall.

Let's rename all the teams to colours.

ORANGEBLACKS
WHITEREDS
YELLOWGREENS
GREENWHITES

BLUEGOLDS
YELLOWBLACKS
BLUEBLUES
REDBLACKS
BLUEREDS

Johnny Carwash wrote:I don't understand why they couldn't have just used "Rough Riders" like the old team. Not like it's already taken.

Once had an old guy patiently explain that the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Ottawa Rough Riders actually had different names. Technically he was correct.

Pruitt wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:I don't understand why they couldn't have just used "Rough Riders" like the old team. Not like it's already taken.

Once had an old guy patiently explain that the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Ottawa Rough Riders actually had different names. Technically he was correct.

Not only was it different names, they were in different leagues and never played each other. CFL formed and merged everyone in 1956.

degenerasian wrote:

Pruitt wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:I don't understand why they couldn't have just used "Rough Riders" like the old team. Not like it's already taken.

Once had an old guy patiently explain that the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Ottawa Rough Riders actually had different names. Technically he was correct.

Not only was it different names, they were in different leagues and never played each other. CFL formed and merged everyone in 1956.

Mystery solved!

I hated this f-ing movie. (NSFW)