Questions to be answered by the next person to post in the thread

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

I like how the Giants don't have logos on their sleeves.

[Slayer 0]

Too many worst uniforms ever to pick just one, and the Flying V Canucks are already taken, so I'll go on a tangent: every NFL uniform set that isn't the Bears, Raiders, or Colts is in some way bad. The NFL is heading into a late-'90s NBA sort of fashion downturn. The league's mandate that all new jerseys use proprietary typefaces, plus the general trend toward barely having sleeves and wearing dark-on-dark, has led to a whole slew of ugly things on my television.

Also, excessive use of trim-lines

[Brett Favre 0]

Three Major Sports:

 

Best:

 

 

 

 

Eh, forget worst.

[King Kamala 0]

For current jerseys, I'm a big fan of The Royals alternate jerseys. Too bad that The Royals are so shitty

 

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Those Charger powder blues were better off as a novelty act.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Too many worst uniforms ever to pick just one, and the Flying V Canucks are already taken, so I'll go on a tangent: every NFL uniform set that isn't the Bears, Raiders, or Colts is in some way bad. The NFL is heading into a late-'90s NBA sort of fashion downturn. The league's mandate that all new jerseys use proprietary typefaces, plus the general trend toward barely having sleeves and wearing dark-on-dark, has led to a whole slew of ugly things on my television.

Also, excessive use of trim-lines

I don't see why he didn't include the Packers in there too, unless it's just regular old Bears fan hatin'. The green and gold is iconic; I love the Niners' jerseys as well. Same with the Steelers. The Colts' jerseys are too plain- all white with a couple blue lines and a blue horseshoe on the helmet? Not the worst, but certainly not the best. I like the Raiders' unis, though.

[Guest Michael Myers Resplendent]

The Packers' home uniforms are outstanding, the roads less so. Something's off. They need white socks, or white pants, or green pants, or something.

 

The Steelers switched to those thin italic numbers like ten years ago. Block numbers make more sense for an old simple team like that.

 

The old 49ers jerseys are simpler and better. The black drop-shadows kind of muddle things. When they wore the throwbacks this year it was much cooler.

 

The Seahawks could be easily remedied if they switched to white pants at home to break up all that dull greyish-blue they wear. You need some contrast. In a wide angle shot they just look like big grey blobs.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

My favorite outfit:

 

 

LOINCLOTH!

 

 

Here's a tough ass question, and you can take it any way you want, though I intend it to be vague.

Who is the best athlete?

[Guest Michael Myers Resplendent]

At the risk of sounding like Woody Paige, Jim Thorpe.

[King Kamala 0]

I'll agree with that. Bo Jackson is also worth mentioning RE: Best overall athlete.

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

Jim Thorpe won Olympic medals and had a freakin' royalty declare him the greatest athlete ever. What has Bo Jackson done? (Keep in mind Thorpe played both professional football AND baseball as well, IIRC)

[King Kamala 0]

Hey man, I said Thorpe was definitely #1. I just said Bo was worth mentioning when it comes to that topic. And what did he do? Well...

 

 

[Slayer 0]

For representatives of their sports, they got Kirk Gibson, Jordan, Gretzky and.... Jim Everett

[Guest Michael Myers Resplendent]

...Chris

[Mike wanna be 0]

The question from a while ago about what rule I'd change: I'd get rid of the "You're fined if you criticize the league/referees" bullshit. Especially after the whole Donaghy situation, they'd look like real cocks for fining somebody for saying "Crooked referees!".

EDIT: Furthermore I'd fix the clock situation so it's accurate. There should NOT be a one second pause between the 1:00 mark and the 59.9 mark, those times are 0.1 different, not 1.1. There's an extra second being added to the games and I am outraged (and waiting for a coach to invoke it when his team's beaten in the final second, just to be a jerk)

 

Best athlete ever: Deion Sanders, but I'm too young to remember any of Bo Jackson.

[King Kamala 0]

And unlike Bo, Deion could sing*

 

 

 

Question: What's your favorite fringe sport?

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Maybe not sing but he released an album! That has to count for something.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Question: What's your favorite fringe sport?

 

Rugby, by far. I play it for my school, and it's a shitload of fun for someone like me not NCAA-eligible to play football.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Can I get away with calling our national game, lacrosse, a fringe sport?

 

Insanely fun to play.

[Red Baron 0]

I enjoy a good Bonspiel when I see one.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Yeah ya do! How was my answer not curling?

 

 

[Red Baron 0]

I'm surprised that wasn't your original answer.

 

Should Fair Catch be eliminated from the NFL?

[Mike wanna be 0]

No. You're just going to end up with punters constantly chip-shotting so that the gunners can just lay a hit on the return man and try to force a fumble; and if you institute a halo a) that's another steal from the XFL and b) they'll just time their charge to be outside the halo when the return man catches it.

[CanadianChris 0]

EDIT: Furthermore I'd fix the clock situation so it's accurate. There should NOT be a one second pause between the 1:00 mark and the 59.9 mark, those times are 0.1 different, not 1.1. There's an extra second being added to the games and I am outraged (and waiting for a coach to invoke it when his team's beaten in the final second, just to be a jerk)

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, so my response...

 

Not true. As someone who's kept time for university games, I can attest to how this works. The clock constantly records tenths of a second, but doesn't display them until the final minute. So, when you see the clock go from 1:00 to 59.9, the one-second pause is actually the clock counting down from 1:00.9 to 1:00.0. If you notice, the clock goes from 12:00 to 11:59 immediately after it's started, because there's no pause between 12:00 and 11:59.9.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

My favorite fringe sport varies the more I see. Right now, it could be Bug Fighting, although San Yu and Ba Thet, my burmese pals at work have shown me the light when it comes to Muay Thai. Those fuckers are nuts. I enjoyed watching curling on the last winter olympics. Badminton was fun to watch, too. Those guys are pretty damn quick.

 

Who was more the more hostile tennis pro: Connors or McEnroe?

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I don't remember Connors as being all that hostile; moreso, for his grunting. So, my answer's McEnroe.

 

What's the biggest collapse in sports history? Steve Smith scoring on his own net in the 86 Stanley Cup Playoffs? Jean Van de Velde in the 99 British Open?

Edit: Who called a time-out in the 87 Final Four without any timeouts? Was it Chris Webber?

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

I don't remember Connors as being all that hostile; moreso, for his grunting. So, my answer's McEnroe.

 

What's the biggest collapse in sports history? Steve Smith scoring on his own net in the 86 Stanley Cup Playoffs? Jean Van de Velde in the 99 British Open? Was it Chris Webber who called a time-out in the 87 Final Four without any timeouts?

 

For the three major sports:

 

2004 ALCS - Yankees blow 3-0 lead to Red Sox

2000 Western Conference Finals - Blazers blow 15 point fourth quarter lead against Lakers

Oilers blow 32-3 lead in playoff game against the Bills

 

Let the question continue.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

For a single game, the 1985 Cardinals in game seven of the World Series. Given a single bad call in game six, the team turned into a group of absolute shit.

[Guest Michael Myers Resplendent]

The 2003 Cubs turned a bad call into two games' worth of absolute shit!

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

The 2003 Cubs turned a bad call into two games' worth of absolute shit!

Referring to the NLCS? They got beat, and one error in particular (Alex Gonzalez) contributed to that. But they got beat, put up an effort and didn't come through. The 1985 Cardinals not only lost game seven, but lost it 11-0. And not only did they get blown out, they brought in a starting pitcher as a reliever who got himself ejected, and their manager got ejected.

[CanadianChris 0]

I don't remember Connors as being all that hostile; moreso, for his grunting. So, my answer's McEnroe.

Connors was a nasty piece of shit when he was winning Grand Slams. You're probably thinking of the kindler, gentler Connors from his comeback in the early 90s.

 

Edit: Who called a time-out in the 87 Final Four without any timeouts? Was it Chris Webber?

Webber did it in the 1993 title game against North Carolina.

 

Biggest collapse not mentioned: Greg Norman at the 1996 Masters.