Tribe, Browns and more Tribe with TD – WFNY Podcast – 2014-02-18
February 17, 2014Tribe position players face questions as full-squad workouts begin
February 18, 2014Cleveland sports fans are waiting. Thus, while we’re all waiting, the WFNY editors thought you might enjoy reading. Because you never know how long we might be waiting. So here are assorted reading goodies for you to enjoy. Send more good links for tomorrow’s edition to tips@waitingfornextyear.com.
“The narrative now is that the trades went well, the drafts went bad, and everything else just failed to happen quickly enough. Pieces were well intentioned, but didn’t fit together. They were scrawled in notebooks, filled in quotes after leading questions in prewritten Word documents, saved into WordPress and uploaded and translated into a thousand pageviews a minute, then leveling off into oblivion like that horizon. Always visible, always drawing your eyes, but meaning nothing at all.” [Jackson/Stepien Rules]
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Good look at Ward’s game from film. “Ward had 112 tackles last season, third-most among safeties. His nine tackles for loss (per STATS, Inc.) were tops on the team and second among safeties behind only Kansas City’s Eric Berry. At 5-10, 200 pounds, Ward is not the biggest safety in the league. But his strength shows on the field, and he plays bigger than he is.” [Kapadia/PhillyMag.com]
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“The loudest voices behind the change are Nick Saban and Bret Bielema. If Ohio State fans needed more ammo to dislike the Mouths of the South, they’ve found them. Incensing not just Buckeye Nation, is that the proposed changes are being done so under the guise of player safety.
Saban, Bielema and others say that substitutions in the first 10 seconds of the play clock would cut down on injuries. Good luck finding many colleagues who will agree. There’s never been a study on the matter and no data exists. Rich Rodriguez, Mike Gundy, Mark Helfrich and Leach have led the chorus of criticism.” [Rowland/Eleven Warriors]
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Boooooo! “Uniform advertisements are coming to the NBA, because they are a proven source of revenue that already exists in European sports leagues, MLS and the WNBA, and because, though fans will complain, it won’t stop anyone from watching basketball. Adam Silver has confirmed there will be ads on jerseys sometime in the near future. The league is trying to figure out where to place them and what size they should be. I doubt we’re going to see getups that look like they belong to the Oklahoma EAT KFC! City Thunder, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the NBA starts out with lower-back bumpers and works up to something like what we’re currently seeing in the WNBA. At any rate, prepare yourself for this, because you are irrelevant to the process that will make it so.” [McGowan/Sports on Earth]
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Honestly, I don’t care if the Cavs wear Hot Sauce Williams on their jerseys, just as long as they win.
Don’t get the fuss about sponsored unis. When the camera shot is a close up of the sweating guy at the foul line I’d much rather have my eye drawn to a relatively classy PNC emblem than his fugly crawling neck tat. We aren’t all offended that Mark McGwire hit the Budweiser sign or seeing doubles carom off the Office Max logo.
It’s just show biz, folks. Uniforms are not holy, they are invented. And the ads are self-regulating. If fans complain how obnok one looks the sponsor will have every reason to tone it down.
Am I the only one who is sometimes amazed by how close Matt Stone and Trey Parker were to predicting the future of sports in the beginning of BASEketball?
Although, I don’t mind uniform ads. It’s a shirt. I’ve done much worse things to shirts.
I think some of the world’s most iconic uniforms have ads on them. NASCAR, Soccer, even tennis players. What’s the fuss? I can’t believe no team has made a harder push for this to happen already. More money for the owners.
Manchester United sold the rights to their jerseys for $600 million. That’s a lot of free agents.
I would LOVE if the Cavs have “Hot Sauce Williams” on their jerseys as long as they invite “Hot Rod Williams” to unveil them 🙂
alternative: I’ll bet Hot Sauce Williams has already been on plenty of our players jerseys. Shaun Kemp, Tractor Traylor, Shaq, Anthony Bennett (earlier this season at least!), etc.
not to mention the unintentionally funny advertisements that some teams will wind up having. as long as it’s not garish, then I think it’s a win as well.
TMI
Just imagine Pilot Flying-J on the Cav’s uniforms. 😀
you probably don’t want to see “The Melt” on Kyrie’s jersey when he’s heading up court in a pressure situation.
Mmmm…The Melt…
I think the flying sandwich logo for Melt would look great on any jersey, very epic looking. And without the blue cloud background, already pretty close to Cavs colors.
http://meltbarandgrilled.com/Melt_Presskit11.pdf
sorry guys, I figured regelation was common enough, but I’m a huge physics/chemistry nerd, so there’s that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3zP72-rJE