03-20-2018, 10:06 PM
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#141
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Norm!
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My off season started last night with about 10 minutes left to go in the game.
I opened up my playbook for this season, and started to mess around with some formations.
I added a unbalanced line short yardage package, took out my I set and replaced it with a balanced split backfield and started to add an option package.
It was the most productive I've been. My concern is that I don't have to have this done til the first week of June.
The other thing is that I can start going to the gym after work instead of on the way to work.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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03-20-2018, 10:30 PM
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#142
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Dec 2017
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I'm going to reserve my energies so that I can approach the upcoming Stampeders season in a dispassionate way. Fooled me twice in the last 2 Grey Cups. not getting too emotionally invested, just like with the Flames.
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03-20-2018, 11:17 PM
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#143
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First Line Centre
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Ill watch the playoffs(Vegas, Nashville and the Leafs), as well as the NBA. Then when that is all done, Ill turn my attention to the MLB and anxiously await football(NFL).
Last edited by soulchoice; 03-20-2018 at 11:20 PM.
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03-21-2018, 08:03 AM
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#144
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Will be cheering on Crosby and the Pens, just like most of the last decade.
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"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
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03-21-2018, 08:48 AM
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#145
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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Interesting:
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There’s a lot of losing in sports. Only one team can win at a time, and only one champion escapes the season without tears.
Rival fans’ treatment of one another is hardly more reassuring. A recent neuroimaging study found that fans experienced greater pleasure when watching a rival team fail, as opposed to non-rivals.
Fans in another study reported feeling schadenfreude when reading about the injury of a rival team’s player, and gluckschmerz (sadness at others’ good fortune) when later reading about the player’s unexpectedly speedy recovery.
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03-22-2018, 02:13 PM
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#146
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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Teams I'll be rooting for are Nashville, Columbus, and Florida.
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03-22-2018, 04:27 PM
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#147
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: CALGARY!
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I’ll cheer for Philadelphia from afar. Won’t be going out if my way to watch any hockey. Counting down until the CFL seasons starts.
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Stanley Cup - 1989
Clarence Campbell Trophy - 1986, 1989, 2004
Presidents Trophy - 1988, 1989
William Jennings Trophy - 2006
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03-22-2018, 05:47 PM
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#148
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Originally Posted by troutman
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Seems like being a fan is worth it, just not for your own team's success as much as enjoying the failure of your rivals. I guess us Flames fans shouldn't feel so bad about continued mediocrity when we're leading the league in being able to revel in the failure of a rival.
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"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
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03-22-2018, 06:30 PM
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#149
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fort St. John, BC
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Go Pittsburgh, Philly and whoever plays against Anaheim/Winnipeg
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03-23-2018, 08:27 AM
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#150
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Interesting:
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There’s a lot of losing in sports. Only one team can win at a time, and only one champion escapes the season without tears.
Rival fans’ treatment of one another is hardly more reassuring. A recent neuroimaging study found that fans experienced greater pleasure when watching a rival team fail, as opposed to non-rivals.
Fans in another study reported feeling schadenfreude when reading about the injury of a rival team’s player, and gluckschmerz (sadness at others’ good fortune) when later reading about the player’s unexpectedly speedy recovery.
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I sure have been feeling a lot of this this season. It actually annoys me a team like the Bruins can go from Cup champion, competitive for another few years, retool on the fly, and be a Cup favorite 6 or 7 years later. Not fair!
I've been suffering since 1995 with a brief respite in 2004. Of course, the NHL saw fit to cancel 2005 and the momentum from 2004 was lost. Good times.
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03-25-2018, 12:45 AM
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#151
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Raptors might do something in the playoffs this year. Still lots of other sports out there to very quickly make you forget about the Flames.
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03-25-2018, 01:25 AM
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#152
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^ So for some there is one sport that sits above them all. When you grow up with it, living and breathing and playing, other sports pale in comparison.
Me, I can watch pretty much any sport. And know for whom I cheer. But displace hockey? Not bloody likely. (Said in that not bloody lack- lehhh kind of way)
Basketball? Counting to 100 in 2 point increments. Given better alternatives, pass. I can watch the last few minutes of games, and some playoffs when there is a storyline, but generally? Meh.
Last edited by DeluxeMoustache; 03-25-2018 at 01:27 AM.
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03-25-2018, 02:31 AM
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#153
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Will be cheering on Crosby and the Pens, just like most of the last decade.
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It's been nice to have that plan B for the last decade
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03-25-2018, 08:20 AM
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#154
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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Wtf is with cheering for Vegas? A division rival who got to poach the league and has instant success while we toil in mediocrity yet again. F that group, I hope they get swept in 4 games. I hope the Sharks do too. And the Ducks. And the Kings. I know that is not all possible but I want to see it anyhow dammit. Will probably cheer for Toronto.
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03-25-2018, 09:00 AM
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#155
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Behind Enemy Lines
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it's coming up on gym season...
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03-25-2018, 09:06 AM
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#156
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Fans in another study reported feeling schadenfreude when reading about the injury of a rival team’s player, and gluckschmerz (sadness at others’ good fortune) when later reading about the player’s unexpectedly speedy recovery.
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I learned something new today....and what a great word it is.
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03-25-2018, 09:25 AM
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#157
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
kind of way)
Basketball? Counting to 100 in 2 point increments. .
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Flames Hockey: Counting to 1 in 1 point increments.
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03-25-2018, 01:31 PM
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#158
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Erie
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Leaf fan in the house, so, there's that. May root for Vegas, but I don't know yet. We'll see if they can woo me. Otherwise, along about September, I'll be getting antsy for real hockey.
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Go Flames Go!
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03-25-2018, 01:40 PM
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#159
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago Native relocated to the stinking desert of Utah
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I work nights, so, watching playoffs would take a special effort, lacking a team that I am compelled to follow. Past years, I would DVR the Blackhawks and watch the 1st two periods before getting a couple hours of sleep, then waking to finish the game, before rushing through my normal pre-work routine.
So, I will be able to catch some box scores, but, am unlikely to follow any of the games very closely.
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03-25-2018, 01:42 PM
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#160
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First Line Centre
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Vegas is the only team I would root for, just because of the novelty
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