[blueoceans]

adding onto what I was saying earlier. Its interesting to me how the leagues determine what cities/areas get teams and which ones do not.

Lets look at Los Angeles. an urban sprawl with well over 6 million residents,.but still no nfl team. at one time they had two,.now they have none. why is this? doesnt the nfl realize the revenue potential there? I loved when L.A. had the Raiders. in all honesty they should have stayed, and Oakland should have simply gotten a new expansion team. Now I am expecting to hear many a rants about how the raiders originated in Oakland. So what!

Missouri cracks me up! Sports references aside, the state is already pretty awkard to begin with, being that all of its major cities are shoved out to its borders. Go ahead, take a look at a Missouri state map and youll see that Kansas City, St Louis, St Joseph, Cape Girardeau, Springfield, Joplin..pretty much every major city in the state is on the edge of a border. Do I live in Missouri? No. Do I have anything against Missouri? Not really. But obviously, Missouri has something against basketball and the NBA as both Kansas City and St Louis do not currently have NBA franchise teams. what a coincidence, wouldnt you say?

New York City. The Big Apple. Broadway. This big town pretty much has 2 of everything, except for basketball teams. I heard there was talk about NYC possibly getting the New Jersey Nets. If not, I hope they fill in the gap and get another NBA team, so NYC can have 2 of each one. that would be cool.

Another gripe I have is teams being named after larger areas or masses of land, rather than the actual city where the team is based in. You know what I am talking about, but in case you dont, here are some examples:........

New England Patriots.....they are based in greater Boston. Might as well call them the Boston Patriots.

Golden state warriors. ok,.so i never done my research,.but as far as i can tell i have no idea what city in california this team is based out of. im guessing the bay area, but who knows. are they really the san francisco warriors? the oakland warriors?

Arizona Cardinals and Diamondbacks. hmm...the NHL and NBA franchise are both named after Phoenix,.why change and name the NFL and MLB after the state?

Albuquerque is the most cheated out town in the U.S. when it comes to sports. This town should have at least one major team. but it doesnt have any. Now, its not the biggest town, but it does have a good amount of people living there, who I am sure would love to have major teams there.
There other major cities that surround it: Phoenix, Denver, Amarillo, Salt Lake, are so far away that Albuquerque could have its own market for a league.

Detroit. I cant believe this. This is absurd. How can a town with fewer than 1 million people have all FOUR franchise teams?!?!.....THEY HAVE ALL FOUR OF THEM!!!!!....LIONS...RED WINGS...TIGERS...PISTONS?....HOW? WHY?...THE AUTO INDUSTRY PRETTY MUCH MOVED OUT OF THE MOTOR CITY LONG AGO...yeah,..theres like a ford plant thats still there i think,.and some economy there..but come on...how can this be?

Then there is Tennessee. I like to think of Tennessee as being crooks. Thats right,.criminals..they steal teams. They stole the Oilers from Houston and renamed them the titans,.only after getting tired of calling them the tennessee oilers,..that..or,..finding out that there really wasnt too much oil in tennessee after all. then nashville took away the predators from another city that had just built a brand new stadium specifically for attempting to gain a nhl expansion team. i wont say the name of this city, cause i am ashamed, and its where i am from..but tennessee moved in quickly and took the predators before we had a chance to take further actions and bid for the team.

I know that certain places like Hawaii, Alaska, and the northern plains (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, etc) may never get any teams for a long time coming. Its really sad though, because we know that population has nothing to do with cities getting pro teams, detroit is proof of this, with their "less than 1 million people and we have all 4 teams" boast.

when i selected team names, most of them were pretty much arbitrary names. some seemed to go well, and sounded rather catchy. i was careful not to give the name "Buffaloes" to Buffalo, New York. Im also sure that the NFL and NHL were also careful not to do this as well. Although the name "Buffalo Bills" kinda cracks me up. almost like saying the "wild bill hickocks" or "calamity janes"

if there are 10 cities i feel that any pro league should consider next for expansion, it would be these areas....

1. albuquerque, n.m.
2. las vegas, nv
3. austin, tx
4. omaha, ne
5. honolulu
6. anchorage
7. newport news/hampton/virginia beach/norfolk, VA
8. Louisville, ky
9. Columbus (they have an NHL team, they could use others)
10. Boise, ID

[Gobbler]

I hate you internets

Hey, don't be mean to Miss emu.

[Icey]

No anger or hatred was meant to go against the beautiful miss Emu, I apoligize for my mistakes that may have hurt her feelings.

[Lord Aquaman]

I'm depressed that Tiny Toons is still not on DVD.

[SimeSublime]

I would like to thank Gobbler for pointing that out before I got a chance to.

[Gobbler]

I know that it was rightfully your task as a cavalier true of heart, but a gentleman must make haste upon seeing a lady being wrongfully insulted, even if fate only allowed it to happen by accident. Therefore, I do not regret, but I must apologise for not speaking on behalf of you and every cavalier alive in the first place.

[SimeSublime]

No apologies needed, good sir. We do right not for the sake of glory, but to propogate the the good that the right entails.

[Zatoichi]

I know that it was rightfully your task as a cavalier true of heart, but a gentleman must make haste upon seeing a lady being wrongfully insulted, even if fate only allowed it to happen by accident. Therefore, I do not regret, but I must apologise for not speaking on behalf of you and every cavalier alive in the first place.

But you're evil, I mean you have minions. Could villians still be gentlemen?

[Mirithorn]

Complaint:While typing random things into the search bar of Uncyclopedia (a parody of wikipedia), I came upon the entry for Latin. In which, there was an example of a conversation in Latin, with the Latin on one side, and the english translation next to each line of Latin. I read the Latin first every time to make sure they weren't joking, but they seemed pretty serious until I came to the last line, the English translation of which was "Oh, you're so witty! I love you!". But the Latin said "Pedicabo ego vos et irrvmabo", which I knew didn't mean that. However, although it seemed very familiar, and I was positive I'd heard it before, I hadn't the faintest idea what it meant. On reflection, I probably should have been a bit more suspicious that despite the fact that I tried four different dictionaries, none of them would translate anything vaguely resembling "pedicabo" or "irrumabo". Not even the Perseus translator, which is supposed to be based on classic texts. I doggedly kept at it, however, and discovered a wikipedia article with the phrase in it. Turns out it's the first line of Catullus 16, though heaven knows who mentioned it to me without telling me what it meant. While I'm grateful that I did not break down and ask my Latin teacher (a rather scary and easily offended 24 year old woman) what it meant, my eyes still feel dirty.

[Cyzyk]

That's some real nice poetry there. I like how on wikipedia it offers an immediate link to sodomy.

My current issue is that I've gotten like seven hours of sleep the last three days. I'm tired as all heck, I just can't sleep. It's really starting to mess me up.

[Gobbler]

But you're evil, I mean you have minions. Could villians still be gentlemen?

Oh, of course they can. Or rather, they must, if they want to have any right to claim that they're true villains. Being evil is easy. Having minions is not very difficult either, but being a gentleman on top of that... now that's the art.

Plus, you don't really want hordes of women kicking your balls right into the sky. So yeah, you'd be a gentleman.

[Deepsycher]

This morning as I was playing that QWERTY game with my left leg crossed I had pins and needles but I was too busy concentrating to do anything about it. After I paused and got up to go to toilet I lost sensation and control of my left leg. I slammed the leg roughly on the ground by accident and felt like I was on crouches. The pins and needles came back quickly and the muscle in my leg felt like it was expanding. So senstive as I was standing still with the worst pins and needles I ever had for ten minutes. After I regained control and sensation I lost a bit of balance and needed something to eat quickly or I would have felt sick.

I think I obstructed the flow of a major blood vessel in my leg.


Now I am starting to feel hints of that sickness again.

[Cyzyk]

I suggest a mixed treatment of complete silence, talking to no one, and licking five or six toilet seats.

[Mirithorn]

Complaint: My Latin homework is being impossible at me. I should talk like Cicero in class and see how my teacher likes trying to decipher it.

[Deepsycher]

I suggest a mixed treatment of complete silence, talking to no one, and licking five or six toilet seats.

Mixed treatment of silences and talking to no one but I have never ever licked toilet seats and I wouldn't want to. I think licking toilet seats is sick.

Why? Do you lick toilet seats?