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[littlefallsmets]

I've seen a mess of MLB games at Shea and Citi and The Big A and Dodger Stadium, of course, and a few NFL games in Buffalo and that's really it in the terms of the major league games.

I doubt I could fit in the seats at Fenway and I doubt I could spend nine innings in fuck*ng Yankee Stadium without leaving on a fuck*ng stretcher.

I love the hell out of live minor league hockey, in person watching dudes from farms in Alberta just wailing on each other over and over again trying to get called up as an enforcer, but the NHL bores me... probably mostly because it is almost as bad of a television sport as soccer and since they're in the majors already, they don't fight nearly as much.

The NBA... eh. Eh. I just can't generate much more feeling about the NBA than "meh".

I did rush the field after the one Big East Championship 'Cuse won while McNabb was there, winning on a last-second touchdown. That was fun as hell.

I was bigger than a lot of the opposing team's players and a lot of them were crying, which was... weird.

[Carlos del Vaca]

There used to be an ECHL team in the Maryland 'burbs (they since moved to Mississippi or someplace like that where they don't naturally have ice, ever).  I organized a couple of group outings to their games with the promise "If there isn't a fight, I will personally refund the cost of your ticket."  I never had to pay.

[AugustWest]

I have seen an ECHL game.  That was pretty fun, even though I no nothing about hockey.

[pmcd9]

I was in Pittsburgh to play the Pitt Panthers and I broke curfew to have a cabby take me down to Three Rivers Stadium. There was no game or event that night so I scaled a fence or two and avoided the office side and...found myself the field. I ran around on what I thought was the TarTan (it was Astro by then)Turf and took pictures of my feet on the endzone logo until some dude yelled at me to get the hell out. I asked him which way was the quickest and he actually told me, and nice enough too. I asked him how often he had to boot someone and he said "Tonight?" which answered my question.

Did I ever tell y'all about the time I put a curse on the Buffalo Bills?

[pmcd9]

I've seen maybe 100 Oilers games in person and at least that many Astros games.  I've also seen the Rangers play a few times in Arlington and I saw  St. Louis game once.  I've seen a ton of Rockets games even though I like basketball the least of the big three sports. 

Houston doesn't have a NHL team, but they had the Aeros back in the 70s with Gordie Howe and his two sons.  Saw them play a bunch.  I don't know what league they were in, but it wasn't the NHL.  I remember they played against the Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers before they joined the NHL. The Aeros folded instead of trying to join the NHL.  My memory is foggy on this, but it seems like they had a season ticket drive and they had to sell some certain amount of season tickets to get into the NHL, maybe 8000 seats, and they failed.  Anyway, I saw them play a few times, that was a lot of fun.

Now there is another Houston Aeros team which I saw play once with free tickets.  I didn't enjoy it as much as I did when I was a kid. 

[littlefallsmets]

Houston doesn't have a NHL team, but they had the Aeros back in the 70s with Gordie Howe and his two sons.  Saw them play a bunch.  I don't know what league they were in, but it wasn't the NHL.  I remember they played against the Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers before they joined the NHL.

World Hockey Association. WHA.

(I love me some defunct sports team history.)

[Nabubrush]

I used to watch the Anchorage Aces play a lot. They actually played pretty good hockey. I missed the year of the NHL lockout, when Scotty Gomez came back and played with them. I've heard it was like watching an adult play against Pee-Wees.

[jaydub]

All I need to get a record of 3-1 is for Miami's Defense to score 54 fantasy points.

[littlefallsmets]

Hell, the Giants probably scored that last night, yeah?

[AugustWest]

Just out of curiousity, does anybody know what it means when a player's score is in blue and has an asterisk by it? 

[Carlos del Vaca]

It means that guy got points for something atypical of the position.  A good example is if an offensive player makes a tackle after a turnover, he gets 1 point for that.

If you go to your matchup page, you should be able to click on the score for anyone who is so starred, and it'll tell you what the extra points came from.

[Lister]

Dear The Eagles -

     Do you think you could possibly wait to let your QB of record get killed in the fourth quarter next time?  Thanks!  XOXO


(And yes I know Vick did it himself, it's just... gah.)

[KeithHernandez]

I'd just like to point out that Eli Manning's total of -3.75 fantasy points this week is the perfect example of how I hate quarterbacks who may look somewhat competent but do the little things that make them a big bag of team-dragging suck.

I know you played and all, but I ain't never see competence from Eli Manning.

[littlefallsmets]

Ah, the "game manager".

[jaydub]

I got Roddy White on my fantasy team.  His accomplishment in the SF game is a classic example of the inner conflict that besets fantasy players - what if one of your players has a career night against your favourite (RL) team?

On that topic, goddamnit Clements, how could you not cover the ball when you get hung up in traffic on an interception return?  All you guys had to do was sit on it for 90 seconds and you would have won.