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Ten Minute Ticker wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 9:51 pm Fox's commitment to infantilizing the game is a tradition like no other.

From the stupid robot to the recent player animations shown after TDs. Just stop.

I agree that teams that move locations but change their names is dumb.

Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens? Horrific.

Mouthguards dangling from face masks is the latest dumb uniform fad. It seemed to start in the 2023 season and has now spread like wildfire with RBs, WRs, DBs, and the occasional tight end like Jonnu Smith.

I don't think it looks cool but these players obviously do. There is absolutely no reason to do it other than for looks. I wonder if a ball carrier gets their dangling mouthguard grabbed onto, would that be considered a face mask penalty.

"Tennessee Titans" sounds dorky.

What about Tennessee Tuxedo?

Hearing the words Tennessee Oilers together was big reason I stopped watching football for almost 3 years. The Baltimore Browns sounds horrible too. It's a weird deal all the way around. To each his own.

Al Michaels still doing national broadcasts. He’s only 80!

I like Michaels. Not great, but still better than a lot of the screaming banshees that fill the broadcasting booth and studios today. And what's age got to do with it (as the great Tina Turner sang)? Al's got functioning brain cells, unlike, ahem, some others his age.

RichardBak wrote: ↑Tue Oct 14, 2025 5:30 pm I like Michaels. Not great, but still better than a lot of the screaming banshees that fill the broadcasting booth and studios today. And what's age got to do with it (as the great Tina Turner sang)? Al's got functioning brain cells, unlike, ahem, some others his age.

Like the big Saquon trade??

ShinobiMusashi wrote: ↑Sat Oct 04, 2025 11:27 pm Hearing the words Tennessee Oilers together was big reason I stopped watching football for almost 3 years. The Baltimore Browns sounds horrible too. It's a weird deal all the way around. To each his own.

The Baltimore Orioles were previously the St. Louis Browns so potentially we could have had the Baltimore Browns as both baseball and football teams.

Raptorfan wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:29 pm

Ten Minute Ticker wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 9:51 pm Fox's commitment to infantilizing the game is a tradition like no other.

From the stupid robot to the recent player animations shown after TDs. Just stop.

I absolutely hate it. They're making the players into cartoons almost with the graphics they show after scores. Can we have the actual headshot or picture. What is this nonsense (old pic)

Do people even remember back when Terry Bradshaw was a real analyst and not some cartoon character himself.