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Overtime Rule is changed for the playoffs

March 23rd, 2010 by Rogersworthe | No Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom

So the OT rule has been changed for the playoffs to a modified “first to 6 points wins” scenario. Oddly enough, it’s a bit more complicated than that (why??), and has a lot of weird loopholes. The official idea is that, essentially, no team can kick a field goal on the first possession of overtime to win the game. From there, it’s anybodies guess as to how it works. A few of the weird loopholes are:

  • A safety wins the game. Think about that. A 2 point play wins the game, but a 3 point play on the opening possession does not. Why? Because it is about equal scoring opportunities. So if your team has possession and gives the other team points, then the game is over. No need to keep playing and letting the other team have possession back, because to win all they would have to do is take 4 kneel downs in a row.
  • A touchdown on the opening drive wins. The first possession thing only matters for field goals.
  • If you are kicking off first and onside kick it and recover, then kick a field goal, you win. I have no freaking idea why.
  • If both teams get possession, any points afterwards wins the game. So a field goal wins if both teams don’t get any points on their first overtime possession.
  • The weirdest part? As of now, this only applies to the playoffs. Regular season is still strictly Sudden Death.

This was voted on by the owners and passed 28-4. My favorite part of that, though, is summed up in these tweets by @Jay_Glazer:

Coaches r quite upset owners voted to change OT rules while they were playing in nfl coaches golf tourney. Was on schedule to be voted on tomorrow, not while the coaches were out

Coaches and execs were supposed to be in the room. It was supposed to be done tomorrow, not today. These coaches are beside themself

Hahaha!!! Roger Goodell is such an ass. He holds this vote secretly ahead of schedule while the COACHES ARE OUT GOLFING!!! I love it because it tweaks a bunch of guys who take their jobs too seriously. Freaking hilarious.

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Why football is better than basketball

February 23rd, 2010 by Rogersworthe | 3 Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom

As part of our offseason program, I decided to do some posts on explaining why American football is the best sport in the world. I will be addressing it on several levels. I will be addressing each sport on it’s most basic level and also comparing the professional and college games as well. Since basketball is well underway (what? you didn’t know that?), I will start with basketball.

Football vs. Basketball

Pickup Games: Basketball pickup games can be played with as little as 4 people, and can be started up any place there is a hoop, which in America means everywhere. Ability levels can be matched much more easily and the equipment and uniform is relatively cheap. Plus it can be played indoors or outdoors.

    Football, on the other hand, is a pain in the ass to play pickup with. You usually have to organize it in depth with a group of friends. Touch football is faggy, tackle is too violent and leads to injuries and fights, and 95% of people are too retarded to understand the concept of two hand wrap up. Also, there always ends up one guy who is 1,000 times better than everybody else at Quarterback and/or Wide Receiver and he gets the ball all game while the rest of the team runs 5 yard hitches in 5.10 seconds.

    Advantage: Basketball

    Style and Substance: Basketball has a lot of style. A whole hell of a lot. But, in my opinion, football crushes it in substance.

    In basketball, a team can score unlimited amount of points off of the fast break, the pick and roll, and the drive and kick. As a result of this absurd simplicity, basketball has very little real strategy involved. You can draw up plays and plans all you want in your local pickup game, but the team with the bigger, faster guys who shoot better will win the game. Teamwork in basketball is highly overrated in lower levels of competition.

    In football, strategy is huge. Sure, a team can win by just crushing everybody with talent, but with the expanding of offensive creativity and the emphasis on speed over size, teams like that, even on high school and college levels, are becoming rarities.

    Football combines the most complex choreography and skill with the raw power and primal instincts that make men what they are. It requires man to be at his best: smart, analytical, and tactically sound along with fierce, fearless, and powerful. Everything must be coordinated by multiple coaches preaching technique and skill, but ultimately it comes down to who hits harder and who is faster. Tactical advantages and disadvantages are exploited and masked and planned around in every game from the high school level on up.

    Basketball just doesn’t have this amount of complexity. It’s why people knew LeBron James would be a NBA star by the time he was 12 but Drew Brees best scholarship offer was from freaking Purdue.

    Football, more than any major American sport, is the true thinking man’s game.

    Advantage: Football. By a mile.

    College Football vs. College Basketball

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    Bacombardi Trophy

    February 17th, 2010 by Rogersworthe | No Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom

    Hello, beautiful.

    Whoever took the time to make that is probably kinda fat and kinda lonely. Then again, a lot of geniuses are.

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    The Official T-Rac’s Posse List of Top 10 Most Annoying Movie Characters

    February 11th, 2010 by Rogersworthe | 3 Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom

    So, we had a 51 minute podcast hashing out who should and shouldn’t be on this list, and we ended up finally coming to a consensus. So, without further ado, I present to you the Official T-Rac’s Posse List of Top 10 Most Annoying Movie Characters:

    10. David Levinson from Independence Day, as played by Jeff Goldblum: Essentially spent the whole movie trying to get his wife back and dealing with his ornery, Jewish father. Then he saves the world with a Windows 95 Laptop.

    9. The Architect from The Matrix Reloaded: One of the worst resolutions to a mystery of all time. After all the mystery and build-up from The Matrix, it turns out the Architect is a fat, white man in a tacky white suit who blabbers on in gibberish. As The Raging Clam said, you end up walking out of the movie saying, “I don’t know what the hell he said, but there is no way I will ever find out because I am not watching that piece of shit again.”

    8. Willy Scott from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Every stereotype of women is combined into this hateful, bitchy character who is but a symptom for how bad this Indiana Jones adventure truly was.

    7. Robin from Batman and Robin, as played by Chris O’Donnell: In the podcast, we had 3 characters alone from this movie who were potential candidates for this list, but ultimately, Robin is the most annoying by far. I’d rather watch Arnold play Freeze a thousand times over than watch 2 minutes of Chris O’Donnell as Robin.

    6. Paris from Troy, as played by Orlando Bloom: This character epitomizes everything a man shouldn’t be. It makes me so mad his character lives. (more…)

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    We don’t quit during the off-season

    February 10th, 2010 by Rogersworthe | No Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom

    Here it is. Another NFL season come and gone. For us Titans fans it was a bit disappointing, but football is ALWAYS better than no football.

    Have no fear.  T-Rac’s Posse will be here all off-season to keep you mildly entertained and mildly informed during the whole off-season. In fact, we’ve got heck of an off-season schedule planned for you. It’ll blow your mind. Blow it hard.

    Here a few of the things we will be doing this off-season:

    1. Podcasts – These will continue on all off-season. We will compensate the lack of football by discussing some non-football stuff like Top 5 most annoying movie characters of all time, Mock Drafts of all sorts of things (super heroes, movie stars, cars, etc., etc.), and comparing other sports to football and discussing why they suck.
    2. Mocking Mock Drafts - Most football platforms obsess and discuss the minutiae of the NFL Draft. Since 99.99999% of them are wrong and the talk is boring and useless, we’ll pretty much mock and laugh at all of them.
    3. Rip apart bad sportswriting – Read an article in The Tennessean or somewhere else that is utter bullshit? Email it to tracsposse AT gmail dot com and if it’s bad enough, we’ll rip it apart.
    4. My philosophical take on football – Doesn’t that sound awesome? I will explain why coaching is overrated and other fun exciting things!
    5. The Life and Times of T-Rac – T-Rac has lived a pretty crazy life. We’ll bring you the stories on how T-Rac built Nashville, stole the Titans, and fought Davvy Crockett in a bare-knuckle boxing match.
    6. Mailbags – Tons of these. They’re fun.
    7. Launch the forum - We’ll be launching a T-Rac’s Posse forum this off-season, so if you wish to apply for a moderator position, please send an email to tracsposse AT gmail dot com.

    So as you see, we have got one hell of an off-season planned for you. Sit back and enjoy the fun.

    T-Rac is coming at ya all off-season!!

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    I wish John Travolta had never been in Pulp Fiction

    January 29th, 2010 by Rogersworthe | 4 Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom

    By all accounts, when John Travolta took the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, he was on his way out. Had he not gotten that role, by 1998 he would’ve never been heard from except on “Where are they Now?” VH1 specials. But he did. And this is how he has rewarded us:

    • White Man’s Burden (1995): Never heard of it.
    • Get Shorty (1995): Flaming pile of crap.
    • Broken Arrow (1996): I saw this movie, and I can’t remember what it’s about. Something with the army. Needless to say, if I forgot, it sucks.
    • Phenomenon (1996): Man gains mysterious powers of telepathy because of a brain tumor, and loses them when he gets healed. GAY.
    • Michael (1996): John Travolta as the Archangel Michael. Whoever wrote that script should be lined up in front of a Cuban firing squad and shot.

      Yes, John Travolta has wings in this movie.

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    The Vegas odds on Chris Johnson vs. Usain Bolt Race

    January 4th, 2010 by Rogersworthe | No Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom

    Smashville sent me an email with the Odds out of Vegas on the Chris Johnson vs. Usain Bolt Race. Here they are with some of my thoughts:

    Will Chris Johnson and Usain Bolt race before August 1st 2010?

    • Yes  +150  (3/2)
    • No   -200  (1/2)

    Obviously Vegas doesn’t think this race would actually happen. At this point, if you bet “Yes” you would win $150 on a bet of $100. However, if you bet “No” you’d have to bet $200 to win only $100. Vegas doesn’t see this race happening.

    Who will win the race between Chris Johnson and Usain Bolt?

    • Chris Johnson  +500  (5/1)
    • Usain Bolt          -1000 (1/10)

    So Usain Bolt is pretty much an unbelievably heavy favorite. You would have to bet $1,000 to win $100 on Usain Bolt. Meanwhile, if you bet $100 on Chris Johnson, you’d win $500. Those odds are pretty insane. my initial reaction would be to bet on Bolt, but with odds like that, I’d be a bit nervous. I’d probably just throw $50 on Chris Johnson since the odds are so good. 10/1 with Bolt doesn’t make that bet worth it AT ALL.

    If Chris Johnson and Usain Bolt race the distance will be?

    • Over 60 Meters              3/2
    • Under 60 Meters            9/5
    • Exactly 60 Meters          5/4

    Apparently Vegas thinks the race will be exactly 60 Meters or more. No idea why. I wouldn’t bet on this. Who does? If you do, get counseling.

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    Five ideas to make the offseason more interesting

    July 29th, 2009 by Spizz | 2 Comments | Filed in Off-season Boredom, Random Thoughts

    As a fan of the NFL, these past few weeks have made me so bored I wanted to pry my fingernails off with a bottle opener. I’m so desperate for something to happen that Terell Owens’s show actually held my attention. No fanbase should have to suffer this agony, so here are a few ideas I came up with that would spice up the offseason and stave off self-mutilation.

    1. Mascot Death Match
    Just imagine–a no-holds-barred professional mascot fighting league. It would be like cockfighting, but with a bunch of different types of animals, all of which are highly anthropomorphic. Ridiculous as this sounds, have you seen the WWE? It’s really not that far of a stretch.

    Three rounds. No rules. No mercy.

    Three rounds. No rules. No mercy.

    2. More, better reality T.V. shows
    The T.O. Show is a step in the right direction. I’m hoping that in a couple of years time, the NFL Network will have gone the direction of VH1, completely abandoning its original purpose to show reality shows about people on the fringe of being celebrities. “The Smash-n-Dashelorette”. “Survivor: O.J. Edition”. “Matty Ice Road Truckers”. “I Love (Shooting My Leg In) New York”. “Cock of Love (starring Travis Henry)”. The possibilities are endless.

    Three more ideas and pictures of Jeff Garcia’s wife after the jump.
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