Big sports fan. Really invested in the Minnesota Timberwolves (NBA) season this year. Fell off the NFL around 2018, and fell out of baseball/MLB around 2010.
I’ll occasionally pop on MLS to catch a Minnesota United game, and the Bundesliga if my ESPN+ ever works, to watch Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen.
Also this could double as pro-wrestling thread. My partner and I watch WWE and rarely, NJPW. Not much a fan of AEW’s style, but hey, more people getting that cash and work, the better. Glad to see TNA bounce back after the rough start of the 2010s they had.
i’ve been a diehard nuggets fan for decades at this point so watching them slowly come together and knowing they’d one day be championship ready has been my biggest gatekeeping moment lmfao
where do you watch games btw thanks to some dumbass contract shit i can’t watch nuggets games on local television. i’m going to beat capitalism to death with hammers
A site called Buffstreams has pretty reliable livestreams of the games, though an adblocker is recommended, just in case. (Didn’t want to direct link juuuust in case). I’ve heard that the Colorado RSN has been shit with… Altitude Sports?
The Nuggets are so goddamn fun. Jokic is the coolest player in the NBA. King of the effortless looking highlight.
This is the Colorado sportsfan experience. Been glowing as an Avs fan.
Not really into NFL, I like football well enough but the league pisses me off too much to watch. If forced I’d probably call myself a Vikings fan (for deep lore family reasons. The Twins get similarly grandfathered in).
I lived in Seattle for 10 years and despite having the most miserable sportsfans in the country (mainly Seahawks fans) I did develop a love for the Mariners and Sounders.
Im a falcons fan. I’m a fan mostly due to the location and culture of the fanbase. (I.e. very black, why im not a fan of UGA or Atlanta United) I’d root for the hawks, but they rarely do well enough to even warrant a mention in the newspaper. Falconns at least get within sniffing distance of the playoffs every now and then.
I have to say, there are leagues with probably hundred times the amount of money as the USL that don’t put as much effort into their game highlight reels.
Louisville City? They are on a fucking tear right now, having won all 3 of their games so far. Their last one, against Birmingham Legion, was a 5-to-nothing blowout of incredible proportions. In past years they had a reputation for, while making a lot of shots on goal, rarely actually managing to score from them. You’d never guess from their performance that game, just stunner after stunner shaking the net.
This weekend they will play against Indianapolis XI in one of the greatest (and funniest) rivalries in second-division soccer, the Louisville-Indiana Proximity Association Football Contest (LIPAFC), which is a local derby, and pinnacle of all human creative and athletic activity, played for a trophy made from a construction barrel. And for the first time, to my knowledge, ever, this incredible rivalry will be available on national broadcast television! The USL’s partnership with CBS means that network, not just CBS Sports or their soccer-themed Pluto channel, no, actual CBS like you can get from your TV antenna in most major metropolitan areas, will be showing this game live at 4PM EDT. I dunno about you all, but I’m excited!
I fuckin’ love the social media guys for the local team. I’ve never seen someone drinking from a water bottle carry so much emotional intensity, so much pathos.
I need to scream a bunch about the El Paso game they’re talking about at the end of this, but I’ll save that for another day.
Watching Leverkusen/Union Berlin from last weekend, and BOY that’s a killer for Union. 4 minutes into a +2 stoppage time, handball on a chaotic end of added time scrum that led to several reviews (initially for an offsides after an attacker fell and the ball ricocheted off the post and hit him, when he was offsides on the ground). Turns out the ball hit the post because the defender swung their arm out to deflect the ball into the post.
The handball was the player’s second yellow, so Union went down 1-0, and a man down, right at Halftime.