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[CNGL-Leudimin]

Inspired by the "Have you ever commited sign theft?" thread and potentially more controversial than the little boys' foreskins proposal I posted once:
Have you ever commited suicide?

[GeauxLSU]

People who love the new San Diego Chargers logo.

There is no "San Diego Chargers" anymore.

[jp the roadgeek]

People who love the new San Diego Chargers logo.

There is no "San Diego Chargers" anymore.

I think he meant People who Love This:

[hbelkins]

"H.B. thinks building I-73 between Martinsville and Roanoke is a good idea"

[Max Rockatansky]

People who love the new San Diego Chargers logo.

There is no "San Diego Chargers" anymore.

I think he meant People who Love This:

I don't think he was getting that "San Diego" was thrown in there as a pun after video I posted in another thread with the fans booing new logo at the Staples Center.  I haven't seen such a negative backlash to a move since the Colts left Baltimore.

[Henry]

People who love the new San Diego Chargers logo.

There is no "San Diego Chargers" anymore.

I think he meant People who Love This:

I don't think he was getting that "San Diego" was thrown in there as a pun after video I posted in another thread with the fans booing new logo at the Staples Center.  I haven't seen such a negative backlash to a move since the Colts left Baltimore.

How quickly we forget the most controversial move in all of pro sports, when the Browns left Cleveland and became the Ravens, playing in the Colts' old city!

[formulanone]

How quickly we forget the most controversial move in all of pro sports, when the Browns left Cleveland and became the Ravens, playing in the Colts' old city!

Arguably, that lands in #3, after the NY Giants' move to San Francisco (because of West Coast expansion) and Irsay using moving vans to move the Colts (because...moving vans). But I feel the Cleveland-Baltimore move of 1995 was one of the saddest ones; due to the immediate mid-season announcement, followed by the decay of player (not personal) morale, sponsors pulling out, and once-rabid fans not willing to show up.

I wonder if something crazier or stranger to a moving sports team has happened outside America. One or two racing teams have done some bizarre things, but that's for another forum*...besides, moving around is naturally part of the sport.

* In the spirit of this very non-thread thread...Andrea Moda Formula Fans.

[jeffandnicole]

When the Browns received a team to replace the old Browns' move to B'more, who know that the replacement team would be no better, and often worse, than the old team!

[Max Rockatansky]

I'd say the Colts leaving Baltimore was much more impacting than the Browns.  The Colts basically just shipped up and left in the middle of the night.  My grand father was a huge Baltimore Colts fan and was absolutely crushed when that happened, he wouldn't even root for the Ravens because in his eyes it just wasn't the same.  Cleveland got their team back eventually which really mitigates what happened when the original Browns became the Ravens. 

[thenetwork]

How quickly we forget the most controversial move in all of pro sports, when the Browns left Cleveland and became the Ravens, playing in the Colts' old city!

Arguably, that lands in #3, after the NY Giants' move to San Francisco (because of West Coast expansion) and Irsay using moving vans to move the Colts (because...moving vans). But I feel the Cleveland-Baltimore move of 1995 was one of the saddest ones; due to the immediate mid-season announcement, followed by the decay of player (not personal) morale, sponsors pulling out, and once-rabid fans not willing to show up.

Oh they showed up -- with toolboxes and hacksaw at the final home game...They were taking out rows of bleacher and wooden seats, pieces of the turf and anything else.  I will say that announcing a move while still in-season is a little more of a slap in the face than doing an overnight secret move in the off-season.  Seeing a stadium full of blank advertising and no commercial breaks on the Browns radio broadcasts.  That was very surreal.

[formulanone]

Oh they showed up -- with toolboxes and hacksaw at the final home game...

That might also explain the end-of-season win! I remember ESPN showing the fans hauling away anything and everything.

I have to hand it to their fans; it takes a certain amount of solidarity to intentionally not show up to most of the games...I think even the last home game wasn't a sell-out (could be wrong about this).

[noelbotevera]

Where's the acceleration pedal again?

[Big John]

Where's the acceleration pedal again?

[freebrickproductions]

How to build a bomb in 5 easy steps! (Typing this has probably landed me on some terrorist watch list, lol!)

[slorydn1]

How to build a bomb in 5 easy steps! (Typing this has probably landed me on some terrorist watch list, lol!)

You see that black sedan parked across the street?....

[LM117]

How to build a bomb in 5 easy steps! (Typing this has probably landed me on some terrorist watch list, lol!)

You see that black sedan parked across the street?....

[kkt]

How to build a bomb in 5 easy steps! (Typing this has probably landed me on some terrorist watch list, lol!)

Have fun driving on your transatlantic trips

[thenetwork]

How to build a bomb in 5 easy steps! (Typing this has probably landed me on some terrorist watch list, lol!)

You see that black sedan parked across the street?....

When they had "family" spats in Youngstown, OH in the 60s & 70s, many of those vehicles had what was called "Youngstown Tune-Ups" :

Crime has been a lingering problem in many of the Rust Belt's big and small urban communities, hampering economic recovery.[80] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Youngstown was nationally identified with gangland slayings that were often committed with car bombs.[81] The town gained the nicknames "Murdertown, USA" and "Bomb City, USA," while the phrase "Youngstown tune-up" became a nationally popular slang term for car-bomb assassination.

[Max Rockatansky]

How to build a bomb in 5 easy steps! (Typing this has probably landed me on some terrorist watch list, lol!)

You see that black sedan parked across the street?....

When they had "family" spats in Youngstown, OH in the 60s & 70s, many of those vehicles had what was called "Youngstown Tune-Ups" :

Crime has been a lingering problem in many of the Rust Belt's big and small urban communities, hampering economic recovery.[80] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Youngstown was nationally identified with gangland slayings that were often committed with car bombs.[81] The town gained the nicknames "Murdertown, USA" and "Bomb City, USA," while the phrase "Youngstown tune-up" became a nationally popular slang term for car-bomb assassination.

The worst act of Terrorism (domestic or otherwise) prior to Oklahoma City was in Bath, Michigan and involved a car bomb in addition to a school being rigged up for months to explode.  It is actually right down the street from where I went to High School, I'm amazed at how much it really is a forgotten and quite frankly f$@#ed up piece of American history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster#Truck_explosion

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[Takumi]

Trump vetoes Patriots' Super Bowl win

I wouldn't put it past him... (sorry mods, I won't go any further)

Texas's I-69 situation shown in Polandball comic

I so want to see this.

[MNHighwayMan]

Texas's I-69 situation shown in Polandball comic

This forum was one of the last places I ever expected to see a Polandball reference.

And yet here I am.

(Also going to second the "wanting to see it" notion.)

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Poll: Which is uglier: <insert ugliest village in your state here> or the back of a fridge? (I actually did this once on Twitter!)

[LM117]

Have you ever put gum on a sign to make it stick to a signpost?

Considering the other gum-related threads that have popped up, I'm almost certain that we'll be seeing this thread happen sooner or later.

[kphoger]

Alanland