04/20/24
December 17, 2015
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Is the person from Slupsk, Plock, or Krakow?
posted by beaverboard at 01:08 PM on December 17, 2015
One of our new hires there is a semi-pro curler.
I'm pretty sure there aren't any true professional curlers, as even the top players in the world have second jobs.
posted by grum@work at 01:33 PM on December 17, 2015
I'm pretty sure there aren't any true professional curlers, as even the top players in the world have second jobs.
Aren't most Olympic-level athletes employees of their national sports ministries so they have more time to train?
posted by Etrigan at 02:15 PM on December 17, 2015
Aren't most Olympic-level athletes employees of their national sports ministries so they have more time to train?
Not Canadian curlers. The team that goes to the Olympics is the one that wins the national tournament the previous year, but they just go back to doing their regular jobs (plus competing on the curling tour to supplement their income). The lead for the men's Olympic champion in 2014 (Brad Jacobs) works as an accounts manager at RBC.
posted by grum@work at 03:08 PM on December 17, 2015
Aren't most Olympic-level athletes employees of their national sports ministries so they have more time to train?
Not Canadian curlers.
Chinese curlers, at least, are:
"They can wake up and go curl, and go work out, and get paid to do that. That's their lives," Brad Jacobs, a bank employee who leads the Canadian team, told The Toronto Star.
posted by Etrigan at 04:08 PM on December 17, 2015
The Bucs and Rams look like the generic teams you get in Electric Football if you don't spring for the NFL edition.
posted by rcade at 09:46 PM on December 17, 2015
That is brilliant. With the matching colored shoes they were wearing, I thought I was looking at the Teletubbies out there. Or kids in footie pajamas.
For goodness sake, Rams, go back to that bold colored helmet permanently. It's what you won your Super Bowl with.
Bucs, when will you get the message that the flag on your helmet has gotten absurdly oversized? You had it right before. You can get it right again. It's not hard. OK, you can make it a little bigger than it once was, but not a friggin' picnic blanket.
Clearly, there are many people who so want Jameis to achieve true excellence, but I'm not convinced I see it happening. Not on a consistent enough basis. He might light up the field one day and hold a church bake sale the next.
posted by beaverboard at 10:55 AM on December 18, 2015
I'm convinced Winston is the real deal. After a rough start he's gotten the interceptions under control and he sees the field well. Keep in mind how bad the Bucs were last season. They're an actual NFL football team today.
posted by rcade at 12:40 PM on December 18, 2015
They're an actual NFL football team today.
You just posted a pic suggesting they weren't!
posted by tron7 at 02:43 PM on December 18, 2015
We recently opened an engineering office in Poland. One of our new hires there is a semi-pro curler.