UrinatingTree

- Inconsistent fields, goalposts and sidelines for each franchise - Next to no attendance at many games - Livestreams are spotty, at best. Don't have good internet connections at the stadiums, rely on mobile hotspots - Philadelphia Soul undergo complete chaos (booted out of Super 8 Motel with players unable to get luggage, head coach resigns, all players cut, dress an AAL2 team as the Soul for game last week Team has no personal trainers, housing, workers comp, and only ordered one-way flights to Louisiana) - National Arena League suing the West Texas Desert Hawks for breach of contract, may be forced to leave new AFL - Louisiana Voodoo move from Lake Charles to Lafayette before a game is even played - League supposed to have games shown on the NFL Network. None have aired, and none will air on the channel for the season - AFL unable to financially support several franchises, including Rapid City Marshals and Philadelphia Soul - Iowa Rampage play one game, then immediately shut down due to rising costs Good god.

@SonicArtemis117 Utter desperation.

@UrinatingTree How did the Sabres pull that off? Or is Chicago just dumb now and it was very easy?

@K0R3Mindwizard LET HIM KEEP COOKING!

@UrinatingTree Some Chicago fans have been saying to let him cook. Davidson cooked alright, he cooked so hard he burned down the entire organization and future of the team

So what's Kyle Davidson up to heOH MY LORD!

@oldgoatmon @Negative27bm3x More like Legacy of Failure for that.

@UrinatingTree @Negative27bm3x Haters guide to losing 30 lbs?

- Vancouver is a living car crash of a franchise - Calgary's ownership spent years refusing to actually rebuild - Edmonton experiencing The Whimsical World of Stan Bowman - Mike fucking Babcock - Winnipeg is Columbus, but somehow less desirable of a destination - MLSE treating the Maple Leafs as if they are Caligula - Ottawa can't get the Melnyk and Dorion stench off, no matter how much they try "Why does everybody want to play for American NHL teams?" Seriously, Montreal may be the only one that's not in some semblance of chaos rn.

@LAngles1974753 @TylerMunson7 The Koules/Barrie Era isn't talked about enough as being a total shitshow.

@UrinatingTree @TylerMunson7 Tampa did suffer a long time. But they built a hell of a system down there. Dallas did too but were taken much more serious very early.

@macbananas @TH3_123 You do realize there's an English-speaking section of Montreal, right?

@TH3_123 @UrinatingTree Tree seems to think Montreal is more desirable than Toronto. Except everyone always conveniently forgets about the language barrier in Quebec for the chance to dunk on Toronto. 🤣

Farewell, FSG. It still felt unclean having you own the Pens.

@PTtheGoat @azure_sol90 Problem is Calvin Ridley's in the league, yet did the same thing.

@UrinatingTree @azure_sol90 Gambling could bring down the entire league, they view this as a threat to their cash cow. The owners likely will blacklist him. I don't think even the UFL would take him. Maybe the CFL.

- Brendan Sorsby bets on games - NCAA puts the hammer down on him... -... a toy hammer - Two game suspension - The Big XII and rest of NCAA faithful on verge of rioting - Sorsby chooses to go into the Supplemental Draft - Speculation as to where he'll go - The NFL decides "you know, we're good up here. Why don't you keep him, NCAA" - We now return to Big XII throwing a shitfit if Sorsby returns to Texas Tech

@azure_sol90 The NFL has convicted felons, abusers, and overall malcontents throughout the league. Sorsby fits in there.

@UrinatingTree NFL should just straight-up say he's banned.

@Turkenschmidt @TylerMunson7 The Coyotes were why I was so against a Vegas expansion. Little did I know that was actually a Coyotes problem.

@UrinatingTree @TylerMunson7 The Coyotes died for southern hockey's sins

@macbananas I'd rather deal with FSG and their bullshit over MLSG's ineptitude any day of the week.

@UrinatingTree Don’t see anyone lining up to go to that messy FSG production known as Pittsburgh these days …

@ItsFreakinHarry @GRobs_Boston That image wouldn't have happened if the Pens won those games. That's the thing.

@UrinatingTree @GRobs_Boston In the grand scheme of things yes. But Marchand not scoring on that breakaway is a single moment in history we can look back on. The Pens collapse took 2 games and wasn’t due to a single moment in either game. The image itself is haunting even if the Pens really caused it all.

don’t even get me started on how literally everything about the current landscape of the nhl can be traced back to this exact moment and i’m not kidding:

@Negative27bm3x I might do something for this next month. For now, I have something else cooking...

@UrinatingTree I sincerely feel we might need a video on this given the discourse. It really is mostly about how organizationally, most of these teams are a mess right now. Sure, taxes are a factor, but places like Carolina are also attractive to players because of their structure right now.

@TylerMunson7 Teams that were deemed as absolute jokes a decade ago. Add Tampa Bay to that list, but they were respectable by that point.

@UrinatingTree Worst yet the best teams are in Carolina Florida and Vegas?

@Photosbyerik Ottawa's got a new arena coming in and Winnipeg has very wealthy ownership. They should be good for a bit.

@UrinatingTree True about all of that. You think Ottawa or Winnipeg could move in the future? Why can’t Ottawa move past the ghosts of Melnyk and Dorian? They’re both LONG gone.

@DutchVanDerLowe The promised land of the trunk of a car about to be compacted.

@UrinatingTree You’re being too pessimistic maybe it won’t be so bad maybe Babcock will lead the Oilers to the promised land

They actually did it.