Off Topic Thread 3.0

UNSTOPPABLE

errlloyd wrote: »

I heard one of the most upsetting things I've ever heard about 911 today. The firefighters who entered the building were intending on trying to help people / fight fires on the 80th floors and above. With no elevators, carrying 50 KGs of equipment, through the smoke and with people coming down it was taking them over 2 minutes per floor, just under 30 hours to it to the crash area.

So basically, apart from literally 2 or 3 of them who were distance runners in their spare time, none of them even got to crash zone before the buildings fell, and those that did didn't achieve anything once they arrived. 400 emergency respondents died in the Twin Towers, and it sounds like it was mostly for nothing.

There were a lot of terrible things that happened that day. The idea that many people were left with the choice of burning to death or jumping hundreds of feet to their death still hits me. Many jumped and you wonder if some of them had the idea that maybe, just maybe, they'd get lucky somehow by jumping.

Yes I've been looking forward to Wilderpeople for a long time, big fan of himself

Son of Saul extremely extremely well recieved critically, havent had a chance yet to see it.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I see a couple of Dolphins took a knee during the anthem earlier. It was kind of hard to see them because of the F**KING MASSIVE flag they had on the pitch.

Fair play to them. They're gonna get serious **** for protesting the anthem on 911. But I support their protest.

BEST finish to the Lions game. Colts throwing all those laterals and scoring would have been the most Lions way to lose.

So in both NBC games the NFC team lost with a missed field goal at the end. Bizarre.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

When I was watching the Colts/Lions game the commentators said these two teams hadn't played each other since 2012, or maybe it was 2014.
How does that happen? I thought there were 2 divisions and everyone in the division played everyone else?

There's 2 conferences (AFC and NFC) with 4 divisions of 4 teams in each.
Colts are in the AFC South with the Jags, Texans and Titans.
Lions are in the NFC North with the Bears, Packers and Vikings.

From Wiki:
Each team plays twice against each of the other three teams in its division: once at home, and once on the road (six games).
Each team plays once against each of the four teams from another division within its own conference, with the assigned division based on a three-year rotation: two at home, and two on the road (four games).
Each team plays once against one team from each of the remaining two divisions within its conference, based on the final division standings from the prior season: one at home, one on the road (two games).
Each team plays once against each of the four teams from a division in the other conference, with the assigned division based on a four-year rotation: two at home, and two on the road (four games).

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I assume moving franchises across the country messes these things up too?

The names for the divisions are just names really. It used to be important to keep teams in the same divisions as their geographical neighbours. Nowadays modern transport technology made the difference in distance fairly irrelevant to the teams.

For example it might seem like it would make more sense to put Dallas in the NFC South and Carolina in the NFC East but it wouldn't actually serve any functional difference (travelling from Tampa to Dallas or Charlotte is basically the same) and it would break up the rivalries that have developed.