Cool Brees and Chill: A Miami Dolphins TL
- Thread starter Colonel Zoidberg
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Why would the Colts fire Caldwell when Manning got hurt IOTL? That plus they had to be pretty pissed off about the tampering.
OOC: For the sheer hell of it and to shake things up so I can introduce more butterflies. Same reason I gave a Super Bowl victory to the Browns.
Amen. This is a pretty positive TL so I want to save as many lives as an can (Aaron Hernandez dies, his victims don't.)
From the bottom of my cold, black Philadelphian heart, thank you for that. Washington Football Franchise running through a humiliation conga and an NFC Championship Game appearance for the Green and White: not bad at all.
Two suggestions for DC: One, at one point in the past, Chief Runs Without Moral Compass owned the trademark for the Washington Warriors, and there were persistent rumors that the spear helmet the team wore as an alternate was their backup plan for if they were forced to change names. It would be likely for them to adopt that name and helmet. Two, from 2007 to 2013 OTL, Chainsaw Danny was the owner of the Johnny Rockets hamburger chain. Given that he's probably well aware of the value of cross-branding, it wouldn't be out of the question for him to adopt the name "Washington Rockets," come up with a wordmark reminiscent of his chain, and an appropriate logo. To provide a paper-thin justification for the name other than crass commercialism, he can claim it's in honor of the Potomac Drainage Basin's history with aeronautics and space flight, given the proximity to Goddard Space Flight Center.
Two suggestions for DC: One, at one point in the past, Chief Runs Without Moral Compass owned the trademark for the Washington Warriors, and there were persistent rumors that the spear helmet the team wore as an alternate was their backup plan for if they were forced to change names. It would be likely for them to adopt that name and helmet. Two, from 2007 to 2013 OTL, Chainsaw Danny was the owner of the Johnny Rockets hamburger chain. Given that he's probably well aware of the value of cross-branding, it wouldn't be out of the question for him to adopt the name "Washington Rockets," come up with a wordmark reminiscent of his chain, and an appropriate logo. To provide a paper-thin justification for the name other than crass commercialism, he can claim it's in honor of the Potomac Drainage Basin's history with aeronautics and space flight, given the proximity to Goddard Space Flight Center.
Colonel Zoidberg, here's a link to the comments Obama made on November 11, 2012 OTL:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/11/remarks-president-veterans-day
When does Adam Lanza shoot Obama--during or after those remarks? (And does he kill his mother like in OTL?) Interestingly, in the Orange Tempest TL, Lanza also tries to shoot Obama...
Please, no President Donald J. Trump...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/11/remarks-president-veterans-day
When does Adam Lanza shoot Obama--during or after those remarks? (And does he kill his mother like in OTL?) Interestingly, in the Orange Tempest TL, Lanza also tries to shoot Obama...
Please, no President Donald J. Trump...
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That and I think Georgia Texh won a game last year on a similar play. I picked Blair Walsh because no way was Garrett Hartley sticking around after Wide Left.
I think I will do more with the Eagles, especially if Steve Wynn is the villain in Dallas. Russell Wilson as their QB would turn the Eagles into kind of an anti-hero franchise, which would fit with the type of team Philly would go crazy for.
As for the Washington franchise, I imagine Snyder would ordinarily want to just backdrop or a name like Warriors in and just give the middle finger to everyone else, but after the steaming dump his franchise just took, I'm guessing he doesn't want to see anything on his team that looks like the, ahem, Spanish Peanuts logo. "Rockets" has merit, though, especially with the shameless corporate tie-in that would go perfectly with Captain Dipshit.
The shot would come as Obama has just finished speaking. (And he doesn't get around to shooting his mother.)
As for Trump...I read that he ran for President because his bid to buy the Bills failed. I won't say if he succeeds in buying the Bills, but he will have more success than Rick Santorum at achieving the stated goal.
I could only imagine if a franchise, especially one that went through that much of a ringer, lost three Super Bowls at the last second in three different heartbreaking fashions. I mean, the Bills lost four but they weren't expected to win any but the first and they got he snot beaten out of them three times.
Thanks for the kind words, everyone.
Placekickers are easy sacrificial lambs in football. I'm not surprised here.
I found Wilson to Philly fairly interesting. That team will be pretty successful with Wilson in the offense.
Washington is in definite need of a restocking at the least and a rebranding at most.
Now that's scary.
Absolutely. The Saints here have officially eclipsed the Bills as the heartbreak club in the NFL. Does losing now give them a shot at Travis Frederick in the draft? Their window to win is closing as Manning gets on in years.
True, unless they have some kind of consistency and never make waves. Jason Elam in Denver. Jason Hanson in Detroit. Matt Stover in Cleveland and later Baltimore. Phil Dawson in Cleveland comes to mind, especially ITTL with him being the kicker from the rebirth up through the Super Bowl win. But Norwood didn't survive Wide Right and Hartley wouldn't survive Wide Left. Though at least he won't go full Ray Finkle (though ITTL you could see a storyline about the Saints like that.)
Come to think of it, Draft Day was released in 2014. Now that the Browns have a Super Bowl win, it doesn't make sense to focus the story around them. Originally it was supposed to be about the Bills (as an Ohio resident and Dolphins fan, I'm glad they made the change.) I wonder if another location would offer up improved production costs to lure away the movie. New Orleans comes to mind. So does Cincinnati. Perhaps a rebranded Vikings team in Minnesota.
They did seem like they were a QB away for a long time. Foles didn't work out. Vick was a temporary solution at best. Wilson would give that team stability. Plus he had some past issues at NC State, so maybe in Philly he's a bit edgier (IOTL he's saving himself for marriage and dating Ciara. ITTL...who knows. He is just a hop, skip and a jump from NYC, home of dater extraordinaire Derek Jeter. Maybe Jeter is a different influence on him.) Also, if the Cowboys get good again, that's a blood feud shaping up, probably one where a lot of fans of neither team want them both to lose.
If Washington became the Rockets, the simple solution is to maintain the script R logo, replace the spear with a rocket, the feathered head with a planet and superimpose the second over the third, turning the team's burgundy to a bold red. Of course, the Houston Rockets beat them to that, so Snyder will probably blast red, white and blue all over everything no matter what the hell he calls the team and they might as well be called the Washington Football Nationals. And if the baseball team hadn't beaten them to it, Nationals wouldn't be a half-bad name.
This name change will float the same types of jokes told when the Washington Bullets became the Wizards (sample joke: Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is changing his team's name in order to avoid being associated with racism and incompetence. The team will henceforth be known simply as The Redskins.) Also insert jokes about the team being called the Washington Generals.
OOC reason for the name change: I'm writing this entirely from my iPhone. My autocomplete has learned every other team name I've typed in but stubbornly refuses to learn the one in the nation's capital.
I have plans for Trump. He won't be President, partially because he has no business being President and partially because I don't want this timeline locked for current politics. His bid for the Bills will be better than what it was IOTL. Whether he wins I'm not saying, but I do have plans for him that at least make sense.
Manning retired after 2015 and won a Super Bowl in Denver IOTL thanks to a defense that's about as good as what I've set up in New Orleans. I averted the lost season and a lot of his health problems, so while the window is closing and the Saints do need to look to the future, the situation isn't dire. Also, the Saints are definitely in position to draft Frederick, which would shore up the O-line and keep Manning healthy.
No way does Virginia McCaskey sell the team. Buuuuuuuuuut shit does happen. Not sure how or when, but given that I have a tendency to get rid of people when I need to...
And the Dolphins are going to pay for it. Believe me. It's going to be YUGE.
Actually, I have some interesting plans for Trump. It won't be in the next update but things will warm up for Trump soon after.
Bears are pretty valuable itself, you need at least $2B dollar just to be tempted Plus seems her testamento Will forbid any mccaskey to sell it... the bears are untouchable, would make more sense an expansión team to hawaii.
Umm maybe trump buy the bears and bon jovi moves the bills to toronto?
It may take multiple people to put together a bid to buy the Bears; Obama couldn't do it on his own. I'm also not sure how enforceable a clause that forbids the sale is; I know it can be done for a length of time but not in perpetuity. For example, Virginia McCaskey can keep her kids from selling the team but probably not her grandkids, especially if there are potentially any who haven't been born yet.
Trump and Bon Jovi will factor in but it will be tricky - both are from NYC and Bon Jovi is a diehard Giants fan (the Giants aren't going anywhere and that would be silly) but the Pegulas would sooner move their eyeballs to a vat of spicy Buffalo wing sauce than move the Bills out of Buffalo, so if there's going to be movement, it will be with Trump or Bon Jovi.
@Colonel Zoidberg umm So for now the bears would be safe, just google Virginia and she say the team would be in family till ' the second comming', So that for me is weird they would ever drop the team, not even the bidwell in the dark era of cardinals.
Bon jovi a giants fan? That is interesting but yeah he was pretty hellbent with the bills, So the rest is waiting for next update.
Bon jovi a giants fan? That is interesting but yeah he was pretty hellbent with the bills, So the rest is waiting for next update.
A lot of Bills fans didn't trust Bon Jovi for that reason and the fact that he wouldn't promise to keep the Bills in Buffalo. The Pegula family buying the Bills was a huge relief for their fan base - they thought the team might be headed for Toronto.
I'm working on the next update and it should be up this week.
Any ideas on who could buy the Chargers from Spanos?
Maybe Ron Fowler, the Padres current owner?
Maybe Ron Fowler, the Padres current owner?