I'm making a Gods of Rock campaign. The number of players I have is weak and I want to make npcs as needed. Robert Plant and Dimebag Darrell for sure, but not bards. Can't have every character be a bard. I already have David Bowie and Ozzy. Everyone is at war trying to find the lost tomb of Elvis, King of the Gods of Rock. Any input is welcomed.

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Please let me know who you would rather have - I have been offered a trade.

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This is an MLB award style voting system. I will give you a list of the (typically) consensus Top 25 drivers of all time.

To vote, simply copy the list in order and rank the drivers in your top ten, then list 3 honorable mentions for the top ten. After 24 hours, I’ll compile the results and share them here tomorrow night.

Now get ranking!

The list below is no particular order

1. Richard Petty
2. Dale Earnhardt
3. Jeff Gordon
4. Jimmie Johnson
5. David Pearson
6. Darrell Waltrip
7. Cale Yarborough
8. Kyle Busch
9. Bobby Allison
10. Tony Stewart
11. Lee Petty
12. Rusty Wallace
13. Matt Kenseth
14. Ned Jarrett
15. Dale Jarrett
16. Mark Martin
17. Bobby Isaac
18. Denny Hamlin
19. Kevin Harvick
20. Buck Baker
21. Terry Labonte
22. Tim Flock
23. Junior Johnson (fixed error)
24. Bill Elliott
25. Herb Thomas

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Full spreadsheet available here with detail below.

Coaching Carousel

New York Giants

Out: GM Dave Gettleman, OC Freddie Kitchens (Interim)

In: GM Dave Ziegler, OC Adam Stenavich

Fans have been unhappy with Gettleman for years, and it seems like ownership is finally catching up. The Maras also seem content with holding on to former Patriots ST Coach Joe Judge as their locker room leader. If that is the case, it makes sense to bring in somebody Judge is already familiar with in Ziegler, the current Patriots' Director of Player Personnel. The 44-year-old is a Patriot through and through. He was college teammates with Nick Caserio (who he replaced following Caserio's move to Houston) and Josh McDaniels (under whom he was a scout in Denver). He has cut his teeth under Belichick, spending the last 9 years in the scouting department in New England. In his first year without the "assistant" being tagged onto his job title, Ziegler added key free agents in Kendrick Bourne, Matt Judon, and Hunter Henry. He also oversaw one of the best draft classes in recent Patriot history with Mac Jones a favorite to win ROTY on top of inspiring play from Christian Barmore and Rhamondre Stevenson.

In addition to Ziegler, Packers' OL Coach Adam Stenavich joins as the new offensive coordinator. A bit of an unknown name, Stenavich is a former NFL player that has really made the most of his coaching opportunities. With Green Bay, he has overseen a revolving door of elite late round picks at OL, from Corey Linsley to David Bakhtiari to Yosh Nijman. In 2021, the Packers have seen countless injury along the line yet still have maintained an elite unit. Prior to Green Bay, Stenavich was on Shanahan's staff in San Francisco, coaching the likes of Joe Staley, Mike McGlinchey, and Weston Richburg. While Stenavich is unproven as a playcaller, he has worked under two of the best young offensive minds in the game. On top of his promising resume, his area of expertise is one the Giants desperately need help with. Other than Andrew Thomas, the Giants' OL has been an endless pile of poop covered garbage.

Chicago Bears

Out: GM Ryan Pace, HC Matt Nagy, OC Bill Lazor, DC Sean DeSai

In: GM Ed Dodds, HC Leslie Frazier, OC Darrell Bevell, DC Jeff Howard

Pace's tenure in Chicago has run its course. While many applauded him for having the onions to make a big move for Khalil

#Tennessee Titans at Los Angeles Rams

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Everyone knows about NASCAR's boom in the 1990s, but to Bruton Smith, things were booming a bit too much. While NASCAR is synonymous with controversial decisions in recent times, Smith had some... unique ideas to continue growing the sport.

On January 13, 1998, during the NASCAR Media Tour, Smith declared it was "inevitable" that for Cup Series break up for NASCAR's own good. Yeah, about that...

The proclamation, while ridiculous, wasn't completely out of the blue in an attempt to drum up hype. He had been brewing the idea for a few years, and figures in NASCAR including Bill France Jr. were well aware about his proposal.

1994–1997: What's Bruton Up To This Time?

Whenever any racing series leadership is clashing with teams, it is almost a certainty that rumors circulate about said teams breaking away to form their own series. After all, we've seen it happen before with open-wheel racing via the IRL/CART split and the multiple threats in F1. Heck, there have even been suggestions of Smith's Speedway Motorsports splitting off from NASCAR to create a stock car series themselves.

In 1994, Smith first raised the concept of dividing the Winston Cup Series, but not with nefarious intent. Rather, it was supposedly his way of taking NASCAR to greater heights.

With so many tracks being built throughout the United States at the time to accommodate the rising national popularity, including Smith's own Texas Motor Speedway, NASCAR expanded its schedule from 31 races to 32 in 1998. However, France and Smith knew that they could only add so many races at a time, and taking dates from existing venues comes with risks. Some tracks wanted second dates, which only exacerbated the predicament. The possibility of weeknight races was raised to fill the gap, which we would not see intentionally until the temporary race days created in 2020 due to COVID-19, and even that had issues like lower viewership. Smith figured that rather than eliminate dates, why not go in the opposite direction and have twice as many?^[1]

The blueprint was simple: split the Cup Series into two divisions, either geographically with East and West similar to ARCA today (or Busch North and Winston West back then), or American and National akin to the NFL and MLB. With two series, each could visit more tracks in their respective regions. And much like the Super Bowl, World Series, and combination ARCA races, major da

I was curious to see who was the best player born on each day of the year. It turned out to be a bit more of a struggle than I thought it was going to be, so I decided to simply sort it by WAR. Does that mean that sometimes a better player got left off the list for a player who simply had a longer career? Absolutely. But WAR is a nice simple stat. So, here's the list!

January

• 1 – Tim Keefe
• 2 – Edgar Martinez
• 3 – A.J. Burnett
• 4 – Kris Bryant
• 5 – Bill Dahlen
• 6 – Early Wynn
• 7 – Johnny Mize
• 8 – Jason Giambi
• 9 – Stan Javier
• 10 – Willie McCovey
• 11 – Max Carey
• 12 – Bill Madlock
• 13 – Kevin Mitchell
• 14 – Sonny Siebert
• 15 – Bobby Grich
• 16 – Albert Pujols
• 17 – Darrell Porter
• 18 – Curt Flood
• 19 – John Matlack
• 20 – Brian Giles
• 21 – Mike Tiernan
• 22 – Amos Strunk
• 23 – Red Donahue
• 24 – José Quintana
• 25 – Danny Richardson
• 26 – George Blaeholder
• 27 – Bibb Falk
• 28 – Magglio Ordóñez
• 29 – Jason Schmidt
• 30 – Tony Mullane
• 31 – Nolan Ryan

February

• 1 – Paul Blair
• 2 – Wes Ferrell
• 3 – Fred Lynn
• 4 – Doug Fister
• 5 – Hank Aaron
• 6 – Babe Ruth
• 7 – Carney Lansford
• 8 – Dobie Moore
• 9 – Vladimir Guerrero
• 10 – Lance Berkman
• 11 – Jimmy Ryan
• 12 – Chet Lemon
• 13 – Sal Bando
• 14 – Pretzels Getzien
• 15 – Billy Hamilton
• 16 – Ben Sanders
• 17 – Wally Pipp
• 18 – Joe Gordon
• 19 – Dave Stewart
• 20 – Justin Verlander
• 21 – Alan Trammell
• 22 – Clarence Mitchell
• 23 – Ray Brown
• 24 – Honus Wagner
• 25 – Ron Santo
• 26 – Pete Alexander
• 27 – Johnny Pesky
• 28 – Terry Turner
• 29 – Al Rosen

March

• 1 – Paul Hines
• 2 – Mel Ott
• 3 – John Ward
• 4 – Dazzy Vance
• 5 – Sam Thompson
• 6 – Lefty Grove
• 7 – Jeff Kent
• 8 – Dick Allen
• 9 – Arky Vaughan
• 10 – John Briggs
• 11 – Bobby Abreu
• 12 – Jim Wynn
• 13 – Home Run Baker
• 14 – Kevin Brown
• 15 – Bobby Bonds
• 16 – Buddy Myer
• 17 – Charlie Root
• 18 – Dwayne Murphy
• 19 – Clayton Kershaw
• 20 – Joe McGinnity
• 21 – Manny Sanguillén
• 22 – Billy Goodman
• 23 – Mark Buehrle
• 24 – George Sisler
• 25 – Tom Glavine
• 26 – Kevin Seitzer
• 27 – Buster Posey
• 28 – Lon Warneke
• 29 – Cy Young
• 30 – Chris Sale
• 31 – Jack Stivetts

April

• 1 – Phil Niekro
• 2 – Luke Appling
• 3 – Guy Hecker
• 4 – Tris Speaker
• 5 – Bill Dinneen
• 6 – Bert Blyleven
• 7 – Adrián Beltré
• 8 – Gary Carter
• 9 – Doc White
• 10 – Ken Griffey Sr.
• 11 – Bret Saberhagen
• 12 – Vic Willis
• 13 – Lorenzo Cain
• 14 – Greg Maddux
• 15 – Willie Davis
• 16 – Paul Waner

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The longest regular season in NFL history is in the books and we saw one of the craziest finishes to it that I can remember, climaxing in the Sunday Night thriller, in which the Chargers and Raiders could have both made the cut with a tie in overtime, but Las Vegas decided to kick a game-winning field goal with time running out, to send their division rivals home. Now the postseason is set and we already have some great matchups in the first round, while overall this thing might be as wide-open as we’ve seen in a long time.

So as we enter this 14-team tournament, I want to talk everybody squad here a little bit and instead of describing their strengths and weaknesses, like I usually do in weekly previews, I thought it would be fun to bring one X-factor to the table for each of them. So these are not marquee players – outside of maybe one of them, because of a reason I will explain at that point – or even starters in some cases, but rather guys, who I believe could make an impact in a certain role or matchup.

Here are the names I came up with:

NFC:

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Green Bay Packers – Josiah Deguara

There would be a lot of easy outs here for me, with David Bakhtiari back at left tackle last week and two defensive stalwarts in Jaire Alexander and Za’Darius Smith bound to return eventually. However, those answers would be a little too easy I believe and instead I thought about which element this team may be missing to some degree. With the MVP killing teams in the quick game, to overcome a banged up O-line, orchestrated around one of the two best receivers in football and a defense, that has seen plenty of guys (young and old) step up, while being much better-coordinated, they’re set up pretty well. Could they use a few big plays from someone like Marquez Valdes-Scantling and would the return of those two All-Pro caliber defenders help – sure, but that’s more so something that will either come or not. A player I believe could be more heavily integrated is their third-round pick from 2020 in Josiah Deguara. At Cincinnati (university), we saw him be heavily utilized as an H-back, sliding across the formation off play-action or inserting in the run game, which is why I looke

Many thanks to u/samiok15 for running the speculation thread this year. You did great, and I appreciate it!

PinkRose posted the locked thread for AS3. Vevmo is not great at spoilers so plz tread carefully ⚠⚠ There will be none for AS2 or SL+A permitted on this thread.

##The Challenge All Stars 3

Host: TJ

Location: Panama

Format:

Departure Day: Oct 17

###Women

1. Cynthia Roberts

2. Jemmye Carroll

3. Jonna Mannion

4. Kailah Casillas

5. Kellyanne Judd

6. Kendal Darnell

7. Melinda Stolp

8. NIA MF MOORE

9. Roni Martin

10. Tina Barta

11. Veronica Portillo

12. Sylvia Elsrode

13. alternate - Beth Stolarczyk

14. alternate - Sophia Pasquis

15. alternate - Tara McDaniel

###Men

1. Brad Fiorenza

2. Darrell Taylor

3. Derrick Kosinski

4. Jordan Wiseley

5. Laterrian Wallace

6. Mark Long

7. MJ Garrett

8. Nehemiah Clark

9. Syrus Yarbrough

10. Wes Bergmann

11. Yes Duffy

12. Tyler Duckworth

13. alternate - Ace Amerson

14. alternate - Dan Renzi

15. dropped last minute - John Devenanzio

..

update Nov 10 - Tara McDaniel was an alternate

update Oct 22 - Sylvia and Tyler are on, Dan Renzi is alternate

update Oct 21

• Beth moved to alternate

• Johnny dropped out of the show last-minute

No spoilers & no whining

After this year, how would you rate the first-year HCs?

• Brandon Staley
• Urban Meyer
• Nick Sirianni
• Dan Campbell
• Arthur Smith
• Robert Saleh
• David Culley
• Rich Bisaccia (interim)
• Darrell Bevell (interim)

Doing some early 2022 draft strategy research. List the number of teams in your league, league type, draft position, place you finished and first five picks. I’ll go first!

(FYI - this was my first time ever playing fantasy and I had no idea what I was doing at the draft lol!)

12 team, ½ ppr, drafted 8th in a snake draft, finished 3rd, 1. Davante Adams 2. Pat Mahomes 3. Robert Woods 4. Adam Thielen 5. Darrell Henderson Jr.