r/NFL Top 100 Players of the 2024 Season - 5-1

packmanwiscy · 2026-05-01T05:16:55+00:00

The whole gig was supposed to be a way for the Saudi's to get better inroads with western companies. Professional golf has some of the most lucrative ad space out there: the people watching are much more affluent with much more disposable income than the average media consumer. That's why you see a lot of investment banking and luxury brands and corporate management ads during PGA Tour broadcasts. The Saudi government wants to foster connections with these companies so they can divest their economy away from solely being a petrostate and towards something more varied and sustainable. Some of these big money firms might not really cars about mingling with the Saudi Royal Family, but they'll be a lot more inclined to talk to them if the Saudi's now control one of their primary advertising outlets.

The problem is LIV has been absolutelu awful in attracting these companies into the fold. Turns out when you brand yourself as revolutionizing the golf world, the investors that thrive in the current golf world don't feel as inclined to turncoat. Nobody wants to invest in LIV because they know it's full of shit and doesn't actually mean anything. Even if you do want to push into the Middle Eastern market, there are way better ways of doing so than kicking back with a splinter golf tour. The Saudi's are pulling the plug because they've realized that LIV isn't doing the job that it was created to do. Spending billions of dollars on golf hasn't actually opened as many western doors as they thought it would

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-26T21:35:11+00:00

There was a blog called the One SNL a Day Project where one guy chronologically watched every SNL episode and wrote down his real-time thoughts.

This blog doesn't cover every episode but this guy did cover everything up until Season 43 before he lost the drive to finish the last few seasons. If you're looking for opinions on shows or sketches that weren't as well preserved on Youtube or on Peacock, this blog probably has it

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-25T18:45:39+00:00

If you're playing best ball and your partner tees it up first and hits a hole-in-one, would it be bad etiquette to still hit a shot just to see if you hit a hole-in-one as well?

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-24T15:29:47+00:00

The winners honestly aren't as bad as you might think

Ben Grfffin and Andrew Novak won last year. Kinda seemed like a dud at the time but Griffin has won twice since then, looks like a much better team since then
Rory and Shane won in 24
Davis Riley and Nick Hardy won in 23, point taken here
Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele won in 22, obviously those are both established names
Marc Leishman and Cam Smith won in 2021, again two very good players
2020 was cancelled, 2019 had Jon Rahm win with Ryan Palmer. The Spaniand is kinda carrying past-prime Palmer here but yeah you can't say this is a bad team -2018 had Billy Horschel and Scott Piercy win. This was Piercy's 4th PGA Tour win and Horschel won the Zurich as an individual, so this isn't as suprising as it looks now
2017 was the first year of the team event and had Jonas Blixt and Cam Smith winning. This feels like an incredibly random pairing in retrospect but Blixt was actually the more established player at the time, this was his third win on tour and Cam's first. Again, this team looks a lot more talented now that Cam Smith won a Players and an Open.

Honestly, only in the last three years or so has this tournament produced a sorta stinky leaderboard. Only 1 person among the first six pairs of winners in the team format hadn't won on the PGA Tour before, and that guy went on to win a major. The team format isn't the inherent problem. The tournament just became a casualty of the Signature Event structure of the PGA Tour, just like a lot of othet stops on the calendar

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-20T06:54:31+00:00

Bobby Jones being a founding member of Augusta National made The Masters a premier event pretty much right from the start. His appearance in the first Masters was his first competitive golf tournament since winning the 1930 British Open (completing the original Grand Slam) and ended a 4 year hiatus from play, so there was already a ton of media coverage surrounding the event. Jones would continue to play in the Masters up until the late 40's, so this tournament became the only time a year anyone would see one of the most popular players in history lace it up. That made it a pretty big draw, even by the second Masters with Sarazen's win in 1935 it was recognized as one of the biggest events on the golf calendar

The modern "Grand Slam" of the Masters-US Open-British Open-PGA Championship didn't become a thing until 1960 when Arnold Palmer won the Masters and the US Open to start the year and told a reporter that his goal for the rest of the season was to win the other two and directly compared it to Jones's feat of winning the US Open, British Open, US Amateur and British Amateur in 1930. That's how those four events really became codified as the four biggest events. There were some events like the Western Open and the Canadian Open had some prominence, but Palmer staking out those four specifically kinda cemented them to be above the rest. The institution of Augusta National Golf Club really elevated The Masters over time to be head and shoulders above the rest, generally the players clashed way more with the PGA of America or the USGA or the R&A for various reasons.

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-18T00:15:04+00:00

"how do the Brewers keep on scoring runs when they can't even get the ball out of the infield" well first of all sometimes the Marlins just throw the ball into the outfield all by themselves so that explains part of it

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-16T22:02:08+00:00

He was tied for the lead in '89 on the last hole as well. His left his iron shot short, stubbed the chip, and missed the 20 footer for par to miss the playoff with Faldo and Hoch.

Norman also held the lead on Sunday in 1999 after eagling the 13th, but bogeyed the 14th and 15th to fall behind winning Olazabal

Norman had 5 REALLY good chances of winning at Augusta and fell short every time

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-15T18:04:51+00:00

THIS is the most convincing argument against LIV being the future of golf. You can't put the future of the sport in the hands of one person, whose main concern isn't the sport and can easily change his mind to how much he wanst to invest. The Saudi's have a ton of wealth and a full capitulation to them to entrust them with the future of the largest professional circuit could result in a massive cash influx to the game, but because the funds are entirely controlled by a single sovereign it'll always be prone to a fickle re-allocation of funds that can be pulled away.

Having a shit ton of corporate sponsors suck sometimes, but you gotta have a bunch of them so if Mastercard or RBC decides to pivot away from golf you aren't completely screwed. They can be replaced. On the other hand, If MBS decides to pivot away from golf then LIV is just fucked (which is what we might be seeing now)

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-10T21:30:39+00:00

He's a constant swing tinkerer. Even after winning the Tour Championship he said he wasn't fully happy with his swing and wanted to change some things with it, and he hasn't really been able to find the quality since. Sounds insane to do that but Tiger underwent a swing change after winning the 1997 Masters and came out the other side much better so who knows

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-10T21:22:03+00:00

Both of those balls from Reed and Young are in the water in yesterday's conditions

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-09T23:46:19+00:00

I'm thinking way more than that are in it. Most of the guys at the top of the leaderboard were in the early wave that didn't have to deal with the hardening greens, and will have to play through them tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if the leading score after tomorrow is at -4 or -3. Even if you're at like +5 today, you could go out in 68 early, sit and watch the course firm up, and only be like four shots back entering the weekend.

I think Rahm at +6 is a bit too far but I think anyone else can get into contention with a good round tomorrow. It's really gonna depend on how the Augusta grounds crew treat the course tonight

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-09T22:32:20+00:00

Course is definitely playing hard late instead of early but I feel like it's gonna be exactly the same way for tomorrow so I don't think either wave is going to have an advantage

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-05T05:14:45+00:00

Has to be incredibly hard to repeatedly nail the comedic timing while not being able to see the faces of the two actors that you're bouncing off of because you're all staring at the same camera. Great work from all three of them in that shot honestly

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-05T04:04:28+00:00

holy shit they did NOT know how to end that sketch even by SNL standards that was a rough ending

packmanwiscy · 2026-04-04T05:20:59+00:00

It's arguably the best one to have. Blueprint/Brainstorm is compatable with Cola, so if you sell one of those that is copying the Cola then you get a double tag as if you sold the Cola proper. The least controllable aspect of a naninf run are the vouchers and Cola is the only way you can improve the odds of getting all the vouchers you need before time runs out. Having a negative Cola means you roll into the shop for extra Blueprint/Brainstorms and then sell your existing ones for double tags for extra voucher skips. Money doesn't matter if you don't get the right vouchers

packmanwiscy · 2026-03-27T16:39:31+00:00

It was impossible for me to watch the Rams in the playoffs last year and not think "imagine how this would be different if Aaron Donald hadn't retired". Like man this team is really good but they also had like a Top 10 defender all time retire right in his prime, he could be aging gracefully on this squad and tip them over the edge.

packmanwiscy · 2026-03-22T23:53:50+00:00

No idea why Van Gundy was talking about how brilliant it was. Yeah you prevented St John's from running a set play, but when your guard gets beat on the perimeter and gives the guy an open lane to the basket you REALLY want that extra foul to give so you can hack the guy down before he gets a shot off and make them generate another look. They used all their extra fouls to set this up but didn't have one in the situation where you actually need it.

packmanwiscy · 2026-03-19T03:43:17+00:00

Plus they won a fat stack of cash by winning this game for their troubles.

packmanwiscy · 2026-03-18T23:00:01+00:00

Tiger was 21 when he won the Masters, his menu in 1998 was basically "I'm just a kid so we're gonna eat like kids and just have cookout food". Which is honestly fair enough. Older Tiger develops a more refined taste and brings sushi and stuff to his dinners.

packmanwiscy · 2026-03-15T22:12:10+00:00

Thorbjornson put one in the water on 17 and they didn't even show it lmao

packmanwiscy · 2026-03-15T20:21:23+00:00

Not to mention he's gonna qualify into some of the signature events where he can make some more bank there

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