Crowley's Corner

After over 40 seasons and nearly 1,000 episodes and four series and one on the way, NCIS is one of the biggest TV Franchises out there only getting beat by Law and Order. I began to think to why not have an all-time NCIS squad. Well ended up thinking of two different squads. My all-time squad and a hardcore squad. The rules I had for myself were that the squad would at least have someone who at least was a main character for a least a full season and at least have someone in each of the four series (at least for my squad picks) and also I included Medical Examiner and Tech Person with Director Vance leading the way. Ducky would be the ME and Ernie as the tech person and Abby as the Forensic Specialist. Both squads will have five agents each, I know I probably should have stopped at four especially since the current shows have four per team (With Hawaii, it's closer to 4.5 with Kate Whistler there but she's with the FBI so she doesn't count, yet). It's tricky, NCIS had s...

I don't know if it would happen, I doubt Madden would add the 17 total teams from both the USFL and the XFL but let's say EA Sports does it. You know how they have a Franchise Mode or NFL SuperStar Mode now called the Face of the Franchise Mode? My suggestion would be Road to the NFL Mode where players can choose between NFL Practice Squad or any of the 17 USFL/XFL Teams. If a player selects any of the XFL/USFL teams they go straight to the season of their perspective leagues. If a  player chooses NFL practice squad, they can practice to improve one's ratings at practice and maybe get a chance at a promotion to the active roster but I would have it that it would be better to play in the other leagues to improve one's ratings but if the creators of the game have other ideas that's OK as well. I would have it that a player would need to play at least 2-3 seasons in both the USFL/XFL before joining the NFL. Practice squad closer to 3-4 seasons before coming to the acti...

Since the league restarted last year, nine teams from the regular USFL returned granted one of them the Memphis Showboats took the place of the Tampa Bay Bandits who are on hiatus as of now. Really hope that the Bandits do come back. In the last post, I said that both the XFL and the USFL should increase the league by adding four more teams and that both leagues should have 12 weeks. Unsure if either league would do that but let's say they do and Fox doesn't shut down the league because Fox News lied about Dominion Voting and need to pay them nearly 800 million dollars who would be my choice besides the Bandits because you know I would what them to come back. Other Teams I picked are the Denver Gold, LA Express, Oakland Invaders, Jacksonville Bulls, San Antonio Gunslingers (under a new name), and Orlando Renegades. You know what, I'll throw the Washington Federals and see who my top three picks are (my fourth is the Bandits). A case for all eight teams is they're not re...

I have watched both leagues since they started or re-started since both leagues started in 1983 with the USFL and the XFL in 2001. I remember seeing the original XFL when I was in High School, the USFL I didn't watch it because the league ended it's first run in 1985 when I was a baby though when I was a kid my parents bought me football blooper VHS tapes that showed USFL highlights, OK more like they're bloopers and that's how I knew about the USFL. I think the USFL would have lasted longer but most of the owners listened to a fellow owner name Trump who wanted to directly compete with the NFL by playing in the fall instead of staying in the spring. This is the guy Republicans are following? Unsure how long they would have lasted if the USFL stayed in the spring. In 2020, the XFL restarted with Vince McMahon once again leading the way and none of the original teams from the 2001 season came back though New York and Los Angeles had teams again. Orlando probably would ha...

Here we go again, another NCIS is going bye-bye. No, it's not the original NCIS that got renewed for its 21st season. It's going to get a second full season without Mark Harmon which is a surprise and we don't know if Harmon will come back. The same goes for Michael Weatherly and he is available with the show "Bull" Got the Boot last year. NCIS Hawaii got a third season, so that means Los Angeles is ending after 14 seasons. Honestly, I'm more OK with this than New Orleans getting canceled. I believe even to this day that NCIS New Orleans should have gotten an 8th and final season. I believe the storylines were there for New Orleans with Pride dealing with married life, raising a long lost son and being a step-dad to two more boys, the city advisory board, the cases, his daughter's marriage, a fitting end to corrupt cops storyline, OK I think you get it. Nothing against Los Angeles, I do like the show and I probably would have liked to see them do another s...

I got into Formula One thanks to Netflix's series Drive to Survive and I saw the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on ESPN where Lewis Hamilton won which as of now after the 2022 season is Hamilton's last win. Since Drive to Survive, I've been hooked. Watching the races when I can and watching Youtube videos by WTF1 and Josh Revell among others and it's not just me. Other Americans have been flocking to the sport probably since Liberty Media bought F1 and again Drive to Survive. Prior to that, well not so much. Even though the previous owner of Formula One Bernie Ecclestone tried to make it work a number of times including having three American races in 1982 (Detroit, Long Beach, and Vegas). He also tried Dallas and Phoenix but no luck. Well, there was the Indianapolis 500 but after the 2005 race where only six drivers raced because the Michelin tire teams retired because the tires wore out faster than the Bridgestone drivers and the FIA didn't do anything to adjust thi...

Probably won't happen since Kevin Costner is busy with Yellowstone and would Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon do another movie together after being separated? Since I've be doing fan-fiction sequels, I wanted to do one on Bull Durham especially since the Durham Bulls are the Rays Triple-A team. During the movie, they were the Braves' single A team. Anyway, I have Crash Davis (Costner) who manages the Bulls after managing in the big leagues. He and Annie (Sarandon) were married and are now divorced. They have two kids including a son who played in the Big Leagues but decided to retire and join his dad's coaching staff. The Rays promote this pitcher who reminds Crash of his old teammate Nuke Laloosh (Robbins). A great talent with control issues and not up there in the intelligence department. So he decides to make two decisions. The first one is to convince his son who played catcher as well as first base, outfield, and DH to come out of retirement to catch for the pitcher....