# Amazing Race 15: Preseason Team Rankings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522 "2009-09-25T15:29:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/81 "2009-09-29T20:04:00Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I like how they’re always assuming that the other teams are lying too. Their whole spiel about how Lance can’t be a lawyer because he’s so much of a meathead is great. A sizeable minority of actual courtroom trial attorneys I know are very much like that guy. A sizable number of guys from the part of MA where he and his gal live are very much like that. If you Venn Diagram that, we’ve got a fair number of Lawyer Lances running around the north shore of Boston, chasing ambulances and whatnot. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/82 "2009-09-29T20:08:01Z")
I forget who it was on here in the old “Racers are announced” thread, but someone quipped that the bandanna on Lance’s arm is to remind him which side is his right… ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/83 "2009-09-29T20:46:27Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I forget who it was on here in the old “Racers are announced” thread, but someone quipped that the bandanna on Lance’s arm is to remind him which side is his right… Because b is for bandanna and…wait, now I’m confused! 😕 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/84 "2009-09-29T22:02:21Z")
[Seven Reasons I Love “The Amazing Race”](http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/seven-reasons-i-love-the-amazing-race--628) Okay, which one of you wrote that? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/85 "2009-09-29T22:08:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Seven Reasons I Love “The Amazing Race”](http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/seven-reasons-i-love-the-amazing-race--628) > > Okay, which one of you wrote that? All excellent reasons. But the one about Phil caused me to ponder…and I realized that, unlike Ryan Seacrest or Jeff Probst, Phil actually has very little interaction with the contestants. He’s mostly talking to us, the viewers – he only talks to the contestants on the Mat. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/86 "2009-09-29T23:55:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Seven Reasons I Love “The Amazing Race”](http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/seven-reasons-i-love-the-amazing-race--628) > > Okay, which one of you wrote that? It’s definitely not me – because it completely leaves out the Eyebrow. (But I wish I did write it.) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/87 "2009-09-30T00:01:01Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > It’s definitely not me – because it completely leaves out the Eyebrow. (But I wish I did write it.) 😃 Phil did The Eyebrow when announcing one team’s place at the mat, and I thought of you! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/88 "2009-09-30T03:38:58Z")
Much love for Phil’s Eyebrow. An episode is not complete until it’s made an appearance. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/89 "2009-10-07T01:01:03Z")
Globe-trotting Globetrotters trot the globe yet again. If they go to Russia, one of the clues needs to be “Leon Trotsky”. Kudos to the winning team for realizing they could follow the leader and outrun them to the mat. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/90 "2009-10-07T15:44:24Z")
Just got around to watching Sunday’s TAR–was there a separate thread on it? I didn’t see one. This season is strange for me. I find myself confusing a lot of individual teammates–Megan and Shayne and Mika and Canaan somehow get jumbled up in my mind, and often I have a hard time separating them until I see someone do something retarded and then remember that this must be Mika and Canaan. Seriously, their “dancing” to try to get the water dragon puppets to spit out the clue must be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I have no idea what the hell they were thinking there. I also confuse Justin with either of the two gay brothers, to the point where if I see just Justin minus Zev, I think it’s one of the brothers. The frantic bunching of the groups at the Detour and Roadblock did not help. Looks like Marcy and whats-his-name got screwed by picking the wrong Detour. I actually thought that one was pretty neat, compared to the push-a-statue and grab balloons. They didn’t really make good TV, though, so I’m not broken up about them being gone. It seems that all the truly entertaining ones are soon to be gone, including Meathead and Punching Bag, who REALLY do not do well at quick thinking under pressure, and Mika and Canaan, who don’t seem to do well at thinking period. The Globetrotters (amusing juxtaposition, really), Pinky and the Brain, and Megan and Shayne (hard to come up with a nickname for them, maybe Dinky and the Bland) seem to be the ones to beat here, but they’re all pretty much yawners. Would love to see a Taxicab Ranking! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/91 "2009-10-07T16:00:54Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Just got around to watching Sunday’s TAR–was there a separate thread on it? I didn’t see one. > > … > > Would love to see a Taxicab Ranking! [Yes there is, actually](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534711), complete with Taxicab Ranking. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522/92 "2009-10-07T17:27:50Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > This season is strange for me. I find myself confusing a lot of individual teammates–Megan and Shayne and Mika and Canaan somehow get jumbled up in my mind, and often I have a hard time separating them until I see someone do something retarded and then remember that this must be Mika and Canaan. Wait till they open their mouth. If they drawl, they’re Mika and Canaan. Also Cheyne has weird hair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-15-preseason-team-rankings/511522.md?page=4)