Heh! Me too.
Found the whole sport a bit confusing. But fun.
I suspect most Americans’ introduction to the concepts of promotion and relegation, if they have heard of them at all, will be through Ted Lasso. That’s certainly the first time I heard of the idea. And so too for the series’ titular protagonist. In fact when he was asked about relegation from a reporter, that prompted me to Google it because I was as clueless as he was supposed to be.
I haven’t watched Ted Lasso, but I might eventually.
Me, too. I enjoy those fish-out-of-water stories.
It’s really good! If you’re tired of watching shows about assholes, it’s a refreshing change to a story about how a genuinely good person positively impacts the people around him in realistic but significant ways. And it’s funny.
I’m not a sports fan by a long shot so it was a hard sell for me, but I really fell in love with it.
Yeah, I’m sure I’ll watch it eventually. All the snippets I’ve seen have appealed to me.
Ted Lasso for me.
I knew about it before watching Ted Lasso.
Solely because of an older discussion about it here on the SDMB.
This is the first I’ve heard of it. I might ask someone about it rather than Google. There are probably all sorts of nuances I’d miss and a simple technical answer might be over my head.
–applause and agreement–
They’ve got a point about the boarder, though. We offer plenty of mashed potatoes, and fresh sheets every week, but there’s still no pleasing that jerk.
-snerk-
Exception granted.
Yeah, when I read about the boarder, and how it impacted the economy, my first thought was “Well, raise his rent!”
What I don’t like about quoting from another thread like this is that it shows me the title of the thread and the avatar of the poster, but not the name of the poster. If I don’t recognize the avatar (and mostly I don’t) I have to click the link to see who it is, if I care enough to find out.
Not your fault, obviously, it always seems to do that. Software flaw, I guess.
That’s on you for not recognizing Al Pacino. 
~Max
At that size, I’m lucky to recognize it’s a male person. What is that, about 25% of the regular avatar size, when it’s quoted?
Fair enough, for anyone else curious it’s poster Dallas_Jones that Smapti quoted.
And that’s an avatar from the era of the subtle, understated actor Al Pacino. Who knows what opinions a ‘HOO-AH’ era Al Pacino avatar may hold?
I don’t know if Dallas is one since he’s been here since 2008 … but I’ve noticed a recent uptick in concern trolls and damn-near Russian-troll-farm folks in P&E lately. The SDMB is on someone’s radar as a place to sow chaos and yank liberal chains.
On another board I frequent, some moribund user accounts came back to life during COVID as strident anti-vaccine and COVID-is-a-hoax believers. Any chance whatsoever something similar can happen/has happened here?
Probably the same opinions but in all caps and bold text.