Recent content by mbanghar

I believe the phrase natural born citizen has always be interpreted as meaning a citizen at birth, and having at least one parent with American citizenship should be enough. I could be wrong but I doubt there would be an eligibity question for Romney.

Clearly the northerners will come, and the number of slaves will be the lowest of any slave state. The anti-slavery faction was growing rapidly, and I do recall reading that the timing of the referendum was very important. The 18 months before the vote really allowed Coles and others to marshall...

This is probably true, but part of the reason Northerners were able to take over as quickly as they did is that following the defeat of the resolution most Southerners stopped coming. It would be interesting to see what the results would have been had Illinois had a constitution specifically...

This personally is a very interesting idea for a timeline. Perhaps the easiest POD would be to have Coles either die or go to another state in the NW Territory to free his slaves. Another possibility would be to have the pro-slavery faction conslidate its support behind a single candidate as...

I don't know how Family Guy would have continued without Macfarlane since not only is he one of the main creative minds but the voice for 3 of the main characters plus numerous other characters. I could see perhaps some of the other writers possibly getting the oppprtunity to land a spinoff but...

1)Yes the NFL would have been founded. Halas was not heavily involved in the original founding of the NFL, and while the Bears are a charter member I believe it would have existed much the same way it did in OTL without them. 2)Again an easy yes because Chicago really had two NFL teams until...

Well since the scenario is ASB that would be fitting.

Bears with Bradshaw-Always an interesting one since it was merely a flip of a coin, but I don't know if this helps either the Bears or Bradshaw. Bradshaw certainly would have been better than any of the starters the Bears troted out during the 70s in Concannon, Douglass, Huff, Avelleni, etc...

Obama beat Keyes 70% to 29%. I am pretty sure Obama would have a tougher time against Edgar then Keyes for the simple fact that few could do worse than Keyes did. That said Jim Edgar is still quite popular throughout the state. His tenure as governor was unmarked by scandal and is far enough...

The only way it would make sense for the NFL to develop a minor league system is if teams were to take control over development. That would mean changing the rules and having teams draft players out of high school for the minor leagues. This would kill college football as we know it and...

This is pretty close to the scenario I've been working on as a timeline.

I'd argue that idea pretty strongly. Cabrera was going to be more expensive than the Marlins could afford, meaning he was going to cost more than league minimum. Cabrera was going to be dealt by the Marlins before he hit free agency one way or the other.

Another pod to explain soccer in the United States would be the American League of Professional Football. In the 1890s, there was an attempt to launch a national soccer league with the same teams as the National League. The Baltimore Orioles were declared the first and only champions of this...

I've wondered about this one, too. In actuality the Players' League was probably in the best shape of the three major leagues after the 1890 season, but the Brotherhood got sold out by the investors at the end of the season, Spaulding played his part well too. A simple change here or there...

If you are doing a 2003 playoff scenario, then how about Alex Gonzalez doesn't boot an easy double play ball to end the eigth inning in game 6 of the NLCS. I have my own baseball POD that I am particularly interested in, but I am working on fleshing that out as my own TL so I will keep it to...