sfaJack
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Goodell's just overreacting to seeing his superstars get their shit ruined. It's obviously in the best interest of the league to not have anybody get injured for maximized marketing strategy....he's just taking a more overprotective approach to it...as opposed to Selig, who sees fans get clocked with flying chunks of maple wood and responds by handing out 1950s Duck and Cover pamphlets at the ball park.How did Brady's injury affect the Patriots' and/or the NFL's marketing? All of the Patriots' games were sold out long before the season started. Fans didn't stop watching games just because Tom Brady got hurt. Not that that would matter anyway--TV revenues were already guaranteed. And it's not like ESPN wasn't talking about Brady's knee/staph infections every goddamn day.
So who (other than Brady) was feeling any pain from his being hurt? The Patriots still went 11-5 and sold all their tickets, along with a whole lot of jerseys/tshirts/whatever. Plus, for 2009 the NFL gets to put new 'superstar' Matt Cassel on the marquee in Kansas City in addition to promoting 'THE RETURN OF TOM BRADY = OMG PATRIOTS TO THE SUPER BOWL.'
Might it be a win/win in that regard?
I voted for Stern, btw. I don't follow the NHL so I won't vote for Bettman. But Goodell gets my vote if the NFL can't figure out how to split the billions and billions of dollars with their players and all or part of the 2011 season is lost.
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all types of queer shit would make a good member title.It'd make a better forum slogan.
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Yeah, I can tell you that teams DEFINITELY require season ticket holders to buy the preseason tickets.
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And even if it helped his argument, you're still talking about one guy out of a league of 450 or so. Not exactly statistically relevant.
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No. If you're going to change the OT rules, make it the same rules for all regular and postseason games. Two sets of rules would only lead to more confusion for Pro Bowl quarterbacks.
I'm fine with the OT rules as they are, BTW. But if they want to change it, make it a full extra quarter, booth replay only, 2 timeouts per team.
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Nah, there has to be some point to winning a division championship other than selling t-shirts to drooling idiots who would actually wear a "2009 NFC North Champions" shirt with pride.But there IS an incentive to winning your division--you still get to go to the playoffs and have a chance to get to the Super Bowl. If you can manage to sell a few division championship t-shirts to some drooling idiots along the way, kudos!
You're telling me it's fair that the Colts go 12-4--a great season that included a win over the Chargers--yet have to travel to play the 8-8 Chargers in a wild card game--who barely qualified for the playoffs--just because the Colts happened to be divisionally aligned with the incredible 14-2 Titans and the Chargers' thorough mediocrity was rewarded only by their division mates' total incompetence? That's more unfair than the OT rules.
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Yes, yes, yes to the 'team with the better record hosts the playoff game' thing. Please let that happen.
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Yeah, so nothing to do with Pedro...
Aaron Boone is leaving the Astros because he has a heart condition involving his aorta and aortic valve that requires surgery. It is unclear if he's ever going to play baseball again.
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The Astros have called a press conference this morning to 'important announcement' that has 'nothing to do with the rumors about Pudge Rodriguez.'
Word around the campfire is that they have signed Pedro Martinez. I guess they think it's still 1999 instead of 2009 with Pudge, Pedro, and Hampton.
The cynical theory is that they're signing big name guys since they've lost a couple of major corporate sponsors and ticket sales have been very underwhelming so far. Drayton McLane isn't going to stand for a half empty MMP every night and if signing washed up guys because of their name sells a few more tickets, well, he'll do it regardless of whether they have anything left or not.
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Its funny whenever Syracuse has a good Garden run they jump 2-3 spots from what they deserve. I think they are a fun team to watch but I am not sure they are one of the 12 best teams in the country.I, for one, hope you are correct and Syracuse proves to be severely overrated on Friday.
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http://www.starregistry.com/?engine=google...CFQUWGgodVhoGDASites like this. For only $54 you can name a star after yourself or a loved on blah blah blah...what the fuck. I can name a star after me right now if I want to. Who has star rights?
I hear these commercials all day at work
One of my former coworkers used this site to name a star after his wife and presented it to her as a birthday gift. To say she was unimpressed would be an understatement.
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Edinson Volquez
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What about the Chiefs?I don't see it. Todd Haley and TO hated each other when they were both in Dallas.
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Great news. They should have never signed Owens in the first place.
For comedy's sake, I wish he'd end up in Cincinnati.
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States I have urinated in:
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Illinois
Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Virginia
Washington
Washington DC
Other states I've driven through:
Alabama
Iowa
Oklahoma
Countries I have urinated in:
U.S.
Mexico
Netherlands
Egypt
Best Foreign Country: Egypt
Worst Foreign Country: Mexico
Best U.S. State: Washington. I really enjoyed Seattle, the capital in Olympia, and the subsequent drive down to Portland.
Worst U.S. State: Nebraska. Absolutely nothing remarkable or memorable about my time there.
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Jim Bowden quits while professing his innocence.
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Talk is Kubiak wanting to get a "veteran QB" to come in and back up Schaub but for the life of me I wouldn't know who we could bring it.Brooks Bollinger is an UFA.
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If there were a cap of $100 Million and a floor of $45-50 Million, as a team owner I'd still spend closer to the 45-50 range.What if they made the floor 75% of whatever the cap figure is?
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Texans are said to be franchising Dunta Robinson today.
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Fuckin' bitch that's now sitting in the office across the hall from me. She's a loud-talker as it is, but she has to have EVERY goddamn phone call she makes/gets on the speakerphone with the volume maxed out. Plus, she's one of those social people that's more concerned with gossiping than working, so there are always a bunch of people loitering in her office...who are also talking.
I gotta ask to move to the other end of the hall.
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Class of 2009:
Bruce Smith
Rod Woodson
Randall McDaniel
Derrick Thomas
Bob Hayes (it's about fucking time)
Ralph Wilson
Tagliabue apparently wasn't close again.
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- "Great team chemistry" to explain why an average team is performing great; "Poor team chemistry" to describe a team with high expectations that is performing poorly
- Saying a player is "great in the clutch" when there is no way to prove either what "the clutch" is or that the player excels in said clutch
The 2009 NFL Offseason
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Because Stanback has shown a lot of ability to play receiver? Or stay healthy? Or do anything at all?