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    videogame championships have more viewers than the NFL superbowl nowadays. not only do sports suck nowadays but people have way more options on what they want to be distracted by


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    Dummy Burfict suspended for the rest of the season for another dirty hit.









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    Quote Originally Posted by Sense-A View Post
    It's kind of sad to see how the NFL, NBA, ......all the pro sports leagues, in my opinion, put out a worse product than they did 20-30 years ago.

    The athletes are so spoiled I don't even want to cheer for them. Fuck them all. Even the teams I used to care about I don't care about any more.

    The analysts don't know shit. The players would get whooped by 1980's players in their primes. Weak Sauce.

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    Good that Green Bay won. The Lions can't and will never make it. They're owned by the Ford family and sponsored by billionaire Dan Gilbert, and they still suck!
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    -The Los Angeles Chargers vehemently denied they were moving to London or thinking about London or just about anything else involving London. The Athletic had cited some anonymous sources that both the Chargers and the NFL were interested in it happening.



    “It’s total f------ bull----, OK?” Chargers owner Dean Spanos said of the story. “We’re not going to London. We’re not going anywhere. We’re playing in Los Angeles. This is our home. This is where I’m planning to be for a long f------ time. Period.”

    The Chargers’ official Twitter feed followed that up with a clip from the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” that expressed similar sentiments.

    All in all the denial may have been the most endearing thing the Chargers have done in years. Maybe it will win them some fans.

    Or not.

    The Chargers-to-London story didn’t make a ton of sense to begin with.

    First off, anyone moving to London brings endless questions, tons of concerns and remains a massive gamble by the NFL. It is a move that would impact each and every franchise, including some (such as those in the London team’s division) in significant ways.

    Yes, Spanos’ Chargers are in a bad spot playing in L.A., where they have almost no fans. And yes, it is embarrassing for them (and the league office) to have their 29,000-seat temporary home in a soccer stadium overrun by supporters of the away team.

    Worse, there is almost no prospect that improves when they move in as a tenant to the Los Angeles Rams’ glorious new facility near LAX. SoFi Stadium will seat 70,000, allowing for just that many more tickets for visiting fans to gobble up.

    Chargers players have rightly bristled at their misfortune of having no fans. Hey, it isn’t their fault. This was a playoff team a season ago and it didn’t make a dent in the crowded/ambivalent L.A. sports market.

    “Felt like an away game, every week, it is what it is at this point ...,” Charger receiver Keenan Allen told the Los Angeles Times on Sunday after defeating Green Bay and sending throngs of Packers fans home disappointed. “Sixteen road games, that’s what we do … we know what it is.”

    What it is is a disaster.

    But it is a disaster of Dean Spanos’ making.

    In San Diego he had a growing market of 3.3 million all to himself. He had great weather, passionate local supporters and years of connection with the region. He couldn’t figure out how to get a new stadium built and wouldn’t do it himself — the way Rams owner Stan Kroenke is doing it in L.A.

    He botched the entire thing, couldn’t find a suitable new city to move to and failed to build a stadium with the Oakland Raiders closer to San Diego. Oh, and he alienated all his old fans. He screwed the entire thing up and now sits in L.A. with little hope and few prospects.

    You think the rest of the NFL’s team owners are going to bail that guy out and just change the direction of the league by handing him London, a market larger than L.A.?

    The NFL’s long effort to gain a football foothold in England has worked. The league played four games there this year and attracted sellout crowds for all of them. The early Sunday morning television window is a boon. The new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is built NFL-ready, much better than the clunky fit (and small locker rooms) of Wembley Stadium.

    That doesn’t mean the NFL should put a team there.

    Logistics remain. Can a London team handle the heavy travel — which require months of logistics? And sure, teams have gone over and back and haven’t been too negatively impacted, but if you are put in the Chargers’ division, do you want to have to do it every year? Wouldn’t that be a competitive disadvantage?

    And what about playoff appearances, when games are set at the last moment, sometimes with just six days’ notice. Getting everything across the Atlantic is a nightmare with time to plan.

    Will free agents sign there? Will training camp be there? How do you shuffle in the early week tryouts and taxi squad guys who make up big parts of a roster as the grind of a season wears on? The London team would be playing uphill, likely to be bad and bad teams don’t draw fans.

    Having people show up for these events is just part of the equation.

    Does the NFL need the pop of revenue that London brings that much?

    If you are an NFL team owner, is this even a bad thing? Green Bay (or anyone else on the schedule) got an extra home game Sunday and energized tens of thousands of their displaced fans (more merchandise sold, a better connection with the team).

    What’s the bad part of that?

    When it comes to the NFL’s International Series, the best route remains slowly extending it to eight games a year — the same number of home games a London-based team would have.

    Rather than be exclusively in England, it can move some games around to other fertile football markets. Mexico City has already proven to be one of those homes — the Chargers are playing Kansas City there on Nov. 18. It would even make sense if the Chargers played annually in Mexico City, the way Jacksonville does in London.

    Throw in games in mainland Europe (Berlin, Madrid), Brazil (Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro) and maybe another in Mexico, Toronto or wherever and you get to eight. Each team plays out of country every two years (or more if you’re the Jags or Chargers) and loses no more than one home game every four.

    That pushes the sport into new markets without forever altering the way the NFL works.

    The Chargers’ situation isn’t good. For the Chargers.

    But that’s their problem, not the rest of the NFL’s.









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    How many losers do the browns have? The racist pussy that hates whites got booted and now this guy?

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    RIP to Fred Cox


    Millions of childhood backyard football memories can be credited to a former NFL kicker who helped create one of the most lasting and beloved toys ever invented.

    Fred Cox, who kicked 15 years for the Minnesota Vikings in the 1960s and 1970s and is the franchise’s all-time leading scorer, died on Wednesday just a few weeks before his 81st birthday.

    Cox also brought the idea of a softer backyard football for kids to play with to Parker Brothers while he was still with the Vikings in 1969. Eventually, the toy football became known as Nerf, and the rest is history. It would go on to become one of the most popular toys of all time and gain international recognition, with annual revenues still in the hundreds of millions to this day.

    The Vikings released the following statement:

    The Vikings mourn the loss of Fred Cox, one of our proudest legends and a member of the 50 Greatest Vikings. A respected teammate and friend, Fred’s football career as the Vikings all-time leading scorer set the stage for a life where he went on to achieve great things in business and in his community. Fred’s positive energy, strength in his faith and passion for life will be missed.

    Fred Cox’s legacy is wide-reaching

    At the time of his retirement from the NFL in 1977, Cox had scored 1,365 points — at the time he was the second-leading scorer in NFL history behind only George Blanda. Cox now sits 34th on the all-time scoring list.

    Cox is third on the Vikings’ all-time games played list at 210. He was named All-Pro in 1969, made the Pro Bowl in 1970, led the NFL in field goals made in three different seasons and kicked in all four of the Vikings’ Super Bowl appearances. In his career, Cox hit on 282 of his 455 field-goal attempts and 519 of 539 extra-point tries.

    Those numbers appear low by today’s standards, but Cox used a straight-ahead kicking style that’s now become outdated and was challenged by kicking in far poorer field conditions of the day. The Vikings did not move indoors to the Metrodome until 1982, playing on the occasionally frozen grass surface of Metropolitan Stadium when the weather turned cold.

    Named one of the 50 best Vikings of all time in 2010, Cox is best known for his kicking exploits. He actually entered the league as a fullback, drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the eighth round (110th overall) to be a lead blocker for Jim Brown.

    A back injury that Cox suffered led to Browns head coach Paul Brown asking Cox to switch to kicker. Although he couldn’t beat out the great Lou Groza, Cox had shown enough to pique the interest of the Vikings, who traded for him.

    Most people were unaware that he also played such a big role in inventing Nerf after a neighbor knocked on his door and asked him to workshop an idea for a safer backyard football than the leather versions typically used.

    After his football career, Cox also became a licensed chiropractor who opened a practice in the suburbs of Minneapolis.

    But if you polled millions of Nerf-wielding children who grew up diving for the toy all over backyards around the world about the invention’s impact, Cox should go down as one of the all-time legends in football history.









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    Another Western Pennsylvania and Pitt Panther legend. Hail to Pitt

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    frank gore passed barry sanders

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    -Arena Football League closes down after more than 30 years

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    In my lifetime, the Steelers have had 3 head coaches. 2 are now in the Hall of Fame (Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher) and the other is their current coach.

    In my lifetime, the Browns are now looking to hire their 17th coach and they've missed 3 seasons when the original team left for Baltimore.

    At this point they should just hire Nicky Gooch.

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    Eli Manning retires and is headed to the hall of fame. He's 7th all time in passing yards and touchdowns.









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    I can't believe this. What happened to San Francisco? They had this game won. BS call on the touchdown and SF constantly making mistakes in the 4th quarter. How embarrassing.
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    Congrats to Andy Reid and the Chiefs.









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