Also too–I bitched about this on the other NFL thread, but since I'm still cranky about it:
Crap…from the crawl in the Carolina – NY Giants game:
Chargers have the most support among owners to move to Los Angeles
Well., it could be worse–it could be the Raiders. Plus, if the replies to my previous complaints about poaching other California teams is representative, San Diegans won't hate LA so much as they'll be glad to hand over their problem to us FFS…
At some point, the NFL is going to make it like the requirement to play in London. "Sorry, Bears, this year you're the Los Angeles team. You can move back soon."
LOL. Even when the Packers sucked, a Christmas Eve game at Lambeau would be a no-brainer, even, especially, if it were 10 below. Priests would have blown off Midnight mass to attend. Maybe LA really isn't ready for their own team yet.
Honestly, the only good things to come out of LA getting a team would be that other owners could no longer blackmail their cities with the "if you don't spend a fuckton of taxpayer dollars on a new stadium we're headed to Los Angeles" threat.
Well, that and getting to see my team when it comes out here to play. Fuck, I'd do that on Christmas Eve…
1. NFL were the ones who penny-pinched and pulled the plug on NFL Europe.
2. Hardcore fans already have our teams. WE don't change our alliances once they're formed.
3. You want to keep sending the Jaguars over to us? And you want us to like your 'product'?
4. I would infer that the Wembley games have all the passion of a Pro Bowl crowd (see 2.)
5. Same reason why an EPL "39th Game" in the US or Asia is a fucking stupid idea.
…among college athletes, concussions were most likely in wrestling, followed by men’s ice hockey and then women’s ice hockey. And women’s soccer and women’s basketball, in that order, were right behind football in terms of the danger of concussion…
BUT head injuries are just one peril, and not necessarily the chief one, even in football. There are many more deaths among football players of all ages from indirect trauma, including heatstroke and cardiac arrest, than from such direct trauma as head and spinal-cord injuries.
Douglas Casa, the chief executive officer of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, said that from 2000 through 2009, which was the last full decade studied, such indirect-trauma deaths outnumbered direct-trauma deaths by 108 to 41.
Wait–this is the football thread this week? Better let people on the other football thread know, BRB…
Thanks. Sorry I wasn't feeling well and ended up napping longer than I intended.
Ouch…feel better soon, honey!
The Giants seem to have woke up at the same time I did, so that's cool.
This Odell Beckham Jr – whoever the defender is who is covering him fight is rather amusing.
I can definitely see this ending up in a bench-clearing brawl by the second half.
Get well soon!
Dueling football threads
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Yeah, there is only one.
LOL 😉
Working links: Always more compelling than non-working links.
Speaking of working, the Washington team seem to be firing on all cylinders today.
Also too–I bitched about this on the other NFL thread, but since I'm still cranky about it:
Crap…from the crawl in the Carolina – NY Giants game:
Well., it could be worse–it could be the Raiders. Plus, if the replies to my previous complaints about poaching other California teams is representative, San Diegans won't hate LA so much as they'll be glad to hand over their problem to us FFS…
Maybe the Lambs come back, since the stadium in St. Louis is M T.
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That would be my preference since St Louis poached them from LA, but the rumor mill has it that this is less likely to happen.
I agree, or relocate some truly awful team like Tampa Bay or Jacksonville. (How many shitty teams does Florida need?)
At some point, the NFL is going to make it like the requirement to play in London. "Sorry, Bears, this year you're the Los Angeles team. You can move back soon."
I don't understand this: surely in terms of regional rivalries and 'local derbies' the Chargers should stay in SD?
That's the whole thinking behind the NHL team in Seattle (or even Portland) – and it's worked out well for the 'Cascadia Cup' in MLS soccerball.
But as for the NFL, the Raiders and Rams have already flip-flopped back and forth to/from LA. Why uproot yet another city's team?
From your lips to the NFL owners' ears…
thinking behind the NHL team in Seattle
The return of the Metropolitans – heart be still.
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Ooh, do they do t-shirts or jerseys? I would love to troll downtown Vancouver with one of those beauties ;p
Indeed they do in a number of price ranges.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=seattle+metr…
He he!
Since it is about first games' halftime, how about some [ LARPing for entertainment ] rather than talking heads or marching bands.
He Man half time show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y
LARPing is always good for a larf.
Chargers – Raiders game on Christmas Eve?
I could see going to a game on that night if the team were good, maybe…
LOL. Even when the Packers sucked, a Christmas Eve game at Lambeau would be a no-brainer, even, especially, if it were 10 below. Priests would have blown off Midnight mass to attend. Maybe LA really isn't ready for their own team yet.
Honestly, the only good things to come out of LA getting a team would be that other owners could no longer blackmail their cities with the "if you don't spend a fuckton of taxpayer dollars on a new stadium we're headed to Los Angeles" threat.
Well, that and getting to see my team when it comes out here to play. Fuck, I'd do that on Christmas Eve…
Those are two very good points.
The Battle For Los Angeles!
There can only be o… oh wait, we've already done that one today :/
OT: It's the most wonderful time of the year! (All the Oscar bait screeners have hit bittorrent!)
Woohoo! Screener time!
I cannot wait to watch Leo get raped by a bear!
Is that any relation to Fleener time?
DAMN, Odell Beckham Jr is losing his cool. This is making the Steelers – Bengals catfight look like a happy hour FFS…
Oopsy downthumbed by mistake.
That's what Odell Beckham Jr said
The G-Men are trying to make a game of it.
Oops, Eli intercepted in the end zone.
Incidentally, Frank Bruni's NYT column is an interesting read about injuries in school sports.
The tl;dr is that the problem involves more than just football and concussions.
Damn, that Odell Beckham – whoever that defender is fight seems to have given the Giants new life…
ETA: aaand of course Eli tosses a pick right after I type that. Guess it's safe to walk the dogs now…
ETA again: glad I waited. Damn, we've got a game here!
Ooh hang on, Panthers did a boo-boo too…. TD to Giants. 7pts in it.
I'm glad my dogs are being patient for once.
Yep, Beckham woke up.
Woo-hoo! Touchdown Teddy!
Well, shit. The Giants are doing this.
Nope.
Do they not get four points for trying? Sheesh.
Never! They get crap and like it!
DAMN this Carolina -NYG game is good. I may miss the start of my Steelers' game to see the end of this one.
Been split-screening it.
Weird, why didn't Coughlin use his timeouts at the end?
Wow, so close.
[Frank Deford] has a question about the international NFL stuff.
"Logistically ridiculous!"
1. NFL were the ones who penny-pinched and pulled the plug on NFL Europe.
2. Hardcore fans already have our teams. WE don't change our alliances once they're formed.
3. You want to keep sending the Jaguars over to us? And you want us to like your 'product'?
4. I would infer that the Wembley games have all the passion of a Pro Bowl crowd (see 2.)
5. Same reason why an EPL "39th Game" in the US or Asia is a fucking stupid idea.
HTH. GTFO.
I have a question. Does Frank Deford practice being annoying? And is he actively trying to look like Vincent Price?
I don't think he has to practice, and I'm pretty sure that's just how old white guys from Baltimore look, based on Deford and John Waters.
Except John Waters is funny and charming and makes movies that are, uh…interesting.
Geez, tough crowd.
OFFS! Pig Pen throws an INT with 2:01 left in a 7-point game?
#bitchmoangrumble
Still managed to eke out a win, though!
True enough…it was a miracle!
Ooh! That were an exciting end to that game there.
My heart is still pounding/
How the fuck my team pulled this off is beyond me. IDK, maybe the Steelers are actually good or something.
(Now watch them lose to the angry birds next week…)
Oh, and about that Odell Beckham Jr – I finally found out his name is Josh Norman throwdown some of us saw earlier in the Carolina – NY Giants game?
Josh Norman: Odell Beckham Jr. should have been tossed
Well, that Iggles game was shit. But watching the last half-hour of "The Sound of Music" is always exciting.
Ahem, "DC or the real one". / just sayin'
Sorry, yes I meant the DC Version!
Popped into the kitchen to make a coffee and they scored again. I think this might be a blowout.
"10 below? Yeah, you should probably wear a hat."
"But it's not even windy! OK, fine."
It's like landscape architects and real architects.
Do they use their heads in soccer? (Also, I know more than one girl who fractured her jaw and got concussed doing competitive cheerleading).
Still tl:dr: play safe, kids!