NFL Draft 2015 Bye Bye NY

Wednesday through Saturday. Four days.

 

Very convenient for attendees.

Why is the NFL putting the draft out for bids??? Why not just rotate NFL cities? How much effing money is too much for Goodell?  Is there no end to that d bag sucking money out of every pocket possible?

Rotate NFL cites free of charge as a way to thank the cities for supporting the league.

no no no Chili you got it all backwards.

Thank them?  Give back?  What?

those cities need to bow down to the privilege of having an NFL team and kiss the ring.  the NFL owes them NOTHING!  they should be honored to be considered an NFL city. They should offer up cash and new stadiums whenever the NFL even thinks about asking.

(lifted straight from Badell's boardroom notes) 

I don't agree with the extent Cuban postulated, but the NFL is closer to their saturation point then I thought a year ago.

Love of money...

Base a ball used to be beddy beddy good to me.  Lot of memories with my Dad.

 

Since the cancelled world series....Have not been back - Very little interest in watching Matt Kemp make 200  million hitting .243

 

I grew up with baseball as the number one sport in the house.   We planned our summer vacation around hitting a different Major League city and watching a different team. 

 

The N ot F or L ong seems to be winding its way down that path.

 

 

 

 

It'll be L.A.

 

The NFL is clamoring for a NFL team there. Of course they will want the hype taken to the one city with the one television market they are most salivating over.

 

You can see the train wreck of greed coming down the tracks. Well, I should say everyone except the NFL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

timesfour.com is registered until Dec. of 2020

 

I figure about then they'll have sufficiently beheaded the golden goose.

 

Like Satori stated a month or so ago....They don't care about you or your long-time loyalty to the league, only about who brings in the most money.

 

All I want for Christmas is another Lombardi Trophy in our case

 

 

Just yesterday.

 

 

Kraft thinks a team in a city known for its love of film should happen. 

 

Color me shocked. 

The Cannes Celluoids?

 

The Fightin' Film Noirs?

Meh...it's probably not that much different than how cities bid to host the SB; they will pay the NFL an obscene amount of money for the right, and hope to recoup those costs by filling hotels with overpriced rates, having restaurants, clubs, and bars raise their prices, and on and on...

And this is the 'thanks' the fans get for their tax monies being used to build stadiums for billionaire owners.

Tsk.

Blah blah blah... You watch the games week after week, year after year, play your fantasy games, place bets and even discuss the game at great length year round. 

 

Tell me again about your hatred for the NFLFU please.

Quite honestly, I'm really looking forward to this season but I see a lot of things changing in the league & not for the better, especially as relates to the fans.

 

It shouldn't always be about "money" but it is geared that way now.

No, Pakrz, I don't do fantasy football, and if you've read this forum enough you'll know that I think betting is only for people who rake off the vig.  And I think the league's desire for more and more offense has been terrible.

So why do you follow the game so closely?

So that I can talk cogently about the game and show everybody how much smarter than Pakrz I am. 

Seriously, why need any more reason beyond liking the sport as it plays out on the field?  I'm a soccer fan, too, and that has nothing to do with fantasy sports or betting.  Ditto tennis.

Fedya could only do 1980's fantasy football.

 

But he would still complain about the mechanics of Yahoo's new page because it downloads so slow on his Comadore 64

I never had any desire to play Strat-o-Matic baseball either.

Sorry to burst your bubble, EKB.

 vs. 

 

Here I thought the Vikings were my weekend entertainment. 

I don't see Iowacheese getting in a fight with Rusty in this thread.   

If IC would suddenly stop walking you'd end up as a human suppository. 

And people say I'm creepy....

I get paid $5 every time you mention IC. Drinks are on me internet!

Get out.

 

For real?

I for one am shocked.

Somebody is subscribed to Caskers!

Caskers is subscribed to me.

        People say lots of idiotic things like that, don't they? 

Is it subscribes or prescribed?!?

I read this in the "Ask Vic" section on Packers.com. It's about the ESPY's, but I think it applies to we're the NFL seems to be heading:

quote:

The ESPYs were on this week. I know the awards are ultimately meaningless, but it’s a nice chance to reflect on a year of sports (especially during somewhat of a lull). Were you watching or do you have better things to do?

 

It’s not that I had something better to do, it’s that I won’t watch because it bothers me to see football turned into Hollywood. I have a very high opinion of the game of football. I see it as something noble. I see it as belonging to men of dignity and character. It bothers me to see them participating in a made-for-TV production that celebrates sports as though it were the movies. Football is not a movie. It’s the ultimate real thing, and that’s why it’s so difficult to make movies about it.

That picture is missing something. Or someone.