A lot to digest there T, a.lot.
That "fantasy football keeps the NFL afloat" might the biggest story none of the major or minor news outlets are hitting at all. If you could share the link to your blog or if I could subscribe to your newsletter, that would be great.
Now we're talking about getting rid of Mark Murphy?
No I'm not talking about getting rid of Mark Murphy. My point is everyone says the fans can't do anything about the how the NFL is run. It's accept the changes or quit watching the game. I say bullschit to that, we are the only fan base that can do something. If enough stockholders got together and forced the Packer leadership to take our positions to the NFL owners meetings somebody would have to listen. Radical, maybe. But somebody has to do something to save the game. Otherwise in 10-15 years we will be just like pro boxing, a lost sport.
As bad as I want to think interest in the NFL is on the verge of disintegrating, it's not happening. There's no evidence to show its remotely close to happening.
The stadium in AZ is going to be full at $5k per seat. Companies pay millions for a 30 second ad today. More large screen TVs are sold the last two weeks than at any other time during the year. Two billion wings are going to be bought and eaten today. Today has become a lisence to print money national holiday. ****, thousands of fans paid $28 to attend the damn Media Day.
I think Goodell and his cronies have done their best to screw up the work Rozelle and Tagliable did but nothing says this freight train is in any kind of trouble.
If enough stockholders got together and forced the Packer leadership to take our positions to the NFL owners meetings somebody would have to listen.
If the shares the Packers sold had any ability to cause the NFL trouble they never would have been sold in the first place. If you glance over the image in my last post you'll notice shareholders are expressly forbidden from criticizing the NFL or anyone employed by the league.
The best you could hope for is a bunch of shareholders creating a scene at the shareholders meeting. It would be fun to see but would be brushed aside with hardly any coverage. The Packers already have the money from the stock, beyond feeling good about giving money to a company that already prints it, the stock is meaningless. It's an expensive souvenir, nothing more.
Two billion wings are going to be bought and eaten today.
The chickens are the real losers.
they weren't using them anyway
@pauldehnerjr: The absurdity of Goodell refusing an interview with NBC before SB while Marshawn Lynch is fined for not talking is suffocating.
Yes, let's get back to the good old days of the wing T and concussions for everyone. Offense and safety are for pussies AMIRITE!
And, their Elvis Presley and their reefer and their 8 track players and their Rock and Roll! GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS AND YOUR SMARTYPHONES AND YOUR INTERTUBES AND YOUR TWEETERS!
Disaster. Yes. Imagine how quickly and how soon fans would bail completely on the NFL if their were scandals! Like imagine how the ratings would plummet if we saw an NFL player beat his wife? Or another cheating scandal? Can you say fall off a cliff!
For the exact same reason the NBA has been trying to expand interest globally?
Oh THAT! Interest is clearly waning here in the US. Why look at these numbers in this article that paints the stark and bleak picture for the NFL.
Here's even more of that story.
Here's more on the struggles the NFL has had selling 95% of the ad spaces for today's Super Bowl at record prices.
The foresight of Goodell to get ahead of this dying US market is genius.
Typical sports fan. Same guy spends 3 hours a week watching the game and thinks he knows more than coaches who have just put in 120 hour work weeks.
Anyone see the ratings for the game? With the waning interest in the sport, one can only assume that America's Funniest Home Videos won the timeslot.
/what's that? The highest ratings ever? Well, that doesn't seem to make sense at all...
Katy Perry and the guitar solo incarnate that is Lenny Kravitz will do that.
Hopefully they get those teams in Brussels and London before the bottom completely falls out and we're watching figure skating on Sundays in the fall. Otherwise they're doomed.
Yesterday proved that. I saw it on a blog somewhere.
BTW - I'm starting a fantasy curling league. PM me if interested.
Speaking of London.
Last night in his game blog the JSO's Tom Silverstein was asked about the Packers doing a London game. He reiterated, which has been well known for some time, that GB doesn't want to go as the home team and thereby give up a Lambeau game.
He added, though, that the Packers told the league they'd be happy to go to London in 2015 as an away team. League checked around and discovered that wouldn't work either, as no potential away opponent wanted to lose the Packers appearing in their home stadium -- as it pretty much guarantees a sell out and beaucoup game week commerce since Green Bay fans are everywhere and back it with travel and attendance.
What that means is the league will move forward adding an extra game to the schedule that each team plays in a neutral location, be in the US or overseas. No loss of a home or away game because it's an extra game.
Kraft's lapdog at it again.
http://www.sportingnews.com/nf...flict-kraft-patriots
... A pair of sports concussion experts listened to the qualifications and accomplishments of Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, the NFLâs newly-appointed and first chief health and medical advisor. Without prompting, both of them quickly zeroed in on a contradiction, if not a red flag, in the leagueâs decision.
âFrom the perspective of the league,ââ said lawyer and professor Michael Kaplen, âmy first question is why they picked a cardiologist?â
âI think itâs a good step the NFL is making,ââ said rehabilitation specialist Dr. Michael Marino, âbut the fact that it is not a brain injury specialist jumps out at me.ââ
Another issue could not be overlooked, one that commissioner Roger Goodell, who appointed Nabel, has had to face throughout the past scandal-filled year.
Nabel is president of Bostonâs prestigious Brigham and Womenâs Hospital, which is a partner with the Kraft Group (Patriots owner Robert Kraftâs holding company) in a health-care center bearing the family name at the Patriot Place retail complex near Gillette Stadium. On the health center website is a photo of Nabel in a group that includes Josh Kraft, Robert's son and president of the team's charitable foundation. Kraft family members have sat on the boards of both Brigham and Womenâs and the affiliated Massachusetts General...
Pretty typical of Goodell and the NFL these days but I'll be honest......I'm pretty much over the current concussion crap. It's very clear that the players want to play through concussions (they want to get paid). Coaches want it too b/c winning will help them keep their jobs (no way Roethlisberger, Wilson and Edelman were not concussed in the playoffs). And since the coaches want it, one can safely assume that the owners want it too because it'll help their team win and that means rings, respect and more money. And since Goodell is a lap dog for the owners, he doesn't care if they don't care. No one cares about this, so why should I? I feel for the older players b/c the info of how bad concussions are was not common knowledge when they played. But current players know the damage it does, seeing player after player commit suicide and come out publicly that they cannot function as normal human being in their 50's. Yet every week it comes out that that player X, Y and Z hid their concussions to get back in the game. No one that is connected to the game cares, so why should I?
The MMQB just went online with critiques of Goodell, penned by four fans. Some brilliant, withering, eviscerating stuff. x4 worthy, actually.
@APkrawczynski: The NFL is fining players for honoring their cancer-fallen parents. The NBA fully endorsing tributes to Flip Saunders.
Remember when the NFL launched that major "No more" campaign last year to bring attention to domestic violence? They don't run anymore because the Ray Rice thing is kind of in the rear view mirror. The NFL wanted you to know they cared.
The NFL asked Steeler DB William Gay to be part of that ad campaign. They ran TV ads and national print ads. Williams mom was a victim of domestic violence by her boyfriend when William was 8. She died.
Last weekend William wore purple cleats to honor him mom. Purple is the color used by the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
The NFL fined William Gay $5,787 for wearing non uniform conforming cleats.
The NFL has its head up its ass.
@APkrawczynski: The NFL is fining players for honoring their cancer-fallen parents. The NBA fully endorsing tributes to Flip Saunders.
One of those leagues celebrates the individual. The NFL doesn't.
Apparently the fines are paid to the charity of choice of the person being fined and knowing that it will happen means they get to honor them and donate to whatever worthy cause they want. Same thing happened to DeAngelo Williams.
