The NFL Thread - Root for your favorite team (or laugh at the Browns, whichever's easier)

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Who are you rooting for in Super Bowl 60?

  • New England Patriots

    Votes: 11 22.0%

  • Seattle Seahawks

    Votes: 25 50.0%

  • Team State Farm

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • The Meteor

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
incase you were curious
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With all the bitching there's been about yet another Chiefs-Eagles Superbowl, apparently we forgot about the Pro Bowl.

Yeah I know, it's a nothing game, but it can't be much worse. Then again, I'm probably just gonna watch The Longest Yard or some shit over the actual Superbowl, so idc...
xX Puss Slayer Xx said:
incase you were curious
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What a surprise - its mostly white people bitching. I hate crediting Dan Snyder with anything, but that fuck had a point - actual Feather Indians don't give a shit about this, or actively LIKE the names.

That said, I'd laugh if KC does the most on the nose shit and renames the team the Swifts...
 
I'm predicting for the Super Bowl to be cancelled or for something to happen at the Super Bowl itself. I know a lot of people who aren't going to watch it at all. That would be a good one to glow to.
 
break these cuffs said:
Everyone talking about GPS in the balls after the Bills game must not remember when they tested it in this preseason and it went over like a wet fart because it took 45 minutes to determine the spot.
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It was optical tracking through Sony's Hawk-Eye. It works well for MLB and NHL, but I don't think they realized how much of the ball is covered up at the end of plays. The NFL is planning to try a revised system next preseason.
Winsome Whimsical Waif said:
It's apparently spearheaded by a group called 'Not In Our Honor'
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They've been trying for 10 years. All they've accomplished is getting rid of the paint horse a cheerleader would ride into games. I hope they bring the horse back and give the cheerleader a coup stick.
Amerikaner Teddybär said:
Why are they white?
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The 3 built like muffins are natives and 2 white dudes are the native activist version of male feminists.
 
1Tonka_Truck said:
It was optical tracking through Sony's Hawk-Eye. It works well for MLB and NHL, but I don't think they realized how much of the ball is covered up at the end of plays. The NFL is planning to try a revised system next preseason.
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Maybe they should track it from underneath the pile then. Put a NFC (not that one, the other one) layer under the field if they haven't already.
 
break these cuffs said:
The NFL chose this by going full on with gambling. They wanted the quickest and simplest way to grow the sport.
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Had nothing to do with growing the actual sport itself just the revenue of the league. More money is bet on sports than spent on sports. The NFL will see around $20 billion per year on fans spending money on its products under the most optimistic calculations. But probably over $30 billion guaranteed in betting with some estimates being closer to $35 billion this year alone. They just want to capture as much gambling money as possible from fans that already gamble. Not win new fans over. These sports leagues know that fans gamble more than they spend on the sport each year and without legalized gambling they keep none of it for themselves.

If they take just 5% of the money from all gambling then that is another near $2 billion in free money for them without having to really do anything other than tax gambling companies for using an NFL license. But they are likely taking ten percent or more especially when you factor in partnership and advertising deals. This is another $4 billion plus the league is now getting per year that is kept purely by the league and owners as well. It's not really making new fans it's just capturing money that was not licensed.
break these cuffs said:
The NFL doesn't change because it doesn't want to. Players have been talking about grass vs turf forever. There are even notorious turd fields you feel lucky if you don't lose a player on. How fucking stupid is it to not want to protect your $200M worth of players on your home field and demand that all the other owners do the same?
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It's not just the NFL that has this issue but other field sports and even horse racing. A couple of horse racing tracks in the U.S. switched to some type of artificial dirt and saw record horse deaths and injuries almost immediately. In the end nothing changed until it became impossible to ignore. I played in college on both grass and astroturf. After playing on the turf we'd get those crumb pellets stuck in our skin and you'd need to pull them out and this was decades ago.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
Put a NFC (not that one, the other one) layer under the field if they haven't already.
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Next Gen Stats already uses RFID chips in shoulder pads, the ball, the chains, and 20-30 wide band receivers per stadium. NGS can track how tight the spiral of a throw is. Why the NFL is paying Sony to setup a bunch of cameras to track the ball is beyond me.
 
Fat Gay Riker said:
I wonder how hard the NFLPA is gonna push for some revenue sharing of betting in the next CBA, and if they'll even get anything.
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They'll do the usual thing and pit the top players against the bottom and middle tier players. Because top players sell almost all of the merchandise. The quarterbacks and top players getting their faces on the gambling commercials don't want that money to go back into some shared revenue pool.
 
Amerikaner Teddybär said:
Why are they white?
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Most of these groups are basically larpers. A lot of Native activists are usually either white people who fetishize non-whites (like every 70’s group was this) or Mexicans trying to grift. Actual natives do not fuck with the sports teams, they get money and a platform with them. Actual natives are actually pissed that Dan Snyder fucked with their grift.

The Native land bullshit is gay as fuck and most native guys I know (friends from my brothers time in the military) liked sports and liked the native teams.

@Winsome Whimsical Waif is this organization based in Minnesota? Minnesota larpers are worse than Virginia “Cherokee” faggots. They basically just butt in everywhere.
 
HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
@Winsome Whimsical Waif is this organization based in Minnesota? Minnesota larpers are worse than Virginia “Cherokee” faggots. They basically just butt in everywhere.
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I don't believe so. The About/Contact page says this. (Link/Archive)

Not In Our Honor Coalition said:

Meet Not In Our Honor Coalition​

Not In Our Honor was formed in 2005 by a group of Native American College students at the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. They have continued to advocate against the use of Native American imagery in sports.

Get in Touch​

Our group is: Rhonda LeValdo, Acoma Pueblo; Amanda Blackhorse, Navajo Nation; Jimmy Beason, Osage Nation; Carole Cadue-Blackwood, Kickapoo Nation; Shereena Becenti, Navajo Nation; Ed Thomas Smith, Osage Nation; Gaylene Crouser, Kansas City Indian Center Executive Director
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Desktop User2 said:
He is 2-3 against Peyton in the playoffs...
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Sure but Peyton's at least a guy on his level, losing a few AFC Championships against him is not this ego breaking moment. Losing against a guy who many would say was an average QB at best, twice no less, and a guy who wasn't even considered good enough to be a starter in Philly, so much so that you walk of the field in a seething rage instead of congratulating him, is probably much more difficult for him to grapple with.
 
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