Football (North America: NFL, CFL, Arena Football, minor leagues)

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Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 13, 2017, 05:13:49 PM
Cardinals resigned chris johnson because of David Johnson's injury.

All those people who jumped the gun last week and took Kerwynn Williams on waivers are dumping him now.


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Patriots rebound after tough loss, Giants fall to Lions on Monday night football.
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Quote from: bing101 on September 22, 2017, 10:40:56 AM
http://www.rbr.com/nfl-tv-ratings-not-so-healthy/

Update TV Ratings for Football are down
https://www.si.com/2017/09/20/demaurice-smith-reelected-bad-football


Update

Just like with ESPN and their meteoric fall in recent years, they're actively alienating their customer base.  NOT a good thing for any business to do.  I just hope that the League and its member teams are able to realize that and reverse course before it gets too late.

Ditto other sports leagues, both amateur and professional.

:banghead:

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Quote from: bing101 on September 23, 2017, 01:44:31 PM
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-players-rip-trump-on-twitter-a-hole-disgrace-real-life-clown-unacceptable/

Update the NFL finds itself in a political feud with Trump.

And they're going to eventually wish they hadn't.

Which brings me to an observation, for those of you sports history buffs: The National Football League, in 2017, occupies the same dominant space in US culture and society that Major League Baseball had in, say, 1969. Which, ironically, came after another year of political upheaval. It's widely known history what happened to MLB in the following years.

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One Steeler did not sit in the locker room.  He came out and paid proper attention to the flag and anthem.  It turned out he was an Army Ranger vet.

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One big detail then I noticed, is with all the protection helmets and others stuff to protect from injuries (but the problem of concussions remains and had grown and it had been featured in a movie starring Will Smith) in Canadian and American Football while Australian Football, who seem to be a blend of rugby and soccer don't have any protection it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZYZcoAcU0

SP Cook

In entertainment, it is important to remember what Johnny Carson said, "Do not alienate half your audience."  The NFL, and its players and the TV networks that cover it forgot that yesterday.  That is not a political comment, that is a business comment.   I will refrain from posting about the underlaying politics.

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Quote from: Stephane Dumas on September 25, 2017, 09:42:52 AM
One big detail then I noticed, is with all the protection helmets and others stuff to protect from injuries (but the problem of concussions remains and had grown and it had been featured in a movie starring Will Smith) in Canadian and American Football while Australian Football, who seem to be a blend of rugby and soccer don't have any protection it all.

whats needed is 16 ga steel, heavily padded, with a chin strap. :)
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Quote from: nexus73 on September 24, 2017, 06:44:13 PM
One Steeler did not sit in the locker room.  He came out and paid proper attention to the flag and anthem.  It turned out he was an Army Ranger vet.

Rick

It also turns out he is Spanish! I didn't knew there was one Spanish player in the NFL. He has dual citizenship, though, but that doesn't keep me from cheering for Steelers from now.
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Quote from: US71 on September 25, 2017, 10:50:50 AM

whats needed is 16 ga steel, heavily padded, with a chin strap. :)

A jock strap might be useful in case if a football ball land under the belt right in the "kiwis". ;)
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Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 27, 2017, 05:04:07 PM
Justin Timberlake applies for Super Bowl halftime show.

I can see the contract now...

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Quote from: bing101 on September 27, 2017, 10:55:19 PM
http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/directv-is-offering-refunds-to-people-offended-by-nfl-protests/


Update Directv to offer Refund for people supposedly offended by the NFL protests


http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107621/nielsen-nfl-ratings-off-11-so-far-this-year
If I were a DirecTV subscriber, I would definitely be offended. But not otherwise. (Bad business model. Actually, a terrible business model, because now they'll piss off liberals in addition to paying out to conservatives and opportunists.)

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I'm not particularly offended by the NFL players kneeling, but I was offended by the constant price increases when we still had DirecTV, which is why we dropped them about 4 years ago.

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Off-topic: I'm offended at people who don't use turn signals  :bigass:

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Quote from: ET21 on September 28, 2017, 02:25:45 PM

On-topic: Tonight Bears=Packers game will be streamed on Amazon!
You have to have their premium service, Amazon Prime, to get the stream.



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