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

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Brandon

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DeaconG

Quote from: ET21 on December 08, 2013, 04:29:58 PM
Well NIU couldn't bust the BCS again this year  :-| (Still going to Poinsetta bowl).

But people who think it won't be a blowout because UCF is now in, pleeeeaaassseeee. Such a weak AQ conference and shows the bias against any non-AQ opponent

UCF 52, Baylor 42.

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Stephane Dumas

I saw this article about the NFL attendance at playoff
http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/content/20140103-bill-reynolds-attendance-at-playoff-should-be-a-concern-for-nfl.ece
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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
So here's the question: Why did three NFL playoff games go right to the wire before the home teams announced they were sellouts, thus avoiding local TV blackouts?

Is it the economy?

Is the fear of bad weather?

Is it the increasing sense that staying at home and watching games on big TV screens is better than sitting in a lousy seat in the cold?

All of the above?

Whatever the reason, it's something the NFL poobahs should be concerned about.

Thing 342

Quote from: Stephane Dumas on January 06, 2014, 10:21:54 PM
I saw this article about the NFL attendance at playoff
http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/content/20140103-bill-reynolds-attendance-at-playoff-should-be-a-concern-for-nfl.ece
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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
So here's the question: Why did three NFL playoff games go right to the wire before the home teams announced they were sellouts, thus avoiding local TV blackouts?

Is it the economy?

Is the fear of bad weather?

Is it the increasing sense that staying at home and watching games on big TV screens is better than sitting in a lousy seat in the cold?

All of the above?

Whatever the reason, it's something the NFL poobahs should be concerned about.
IMO, most fans would rather watch a game from the comforts of home, rather than pay $200 dollars to crammed into small seats in freezing temperatures. Explains why NFL ratings are growing but attendance is decreasing.

triplemultiplex

And then there were four.
Manning vs. Brady and Kappy vs. Wilson
"That's just like... your opinion, man."

Henry

Quote from: triplemultiplex on January 13, 2014, 12:19:54 AM
And then there were four.
Manning vs. Brady and Kappy vs. Wilson
Since my brother lives in Denver, I'm going with the Broncos and Seahawks in their respective conference championship games.
Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today!

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kurumi

I'm rooting the other way, but this Super Bowl might become the 420 Bowl, with both teams hailing from states that have legalized the ganja bush
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Zeffy

Quote from: kurumi on January 19, 2014, 06:23:47 PM
I'm rooting the other way, but this Super Bowl might become the 420 Bowl, with both teams hailing from states that have legalized the ganja bush...

...and playing in a state that probably won't even consider legalizing it until who knows when. Remember, the folks in Trenton are too busy with Bridgegate and whatnot that they don't even seem to know that the mayor of the Capital City is being indicted on corruption charges. Legalizing weed? Maybe that'll happen when the cities in this state stop falling into disrepair and becoming a hazard to live in. /rant

But on topic, my Eagles were knocked out in the first round despite a valiant effort... so I guess I'll be rooting for Denver, seeing as I think Peyton deserves to win another championship as he continues to amaze everyone this season. As for the 49ers and the Seahawks... I would say Seattle, but after what happened last year in the Harbowl I don't think I will count San Fransisco out just yet.

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Buck87

Well then, that was quite a post game interview between Sherman and Erin Andrews

Quote from: kurumi on January 19, 2014, 06:23:47 PM
this Super Bowl might become the 420 Bowl, with both teams hailing from states that have legalized the ganja bush

I heard someone call it the Smoke-a-Bowl

Stephane Dumas


1995hoo

The Pro Bowl isn't horrible so far. Somewhat entertaining for a change.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Stephane Dumas

One guy predicts the Super Bowl winner with chicken bones

Henry

With the Super Bowl set to be played in New York (technically, East Rutherford, NJ), this might open the door to other cold-climate cities with open-air stadiums hosting Super Bowls. I'd be thrilled if somehow Chicago got one.

It's a long list, but here are the cities that have yet to host a Super Bowl:
Baltimore, Buffalo, Charlotte (Carolina), Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Foxboro (New England), Green Bay, Kansas City, Nashville (Tennessee), Oakland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington
Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today!

english si

Quote from: Henry on January 29, 2014, 11:33:09 AMIt's a long list, but here are the cities that have yet to host a Super Bowl:
Baltimore, Buffalo, Charlotte (Carolina), Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Foxboro (New England), Green Bay, Kansas City, Nashville (Tennessee), Oakland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington
You missed off a few thousand cities there...

Oh wait, you mean cities with NFL stadiums that haven't had it. You forgot London (3 games next season) and Toronto (where the Bills play one home game a season and some preseason stuff).

Money's rather good on London: a Superbowl in European prime-time would be a real burst into the market here. The regular season games are quick sell outs at high prices. The stadium is among the biggest and has a retractable roof if needed. The hospitality facilities nearby are already rather well developed. The only problems are that it is a nightmare to get to for American fans and that an International Series game makes the NFL Superbowl kind of money off hospitality and ticket sales anyway, so little need to throw the big money-spinner when a bog-standard regular season game gets almost as much return.

1995hoo

The only one of those cities that I'd think would have hosted a Super Bowl at some point is St. Louis. They have a dome that can seat up to 70,000, but it's never been played there. I know the stadium has a reputation as being a bit of a dump of a stadium, but the Metrodome did as well. (When I went to a game at the old Miami Orange Bowl in 2005, I was shocked that stadium had hosted several Super Bowls. It made RFK Stadium in DC seem like an ultramodern sports palace. But I guess stadium design has evolved over the years.)

Toronto won't ever host a Super Bowl as long as the SkyDome is their main stadium. It's too small.

London would be an interesting possibility, but it raises a serious practical problem: TV, due to the time difference. The Super Bowl normally kicks off around 6:25 PM US Eastern Time. That's 11:25 PM in London. That's not happening. It's unclear whether the league would be amenable to playing it in the afternoon US Eastern Time, which also means playing it in the morning Pacific Time.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

english si

An 8pm start in London is a 12pm start on the West Coast. Certainly that would be an acceptable time to start playing in Wembley, though you couldn't really go later.

The main reason for London would surely be to have the game prime time in Europe, not the small hours (when the Superbowl currently starts, it's the next day France, Spain, Germany, etc) and America would watch it even if it's lunchtime, or late afternoon. After all, NFL show games at those times on the East Coast (and are going to have one morning game next year - 9.30 EST start for the second London game, which is 1330 GMT - just for the quadruple-bill) anyway and it is the Superbowl - massive event TV that you reschedule your day to watch it...

And an earlier finish allows the networks to air their normal bring-in-the-big-audience programming in the late evening, rather than the ones not airing the football resigned to no one watching them and putting on re-runs.

formulanone

Quote from: 1995hoo on January 29, 2014, 12:59:27 PM
London would be an interesting possibility, but it raises a serious practical problem: TV, due to the time difference. The Super Bowl normally kicks off around 6:25 PM US Eastern Time. That's 11:25 PM in London. That's not happening. It's unclear whether the league would be amenable to playing it in the afternoon US Eastern Time, which also means playing it in the morning Pacific Time.

The bigger problem would be convincing sponsors, media, and the like to fork over twice as much for airfare (or even much more for cargo). Fans wouldn't be terribly receptive to the travel, either. Some folks grumble over the "loss" of one of their home games...then there's the passport and security issue, and a day essentially lost in travel - for both directions. Unless the NFL becomes as big a pastime as association football is in Europe (very unlikely), I don't think it will happen.

Still, there's no reason this game (no matter where it's played) can't be started at 4pm Eastern Time. I'd prefer it even earlier, but I suppose there's some church-goers on the West Coast who'd probably have to race home. This gives enough time for the drunken dolts to sober up and for kids to actually stay up and watch it. If it's already the biggest TV event each year, there's obviously nothing competing for the time spot except for pre-game stuff and infomercials. And it's January/February...nobody has anything planned that day, anyhow.

1995hoo

I kind of like the idea of a Saturday Super Bowl. Everyone can have Super Bowl parties and then have all day Sunday to sleep it off. I suppose your point about church-goers complaining about a game that falls earlier on the West Coast might apply on Saturday with people who observe that day as the Sabbath, but you can't please every last group out there, and I believe the largest concentration of people to whom that issue would apply can be found on the East Coast anyway, especially in New York (consider that many buildings in New York have a "Sabbath elevator" that automatically stops on every floor between sundown on Friday and sundown on Saturday).

I don't mind the 6:30 PM start because it works well here in DC. The Capitals usually have a home game at 12:30 that day (this year they play the Red Wings). We either go to that game or watch it on TV, it's done around 3:00, and we then have three hours prior to the football game.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

triplemultiplex

London Super Bowl?  Don't give Roger Godell any ideas!
"That's just like... your opinion, man."

cpzilliacus

Quote from: Henry on January 29, 2014, 11:33:09 AM
It's a long list, but here are the cities that have yet to host a Super Bowl:
Baltimore, Buffalo, Charlotte (Carolina), Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Foxboro (New England), Green Bay, Kansas City, Nashville (Tennessee), Oakland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington Landover, Maryland.

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hotdogPi

For the Super Bowl, I have 3 extremely rare wild guesses. Let's see if any come true.

1. There will be a touchdown at 4:04 in the 2nd quarter.
2. The loser will have 29 points.
3. The first score will be a safety.
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Traveled, plus
US 13, 50
MA 22, 35, 40, 53, 79, 107, 109, 126, 138, 141, 159
NH 27, 78, 111A(E); CA 90; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32, 320; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, WA 202; QC 162, 165, 263; 🇬🇧A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; 🇫🇷95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 36

Zeffy

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Alps

My wild and crazy guess: My coworker will win money in the Super Bowl pool.
(She got the 0,0 box)

Stephane Dumas

Former NFL star Joe Namath said he's had brain related medical issues
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/31/joe-namath-says-hes-had-brain-related-medical-issues/
Speaking of Joe Namath, here a clip where he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show



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