2012-02-19, 13:44 | Link #4562 |
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It's not California's debts, unless you mean the individual people living there. People just don't support a team there. They've already lost three teams (Rams, Raiders, Chargers). Just because it's a big market doesn't mean the market wants what you (well, they, but in general terms...) are selling.
Also, I'm against expansion. They'd have to break up the entirety of the current divisional structure, or else make things uneven unless they brought in 8 new teams, giving each conference a new division or each division a 5th team. |
2012-02-19, 15:19 | Link #4563 |
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I usually don't mind expansion since the process (naming, logo & jersey unveiling, expansion draft, NFL Draft, etc.) tickles me to death, but I'm wary of it for a couple of well-known reasons:
1. LA hasn't supported pro football in past attempts. UCLA and USC football have always done great and thrived (in terms of attendence), and people keep assuming that'll translate to the NFL. Raider games were so bad that they were regularly blacked-out. Granted, there are a couple of reasons that won't be a factor should they this time. Back in the 80s and early 90s, the neighborhood that held the LA Coliseum was considered dangerous and crime-ridden. It's has been cleaned up and is safe now. I also imagine that playing in a new stadium in a generation where football is the top dog in America instead of sharing the LA Coliseum with USC may help a bit, but I'm still a bit skeptical. And would consider not one team, but two, with both possibly in the LA area. The only other consideration would be the Alamodome in San Antonio. That's a big jump. 2. The divisions. The NFL have the perfect set-up with 32 teams in 8 divisions. Adding two teams would fuck that all up. It's that simple. Basically, a team should move. I'm still thinking Chargers. Last edited by Dilla; 2012-02-19 at 15:59. Reason: Grammar |
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At some point you have to think about the integrity of the game. Goddell also wants an 18 game schedule. But at the same time he wants to increase more safety in the NFL. You can't have it both ways. The commissioner is such a dumbass. Hilarious how some fans are probably better qualified to run the NFL than this clown.
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2012-02-20, 00:47 | Link #4565 | |
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2012-02-20, 10:48 | Link #4567 |
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^This has nothing to do with the Saints, I've always felt like the #2 seed gets an easy ride...I mean you weren't #1...
#1 should have the advantage, everyone else should have to fight it out...Make that 2 seed play an opening weekend game...In all likelihood they get 2 home games instead of 1...I've just never understood why a #2 seed gets basically the same advantage as #1...True, your 49ners would have perhaps got tripped up allowing the scariest team in the NFC to go to the Superbowl and throttle New England, but that has nothing to do with my thinking here...
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2012-02-20, 16:48 | Link #4568 | |
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Oh and New Orleans scariest team in the NFL? More like overrated. Maybe when they can win on the road in January.
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2012-02-20, 17:31 | Link #4569 |
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#1 and #2 have to get bye-weeks, else the 12-team playoff system simply cannot work, when you are to cram the games on the weekend, and the playoffs being played out in a month's time.
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2012-02-20, 18:37 | Link #4570 | |
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^2 more games on wildcard weekend...7seed plays #2 who doesn't get a bye...Not complicated...If #2 wins they play higher seed next week as usual...
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You really haven't given a good reason why the bye week for the number two seed should be eliminated. There are more negatives to gain than positives.
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^ The premise is based on an 8 team expansion Biff...
Re-read from the top of the page... But in any event, why can't the #2 seed do what the #3 seed does? Given the parity in the league it'll be a situational year-by-year basis in terms of whether teams chose to rest starters or what not like it already is...With divisional games in the last 2 weeks now (Thanx to a guy much more accomplished than you called Roger Godell) playoff implications will still run rampant... Quote:
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If #6 plays #2... that leaves 3-other teams #3-#5. How the heck are you going to pair them off? For 12-team, it's impossible. Of course, it can work out with a 14-team system at this stage. Here, #1 gets the bye-week. #2 vs #7. #3 vs #6. #4 vs #5. Then the lowest seeded team winning out of wild card gets to play #1 the following week. So, it could work out here. Now, while twice we've seen #6's going all the way to the Super Bowl and win... I'd have to wonder how a #7 would fare. But here's the thing. With 32 teams - can the playoffs expand to 14? No. If the league expands to 34, is a 14-team playoff system viable? That. I don't know.
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2012-02-22, 00:32 | Link #4574 |
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So since so many people are ranting about an LA team and Brees, you may be amused to see what Dave Dameshek whipped up this week.
N'if'L - If Drew Brees actually went to Miami...
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Why can't the number two seed do what the number one seed does? And just like that, theory debunked. Doesn't really matter. The NFL isn't going to change it so you can just keep bitching about that aspect of it. Quote:
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You say the 49ers are boring to watch, and I say the Saints are overrated unless they are in a dome. Doesn't matter in the end though. 49ers beat the Saints. Oh and America was bummed? Right since when does the majority of America actually know what is good and bad for the NFL? There is a reason why we keep getting people voted in the Pro Bowl that don't deserve to go. Never use America as your defense for backing up a point in football related conversation. This newer generation of fantasy football idiots know nothing about the integrity of the game, let alone what's good for it. All they care about is offensive scoring and sportscenter highlights. Most kids in high school probably won't even know who Jerry Rice was in a few years. Oh a parting gift: Quote:
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2012-02-22, 21:53 | Link #4576 |
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No reason why an LA team cannot do as well as any other team in the Nation.
The Rams left because Georgia Frontere had one foot in STL for like EVER and the team always got blacked out because they had to play in the Collesium. When they played well people showed up. |
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As for the rest, the 49ners ARE boring to watch (You do watch them right? ugh)...Throw the f**king ball to that guy flexed out on the edge, I think he's called a Wide receiver...Do you know what a WR is 49ners fan^^? America wanted to see functional, cool looking aerial football, not hope and a prayer $hit...But as i said before, have the spoils of victory...You guys won fair and square...Watching your team play is still analogous to watching a turd squirm, but be proud of that turd...Throw a 3 yard pass to that turd as Bill Walsh's ghosthand stops fappin it... Quote:
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Yeah and praying and hoping really gets you to 13-3 ROFL. We just win games. We don't need a Harlem Globetrotter offense that can't win games in the playoffs on grass. Quote:
Oh and when where the Saints relevant before 2006? Oh yeah never. Don't know how old you are, but whether you were around to see Archie Manning get whacked on every down or Aaron Brooks throwing backwards passes, you really have zero room to talk about relevancy when your team is the Saints. One Lombardi trophy and you want to waltz around with your junk out? It's about time your franchise got off the damn doormat. Next time don't take nearly 40 years. You know more about pro football? Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. Funny statement coming from the guy who actually took the Pro Bowl seriously. GTFO with that garbage. Being alive for more years doesn't mean you actually have more knowledge about a certain subject. So you can throw the age angle out in your next response. Hell, if I didn't have my age listed by the avatar you'd be an arm and a leg short of the game you try and spit. Not like that game ever holds any water though anyways. WHO DAT GOT IT BETTER THAN US!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!! Well if you are a Saints fan you probably hated football before 2000. Before that season the Saints had literally won zero playoff games since their inception in 1967. Zero.
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