Some thoughts on the NFL

[haleyrules]

with spaghetti and tomato sauce?

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[Floatyworm]

Given the concussion issues, there are some who believe their won't be an NFL in 20 years.
I'm not one of those, but changes are needed.

How the NFL is being watched, especially by millenniels is changing. They would rather watch YouTube highlights than sit in front of a TV for 3+ hours. Especially when a third of that time is commercials.

Viewership is evolving quickly and the NFL needs to keep up or it will fall far behind. Listening of the old schools families like the Mara's and Rooney's will be a receipe for disaster.

Agree....the NFL is dieing a slow death....just like ESPN

Nobody saw it coming...yet...if you look closely...It's happening. Advertising has completely taken over games to make a buck in the name of the NFL. Rules of the game have changed to dictate wins/losses in order to secure wins for certain teams.

People will say...the league is fine because $$$ is being made. But it's not. Real football fans know. The game has been ruined. Political correctness has ruined once was a great sport. Collisions and contact is what drew spectators to the game. Now...you got a watered down version of flag football....yet the NFL has the audacity to sell it to the public as real football.

Stupid Millennials will buy it.....because they don't know any better. They haven't seen when football was really football.

But don't worry.... you will still get your weekly dose of close calls and controversy...because that's what sells...and the NFL knows it.

Honestly....Ask yourself this??? Does every game have to come down to the last second? Does the balance of every game have to remain in doubt until the last play?

Doesn't that in itself seem fishy?

I know I certainly don't buy the authenticity of this league anymore. It's fixed....and has been for a long time.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The North cheated.

The scions of Charlemagne with their notions of honor and inbreeding. The Byzantines were worse. I find if amusing that the Russians seek to reprise that culture.

The Mongols and then the Turks kicked their ***** repeatedly despite logistics issues.

 

[robjay04]

In the age of wanting the NFL to be safe, it's baffling to me the limits on the size of the roster.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe a couple years ago we put Terrell McClain on IR for an injury that should've only lasted a month because we needed the roster spot. Last season, I remember we had to piece together a roster to close out the season because of injuries.

You would think an increase in roster size and maybe even snap counts would limit injuries without even altering the sport. It seems to me the only benefit of roster limits is the owners bottom line.

I'm not talking about 100 man roster...but teams shouldn't have to shut players out for the season because of a minor injury nor should coaches be forced to play a guy that's banged up because they don't have the roster flexibility to let him heal.

 

[waldoputty]

The scions of Charlemagne with their notions of honor and inbreeding. The Byzantines were worse. I find if amusing that the Russians seek to reprise that culture.

The Mongols and then the Turks kicked their ***** repeatedly despite logistics issues.

they intermarried with the khans to seal their alliance, i believe.
whatever works and even diversified their genetic pool.

 

[Ranching]

they intermarried with the khans to seal their alliance, i believe.
whatever works and even diversified their genetic pool.

Are you talking about the Browns? LOL

 

[waldoputty]

Are you talking about the Browns? LOL

well it is well known that neanderthal interbred with homo sapiens

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

they intermarried with the khans to seal their alliance, i believe.
whatever works and even diversified their genetic pool.

The Khans pulled back before they crossed the Danube. Khanate tribal politics saved the European's ***** when the Khans returned to Karakorum to select a new leader. They couldn't defeat the Abuyyids and had no chance against the Mongols who had recently razed Damascus and Baghdad to the ground.

Rus and Kiev for the most part would not acquiesce and were more or less annihilated. Armenia and a few other states flipped and survived.

Sulieman made it as far as Vienna in their reprisal following the Spanish Inquisition. By that point the Ottomans had begun adopting a lot of the stupidity of western culture and stalled. Their janissaries and early adoption of gun regiments made them militarily superior but politics doomed them in the long run.

There was the whole hostage systems and such from the vassal states. That is where Vlad the Impaler came out of. He was a hostage sent from Wallachia.

 

[waldoputty]

The Khans pulled back before they crossed the Danube. Khanate tribal politics saved the European's ***** when the Khans returned to Karakorum to select a new leader. They couldn't defeat the Abuyyids and had no chance against the Mongols who had recently razed Damascus and Baghdad to the ground.

Rus and Kiev for the most part would not acquiesce and were more or less annihilated. Armenia and a few other states flipped and survived.

Sulieman made it as far as Vienna in their reprisal following the Spanish Inquisition. By that point the Ottomans had begun adopting a lot of the stupidity of western culture and stalled. Their janissaries and early adoption of gun regiments made them militarily superior but politics doomed them in the long run.

There was the whole hostage systems and such from the vassal states. That is where Vlad the Impaler came out of. He was a hostage sent from Wallachia.

perhaps the interbreeding with the khans happened after the military losses. if you can beat them, marry them.

 

[Sasquatch]

If the NFL is going to survive, let alone thrive, it has to incorporate more commercial breaks during telecasts, add to the rulebook and increase the influence of refs on the outcome of games, televise games every night of the week on multiple cable channels, add more days to the NFL draft and time for selections, and relocate more teams for lucrative publicly funded stadium deals.

 

[waldoputty]

If the NFL is going to survive, let alone thrive, it has to incorporate more commercial breaks during telecasts, add to the rulebook and increase the influence of refs on the outcome of games, televise games every night of the week on multiple cable channels, add more days to the NFL draft and time for selections, and relocate more teams for lucrative publicly funded stadium deals.

#1 put more cowboys games on national tv.
#2 play regional bragging right games like jets-giants, cowboys-texans.
#3 fix the officiating
#4 move a few teams like the raiders to vegas
#5 fix their horrible internet TV offering
and they are still in trouble with the web streaming

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

perhaps the interbreeding with the khans happened after the military losses. if you can beat them, marry them.

The Mongols took what they wanted and if you resisted you died or enslaved after you lost. The Damascenes pissed them off so much they basically burned down Iraq and the Levant killing everyone. They did the same to Rus, Kiev, and untold numbers of tribes on the Caspian plains.

No one in history genocides like the Mongols.

 

[waldoputty]

The Mongols took what they wanted and if you resisted you died or enslaved after you lost. The Damascenes pissed them off so much they basically burned down Iraq and the Levant killing everyone. They did the same to Rus, Kiev, and untold numbers of tribes on the Caspian plains.

No one in history genocides like the Mongols.

It has been many years, but I recall an alliance with the Khans sealed with intermarriage.
Like you said, Mongols beat the crap out of whoever they wanted.
If you cannot beat them, marry them then corrupt them.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It has been many years, but I recall an alliance with the Khans sealed with intermarriage.
Like you said, Mongols beat the crap out of whoever they wanted.
If you cannot beat them, marry them then corrupt them.

The longest lasting Khagnate was a muslim state but that was a splinter state that would fight with the Golden Horde. I forget the guys name but he converted to Islam and got pissed when the Horde burned down Damascus and killed the Caliph.

That is probably who you are thinking of. The Mamluks out of Cairo and he were allies.

 

[haleyrules]

#1 put more cowboys games on national tv.
#2 play regional bragging right games like jets-giants, cowboys-texans.
#3 fix the officiating
#4 move a few teams like the raiders to vegas
#5 fix their horrible internet TV offering
and they are still in trouble with the web streaming

Bring back the defensive side of the game and stop over protecting BS sizzle player. Stop over protecting QB's and WR's. That would be a great start. Get rid of the salary cap..and make the BS draft a lottery. The draft just hurts the best FO's and rewards failure.

 

[dallasdave]

Bring back the defensive side of the game and stop over protecting BS sizzle player. Stop over protecting QB's and WR's. That would be a great start. Get rid of the salary cap..and make the BS draft a lottery. The draft just hurts the best FO's and promotes failure.

Bring back the Cowboys of the 90's

 

[waldoputty]

The longest lasting Khagnate was a muslim state but that was a splinter state that would fight with the Golden Horde. I forget the guys name but he converted to Islam and got pissed when the Horde burned down Damascus and killed the Caliph.

That is probably who you are thinking of. The Mamluks out of Cairo and he were allies.

i will google it later after my chat with friends...

 

[haleyrules]

Bring back the Cowboys of the 90's

Bring back Jimmy!

 

[dallasdave]

Bring back Jimmy!

 

[Ranching]

The Khans pulled back before they crossed the Danube. Khanate tribal politics saved the European's ***** when the Khans returned to Karakorum to select a new leader. They couldn't defeat the Abuyyids and had no chance against the Mongols who had recently razed Damascus and Baghdad to the ground.

Rus and Kiev for the most part would not acquiesce and were more or less annihilated. Armenia and a few other states flipped and survived.

Sulieman made it as far as Vienna in their reprisal following the Spanish Inquisition. By that point the Ottomans had begun adopting a lot of the stupidity of western culture and stalled. Their janissaries and early adoption of gun regiments made them militarily superior but politics doomed them in the long run.

There was the whole hostage systems and such from the vassal states. That is where Vlad the Impaler came out of. He was a hostage sent from Wallachia.