Some thoughts on the NFL

[diefree666]

Thinking about the Cowboys and the NFL since Jerry bought the team.

I was watching a Civil war lecture about what the military learned after that.
Very little.

The few people who learned from the Civil War were the German Military - Heinz Guderian and Erwin Rommell. And George Patton.

There's a lot to be learned from this in many ways.

The NFL led by Jerry's example is always trying to get more exposure and up sell the product.
People like old school Mara just want to hold onto power. And anything the new era owners think is no good.

There are some parallels here in just learning from what happened before.
While the old NFL let the exposure come to them and the profits - Jerry goes out and grabs it up.

It will be interesting to see the landscape of the NFL in 20 years when the next group of owners, Jerry kids, takes over and how the league evolves.

Longstreet actually designed a system of field fortifications that in the end were the primary features of WW1 trench warfare.

The Prussians learned from us primarily how to use rail roads and how to keep large armies in the field steadily supplied. They used that to kick the French all around in 1870. And that was one of the main reasons for WW1- French revenge on Germany. Then WW2 was Germanys revenge on France.

 

[haleyrules]

Ha! I thought you would like that. Jimmy was one of my favourites!

 

[dallasdave]

Ha! I thought you would like that. Jimmy was one of my favourite!

Jimmy did whatever it took to win the Championship

 

[haleyrules]

Jimmy did whatever it took to win the Championship

Championships?? Whats that? . I really believe that within 3 yrs...Dallas will have another SB parade.

 

[Direwolf63]

#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

When this round of TV contracts are up, I expect streamers like Yahoo, Netflix and Amazon Prime to bid for some games. It will be very interesting to see what will happen with ESPN.

 

[Direwolf63]

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.

I sense some sarcasm here.

 

[xwalker]

well the North won and the South still likes to act like it won. there is no impetus for change.

The Germans participated in trench warfare in WW1. There were also advances but they were mainly in fortification and artillery. Rommel utilized the new fast mechanized cavalry and applied it as opposed to anything else.

You need a standing army to train and strong well dispersed leadership to pull off modern infantry tactics. There just wasn't the infrastructure for that outside of the Ottoman Empire prior to WW2.

Texas should just secede from the union now. Then we could kick out the Pro North and California minded people.

 

[dallasdave]

Championships?? Whats that? . I really believe that within 3 yrs...Dallas will have another SB parade.

I'm ready for one this year.

 

[haleyrules]

I'm ready for one this year.

Ha. Me too. Just keeping my expectations under control...

 

[dallasdave]

Ha. Me too. Just keeping my expectations under control...

All the WAY !!!!

 

[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 think I found it. I barely remember any of this stuff as it has been more than 30 years.

Byzantine Empire
At the turn of the 14th century, Anatolia and the surrounding areas were a patchwork of small, independent states and marriage was seen as an important way to maintain alliances. Though some emperors, such as Justin I and Justinian I, took low-born wives,[n 5] dynastic intermarriages in imperial families were not unusual in the Byzantine Empire. Following the fall of Constantinople in 1204, the ruling families, the Laskarides and then the Palaiologoi, thought it prudent to marry into foreign dynasties. One early example is the marriage of John Doukas Vatatzes with Constance, the daughter of Emperor Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire to seal their alliance.[111]
After establishing an alliance with the Mongols in 1263, Michael VIII Palaiologos married two of his daughters to Mongol khans to cement their agreement: his daughter Euphrosyne Palaiologina was married to Nogai Khan of the Golden Horde, and his daughter Maria Palaiologina, was married to Abaqa Khan of the Ilkhanate.[112] Later in the century, Andronikos II Palaiologos agreed martial alliances with Ghazan of the Ilkhanate and Toqta and Uzbeg of the Golden Horde, which were quickly followed by weddings with his daughters.[113]

 

[waldoputty]

Longstreet actually designed a system of field fortifications that in the end were the primary features of WW1 trench warfare.

The Prussians learned from us primarily how to use rail roads and how to keep large armies in the field steadily supplied. They used that to kick the French all around in 1870. And that was one of the main reasons for WW1- French revenge on Germany. Then WW2 was Germanys revenge on France.

I think the OP's intent is not to get into trench warfare with the entrenched bozo owners.
Ideally there is some way to outmanuever them and humiliate them out of their entrenched positions.
I still say pot is a great opportunity.
Make them eat their words by having to reverse themselves if all the players test positive.
Show them for the hypocrites they are - $ > principles.

 

[Sasquatch]

I sense some sarcasm here.

Only some?

 

[LocimusPrime]

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.

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[adbutcher]

belicheat descended from one of the generals in the North.

This nation is a better nation with the north winning. You sound like you disagree and by some of the posts here you are not alone. I'm ecstatic that the south won't rise again, you can whistle dixie to that.

 

[waldoputty]

This nation is a better nation with the north winning. You sound like you disagree and by some of the posts here you are not alone. I'm ecstatic that the south won't rise again, you can whistle dixie to that.

i was screwing around. i am asian and no way i would mean that

 

[adbutcher]

i was screwing around. i am asian and no way i would mean that

Lol, ok fam.

 

[waldoputty]

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.

sorry, scoring sells.
agree on having powerful teams but the draft cannot go.
perhaps have some type of salary cap like the nba so the team that drafts have an advantage in keeping the players.
more fan-player interaction through some type of events and web-based twitter type interface.
that can draw in advertising lost on tv revenue and jaylon would make even more money

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The OP talks about the South and North not learning much from the Civil War and tries to apply it to the current NFL.

X made a comment about how the south says the north cheated. That sentiment derives from Europe in the middle ages where notions of chivalry and honorable combat were common amongst the ruling class who were all descended from a few families that line bred a ton. The Caliphate had similar problems.

Anywho the antebellum south was very keen on such ideals from Imperial Rome and feudal Europe.

Both of them with their religious and chivalrous ideals were annihilated by the mongols who were pragmatic in their approach to warfare much like the south and their ideals were overwhelmed by the north.

Sticking to failed or inferior principles is how you stagnate.

 

[Ranching]

The OP talks about the South and North not learning much from the Civil War and tries to apply it to the current NFL.

X made a comment about how the south says the north cheated. That sentiment derives from Europe in the middle ages where notions of chivalry and honorable combat were common amongst the ruling class who were all descended from a few families that line bred a ton. The Caliphate had similar problems.

Anywho the antebellum south was very keen on such ideals from Imperial Rome and feudal Europe.

Both of them with their religious and chivalrous ideals were annihilated by the mongols who were pragmatic in their approach to warfare much like the south and their ideals were overwhelmed by the north.

Sticking to failed or inferior principles is how you stagnate.

Well, now it all makes sense. Salud!