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9 hours ago, southwest1 said:
No, it's not silly. When you consider the time to takes to officiate a game, the nonstop commercials, & waiting for the league officials to dissect complicated calls or questionable calls of pass interference, whether the WR maintained control of the ball all the way to the ground, & then you add excessively planned out TD celebrations to the mix it's not an exaggeration at all House.
It is the Natl. Football League not Amateur Hour & open mike night on "Who's Got Talent."
It's 100% silly. How many celebrations go on for more than let's say 15 seconds? If the score for both teams is 28-28, that has both teams scoring 4 TDs, with 4 converted extra points. For 8 TDs total we're talking about a whopping 120 second in "celebrations!"Â
Two minutes. Two minutes in celebrations if you assume they all take 15 seconds to wrap up, and most games don't even have that much action as far as TDs go. Not to mention the vast majority of games that contain field goals.Â
30 second celebrations? 240 seconds. 4 minutes. 60 second celebrations? 480 seconds.Â
Couldn't be more inconsequential. Like I said before. It's okay to dislike them because of your own personal reasons. But the other excuses are unnecessary.Â
However in my personal view. It's a game. Bouncing around or acting like a fool isn't that big of a deal.Â
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Exactly!Â
And why stop there. I know I personally would be satisfied if we could see I few cold blooded murder spree, type celebrations.Â
Because everything we've mentioned is just the same as jumping up and down, dancing, and using a football as a prop right?Â
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Right?????
...................right..........
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6 minutes ago, southwest1 said:
Actually, I blame former Bengals WR Chad Johnson AKA "Ocho Cinco" for taking end zone celebrations to ridiculous heights & theatrical productions that really aren't necessary. The duration of most games 3 to 3 & a half hours is long enough. Excessive celebrations just make the game slow down & lose tempo IMO.
Saying that celebrations add anything more than a minuscule amount of time to a game is hyperbole at its finest.Â
Its okay to say you don't like them. But to suggest they celebrate in only manners that appeal to you, the general you, is silly.Â
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2 hours ago, southwest1 said:
I have no problem high 5ing your teammates or chest bumping them in the end zone House, but some players do tend to go overboard with their touchdown celebrations. I think a balance can be found between the old school & new school NFL way of showcasing their talents.
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Right. You're okay with them celebrating in a way you find acceptable. But who cares? They can/should be able to celebrate how ever they want. It's a game.Â
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The amount of concern over dancing I've seen in this thread, is sad/confusing.Â
So the only approved way of celebration is golf clapping, and muted applause?Â
"No one better be having fun out there! Do you think this is a game!!!! Well I mean it is, but don't treat it like you're enjoying yourself in any way. Tow the line and if you so much as gyrate your hips you're going to get a stern talking to!"
Let the players celebrate how ever they feel like. If it gets them hyped up, and they're having a good time, there's no issue whatsoever. Outside of ruffling the feathers of very serious, very stern, very rigid football purists.Â
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You can feel good if you want BUT I would be completely embarrassed today if I was a fan of either the Ravens or Colts.
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What isn't getting a lot of play time is the idea that if this issue goes to court, odds are Brady will be playing from the get go.
However, if he then loses in court he could be serving that 4 game suspension right before or during the playoffs.
Unless there's some NFL rule that I'm not aware of that prevents that. Which is entirely possible, if not probable based on my understanding of the rule book lol.
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Saying "the ball boy wasn't aware" isn't being upfront. It's a lie. McNally knows the protocol for footballs on game day.
Maybe they could have just scapegoated McNally in the first place, and then all the rest of this stuff doesn't come out. But that's still different than being upfront, and based on what we've learned through all of this, it would have been dishonest.
I was referring to being upfront about the ball tampering taking place. The fighting of that has spiraled to all of this. I think the league and media at large would have swallowed the pill that they didn't mean for the balls to come in under weight, and it was accidental. More so than the back pedaling and lying.
Obviously Sups the truth from the beginning would be nice, but that's not the world we live in. It's either admit the truth and lie a little, "I don't know how those steroids got there but I accept responsibility" or outright lies.
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I disagree. They didn't submit footballs that weren't inflated properly; that probably happens all the time, based on the interviews with refs that are in the Wells report.
They evidently went out of their way to manipulate footballs after they had been signed off on by the refs, going so far as to take them without permission from the officials' locker room and release air from them. That's not 'we thought we had them within the legal range.' That's cheating.
Not the worst kind of cheating ever, not a scandalous affair that is likely to have influenced the outcome of a lot of games (possibly, but that's impossible to know). But still deliberately breaking the rules and undermining the officials' ability to do their job, which is ensure a fair and even playing field.
While all that is true. Had they simply owned up to it, or owned up to it and then started making lame excuses about temperature, or some insane theory like "Our ball boy wasn't aware the refs had already checked the balls" this isn't as big of a story. Heck they could have then taken the opportunity to throw the ball boy under the bus and claimed he was rouge or something.
It's all the extra stuff that followed the accusation that's made this what it is. The BB press conferences. The "Is Tom Brady a cheater?" moments. All the crazy science, Kraft accepting punishment, broken/replaced cell phones, the "Deflator."
All of that has led to this. Instead of being more upfront about what took place. Even a little would have gone a long way.
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I wonder if Kraft pushes things further. He seemed even more * than he did after Wells report came out.
Naw. He just knows what he did hurts any future court case, so now he has to backpedal and act like he was furious about it the whole time.
The logic that him accepting punishment somehow is suppose to exonerate Tom is pretty hilarious though.
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The greatest aspect of this whole situation is if the Patriots were upfront about all of this from the beginning, none of this would be happening.
A simple "Yes Tom likes to play with balls that are deflated a little less so he can grip them better. We thought we had them within the legal range, and it is regrettable that they came in underinflated according to league standards."
Do that and there's no outrage, no massive penalties, and this would have been an entirely uneventful offseason.
But alas...
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What is one of the NFL's greatest claims?
Parity.
NE destroys that.
By waiting a decade before winning a SB after their first dynasty?
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Bravo for the NFL having the guts to not expedite this punishment before the SB. Clearly he's such a cheater that he deserves to miss games next season. But the season during which the supposed cheating took place? Calm down on that guys. We need to review all the facts. Making tough calls doesn't sound very fun.
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willing to bet you weren't even a "fan" in 2011. Colts "fans" have some of the worst allegiance I've ever seen. You people don't deserve a good team, that's for sure, LOL. yeah not like the good ol Texans fans. Burning jerseys at the first sign of their bandwagon team going south. Nothing says loyal like jersey burnings, and threatening QBs at their homes. Those are some deserving fans.
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Didn't see that coming.
Edit: First link only sometimes redirects for some reason.
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I have brighthouse so, they are marginally more tolerable than comcast.
I agree, lack of competition for internet providers is the hub of this issue.
In the US, we have the worst and most expensive internet in the world. Home of capitalism with no competition for internet. What the heck?
Where I live its comcast or nothing when it comes to Internet. They have the best infrastructure. Thus comcast I am forced to use......
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For me, cable is still cheaper for what I want to watch. I eliminated their DVR and dialed it back to standard cable.
But they get you with bundling, which is code for 'we're gonna jack your price up if you only get internet.
Internet alone (I have my own router) $75
Internet + cable = $98
So, essentially cable is costing me $23/month......but only because the pricing is predatory
With that though I can access about anything on demand via the web, including new episodes of Walking Dead & Bates Motel and interestingly enough, the on demand stuff appears to be in HD, unlike the cable broadcast (since I don't pay for HD anymore)
And we also have access to History, ESPN and other channels we watch. For now it's working but the more they push me over $100/month for cable + internet, the more I start looking for options. Also with cable, my husband can still channel surf, which you really cannot do with the internet
Those sound suspiciously like comcast prices. When new ISPs hit the scene prices will get more competitive. Hopefully.
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Internet TV is getting better but certainly not cheaper.
So, the motivation to move to the internet won't be there for most (of us), at least not in 2015
New service in 2015 http://www.wsj.com/articles/playstation-vue-review-a-real-rival-to-cable-tvfor-a-price-1427224160
Hulu, Netflix, Chromecast, Amazon Fire Stick, Apple TV.
All do the majority of the functions cable does, but drastically cheaper. I don't doubt in the future the big ISP's will figure out how to make Internet more expensive, but right now Cable is by far.
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Smart move and very savvy on the NFL's part. Would love if NFL eventually moved off TV. Why should I have to pay the price of cable, and NFL Network, for teams I don't even want to watch. I also have to pay for cable and get a bunch of crap stations I never watch. I barely get the Colts in my area, despite living in Indiana, and I pay for worthless games and the redzone to potentially get a peek.
If it was available for streaming I could guarantee myself to watch the Colts. Not have to pay for cable. And have the ability to watch football on all of my devices. Including my TV.
TV is already dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
Also I hope they don't stream through YouTube. YouTube is awful for live streams. Hopefully they partner with Twitch or someone comparable.
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Prevalent theory trying to explain away all of his public missteps, I.E rolled up bill in he bathroom, being linked to numerous story's of him being drunk/hungover.A guy goes to rehab and you think he's trolling?
What does that even mean?
Some suggested he was just "trolling" the media. And he wasn't as messed up as he seemed. Johnny having a laugh at he media's expense. Clearly this isn't the case.
Little bit of parody on my part.
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Johnny is always trolling the media.
Troll master at his finest.
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And this is the same team that Peyton Manning got blown to pieces by...
Now we can no longer pick on Brady for not winning another SB anymore. All the scandals too are under the rug for now on.
I mean are you going to hunt down everyone who brings it up personally, or is there a task force in charge of that?
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Congrats to the Pats fans who didn't lose their minds this week. Well deserved win. But man Pete bailed you guys out lol.
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Is Luck being discouraged from running? Wilson is doing it again. Luck just sits in the pocket and forces dumb throws. Still can't believe we only put up 7 points
Yeah man. If only we put up 24 points and lost. Everything would be so much better.
Wasted opportunity.
willing to bet you weren't even a "fan" in 2011. Colts "fans" have some of the worst allegiance I've ever seen. You people don't deserve a good team, that's for sure, LOL.
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I wholeheartedly agree with this post lol.Â