NFL 2011 - Pre-Draft Thread

bighoppa wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.

So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?

Did your wife leak the story to a website who published the whole thing online?

The Sanchez story deserves some karmic balance. So with the first pick of the 2014 NFL Draft, the Carolina Panthers pick ...

... this guy!

bighoppa wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.

So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?

Nope, but you're not a media figure living in the spotlight in the biggest city in the country who has a bunch of endorsements. It speaks to Sanchez being actively stupid, not unethical.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
bighoppa wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.

So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?

Nope, but you're not a media figure living in the spotlight in the biggest city in the country who has a bunch of endorsements. It speaks to Sanchez being actively stupid, not unethical.

Which is pretty much the consensus conclusion from other outlets that bothered to take note of this. The only follow-up to this will probably be if the girl sues Deadspin.

Rat Boy wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
bighoppa wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.

So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?

Nope, but you're not a media figure living in the spotlight in the biggest city in the country who has a bunch of endorsements. It speaks to Sanchez being actively stupid, not unethical.

Which is pretty much the consensus conclusion from other outlets that bothered to take note of this. The only follow-up to this will probably be if the girl sues Deadspin.

You're assuming she didn't contact them to begin with. (Btw, I can't read the article at work as Deadspin is blocked ... which is perhaps a good thing as I kinda don't like Deadspin.)

garion333 wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
bighoppa wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.

So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?

Nope, but you're not a media figure living in the spotlight in the biggest city in the country who has a bunch of endorsements. It speaks to Sanchez being actively stupid, not unethical.

Which is pretty much the consensus conclusion from other outlets that bothered to take note of this. The only follow-up to this will probably be if the girl sues Deadspin.

You're assuming she didn't contact them to begin with. (Btw, I can't read the article at work as Deadspin is blocked ... which is perhaps a good thing as I kinda don't like Deadspin.)

If you didn't like them before, then you'll really hate them when you see the new layout.

Rat Boy wrote:

If you didn't like them before, then you'll really hate them when you see the new layout.

Yeah Kotaku and the rest of those affiliated sites got a helluva makeover. The idea is cool, highlight big stories, have links to everything else on the side. But the implementation is sh*t. The scrollbar only scrolls through the current story, so then you can only see the top 5 or so stories on the side, you can't seem to scroll through them, so it ends up defeating the purpose of having access to everything on the side.

Story itself is pretty blah. They hooked up, it's legal, she's kinda bragging about it but at the same time not wanting a huge spotlight. And then she talks to Sanchez and/or Jets PR and they tell her to shut the hell up and she suddenly doesn't want to talk to deadspin anymore, but they already have all this info from interviews. Oh well.

Rat Boy wrote:
bighoppa wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.

So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?

Did your wife leak the story to a website who published the whole thing online?

She might have, but no one cares about linemen. It's always the ball hogs that get the spotlight

bighoppa wrote:

no one cares about linemen.

Isn't that the title of *Legion*'s latest book?

bighoppa wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

The dirty, potentially lawsuit attracting details of Mark Sanchez's romancing a 17 year old girl. Now it's officially the off season.

So am I a bad person because my wife was 17 and I 25 when we started dating?

Maybe not now but you were when you were 25.

*Legion* wrote:

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"No, I haven't named the other bicep yet, but I'm leaning towards 'Fortune,' or maybe 'The Fame Monster.'"

Well what crappy news to wake up to. NFL meetings for today called off.

Stele wrote:

Well what crappy news to wake up to. NFL meetings for today called off.

This has really been mishandled. The union's offer was for fifty cents for every dollar of total football revenue. The league may have thought they wanted 50% of all revenue and then walked out. The walk out was a bad move on the part of the owners, but if the union's offer was their final, non-negotiable offer, then the situation is even worse. A lockout may be inevitable at this point.

I guess I just don't see how the players win in a labor dispute. If the owners lock them out, what do the players expect to do? I doubt most of them have built up enough of a "war chest" to be able to sustain their lifestyles; sure, superstars with huge contracts will be OK, but most of the league is made up of rank-and-file members who know they only have one or two contracts' worth of careers, and their incomes, while high by normal standards, aren't exactly Peyton-esque. The owners know the players are going to run out of money far before they will, and I don't doubt replacement players could come into the mix. It's not like the UFL can exactly offer NFL dollars here to help mitigate the blow to the players.

It seems to me that the two possible outcomes for the NFLPA are "lose well" and "lose badly". I'm not sure where their leverage comes from here, unless they're hoping public pressure somehow inspires the NFL to give in.

Also,

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"Coach Del Rio, can I switch to end? I want the whole defensive line to do a Village People number as our sack dance, and I only know how to make the 'Y'."

The NFL says that the lawyers behind the lawsuit concerning the Super Bowl seats should focus on world peace. Smooth.

Not to point out the obvious, but how long does it take a stadium to be "Super Bowl ready"? I'm only asking because the Dallas Cowboys haven't played a game in their home stadium since Dec 19th (Week 15). They didn't make the playoffs, AND they didn't play at home for 2 freakin weeks. Granted, there may have been other events that were hosted inbetween, but if your venue is hosting (since I don't want to get in a debate with Soccer fans) America's #1 sporting event, and you have 48 days to prepare, I think everything should be in place and up to snuff by game day.

With that said, I think the NFL/Jerry Jones should reimburse them for airfare, and hotel, and give them a ticket for one future Super Bowl. If not, the NFL deserves the class action lawsuit, and I'm sure it's going to cost them a whole hell of a lot more.

I thought they had already agreed to do this. It was mentioned on, I think, Mike and Mike on ESPN Radio a couple of days ago. The original offer was hotel airfare and tickets to next year's SB, but they changed it to a SB of their choice.

Kush15 wrote:

Not to point out the obvious, but how long does it take a stadium to be "Super Bowl ready"?

Depends on if you're just trying to host a crowd, or if you're trying to cram for an attendance record.

"Yes, I'm going into (movies). I think I'm versatile. I can definitely go into action (movies), but action is probably the easiest one. (Maybe) drama, suspense. But I don't like nothing about horror and that mess. When you talk acting, that's kind of what I do." — Baltimore inside linebacker Ray Lewis, who confirmed he will return in 2011, but also discussed potential plans for the future.

The next Arnold?

garion333 wrote:
"Yes, I'm going into (movies). I think I'm versatile. I can definitely go into action (movies), but action is probably the easiest one. (Maybe) drama, suspense. But I don't like nothing about horror and that mess. When you talk acting, that's kind of what I do." — Baltimore inside linebacker Ray Lewis, who confirmed he will return in 2011, but also discussed potential plans for the future.

The next Arnold?

THE NEXT BOZ!!!!!

THE BOZ!

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
garion333 wrote:
"Yes, I'm going into (movies). I think I'm versatile. I can definitely go into action (movies), but action is probably the easiest one. (Maybe) drama, suspense. But I don't like nothing about horror and that mess. When you talk acting, that's kind of what I do." — Baltimore inside linebacker Ray Lewis, who confirmed he will return in 2011, but also discussed potential plans for the future.

The next Arnold?

THE NEXT BOZ!!!!!

If his Old Spice commercials are any indication, Lewis is nowhere near as good an actor as Bosworth.

There's a part of me that is missing this week. The world is a little bit colder, a little more gray.

But I have a lot more time to play games now.

More fun regarding the Super Bowl lawsuit with some revenue sharing stuff sprinkled in. I swear following the NFL these days is like taking a course in business law, which I did take about ten years ago.

Posted entirely for the sake of *Legion*, Justin Bieber may not be such a bad kid after all.

Edit: Panthers owner Jerry Richardson not only seems to enjoy ruining his football team, but also the labor negotiations.

Mayock's top five players entering the draft per position.

Edit: Oh, and Rod Woodson is coaching the DBs for the Raiders now.

Bob Cook, one of the "Never missed a Super Bowl club," has passed away at 79. Here's a memorial QFT:

Bob Cook wrote:

Why football? It’s really the only sport there is, isn’t it?