This is Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks is wearing the 2019 Color-rush version of Barry Sanders' Detroit Lions jersey.
Garth Brooks gave a concert in Michigan last night, where Barry Sanders jerseys are still seen on multiple fans, 20 years after his retirement still. I still have my Barry Sanders jersey in my closet as well. Garth Brooks, like Barry Sanders, attended Oklahoma State University. A reasonable person might come to the conclusion that A) Garth Brooks is a fan of Barry Sanders, and B) since he was performing in Michigan, where Sanders played his entire NFL career, that the fans in attendance of his show would get a kick out of seeing him wear it. That's what a reasonable person might conclude. But, bless their stupid little hearts, some people assumed that ANY shirt with the words "SANDERS" and the number "20" on it, HAD TO, JUST HAD TO be referring to 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. I don't care if they were pissed off that they thought Garth Brooks was endorsing Bernie Sanders, or were celebrating because they thought Garth Brooks was endorsing Bernie Sanders. It is my opinion that anyone who saw that photo, whose first thought was Bernie Sanders instead of Barry Sanders, needs to die a slow and painful death. However...this is not intended so much as a political thread, as a snarky thread...so, your job is to find other jerseys, and make up a stupid mis-interpretations for their meanings!
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Saturday, February 29
Los Angeles Wildcats (1-2) @ New York Guardians (1-2) 2:00pm, ABC Seattle Dragons (1-2) @ St. Louis BattleHawks (2-1) 5:00pm, FOX Sunday, March 1 Houston Roughnecks (3-0) @ Dallas Renegades (2-1) 4:00pm, FS1 DC Defenders (2-1) @ Tampa Bay Vipers (0-3) 7:00pm, ESPN2 This is just an informative post, in case you wanted to check out any of the NFL Combine.
Thursday, February 27, 4-11pm TE, QB, WR Tight ends, quarterbacks and wide receivers take the field for the first day of on-field workouts. Friday, February 28, 4-11pm PK, ST, OL, RB Place kickers, special teams, offensive linemen, and running backs take the field for the second day of on-field workouts. Saturday, February 29, 4-11pm DL, LB Defensive linemen and linebackers will take the field for day three of on-field workouts. Sunday, March 1, 2-7pm DB Watch as defensive backs take center stage. The entire thing is on NFL Network. So, this is post is purely hypothetical, and is dependent on the assumption that the XFL not only survives, but is deemed successful enough for Vince McMahon to decide to expand the league to 16, having 8 teams in each conference, instead of four.
You are in charge of expansion, AND any realignments, if you deem it necessary. If you were going to decide which cities to expand the XFL to, where would you go? (Assume you can find a suitable stadium wherever). Would you have two 8-team, divisions, or would you split a 16 team league into 4 groups of 4? As a reminder, here are the current conferences: EAST St. Louis New York DC Tampa Bay WEST Seattle Los Angeles Dallas Houston The NFL Players Association board of representatives is no longer planning a vote Friday on the proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement voted on by NFL ownership Thursday, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported per a source. The board and NFLPA executive committee are now hoping to meet next week with the NFL Management Council Executive Committee in Indianapolis at the NFL Scouting Combine and vote following that, Pelissero added. The situation is currently fluid, but meeting at the combine is the hope currently, Pelissero said, and comes just a day after NFL owners approved terms on a proposed new CBA between the league and NFLPA. Earlier on Friday, the NFLPA executive committee voted, 6-5, not to recommend the current CBA proposal. As that was a recommendation, the matter then went to the 32-player board of representatives. Talks continued thereafter through Friday for roughly three hours before the news broke that a vote would no longer take place. "Today, the NFLPA Board of Player Representatives did not take a vote on the principal terms of a proposed new collective bargaining agreement," NFLPA said in a statement Friday. "Our player leadership looks forward to meeting with NFL management again next week before the board takes a vote shortly after." Following ownership approval on Thursday, the proposal was brought to the players and their representatives on Friday, needing a two-thirds majority vote to move into the stage of a final vote. Of course, a vote never transpired. Among the matters at hand in the proposal were the option to expand to a 17-game regular season, an increase in players' share of total revenue to at least 48 percent, expansion of the playoff field to 14 teams beginning in 2020 and improved health care. As Pelissero pointed out, the executive committee -- led by president Eric Winston -- is negotiating the deal. There have been members, namely vice presidents Richard Sherman and Russell Okung, who have voiced opposition. Described by Pelissero as a heated and emotional Friday conference call, it began with the executive committee voting not to recommend the proposed CBA. The board continued to discuss it before agreeing not to vote on Friday. The next step is going to be what the NFLPA leadership hopes will be a meeting with the NFL Management Council, which negotiates on the league side, at the combine. After that, the board intends to carry out its vote. Pelissero also noted the vote of the rank-and-file players in its entirety was prognosticated to be a yes, but there is now a delay as the players union looks to see if there is any wiggle room on the league side. If an agreement comes to be, the CBA could be thrust into effect in time for the new league year on March 18, which could change free agency and the salary cap. My thoughts: The NFLPA executive committee just set itself up for failure. The players have no actual power since their players can't afford to be out of work for an extended period of time while the owners can all afford to sit tight until the players give in. Here is this weekend's XFL Schedule:
Saturday's games: Houston Roughnecks (2-0) at Tampa Bay Vipers (0-2) 2pm, ABC Dallas Renegades (1-1) at Seattle Dragons (1-1) 5pm, FOX Sunday's games: New York Guardians (1-1) at St. Louis Battlehawks (1-1) 3pm, ESPN DC Defenders (2-0) at Los Angeles Wildcats (0-2) 6pm, FS1 *All times listed are EST Earlier today, GreatPogo asked me where nhguy, the owner of the Chatters websites, was. I did a little investigating, and noticed that he hadn't left a single comment for about a month. I have nhguy's personal email address, so I emailed him to see what was going on.
According to nhguy, his work has kept him ridiculous busy doing technology related renovations, and he just hasn't had any downtime to devote to the website. But he is doing ok, and once things settle down a little at his job, he will be back. Rather than make each of these a separate post, I am just gonna combine them into a single, multi-faceted post.
- Under the new CBA proposal that is currently floating around, the idea is to add a 17th regular season game, and dropping one of the preseason games. This really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, we have known the NFL has been coveting a 17 game schedule for years...The additional regular season game would also come with a 2nd bye week for each team. One question would be how the unbalanced schedule would affect the number of home vs. away games each team has. I suspect they would either just rotate each year, or schedule more neutral site/international games, so that every team plays in one, every year. That way, all 32 teams keep 8 home and 8 away scheduling, but with one additional neutral site game. No more Jaguars only getting 7 home games because they are scheduled as the "home team" in London every year. - The CBA proposal also includes adding a 3rd wildcard team to each conference, making it 7 teams, not 6 qualifying for the playoffs in each. The #2 seed would no longer get wildcard weekend off, they would play the #7 team. 3 Wildcard games on Saturday, and another 3 on Sunday? I could get behind that idea. - Greg Robinson, LT, who was a Cleveland Brown last season, just got busted transporting 157 lbs. of marijuana. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN POUNDS. I am gonna go out on a limb here, and say that's not just for uh...personal use. I mean seriously dude. What the hell? - There are grumblings that Joe Burrow might not want to be drafted by Cincinnati at #1, despite being from Ohio. That he might pull something along the lines of John Elway or Eli Manning. The Bengals draft #1, but Burrow has "leverage". Not sure exactly what that means, but imagine if the Bengals take the threat seriously, and take Tua #1 instead? How many offers would the Redskins then get from teams desperate to trade up to #2 to get Burrow? (That would increase the chances my Lions get Chase Young!!! WOOHOO!!!) - Multiple Pro Bowl selection former Panthers TE Greg Olsen is now a Seattle Seahawk. - 4x Pro Bowl pass rusher Everson Griffen has opted out of his contract with the Vikings, and is now a FA. - Patriots super fan Ben Affleck claims that friend Tom Brady won't even tell him what his offseason intentions really are...Brady likely doesn't realize that Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo! Drew Brees has announced he is in fact, returning to the Saints for the 2020 NFL season, so the New Orleans Saints are off the QB Carousel board...
My Nearly two weeks after a report emerged that the Raiders will target Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in free agency, a new report puts some monetary meat on the bone. Larry Fitzgerald Sr., a long-time member of the media in Minnesota and the father of future first-ballot Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald, reports that the Raiders are ready to offer Brady $60 million over two years. Although this one (like the Bernie Smilovitz report of Matthew Stafford trade talks) doesn’t come from someone with an extensive track record of breaking NFL news, my knee-jerk reaction is to believe it, for several reasons. First, I know Fitzgerald Sr. and I’m prepared to say that, if he’s saying it, he’s definitely hearing it from someone who would know. Second, he’s in position to have heard it from someone who knows what’s going on, given the people he knows in the broader NFL structure, thanks both to his own connections and his son’s. Third, although the window for talking to agents about pending free agents doesn’t open until March 16, there are too many teams and too many quarterbacks for the process of preparing and making offers not to have already begun. The number isn’t surprising, not with the market for quarterbacks at $35 million per year. For Brady, the bigger question will be fit, with team, coaching staff, city, and offense. It’s a new football city in a new football stadium and, for Brady, a new offense with a new coach who has a reputation for being more than a little aggressive with his quarterbacks. When Simms and I recently addressed the possibility of Brady to the Raiders, Simms explained that Gruden long has been in awe of Brady, explaining once that Brady looks cool simply walking off the field. (Hopefully they won’t go rock climbing.) Gruden seemingly has restrained his profane rants while coaching Derek Carr for fear of having him crumble under the weight of Gruden’s aggressive vocabulary. If Gruden is coaching the greatest quarterback of all time, it would probably be much easier to hold the F bombs. But will Brady (and his family) want to live in Las Vegas? Will he want to play in the same division as the Chiefs, which means he’d face Patrick Mahomes and be called old by Chris Jones at least twice per year, and the Broncos, especially in light of his repeated struggles in games played at Denver? So for now it’s an option for Brady, one that he’ll have to consider along with the Patriots and any other team that pulls up to the table and drops $30 million or more per year on top of it. And for Carr, it may be time to start thinking about lining up a new seat in the game of quarterback musical chairs, because it feels like — one way or ther other — he’s never going to be living in that house that he built next door to Jon Gruden’s in Las Vegas. My view: There is less than a 5% chance that Brady goes to the Raiders. The Raiders have a ton of holes to fill and wouldn't be Super Bowl favorites even if they did add Brady. I think this is about the Raiders trying to either get Carr to come down in number or open up their fan base to having a different starter next year. |
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