Bash Riprock Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 1 minute ago, Bobref said: It’s like anything else. Players will adjust. Nobody has a problem anymore with horse collar tackles. Same thing here. Move along. Nothing to see. Nothing personal Bob...but Dungy's resume gets my attention and his comment about physics. Sometimes, as you well know, there are unanticipated impacts with rule changes. I am not against the rule change...but sometimes it pays to listen to someone that knows his business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobref Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 2 hours ago, Bash Riprock said: but sometimes it pays to listen to someone that knows his business As I’m sure the Competition Committee did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bash Riprock Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 12 minutes ago, Bobref said: As I’m sure the Competition Committee did. Let's hope....evidently not Dungy or the NFLPA..... https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/03/25/nfl-hip-drop-tackle-ban-nflpa-objections https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/sports/nfl-players-at-odds-over-controversial-hip-drop-tackle/ I think Dungy is right....a player now has 3 choices if he is behind the ball carrier......1) dive at him, which puts legs as a target and/or puts head back in play 2) grab hold and hold on for dear life 3) let him go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muda69 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Taxpayers Refuse To Pay New Stadium Expenses for Billionaire Sports Owners: https://reason.com/2024/04/03/taxpayers-refuse-to-pay-new-stadium-expenses-for-billionaire-sports-owners/ Quote Taxpayers in Jackson County, Missouri, voted on Tuesday to discard a sales tax to finance stadium renovations for the Kansas City Chiefs and the construction of a new stadium for the Kansas City Royals. Even in the face of threats by owners to leave the city if the initiative failed, voters rejected the dodgy campaign to keep the 3/8-cent sales tax, which currently goes toward maintaining the Truman Sports Complex and was slated to raise around $2 billion worth of public funds over 40 years. The teams' efforts essentially sought to exploit fan culture in service of saving private funds. Whether any tax was needed is doubtful when considering the owner of the Chiefs, the Hunt family, is worth billions, as well as the fact that the Royals' current stadium was recently deemed to be in satisfactory condition. KC Tenants, a major tenant union that rallied against the sales tax, said that the tax would have been "among the largest transfers of public money to private corporations in our region's history." In the past, pleas for tax support in Jackson County have worked, perhaps because they were also backed by similar threats about the sports giants leaving town. So this result is a welcome surprise. That's especially true in the context of the national debate around this issue, where taxpayers have subsidized the Tennessee Titans, the Minnesota Vikings, the Atlanta Braves, the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Buffalo Bills, and these are just in the last two years. The list goes on. There is a litany of reasons why voters may have rejected the proposal. The Royals' new stadium was slated to be built in the Crossroads district—a controversial pick that would have required demolishing several small businesses. It's still a possibility that the Chiefs and Royals stay. "Hopefully everyone can take a deep breath, put all of the negative stuff behind us," said Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr., "and then come back to the table and work out a deal that's really affable for all parties involved." But even if the county taxpayers end up voting in favor of an updated proposal, it doesn't change the questionable ethics of using fan support as a tool to pay for private expenses while the profits remain nonpublic. The Kansas City teams would do well to consider the Green Bay Packers' approach, which asks fans to voluntarily chip in—rather than trying the same taxpayer-funded strategy in a different locale. A win for the taxpayers for once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Muda69 Posted Wednesday at 05:39 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:39 PM Netflix signs with the NFL: Exclusive Christmas Day games start this season: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/netflix-gets-the-nfl-three-year-deal-starts-this-season-on-christmas/ Quote Hey football fans! You've already got your subscriptions to CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC, ESPN, ESPN Plus, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, NFL Network, and YouTube TV, right? Well, get ready for one more: Netflix! The biggest streaming provider that wasn't showing NFL games is now jumping into the pile. The NFL and Netflix have signed a three-year deal that will put exclusive Christmas games on the streaming service. The first Netflix Christmas games will be this season, on December 25, 2024, (that's a Wednesday, by the way). Netflix will get two Christmas games this year, with exact times and teams to be announced later tonight at the NFL's live schedule unveiling extravaganza (even the schedule is an event now). The NFL says 2025 and 2026 will see "at least one" game on the service each Christmas. The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed. In the quickly changing landscape of TV, the NFL has long been one of the few things left that is still appointment television. Of the top 100 highest-rated US TV broadcasts in 2023, 93 percent of them were NFL games. In the hyper-fragmented world of streaming, landing a few exclusive NFL games is a great way to hook people into your service. NBC's exclusive Peacock playoff game brought in 23 million viewers last year. And even if that was a bit low by NFL standards, NBC called it "the most streamed event ever in US history" and "a milestone moment in media and sports history." You might think NFL fans would immediately cancel after the final kneel-down, but one study showed a shocking 71 percent of users that signed up for the NFL game were still on Peacock seven weeks later. Netflix has been dipping its toe into the NFL content stream with special reality-style documentaries like Quarterback and the upcoming Receiver, which star current NFL players, but this is the first time the streamer has gotten actual live football. With NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV and Thursday Night Football games on Amazon Prime, the NFL is moving online more than ever. In a few years things will get even wilder: In 2029, the NFL can cancel all the TV deals at the same time, if it wants. That would lead to an unprecedented bidding war among all the TV and streaming providers and would upend the entire NFL content world. Enjoy your "free" NFL games while you can. By 2030 it is a real possibility the NFL will disappear from the traditional OTA networks, and you'll have to subscribe to some streaming service to view them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Nowlin Posted Friday at 01:19 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:19 AM 2030 could be bit of a reach.....more like 2027!!! 🙂 I saw something on the internet today.....you can go watch the entire season of home games for Panthers for like $750 or something like that .....YIKES And their own is real true WILDCARD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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