CodeMonkey

No vuvuzela's at nfl games though. God I hate those !@#$ing things. I lived in the UK for a year and went to several games. It can be dangerous because of the small country, away fans travel in large numbers, but fun if you aren't a moron.

Oh I agree with you completely and do not think it will be successful. But I believe that is the NFLs thought process. Agree as well.

ESPN added.

This is completely true. But that would cause an epic change in the game. Not sure the NFL will ever consider that. Removal of most of the padding would also help, but again, greatly change the game. Tackle football is by definition an extremely violent game. In my opinion, removal of the helmet and pads turns tackle football into a slower, less interesting, variant of rugby.

That was me too actually But how much more money can the NFL expect to squeeze out of their existing market and TV here in the US? I suppose they have some more avenues. Four nights of the week don't currently have a game on TV for example. But what other reason other than expanding the market would the NFL have for this move? There has to be a ceiling on how much the networks can charge for their ad space. They could create more TV timeouts I suppose and play more night's of the week. But there is a ceiling. Ticket sales are a drop in the bucket compared to the TV money.

They can do some things to minimize the impact a little. But when players are running that fast and their head stops abruptly from hitting something, the brain is going to hit the inside of the skull.

Oh yeah I never consider spread unless I'm gambling Straight up was 7-1 Giants.

The NFL needs more money, therefore a larger market. They have sucked pretty much all the revenue that can expect to from Americans. Expand or die.

Actually they overwhelmingly picked the Bills against the Giants, 7-1.

Anyplace where there are Americans close, like overseas military bases, should do pretty well. Other places will fail much like NFL Europe did.

10/25 Jags 11/8 Fish

I agree with you as well. Take care of the things you mentioned and for gods sake stop all of the !@#$ing stupid personal fouls and they will win. The refs calls are, and will be for the foreseeable future, inconsistent. And more importantly, equally inconsistent. The Bills had the better talent overall Sunday. But were undisciplined, got out coached and lost.

You don't really expect the NFL to drop all of the revenue that Thursday games generate because of "long/short week syndrome" do you? The NFL is a business first and cares far more about the bottom line than it does any perceived lack of fairness by any teams fans.

FWIW, two mathematical models predict: FiveThirtyEight predicts a 9-7 record. Amos predicts 10-6 .

Added Cortana and a new model called Amos.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/skeptical-football-should-marcus-mariota-book-his-flight-to-canton-titans/

CBS Added. Knee jerk due to the Bills suckjob against the Giants? Maybe the injuries?

Yes yes yes! I have been an advocate of this for some time. Not so much robots, but all kinds of camera feeds to computers in the box with software analyzing the play in real time and signaling to a ref on the field when it detects penalties is actually feasible with the state of technology today. And the NFL certainly has the funds to develop such a system. Of course then the cheatriats could hack the system to gain an advantage

Hey wait a minute .. only ONE?!?!?! I thought Bills fans knew how to party!!!!

We have already seen how creative he can be, the answer is very. What we will see now is how effective he can be. So far that answer has been not very.

I was listening to an interview on the radio this morning about this, it is pretty interesting. Apparently Draft Kings employees with access to current data have been playing Fan Duel and Fan Duel employees playing Draft Kings. This is illegal on wall street as insider trading, but apparently there is nothing (currently) illegal about this. According to this interview, one person on Draft Kings has made over $320K on Fan Duel so far this season this way and there are several others doing the same thing. Nice gig if you can get it.

CBS with Spread (Bills -3.5 ) : 5 take the Titans 2 take the Bills. (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks/against-the-spread/5) CBS Straight Up: 5 take the Titans 2 take the Bills. (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks/straight-up/5) ESPN: 10 and the computer take the Bills and 3 take the Titans. (http://espn.go.com/nfl/picks) Microsoft Cortana (Went 8-7 in week 4): Titans 51% chance to win. (http://www.cortanapredictions.com/) FiveThirtyEight: (Went 10-5 in week 4): Bills 65% chance to win. (http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2015-nfl-predictions/) Amos: (Went 9-6 in week 4) Bills 53% chance to win. (http://trevorbischoff.com/nfl-2015-week-5-predictions/) FYI: FiveThirtyEight predicts a 9-7 record for the Bills this season with a 38% (down from 59%) chance of making the playoffs and a 1% (down from 4%) chance of winning it all. Amos predicts a 10-6 record for the Bills this season. SportsClubStats (http://www.sportsclubstats.com/NFL/AFC/AFCEast/Buffalo.html) predicts a record of 8-8 and a chance of making the playoffs at 36.9% (Unless I'm not interpreting the "What If" chart correctly regarding wins/losses. Maybe someone who understands that better can confirm or enlighten me please?)

Ummmm .. hmmmmmm .... He put it onto the currency as a convenient way to funnel it into the little sipping opening in the lid of his coffee. Yeah that's it

Must be Equal for his coffee.

Coming from you that is rich. Thanks, you can never have too many laughs