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  1. 13 minutes ago, Kirby Jackson said:

    Sure. This conversation is basically one or the other. It isn’t about net worth (in any way). It’s about PSLs and if we accept or reject them. No one likes them.

     

    Ticket agencies appear to - they factor in cost of paying for PSLs into ticket price and then charge markup.

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  2. 10 hours ago, frostbitmic said:

    Just wait until all of the games are $6 or more and all on different forms of PPV, it'll take a few years but the NFL will figure it out.

     

    NFL will create multiple shell companies which will own each game with different prices to emulate competition.

     

    They better sign an expert available who understands NFL and is expert at lying.

     

    I wonder who is available.

  3. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-trade-rumors-notable-names-who-could-still-be-moved-before-or-during-draft/

    I think author is completely wrong on Budda Baker.  He was unhappy with money from Cardinals and got a small raise and will want more money if he is traded. And I cannot see Beane giving up a pick for a high priced player which he would need to negotiate a new contract.

     

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    Baker briefly sought a trade last offseason before getting a slight raise from Arizona. The Cardinals can certainly afford his pricey deal with so much cap space, but they also have a younger Jalen Thompson on the back end of Jonathan Gannon's defense. If they can get a solid pick in return, they might prefer another younger investment on a seemingly ascending unit. Baker's versatility and physical punch, meanwhile, could be appealing to teams more suited to contend.

     

     

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  4. 5 minutes ago, dgrochester55 said:

     

    Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) partially owns the team and "the Brahma Bull" was one of his wrestling nicknames.

     

    Fun fact, the roster includes former Bill Marquez Stevenson.  I remember many people thinking that he was going to be a hidden gem a couple of years ago. 

     

    So they (and he) are probably named after the American Brahman hybrid zebuine-taurine bull and its Sexual precocity.

    brahmanbull1.jpg

    https://www.thecattlesite.com/breeds/beef/67/brahman

     

    Thanks.

     

     

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  5. 16 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:


    How are the Bills gouging the taxpayers?  


    Taxpayers have no obligation or need to purchase a PSL. It’s a voluntary choice to pay for entertainment.

     

    The only taxpayers being offered the opportunity to purchase PSLs are apparently buying them up at a fairly high rate.  And that’s just a very small percentage of the relatively few taxpayers that will have an opportunity to purchase a PSL. PSLs are only being offered to current customers. And the large percentage of those customers haven’t even been told what their PSL will cost, so how can it be “gouging”?

     

    Why do you conflate “gouging the taxpayers” with the Bills offering existing customers to remain customers at a similar or better amenity level in an entirely new and improved venue? In fact, many of the Bills’ existing customers who will be offered PSLs aren’t even NYS taxpayers, being from Canada and other states. 
     

     

     

    Taxpapers are not only ones buying PSLs.  They have been selling some to partners including ticket agencies.

    Agencies out of state and did not contribute taxes to building of stadium so the profit rate is higher..

  6. Steelers' Patrick Queen Rips NFL Rule Change

    https://www.si.com/nfl/steelers/pittsburgh-steelers-patrick-queen-rips-hip-drop-tackle

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     The Pittsburgh Steelers' newest star inside linebacker isn't happy with a massive rule change that will radically alter how NFL defenders play their games.

    The NFL announced this week that the so-called "swivel hip drop tackle" will be banned next season and all Queen, who signed a three-year deal with the Steelers this offseason, sees is a harder life for defenders in a sport that has already made it harder and harder to defend without picking up penalties.

    I guess he is worried he is not as valuable to Steelers paid for him.

     

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    But Queen is still afraid of what this will do to the game of football as a whole and his sentiment was echoed by a number of different current and former NFL stars like J.J. Watt and others.

     

  7. https://www.wkbw.com/sports/buffalo-bills/im-just-disappointed-erie-county-executive-on-rumored-psl-prices-at-new-buffalo-bills-stadium

     

    Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Poloncarz was asked about the rumored PSL prices and said it is very upsetting that the Bills would not release what the PSL prices were for all seats.

     

    • The county executive also said has talked to Governor Kathy Hochul about it and she is also concerned.
    • "We should know now what are the costs associated with every PSL that's going to be sold. From any that are $500 a PSL to the ones you heard about in the club seats, which are very expensive. And they were refusing to do that. The county doesn't have a role in the PSL agreement, we don't. I'm just disappointed that it's gotten to this point. I let the Bills representatives and Legends know that."

     

    Poloncarz also said during the press conference "It's the modern NFL where it's all about money."

     

     

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  8. 8 minutes ago, buffblue said:

    They don't scare me in the least. If they had a better coaching staff perhaps, but that team is a clown show. But hey, it seems they are shaping up as the offseason champions again 

     

    I would prefer the "clown show" not be opener for Bills.   Sometimes you are surprised when the clowns come out of the small car.

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  9. 1 hour ago, khlax3 said:

    It’s super annoying to have to subscribe to a bunch of different services but at the same time it’s $6. You can watch the game then cancel and you still have access for the next 30 days to watch movies and shows. 
     

    Once again it’s $6 for 4 hours of entertainment. You can’t do anything for $6, going to a move cost 3x that, going to grab fast food costs 2x that, going out to a bar cost a minimum that. 
     

    For years people said let me just buy the games I want to watch and not pay for the nfl ticket. Well here you go this is that

     

    Planning on taking my daughter to Kung Fu Panda for $6 at first run theater 

    https://www.phoenixtheatres.com/movies/306226-kung-fu-panda-4/

    Rather give theater money than NBC / NFL.

  10.  

    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39813632/nfl-owners-approve-moving-trade-deadline-back-week-9

     

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    NFL owners agreed Tuesday to move the trade deadline back one week to the Tuesday after Week 9

     

    Wonder which teams pushed for this.

     

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    authorized a significant expansion to the league's replay assist program.

    Three penalty categories -- intentional grounding, roughing the passer and hits out of bounds -- were added to the list of plays replay assist can advise officials on.

     

    Good as long as it assisted evenly.

     

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    In addition, they also agreed to allow teams to use a practice squad player as their emergency No. 3 quarterback on game days, after requiring that player to be an existing member of the 53-man roster last season.

    This is very odd happening start of free agency when many of those QBs were released.  It certainly gives some teams advantage.

     

     

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    The flurry of moves came on a day when they also approved a massive revamp of the kickoff.

     

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