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It would have been a tough ticket this year with The Rams, Seahawks, Chiefs, and Steelers in town. It will be a tougher ticket next year because The Bills are in town!

Good spotting - hopping on that bet, and I got 26-1 on first or last TD which was begging for a small bet.

I've been finding this site handy as an extra tool in working out my bets https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-nfl-predictions/games/?ex_cid=rrpromo

2 bets tonight Josh over 2.5 Passing TDs Bills win and the over 51.5

Make the Titans give a 2021 draft pick to each team they cancel a game with. Picks 1 and 2 go into a lottery between the Bills and Steelers with each team guaranteed a pick. Cancel a third game, give up another pick.

"the NFL could soon make past punishment imposed on the Patriots seem like parking tickets." No. Those punishments seemed like parking tickets at the time.

My gambling account was $0 on Jan 1st. Played poker free rolls for 6 weeks and managed to win $24 in a free roll where I ran hot. Ran that up to $150 before football season started all playing cheap poker Ran that up to $320 after the Bills win Sunday then .... Placed a live bet on the Chiefs when they were up 6-0 and had the ball around the pats 23. All $320 to win $23. No worries it was about to be 13-0 Chiefs.... then they lost the ball and the game was a cliffhanger for too long. Won the bet... I'm never doing that again!

I run a website and we send out emails. A few weeks ago a couple of swear words snuck into an email we sent out (they were in images in the email). We received two complaints about it. The next week we apologized for the swearing and we received 246 emails complaining about apologizing. Swearing is here to stay.

Wonder what the turnaround time is for the Bills, from when they get notice that fans will be allowed to reacting to the news and having everything in place to welcome fans? There would need to be time to offer tickets to the top say 10K of their list, then for people to accept or refuse the tickets, time to re-offer the tickets, get staff in place etc..

The big one for me is abuse. I'd give people a one week ban on first abuse, a year on the second, and lifetime after that. I'd make the first actions fairly light (I consider a 1 week ban from posting only light) but I would make the follow up actions more severe. At that point the person has received a short ban, been given all of the rules, and chosen to ignore them. People like that are tedious to deal with and take the focus away from football. Real glad you are tackling this, I've found this place unbearable lately and spent most of my time on a different board.

I found this one quite interesting. An increase of 193,676 deaths from week 13 to week 31. Doesn't have the cause of death, but the increase can't be denied. Curious to know how other deaths are in relation to last year, car crash, heart attacks, suicide etc.. Would assume fewer people are driving/commuting and that car crash deaths are way down.

Would I go to a bar to watch the game with friends, probably. Would I drive 90 minutes to maybe tailgate somewhere, probably not. So many of us come in from out of town it's not really worth thinking about, but if I lived in Buffalo I'd be tempted.

Home opener is officially off the table for any Canadians who opted to let the Bills keep their money and have their names put in the ticket lottery..

Image of the storage area from before the explosion, and an explanation from Reddit "The bigger problem is storing it all in one pile, not having enough ventilation or water, and leaving it to sit in a humid atmosphere for long periods of time (so the individual grains can turn into a concrete-like explosive block). Explosives need three things to explode: heat, pressure and some way to keep it all together until the reaction is completed, called confinement. To keep AN safe, you need ventilation and water sprinklers (for heat), standoff distance between bags (for pressure) and not letting it clump (for confinement). Looks like none of these were done."

High school for me happened in the 80's, I was heavily involved in sports until grade 8. The high school sports teachers were (expletive deleted) and killed my interest in school sports. I stuck with rec and city rep teams at that point, but opted out of high school sports. The value of a good teacher hit me at that point, the high school teachers were brutal, swearing, shaming, degrading, sucking the life out of almost everyone who tried out. My rec and rep coaches could be that way too, but more often were motivational or at least not abusive. I wonder if coaches can still get away with that crap in the days of cellphones?

Canada has been letting Americans who own property in Alaska cross the border under strict rules that they take the direct route to Alaska and limit stopping to basics like getting gas at the closest station. So the virus can spread from other states (and of course we are getting all the reports of Americans ignoring the rules and being found in places far from the fastest route sight seeing and shopping)

Anyone willing/able to update the first post with a list of the opt outs?

The virus has the ultimate chance to make you obsolete. I'm still shocked by how many people don't give that any weight in their theoretical decisions.

Someone like me, I'm not going to be any happier with 13 million than I am with the 8 I theoretically already have. If my job was taken next year, well I've made 8 and I got out of the NFL with reasonable health. On the potential plus side, rehabbing for a year might allow the player to last another couple of years. I can't see the motivation for anyone who has already made bank.

How about this scenario. You made $1.5 million 3 years ago, $2 million 2 years ago, and last year you made $5 million. Are you still playing football this year and living in the bubble? I wouldn't be, I'd rehab my body and be ready for next year.

According to Google 134 - 168 plays in an average NFL game (67 - 84 plays per Offense in an average NFL game) 10 - 11 Corner kicks in an average EPL match Also, the EPL only needed to jam in 8 matches to finish a season. The NFL is looking at starting a season and getting 18 games in pre playoffs (assuming 2 pre-season). Every NFL play definitely has more in your face contact than a soccer match.

The players are ticked, so we can safely assume that the NFL didn't have multiple solid plans for how to proceed in different scenarios. Was the NFL plan on par with 'It'll all be done by the time we start, let's not have a plan'? This can't be possible in a billion dollar sport. Can it?

Didn't see this posted - UAE Says sniffer dogs detect Covid-19 with 92% accuracy. Be easier to have larger events with a trained team of dogs clearing everyone before entry. Would take the stress level down a notch too. No swabs, no temp check, hey look at the doggie. "The UAE has reported early success in using dogs to detect people infected with Covid-19 and plans to deploy specially trained canine teams at airports as it seeks to reopen as a regional travel hub. Trials of police sniffer dogs “achieved approximately 92 per cent in overall accuracy” in identifying samples of the coronavirus, the country’s interior ministry said last week, adding that its research was leading the field globally."

Canada to extend border closure to Aug 21st. If they follow the standard pattern they will also extend to Sept 21st mandatory quarantine for returning Canadians. As a longtime season ticket holder from Canada I have to accept that fans or no fans, I won't be at the home opener for the first time in 17 years.

Oh my God - what are they doing? Florida sets new record with 15,299 new cases on Sunday "A month ago fewer than 5 percent of tests returned positive results, while over the past week, more than 19 percent of tests were positive. "