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I will never begrudge an NFL HC or GM for earning the big bucks. Assembling 80 +/- of these personalities and backgrounds and distilling them down to a cohesive 53 that plays at the world’s highest level as one team …. man, that’s some Big Voodoo right there. My job is part HC, part GM for high level team in sales and service. It’s brutal, in my mind. I manage half that number of people with significantly less diverse backgrounds and at a level that while high, isn’t NFL stand alone top of the world class. In short, hats off to the people who create common ground among such uncommon people.

I believe he said, with remarkable clarity, that he’s not siding with any party while some facts are unknown. You may have missed it twice.

Old Fashioned and a shrimp cocktail. Next night, Harry and Izzy’s.

I have mine. It’s used, and therefore more valuable to me than any other sports memorabilia I own. I stayed to the end, too. Magical. I used my boss’s tickets!

Magical Mystery Tour was my first record album.

PS: We may have gone to school together if you saw the post title and had the following come to mind.

There are times when the pressure to write something is greater than the anything that becomes the topic.

I am pro Dion.

At the risk of missing the obvious, i’ll ask. Does the kid drop a haymaker ON Cam at ten seconds, or in defense of Cam?

I believe she has access to more than one phone.

In the midst of this hindsight *****, I’ll step beyond football for a moment. Who, here, bought Apple in 2017? Whose IRA or 401(k) sold it? Were you fleeced? Are you incompetent? Or, was the consensus of the market that it was fairly priced and good to hold or sell at the market price .. just like the market consensus when the trade was made? I can go back and look at any decision you’d like me to and judge with knowledge of how it worked out later. Instead, I’m going to see if I can get my dog to chase its tail for a few hours. The trade was break even. How Kansas City used its pick was spectacular. Buffalo’s trade up for Josh Allen was break even. How Buffalo used its pick was spectacular. THAT would be an interesting topic. Who saw what, in each organization, to make such bold commitments? We’d have to suspend the “we got fleeced” and the “because McD” talk, of course ….

Agree … Spectacular ball, though. Lots of yards.

I missed the part where he said or implied be happy with mediocrity and be perpetual losers.

Another poster DM’d me. He’s 106.8 if he checked down to Diggs in the Chiefs playoff game. /s

Only three years older than Tremaine Edmunds.

Given the way some use social media, I’m gonna give the guy props. Hope he does well for him and his family.

I’ve had this vision for some time. It came to me in March of 2021. I bought an 85 inch Samsung TV for +/- $3,200. Say you add another $1,000 for surround sound and you get to $4,200. Hubs, remote, Sonos, install and I was in for $8,000. This was quite a leap for me in terms of size and cost. I’d never had more than one television in my house and my largest was 52 inches. I thought THAT was huge. With today’s pricing, the same thing would cost $6,000. At approximately the same time, the Bills and other franchises were talking about $1.2 to 2.0 billion stadiums for 8 to 12 games a year. Sure, that cost is amortized over 20 years, but it remains huge relative to usage. Football is a made for television sport. With multiple game options, sponsorship and advertising money, slow motion, instant replay, split screens, freeze frame, high definition, and fantasy interest, you have a great product for broadcast. It occurred to me that the league could build four stadiums in a destination city and play four games at 1 pm, 4 pm and 8 pm on a Sunday. That’s 12 of the sixteen played each week. Toss in Monday and Thursday, and you could get a full schedule played in each week for the cost of four stadiums. The economics seemed compelling to me. You may decide building 40,000 seat arenas makes sense and sell “all day” packages for one, two or three games. Let’s say the league chose Las Vegas with all of its entertainment, dining, resort and gambling. I see substantially more revenue and substantially less cost. The obstacle in my mind was fandom and team loyalty. The Buffalo Bills, and its Mafia, have Buffalo. How would that translate if the “Buffalo Bills” played in Las Vegas? Not perfectly and you’d have fallout. Now, I see this. There would have to be a transition period, but I can see the Bills becoming the Apple iBills, or the Nokia Bills. There’d be grumbling and you’d lose some interest. But, like most things, there’d be an evolution. There are 8 billion people in the world to find replacement interest among fans content to stay home, pay less, lose the tailgate experience, and watch the world’s first essentially all broadcast sport. Ladies and gentleman, enjoy your living room and home entertainment system (with it’s smart home, work from home, concert, movie and news capabilities) presented by the suddenly much more profitable and valuable World Football League. The arena would have fast food, fine dining, casinos and concert halls. Today’s game features the Apple iBillls vs Volkswagon Fahrvergnugens.

Well, it IS a Performance Enhancing Drug …. so I hear.

From time to time, we talk about individual members of the team.

More, please.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-bills-trade-that-landed-kansas-city-patrick-mahomes-paid-major-dividends-for-both-teams/ Tre'Davious White (CB), Tremaine Edmunds (LB), Dion Dawkins (T), Zay Jones (WR), Siran Neal (CB) for Patrick Mahomes Removing the hindsight goggles, I think I vote “yes” on this trade. I’m no NFL scout, but I remember watching the highlight film of Mahomes. My takeaway was “that freelancing magic doesn’t translate, but oh, what fun.”

I think Mahomes DOES score on the last drive. Bringing his team within 37 points as time expires.

A defensive PI called in the playoffs AGAINST the Chiefs is sending all of the conspiracy theorists back to the drawing board. Call, team, circumstance … it can’t be!

Or, maybe not ….

Romo … tsk, tsk, tsk … Just said that’s the second time a quarterback was disrupted by a great Chris Jones play as the QB was about to throw a TD pass. Silly Romo, he doesn’t understand the check down option and a QB error. Hero Baller, Purdy ….