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I never said i wouldn’t want to see it. I hate Goodell I would welcome a nationally televised embarrassment like that.

Lol yes. i think you hit the AM sports radio caller superfecta with those quotes. All meaningless BS.

Exactly. For all the high praise the Athletic has received for its business model over the last few years, especially towards its beginning, it doesn’t appear to be very groundbreaking or innovative. They stripped talent from everywhere using their giant well of VC cash to outbid everyone else, especially the local papers (Tim Graham brags all the time how well he’s paid to trolls on twitter.) Doing that of course burned through mountains of that cash, but it worked out for the founders and angel investors with this deal.

Oh I know - selective memory it seems. Another quote from the Defector article since I know most can’t read it: “Funded from the very beginning by hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital money, The Athletic never needed to be profitable (in 2018, The Athletic said it was profitable; in the beginning of 2020, it said it expected to be profitable in 2020; it was reported that the company lost $95 million in 2019 and 2020; now The Athletic says it expects to be profitable in 2023), it just needed to maintain the promise of future profitability in order to keep investors on the hook while a buyer was found. This is exactly what happened, and now The New York Times is set to buy the company for $550 million (a definite discount from its previous $800 million valuation, but a win nonetheless for the founders and investors who now get to cash out.”

True, but have 2 teams ever been in this particular situation before? If Jax wins and they really try to pull this, heads will roll.

NYT politics aside, this is pretty funny considering all the brash s**t talking the founders of the Athletic were doing just a few years ago: “We will wait out every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, told The New York Times in 2017. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.” Quote from this article over at Defector that also (surprise) says the employees knew next to nothing about this deal. (Note: paywall, but you may be able to view for free) The Athletic has yet to turn a profit. https://defector.com/no-one-knows-anything-staffers-at-the-athletic-wait-in-the-dark-following-nyt-deal/ edit: @Mr. WEO beat me to the quote 😄

Crafty. I wouldn’t put it past him.

you got me curious so I looked around a bit - NBA rulebook is ~68 pages (in pdf format.)

Trust that the league office has already made it crystal clear to both teams that pulling this stunt will result in severe penalties. Not gonna happen.

Agree with you. On offense, I’ll say Gabriel Davis.

pretty strong denial from Rodgers. Doesn’t matter, people all over the place are taking this rumor and running with it. reminds me of the cadre of HOF voters (including Buff’s own Vic Carucci) who kept TO out of the Hall for a couple years out of spite because they didn’t like his personality and how he interacted with the media. TO was a slam dunk, no-brainer 1st ballot HOFer at his position. But nah, some media manbabies had to prove a point and avenge their hurt feelings. Never read a thing Vic wrote after that debacle.

Ooof. That’s unfortunate. Almost feel sorry for Jags fans. Almost.

love how ol’ dean here blames all this entitlement on youth and math in a profession absolutely rife with cronyism and nepotism. Keep yellin’ at those clouds geezer.

completely bogus. There is zero chance he would even consider doing this; he’d be reviled by his teammates for one. Boomer is FOS.

Seems correct. A lot of other “frontrunners” lost some mystifying games to basement dwellers too though. Weird season.

we have a guy to play on the other side of Diggs already next year named Gabriel Davis. No need to trade for another reason to keep Davis off the field, especially one like Ridley who’s clearly going through some off-field stuff. Ridley also will command big dollars, money that Buffalo needs to pay Diggs eventually. Thanks for changing your title by the way 🙄

What’s the meaningful difference between the playoffs starting next week as opposed to this week? Or is this just another “complain for the sake of complaining” thread?

Thanks for this thread confirming that, indeed, we do want the Bills to win. Needed that reminder.

Looks like the county executive was right.

That’s my thing - these supposedly confidential scores get leaked every single year by NFL staff and personnel, in part, I believe, to cover their a**es and give themselves an out for picking (or not picking) a certain player. Sorry but if the NFL and its teams can’t help themselves from being scumbags then the test gets axed. I don’t know what the predictive value of the test is, nor do I really care.

some people around here (not necessarily the OP) have been trying to mischaracterize the weather Sunday to make excuses for Allen. One guy said he “saw the snow falling on TV” so he knew the weather was bad.

Lol. Sunday’s game was certainly cold but “heavy” snow? No. It was snowing steadily during the morning yes (but still wasn’t accumulating much at all.) By game time it was pretty light. If Sunday’s snow was “heavy,” what was the Bills-Colts game in 2017? Ultra heavy? Super duper heavy? Come on man. edit: However, this season overall I agree with your assessment - I can only speak back to 2007 when I started buying season tickets, but this season has had more bad weather games than I’ve experienced in a while.

I’m sure that’s part of it too. There are “opinion makers” if you want to call them that that have been saying for years off and on that Highmark Stadium’s capacity is too large for the region. They point to places like Indy and Detroit, two similarly sized markets with newer stadiums that have significantly less seat capacity (71.6K vs 67K and 65K, respectively.) A flat 60K capacity would make Buffalo’s new stadium the smallest in the league.

Also remember part of Terry and Kim’s share of the construction costs will be defrayed by personal seat licenses sold to everyone who wants season tickets. I have no personal preference with regards to dome vs open air, but even if they did build a dome, there is no way Buffalo would get a Super Bowl. Hotel capacity, etc. isn’t up to snuff.

1. They most definitely will raise regular ticket prices, maybe substantially 2. fewer regular seats allows for more “modern” amenities, club seats, and luxury suites.