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  1. 1 hour ago, Nihilarian said:

    https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/08/13/jadeveon-clowney-trade-wont-be-easy-to-pull-off/

     

    Anyone trading for Clowney would be getting his services for one year, with no ability to sign him to an extension until after the regular season ends. At that point, Clowney would have the leverage of a 20-percent raise over his 2019 salary, whether it’s $15.967 million or, if his grievance regarding his alleged status as a defensive end is successful, $17.128 million. That equates to either $19.16 million or $20.55 million for 2020, either of which becomes the starting point for negotiations on a long-term deal.

     

    So what would a team, assuming it has the cap space to absorb Clowney’s contract, give up in order to get Clowney for one year? And what would the Texans want to part with the rights to Clowney for 2019 plus the ability to franchise-tag him in 2020, sign him to a long-term deal, or let him walk in free agency with a compensatory draft pick arriving in 2021?

    This^^^^^^^

     

    i can’t imagine we would give up much for a guy with no guarantee that he re-ups. 

  2. 3 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

    God bless her and I hope she is OK.

    Thanks Bill. She’s in final stage renal failure, but hanging in there. My brother and I watched the game with her last night. I moved back here after my dad passed in 2006 and have been looking after her since. 

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  3. I grew up in Eden, NY.  My father, a twenty-year-old just back from a two year stint in the army, knocked my mother up with me when she was just barely 15.  She was still about 40 days short of her 16th birthday when I was born.  Of course this was 1957-58 and a much different time.  My mother's adoptive parents, the people I grew up referring to as my grandmother and grandfather, were none to pleased either.  But in a small town, it was often just swept under the rug as my father wanted to marry my mother and did so.

     

    Worse than this though, is my mother had 5 more children serially and had 6 children between the ages of newborn to 5 at the ripe old of age of 21.  She literally spent about 85% of her formative years pregnant.  My mother is a poster child for why young girls need to be protected and allowed to grow up before bearing children.  She is batcrap crazy, but she totally gets a pass from me on that.  BTW, they ended up with NINE!

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  4. 21 hours ago, IslandBillsFan said:

     

    I don't know how I ever missed this image before but I LOVE IT!

     

    My favorite part is towards the end the guy in the light blue shirt is just riding with his legs on the hood and his butt in the space between the seats and the dash.  After trying to stear it for a few seconds he just gives up and rolls off while moving.  Hahahahah!

    How about the guy in the white shirt and brown pants who is running towards it and then just falls to the turf before he gets to the cart?  It is funny given that no one. Was seriously hurt. 

  5. On 7/4/2019 at 4:09 PM, vincec said:

    This is exactly true. I remember the joyous reactions of many black people after the verdict and didn't for a second get the impression that they were happy because an innocent man was justly acquitted. They were celebrating the fact that a corrupt system, and the LAPD in particular, took one right between the eyes. This was a masterful performance by Cochran.

    I loved Chris Rock's summation of the trial and result:  " That’s right. Black people too happy, white people too mad. The white people like: “That is a bull***t!” I ain’t seen white people that nasty since they cancelled “M.A.S.H.”! Black people ???: “Yes, we won, we won! Yes! We won!” What the f*** did we win? Every day I look at the mailbox for my O.J. prize: nothing! Nothing!

  6. 20 minutes ago, Stank_Nasty said:

    so was the one he was responding to....

     

    appeasing our Canadian fanbase with that signing? seriously? that's dumb.

     

    flutie played some solid ball in buffalo.

    Until Belichick figured out that you just had to keep him in the pocket to beat him.  The rest of the NFL soon followed, after which we had a 13 point per game offense.  Good thing we had a 12 "points per game against" defense.

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  7. 4 hours ago, StHustle said:


    With that type of violent and bloody killing of two people by a knife...you dont find the lack of blood evidence a cause for concern?

     

    Im just going off my memory of the case. I was very young then, like around 10 years old so I may be forgetting key things but if I remember correctly they couldnt connect him to blood of either victim besides evidence proven to have been planted.

    To the contrary, there absolutely was blood/DNA evidence and the defense managed to muddy the waters with made up fanatsies about the blood evidence being planted and/or that the blood samples were tainted while in custody.  The prosecution was in over its head and the OJ bought himself an acquittal.

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  8. 2 hours ago, tomur67 said:

    I hate to admit this , but I was at the game when Rob Johnson got hurt and thousands of Buffalo  fans cheered when Doug Flutie ran out to finish the game.  I'm sure most were Flutie fans and wanted him to be starting anyway, but it was awful  that they were cheering when he ran out onto the field and Johnson was being helped off the field. Very disturbing!

    They were cheering BEFORE Flutie ran onto the field.  It was sickneing to me watching Bills fans taunting him and cheering on national televison because one of our own was concussed so hard that he could barely get up.  It was the first and only time I had ever felt ashamed to be a BIlls fan.  I had to turn the TV off.  I never do that when watching a Bills game, but that day I did.

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  9. I was listening to ESPN the day he passed and I think it was Bill Curry who told this story, of a time when Starr was coaching Packers and they were having a coaching meeting in his home one evening, and there was a knock at the door.   It was a guy who's father was dying and he wanted to ask if Bart would be willing autograph a piece of paper for his father, who was literally on his last leg.  Apparently the father was a huge fan and the son was so apologetic and that if Bart would just sign it, he'd be so greatful and would get out of their hair and be on his way. 

     

    Bart immediately asked him where is father was, and when the son told him that he was actually out in the car in the driveway, Bart went straight out to the car, and invited the man into his home, gave him a tour of his trophy room and showed him the Superbowl rings and just spent maybe 15-20 minutes with him.  After he guy left, he went back to conducting the meeting like no big deal.  He was very emotional telling that story and said that just the way Bart was, at all times.

     

    I loved also hearing that Bart literally wrote and mailed Bret Favre a handwritten letter after every game he played for the packers, win or lose:

     

    "There wasn't a game where I didn't get a letter from him, whether it be complimenting me on how I played or the fact that we won, or, 'Keep your chin up. It will get better.'" Favre said. "You think about the games that I played - that's a lot of games to get a personal note from Bart each and every time. I'm not going to lie, it made me feel pretty special. Maybe he sent it to everyone I don't know, but that just kind of tells you the type of guy that Bart was."

     

     A gentleman from another era for sure.

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  10. On 5/26/2019 at 4:35 PM, JimmyNoodles said:

    I loved that book and I loved the Packers in those days.  One of the best football books ever written.  Very sad about Starr but very happy Kramer made it into the HOF.  He was long overdue.  

    As did I.  My father bought it for me for Christmas.

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