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Screwball

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  1. 7 hours ago, Maybe Someday said:

     

    IIRC, the guaranteed contact for the year only applies for vets with a certain # of years (I want to say 4 or 5) of experience. 

     

    Ignore the year, but here’s the info.

     

    A vested veteran, or a player with at least four years of NFL experience, will have his 2014 base salary guaranteed for the year if he’s on an NFL team’s roster for the first game of the season.

     

    That means that if a team decided after Week 1 to part ways with a veteran player with a 2014 base salary of $1MM, the team would still be on the hook for that full $1MM, which would count against the cap. A veteran who has received this form of termination pay in the past wouldn’t be eligible to receive it again, but otherwise the player can put in a claim for his full salary and receive it. Veterans not a Week 1 roster don’t benefit from that provision, however.

     

    If a player is signed during the season, following a team’s first game, and is later released, he’s only entitled to 25% of his full-season salary. For instance, let’s say a team signed a player in Week 2 for a full-year salary of $1.02MM. First, that salary would be prorated for 16 weeks, meaning it’d be worth $960K. If a player is cut shortly after signing, he’d receive 25% of that amount, or $240K. If the player is released within four weeks of signing, he’d only count for $240K against his team’s cap, rather than the amount of his full salary.

  2. Here's the article: http://www.tsn.ca/talent/cfl-immediately-ends-full-contact-practices-1.855515

     

    The Canadian Football League and Canadian Football League Players' Association will introduce changes to their sport later today that will improve player safety and could have ripple effects well beyond the league.

     

    Effectively immediately, the league will no longer allow full-contact padded practices during the season, significantly reducing the number of collisions players sustain over the course of a season.

     

    Teams are currently allowed full-contact practices during training camp, plus an additional 17 days during the season. While contact practices will still be permitted at training camp, full-contact practices during the regular season will immediately become a thing of the past.

  3. I have to chase them down every single year for the code. I'm not sure if they choose not to offer it to Canadian Residents, as I know the pass doesn't work with the CDN version - but through a VPN or while in the USA I like to access it.

  4. I took my 4 year old son tonight and he loved it.

     

    I sought out 1st row seats in the upper deck so he could see, which worked out good as it gave him abit more space to move around. thankfully the aisle was half empty so gave us some breathing room. We left before halftime and he was quite content eating some candy and watching the game.

     

    That said, it will be a lot of years before I would want to bring him to a regular season game, as others have mentioned once the games mean something it's not a place for little ones.

  5. Sad but inspiring story on Foreman.

     

    Speaking exclusively to NFL Network's Andrea Kremer on NFL Total Access, Foreman revealed publicly for the first time the deep pain he felt after the death of his infant son and how his short life ultimately inspired the running back to have a remarkable junior season with the Texas Longhorns.

     

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000802065/article/donta-foreman-reveals-the-pain-of-dealing-with-his-sons-death

     

    VIdeo - https://mobile.twitter.com/NFL/status/856657599948767232/video/1

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