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What I don't get is if the Vikings wanted Trent Richardson they wouldn't have traded their pick. So as the Browns GM you should have known you weren't after the same player. Minnesota got 3 picks for free.
 
What I don't get is if the Vikings wanted Trent Richardson they wouldn't have traded their pick. So as the Browns GM you should have known you weren't after the same player. Minnesota got 3 picks for free.
Very true. And the strangest thing is that over the past week or so, the Vikings had been trying to con the Bucs into giving up something to ensure they would get Claiborne.
 
What I don't get is if the Vikings wanted Trent Richardson they wouldn't have traded their pick. So as the Browns GM you should have known you weren't after the same player. Minnesota got 3 picks for free.
They didn't trade with the Vikings to make sure the Vikings didn't take Richardson, they traded with the Vikings to make sure no other team traded with the Vikings and took Richardson.
 
Former Chargers/Patriots NFL star linebacker Junior Seau was found dead in his home today from a gunshot to the chest, thought to be self-inflicted.

He was 43.
 
Earlier another football player committed suicide the same way. It is believed it was to preserve the brain so doctors can study the damage caused by the repeated trauma that a football player's head endures.
 

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Yeah but a shot to the chest? The chances are much better you'll survive that. Sucks, though. Dude was 3 years younger than I and left behind 3 kids.
 
I read about him the other day. Hopefully his great motor and attitude will rub off on that team. I really commend the Buc's for doing this.

"I believe I will walk again. I do. When that happens, I already know what I'm going to do. I'll go to Giants Stadium and find the exact spot in the field where I went down. I'll lie there for a second. And then I'll get up on my own power and walk away."
 
I don't see a problem with that math question. In fact, I think it's part of the standardized tests used by the Green Bay Area Public School System. ;)
 
I heard from a friend thats overseas that they have a problem like that with the Bills being the bad team to the redskins. :(

Kinda ironic since we destroyed them last year.
 
I don't have NFL Network because I'm a cable customer, and just don't want to go to a bar Thursday night.

On top of that Hakeem Nicks had to sit out last night for an injury that would have been fine come Sunday, and I forgot to take him off my starting roster.
 
I'm actually semi-interested in NFL football this year for once. Though I have to admit that a part of me is just watching to see just how brutal the fighting is going to get before Goodell realizes that this whole replacement ref business is making a mockery of the league.
 
Not to mention the fact that, apparently, the NFL didn't do any background checks on the refs, or vet them in any way (the Seahawks/Cards game had a ref that had previously been on the Seahawks' payroll, the ref that was pulled from the Saints game but only after ESPN told the league that he was a Saints fan, etc.). I really hope no one is seriously injured in the upcoming weeks of brutal body blows and bloody reprisals, as the refs either miss or refuse to call late hits, pass interference, face masks, targeting, etc. Especially since it's getting more and more obvious that the coaches aren't going to take steps to keep things in check, because they're just as frustrated with the shitty officiating, and the players are doling out their own justice now.

But no, Goodell is too worried about making an example of what one team "allegedly" did 3 years ago to worry about what a lot of teams are actively doing in front of the TV cameras right now.
 
Supposedly none of this has to do with pay (from the NFL's point of view), but has to do with wanting to set up a referee college, where they can train refs directly instead of the current process, where you pretty much have to start as a high school ref, and then move up to the college level starting with D3/FCS and then moving up through the ranks until you can ref BCS bowl level games, and then move up to NFL; and by that time you're "really old" and can't move around as easily; and the NFL wants younger refs that are going to stay with the league for a longer period of time... but they still don't want to pay them enough that they'll be able to not have to have normal jobs on the side.

Meanwhile, the league is trying to run this initiative to have people who are thrown out of stadiums be required to pay $75 for a 4-hour online class on proper behavior before they're allowed back into a stadium; and the first (highly publicized) example of some fans who're going to have to go through that to get back into Century Link Stadium to watch the Seahawks are a group of off-duty Bellevue PD officers who got drunk and rowdy before the game, got into an altercation with an on-duty Seattle PD officer outside the stadium, were allowed to continue on to the game (because there was no crime committed when one of them littered, refused to pick up the trash and dispose of it properly, and then started a fight with the SPD officer that was heated enough that backup had to be called - littering, public drunkenness, disturbing the peace, resisting arrest) and once inside the stadium refused to stop swearing and carrying on and then threatened another fan with "you better not get pulled over in Bellevue, we're Bellevue cops," when asked to stop swearing so much because they guy was there with his kid, and had to be escorted out of the stadium by security (all the while flashing their badges and shouting "we're cops").

It's going to be an ugly, ugly year.
 
I don't have NFL Network because I'm a cable customer, and just don't want to go to a bar Thursday night.

On top of that Hakeem Nicks had to sit out last night for an injury that would have been fine come Sunday, and I forgot to take him off my starting roster.
Exact same thing here. :facepalm:
 
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