[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I'm still smiling. I hope there is a season next year, they are a young team with a food chance to repeat.

[Tiste Simeon]

That was a cracking game! Thoroughly enjoyable.

[Beezulbubba]

Shear the Beard


boooo.... but it was for charity, so that is nice.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

It had to go. I'd imagine it is bad luck to keep a playoff beard from a losing effort into the next season. If the Steelers had won he could have kept it.

[Grumble]

FRIDAY EVENING NFL OWNERS CONFERENCE CALL: ROGER GOODELL LABOR UPDATE

Roger Goodell: ….So essentially, that’s where it stands currently. Do any of you have any questions for me right now?

Ralph Wilson: I can’t see anyone?

Arthur Blank: It’s a phone call sir. So you shouldn’t see anyone.

Bob Kraft: What’s the hold up, Roger?

Goodell: They don’t want 18 games, they are worried about injury. I think if we can agree on the amount of games, the rest will fall into place.

Al Davis: Who’s worried?

Goodell: The players, sir. The people we are negotiating with.

Davis: Negotiate! I once rode the dragon with Howard Hughes, I only eat the beating hearts of unicorns, I sleep upside down in a belfry, I don’t negotiate with anyone!

Kraft: Al, good God, have you ever listened to yourself? You’re losing it.

Davis: Of course, I have only heard the sound of my voice since I had my face laminated in 1987.

Dan Snyder: Why don’t we just keep it at 16 and put this thing to bed.

Jerry Jones: Snyder, why don’t you shut up. You don’t know anything.

Snyder: Whatever, Jerry! Great job with the tickets!

Paul Allen: Hey, let’s work together, boys. I need more money for my mattress. I’m sleeping funny.

Randy Lerner: Have you tried putting some gold bars in there?

Zygi Wilf: Oh that works. Or sometimes I will have some of my servants get in there for the night. The odd shapes of their bodies provides a good night’s rest.

Blank: I find that if you shred the 100-dollar bills before you put them in the mattress, it’s more comfortable.

Goodell: Let’s keep on track. Do you all still want 18 games?

Wilson: Wait, this is a phone? Where is the dial? Is this magic!?

Blank: Sir, it isn’t magic, just a newer phone.

Wilson: Demons!


Lerner: I worked it out. I think we should go to 20 games. I think the Browns fans are ready to see our brand of exciting football for 20 games.

Steve Bisciotti: Ha! Good stuff, Randy. Good stuff. Your team is terrible.

Wayne Weaver: My fans aren’t ready for 18 games. Do you know some people actually move to Jacksonville? Have you been there? It’s like living in a homeless man’s mouth. It smells like the seventh day of a cholera outbreak.

Davis: I once had four homeless men killed on a private island by a Predator monster. I also had one be our receivers coach one year. I also drink Mormon blood for breakfast.

Kraft: Al, how are you even alive?

Bud Adams: I think hobos are spectacular! I used to take day trips to a Hooverville as a child when the zoo was closed. My father promised he would buy me a hobo. He never did.

Wilson: My dad bought me one. Texas Slim was his name. I used to dress him up like FDR, then I would put him in a wheelchair and push him down a hill. Such fun.

Kraft: You have to be kidding… Roger, it’s 18 games or a lockout.

Dan Rooney: Agreed. Don’t listen to these lunatics.

Davis: Rooney, show some respect, your father and I once bedded a trailer full of circus freaks in Akron after a two-day coke binge. Your father had some moxie, unlike you, young fellah. You should have seen him, took the bearded lady for the team. It looked like he was having sex with Gandalf!

Rooney: Oh, God…

Kraft: Dan, your father did not have sex with a circus performer.

Davis: He did, he was like man possessed!

Blank: Enough Al!

Goodell: Okay, let’s call it a meeting. All in favor of staying on the present course?

All Owners: Aye

Davis: Nay! I’m moving the team to Stockton!

Goodell: Anything else?

Wilson: I haven’t pooped in a week!

Goodell: Very productive, Ralph. Goodnight everyone.

[caladanbrood]

So, lock-out? Does that mean no season this year?

[HoosierDaddy]

Mean's no games at all are possible, if not probable. Shortened season is probable, as well.

Opinion seems the player's can't afford zero games. We'll see, they'll take it to court.

Need some sort of season for an Indy Super Bowl to happen.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

This is going to fuck up the dynasty the packers are creating, dammit.

[Beezulbubba]

PA is asking players picked in the draft not to appear on stage.

Some of the Twitter activity by players emphases that fans should not worry and something will get done. I hope so.

Personally, I don't like the idea of 18 games. Injury already is a major component of a whether a team has a successful season or not, two more games will just magnify that effect. The owners will allow rosters to be expanded, but what fan really wants to see a diluted product?

[Slow Ben]

The proposal of an 18 game schedule just shows that, for the most part, all NFL and owners care about is money. How can you spend a season whining about big hits and players health and then say "hey, by the way, go ahead and play 2 more".

What a bunch of douchebags.

If they just wanted a bigger piece of the money pie i could understand. But this is stupid.

[McLovin]

Slow Ben, on 15 March 2011 - 02:08 PM, said:

What a bunch of douchebags.

What he said.

I do wonder though if the players haven't outsmarted themselves by de-certifying the union. If you don't have a union, how the hell do you enforce a CBA? You just keep suing the owners every time you don't like something? The fans are going to get tired of that real fast.

Meh. Bring on baseball season.

[Tiste Simeon]

So erm... I read that some players have now been drafted in... Does this mean the season is going ahead?

[HoosierDaddy]

Tiste Simeon, on 29 April 2011 - 05:33 PM, said:

So erm... I read that some players have now been drafted in... Does this mean the season is going ahead?

Draft was always going to happen. They can't sign contracts, though.

Lockout has been lifted, pending a stay by the 8th Circuit, which is really just a means of putting them both sides back to serious negotiations.

[Shinrei]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 15 March 2011 - 06:38 AM, said:

This is going to fuck up the dynasty the packers are creating, dammit.

Itis this exact reason why my uncle said "the season won't happen for sure"

[HoosierDaddy]

Or, it'll happen (and it will) and you'll have to read these words and weep.

[Shinrei]

Well, here we are - the playoff picture is settled.

Who is going to win this weekend's games, and who is going to emerge from each conference? Your predictions now!

I think the Saints destroy the Lions, and the Giants win a squeaker over Atlanta.

The Bengals get the one upset of the weekend over the Texans, and the Steelers take care of the Broncos.

[Obdigore]

Saints over Lions. Falcons over Giants

Texans over Bengals and Broncos over Steelers (Steelers are too hurt to win, if Worthlessburger and Mendenhal were healthy they would beat the broncos).

Superbowl is going to be Packers over Ravens 21-17.

[Beezulbubba]

Gronk like football. Football good, fire bad!

[Tiste Simeon]

Obdigore, on 04 January 2012 - 06:51 AM, said:

Saints over Lions. Falcons over Giants

Texans over Bengals and Broncos over Steelers (Steelers are too hurt to win, if Worthlessburger and Mendenhal were healthy they would beat the broncos).

Superbowl is going to be Packers over Ravens 21-17.

Well now. Close...

Superbowl is going to be 49ers over Ravens 21-17

[Lady Bliss]

My prediction is Giants over Patriots 34 - 21.
While its not my beloved Bears, I am thankful that the Giants took down The Hated Green Bay Packers!