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Regarding photos of Watson and Jilian holding hands.
The societal norms and laws in Saudi Arabia are based heavily on Islamic principles. Consequently, public displays of affection with the opposite sex are generally seen as disrespectful and are illegal. This includes acts such as holding hands, hugging, or kissing in public spaces. Any form of PDA [public display of affection] can lead to consequences from verbal warnings [by police] or taken to jail.......especially if repeated. Men are not even allowed to hug their mothers in public. But men can hold hands and kiss in public with other men or boys. :thinking:



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Lions to ink St. Brown, Sewell to $100M+ deals

The Lions and wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown have agreed to a four-year, $120 million extension that includes $77 million guaranteed, sources told ESPN.
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Wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown agreed to a four-year, $120 million extension, a source confirmed to ESPN, and offensive tackle Penei Sewell is signing a four-year, $112 million deal, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
St. Brown's contract includes $77 million guaranteed, the source said. That's the most guaranteed money for a wide receiver in a single contract in NFL history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

Sewell's contract includes $85 million guaranteed, the source told Schefter, the most for an offensive lineman, according to ESPN Stats & Information. The $28 million annual average salary in his contract is also the largest for an offensive lineman.
 

Saudi Arabia’s Latest Sports Ambassador Is Deshaun Watson​

BY DENNIS YOUNG
UPDATED APRIL 24, 2024 | 04:21 PM
  • The QB was in the country to promote American football and meet with Saudi royalty.
  • The NFL currently doesn't permit investment from sovereign wealth funds, but likely will soon.
Saudi Arabia’s plan to buy up every inch of global sports shows no signs of stopping. Having become a major player in golf and soccer and a significant force in tennis and dozens of other sports, the nation’s interest in the NFL is clear.

The U.S.’s biggest sports league currently bans sovereign wealth funds (and institutional money of all kinds) from owning teams, but it’s probably only a matter of time before Roger Goodell and the owners change their rules to let more money in the door.

Abdullah Bin Mosaad—a Saudi prince who loves the NFL so much that he has “49er” in his X handle and was once described by an ESPN writer as “one of the most rabid fantasy football players I’ve come across”—recently welcomed Deshaun Watson on an apparent goodwill trip to his country. Watson posted a picture of himself and the prince holding Browns and 49ers helmets on Instagram.

“I had a nice time visiting Saudi Arabia and learned a lot about the original Saudi culture and society,” Watson wrote Tuesday evening, adding that he went to several Saudi soccer games. He tagged the prince in his post and added, “God willing, we will see [football emoji] in Saudi Arabia soon.” In a video, Watson talked about what it would take to get a major football game to the country and region.

Watson, the disgraced Browns quarterback, was suspended for 11 games in 2022 over extensive allegations that he sexually assaulted and harassed massage therapists. Watson settled 23 suits from women who claimed he sexually assaulted them between ’20 and ’21, paying out millions of dollars in settlements and league fines. At least one suit remains in the court system, where Watson may have to testify again this year.

He’s perhaps an apt partner for the Saudi regime, whose own pioneering American golf partner, Phil Mickelson, trashed the country in a 2022 interview. “They’re scary motherf***ers to get involved with,” Mickelson—again, someone who took $200 million from LIV—said. “We know they killed [Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay.”

Bin Mosaad, the 49ers-mad prince, is also the primary owner of English Premier League team Sheffield United, where he recently announced the firing of the head coach in a live radio interview. He previously ran what is now known as Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Sport.

“we really enjoyed having you in Saudi,” he replied to Watson. “I wish you and your family health and happiness, I wish you the best of luck in every game you play except when you play against you know who!”
 
CloakNNNdagger said:

Saudi Arabia’s Latest Sports Ambassador Is Deshaun Watson​

BY DENNIS YOUNG
UPDATED APRIL 24, 2024 | 04:21 PM
  • The QB was in the country to promote American football and meet with Saudi royalty.
  • The NFL currently doesn't permit investment from sovereign wealth funds, but likely will soon.
Saudi Arabia’s plan to buy up every inch of global sports shows no signs of stopping. Having become a major player in golf and soccer and a significant force in tennis and dozens of other sports, the nation’s interest in the NFL is clear.

The U.S.’s biggest sports league currently bans sovereign wealth funds (and institutional money of all kinds) from owning teams, but it’s probably only a matter of time before Roger Goodell and the owners change their rules to let more money in the door.

Abdullah Bin Mosaad—a Saudi prince who loves the NFL so much that he has “49er” in his X handle and was once described by an ESPN writer as “one of the most rabid fantasy football players I’ve come across”—recently welcomed Deshaun Watson on an apparent goodwill trip to his country. Watson posted a picture of himself and the prince holding Browns and 49ers helmets on Instagram.

“I had a nice time visiting Saudi Arabia and learned a lot about the original Saudi culture and society,” Watson wrote Tuesday evening, adding that he went to several Saudi soccer games. He tagged the prince in his post and added, “God willing, we will see [football emoji] in Saudi Arabia soon.” In a video, Watson talked about what it would take to get a major football game to the country and region.

Watson, the disgraced Browns quarterback, was suspended for 11 games in 2022 over extensive allegations that he sexually assaulted and harassed massage therapists. Watson settled 23 suits from women who claimed he sexually assaulted them between ’20 and ’21, paying out millions of dollars in settlements and league fines. At least one suit remains in the court system, where Watson may have to testify again this year.

He’s perhaps an apt partner for the Saudi regime, whose own pioneering American golf partner, Phil Mickelson, trashed the country in a 2022 interview. “They’re scary motherf***ers to get involved with,” Mickelson—again, someone who took $200 million from LIV—said. “We know they killed [Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay.”

Bin Mosaad, the 49ers-mad prince, is also the primary owner of English Premier League team Sheffield United, where he recently announced the firing of the head coach in a live radio interview. He previously ran what is now known as Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Sport.

“we really enjoyed having you in Saudi,” he replied to Watson. “I wish you and your family health and happiness, I wish you the best of luck in every game you play except when you play against you know who!”
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To be fair, he only fired the coach.. he didn't execute him. {shudder}
 
Man who killed former Saint Will Smith sentenced to 25 years in prison
By Josh Alper
Published April 25, 2024 02:24 PM

The man who shot and killed former Saints defensive end Will Smith received a 25-year sentence for manslaughter in New Orleans on Thursday.

Cardell Hayes was convicted of the crime in January. It was the second time that Hayes has been convicted and sentenced for the crime.

Hayes’s first conviction came in December 2016 on a 10-2 jury vote, but was overturned when the United States Supreme Court struck down non-unanimous verdicts. A conviction for attempted manslaughter for shooting Smith’s wife was also overturned and he was not convicted of that crime a second time.

“Mr. Hayes, you ruined my life,” Smith’s daughter Lisa said in court, via the Associated Press. “You took my father away from me.”

Smith was shot and killed by Hayes during a dispute after a car crash earlier in 2016.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Man who killed former Saint Will Smith sentenced to 25 years in prison
By Josh Alper
Published April 25, 2024 02:24 PM

The man who shot and killed former Saints defensive end Will Smith received a 25-year sentence for manslaughter in New Orleans on Thursday.

Cardell Hayes was convicted of the crime in January. It was the second time that Hayes has been convicted and sentenced for the crime.

Hayes’s first conviction came in December 2016 on a 10-2 jury vote, but was overturned when the United States Supreme Court struck down non-unanimous verdicts. A conviction for attempted manslaughter for shooting Smith’s wife was also overturned and he was not convicted of that crime a second time.

“Mr. Hayes, you ruined my life,” Smith’s daughter Lisa said in court, via the Associated Press. “You took my father away from me.”

Smith was shot and killed by Hayes during a dispute after a car crash earlier in 2016.
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interesting he was not convicted on manslaughter of Smith's wife.
 
do you know what I absolutely love about this draft 😁?

Is how the rest of the division is tied to absolute failures at QB., but they're still tied to them for the foreseeable future 😂

Stroud is about to hike his leg on this division, Brady style 👍
 
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Eagles star Brown gets historic $96M extension

The Eagles and A.J. Brown have agreed on a three-year, $96 million extension that includes $84 million guaranteed, his agent told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
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The $84 million is the most guaranteed money in NFL history for a wide receiver, surpassing the $77 million guaranteed that Amon-Ra St. Brown recently received from the Detroit Lions. The $32 million average annual value of the three-year extension also is the highest for any receiver in the NFL.
 
OptimisticTexan said:
I thought ownership had to be a billionaire…..you want a new stadium, you and your investors should build a really nice one.
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Not going to happen in foreseeable future. Houston with Bob Lanier and the Oilers with Bud was the test that will never again happen in the NFL unless the team actually IS looking to move. Any city that wants to keep a team that wants to stay will pay...
 
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Roger Goodell tries to reconcile the NFL’s embrace of sports betting
By Mike Florio
Published April 27, 2024 10:07 AM

The NFL hated gambling until it loved it. And the NFL is still trying to reconcile its prior position on gambling with its current effort to grab every last dollar.

The issue came up on Friday, when Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared with Pat McAfee and crew.

At one point, Darius Butler asked Goodell “how much louder” it’s gotten for 345 Park Avenue with sports betting being legalized and people complaining about officiating and games being scripted. (An excellent question.)

“I haven’t felt that at all,” Goodell said.

If Goodell hasn’t felt it, he has kept his fingers buried deep in his pockets. The tinfoil-hat crowd has been energized by sports betting, with any and all irregularities being met with cries that “the fix is in.” We hear it ALL THE TIME.

And that’s exactly what the league feared. Here’s what Goodell said in 2012, when the NFL was fighting the fight against the legalization of sports betting: “If gambling is permitted freely on sporting events, normal incidents of the game such as bad snaps, dropped passes, turnovers, penalties, and play calling inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust, and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing.”

Goodell was asked to reconcile his words with the league’s current sportsbook cash grab during his invitation-only/bring-me-the-broomstick-of-the-witch-of-the-west Super Bowl press conference. He has since come up with a new talking point to justify the NFL’s embrace of legalized wagering, after hating it for so long.

“We didn’t support making it legal,” Goodell said. “The Supreme Court made the decision. We’ve got to adjust to that. And when we did, you do have to be partnering with some of these partners, because they actually give us access to information that can detect something before it really becomes a problem. And so we get a lot of information by being involved there. People think that’s, you know, conflicting with our previous position but we just have to adjust to whatever the law is. That’s the way it works.”

That’s not the way it works. That’s the way the NFL has decided to make it work. Because that approach not only creates a tattletale hotline from the sportsbooks to the league but also allows the ultra-rich to get ultra-richer.

From the sponsorships to the sale of data to the dirty little open secret of owners being allowed to own up to five percent of a company that operates a sportsbook (the league has refused to disclose which owners own pieces of which sportsbooks), it’s always about the money.

The NFL could have continued to take a hard line against gambling. No betting allowed, by anyone at any time. No sponsorships. No data. No commercials. No equity positions. Aggressive efforts to get fans to shun the get-rich-quick pipe dreams that inevitably end up being a tax on the poor and/or stupid.

Yes, trading stocks is a form of gambling, but you can make money that way because it’s not an inherently rigged system. Gambling, when the odds and lines are set properly, is.

The idea that the NFL is doing what it’s doing to simply have an easier path to catching players who break the rules is laughable. The NFL and the owners saw an opening to make even more money by aligning with the house.

Once sports betting became legal, the NFL’s epiphany wasn’t that it needs to align with sportsbooks because that will help the league catch rule breakers. The epiphany was far simpler than that.

One, the house always wins.

Two, we can be the house.
 
The push for 18 games officially begins (next stop, 19 . . . then 20)
One of the biggest nuggets we picked up at the Scouting Combine was that the NFL still wants to expand to 18 regular-season games. On Friday, Commissioner Roger Goodell finally said it out loud, again.

He previously had been pushing for 18 regular-season games and two preseason games. During the 2020 Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations, the NFL settled for 17 and three.

“I’d rather replace a preseason game with a regular-season game any day,” Goodell said. “If we got to 18 and two, that’s not an unreasonable thing.”

They want 18 and two. They’ve wanted 18 and two. They backed off, a bit, because it was impossible to reconcile the health-and-safety reckoning with more games that count. Goodell’s comments officially put the subject back on the front burner.

Yes, the union will have to agree to it. They will. For one very simple reason. The owners will lock the players out until they do.

That’s what happened in 2011. That’s what would have happened in 2020. That’s what will happen the next time around.

That’s why new NFLPA president Jalen Reeves-Maybin didn’t say “no way in hell” when asked the question last month. He said, “When that time comes, we’ll address that.”

Of course they will. Because the league has shown it will put padlocks on the doors to get what it wants, and that the players will cry “uncle” faster than Schwartz in the clutches of Scut Farkas.

Let’s take it a step farther. For the same reason 17 was a stepping stone to 18, 18 could be a stepping stone to 19 — which could be a stepping stone to 20.

Goodell started the push for more games that count by publicly criticizing the games that don’t. The same argument that applies to cutting the preseason from four games to three applies to cutting it to two, which will apply to cutting it to one — and which will apply to cutting it to none.

It might not happen in my lifetime, but it’s coming. Seventeen will become 18. Eighteen will become 19. And nineteen will become 20.
 
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