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JB said:
www.espn.com

Seahawks eye action against excessive resellers

The Seahawks say they might limit renewal opportunities for season-ticket holders who sell off most of their tickets.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

In an email to season-ticket holders, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN, the Seahawks wrote that "renewal eligibility may be impacted if it is determined that your tickets were primarily used for resale purposes."
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God forbid fans try to get a little back from this greedy ass league.
 
JB said:
www.espn.com

Seahawks eye action against excessive resellers

The Seahawks say they might limit renewal opportunities for season-ticket holders who sell off most of their tickets.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

In an email to season-ticket holders, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN, the Seahawks wrote that "renewal eligibility may be impacted if it is determined that your tickets were primarily used for resale purposes."
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Fans should be able to do whatever they want to do with the PSL/ tickets they own. We don't live in China. Time to pull the anti trust exemption.
 
TexansBull said:
A team under new ownership and ever since then they have made the playoffs every year.

Franchise QB

OROY
DROY
COY runner up.
One of the best GMs in the league.

Missing forest for the trees.

I would bid for that team all day long.
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I am not missing anything. The Texans are not now being seen by the NFL as "champions." That will hopefully change. But, sorry they are not seen as such now.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
I am not missing anything. The Texans are not now being seen by the NFL as "champions." That will hopefully change. But, sorry they are not seen as such now.
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And that’s what you are missing. Not being a Champion doesn’t mean anything. The only thing that matters about is butts in seats and money. Both the Texans are doing well in compared to the previous ownership.
 
badboy said:
Seems like more of a lease
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I'm sure that's what the owners will tell us.

I'm so glad I got out of this racket before the greed really started happening. BTW, no way I'm voting for any money for a new stadium or renovations. 7 yrs from now if god grants me this time I probably will vote for a new stadium.
 
Number of prime time games per team in 2025

7 Games: Chiefs
6 Games: Cowboys
5 Games: Bills -- Dolphins -- Chargers -- Eagles -- Commanders -- Lions -- Falcons -- 49ers
4 Games: Ravens -- Bengals -- Steelers -- Texans -- Broncos -- Packers -- Vikings -- Buccaneers -- Rams -- Seahawks
3 Games: Patriots -- Raiders -- Giants -- Bears
2 Games: Jets -- Cardinals
1 Games: Colts -- Jaguars -- Panthers
0 Games: Titans -- Browns -- Saints
 
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TexansBull said:
A team under new ownership and ever since then they have made the playoffs every year.

Franchise QB

OROY
DROY
COY runner up.
One of the best GMs in the league.

Missing forest for the trees.

I would bid for that team all day long.
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None of this matters until they make a deep playoff run.
 
Quinn Ewers does $3 million deal with Panini
By Mike Florio
Published May 17, 2025 07:13 PM

The NIL reality doesn’t end when a college player comes to the NFL.

Plenty of pro players make extra money through endorsement deals. And Dolphins rookie quarterback Quinn Ewers has gotten undoubtedly the biggest payday for any seventh-round draft pick in his first season.

Ewers announced on Friday that he signed an exclusive autograph trading-card deal with Panini. Per a source with knowledge of the arrangement, it’s a $3 million deal.

Which is not too shabby, given that his slotted four-year contract with the Dolphins as the 231st overall pick pays out a total of $4.3 million over four years.

Ewers took plenty of criticism for leaving at least $4 million on the table by entering the draft in lieu of transferring to the University of Miami. He’s currently 75 percent of the way there, in non-football earnings at the next level.
 
Lucky said:
What? Teams just don't want a bunch of opposing fans in the stands. Some, but not an overwhelming amount. Something I would think most fans want.
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It's an investment and the teams are telling you what you can and can't do with something you own.

Yeah, I don't like that.
 
NFL has shown no inclination to have a draft lottery
Published May 18, 2025 02:18 PM

The NFL loves to make money when it’s not supposed to be making money. When it comes to offseason cash grabs, there’s one bridge the league has shown no inclination to cross.

A draft lottery.

The NBA’s recent draft lottery, which saw the Dallas Mavericks overcome 1.8 percent odds to win the rights to 18-year-old Duke phenom Cooper Flagg, sparked claims that the lottery was rigged. (No lottery has ever been rigged.)

It also sparked arguments in some circles that the NFL should have a draft lottery. And, as we’ve argued in the past, the NFL should have one.

Beyond the intense interest a draft lottery would generate (it would land somewhere between the show-about-nothing draft and the show-about-nothing schedule release), a lottery would create a system that would reduce the incentive to tank by not guaranteeing the first pick to the worst team.

Here’s the problem. Merely having a lottery legitimizes the reality that, at some point in a lost season, it’s good to be bad. With the NFL stubbornly pushing the notion that every team tries its best to win every game of every regular season, anything that would crystallize the perception that losing leads to winning would take a sledgehammer to the façade of competitive integrity.

One way to eliminate that would be to give, for example, each of the 18 non-playoff teams an equal shot at the first pick, the second pick, and so on. The only risk from that approach would be the possibility that an owner of a team with a snowball’s chance of scaling the playoff mountain a 5.5 percent shot at a potentially transformational talent.

Unlike the leagues that have lotteries, the NFL maintains a clear firewall between being at the bottom of the standings and the top of the draft order. While it’s obvious that the worst picks first, the league prefers to draw as little attention as possible to the very real strategic benefit of embracing the suck.

What’s the difference between 2-15 and 3-14? What’s the difference between 3-14 and 4-13? A lost season is a lost season, and no one will care about the final number of wins. The only way to make chicken salad in such a chickenshit circumstance is to let nature take its course.

Or, as the case may be, to nudge nature along a little by using late-season games to “evaluate” young backups.

The temptation to tank is very real. Some firmly believe that it should be avoided because it introduces losing into the culture of the team. Some don’t care about that. (Which is one of the reasons why they keep losing.)

In 2014, the Buccaneers clearly tanked in the second half of a Week 17 game against the Saints to ensure that a double-digit lead evaporated, delivering the top pick in the 2015 draft.

The cost of trading up highlights the value of not having to. If the Jaguars had finished with the second overall pick and not the fifth overall pick, they wouldn’t have had to give up next year’s first-round pick (among other things) to get Travis Hunter.

The 2024 finale also introduced counter-tanking to the equation. Plenty believe that the Bills threw their Week 18 game against the Patriots to keep a division rival from landing the No. 1 overall pick. (Buffalo started quarterback Mitch Trubisky in the game, and removed him for no apparent reason for Mike White late in the third quarter, after the Patriots had taken a 17-16 lead.)

Winning that game hurt the Patriots. They could have traded the rights to the No. 1 overall pick (quarterback Cam Ward) for multiple other picks and/or players. And they still could have gotten tackle Will Campbell, plus a lot more stuff.

The NFL doesn’t want anyone to connect losing games and getting dibs on the sorting hat process. Having a draft lottery acknowledges the link, making it harder for the NFL to perpetuate the ruse that every team tries to win every game, every week of every year.

Without that concern, the NFL surely would have a multi-network, three-hour, prime-time event from the league meetings in March that would draw 10 million or more viewers to see where the bouncing balls will land — and that could be sold to the highest bidder at a massive profit.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
NFL has shown no inclination to have a draft lottery
Published May 18, 2025 02:18 PM

The NFL loves to make money when it’s not supposed to be making money. When it comes to offseason cash grabs, there’s one bridge the league has shown no inclination to cross.

A draft lottery.

The NBA’s recent draft lottery, which saw the Dallas Mavericks overcome 1.8 percent odds to win the rights to 18-year-old Duke phenom Cooper Flagg, sparked claims that the lottery was rigged. (No lottery has ever been rigged.)

It also sparked arguments in some circles that the NFL should have a draft lottery. And, as we’ve argued in the past, the NFL should have one.

Beyond the intense interest a draft lottery would generate (it would land somewhere between the show-about-nothing draft and the show-about-nothing schedule release), a lottery would create a system that would reduce the incentive to tank by not guaranteeing the first pick to the worst team.

Here’s the problem. Merely having a lottery legitimizes the reality that, at some point in a lost season, it’s good to be bad. With the NFL stubbornly pushing the notion that every team tries its best to win every game of every regular season, anything that would crystallize the perception that losing leads to winning would take a sledgehammer to the façade of competitive integrity.

One way to eliminate that would be to give, for example, each of the 18 non-playoff teams an equal shot at the first pick, the second pick, and so on. The only risk from that approach would be the possibility that an owner of a team with a snowball’s chance of scaling the playoff mountain a 5.5 percent shot at a potentially transformational talent.

Unlike the leagues that have lotteries, the NFL maintains a clear firewall between being at the bottom of the standings and the top of the draft order. While it’s obvious that the worst picks first, the league prefers to draw as little attention as possible to the very real strategic benefit of embracing the suck.

What’s the difference between 2-15 and 3-14? What’s the difference between 3-14 and 4-13? A lost season is a lost season, and no one will care about the final number of wins. The only way to make chicken salad in such a chickenshit circumstance is to let nature take its course.

Or, as the case may be, to nudge nature along a little by using late-season games to “evaluate” young backups.

The temptation to tank is very real. Some firmly believe that it should be avoided because it introduces losing into the culture of the team. Some don’t care about that. (Which is one of the reasons why they keep losing.)

In 2014, the Buccaneers clearly tanked in the second half of a Week 17 game against the Saints to ensure that a double-digit lead evaporated, delivering the top pick in the 2015 draft.

The cost of trading up highlights the value of not having to. If the Jaguars had finished with the second overall pick and not the fifth overall pick, they wouldn’t have had to give up next year’s first-round pick (among other things) to get Travis Hunter.

The 2024 finale also introduced counter-tanking to the equation. Plenty believe that the Bills threw their Week 18 game against the Patriots to keep a division rival from landing the No. 1 overall pick. (Buffalo started quarterback Mitch Trubisky in the game, and removed him for no apparent reason for Mike White late in the third quarter, after the Patriots had taken a 17-16 lead.)

Winning that game hurt the Patriots. They could have traded the rights to the No. 1 overall pick (quarterback Cam Ward) for multiple other picks and/or players. And they still could have gotten tackle Will Campbell, plus a lot more stuff.

The NFL doesn’t want anyone to connect losing games and getting dibs on the sorting hat process. Having a draft lottery acknowledges the link, making it harder for the NFL to perpetuate the ruse that every team tries to win every game, every week of every year.

Without that concern, the NFL surely would have a multi-network, three-hour, prime-time event from the league meetings in March that would draw 10 million or more viewers to see where the bouncing balls will land — and that could be sold to the highest bidder at a massive profit.
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Just leave things the way they are.

I would rather teams tank than have a rigged lottery.
 
Colts send letter to season-ticket holders cautioning against reselling most or all of tickets
By Josh Alper
Published May 19, 2025 06:48 AM

The Seahawks aren’t the only team warning their season-ticket holders about repercussions for selling most or all of their tickets to 2025 games.

The team told those fans that “renewal eligibility may be impacted” by excessive reselling and the Colts have sent a similar letter this offseason. Stephen Holder of ESPN.com reports that no action will be taken now, but that frequent resellers have been told that they are “in violation” of the team’s ticket policy and more of the same will lead to a different response.

“Our records show that you listed or resold most of your tickets for the 2024 season, and while no action will be taken today, if you are shown to be re-selling most of your tickets again this season, you will unfortunately be unable to renew,” the letter said.

Joel A. Erickson of the Indianapolis Star notes that the team created a waitlist for those who want season tickets last year and some members of it may find themselves in position to buy tickets if the secondary market doesn’t cool off this season.
 
Aaron Donald: As far as playing football, I don’t miss it
By Myles Simmons
Published May 19, 2025 02:35 PM

A little over a year ago, future Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle Aaron Donald elected to retire, ending his stellar career after 10 seasons.

Donald, 33, will soon be inducted into the Pitt Hall of Fame and joined 93.7 The Fan over the weekend for an interview about it.

While quarterbacks across the league certainly don’t miss Donald terrorizing their backfields, he also isn’t longing to lace up his cleats.

“As far as playing football, I don’t miss it,” Donald told Pat Bostick on the Panthers Insider Show. “I don’t even have the passion or excitement to want to play football. I will always love football, but once you lose the passion, it was time to walk away.”

What Donald does miss, however, is being in the locker room with his teammates. While he has several business ventures, he’s also looking to break into acting — though he didn’t reveal the details of his potential roles.

As for being inducted into the Pitt Hall of Fame, Donald said the school means the world to him.

“I worked by ass off to put myself in the position today to do things like this now. It truly is special. It’s emotional and I get to share these moments with my family, my kids,” Donald said.

“I always set goals for myself to do so many special things, but just putting the body of work in and really putting the time in and really working my behind off,” he added. “I surpassed anything that I thought was possible by putting the body of work in.”
 
Inside the new Derrick Henry contract
By Mike Florio
Published May 19, 2025 02:03 PM

In his first year with the Baltimore Ravens, running back Derrick Henry did more than enough to earn a better deal than the $8 million he was due to make in 2025.

On Monday morning, he officially got his reward.

Per a source with knowledge of the terms, here’s the full breakdown of Henry’s new three-year deal, which was signed earlier today:

1. Signing bonus: $11.745 million.
2. 90-man roster bonus: $1 million, fully guaranteed.
3. 2025 base salary: $1.255 million, fully guaranteed.
4. 2026 option bonus: $9.7 million, fully guaranteed.
5. 2026 base salary: $1.3 million, fully guaranteed.
6. 2027 90-man roster bonus: $1 million.
7. 2027 base salary: $11 million.

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'Greed and opportunism': Cuyahoga County executive blasts Haslam Sports Group as battle for Cleveland Browns domed stadium escalates​

'We now clearly see that you have spent the last two years attempting to bully the public and fleece County taxpayers for HSG’s private gain.'
https://www.wkyc.com/video/news/loc...-ohio/95-c454342d-54f0-44ff-a789-1b9f7ab8f9df
Author: Dave DeNatale
Published: 12:51 PM EDT May 19, 2025
Updated: 4:14 PM EDT May 19, 2025

CLEVELAND — Just four days after the Haslam Sports Group (HSG) told Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne that the Cleveland Browns were prepared to go forward with a new domed stadium in Brook Park without the county's help, Ronayne has struck back loudly.
In a letter to Haslam Sports Group Chief Operating Officer Dave Jenkins released on Monday, Ronayne accuses HSG of everything from "greed and opportunism," to "distorting the facts," to "attempting to bully the public and fleece County taxpayers" for their private gain.

"As you stated in your May 15, 2025 letter, the proposed Brook Park project requires no financial support from Cuyahoga County. We appreciate that clarity and will hold you to it," Ronayne wrote to Jenkins. "This declaration reveals Haslam Sports Group’s greed and opportunism throughout this process. The $600 million in bonds requested from Cuyahoga County was never needed for this project and we now clearly see that you have spent the last two years attempting to bully the public and fleece County taxpayers for HSG’s private gain."

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Lions resubmit proposal to base playoff seeding to record only
Published May 19, 2025 08:48 PM

The Lions aren’t taking probably not for an answer.

Detroit has resubmitted a proposal that strips the automatic home game for division champions and seeds all seven playoff participants based on record.

The proposal, revised to make it read a little more cleanly, would take the seven playoff participants (division winners and three wild cards) and seed them based on record.

Although the proposal came from the Lions and not from the Competition Committee, Detroit president Rod Wood admitted last month that the proposal was made at the behest of the league office. We thereafter reported that the Commissioner wants this change, in the hopes of making late-season games more compelling.

By not putting the issue to a vote in March, the Commissioner didn’t take the L. Since then, he’s had time to twist arms and/or do deals in an effort to get to 24 votes.

Under the current system, division winners often lock into a specific seed with a week or two left in the season. With no fear of losing their spot on the playoff tree, they can rest starters in Week 17 and/or 18.

It’s all about ensuring that as many games as possible are interesting and compelling, so that the various and ever-expanding standalone windows will include games worth watching.

The rule, if passed, also would eliminate the potential inequity of requiring a wild-card team with a superior record to travel to face a division winner with a lesser record. Still, it’s not about competitive fairness in the playoffs; it’s about trying to ensure that more games will be more interesting in the final weeks of the regular season.
 
Paragraph 3 of the Standard Player Contract contains broad language regarding activities beyond the football field: “Without prior written consent of the Club, Player will not play football or engage in activities related to football otherwise than for Club or engage in any activity other than football which may involve a significant risk of personal injury.

If a player is injured in such a scenario, the player is typically placed on Non Football Injury list and not paid. I do not understand why either player or team would risk an injury.

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Brian Gutekunst has concerns about NFL players getting injured in Olympic flag football
 
NFL gives OK for players to play flag football at 2028 Olympics

NFL owners have approved a proposal for players to participate in flag football at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

The vote Tuesday at the spring league meeting in Minneapolis was unanimous, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. The resolution needed to be approved by at least 24 of the 32 team owners.
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The flag football resolution establishes rules and a basic structure for how the NFL hopes to see the process work, subject to negotiations with the NFLPA and Olympics-related entities. They include:

• Permission for any player under NFL contract to participate in tryouts

• A limit of one player per NFL team on each national team participating

• Allowing, in addition, a team's designated international player to play for his home country

• A purchase of leaguewide insurance policies to provide injury protection for any player injured while participating in an authorized flag football activity related to the Olympics

• A salary cap credit for any player who is injured


• An expectation that Olympic flag football teams will establish medical staffs and field surfaces that comply with NFL minimum standards

• A schedule that "does not unreasonably conflict with an NFL player's league and club commitments."
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Only a matter of time before flag is pro football. Maybe. Hybrid of some sort but uts coming . Not soon, definitely not this decade…but in the 30’s? Possible, and even more likely by the 40’s.
 
Porky said:
Only a matter of time before flag is pro football. Maybe. Hybrid of some sort but uts coming . Not soon, definitely not this decade…but in the 30’s? Possible, and even more likely by the 40’s.
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It’ll be robot football by the 40s, if not sooner.
 
Mollywhopper said:
NFL gives OK for players to play flag football at 2028 Olympics
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When making this decision, besides that risk of injury, there are things that I don't believe are being seriously taken into consideration. NFL football and flag football are two different games. Just because a football player is great in one, certainly does not mean that he will be great in the other. And in flag football, players play both ways. And are NFL players going to split their practices between the two sports. And if I am correct, the 2028 Olympics overlap the NFL preseason. Furthermore, the Olympics are in 2028. Are today's NFL Olympic-projected players going to be at the the same level in three years?
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
When making this decision, besides that risk of injury, there are things that I don't believe are being seriously taken into consideration. NFL football and flag football are two different games. Just because a football player is great in one, certainly does not mean that he will be great in the other. And in flag football, players play both ways. And are NFL players going to split their practices between the two sports. And if I am correct, the 2028 Olympics overlap the NFL preseason. Furthermore, the Olympics are in 2028. Are today's NFL Olympic-projected players going to be at the the same level in three years?
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I've certainly thought about the fact that they really are two different games. Not only that but it would be a pretty raw deal for NFL players to just swoop in last minute and take away from what the already established national flag team has put together and competed for.

They've said there will be tryouts for the NFL guys, I assume that would insinuate there will a sort of camp call and tryouts for everyone looking to be included on the Olympic team. If I had to look deep into my crystal ball I'd hazard to guess that the final team will consist of some mix of both NFL players and the veterans from the national flag team. It would just be the most sensible answer. Those guys have earned it and there's about next to no chance that the league isn't going to want to showcase their guys on such a global stage. They want their Dream Team moment.

But I'm totally with you on the calendar concerns. Apparently they're going to negotiate with the IOC to have flag football be a kickoff sport at the Olympics, which would give guys a small cushion between the end of their play there and the beginning of camp in 2028. The other concern is are the NFL guys going to be full participants in whatever lead up events usually precede a national team tournament like this, because that could get messy.
 
Mollywhopper said:
I've certainly thought about the fact that they really are two different games. Not only that but it would be a pretty raw deal for NFL players to just swoop in last minute and take away from what the already established national flag team has put together and competed for.

They've said there will be tryouts for the NFL guys, I assume that would insinuate there will a sort of camp call and tryouts for everyone looking to be included on the Olympic team. If I had to look deep into my crystal ball I'd hazard to guess that the final team will consist of some mix of both NFL players and the veterans from the national flag team. It would just be the most sensible answer. Those guys have earned it and there's about next to no chance that the league isn't going to want to showcase their guys on such a global stage. They want their Dream Team moment.

But I'm totally with you on the calendar concerns. Apparently they're going to negotiate with the IOC to have flag football be a kickoff sport at the Olympics, which would give guys a small cushion between the end of their play there and the beginning of camp in 2028. The other concern is are the NFL guys going to be full participants in whatever lead up events usually precede a national team tournament like this, because that could get messy.
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That mix will certainly be limited by the small 10 man roster.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Colts send letter to season-ticket holders cautioning against reselling most or all of tickets
By Josh Alper
Published May 19, 2025 06:48 AM

The Seahawks aren’t the only team warning their season-ticket holders about repercussions for selling most or all of their tickets to 2025 games.

The team told those fans that “renewal eligibility may be impacted” by excessive reselling and the Colts have sent a similar letter this offseason. Stephen Holder of ESPN.com reports that no action will be taken now, but that frequent resellers have been told that they are “in violation” of the team’s ticket policy and more of the same will lead to a different response.

“Our records show that you listed or resold most of your tickets for the 2024 season, and while no action will be taken today, if you are shown to be re-selling most of your tickets again this season, you will unfortunately be unable to renew,” the letter said.

Joel A. Erickson of the Indianapolis Star notes that the team created a waitlist for those who want season tickets last year and some members of it may find themselves in position to buy tickets if the secondary market doesn’t cool off this season.
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I like it. Cal and Hannah…pay attention!
 
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