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CloakNNNdagger said:
Phil Bryant had his sights on a payout as welfare funds flowed to Brett Favre
Text messages obtained by Mississippi Today reveal NFL quarterback Brett Favre briefed Gov. Bryant about the flow of state grant funds to his experimental drug project, a deal that was shielded from public view. Bryant was all set to accept stock in the company hours after he left office — then arrests were made.

by Anna WolfeApril 4, 2022
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So ole Bret turned into a sleazy entreprenuer rolling in the mud with the pols and grabbing taxpayers money, well then guess he's come a long ways from his ole Dick Pic days.
Very interesting !
 
List of 10 richest sports owners includes only one NFL owner, David Tepper
April 6, 2022, 8:48 PM EDT

How do NFL owners measure themselves with other owners? Ty Webb would say, “By height.” The owners would say, “By money.”

Panthers owner David Tepper stands out among the rest. He’s the only NFL owner to land on the latest list of the top-10 richest sports owners.

Tepper comes in at No. 8, with an estimated worth of $16.7 billion, a 15-percent jump over last year.

At No. 1 is L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer. He’s worth a whopping $91.4 billion.
The full list is here. It’s an important group to monitor, given that the value of NFL teams is expected to skyrocket in the coming years. Not many people will be able to afford NFL teams; the folks on this list definitely can.

The news won’t do much to win Tepper sympathy in the Charlotte area, as he squabbles with Rock Hill officials over funding for a new headquarters and practice facility. By all appearances, Tepper is going to walk away from the project, and he’ll expect to be reimbursed for his expenses to date.
 
michaelm said:
My father was an extremely high functioning alcoholic. The only thing that exceeded his alcoholism was his workoholicism. So I can identity with this story.
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I know how you feel, and my dad is an electrician

He did go sober because his body almost shut down one day.
 
Texazan said:
Hit by a dump truck, so so sad. Man, so random, so sad, RIP Dwayne.
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10:35 AM PT -- Florida Highway Patrol are shedding more light on the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Dwayne Haskins.

"Mr. Haskins was walking on a limited access facility (Highway/expressway) for unknown reasons. He was attempting to cross the westbound lanes of Interstate 595 when there was oncoming traffic. Unfortunately, he collided with an oncoming dump truck. Mr. Haskins was pronounced dead on scene," the agency announced Saturday morning.

Police say they are in the process of conducting a "Traffic Homicide Investigation."
 
USFL to eliminate chains, measure first downs with chip in ball and yellow line on TV
Posted by Michael David Smith on April 9, 2022, 4:09 PM EDT


When it’s time to measure for a first down in the USFL, the officials will call for a high-tech solution in place of the decidedly low-tech 10-yard chains that have been used in football for a century.

The USFL played a preseason game on Friday night that included the debut of its new first down measuring system, which combines a chip in every football and the yellow first-down line that fans are accustomed to seeing on TV. Video of its use during the preseason game was accompanied by a claim from the USFL that the upstart league has “First down measurements that are more accurate than ever.”


That, however, may not be accurate. Although it undeniably looks cool on TV to see an image of the football and an image of the line to gain — reminiscent of the way replay is used in tennis — the reality is that this kind of ball tracking technology isn’t precise enough to guarantee that first down calls will be correct.
The NFL already has a chip in every football, but it uses those chips only for its Next Gen Stats tracking data, and not for officiating. That’s because the chips in the middle of every ball just aren’t accurate enough to locate where a football is to the inch. The data works fine as a good approximation of where the ball is, give or take the length of one football. But it doesn’t tell you whether a third down play just barely picked up the first down, or whether the offense should be facing fourth-and-inches.

Replay technology works so well in tennis because tennis is a sport fundamentally conducive to it: The smaller size of the ball, the spherical shape of the ball, and the ability to always have camera angles with unobstructed views of the ball and the lines on the court make tennis well suited to its replay system. Football just doesn’t work that way. It’s not always possible to tell precisely where the ball was when the ball carrier’s knee touched the ground, especially when huge men are surrounding the ball carrier and blocking any view of his knee or the ball.

So TV viewers will probably enjoy watching the USFL’s solution to first downs, but no one should expect the actual spotting of the ball to be any more accurate than it is in the NF
 
What will Mary Jo White conclude regarding the Stephen Ross investigation?
Posted by Mike Florio on April 9, 2022, 8:45 AM EDT

In the immediate aftermath of the filing of the initial complaint in the Brian Flores lawsuit, a sense emerged that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross had a real problem when it comes to the claim that he offered Flores $100,000 for each loss in 2019. Indeed, the media conglomerate partially owned by Ross reported (then deleted) that an unnamed witness corroborated Flores’s allegation.

Since then, the league has appointed Mary Jo White, a high-profile lawyer/politician (she’s the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is a purely political appointment) who has been hired by the league on at least two prior occasions, to investigate this specific situation. Big companies like the NFL don’t keep hiring the same “independent” lawyer to investigate matters unless the big companies are happy with the work. In most cases, happiness with the work doesn’t mean happiness with the process but with the results. As previously explained, some lawyers lay the foundation for repeat assignments from what the large firms call a “cost-insensitive client” by figuring out what the client hopes the outcome of the investigation will be and getting there.
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The are so many "crooks" in this story............actually all players named..............
 
I was going to ask, not to try to minimize the truck driver's fault, but I have to wonder why anyone would want to try to walk across an Interstate Hwy..........................then I saw the most recent report that related that he was walking along the side of the Interstate Hwy. Nevertheless a terrible tragedy.
 
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I'm surprised by the pictures...not sure what i imagined but its odd to be on foot here. Car trouble?

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Steelers QB and OSU star Dwayne Haskins dies after being hit by truck

Haskins was killed early Saturday morning in south Florida after being struck by a dump truck. The day before his death Haskins posted to Instagram saying: '
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So now the latest report is that he wasn't walking along the side of the Interstate.............he was indeed crossing multiple lanes. Brings me back to my original question, what the heck was he doing crossing an Interstate on foot? We will probably find out at one point in time because I can't believe I'm the only one wondering the same thing.
 
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So now the latest report is that he wasn't walking along the side of the Interstate.............he was indeed crossing multiple lanes. Brings me back to my original question, what the heck was he doing crossing an Interstate on foot? We will probably find out at one point in time because I can't believe I'm the only one wondering the same thing.
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I wonder, how his mental health was at the time of this incident. Seems his NFL career had really flamed out fast.
Hard for a young person who’s always been the best QB from a very young age to suddenly not succeed, and often these kids haven’t developed in other aspects due to the focus on sporting excellence.
 
The sick reality..............

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Bills officially get $600 million from New York for new stadium
April 10, 2022, 1:40 PM EDT


The Buffalo Bills have officially gotten $600 million from New York for a new stadium in Buffalo. The powers-that-be included the payment within the state’s $220 billion 2022-23 budget.



Not everyone was on board.

“Our public schools got less than the Buffalo Bills stadium,” Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou (D-Manhattan) said, via Michael Petro of the Buffalo News. “The climate bill, the climate project that we really wanted, also got less than the Buffalo Bills project. Is that what we stand for? This is a moment where we have to look at where our priorities are.”

Although arguments can be made both for and against using that much taxpayer money to subsidize the billionaires who own NFL teams, a simple reality encapsulates the current mood of the country when it comes to projects like these. No up-or-down public vote on using public money for a sports stadium would prevail.

The problem is that most of these venues are funded by elected officials without a specific election as to whether the money should be used. If, for example, the federal government came up with a way to craft a Constitutionally-viable mandate that all projects of this nature must be approved at the ballot box, the NFL would be boxed into a corner. The money for nothing would end, immediately.

Until that happens, and there’s currently no reason to think it will, the billionaires who generally have figured out how to get what they can when they can how they can will keep passing the hat through statehouses and city councils with the not-so-subtle threat/promise that if the local politicians don’t step up to keep the team in town, some other group of politicians will do what’s necessary to lure the team away.
 
Dang, never heard of "spot & choose" before.

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John Harbaugh: New overtime doesn't solve the problem, spot and choose does

A year ago, the Ravens proposed the best solution to overtime, the "spot and choose" format, which would allow one team to spot the ball where overtime would start, and the other team to choose offense or defense.
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A year ago, the Ravens proposed the best solution to overtime, the “spot and choose” format, which would allow one team to spot the ball where overtime would start, and the other team to choose offense or defense. That proposal, first articulated in 2003, would blend fairness, excitement and resolving the game quickly in a way that other overtime rules don’t.
 
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Bills Signed the Best Deal in Sports Business History; Impact of Deshaun Watson Contract
Expect other NFL teams to try getting a stadium deal as sweet as Buffalo got. Plus, explaining the funding rule and big changes in the wide receiver market.


Bills sign best deal ever

While Watson took player contracts to a new level, the Bills’ ownership just took stadium contracts to a much higher level. Watson got $230 million; the Bills got several times more than that. Simply, the Bills just made the best deal in the history of the business of sports.

Let this sink in: New York is giving Bills ownership $850 million—$600 million from the state and $250 million from Erie County—to assist funding of a new, $1.4 billion stadium. Bills’ owners Terry and Kim Pegula certainly have the resources to fund most, if not all, of that stadium cost privately. But hey, if they can get the state to do most of the funding, why wouldn’t they?

A few years ago, Nevada forked over $750 million to help build the Raiders a gleaming new stadium, but that was to entice them to move there. This deal—for $100 million more—is simply to keep an existing franchise. New York governor Kathy Hochul has chosen to allocate these resources to NFL owners rather than to schools, libraries, public safety, etc. Why?

One could say that Hochul does not want to forever be known for losing the Bills, but would the Bills really have left had they not received this extraordinary sum? For Austin? St. Louis? Toronto? Really??

Even accepting the fact that New York had to give away public money, I think Hochul needs better negotiators. Couldn’t the state of New York have negotiated say, half a billion rather than $850 million? The Bills will eventually be sold for a price north of $4 billion, and the state of New York’s share of that will be $0.00. NFL owners socialize cost and privatize profit. What a business [Great line!!!].

Stadium playbook happening all over
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Congress shares details with FTC of alleged Washington Commanders financial scams against customers and the NFL
April 12, 2022, 12:56 PM EDT


The U.S. House Oversight & Reform Committee is indeed exploring potential financial improprieties within the Washington Commanders organization. The Committee now wants a federal agency to get involved.

According to the Washington Post, the Committee sent a 20-page letter to the Federal Trade Commission regarding allegations that the team may have withheld as much as $5 million in refundable deposits from season-ticket holders, and that the team may have hidden cash that was to be shared by all NFL franchises.



Former Washington employee Jason Friedman, who spent nearly a quarter-century with the organization, told the Committee that the team kept two sets of books, and that one set of financial information underreported ticket revenue to the league. The process of intentionally allocating revenue to the wrong event was known, according to Friedman, as “juice,” with the team allegedly spreading revenue that should have been shared with the league to non-NFL events at FedEx Field.

As bad as that sounds, it’s separate from an alleged scam to keep security deposits from season-ticket holders.

Friedman, according to the letter, “provided the Committee with information and documents indicating that the Commanders routinely withheld security deposits that should have been returned to customers who had purchased multiyear season tickets for specific seats, referred to as seat leases,” and that “team executives directed employees to establish roadblocks to prevent customers from obtaining the security deposits they were due — effectively allowing the team to retain that money.”

Those claims will remind some of the rebate controversy that resulted in a multi-year investigation of Pilot Flying J, the truck-stop company previously owned and operated by Browns owner Jimmy Haslam. Haslam somehow avoided prosecution in that case. If Friedman’s evidence is accurate and persuasive, members of the Commanders organization may have to worry about indictments, too. Including owner Daniel Snyder.

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Free-agent QB Cam Newton under fire for comments about women who 'don't know how to be quiet"
11:11 AM CT
David NewtonESPN Staff Writer


CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- For the second time in his NFL career, 2015 league MVP Cam Newton is being scrutinized on social media for making a sexist comment regarding women.

The 32-year-old free-agent quarterback, on the "Million Dollaz Worth of Game" podcast released Monday, complained about women who "can't cook'' and "don't know when to be quiet.''

"Now a woman, for me, is handling your own but knowing how to cater to a man's needs. Right?'' Newton said on the podcast. "And I think a lot of times when you get that aesthetic of like, 'I'm a boss b----, I'm this, I'm that.'

"No, baby! But you can't cook. You don't know when to be quiet. You don't know how to allow a man to lead."
In 2017, as the starting quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, Newton responded about how "funny'' it was hearing a female reporter ask a question about a receiver running routes.

"It's funny to hear a female talk about routes," he said in response to a question from then-Charlotte Observer reporter Jourdan Rodrigue. "It's funny."

In a statement at the time, the league said, "The comments are just plain wrong and disrespectful to the exceptional female reporters and all journalists. They do not reflect the thinking of the league.''

Newton later apologized in a two-minute video without addressing Rodrigue by name.

"After careful thought, I understand that my word choice was extremely degrading and disrespectful to women,'' he said at the time. "To be honest, that was not my intentions. And if you are a person who took offense to what I said, I sincerely apologize to you.''

The league did not immediately respond when asked for comments about Newton's latest quotes.
Newton spent his first nine NFL seasons with the Panthers after being selected with the top pick of the 2011 draft. He spent the

2020 season with the New England Patriots but was cut at the end of the 2021 training camp.

He signed a one-year deal late last season with the Panthers and went 0-5 as the starter. He has not been signed by another team in free agency, but Carolina general manager Scott Fitterer and coach Matt Rhule recently left the door open for his return. A team spokesperson declined to comment Tuesday.

"I love Cam Newton,'' Rhule said at the NFL owners meeting in South Florida last month. "He's an amazing leader. He's an amazing football player. Everything we do has to be right for the organization, right for him.''
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>>>>>>right in line with the way they have been and are treating all things demeaning to females.
 
Report: Kelvin Joseph a person of interest in Dallas murder investigation
Posted by Charean Williams on April 14, 2022, 11:32 PM EDT


Dallas police want to interview Cowboys cornerback Kelvin Joseph in a murder investigation, Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.

Cameron Ray, 20, was killed in a drive-by shooting March 18 following a fight outside a bar.

Joseph, whose rapper pseudonym is “YKDV Bossman Fat,” has admitted to Cowboys’ officials he was at the scene but was not involved in the shooting, according to Hill.

The team declined comment.

Police released surveillance video to KDFW-TV that appears to show Joseph, wearing a YKDV necklace, among the group of people who fought with Ray and his friends earlier that night.

The Cowboys made Joseph a second-round choice last season, and he played 164 defensive snaps and 142 on special teams in 10 games with two starts. He totaled 16 tackles and two pass breakups.
 
‘Very disturbing’ details emerge from witness of fatal Dwayne Haskins highway accident
By
Jeremy Layton
April 12, 2022 9:37am

Disturbing new details have emerged from the scene where Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed by a dump truck on a Florida highway.

While investigators have thus far declined to answer questions about the crash and will only release information after the case is closed, a witness — local resident Chris Stanley — told the Columbus Dispatch that he believes he saw the late quarterback on the highway before the collision, noticing vehicles veering into his lane.

“And what I noticed was a Mack truck, or a big tractor-trailer, with also another vehicle that started moving a little bit to the left,” Stanley said. “I was in the left lane and then there was the right lane. And then I noticed an individual there starting to make their way onto the road.

“He was about halfway, to a quarter way in the right lane, already onto the highway and I was already concerned that somebody was going to strike him right there at that moment,” he continued, noting that he saw the man raising his arms.
The accident happened around 6:37 a.m. on I-595 West at the I-95 interchange outside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

“I did not see any vehicle nearby. I was more concerned with him because he was already making his way onto the road system … That’s why it’s just very disturbing. I just didn’t understand the situation,” Stanley said.
 
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Lots of chatter about Texans being in the mix to trade for Deebo Samuel (who has requested a trade). What would it take in picks and $? Would you give what it takes to gain a premier WR even if you would have to agree not to make use of his versatility running the ball which seems to be a reason he wants to be traded? But is also one of his best qualities as a player?

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Which teams could try to trade for Deebo Samuel?

Deebo Samuel wants out of San Francisco.
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NFL Rumors: Texans 'Team to Watch' in WR Trade Talks amid Deebo Samuel Buzz

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“Per The Athletic's Tim Kawakami, the Texans are a "team to watch" amid buzz that Deebo Samuel wants to be traded by the San Francisco 49ers. ”
 
TheRealJoker said:
Lots of chatter about Texans being in the mix to trade for Deebo Samuel (who has requested a trade). What would it take in picks and $? Would you give what it takes to gain a premier WR even if you would have to agree not to make use of his versatility running the ball which seems to be a reason he wants to be traded? But is also one of his best qualities as a player?

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

Which teams could try to trade for Deebo Samuel?

Deebo Samuel wants out of San Francisco.
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NFL Rumors: Texans 'Team to Watch' in WR Trade Talks amid Deebo Samuel Buzz

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“Per The Athletic's Tim Kawakami, the Texans are a "team to watch" amid buzz that Deebo Samuel wants to be traded by the San Francisco 49ers. ”
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No, shouldn't take on the cost of the trade or the contract extension coming up in a couple of years.
 
TheRealJoker said:
Lots of chatter about Texans being in the mix to trade for Deebo Samuel (who has requested a trade). What would it take in picks and $? Would you give what it takes to gain a premier WR even if you would have to agree not to make use of his versatility running the ball which seems to be a reason he wants to be traded? But is also one of his best qualities as a player?

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

Which teams could try to trade for Deebo Samuel?

Deebo Samuel wants out of San Francisco.
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NFL Rumors: Texans 'Team to Watch' in WR Trade Talks amid Deebo Samuel Buzz

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“Per The Athletic's Tim Kawakami, the Texans are a "team to watch" amid buzz that Deebo Samuel wants to be traded by the San Francisco 49ers. ”
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This is getting out of hand.

It is what it is, I get it. This ain’t your daddy’s NFL.

But I think I’m starting to become one of those guys that just aren’t into it anymore.
 
thunderkyss said:
This is getting out of hand.

It is what it is, I get it. This ain’t your daddy’s NFL.

But I think I’m starting to become one of those guys that just aren’t into it anymore.
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Same. The divas forcing their way off teams and the teams accomodating instead of forcing them to honor the contract is making me care less than ever. Hard to get emotionally invested in sports divas. Like the male version of caring about the Kardashians.
 
thunderkyss said:
This is getting out of hand.

It is what it is, I get it. This ain’t your daddy’s NFL.

But I think I’m starting to become one of those guys that just aren’t into it anymore.
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It's completely understandable. I think the older we get the more we start to see things a little more objectively and it puts things in perspective.

I've reached a point of enjoying the game of football itself while looking at the business side of the industry with a little bit of disgust, mainly due to the abuse of public funds to finance their playgrounds so they can maximize their own selfish and extremely greedy schemes.
 
thunderkyss said:
This is getting out of hand.

It is what it is, I get it. This ain’t your daddy’s NFL.

But I think I’m starting to become one of those guys that just aren’t into it anymore.
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I think what you will see starting this year is a premium being put on drafting a top WR. The wiser GMs will start drafting high-profile WRs almost every year vs paying the going price of the Divas and Prima Donnas of $25MM to $30MM a year. This should make for some interesting trades during the draft. WR needy teams jockeying for position to get a top WR. Could play right into the Texan's hands. I had WRs George Pickens and Skyy Moore penciled in at #37 in my mock draft. I can now see both of them being drafted in the 1st RD.
 
Texian said:
I think what you will see starting this year is a premium being put on drafting a top WR. The wiser GMs will start drafting high-profile WRs almost every year vs paying the going price of the Divas and Prima Donnas of $25MM to $30MM a year. This should make for some interesting trades during the draft. WR needy teams jockeying for position to get a top WR. Could play right into the Texan's hands. I had WRs George Pickens and Skyy Moore penciled in at #37 in my mock draft. I can now see both of them being drafted in the 1st RD.
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Not only that, but this draft is deep at receiver - so there may well be some solid prospects slide down the board like they did in 2020.
 
A very good player so far. His injury history tells me it's going to catch up to him sooner than later...........for whomever might be thinking of taking him on, likely in the first year or two. The injuries below are not a complete list....and they don't tell the whole story. His recurrent hamstring problems date well back into college. They have been an issue even when he has not missed games. As he has tried to play through them on numerous occasions when they were not even listed, they have offered him the gift of a basket of compensatory injuries.


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