July 8, 20204 yr https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29418825/sources-chiefs-patrick-mahomes-agree-10-year-extension Super Bowl MVP QB Patrick Mahomes has signed a 10-year contract extension with the Chiefs. The deal is worth $450 million over the 10-year period and could be worth up to $503 million if various incentive payments are met. Mahomes new deal is now the richest valued contract in American pro sports. Mike Trout held the previous record after he signed a 12-year, $426.5 million contract with the Angels in March 2019. However, Trout's MLB contract is fully guaranteed - whereas the Mahomes contract has signing bonuses, guaranteed money, non-guaranteed money and out clauses for both the player and the team, as is customary in NFL contracts. Including the two years remaining on his current contract, Mahomes will be tied to KC through the 2031 season.
July 8, 20204 yr Worth every penny. Of course, with salary caps, they might have a hard time finding enough pennies to go around to make a team around him.
July 13, 20204 yr 2 hours ago, Columbo said: "Hail to the Redskins" is trending tonight. Here's why: FANTASTIC. Way overdue. Ready for the next ones to fall.
July 14, 20204 yr warning: some language NSFW Black NFL Player's Silence Over DeSean Jackson's Anti-Semitic Post is DEAFENING. Edited July 14, 20204 yr by surfohio language warning
July 14, 20204 yr dubious about any sports seasons working out this year — so for a slight distraction here is a joke: Some guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience. “Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were knocking each other around like that over the 25 cents." Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?" “Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it, and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was, 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like, hello? It's only 25 cents!"
July 22, 20204 yr a redditor found a major clue for the redskins new moniker, they have reserved the domain name dcsentinels dot com: https://nypost.com/2020/07/22/reddit-user-finds-potential-clue-for-name-thatll-replace-redskins/ i think that opens a door for cleveland guardians as its similar!
July 23, 20204 yr https://fox8.com/sports/washington-redskins-to-temporary-be-called-washington-football-team-reports/ Edited July 23, 20204 yr by skiwest
July 23, 20204 yr 4 hours ago, skiwest said: https://fox8.com/sports/washington-redskins-to-temporary-be-called-washington-football-team-reports/ Yesterday: Charlotte's MLS team name themselves Charlotte FC Internet: You couldn't come up with a more lame boring name! Today: Washington Redskins say "Hold my beer".
August 12, 20204 yr 2021 NFL Draft in Cleveland could be pushed to June. https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/nfl-draft/2021-nfl-draft-in-cleveland-june/95-5734ab38-b609-4ca0-b15c-9089d1e9dbbc
August 28, 20204 yr From this ESPN article: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29753138/could-nfl-players-boycott-games-why-want-team-owners-take-action-now Quote If you think what happened in the NBA on Wednesday can't happen in the NFL, you don't know what year this is. Old rules are out the window in 2020. Long-held expectations are outdated. The Detroit Lions canceled practice Tuesday so they could stand outside of their team facility and talk about police brutality in front of reporters. Nine NFL teams canceled their practices Thursday so they could discuss larger societal issues among themselves. Ostensibly, this week's sports protests sprouted in response to an incident in which Jacob Blake was shot seven times by police Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin. But if you've been listening and paying attention for the past several months, you're well aware that this is about much more than just the latest police shooting of a Black man. Players aren't simply outraged that this happened, they're outraged that it keeps happening. And they want us to know they aren't going to just keep playing basketball or baseball or football or soccer on our televisions as if it's not.
September 17, 20204 yr Opening week of the NFL was entertaining: Something funny that happened during Thursday's opening game in KC: Andy Reid's face shield Something not funny that happened during Thursday's opening game in KC: Chiefs' fans booing the two teams 'Moment of Unity' before kickoff. Cam Newton, if you're not a Pats fan: Baker Mayfield, if you're not a Browns fan: Kickers for the Ohio teams: - Bengals kicker injures himself while missing a 31-yd game-tying FG attempt at end of 16-13 loss to LAC. - Browns waive their kicker after he missed a PAT and FG during their 38-6 loss at BAL. - Bengals acquire former Browns kicker for this week's game. - Browns host the Bengals tomorrow night.
September 17, 20204 yr 41 minutes ago, Columbo said: Kickers for the Ohio teams: - Bengals kicker injures himself while missing a 31-yd game-tying FG attempt at end of 16-13 loss to LAC. - Browns waive their kicker after he missed a PAT and FG during their 38-6 loss at BAL. - Bengals acquire former Browns kicker for this week's game. - Browns host the Bengals tomorrow night. What are the odds that the former Browns kicker knocks through the last second winning field goal for the Bengals tomorrow night. I'd say pretty high.
September 23, 20204 yr The NFL opened two of their most expensive stadiums ever for the 2020 seasons - only to have COVID-19 prevent fans from attending these new football palaces(!) But even without fans and the normal public pageantry that would have accompanied it, they still did open for 2020. SoFi Stadium - LA's new home to the Rams and the Chargers - opened on Week One for the Rams and then for the Chargers during Week Two. SoFi Stadium was built for a staggering $5.5 billion. The new stadium seats 70,000 for a standard NFL game and is expandable to 100,000 for major events like the Super Bowl, World Cup, Summer Olympics (which are all scheduled in coming years). SoFi Stadium will be the cornerstone of a massive mixed-use development in the area next to the old LA Forum (which itself may give way for an expensive new home to the LA Clippers). Because of this, and some other factors, this NFL stadium is unlike any previous NFL stadium. First is the way it looks from the outside. Below is an aerial of SoFi Stadium: If you're wondering where the football stadium is, it's under a massive roof over the standard field and surrounding seating bowl. The roof slopes down to some of the corners and folds over at some of the other edges. Also, much of the interior is set below grade (there was a height restriction due to the site being in the LAX flight path) which helps conceal the "stadium-ness" of it. Below is an under-construction aerial which helps to orient where the stadium bowl is located under the roof: ^ You'll note that SoFi Stadium has some additional elements beside the seating bowl. A large exterior plaza is located between the 70,000-seat stadium and a 6,000-seat performance venue at the other end of the facility. Below is an aerial showing the roof area over that exterior plaza: And below is a ground view of that exterior plaza taken from the large artificial lake constructed next to the stadium: The next way that SoFi Stadium is unlike any other NFL stadium is the interior. Below is a view showing the translucent roof covering the seating bowl and the newest (and biggest) video display board in the NFL. The sort-of oval-shaped structure has video displays on its outside and inside - and is actually slightly larger than the football field it hovers above(!) The roof is fixed over the interior seating bowl - but one end of this interior is open to the adjacent outdoor plaza. This view gives a glimpse of that open end to the left of the massive video board: One more view of interior, looking toward the closed end of the interior: ESPN had an article about SoFi's super scoreboard: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29868399/sofi-stadium-videoboard-eighth-wonder-world-targets-genz The Science Channel devoted an episode the stadium: https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/nfl-super-stadiums/full-episodes/nfl-super-stadiums And here's an brief video about the construction and features of SoFi Stadium:
September 23, 20204 yr Nuts. And the Raiders opened...the Death Star. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 23, 20204 yr Oakland Los Angeles Oakland Las Vegas Raiders. A lot of moves for a team. They are now tied with Cleveland Los Angeles St. Louis Los Angeles Rams for most moves by a team.
September 23, 20204 yr On 9/22/2020 at 11:09 PM, ColDayMan said: Nuts. And the Raiders opened...the Death Star. SoFi Stadium's opening really did steal much of the thunder from the Las Vegas Raiders didn't it? SoFi Stadium's innovative features and gigantic price of $5.5 billion makes the more conventionally designed Allegiant Stadium with its "mere" $1.8 billion price tag seem somewhat paltry. An irony considering it is the most expensive NFL stadium yet built, except for LA's new stadium. Here's some article links and a quick tour of Allegiant Stadium - home of the Las Vegas Raiders - aka "The Death Star": https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/field-of-dreams-allegiant-stadium/ https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29864321/raiders-ecstatic-open-luxurious-death-star-allegiant-stadium The $1.8 billion Allegiant Stadium has 65,000 seats for football and is expandable to 72,000 for other events. Below is an aerial view showing the stadium in relation to downtown Las Vegas (aka The Vegas Strip). The new Vegas stadium has a fixed translucent roof (same as LA) and a side that opens facing the Strip (similar to LA). But it also features a grass field that sits outside when unused and rolls into the stadium for NFL games. (this same system is used at the Arizona Cardinals stadium that opened in 2006) Below is a night-time view of the exterior: Below is a day-time view of the exterior: Below is a view of Allegiant Stadium next to the I-15 freeway. This side of the stadium, which faces the downtown strip, has huge operable windows which open to the interior seating bowl. There is also a glimpse of an 85-foot tall torch inside that honors Al Davis, the late founder and long-time owner of the Raiders: Here is a rendered view of the windows open looking at the Al Davis torch, the interior seating bowl, and the largest of the interior video boards located at the closed end of the stadium: And here is the interior, with the open end to the left, the closed end with the large video board to the right, and the fixed translucent roof above: Interior view from the field level - looking toward the stadium's open end which have two smaller video boards flanking the operable windows - and showing the stadium's translucent roof:
September 23, 20204 yr 18 hours ago, Columbo said: SoFi Stadium was built for a staggering $5.5 billion. The new stadium seats 70,000 for a standard NFL game and is expandable to 100,000 for major events like the Super Bowl, World Cup, Summer Olympics (which are all scheduled in coming years). $5.5 billion. For contrast: FirstEnergy Stadium cost $283M in 1999 dollars ($434M in 2019 dollars, per Google) Lambeau Field cost $960,000 in 1957 (though cost $295M to renovate in 2001-2003 and has had other major upgrades since then) The current entire market capitalization of KeyBank is $11.36 billion. In normal investing, a $5.5 billion non-growing investment is probably one that you hope can earn about $550 million per year. In profit, not gross revenue. Even with two separate teams playing there and lots of great weather for other events year-round, that's bonkers.
September 23, 20204 yr It's also California. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 23, 20204 yr Everybody surfing and riding dirt bikes all day rather than freezing all winter like in the big football towns.
September 23, 20204 yr This is what happens when you play for an embarrassing and pathetic franchise owned by Dean Effing Spanos.... Chargers QB Tyrod Taylor's lung punctured by team doctor before Chiefs game https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29952469/chargers-qb-tyrod-taylor-lung-punctured-team-doc-sources-say%3Fplatform%3Damp
September 30, 20204 yr COVID-19 hits the NFL: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30008270/steelers-titans-postponed-positive-covid-19-tests-sources-say Four Titans players and five team personnel members tested positive this week. Sunday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans has been postponed to either Monday or Tuesday.
September 30, 20204 yr 55 minutes ago, Columbo said: COVID-19 hits the NFL: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30008270/steelers-titans-postponed-positive-covid-19-tests-sources-say Four Titans players and five team personnel members tested positive this week. Sunday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans has been postponed to either Monday or Tuesday. quelle surprise!
October 1, 20204 yr The Pittsburgh Steelers-Tennessee Titans game will not be played during Week 4 following two additional positive coronavirus tests among the Titans, the NFL announced Thursday. The simplest scenario for rescheduling is Week 7 on Oct. 25. That's the Titans' bye week. Pittsburgh is scheduled to play at Baltimore that week, but both the Steelers and Ravens have byes in Week 8, which would allow the NFL to make a change affecting only one other team. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30015123/nfl-says-steelers-titans-game-played-week-4-two-more-positive-tests
October 1, 20204 yr The NFL really should have extended the season by one or two weeks and added additional byes to account for this potential. Maybe a mandatory bye week for all teams late in the season to allow teams to make up a missed game due to an outbreak in a team without any scheduling difficulties.
October 3, 20204 yr https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30029628/sources-new-england-patriots-qb-cam-newton-tests-positive-covid-19
October 3, 20204 yr And now both the NE Pats and the KC Chiefs have multiple COVID positives. So the NFL is postponing Sunday's marque matchup and trying to reschedule for Monday or Tuesday(we'll see!). This is now the second Week 4 game to be postponed/rescheduled - and along with the Titans (who are reporting more positives) marks the third NFL team with multiple COVID positives this week.
October 5, 20204 yr Can't believe the NFL didn't build in any buffer weeks for this very thing. Very Stable Genius
October 10, 20204 yr The NFL got through their Week 4 scheduling and ended up with two Monday games - KC vs NE + the regularly scheduled MNF game because of NE's COVID issues (well, Cam Newton's COVID issues really). However, Week 5 scheduling is getting trickier. They are going with the two-game Monday setup again. DEN vs NE for the early MNF game and LAC vs NO for the later regularly scheduled MNF game. NE (or rather Cam) being the reason again. But because of the Tennessee Titans' COVID issues - currently the NFL's most infected team - the NFL pushed their game from Sunday to TUESDAY(!) So they've got BUF at TEN for next Tuesday. Which then means that next Thursday's game will need to be rescheduled because Buffalo was one of the teams scheduled to play(!) That is unless the NFL would force Buffalo to play on Tuesday and Thursday(!!) - which you might not put it past the NFL to try. But even they must know they can't "MLB" their way out of this by scheduling double-headers to get all their games played.
October 10, 20204 yr Everything might be going crazy during COVID - but the NYC teams are trying to keep things normal: Start spreading the boos: At a combined 0-8, the Jets, Giants display football futility
October 11, 20204 yr https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30093166/nfl-adjusts-schedule-8-teams-moving-forward The NFL is really trying to "MLB" their schedule to keep the 2020 season going. That Week 5 "early MNF" game between DEN and NE? Forget it - its been moved to a Week 6 Sunday game because NE had to close down their practice facility again. Which is cascading into a bunch of additional schedule changes for the coming weeks. One game that is not being rescheduled is this Tuesday's Bills-Titans game, which was moved to this unusual day because the Titans couldn't open their practice facility until Saturday. But it is still Sunday - that could all change on Monday(!)
October 11, 20204 yr 17 minutes ago, Columbo said: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30093166/nfl-adjusts-schedule-8-teams-moving-forward The NFL is really trying to "MLB" their schedule to keep the 2020 season going. That Week 5 "early MNF" game between DEN and NE? Forget it - its been moved to a Week 6 Sunday game because NE had to close down their practice facility again. Which is cascading into a bunch of additional schedule changes for the coming weeks. One game that is not being rescheduled is this Tuesday's Bills-Titans game, which was moved to this unusual day because the Titans couldn't open their practice facility until Saturday. But it is still Sunday - that could all change on Monday(!) The NFL is going to regret not doing a bubble...
October 20, 20204 yr The Falcons, the Giants and the Jets all entered Week 6 with 0-5 records. Only the Jets left Week 6 with an 0-6 record. And the way the Jets are losing games by double-digits. The Jets now have a point difference of -115. The next worse point difference is -56(!)
October 22, 20204 yr somebody on the raiders has the ‘rona. the o line is quarantining and raiders-bucs game in doubt. las vegas giving someone a disease, who would have guessed?
November 26, 20204 yr 'Happy Thanksgiving' from the NFC East - where one of these teams will make the playoffs(!) And 'Happy Thanksgiving' to the NFL from Covid-19 - where an outbreak among the Ravens scuttled the NFL's marquee Thanksgiving Night matchup between Baltimore and Pittsburgh: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30393127/source-more-positive-coronavirus-tests-found-baltimore-ravens
November 26, 20204 yr 2 hours ago, Columbo said: And 'Happy Thanksgiving' to the NFL from Covid-19 - where an outbreak among the Ravens scuttled the NFL's marquee Thanksgiving Night matchup between Baltimore and Pittsburgh: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30393127/source-more-positive-coronavirus-tests-found-baltimore-ravens They should all go to a bubble to finish the rest of the season. It may not end well for the NFL...
November 29, 20204 yr the nfl is finally buckling under covid: https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ny-broncos-qbs-covid-20201128-mxxuusm42jd2jazdbizgennbve-story.html
November 29, 20204 yr 4 hours ago, mrnyc said: the nfl is finally buckling under covid: https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ny-broncos-qbs-covid-20201128-mxxuusm42jd2jazdbizgennbve-story.html https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30408624/sources-denver-broncos-qbs-ruled-ineligible-vs-new-orleans-saints If that game gets played on Sunday, it'll be ridiculous. The Broncos say one of their RB's is the team's emergency quarterback and that they have a WR on their practice squad who was a QB during his first three seasons at Wake Forest(!)
November 29, 20204 yr More covid confusion for the NFL: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30401833/sources-baltimore-ravens-pittsburgh-steelers-game-moved-tuesday-due-coronavirus - The Ravens-Steelers game, which was moved from Thursday Thanksgiving Night to Sunday because a Ravens covid outbreak, has now been moved to the Tuesday night at 8pm. Also, Baltimore's scheduled game with Dallas for next Thursday was also moved to Monday Dec. 7 at 5pm for another Monday Night NFL doubleheader. Also, Baltimore's starting QB Lamar Jackson has covid. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30408401/contact-sports-ban-leaves-san-francisco-49ers-other-bay-area-teams-limbo - The county that the 49ers are located in issued enhanced COVID-19 guidelines that effectively put a three-week ban on any contact sports taking place there. So the 49ers will need to practice elsewhere and relocate two home games scheduled within that three-week window.
November 30, 20204 yr Broncos forced to play but Ravens get to reschedule for...reasons. Very Stable Genius
December 1, 20204 yr On 11/29/2020 at 12:59 AM, Columbo said: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30408624/sources-denver-broncos-qbs-ruled-ineligible-vs-new-orleans-saints If that game gets played on Sunday, it'll be ridiculous. The Broncos say one of their RB's is the team's emergency quarterback and that they have a WR on their practice squad who was a QB during his first three seasons at Wake Forest(!) That game was ridiculous. The Broncos went with the WR on their practice squad who was a QB in college. And here's how it went: That's right. WR/QB Hinton had more interceptions then completions(!) Hinton played 24 of the Broncos' 43 snaps on offense, while RB's Royce Freeman and Phillip Lindsay took direct snaps the rest of the time as the Broncos gained just 112 yards in a 31-3 loss to the Saints. The Broncos asked the NFL to move the game to Monday so three of their QB's, who all tested negative this past week, would be eligible if they tested negative on Sunday (which they did). That request was denied. At least one Broncos player thought the NFL was making an example of the team by not moving the game: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30418190/quarterback-less-denver-broncos-rolled-saints-kendall-hinton-finishes-1-9 https://www.espn.com/blog/denver-broncos/post/_/id/37257/scrapped-game-plans-and-late-night-meetings-how-the-broncos-tried-to-get-qb-kendall-hinton-ready-in-24-hours
December 1, 20204 yr 8 hours ago, DarkandStormy said: Broncos forced to play but Ravens get to reschedule for...reasons. LOL - The Ravens-Steelers game got postponed again (3rd time) to Wednesday at 3:40 p.m. ET
December 1, 20204 yr I've heard the game time is because NBC wanted to keep the rights to the game, but they also wanted to show the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting ceremony live.
December 1, 20204 yr its getting silly and silly dangerous too. ravens-steelers threatening to strike: https://steelerswire.usatoday.com/2020/11/30/pittsburgh-steelers-baltimore-ravens-threaten-strike-nfl-2020/ saints and pats fined for covid violations. the saints and raiders had previously been fined. https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-fined-500k-draft-pick-patriots-fined-350k-covid-19-protocol-violations 49ers to play home games in arizona? https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-could-play-home-games-in-arizona-due-to-covid-19-restrictions
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