TheFencingCoach

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[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Tepper has become r/NFL’s new Snyder.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Greatest Show on Turf. Every play they ran was fucking pretty. Holt, Bruce, and Faulk were the definition of finesse. Even Orlando Pace moved like Fred Astaire.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You’ll get it.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

People are entitled to their feelings. They are not entitled to their actions.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (9 children)

If he doesn’t come out I’ll slap myself with a live salmon.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As of today, the Atlanta Falcons also blew a 25 point lead in Super Bowl LI.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did that game impact Lebron’s legacy?

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Our streak of winning the Lions’ division more recently than the Lions is about to end sadly

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s a cyclical thing I guess. Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, RG3, Justin Herbert (once he began starting) were all recent examples of guys who had exceptional rookie seasons.

Then you had a few start slowly, like Lawrence, Josh Allen, Goff (maybe not the best example, he was so up and down), etc. who took a while to hit their stride.

I think the lesson here isn’t that they’re going to have less time to prove themselves, it’s that regardless of how quickly they get it (or don’t), you need to be patient.

I generally think a first year is a learning year, the second year is going to give you a relative idea of a prospect’s ceiling and floor, and by the end of the third year he’s either getting it or he’s not. There are of course exceptions to this, but that’s generally how I’ve seen it.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I’m not surprised. I think Snyder favored him because he at least got the team to the playoffs in his first season. Scandal after scandal started hitting Snyder and I think he was happy with the stability Rivera brought.

With Harris coming on board, he’s probably going to want to start making his mark on the team, and my guess is in the next few years we’re going to see big changes to the team and organization to rid itself of the Snyder poison.

So I wasn’t surprised to see him retained this long, but I’d certainly be surprised if Harris doesn’t clean house after this season.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

John Madden marveling at turduckens was always a blessing

 

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination. This article goes into the controversial decision of the NFL and Pete Rozelle to hold games two days later.

  • Rozelle later would regret holding the games. He faced public pressure from Governor George Romney (father of Mitt) who urged him to cancel the games. He declined.

  • Kennedy had signed the sports broadcasting act which essentially forced the NFL into Sunday broadcasts so as not to conflict with college football. Incidentally, Amazon as a streaming service is not beholden to this law and thus can broadcast NFL games at their leisure,

  • NFL owners were fairly divided to play the games or not. Dan Rooney urged Rozelle to cancel, but Rozelle declined.

  • The AFL canceled games, causing some public backlash against the NFL.

  • Rozelle was a personal friend of Kennedy’s and was very depressed following Kennedy’s murder.

  • Even though some fans were upset with the decision to play, many sellout crowds still happened that weekend, including a 63,000 seat sellout between the Cardinals and Giants,

  • When the Cowboys arrived in Cleveland for a game, some of the baggage handlers at the airport refused to handle their bags because JFK had been killed in Dallas. “We were [viewed as] killers, [as though] we had killed the president,” Dallas tight end Pettis Norman later said, according to a 2021 History.com story.” Art Modell requested the announcers simply refer to the team as the “Cowboys” instead of the “Dallas Cowboys.”

Really fascinating read.

[–] TheFencingCoach@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Rise, dragon. Rise.

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