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NFL games should all be home games
ESPN ^ | 11/17/12 | Rick Reilly

Posted on 11/18/2012 4:19:52 AM PST by raccoonradio

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To: heye2monn

Not so very long ago the NFL played a 12-game schedule. (Jim Brown rushed for 1527 yards in 12 games.) Also, not so very long ago the loathsome Ohio Sate Buckeyes played a 9-game schedule.


61 posted on 11/18/2012 9:24:35 AM PST by rashley (Rashley)
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To: Fiji Hill

Please tell me you are not a man!


62 posted on 11/18/2012 9:36:19 AM PST by rashley (Rashley)
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To: Average Al

IF all NFL Games were home games, then pray tell where would we get visiting teams? ; ]


63 posted on 11/18/2012 9:41:57 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: raccoonradio

Why go to Cowboys Stadium when all anyone does there is watch the game on the huge screen there, what’s the point?

It was better when stadiums were all metal seats and the common man could afford to go to the games. Now it’s all too corporate.


64 posted on 11/18/2012 9:46:10 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: bramps

Is it true that during home Patriots’ games that every conservative in New England is at the game? ;) Lord knows they all could fit comfortably into the stadium.


65 posted on 11/18/2012 9:48:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Bernard

Good point. “Scholar-athlete” is a joke.

When games start showing on television on Thursday and now, as you say, Wednesday, they blur together and lose their uniqueness. After a while, the fan says cares?


66 posted on 11/18/2012 9:50:25 AM PST by heye2monn (A)
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To: Bernard

Good point. “Scholar-athlete” is a joke.

When games start showing on television on Thursday and now, as you say, Wednesday, they blur together and lose their uniqueness. After a while, the fan says cares?


67 posted on 11/18/2012 9:50:30 AM PST by heye2monn (A)
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To: dfwgator
LOL they just put in a huge screen in our local b'ball arena because they said people were watching the games at home.

nothing's too good for the taxpayers!


68 posted on 11/18/2012 9:51:07 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's bankruptcy: 2016)
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To: heye2monn

I hate booth reviews, I’d rather take my chances and have the human element, now whenever there’s a big play you hesitate to cheer because inevitably you know it’s going to take five minutes for them to review the play.

That’s why I prefer now watching EPL soccer, the action is non-stop, without the constant stop/starts of a football game.


69 posted on 11/18/2012 9:51:18 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Northern Yankee

If you looked at the article he was talking about watching all the games on TV...........


70 posted on 11/18/2012 9:51:29 AM PST by Average Al
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To: Notary Sojac

Hockey used to be much better in person than on TV, but even now (at least the last time they were actually playing), they have so many TV timeouts, that it kills the buzz.


71 posted on 11/18/2012 9:53:53 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: andy58-in-nh

[[Football is a much better game on TV than in person. Baseball vice versa.]]

Soccer has them both beat. It is worse both on TV and in person.


72 posted on 11/18/2012 9:54:34 AM PST by heye2monn (A)
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To: Fiji Hill

College at least has some semblance of tradition....nothing better than 80,000+ Gator fans interlocking and singing “We Are the Boys...” at the end of the third quarter.


73 posted on 11/18/2012 9:56:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: heye2monn

Try watching the EPL, rather than the MLS....you’ll get hooked like I did....watching the MLS is like watching rookie league baseball compared to the EPL. I love listening to the chanting of the crowds.


74 posted on 11/18/2012 9:59:20 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Is it true that during home Patriots’ games that every conservative in New England is at the game? ;) Lord knows they all could fit comfortably into the stadium.


There were two of us but the other guy didn’t pay his dues so I banished him to Rhode Island.

...also, you might like this article if you haven’t seen it. It mentions Johan Cruyff (you introduced me to him awhile ago on a soccer related thead):
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1206114/index.htm


75 posted on 11/18/2012 10:38:44 AM PST by bramps (Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Romney did in 2012)
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To: raccoonradio

The problem with watching football at home are the commercials that would lead one to believe half of America is black and all white people hang out with black people. Also, most people in the military are black.


76 posted on 11/18/2012 11:27:42 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”)
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To: raccoonradio

I can see the game better on TV. And I didn’t have to pay $100 a ticket for nosebleed seats.


77 posted on 11/18/2012 11:57:37 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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College at least has some semblance of tradition

One of our traditions is that the winner of the USC-UCLA game gets to keep the Victory Bell, which came from a Union Pacific steam locomotive. The team that possesses the bell rings it during games. The framework that holds the bell has been painted Cardinal since 2007. After yesterday's game in the Rose Bowl, it will now be painted baby blue.

78 posted on 11/18/2012 12:09:16 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: dfwgator

OK but don’t know if I can bring myself to do it. :-)


79 posted on 11/18/2012 12:26:21 PM PST by heye2monn (A)
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To: Average Al

I know... I just couldn’t resist tweaking the headline.


80 posted on 11/18/2012 5:01:38 PM PST by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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