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Fool's Ball Week 4 Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

I know the Free Republic community has many reservations about the NFL. And for good reason. It would just be nice to hear input from the smartest people in the world, on this game.

Fool's Ball Week 3 Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

It’s never happened before in the history of the sport, but according to Tom Brady the concept of playing in the NFL at age 50 doesn’t seem difficult. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have their iconic quarterback hosting the Tommy & Gronky show with tight end Rob Gronkowski, where the two answer what is supposed to be “the internet’s most searched questions.” Most of the topics fall short of what’s actually trending on Google, but Gronk put Brady under a little bit of pressure with one of the questions. “Can Tom Brady play until 50 years old?” the tight end read....

Buffalo Bills ownership has announced a new policy that will require all fans to be vaccinated to attend games at Highmark Stadium and KeyBank Center, home of the Buffalo Sabres, this season. Pegula Sports & Entertainment, along with Erie County, announced Tuesday afternoon that beginning with the Sept. 26 game against the Washington Football Team, all fans ages 12 and up must have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot in order to attend. That rule will expand to requiring all attendees over the age requirement to be fully vaccinated starting with the October 31 game vs. the Miami Dolphins....

In compliance with the Erie County Department of Health's directive, the Buffalo Bills and Highmark Stadium announced Tuesday that all guests age 12 and older will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination to attend Bills home games. For the games on September 26 and October 3, fans will be permitted to enter with one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Beginning with the October 31 game, guests must be fully vaccinated for entry. Guests are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a two-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after...

FYI: just a respectful 9/11 tribute, and the national anthem was all. No politics Now, there is football. PS. Masks required for all, but all i see is faces of Steelers and Bills fans.

The Black national anthem was played ahead of the NFL’s first game of the season between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night. The NBC broadcast played a video of Alicia Keys singing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" while the Florida A&M University Concert Choir joined in from Raymond James Stadium. Players from both teams stood in their respective end zones and locked arms to show unity ahead of the game. Lift Every Voice and Sing" was played before the start of Week 1 games during the 2020 NFL season, and Front Office Sports reported in...

More than a dozen former NFL players, including former star running back Clinton Portis, have pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to a multimillion-dollar nationwide scheme to defraud a health care benefit program. The most recent guilty pleas came within the last three weeks from Robert McCune, 40, of Georgia, Tamarick Vanover, 47, of Florida and Portis, 40, of South Carolina... ...Mr. McCune admitted he received nearly $2.5 million for orchestrating the scheme.....

Fool's Ball Week 1 Welcome back to your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

Time for another league of Pick'em Pro Football fantasy league. I think we are going on 15 - 20 years. This is a free pick'em league. Choose the winners and assign your confidence points on which team will win. Easy and stress free. Until you can't get a cell signal ... and join asap. First game is Thursday Sept 9, so choose that game once you sign up.

The National Football League (NFL) will be playing the “Black National Anthem” as “a prominent part of all big league events,” including the Super Bowl, NFL Playoffs, NFL Draft, and NFL Kickoff game, according to a new report. The NFL also played the anthem, “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” during the first week of the 2020 season. The Daily Wire notes that the NFL already featured Alicia Keys and the Cleveland All-City Choir singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before Super Bowl LV and even before the 2021 NFL Draft. End racism. #ItTakesAllOfUs pic.twitter.com/IU4G626FvQ — NFL (@NFL) September 10, 2020...

NFL LIVE THREAD WEEK 17Here are all the games you shouldn't watch this week!Miami at Buffalo Baltimore at Cincinnati Pittsburgh at Cleveland Minnesota at Detroit New York Jets at New England Dallas at New York Giants Atlanta at Tampa Bay Green Bay at Chicago Las Vegas at Denver Jacksonville at Indianapolis Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Arizona at Los Angeles Rams Seattle at San Francisco New Orleans at Carolina Tennessee at Houston Washington at Philadelphia In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

Athletes have heard the ugly words on practice fields for most of their lives. They hear them in the streets and at neighborhood hangouts. But when Chiefs running back Larry Johnson used an antigay slur on his Twitter account and in the locker room this week, he struck a nerve that makes professional sports leagues wince. The NFL, like other pro sports leagues, is perceived as homophobic. Of the more than 20,000 athletes who have played in the NFL, less than a handful have identified themselves as gay — David Kopay was the first in 1975, followed by Roy...