rolling American football death spiral thread

ums I feel like you're being sarcastic perhaps YOU have a better explanation ?!??

they are dumb and had a bad draft

I guess there is too much money involved to just scratch the whole season, but I have a hard time seeing how a spring season is going to work out. Even if the pandemic is over by then, which is very doubtful, the logistics and impacts on other sports seems a huge hurdle to overcome.

impacts on other sports?

Overlapping with March Madness, draft eligible players sitting out, scheduling around the other events, etc.

I mean, none of those are insurmountable, but I feel like it's not nearly as simple as waving a hand and saying "we'll play in the spring instead".

yeah agreed but there's so much money at stake they'll fuck over whoever or any other sports

They'll merge with the NBA and play footsketball

Tom Brady ready to start the season in Tampa.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GTkSxvxwL._AC_SY445_.jpg

vegas not taking bets on college football

https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/29647483/sportsbooks-halt-college-football-betting-season-remains-flux

wish I'd placed $1000 on "there is no season"

https://www.theroot.com/ole-miss-football-players-walk-out-of-practice-protest-1844890996

https://eu.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2020/08/26/tennessee-football-march-black-lives-matter-jacob-blake/5634920002/

in this case, the head coach of the UT football team rearranged practice so his players could do this. 💪

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/vikings-kirk-cousins-says-he-sees-covid-19-as-survival-of-the-fittest/ar-BB18DGNb?ocid=uxbndlbing

“If I get it, I’m gonna ride it out. I’m gonna let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach. And just say, if it knocks me out, it knocks me out. I’m going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that.”

So, he's saying he'd refuse all supplementary oxygen or other treatment? Because if he does intend to refuse all treatment, then he's just a dumbass. And if that's not what he's saying, then BFD, once he's ill, of course he's ill, just like everyone else ever since the world began, duh.

thread delivers

his relatives will call him Dead Cousin(s)

A cousin once removed

A cousin once removed

https://loudwire.com/minnesota-vikings-quarterback-investigated-booking-creed-private-party/

Killing yourself to hear “My Own Prison” live

he's the biggest dork in history

If you were looking to make the best, most humane case against the existence of football, this profile of the 1989 USC LBs — featuring Junior Seau — would be the one. https://t.co/oGmn7fzUZ4

— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) October 10, 2020

Jfc.

At the bar tonight we had MSU-Kentucky on one tv and Bama-UM on the other. People kept asking me who I was rooting for and I finally said "I'm rooting for all these guys not to kill themselves in 20 years," which finally freed me from the conversations.

Also Chris Collinsworth was blown away that the women in Pittsburgh had really specific questions about football pic.twitter.com/eskujaRsKn

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) December 3, 2020

https://sports.yahoo.com/spongebob-slime-football-nickelodeon-ready-nfl-game-152833506--nfl.html

Seems like it should be illegal to expose children to football

raw uncut pig skin

also more literally to thread title
https://theathletic.com/news/nfl-playoff-bubble-teams-mandate/T3XU9q8b2gd3

NFL teams will not be allowed to require their players to stay in a bubble-like atmosphere during the postseason, according to a memo sent to teams and obtained by The Athletic on Tuesday.

The memo states that teams may provide a local hotel for players to avoid possible exposure to the virus, but they cannot mandate that players stay at the hotel other than the night before a game.

This news comes one day after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that even though distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is beginning in the United States, NFL teams and staff will not be jumping the line for vaccination before the Super Bowl in February.

these fkn people

i was watching an episode of Harley Quinn where they were holding a gathering of the Legion of Doom and were hosting prospective new members and they announced Roger Goodell as being in attendance and I just lost it.....he really is the worst.

Can there be a impressive form of insanity? Wild story and crazy pictures...

https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/04/22/alex-smith-retirement-inside-comeback-tension-with-washington-coaches-daily-cover?utm_source=pocket-newtab

nice leg

i really loved jackson as a player, this is a hard read.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/sports/football/vincent-jackson-death-cte.html

http://i.imgur.com/Pn8OxXO.png
so uh are we 100% sure belichick didn't do this intentionally to fuck goodell

or to fuck the giants?

why not both

Kind of hilarious how the nfl has back to back weekends of fantastic games then we all get reminded how it is in fact a radioactive wasteland as an organization

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2022/3/7/22966292/calvin-ridley-gambling-suspension-atlanta-falcons

I cannot believe that this kind of shit still goes on. Infuriating.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/nyregion/buffalo-bills-stadium-deal.html

It is infuriating, and even more to hear idiot NFL fans championing that kind of shit. A few years ago, when the Chicago Bears started making noise about moving out to the suburbs, I couldn't believe how many dipshits were actually arguing for this type of deal to keep them happy.

not gonna be a banner week for the league

this was disturbing

it is really astonishing how the NFL tears through running backs (and also how people like walter payton or frank gore lasted as long as they did)

todd gurley's last season was as a 26yo. for these very reasons i can't blame le'veon bell for holding out when he did (he was also 26) but then he was basically done. derrick henry is going to keel over at any moment. the colts may ruin jonathan taylor before he turns 25

needless to say, teams realize this -- that running backs are more or less fungible -- so these guys never even get paid before being replaced by someone younger/cheaper/less crippled

it was even worse when the standard for almost EVERY team was running feature backs into the ground for 300-400 carries a season, causing them to be effectively finished after 3 or 4 seasons

still happens, not quite as bad, but teams will always prioritize their WRs over their RBs nowadays. the WRs will get the paydays while the RBs are jettisoned when they get too expensive.

Barry Sanders was smart to retire in his prime. Fuck the record books.

always makes me think of Joe Posnanski's article about Priest Holmes

https://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/priest-holmes-real-life-or-fantasy/

and then the follow up after Luck suddenly retired

https://joeposnanski.substack.com/p/ignore-the-pain