nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_Bowl

they should've lost their 2013 1st rounder

so glad the NFL is putting an end to this violence thing once and for all

― iatee, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:26 PM (14 minutes ago)

Goodell is walking a highwire and this is a big wobble.

i wonder how much they were able to link payton to the activity. clearly fairly explicitly

i can imagine payton is stunned after getting that kind of punishment for something that has been a regular practice forever

yeah uh an entire season for Payton makes it seem like the Gregggg Easterbrooks of the world are calling the shots here, sigh

this sucks, payton rules. looking forward to canks' response to this though!

punishment isn't about having a bounty system, it's about denying it for 3 years. goodell is a vindictive prick. but i don't feel bad for anyone involved obv.

canks probably booked a ticket for New Orleans so he could taunt them in person

carmichael probably assume head coach duties for the season, then?

Either he or Spagz.

carmichael it is

ahahha THIS IS LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! FALCONS ARE GONNA WIPE THEIR ASSES WITH THE SAINTS TWICE THIS YEAR - FRONT TO BACK AND BACK TO FRONT!!!!!!

cmon no one wipes their ass back-to-front on christmas

they do in the Southern Hemisphere

they go in counter clockwise i think

Saints punter Thomas Morstead took a different tact when he posted to Twitter, vowing that the team would emerge from the scandal.

GOD DAMN NON-READING ASSHOLE MORON ESPN.COM NEWS SERVICES, DIE DIE DIE

I guess this is Goodell doing a bit of a make-up for all of the fines he has levied on hits over the past year proving he would stick it to the management.

I have to think this whole thing is going to end up with a ton of lawsuits that if they end up in the wrong court could end up blowing up something like the power of the commissioner or some anti-trust crap with the NFL.

You have to wonder what is next for the players tied into this whole thing.

I got to say that the NFL is definitely getting better for their off-season talk. This year's off season stories are better than watching TO do situps in his front yard.

wowwwww this is harsh/awesome

lost in tebowmania is RIP law firm

that was on the patritos thread. miss you benny! but the pats weren't going to pay him as much as cincy..

pats message board is so delighted by tebow to J E T S they've nearly forgotten about that whole super bowl thing

admit your delight!

this was all brought about by the belichick/mcdaniels conspiracy anyway

i feel bad for tebow tbh! he seems like a very nice person and this seems like the completely wrong place for him

"Let's Go To Prison"

he does seem like a very nice person, apart from the whole focus on the family thing

so like, on gameday, does tebow lead the team in prayer before or after the coach's motivational speech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwouIbYEHmE

the real world: ny jets

rexxx
sanchize
santonio
tebow
revis
lolron

open on santonio, on the couch, in a haze of smoke. rexxx in the corner looking at his laptop. revis in the pool, on an island. lolron in another corner, flexing. tebow enters, praises jesus for bringing them all together. all laugh, zoom on sanchize's forced guffaws.

after a strong start, sanchize suffers concussion on helmet-to-helmet hit in week nine. did jesus place a bounty on knocking him out? tebow awkwardly guides jets into playoffs by basically not throwing the ball. philistines fall by the wayside until the afc championship, when ray lewis delivers a hit that kills tebow on the field, just after he threw the game-winning td pass (probably a screen).

a flock of doves carry a sign bearing the legend 'life begins at conception and ends on the gridiron' above the stunned crowd of gate d 'show us your tits'-yellers.

super bowl is cancelled in favor of a prayer session as roger goodell parachutes out of an f-16 onto the national mall, proclaiming that it is the third quarter in america.

fin

APPLAUSE

dude that was fuckin beautiful

wau

WAHT Mike Wallace apparently wants a deal bigger than Larry Fitzgerald's. No wonder there hasn't been any movement on him.

that can't be true

love listening to sports radio blobs complain about the league being wussified.

https://p.twimg.com/AomzTTACEAM60T3.jpg

love this being framed as who was the rat

Mock drafts rolling in now. I fucking KNEW RG3 was going to move ahead of Luck in the minds of sportswriters, etc (even though I think the Colts will still take Luck #1) because they're tired of talking about Andrew Luck.

Although, tbh, I think the Colts probably should take RG3.

I think the Colts should trade with the Browns and get a shitload of picks, because they are not even close to being good right now.

Maybe? But Irsay couldn't very well dump Peyton Manning and then not go after another franchise qb. He's be run out of Indiana on a hot poker.

yeah you have to take one of these qbs, it's not even a question

you can find plenty of good players at every other position at any other spot in the draft or in free agency if you fancy, but it's pretty fucking rare to get a top flight qb outside of the top, like, 20 or so of the draft

Yeah.

Also I guess the Colts looked better in the last few weeks of the season. Not sure if that means anything but they seem like they started to realize that they might never work again if they kept sleepwalking out there.

i think the key was those motivational sessions where irsay met with players, had them each call home to talk to their families, and marvin harrison answered.

wait, is that a real text message

https://twitter.com/#!/JeremyShockey/status/182874403971928064

"love ya. sean"

^^going to start ending all my texts like this.

"SHOCK UR MY GUY AND ALWAYS WILL BE"

that text img is on some olivia munn level unbelievability in its hokeyness

^^^

it raises my suspicions when the tail end of the last conversation shows it ended with the word 'hug!!!!'

nb: i am not claiming it is fake or whatever. just that it is ridiculous.