Football
skibum609
Massachusetts
Football season begins tomorrow, with this weekend having a Friday night game, in addition to the regular schedule. Football dominates the airwaves four out of the next five nights. Will you celebrate it? How? Do you even care? What's the best part?
For me the season will be filled with....remembering the past because the Patriots are going 5-12. I will get by with weekly football pools, the last man standing pool (Last year's winner took home 133k) fantasy football and betting. First weekend will be Vegas baby, where football is King this weekend.
For me the season will be filled with....remembering the past because the Patriots are going 5-12. I will get by with weekly football pools, the last man standing pool (Last year's winner took home 133k) fantasy football and betting. First weekend will be Vegas baby, where football is King this weekend.
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I've set my fantasy lineup for the week, barring announcement of some injury.
Last man standing @ 133K? Shit, how many people....and what was the buy-in?
I stopped watching college football when they became minor league professionals.
Weird football note: we used to play 2 person team tackle football in a friend's back yard. David Blatt, former coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
If you had to pick the best club from either metro, which would it be and which one is better? I'm assuming Ritz for Baltimore?
If you want to capture football fan money, IMO and from what I've seen, the best approach is to find a big Sunday 1pm game and work in a strip club the Saturday night before. There are, for example, contingents of Bills and Steelers fans that travel to all of the team away games and they party in the towns they hit.
If you HAD to choose between a club night in KC or Baltimore, which would it be?
Like all of my principles, however, this one is subject to compromise. If the Eagles get past the first playoff game I’ll check in because I like the energy it brings to the city. Also, during a second OTC encounter yesterday with a front runner for current favorite, my companion mentioned that she wanted her 14 year old son ( also named Manuel, BTW) to go out for football. I didn’t say shit
OTOH, I’ll break out the soapbox during more casual encounters at the club if dancers ask if I like football. Invariably, they will ask “What’s CTE?”
2 cents
(MO is bad)
No concussions or fractures playing football. Two concussions, one crack in the skull skiing. Ever wonder what "heading" a soccer ball going 30 mph must do to the noggin?
But down here it's all about the Friday night lights. Big stadiums and large crowds included. It's night and day, literally and figuratively, from small crowds of die hard parents who used to sit in those small open metal bleacher setups during my High School years. Around here HS games are a community event.
Baltimore
Have done both cities. More contact in Baltimore.
Am I a bitter old man? YES! It used to be like religion to me. Now taunting is the highest form of expression. They apparently concluded that is what it takes to keep the youngsters looking up from their little screens once in a while.
Bacon!!
Mahomes has better receivers than last year but he wasn't a fantasy monster then either, he might just be like Brady for most of his career who was a better real life QB than fantasy QB.
I have C.J. Stroud (and inexplicably late-ass in the draft Justin Herbert).
Rookies- $795K, 1 year veteran- $915K, 3yr veteran - $1.055M ,
7 yr. plus veteran - $1.21 M.
How long would it take for you horndogs to make $795K in earnings ? (W2's )
If you were 21 and somebody told you they would stake you to $600K if you would take a drug that is highly likely to cause long term and permanent damage to your brain that would impair your ability to function by the time you were middle-aged, would you accept the offer? If you are 40 or over now, would you think that such a choice would be prudent? With accrued interest over 40 years, the $600K might cover a decade or two in a residential care facility
Strippers are less likely to suffer a career ending injury.
Anyways, Vikings will beat the Giants today!
I've got a marg in my hands, set my fantasy lineup, ready for kickoff!
Cincy looked like pigshit, playing against the Pats' beat-to-shit offensive line. I know they start slow but Joe "Season-Ending Injury Waiting to Happen" Burrow and the Bengals always seem to play less than the sum of their talent. I think the Pats will still have a bad year but this one's more on Cincy.
My Browns, down to their 23482394th left tackle, played as well as I expected. The Watson trade, and the Broncos' trade for Wilson, will go down as the two most lopsided trades in league history.
One of my iron rules of fantasy football (that has made me quite successful) is to never place trust in any Bengals or Jets. I broke that and drafted Rodgers last year, and learned my lesson.