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NFL Offseason Thread 2013 - Here comes the wait
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Leave the batteries at home.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
The Jags stadium is right in downton.
Reward teams for stealing even more money from taxpayers by building stadiums on the most expensive land possible. That makes sense.
Not every team has a crooked piece of shit for an owner, cajun.
Something something money. People already complain about the burden taxpayers are given for stadium. Land isnt cheap ya know!
edit; goddamit ez posted basically what i said 1 minute earlier
It should definitely be held in Pittsburgh. And we should bring a bunch of Pop Warner, High School, College Football and Semi-Pro teams to play exhibition games the weekend before.
Is downtown Jacksonville a great place to party?
Grover Cleveland
Member
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Mr. Carson has a fit trying to clean up the place after a match.
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
They don't want any of Broward's money anymore?? So this is actually happening????
TheLegendary
Member
He seems to have some pretty big misses every once in a while, but it is amazing to see how (seemingly) apparent his direct impact is when they're clicking.
New York has to support tons more people. I didn't even have my power go out for a second during Sandy. But New Orleans can't go 4 hours without having the power go out. Pathetic.
Play the victim all you want, that was embarrassing last night. You can't get around that by saying it happens other places.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
No idea.Dont really go there much.
friskykillface
Banned
do it Goodell. blizzard bowl since yesterday it was snowing for a bit and it was freezing here.
next year in New York better be like that, it will be amazing, i want people throwing snow on the field
Jax had a SB and it was panned as the worst ever.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Like ez said, it's also horribly expensive and typically a lot of new stadiums are packaged with retail space for shops and stuff that have to be built. Is it often anymore that they just build a stadium?
Alligatorjandro
Banned
I wasnt in Jax during that time but they should get another SB.
yankeehater
Member
For SB week it was. The warterfront area was really nice, and there were no open container laws, so you could take beer with you everywhere and drink in the cabs and such.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
No idea, I'm not from around the area so I'm not really sure what the politics of the situation are like.
To be fair, it was clearly the Niners' fault. Two black outs in two straight seasons? Suspicious. And at least fans this year were inside when the blackout occurred. I was forced to sit in Candlestick surrounded by ridiculously cold weather and degenerates last season.
They had to bring in cruise ships to serve as hotel inventory. Their will always be a bidding process b/c teams and their pocket politicians sell the rubes on all the money that hosting a SB brings in, neglecting to mention that the league takes all the parking, concessions, and numerous other revenues, tax free, w/o paying a cent for all the surrounding support services
You guys biggest problem is assuming that there are good guys in the NFL/owners association. the whole league is about money. the owners are all about money. There is no integrity in this game, it is about who can make the biggest amount of cash. Winning obviously helps that. These are billionaire team owners. Every single one of them has stepped on people to get where they are. they managed loopholes and probably did some shady shit along the way. You do not make that kind of money without making enemies.
Stadiums on the outskirts in the suburbs might be on cheap land, but there is a reason that land is cheap. Nobody wants to be there.
Look Im not saying New Orleans is a high class city. Its really a fucking dump. I visit it fairly frequently. But its also a great place to hold big events and parties from years of experience with high amounts of tourism and a history of successful past events. Its extremely good at hosting things like the super Bowl and thats why the NFL likes it. If it was such a bad place to hold one then why have their been 10 of them there? There is a reason for all that and it has nothing to do with "Katrina". It is designed in such a way that massive amounts of people can move from one staging area to the next with relative ease and party the entire time. I can see why Goodell wants a european city to host big events in the future because the logistics in the cities work out much better (aside from getting people overseas to begin with).
Stadiums on the outskirts in the suburbs might be on cheap land, but there is a reason that land is cheap. Nobody wants to be there.
Look Im not saying New Orleans is a high class city. Its really a fucking dump. I visit it fairly frequently. But its also a great place to hold big events and parties from years of experience with high amounts of tourism and a history of successful past events. Its extremely good at hosting things like the super Bowl and thats why the NFL likes it. If it was such a bad place to hold one then why have their been 10 of them there? There is a reason for all that and it has nothing to do with "Katrina". It is designed in such a way that massive amounts of people can move from one staging area to the next with relative ease and party the entire time. I can see why Goodell wants a european city to host big events in the future because the logistics in the cities work out much better (aside from getting people overseas to begin with).
Grover Cleveland
Member
Think I'd rather be in Candlestick last year.
As least you weren't surrounded by a bunch of Niners fans hooped on Nawlins bourbon watching their team get shellacked AND with Ray Lewis in the house. That's a terrible combination
I'm just happy you escaped with your life. Those 9er fans and a homicidal bunch.
Jerry will croak in like 5 years. Not worried at all!
Is the commute much worse for fans if the Stadium is in LA vs the current location?
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Maybe if you're a fan of a team other than the publicly owned Green Bay Packers!
yankeehater
Member
Does he have some idiot kid to leave the team to?
If they put the stadium in downtown LA like it was originally proposed, Qualcomm or whatever it is now, is definitely the preferable site.
HOw is that team run to begin with? I always wondered about the heirarchy. Who does the hiring/firing? Without an owner, the GM has to do all that right?
ConradCervantes
Banned
We all videoconference. Sanjuro was the deciding vote on cutting Nick Collins.
But Niner fans have a recent history of shooting and stabbing opposing fans. But you're right, Ray Lewis with a Super Bowl victory is a recipe for at least a double homicide.
I still can't believe they want to put it by the staples center.
Traffic would be crazy for fans.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
I just hope that you miss me a little when I'm gone, gone.
No seriously, how is the organization actually run?
Im genuinely curious about it.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
I loved it, definitely my favorite commercial as well. I'm not much of a farming guy myself but I grew up around a lot of it and I respect those guys a lot for what they do.
The reactions to it in the SB thread were amazing, haha.
Easily the best of the night, blew away everything else. Can't beat Paul Harvey. Only thing wrong with it was the shitty product it was hawking.
Would of been 100% less annoying if they didnt spam the word god and religious aspect
Blah blah god blah blah rah rag America. So much fuckinhg whining while I enjoyed just listening to Paul Harvey
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Bowser, but this is true.
He's right, though. Downtown stadiums make a hell of a lot more sense for having a constant flow of (let's be honest) drunk asshats.
Buckethead
Banned
Hung on over
Hung on over baby
Hey boy don't ya know
I've feel like drinking up
All my friends are gonna come
We're gonna throw up all night long
Hung on over baby
Hey boy don't ya know
I've feel like drinking up
All my friends are gonna come
We're gonna throw up all night long
The location of Qualcomm now is actually the perfect site for a new stadium since it's easily accessible from anywhere in the city. But the team and the city kept butting heads about it for so long that it doesn't even make sense financially anymore to build there. The site that the Chargers are focusing on now is...in downtown San Diego. I hate going downtown because of traffic, so it's not my ideal location, but I'd rather the team stay here than go to LA.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Yeah the ad was amazing except for the fact it was advertising Dodge.
Not a ford man?
Alligatorjandro
Banned
criminal