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NFL Preseason/Training Camp/Disrespect 2015 |OT| - Building a better quarterback

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Slo

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MechDX said:
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No thugs, no Lombardi

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It was a bacon and cheese Whataburger not double.
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Finally something to put in that trophy case!
 
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The Chargers have issued a stinging rebuke to the city and county's plans for a new $1.1 billion stadium, making it look increasingly doubtful the long-running, contentious issue can be solved by City Hall's Sept. 11 deadline to have a deal in place to qualify for a January vote.

At a sun-drenched news conference overlooking aging Qualcomm Stadium, Mayor Kevin Faulconer unveiled a financing plan, architectural renderings for a new stadium and a draft, 6,000-page environmental impact report.

Chargers point man Mark Fabiani criticized the "hastily prepared'' EIR, saying, "The Chargers have been clear from the start that the franchise will not be the City's guinea pig for this inevitably ill-fated legal experiment."

"Remember, these are the same politicians who told us, with disastrous results in court, that the convention center expansion could be financed by a vote of the hoteliers rather than a vote of the people,' Fabiani, a former deputy mayor of Los Angeles, said in a statement.

San Diego officials made a presentation to the NFL's Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities in Chicago. The team will update all owners on Tuesday on their joint plan with the archrival Oakland Raiders to build a stadium in Carson. St. Louis owner Stan Kroenke will give an update on his competing bid to build a stadium in Inglewood.

Faulconer said the stadium plan would still need to be negotiated with the Chargers and approved in a citywide public vote by Jan. 12 in order for the group to move forward on the project.

"It will be up to the NFL and working with the Chargers here to determine a path forward," Faulconer said. "We are ready. The negotiation table is open. And we'll see in the next couple days."

However, the latest movement by the city puts them on target to meet the NFL's demands to have a stadium deal in place by the end of the year.

Here's how the deal breaks down:

$750 million in private sources

$362.5 million by the Chargers

$200 million by the NFL

$187.5 million in personal seat licenses

$350 million public contribution

The public contribution would include $150 million in lease revenue bonds from the city, and $200 million from the county's capital improvement fund. Faulconer's proposal puts a cap on how much public money would be spent, with the Chargers responsible for any cost overruns, along with stadium operations and maintenance.

Faulconer said his group has another month to put a deal together so that the city can meet the deadline for a Jan. 12 special election. However, the Chargers appear no closer to returning to the negotiating table.

Mark Fabiani, point person on the issue for the Chargers, stated the team still has major concerns with San Diego's public contribution for the project, along with the environmental review.

"Both history and current polling show it will be extraordinarily difficult to persuade voters to devote hundreds of millions of General Fund tax dollars to a stadium," Fabiani said. "But in the end any funding plan is going to be dragged down into the quicksand of the City's legally inadequate environmental review process -- a process that will be bogged down in court for years before it is eventually declared illegal."

However, San Diego city attorney Jan Goldsmith believes the litigation process of the environmental review can be accelerated and completed by September of 2016, including the handling of any potential lawsuits.

"Today we've shown that San Diego can meet the time deadline," Goldsmith said. "We have a funding plan. We have a conceptual design. And we have draft environmental impact report.

"We're ready, willing and able to meet the NFL and Chargers' deadline to have an election by January 12. The ball is in their court to determine if they want an NFL franchise in the nation's eighth largest city."
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RBH

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WesternHeretic said:
Do all of you guys have a stadium in the middle of nowhere suburbs?

Who else has a stadium in the actual city beside Seattle, New Orleans? Redskins kind of close right? I've still confuse as to how Dallas is so god damn far away. Family and friends down there telling me it takes them over an hour to watch their team. That's retarded.... like real fucking stupid.
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The Georgia Dome is in downtown Atlanta, next to Philips Arena, MARTA, CNN Center, and Centennial Olympic Park. And the new Falcons stadium will basically be in the same location, right next to the Dome.
 
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captive

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cajunator said:
Last year I was working 10 of every 14 days. This year is better. Maybe this fall?
(Also yeas I know most people work that schedule but not 120 hours in a row)
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definitely H-town meetup. No Mech's allowed.
no Mech's, we're allowed to have one

WesternHeretic said:
Do all of you guys have a stadium in the middle of nowhere suburbs?

Who else has a stadium in the actual city beside Seattle, New Orleans? Redskins kind of close right? I've still confuse as to how Dallas is so god damn far away. Family and friends down there telling me it takes them over an hour to watch their team. That's retarded.... like real fucking stupid.
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Houston NRG stadium.
 
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AbortedWalrusFetus

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WesternHeretic said:
Do all of you guys have a stadium in the middle of nowhere suburbs?

Who else has a stadium in the actual city beside Seattle, New Orleans? Redskins kind of close right? I've still confuse as to how Dallas is so god damn far away. Family and friends down there telling me it takes them over an hour to watch their team. That's retarded.... like real fucking stupid.
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Philly. All the stadiums are in city limits and on a major subway line. I walk a block then hop on the subway for 15 mins.
 
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BaltimoreLarry

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Slo said:
Buy the alternator and put it in yourself. Come on, son.
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I wish I were handy, but I'm not. I blame my Dad for not teaching me shit.

Regardless, I'm working 12 hour days the next three days and the car must be fixed sooner to transport children.

You fly to California, fix my alternator, and you can stay in my guest bedroom surrounded by Ravens and Orioles paraphernalia for free. Will you wake up to several pictures of Ray Lewis looking at you? Yes. Yes you will.
 
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RBH

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AbortedWalrusFetus said:
Philly. All the stadiums are in city limits and on a major subway line. I walk a block then hop on the subway for 15 mins.
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I'm in Philly now for this month and went to a Phillies game last week. It was cool to see how the Phillies', Eagles', and Sixers'/Flyers' stadiums were all right next to each other and next to a subway stop.
 
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RBH said:
I'm in Philly now for this month and went to a Phillies game last week. It was cool to see how the Phillies', Eagles', and Sixers'/Flyers' stadiums were all right next to each other and next to a subway stop.
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And you probably even got to see the Phillies win. But yeah, everything is right there in South Philly except for the MLS stadium. Super easy to get to if you live in the city. It's easy to the extent that I can essentially go to a tailgate as easily as I can catch the game in a bar. The only problem is there isn't a lot of other shit to do down there aside from a handful of bars. The nice thing is they are going to expand the Xfinity Live! entertainment complex and they're building a huge casino/entertainment facility nearby. Should make it more of a daylong or weekend long destination considering how easy it is to get to for out of towners (right on two major highways, shittons of parking) and it's easy to get into the core of the city from there.

Riding the Broad Street Line before games gets you so pumped, and after a victory it is really intense.
 
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Is anyone here going to the live taping of the Grantland NFL Podcast? So many of my favorite podcasts have live events in Brooklyn. Seems like it would be the best thing of living in New York.
 
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chuckddd

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WesternHeretic said:
Do all of you guys have a stadium in the middle of nowhere suburbs?

Who else has a stadium in the actual city beside Seattle, New Orleans? Redskins kind of close right? I've still confuse as to how Dallas is so god damn far away. Family and friends down there telling me it takes them over an hour to watch their team. That's retarded.... like real fucking stupid.
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sf2fanatic

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BaltimoreLarry said:
I wish I were handy, but I'm not. I blame my Dad for not teaching me shit.

Regardless, I'm working 12 hour days the next three days and the car must be fixed sooner to transport children.

You fly to California, fix my alternator, and you can stay in my guest bedroom surrounded by Ravens and Orioles paraphernalia for free. Will you wake up to several pictures of Ray Lewis looking at you? Yes. Yes you will.
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That be some interesting dreams when sleeping in that room.
 
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BaltimoreLarry said:
I wish I were handy, but I'm not. I blame my Dad for not teaching me shit.

Regardless, I'm working 12 hour days the next three days and the car must be fixed sooner to transport children.

You fly to California, fix my alternator, and you can stay in my guest bedroom surrounded by Ravens and Orioles paraphernalia for free. Will you wake up to several pictures of Ray Lewis looking at you? Yes. Yes you will.
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What type of car and where in cali?
 
Goro Majima

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WesternHeretic said:
Do all of you guys have a stadium in the middle of nowhere suburbs?

Who else has a stadium in the actual city beside Seattle, New Orleans? Redskins kind of close right? I've still confuse as to how Dallas is so god damn far away. Family and friends down there telling me it takes them over an hour to watch their team. That's retarded.... like real fucking stupid.
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Cowboys stadium is pretty much in the geographic center of the Metroplex though. Dallas would almost be too far to the east.
 
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RBH

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AbortedWalrusFetus said:
And you probably even got to see the Phillies win. But yeah, everything is right there in South Philly except for the MLS stadium. Super easy to get to if you live in the city. It's easy to the extent that I can essentially go to a tailgate as easily as I can catch the game in a bar. The only problem is there isn't a lot of other shit to do down there aside from a handful of bars. The nice thing is they are going to expand the Xfinity Live! entertainment complex and they're building a huge casino/entertainment facility nearby. Should make it more of a daylong or weekend long destination considering how easy it is to get to for out of towners (right on two major highways, shittons of parking) and it's easy to get into the core of the city from there.

Riding the Broad Street Line before games gets you so pumped, and after a victory it is really intense.
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Actually, the Braves beat the Phillies that day. :)
 
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Line_HTX

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WesternHeretic said:
Do all of you guys have a stadium in the middle of nowhere suburbs?

Who else has a stadium in the actual city beside Seattle, New Orleans? Redskins kind of close right? I've still confuse as to how Dallas is so god damn far away. Family and friends down there telling me it takes them over an hour to watch their team. That's retarded.... like real fucking stupid.
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Toyota Center and Minute Maid Park are smack in the center of Downtown Houston. NRG Stadium is on the south end of the Loop just inside Kirby and the feeder.

wienke said:
Cowboys stadium is pretty much in the geographic center of the Metroplex though. Dallas would almost be too far to the east.
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I thought that AT&T Stadium was at Arlington, and that's like far from the greater Dallas area.
 
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bionic77

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BaltimoreLarry said:
Car guys.....

What's a decent price to replace an alternator?
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The dealer will charge you 500. But they will wash your car and you will get some free coffee.

My local Lexus dealer has free ice cream, sandwiches, soft drinks, espresso and coffee along with a lounge with internet and TV, a few of those brookstone massage chairs and a play room for the kids. I took my friend there once and dude had no shame and walked out with 2 armfuls of stuff...
 
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RBH

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bionic77 said:
The dealer will charge you 500. But they will wash your car and you will get some free coffee.

My local Lexus dealer has free ice cream, sandwiches, soft drinks, espresso and coffee along with a lounge with internet and TV, a few of those brookstone massage chairs and a play room for the kids. I took my friend there once and dude had no shame and walked out with 2 armfuls of stuff...
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I always knew Gata was a freeloader.
 
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