Around The NFL - 2015

[ice grillin you]

yeah ive actually been to a couple bird games there....so many unbelievably drunk people...but they were generally civil bordering almost on nice...unlike cleveland which is a cess pool of humaity...not sure how i didnt end up in jail there

[PhillyPhreak54]

I was at The Ralph in 2009 for that farging barn burner of a 9-6 Browns and Bills game. My parent company is just outside of Buffalo and I was there for mill trips.

In between marveling at the tailgating shenanigans and the absurdly drunk people inside I thought the stadium was a good atmosphere from the stands but once you got inside to the concessions or bathrooms it was a mess.

I loved how the atmosphere felt though. People park on lawns because there are houses right by there. One dude told us that it pays for his property taxes, two vacations and some pocket change

[MDS]

the 4 super bowl thing definitely increases the media's woe-is-me slurping of bills fans....but all in all they are just happy to have a team. if they didnt have that run in the 90s theyd very likely be in toronto or somewhere else by now.

id put detroit-clevleand-minny-philly in the same category. minny is definitely up there. its a legit area (4/4!) and the vikings lead the world is horrible playoff loses

[ice grillin you]

Minnesota is a glorified college town....def care more about golden gopher hockey than any pro team....it's an innocent cute fun neat little place...but it ain't a huge pro sports town...they have had numerous Viking playoff games not sell out

please don't ever put them in with philly again....thanks

[MDS]

Minnesota is a glorified college town

its a state

[ice grillin you]

call it whatever you want just don't lump it in with Philly

[MDS]

im going to call it a state, because its a state

[hbionic]

IGY, I love you, but you're a farging clown.

[ice grillin you]

clowns are anything outside the belly of the NEAST

[QB Eagles]

Ha. Florio had an incorrect report about Mike Brown opposing the LA Rams move because he opposes anything that increases another team's revenue. Because that would increase the salary cap and force him to pay his players more money.

Wasn't true at all, but it felt true.

[MDS]

pretty gross q and a with kroenke and his buttboy, but this is the money answer

This is the stadium of the future for the NFL and hopefully for other sporting venues. When you look — especially in L.A. — it's a melting pot of NFL fans. You look at the Steelers bars and tater skins bars and Bears bars. You want to take that and put it into your campus and find ways that at every turn people can watch the other games.

L.A.'s become a fantasy-oriented, Red Zone-oriented, DirecTV-oriented culture. And I think our job is to blend that with now having a hometown team. To start to build that allegiance where you walk into the stadium and you never feel that you're giving up everything else that's going on Sunday but you still have the Rams right in front of you

but durrrrrr la fans are bad durrrrr. da team will fold durrrrr

theres more in there, like how theyre going to have a special celebrity section and all this other disgusting LA money whore shtein http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-la-kroenke-20160114-story.html

[QB Eagles]

Kroenke is an expert at making money off of sports. This move will obviously work. He will make money hand over fist.

Georgia Frontiere was a broke and clueless owner, basically a Vegas showgirl/prostitute who married a series of rich guys and inherited the team when her sixth husband drowned. She's the reason the Rams left LA in the first place, against the wishes of the NFL. The frontrunning fans were a symptom of the team's problems but not the ultimate cause. The team succeeded for decades in that market and even packed 100,000+ people into the Coliseum a few times. Nowadays the money is so big that the NFL would try some Sterling/McCourt shtein to get a team out of the hands of an idiot owner in that market. I don't think the NFL has gone down that path before, but there's a first time for everything. The early 90s were more innocent times.

In any case, it'll do better than in a dying baseball city of 300,000 people.

[smeags]

Kelly hired by niners

[Eagaholic]

I was kind of excited to see the NFLN re-broadcast of Super Bowl #1 (Chiefs v Packers), touted as the first time seen in full by the public since the original broadcast. Anyone else see this disappointing slop?

It could have been great, and there were some good player interviews with the legendary guys with stories, stats and such. But the large hodge podge collection of irrelevant studio analysts like Terrell Davis, Daniel Jeremiah, and Antonio Freeman constantly blabbed over the broadcast to the point you mostly couldn't hear it. They repeated the same stuff over and over ad nauseam. Would have loved to see some of the original commercials too, but we didn't even get the original play calls much less commercials. There was all kinds of picture in picture, ticker at the bottom, stat and trivia column letterbox taking up 20% of the right side of the screen etc. It was like watching a FF show. Maybe someone will re-do it in a worthy way.

[QB Eagles]

Would have loved to see some of the original commercials too, but we didn't even get the original play calls much less commercials.

My understanding is that none of that exists anymore.* The two networks that broadcast Super Bowl I (yep, there were two networks showing it at once) wrote over their tapes. VCRs weren't really a thing.

All that exists is NFL films of the individual plays (not the time between plays) and the radio broadcast.

I missed the NFL Network broadcast but I agree that they should have pieced together what they could of 1967 content (which would be far less than a typical complete televised broadcast) and leave Terrell Davis out of it.

*Oh, there is a guy who recorded a copy at the Scranton CBS station (it's missing halftime and most of the third quarter), but the NFL refuses to pay him for it (he's asking for at least a million).