Around The NFL - 2014

[SD]

Added revenue. They want football 7 days a week. NFL fans want football 7 days a week. You could fill in small venues and televise the games on Tuesday/Wednesday's when nobody has anything to watch. People would watch because it's football and there might be some players on their teams worth watching. It would be much better than arena football and NFL Europe.

[smeags]

SD be like .... here fishy fishy.

[MDS]

theres a minor league starting up that actually wants to be associated with the nfl at some point.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24595612/new-fall-developmental-league-wants-to-springboard-players-to-nfl

there really wouldnt be a ton of money in a minor league nfl jawn.

minor league baseball works because its in small towns in small parks when its warm out. nobody is going to a minor league football game on a tuesday night in november. nobody. they wouldnt be able to sell enough tickets. then factor in all the salaries theyd have to pay....the travel...the gear...the practice/housing facility...it adds up to money loser despite the halfway decent tv ratings it would pull in.

getting an ncaa d1 team off the ground costs about 75 million, and a decent chunk of that is the stadium. the nfl isnt going to have an official minor league playing games in high school stadiums. its unbecoming of them.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I don't want NFL seven days a week.

I hate the new Thursday shtein. Sunday/Monday and Saturday's late in the year.

farg Goodell

[phattymatty]

i just read today that tony gonzalez had one fumble in his nfl career. that's insane.

[ice grillin you]

amazing either way but that has to be one fumble lost right?

[smeags]

NFL wants Super Bowl halftime performers to pay for the privilege
Posted by Mike Florio on August 19, 2014, 8:29 PM EDT

Getty ImagesAs it has grown and grown and grown some more, the NFL has continued to find more and more and more revenue streams.

The latest could be the Super Bowl halftime show.  Currently a gig the performer plays for free in order to turn a gigantic international platform into the high profile and profits that go with it, the league now wants a cut.

According to the Wall Street Journal (via SportsBusiness Daily), the NFL has asked the three artists under consideration for the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show to "contribute a portion of their post-Super Bowl tour income" to the NFL, or to "make some other type of financial contribution."  Per the report, the idea received a "chilly reception" from the representatives of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Coldplay.

Regardless, it only takes one performer to bite the hook in order for the NFL to parlay the halftime show into even more of a moneymaker.  And it's entirely possible that the league leaked the development in order to pressure one of the three to blink, given that plenty of other performers who would gladly give up a piece of a pie they otherwise don't have will now be calling the league to offer  whatever the league wants for the privilege of playing to one of the biggest audiences in TV history.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Goodell has watermelon sized balls.

[phattymatty]

amazing either way but that has to be one fumble lost right?

according to nfl.com he actually has 2, but yeah fumbles lost. but only 5 fumbles in total.

2nd all time for players with over 1,000 touches to....ray rice. didn't expect that one either.

[Rome]

That's a slap in the face.

[smeags]

nice

[PhillyPhreak54]

The Rams seem to think Bradford tore his ACL again last night.

Media folks trying to connect the dots on a Barkley or Sanchez trade to the Rams if that is true

Also ex-Eagle Dmitri Patterson apparently had his pregame meal and did the walk through with the Jets the other night but never showed up for the game and no one has heard from him since.

[SD]

If Sanchez or Barkley have any trade value adios. Barkley would be a decent pick up for them and I'd be thrilled if they could get the 4th back they spent on him.

[ice grillin you]

barkley has negative trade value....sanchez prob 5th round?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Sanchez for Quinn?