The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread

Langdon Alger

TO. wrote: »

Sad to see Jim Kelly former Buffalo Bills HOF QB is in NY fighting cancer. Apparently it has spread. Fooking cancer.

That's awful news about Jim Kelly I hope he is able to pull through

me89

The no fun league strikes again

Dunking over the goal post has been banned. :mad:

PerrinV2

me89 wrote: »

The no fun league strikes again

Dunking over the goal post has been banned. :mad:

Were they waiting for Tony Gonzalez to retire to bring this in

Son Of A Vidic

TO. wrote: »

Sad to see Jim Kelly former Buffalo Bills HOF QB is in NY fighting cancer. Apparently it has spread. Fooking cancer.

Very sad new, I'm sure he's in the thoughts and prayers of all football fans.

TO. wrote: »

Fooking cancer.

A former colleague of mine in London, who specialised in Haematology treating Acute Leukemia's. Ended up coming down with one of the most aggressive forms of Leukemia . She fought hard of for two years before losing her fight . In the same hospital a Nursing Sister on the Oncology ward, ended up with a malignant tumour on her face and had to undergo massive reconstruction surgery. The fact that she was absolutely beautiful looking, just seemed to make it all the more cruel and horrific . So ya, I fúcking hate that b@stard cancer :mad:.

kingcobra

me89 wrote: »

The no fun league strikes again

Dunking over the goal post has been banned. :mad:

F***ing Jimmy Graham!

But is it confirmed yet though? Certainly doesn't look like there's any official word on it yet.

Son Of A Vidic

me89 wrote: »

The no fun league strikes again

Dunking over the goal post has been banned. :mad:

What next? Ban players from patting each other on the back or from high fiving?

DDC1990

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

What next? Ban players from patting each other on the back or from high fiving?

Only allowed do this from now on. Failure to make your way to the bench quick enough will result in a 15 yard Delay of Game penalty.

TO.

Someone should sign this cop up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQKZSd2VsTQ

helimachoptor

Madden pursuit level.. 99!

Itssoeasy

Buffalo bills owner and founder Ralph Wilson has died at 95.

TO.

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Buffalo bills owner and founder Ralph Wilson has died at 95.

Jebus not a great week for that Franchise, Owner dies and former Bills legend fighting cancer. RIP Ralph Wilson.

Itssoeasy

TO. wrote: »

Jebus not a great week for that Franchise, Owner dies and former Bills legend fighting cancer. RIP Ralph Wilson.

Yeah not good at all.

helimachoptor

TO. wrote: »

Please Don't. Heli read the wiki thing it gives you a good idea.

Here

Long read... but interesting none the less

mikemac1

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and director of PR Kevin Byrne confirmed a statue of Ray Lewis will be unveiled during the 2014 season

It's to go beside the Johnny Unitas statue outside the stadium.

It's nothing new for Baltimore, the Orioles next door have 7 statues afaik

Lewis already has a street named after him. Some say Ray Lewis Way is the most intense street in Baltimore :cool:

What say you? Is it bizarre to have a statue to a living person? The Packers have a statue to Lombardi but he had passed away by the time that was done

Paully D

helimachoptor wrote: »

Long read... but interesting none the less

I can't vouch for it myself, but the below book gets a lot of good reviews if you're interested in further reading on the subject mate:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spygate-Untold-Story-Bryan-OLeary-ebook/dp/B008PYP83C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395787456&sr=8-1&keywords=spygate+the+untold+story

Less than €5 on a Kindle, or available for €8.99 on the iTunes store.

I have to admit I don't know anywhere near enough about Spygate so I'll probably purchase it as my next read.

I didn't have any interest in the NFL at the time, but for those of you that did, what was the reaction like when Spygate broke and during it? I'd imagine it was crazy.

nerd69

mikemac1 wrote: »

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and director of PR Kevin Byrne confirmed a statue of Ray Lewis will be unveiled during the 2014 season

It's to go beside the Johnny Unitas statue outside the stadium.

It's nothing new for Baltimore, the Orioles next door have 7 statues afaik

Lewis already has a street named after him. Some say Ray Lewis Way is the most intense street in Baltimore :cool:

What say you? Is it bizarre to have a statue to a living person? The Packers have a statue to Lombardi but he had passed away by the time that was done

not when hes as iconic as ray bar mj i dont know if any player/team are more synonymous with each other. as far as im concerned he is the ravens


with regards the goal post dunk thats a load of crap sometimes the nfl really pisses me off i used to love t.o. and chad johnsons celebrations the guys in suits need to back the **** off

Masked Man

TJ Mackie wrote: »

Because he is the only coach who isn't in the NFL Coaches Association, so he wasn't at the event. Same reason he isn't in any of the Madden games.

Pretty sure he was at it. Think it's an NFL event and not a coaches association thing.

HigginsJ

The NFL has banned the "dunk over goalpost" celebration & this will lead to a penalty next year. In other news smiling is also set to be banned!!

Son Of A Vidic

Paully D wrote: »

I can't vouch for it myself, but the below book gets a lot of good reviews if you're interested in further reading on the subject mate:

An entertaining work of fiction by Bryan O'Leary, but I don't know who reviewed it, possibly his family? O'Leary was even slated by Jets fans Stateside in the Jets Ganggreen forum. That will show you how bad the book was. Now here's his background, he was the President and owner of Premier Capital Management. And he was suspended and fined by the National Association of Security Dealers (Stock Market Regulators) for fraud, fraudulent advertising and illegal touting and promotion of stocks. His company, Premier Capital Management was also expelled from Nasdaq (Stock Market) dealing by the NASD.

Washington, DC—NASD Regulation, Inc., today announced that an NASD Regulation Hearing Panel expelled Premier Capital Management, Inc., Dallas, TX, for placing materially misleading advertisements in national publications to tout Continental Investment Corporation (OTCBB:CICGQ), failing to disclose compensation received from Continental, and other violations. The firm’s president and owner, Bryan James O’Leary, was suspended for 325 days and fined $62,500, while Ryan Mark Reynolds, a former registered representative, was suspended for 720 days and fined $155,000.

See full NASD investigation report here.......http://www.finra.org/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2000/P011418

So a Commodities broker, with absolute no professional writing experience and a chequered past writes a book that doesn't set the world alight. Still, I'm sure he didn't go hungry. And if any of you have money to spare and fancy a fling in the markets. You'll find him right here....
http://www.aftllc.com/bryan_oleary.html

Knex*

HigginsJ wrote: »

In other news smiling is also set to be banned!!

Sure that's taunting, don't ya know.

mikemac1

Jason LaConfora has all the news from the competition committee

Extend goalposts - Approved

Move extra point attempts to 20yd line - trialled in week 1&2 of preseason

Extra players allowed on IR designation to return - Rejected, it remains at 1

Move kickoffs to the 40yd line - Rejected

Eliminate cutdown to 75 during training camp - Rejected

Expanding replay due to loose ball situations - Approved

6 extra cameras for the goallines and boundaries - to be studied and to be discussed with the networks

Expanding the playoffs - to be discussed with the union next month

Sportsmanship - Strong enforcement of existing rules next season

helimachoptor

mikemac1 wrote: »

Jason LaConfora has all the news from the competition committee


Move extra point attempts to 20yd line - trialled in week 1&2 of preseason


Expanding the playoffs - to be discussed with the union next month

Are these likely to come in this season?

nerd69

i hope they bring in the field goal from the 20 yd line but dear god id hate if they expanded the playoffs

adrian522

Expanding replay due to loose ball situations - Approved

This is good but surely expand replay reviews further still?

mikemac1

I doubt they would expand the playoffs in 2014, they will have to work out a deal with the union

It's extra money for the owners and they seem keen for it but negotiations take time and I wouldn't think they could get it sorted for 2014.

I hope they don't expand, it's fine how it is

Bill Belicheck said 99.6% of extra points were succusful in 2013 so if the trial works I think it will introduced for 2014

SantryRed

The NFL will lose a huge amount of appeal if they increase the amount of teams in the play offs. That's why I can't get into the NBA as much until it's almost play off season.

Realt Dearg Sec

SantryRed wrote: »

The NFL will lose a huge amount of appeal if they increase the amount of teams in the play offs. That's why I can't get into the NBA as much until it's almost play off season.

Nba also has far too many teams and games to begin with.

As a fan of a team frequently on the bubble of the playoffs, an expanded playoffs would be great in theory, but we're on the bubble for the simple reason we aren't good enough. More playoffs will take from the excitement of the regular season, and devalues existing games.

helimachoptor

i'd like to see purely so the Titans have a chance to get there,

so if you have 8 teams getting to the play offs, teams 1 and 2 still have an advantage as they would play the 2 teams with the poorest qualifying records and still have home field advantage.

1 V 8
2 V 7
3 V 6
4 V 5

padraig_f

SantryRed wrote: »

The NFL will lose a huge amount of appeal if they increase the amount of teams in the play offs. That's why I can't get into the NBA as much until it's almost play off season.

Yeah, I hate this idea. Great thing about the NFL structure at the moment is the importance of each regular season game, and you have to be a good team to make the playoffs. They're diluting this structure for the sake of 2 extra playoff games. It's really short-sighted.

mikemac1

Titans went 13-3 in the AFC not long ago. A fan wanting expanded playoffs to get in today will be cursing the playoffs if their team has to play extra playoff games and then loses to the 8th seed

The system is fine and as said above if you're not in it's because you weren't good enough