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I’m not sure if you meant it that way, but, apparently, Jersey’s old governor sucked balls too. Literally.
As Hamlet said that was 2 governors back. It is not that big a deal. The Giants & Jets know that a dome would kill the home field wind & cold advantage and the governor is basically clueless about football. In the end they will build a domeless stadium.
Jim
I accept the fact that the NCAA Tourney is going to dominate the sports news this weekend. That’s fine. It’s expected. But free agency is pretty big as well. The biggest problem, of course, is the delay in it getting started.
My problem is watching ESPNNews and seeing highlights and masturbation about Syracuse ensuring a bid in the tournament 8 FUCKING TIMES WITH NO MENTION OF NFL DEALS!
Goddamnit! I know I can get info on the web. However, I don’t sit in front of my computer 24 hours a day.
Here’s part of the problem. At work we have a tv in the break room that is always tuned to &%$@News. While working, WebSense blocks anyting sports related from the computers. I can’t get (based on a need for sleep) web updates for 66% of my day. I didn’t learn of the James deal until I got home this afternoon.
I can’t ask for a way around WebSense here. Already picked up a bullshit warning over that shit. Is it too much to ask for a free agency update on the 24 sports news channel every half hour or so? Not every rumor out there, just who was signed by what team.
Nope. Still watching the miracle that is the 'Cuse.
Call me wrong and say I shouldn’t have a complaint in this if you must. You won’t convince me that I don’t have a valid complaint in the lack of coverage.
And I had no idea about the latest on the stadium deal in NY until this thread. I don’t have the time to scour every single link, team page, and opinion peice on the web.
I’d rather get the big stories and signings in a nutshell, then plod through the sites looking for the details. If the web is the place where any reasonable soul primarily gets his sports info, I question the need for televised sports reporting in any form.
Based on this, I wouldn’t be surprised to see bowling highlights during the halftime show next year.
Let 'em try and put a roof on the place. I’ll be there in the middle of the night taking a Sawzall to the fucking thing.
Now that sounds like some fun! We open stadium fans need to stick together. If your team doesn’t have the opportunity to host a football game in a blizzard, you should stick to baseball. (I’m looking at you Minnesota and Detroit!)
If the fans risk frostbite paying for a seat, your salary should more than compensate. We’re warming up with ice cold beer. You have heat fans.
I have to say it. Make everyone as tough as Favre. That will get football closer to what it used to be when it was good.
Plus I need a reason to blow coin to get back to New York. Cutting a roof off a stadium is just the incentive I need. 
Don’t forget Indianapolis.
Nah. Doesn’t really count. Sorry Colts fans, but the fact they have one professional team that has always had a dome stadium doesn’t count.
Maybe the governor was hoping a dome would attract a Superbowl?
Honestly, duffer, I don’t think there’s been a real problem with ESPN showing the important signings on the bottom of the screen. I was at the gym warming up on a treadmill yesterday when all of the sudden there was a BREAKING NEWS flash at the bottom of the screen. James had signed with Arizona moments earlier. Then, when I was doing my cardio later, they had another BREAKING NEWS flash. Randle El had signed with Washington. Best as I can tell those were the biggest signings yesterday, and ESPN had them up on TV within minutes of them happening. What more do you want?
Bentley was drafted by the Saints in 2002, fool.
I wouldn’t mind an ESPN channel dedicated to following Drew Brees until he signs with someone. The suspense is killing me.
Oh, I think he’s 75% done. But I’ve never heard anyone refer to “catching” as a DB attribute outside of Madden.
I’m with you, Sawzall & Chainsaws.
He was and concerts too. He is a very smart business man, he just doesn’t understand how important an open arena is to a Northern Team.
Jim
You’ve never had Will Allen on your team. His inability to catch the ball – no matter if it hits him in the numbers, the hands, whatever – is legendary. There may not be another human being on the face of the planet who sucks at catching quite as much as Will Allen.
Because of this, most Giants fans are keenly interested in the catching ability of eveyone in the secondary. Fans? Hell, the entire organization feels the same way. Which explains the explicit incentive clauses in Madison’s contract: 4 interceptions in a season adds a quarter mil to his salary. Said clause is in effect for each of his four contract years.
I disagree that he’s being very smart business-wise about this. Several hundred million for an extra 50 days of potential events a year, (most of those days not even being weekends,) plus a possible Superbowl and Final Four once each in the next 20 years. And he wants the teams to pay for this? It would take half a century for the extra events to pay for the roof. (Possibly never, if you figure in interest on the principle.)
What he needs to understand is that the teams would pay to not have a roof.
But all he’s apparently thinking about is the possible cache of being able to host a Superbowl or Final Four in 15 years. Which makes him an idiot.
Interesting POV on ESPN. I tend to agree with it myself.
Why did James go to the Cards? Even though Manning tends to choke, the Colts still have a much, much better shot of winning the Super Bowl than the Cards. I thought the goal of this team game was to win championships. James is a star and I’m sure makes tons with Indy. Is the pay raise that significant to leave a winning team?