2014 NFL off-season thread

Way to see the good in others.

 

Thank you, Mark. I do try awfully, painfully hard to do that in my life.
Hollywood has been on the speaking circuit for years, giving something back.
I am surprised he's being ripped on the same thread where Ben Roethlisberger gets his ass licked.

 

Lovely imagery. Also, does saying that Roethlisberger has football instincts that Kaepernick lacks qualify as ass licking? If it does, that speaks mostly of you because you were the one who said it. (Mizzou said something similar a few posts later).

The comparison of Henderson and Roethlisberger is interesting. Both are fuck ups who have claimed to be reformed. Not sure I buy it in either case and my doubts are strongest in the case of Roethlisberger.

 

You have been one of his chief ass-lickers, big boy. You don't get to just wriggle out of that now.
Piggy does have good football smarts, which Kaepernick lacks.
That doesn't mean he's intelligent or a good person.
Means he knows how to play a game.

 

I have nothing to wiggle out from, just the faulty perceptions of others that you are either fool enough to buy into or simply taking advantage of. Point remains, the person on this thread who has been saying something complimentary about the guy is you.

But hey, it's easy to just say the Steelers fan is a Roethlisberger apologist. Never mind that I have been critical of him as often as I have praised the guy. He's a dirtbag and I don't believe he reformed at all.

 

Devil worships him and then stands in judgment of Hollywood Henderson.
We agree Ben is an unchanged scumbag. Imagine being his mother-in-law.

 

Forget that. Imagine being his father-in-law. As a father of a daughter, that is a depressing notion.

You may want to note that I was the one telling Devil to let the Hollywood Henderson stuff go. It was silly and stupid at the time and Bradshaw came up with a perfect response, an MVP performance and a third Super Bowl victory.

 

He was doing all that in the 70s, right? Clearly, he was just ahead of the curve in the NFL.

 

Yeah, and these fucks make it sound like he was the ONLY dude on drugs in the '70s.

 

Interesting stuff here. Some thoughtful person on the Minneapolis Super Bowl host committee leaked the NFL's 154-page list of bid requirements for Super Bowl LII. The phrase "at no cost to the league" appears a number of times.
Most of the stuff is, I'm guessing, pretty standard for a large-scale event like the Super Bowl. Guarantees of hotel rooms, facilities and advertising, for example, and most of the expenses for those things are coming from private funds. Still plenty of stuff that makes the NFL sound like a bunch of prima donnas, though.

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/262253921.html

If you feel like wading through all 154 pages, the link has it in a viewer with the story.

 

That's not exactly breaking news. I've seen stories on the requirements before.

 

Yeah, not really a "leak." I don't know if it still is, but it used to be common practice to hand that information out to the local media. Somewhere, I still have a copy of the bid book for Atlanta's first Super Bowl.