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Torn Mind

Lifer
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oh god that's...right where I live. :D

But yeah, the thing about football is usually the tailgating and, well, probably not remembering the game at all, if you ever make it into the game. UMD has a really good college stadium and it is a fun place to watch a game--I do like going to college games, but it's still a thing where you aren't going to be able to follow everything that's going on.

All of the previous being said, my main gripe with pro games, especially and maybe exclusively the NFL, is that I ain't paying those fucking billionaire owners and that org one red fucking cent to support their property that they already extracted my money to pay for. Fuck them.
For the particular county of Prince George's, they would have fucked up those tax dollars regardless; highest property tax rate in the state but roads are neglected and there's plenty of internal corruption and other gobbling up of waste.

The "nicer" places in PG are also run by more nosy municipalities(i.e Cheverly or College Park) who also levy their own local tax in addition to the already high county tax. I used to deliver pizzas, and two municipalities were Hyattsville and Cheverly; for locales that didn't tip well, Cheverly had a better reputation. Then there were the unincorporated areas east of Kenilworth and south of 410.

Sports stadiums effects can vary but the governments bend over backwards for them because of the ancillary income taxes from both reeling in workers and businesses around the stadium; I'm not sure if the economists doing the studies ever did work in accounting for a company or as a treasurer for a local government. Whether that actually helps them break even might depend on the location itself. Landover was a shithole and it really hasn't risen up from a place of bad schools and otherwise undesirable characteristics that cause people to still avoided. No one wants to deliberate drive on 495 to Landover like they would for Tysons or some similar place.
 

Captante

Lifer
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Washington vs Philly was an interesting watch .... although neither team looked particularly good at all frankly. o_O
 

Torn Mind

Lifer
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Washington vs Philly was an interesting watch .... although neither team looked particularly good at all frankly. o_O
I wasn't expecting much.

However, I am much pleased that the Giants were seduced by Danny and his wingman Saquon. Enjoy the suffering(except against Washington) for the next four years. :p
 
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akugami

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Zach Wilson is a meathead. Even that throw to Lazard was bad.

I don't think Zach Wilson really wants to play QB. He's done.

You know the line from John Wick, "John is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will. Something you know very little about." The second line is Z.Wilson to a T.
 

BoomerD

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I don't think Zach Wilson really wants to play QB. He's done.

You know the line from John Wick, "John is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will. Something you know very little about." The second line is Z.Wilson to a T.

He's in WAY over his head...and it shows.
 

Torn Mind

Lifer
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If Zach Wilson were a different skin color, there'd be suggestions to convert to WR or TE.
 

Muse

Lifer
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pro sports simply isn't worth attending unless your local MLB team is dogshit and you can regularly score $5 or less bleacher or outfield tickets during the week, regularly. At least with baseball, 70% of the experience is just checking out what is going on around you and having shitty overpriced beer delivered to your seats.

To me Hockey, and depending on where you are sitting--basketball--are the only sports worth attending, anyway. Football might be the worst, particularly because much of the season takes place during shitty weather.

Only masochists agree to light their money on fire for such a shitty experience.
I remember attending one basketball game, it was decades ago now. I guess it was the Oakland Coliseum Arena, probably the Warriors. Obnoxious alcohol driven people on both sides of me.

I have gone to some Oakland Athletics games, including the last game of their legendary 20 game win streak I guess around 20 years ago now. It looked like they were going to lose that game, it was a lost cause but they pulled it out. I was in the right field bleachers, the cheap seats.

I haven't been to pro football game for over 1/2 a century! I like watching them on TV. I don't feel motivated to go to live sporting events.
 
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Muse

Lifer
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All of the previous being said, my main gripe with pro games, especially and maybe exclusively the NFL, is that I ain't paying those fucking billionaire owners and that org one red fucking cent to support their property that they already extracted my money to pay for. Fuck them.
But you do support them by watching the games on network TV. Well, I fast forward through the commercials, so the argument could be made I'm not supporting the owners. ;)
 

Muse

Lifer
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The MIA and BUF game has been really fun to watch. Lots of great catches and runs
Yeah, that was don't miss NFL action. I guess no team is impregnable. A few injuries and a powerhouse can't lose team becomes vulnerable, ordinary. Even Buffalo in that game was getting really thin at cornerback.

Josh Allen was amazing.
 

Captante

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The Jets will most likely still lose this game but the team can be proud of their effort today either way. (especially the D!)
 

nutxo

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Worst officiating I have ever seen. My son was calling KC the KC cheats. I had to explain it wasn't the team. It was the officials.
 
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BoomerD

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The Jets will most likely still lose this game but the team can be proud of their effort today either way. (especially the D!)

To my surprise, the Jests put up one helluva fight tonight. They were just overmatched by the zebras.

Worst officiating I have ever seen. My son was calling KC the KC cheats. I had to explain it wasn't the team. It was the officials.

Yep. A couple of penalties against the Jests that (according to Terry McCauley) weren't fouls...more than a couple of penalties against the Chefs that were missed...like this one:

 
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zinfamous

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But you do support them by watching the games on network TV. Well, I fast forward through the commercials, so the argument could be made I'm not supporting the owners. ;)

Network TV is OTA. I pay nothing. I don't buy Budweiser and I don't send myself/children off to get slaughtered in the military, so I also don't support their sponsers.

Oh, I also don't go to Taylor Swift shows, and it seems like she's now about 20% of NFL sponsorship? wtf...
 

pete6032

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Someone on social media posted a comment saying there was no way the NFL would let the Cheifs lose because right now they have thousands, if not millions of teenage girls watching the game because of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce and the nfl wants them to keep watching.
 
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