I'm pretty sure that the Dallas franchise is worth more than any of the others, which makes their on-field mediocrity that much more pathetic.
Wow, if that's accurate, then only one of the five highest value teams is any good. So evidently in football, making money has nothing to do with what happens on the field. Bunch of idiots in the fan base.
In a lot of those cases team value must include an appropriate share of the value of the stadium the team owns or operates. Except for Dallas they're all fairly valued or distinctly overvalued by operating income. I don't know what to make of the fact that the Cowboys had an operating income of $250 million/yr and are only valued at $2.3 billion. Forbes must expect Jones to destroy the Dallas revenue stream.
The Bucs were always known as being a highly profitable franchise under both Hugh Culverhouse and now Malcolm Glazer yet look at their performance over the 38 years.
Best sports quote ever: Reporter: "What do you think about your team's execution?" John McKay: "I'm in favor of it."
John McKay was one of those characters. Rich McKay OTOH has got to be one of the best GMs ever. He is a great example of the Bucs being profitable, but not giving a Damn about the game. They let him go to Atlanta simply because of Chuck Gruden's hissy fits. The Glazers never realized that it was Rich who was more responsible for getting them to the Super Bowl than Chuck. They learned the lesson of that folly hard.
Would have liked to see the Patriots make it, but my highest priority was that SF not make it, so all is good.
All this whiny, bitch ass SF fans are crying so hard right now. Too bad boycotting Macklemore and Amazon didn't work out.
The AFC Championship Game was OK, but lacked the neck & neck drama of the NFC one. The SuperBowl will be on Groundhog Day in New Jersey! Hope it'll be a mild Sunday.
The high that day is predicted to be only 37, which means it'll be colder at game time. And there's a chance of snow.
I think that impacts both teams about equally. If the Patriots had won yesterday, the outdoor conditions would definitely play to their advantage, but with this pairing, it doesn't matter.
Denver winters are different from Northeast winters, which I base on what people I know who lived in both places say about it. Yes, it gets cold, yes, it snows, but the air is so dry, the sun so much closer, that the overall feel on the ground is warmer. It is also much less windy. So 20 degrees in Denver is rather comfortable compared to 20 degrees in New Jersey. Seattle has the wet, windy, coastal effect, but the temperatures trend higher. It will be less comfortable playing conditions than either team is conditioned for, which is why it won't favor either of them.
Much less windy in Denver? You obviously haven't been there! I worked in downtown Denver for most of a year, and the wind coming down of the Front Range, with practically nothing to block it, whipped thru the downtown area like crazy. Especially in the colder months, it was a biting cold wind!!! BRRRRRR!!!!! Now the much drier/less humid part, I will agree with!
I liked his post-game rant. Crabtree's a dick and immensely overrated. Too bad for Seattle that he can't cover three or four receivers and a tight end in the Super Bowl. I think the depth at receiver plus Manning's ability to use that depth makes Denver a slight favorite. Anyway, it's the best Super Bowl match-up I can remember and it should be a great game.
BTW: For anyone who hasn't seen it, Richard Sherman's online column for Sports Illustrated tends to be a pretty good read.
Fucking Browner. While I definitely agree that it is BS the NFL is penalizing him for not complying with their substance abuse program WHILE HE WAS PLAYING IN CANADA, and that smoking MJ is no different than drinking a beer, but stupid rules are still rules. How you gonna put your chance to be a champion and your teams in jeopardy to get high? Especially when you know the league is after you?!?!
Oh, and Bill Belichick can go be on the receiving end of a Cleveland Steamer from an obese elephant. What a fucking classless piece of shit, accusing Wes Welker of dirty play on the basis of nothing whatsoever beyond having his feelings hurt by losing. Welker clearly hit Talib right as the ball was hitting the receiver. It was a bang-bang designed timing play, perfectly legal, and even if Welker had gotten there a fraction of a second early, which he didn't, that would just be an ordinary penalty, not a dirty play. Fuck you Bill Belichick. Unsportsmanlike dumping on your former players because they beat your useless piece-of-shit ass should have you be the one facing disciplinary action from the league. All this talk online about Sherman calling out a dick for being a dick, and very little talk about Belichick trying to ruin a player's reputation out of spite. Go die in a fire you useless jism-encrusted toilet bowl of a coach.
They all did that until the NFL decided to crack down on it. How many Superbowls has Pete Carrol won? Ever?
The NFL Network was caught running Seahawks vs. Patriots on the ticker, too. Apparently the newsmedia can't distinguish between orange and red?
The NFL's report on the Incognito/Martin mess is in, and it's not good at all for Incognito and the Dolphins. I mean seriously: Incognito wrote down in a notebook that he broke Martin, then sent a text message to a teammate telling him to destroy the notebook once the league started investigating. And that's pretty much the least of it.
Incognito is a fat loud mouth. He is unfortunately all too typical an example of a fairly large group of people in this country.
