http://mweb.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-o...eles-thinks-chargers-should-stay-in-san-diego Poor greedy Dean Spanos. The mayor of L.A. just told him they do not want the Chargers.
Garcetti is correct that the Rams are a legit L.A. team, much more so than the Raiders or Chargers. The Chhargers, especially, could only be an afterthought to most fans. I wonder whether the stadium plan is contingent on two teams.
I'll admit that I don't think of "Los Angeles" when I think of the Chargers. Of course when I started really getting into NFL football "Air Coryell" was one of the biggest things. One of the Arkansas Razorbacks best players (Billy Ray Smith Jr.) spent his entire career laboring to prop up the Charger defense.
The Rams proposal was originally written for just one team so I imagine it would work just fine that way.
It's been suggested that Kroenke wants the Chargers because they would be much less popular than the Raiders, and therefore take fewer fans away from the Rams. Also because there's supposed to be a shopping center built in connection with the stadium, and nobody wants Raiders fans wandering around when you're trying to have a pleasant shopping experience.
I'm sure everybody has already made up their mind on this, but the science is quite clear. Deflategate was completely bogus. Suck it, haters!
Not going to bother with the link, because it doesn't matter. It's the cover-up, stupid, and that goes whether or not the Patriots and Brady were covering up actual misbehavior. If Brady had come out and said "yeah, I told those guys to get the ball pressure as low as possible. I certainly didn't tell them to break the rules or to take the balls to the field after the officials had checked them" and the Patriots had simply fired the equipment personnel on the spot, that would have been the end of it. It would have been like George Brett and the pine-tar incident, where the consensus evolved that, to whatever extent a rule was violated, it was a rule no one cared about, a violation that conferred no particular advantage, and waiting until an opportune moment to report the alleged violation was an effort to gain an unfair advantage. Not firing the equipment personnel who clearly violated league rules by carrying the balls to the field and then not turning over communications with them looks like a cover-up, whether or not it is one, and is an actual failure to cooperate in an investigation. That's what really drew punishment from the league, not the specific pressure measures and whether they proved the balls were illegally deflated.
You can't cover up something that didn't happen. Read the article, the science is clear, and the NFL can't repeal the Ideal Gas Law.
They would indeed be less popular. Oh, and you are absolutely right about nice places not wanting Raiders fans as most of them are barely potty trained and they tend to tend to start fights where ever they go.
The thuggish behavior of Raiders fans is very well known, Gul. Also, how can describing the fans of a football team be racist? Come on, dude, you are acting like a one trick pony.
Well, they have a bad reputation and I do remember the fights which broke out all over the Gas Lamp when the Raiders played the Packers in the Super Bowl. People got attacked just because of the hat they wore.
That Broncos defense was unreal. I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pressure consistently through the entire 60 minutes. Oh well, baseball season starts soon enough, football has always been my second sport. I'll probably route for the NFC in the Superbowl, though.
The defenses will neutralize each other, leaving Gano and Gostkowski to slug it out in a snooze fest for the ages.
Carolina is a much better 17-1 team than they were a 14-0 team. They have twice the number of wins against NFL caliber teams--the NFC East, NFC South, and AFC South were, except for Carolina, true minor leagues this year, and Carolina had a lot of close games against them--and they have a blowout against a really good Arizona team.
Anyone want to assume that the Patriots in the draft will take at least three quality offensive lineman. If they had been able to protect Brady this year we might well have two 17-1 teams in the Super Bowl.
I wouldn't assume that, since they don't have enough high draft picks. They will likely pick somebody in the second round, but after that, who knows. Three, though, is definitely excessive.
I figured they would go for at least three in hopes of getting a pair of decent O-line starters. At any rate, the standard Patriot practice would be to trade down into the draft pick up players lower which means their salaries are less of course.
