hurtinbuckaroo
Veteran Member
I think the Rams’ defensive line will create havoc. The Bengals’ offensive line is their weak spot.
I missed the first game. Was skiing. Then skied into the parking lot. A guy had a big screen showing the Rams games outside his motorhome. Invited us over to watch. Was great to watch the game on a big screen at a ski resort with beer! I thought that the 49ers had a great run, played well. Rams were better. I'm picking Rams in the SB.
Growing up, good Super Bowls were very rare. Often a blow out. The last 20 years though haven't had many snoozers, unless one wasn't a Patriots or Rams fan in LIII.Another beautiful scary win for the Rams. Well there was some ugliness getting there, but in the end a beauty.
Should be a good SB, as I've wrongly said many times before.
I wanted The Aristocrats.So it's officially the Washington Commanders. I liked "the Washington Football Team" better.
Change is tough. Commanders works though, as a tough football team name. And was much better than the second option, The Colanders.
I think that’s when the FBI gets interested.Meanwhile, some disturbing information out of Cleveland and Miami about matching fixing... sorry, I mean... encouraging losing by paying coaches more money to lose. For long, there was the open secret about letting a team tank for a better draft pick (like has that ever been successful?!).
But paying coaches to lose is a bit worse, as it implies the games they played were effectively fixed. So a team like the Patriots or Bills is benefitting while the AFC North is struggling against each other. If these accusations can be backed up, I'm not certain where this leads. Do the owners just say 'That's part of the game' or do they get really angry?
55. It is widely known by even casual NFL fans that it took until at least the 1980s— approximately 40 years after integration—for teams to genuinely accept Black players at the quarterback position (i.e. Warren Moon and Randall Cunningham).7
56. It took 43 years for the first Black Head Coach to be hired (Art Shell).
57. It took 54 years for an NFL team to hire a Black General Manager (Ozzie Newsome). 58. Now, 76 years following integration, there has never been a Black Commissioner and there has never been a Black majority owner of an NFL team.
112. Moreover, since 1978, only 16 winning teams have fired their head coach (3%). Even though Black men only held a small fraction of the Head Coach positions during that time, an astounding 25% (four of the 16) of the Head Coaches fired after a winning season were Black. This statistic is even more remarkable given that there have only ever been 17 Black Head Coaches who have coached a full season, and four of them (23.5%) were fired after a winning season. In contrast, only 6.9% of white coaches were fired after a winning season (12 out of 174). Thus, Black Head Coaches are 3.5 times more likely to be fired even when successful.
116. At the time the Rooney Rule was instituted, almost twenty years ago, there were three Black Head Coaches. There is now only one. That marks a complete lack of improvement, and in fact, a move backwards in the wrong direction.
51... In fact, though the NFL had integrated 23 years earlier, when Washington’s owner, Mr. Marshall, died in 1969, he abhorrently stipulated that his estate be used to establish the Redskins Foundation, on the condition that it was barred from spending money for “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”
119. Racial disparities also exist in the hiring and retention at Coordinator positions as well. Offensive and Defensive Coordinators are significantly over-represented by white candidates and under-represented by Black candidates. These positions are very often filled by a pool of former players, approximately 70% of whom are Black.
120. Currently, there are only four Black Offensive Coordinators in the 32-team League (12.5 percent), and 11 Black Defensive Coordinators (34 percent).
133.... Then, when the Dolphins started winning games, due in no small part to Mr. Flores’ coaching, Mr. Flores was told by the team’s General Manager, Chris Grier, that “Steve” was “mad” that Mr. Flores’ success in winning games that year was “compromising [the team’s] draft position.”