so in their eyes, they should be paid to play AND get a free education??
how much is tuition to some of these schools?? if i remember right, it costs $10k-$15k a year to go to Univ. of Wisconsin. seems like a pretty good deal to me. get an education and possibly have the opportunity to make millions of dollars for 5-10 years.
so in their eyes, they should be paid to play AND get a free education??
how much is tuition to some of these schools?? if i remember right, it costs $10k-$15k a year to go to Univ. of Wisconsin. seems like a pretty good deal to me. get an education and possibly have the opportunity to make millions of dollars for 5-10 years.
No, it's a terrible deal. I wouldn't want to trade my long-term health for $40k-$60k in tuition so others can profit from my play. And college football practically amounts to a full time job these days. Hard to imagine taking 15+ credits a semester PLUS all the football related activities.
I mean..the ray rice incident...this whole embarrassment of an investigation but the NFL on ball PSI....
Yet no word on Cle possibly cheating or Jets tampering charges? Why? Jets and Cle suck.
Or the Vikings being caught on national TV heating up footballs:
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As both teams dealt with the freezing temperatures, Fox cameras showed sideline attendants using heaters to warm up game balls, which is against league rules. NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino said Monday morning on NFL Network that officials warned both the Vikings and Panthers not to heat up the balls during Sunday's game, and would remind teams this week not to heat game balls.
As he should...horrible commish...all about $$ and nothing else
This is what happens when pro sports leagues have commissioners who are hired by and work for the league owners. There's no real accountability so long as the owners are making their fat stacks of cash. In any other real life job someone as incompetent as Goodell would be fired.
MLB is no better. Long-time commissioner Selig just retired and the league decided to give him $6 mill a year in retirement for doing nothing. And this is the guy who oversaw a disasterous league lockout and did nothing about PED's until is became a public embarrassment.
yup forgot that one...but no one cares about that...those teams are at the bottom... I really hope Kraft does his own thing with this looking into the NFL.
This is what happens when pro sports leagues have commissioners who are hired by and work for the league owners. There's no real accountability so long as the owners are making their fat stacks of cash. In any other real life job someone as incompetent as Goodell would be fired.
MLB is no better. Long-time commissioner Selig just retired and the league decided to give him $6 mill a year in retirement for doing nothing. And this is the guy who oversaw a disasterous league lockout and did nothing about PED's until is became a public embarrassment.
Trust me..i know..and i hate it...but goodell is the king of tools out there.
44 Lies Roger Goodell Told In His Press Conference Today
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1. "It has been a season of amazing competition, challenges and real progress."
2. "The NFL is made up of good and caring people."
3. "We are doing more to protect our players from unnecessary risks."
4. "Concussions were down 25%."
5. "The quality of the game continues to improve."
6. "Last year, technology improved officiating."
7. "The possibility of expanding the playoffs has been a topic the last couple of years. There are positives to it."
8. "We are continuing our work to uphold the highest standards of responsible conduct so that we represent our fans and communities in a way that will make them proud."
9. "The new personal conduct policy emphasizes ongoing education, prevention, support services and raises the standards for all of us in the NFL. Most importantly, it is clearly more effective."
10. "On the issue of footballs used in the AFC Championship game, Ted Wells and our staff have been hard at work conducting a thorough and objective investigation."
11. "We are excited about the success of Thursday Night Football."
12. "We have the best partners in media."
13. "We have an enormous responsibility to lead every day by example."
14. "It is what our fans deserve. We are humbled by and grateful for their passion."
15. "We know we must earn the trust of our fans every day."
16. "We have great people working for the NFL."
17. "We are also, as we demonstrated with Ted Wells, not afraid to go outside and get outside perspective that can be valuable to us."
18. "We want all of our franchises to stay in their current markets."
19. "It has been a tough year on me personally."
20. "It has been a year of humility and learning."
21. "We have all done a lot of soul searching."
22. "We have made enormous progress."
23. "We are in a good place in knowing and learning and being more human."
24. "We have done a great deal to bring more awareness to these issues of domestic violence and sexual assault."
25. "We as the NFL want to make this an important issue where we can make a difference in society in general."
26. "I think we have people that have uncompromising integrity."
27. "Their integrity is impeccable."
28. "We have done an excellent job of bringing outside consultants in."
29. "I communicate with our players on a regular basis."
30. "No one has more respect for the players."
31. "Their well-being and future are important to me."
32. "We want to make the game as safe as possible for them and make sure we do everything to make sure while they are here and when they transition out of football we are helping them be successful."
33. "We will work with the players association."
34. "We are not going to compromise the NFL."
35. "The character that comes from playing a team sport like football is extraordinary."
36. "Nice to meet you."
37. "I played 65 this morning, as a matter of fact. I was in the gym at 4:45 doing the elliptical."
38. "I believe in the importance of taking care yourself from a physical standpoint and emotional standpoint and mental standpoint."
39. "I'm available to the media almost every day of my job professionally."
40. "I do understand the passion for the fans in Las Vegas."
41. "I love Ralph Wilson Stadium."
42. "We want to make sure our fans are protected."
43. "We want the truth, Mark."
44. "Enjoy the weekend."
Hundreds of fans won't be going to Super Bowl XLIX after brokers and resale sites reneged on tickets that they already sold.
In most cases, those selling tickets never had them to begin with. The practice, called short selling, has become common for big games over the years. Brokers sell tickets and buy them closer to the event for cheaper to make their profits. But the idea of selling before having anything in hand became more commonplace as the returns consistently came in for previous Super Bowls.
That was until this year, when too many brokers sold tickets they didn't have and, for lower prices than in previous years, making it impossible to get the real ticket for a price that was affordable when it came time to pull the trigger. By last Sunday, brokers were buying the worst seats for $5,000 just to save their company. Five days later, finding a ticket for $10,000 was even a challenge.
It's unknown exactly how many were affected, but many stories have heartbreak.
Not all fans who thought they had tickets to Super Bowl XLIX actually will be going to Sunday's game.
Daryl Kikucki, a 37-year-old regional service manager for a jet company in Seattle, is a Seahawks season-ticket holder who sold his ticket to the NFC Championship Game so that he could afford to go the Super Bowl.
He bought a $2,100 ticket listed on SeatGeek, which pulled the seat from a company called Prominent Tickets.
"Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have not received our normal allotment of Super Bowl inventory," read an email from the company sent to Kikuchi. "In our 26 years of business, we have never seen a market with such limited availability to the public ... If the tickets were out there, we would rather pay to fill your orders, but we can not buy tickets that do not exist."
The company's terms and conditions that a customer must check absolves it from liability but does not represent that tickets that are listed might not be in its possession.
"Now when I think about this game, I get sick to my stomach, knowing I'm not going to be in the stadium," said Kikuchi who said he had no choice but to take the company's offer of two times what he paid.
Luke Kassi of Phoenix said he paid $1,750 to Ludus Tours the week before the NFC Championship Gam, for the right to buy two tickets at face value ($950 each) if the Seahawks won.
Kassi was assured he was getting his tickets until Thursday when he received an email from company owner and founder Brian Peters.
"I have bad news to report from Scottsdale," the email read. "I do not believe that my suppliers are delivering tickets to me ... I am sincerely sorry for this situation. For what it is worth, I will not have a functioning business once the dust settles from this event. I assure you that I am not profiting from this circumstance, and that I will do everything in my power to resolve it for you."
Peters offered a refund of the money paid plus an additional 20 percent. Kassi said he doesn't want it.
"I want the tickets I was promised," he said.
When reached, Peters said he ordered the tickets in December and did not receive them.
"I'm looking to make good on everyone involved," Peters said.
Patriots fan Josh Helms and his friends bought six tickets two days after the team punched its ticket to the Super Bowl. He paid $1,650 for four tickets from one broker and $1,950 for two more from another.
"The guy who sold us four tickets said all he was obligated to do was give us a refund, which he did," Helms said. "And the lawyers we spoke to say that we don't my have much of a case because he did that."
But Helms isn't happy.
"This is the first time we've had the money to go to the Super Bowl and I basically emptied out my bank account for this. This was my dream vacation and now I'm in Arizona with nothing."
Backed by parent company eBay, StubHub paid what it had to to fulfill its guarantee that if a seller doesn't come through with a ticket, the site will offer a replacement. Spokesman Glenn Lehrman said there were a couple hundred cases where this occurred and everyone will have tickets.
Some brokers are understandably having problems with proposed settlements. One broker, who did not want to be named, said his company offered two times the money back to his customers who paid for more than 30 tickets to the game and only one person accepted the offer.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich told ESPN.com that, at least right now, it looks like "a civil matter where there might be damages between the patron and person who sold them the tickets," but Brnovich said that his office wouldn't have jurisdiction unless it could be proven that a certain company had a habitual record of fraudulent activity.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello wouldn't comment on the league's role in the issue, if any. Although the NFL hasn't changed the fundamental allocation of the tickets, Brnovich suggests that it's possible that the league could help alleviate market manipulation in the future by holding back tickets and releasing them closer to the game, just like some high-profile entertainers have been known to do.
WHy you should never overlook an opponent as DT points out...
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"I think one thing is guys kind of look over the Colts. We had guys talking, the night before the game, 'I don't want to go to New England and play New England.' I think that was one of the big things."
No, it's a terrible deal. I wouldn't want to trade my long-term health for $40k-$60k in tuition so others can profit from my play. And college football practically amounts to a full time job these days. Hard to imagine taking 15+ credits a semester PLUS all the football related activities.
I took 12 credits, worked 40 hours during the week, worked 10-12 hours on the weekend on my side business, AND had a wife & 2 kids to take care of at home.
pulled a 3.96 gpa over the course of 3 semesters doing that.
Marshawn on Conan is a thousand times better than the tired crap he's playing with the media. They just posted some outtakes of the crazy things he said:
I took 12 credits, worked 40 hours during the week, worked 10-12 hours on the weekend on my side business, AND had a wife & 2 kids to take care of at home.
pulled a 3.96 gpa over the course of 3 semesters doing that.
Wow, that's pretty damn impressive! I couldn't even fathom having a wife/kids when I was in college.
My hat is off to you sir, for sticking to it!
I took 12 credits, worked 40 hours during the week, worked 10-12 hours on the weekend on my side business, AND had a wife & 2 kids to take care of at home.
pulled a 3.96 gpa over the course of 3 semesters doing that.
Very impressive. That sounds like utter hell though. I thought I had it bad when I took 18 hours for a couple semesters, with an internship and a girflriend... while driving back to Nashville for every Titans home game in the fall.
I can't imagine doing that with a wife and kids. Props.
By the end of my college tenure, I hated it. It took me forever to finish because I kept transferring and losing credits.
It was awful, and I never wanna live like that again. I'm a simple dude... a fast paced life ain't for me.
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