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There is no doubt; but from what I was able to tell, the NFL's revenue has increased like almost 70% since he became commissioner, from 6 billion in 2007 (he started in 06 I believe) to almost 10 billion last year. So he may be an inconsistent douche willing to cover up bullshit for his...

Anticipating a Rainey / Martin timeshare against the Falcons tonight. The waiver wire gods were kind and I have both after Martin's two games of bedshitting. Who do you think is the better play in that timeshare? Rainey has the hot hand after last week so that makes this more of a question...

We will probably not have to worry about Goodell resigning or getting forced out now; after hearing that news out of the Cardinals I have no doubt that his head exploded.

Wow, somehow I missed that entire first paragraph of the statement. That just does not seem like it is the same as what I read this morning, but it was early. It does indeed clarify what happened.

According to a Peter King article just released in the past hour or two: 'According to NFL bylaws, "The Exempt List is a special player status available to clubs only in unusual circumstances. Only the Commissioner has the authority to place a player on the Exempt List; clubs have no such...

You are right, but still, they at least tried to penalize him in some way. What do you think the appropriate penalty would have been? This is something that the court will give you a $300 fine for in my state at least for a first time offense. They can't fine him 3 billion dollars and force...

They fined him half a million bucks and suspended him somehow, didn't they? I don't remember the specifics off the top of my head but it was the most severe penalty the league ever handed out. It is a fine balance between making money and enforcing morality for the NFL, but in the end, the...

I am not so sure the money matters to Brady; he has taken pay cuts in the past, and his wife is by far the highest paid supermodel in the world. If he does go somewhere, I imagine it will be a Manning type situation; he will go somewhere where the team is already in place and all that is...

Well Chip's halftime adjustments might have included a couple big checks to the refs, but I will take it. This is Philly, after all, it isn't like the place is a bastion of morality.

Well let's see if Chip can work the halftime adjustment black magic. It worked last week against the Jaguars! Though, unfortunately, we don't play the Jaguars every week.

Standard QB Scoring - Big Ben at the Ravens, or Tom Brady at the Vikings? Neither choice is inspiring but I have to pick one, and normally this is a no-brainer, but Brady did not look himself last week.

Things must still be going pretty right for this game - I just encountered a queue trying to log in to Gilgamesh. A queue on a random non-patch Wednesday in a year old MMO. Haven't seen that in awhile. I am closing in on the start of my 3rd month here and I am still loving the shit out of...

I wonder if there are grounds for Ray Rice and his wife to file charges against TMZ for releasing that video. Not sure that could be considered public domain? Maybe it is. I am not up on the laws surrounding this kind of thing. I mean, the guy pulled some crazy bullshit, and I hate all...

So there was a draft I picked 2nd in this year. My first 3 picks, at 2 - Jamaal Charles. At 19 - Doug Martin. At 22 - Andre Ellington. Combined fantasy points: Almost as much as Jeremy Maclin. That's the definition of fantasy train wreck right there. Not going to be a good year for me.

I think the difference with Vick too is he served 1.5 years in Leavenworth, not quite a country club prison. He paid hard time for the backwoods bullshit he was involved in. There was no element of slap on the wrist with Vick, he got tossed in the slammer. And yeah, I have to agree that Ray...

The business of the NFL has boomed under Roger Goodell, expanding somewhat overseas, and making billions of dollars. I think it is one of the most successful businesses in the US; it thoroughly dominates the American sporting market, and that domination (while helped somewhat by steroids/strike...

He didn't need a conviction, Rice plead guilty to some lesser charges and got off light, no? Or am I not remembering that correctly. Goodell's indefinite suspension was too little, too late. And Peter King posted something to the effect of, I stand by my reporting, which was not challenged...

So did the Ravens just help save Goodell's ass by essentially firing Rice?

I was actually hit by someone who *may* have been drinking this weekend; he looked it, for sure, and he was coming from 'dinner' at the local bar, but we didn't wait for police because nobody was hurt, the response time would have been over an hour (yay backwoods!), and he accepted full...

Original EQ's faction system - which may or may not have been kind of an accident - remains the best implementation of faction to date in my opinion. That shit was awesome and really made the world seem more alive. The artificial walls between factions these days, not so much. I wonder how...

Yeah, Gilgamesh seems to be hopping. Even at the weird times I play - like 7, 8 AM EST - there are always people around, lurking in the cities or around major leve/fate hubs, doing dungeons. I think it seems quiet mainly because folks just don't use zone chat very often. There isn't a...

There have been nerfs, but I think a big part of it is people are running that older content in MUCH better gear, doing it through the roulettes for tomes or whatnot. HM Titan still wiped my queue group once when we did it over the weekend, despite all the gear; you have the echo buff now too...

I got the sense that most of the Garleans you see are conscripts/conquered people levies; obviously, you have some higher ranking ones with kick ass magitek gear, but the majority of them are just like conscripts have been since the dawn of war: poorly armed and armored cannon fodder. There is...

I've actually been having fun with the hunt system. There is a small element of old school EQ identifying and racing to mobs before the other guy to it; and if you are doing it at off hours with a small group, and not alerting God, Corp and Country when they spawn, it isn't too bad. Hell, this...

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I just couldn't fathom flagging for a 40 person raid through a 20 person one. You are either running two separate raid groups (with MTs, main healers, etc) and then having good times melding them; or, more likely, you have the same 8-10 people carrying everyone else through and managing...

Since it is James O'Keefe, he probably edited out the 20 or 25 times he got caught.

Or perhaps someone confused 'hardcore' for 'ridiculous artificial POP-esque backflagging time sink'.

I have used Greensmoke for 2-3 years now, and the impact was immediate. I went from 2+ packs of Marlboro Reds a day to less than 1/2 pack, just like that - and that is mainly because I could not replace real cigarettes while driving and I have a long commute to work. I will go 2-3 days without...

Yes, they pulled out their military forces and relocated their settlers in 2005. It eventually led to Hamas taking over, which triggered the Israeli blockade and plenty of other nastiness.

Simplified from the various wikis: The Arab-Israeli war in 1948 was the result of 30 years of tension resulting from the way the land was divvied up at the end of WW1. It was a British colony for awhile, with Palestinians, Jews and Arabs generally having a low level civil war with a few full...

I blame this thread for making me resub. Having a blast so far meandering through the content, about to get my first class to 50. I am certainly having alot more fun with this than I did with Wildstar. I mean, I know most of the endgame right now is pretty much invalidated by hunts as...

I don't think they cratered the school with kids in it on purpose. The reports I read, I think on CNN, said they were targeting a group of 3 militants who were cruising on motorcycles past the school. So, still pretty goddamn stupid and not a tactical decision that any US commander worth his...

Wow. That is a fucking farce. I can't believe real people at the UN would actually say that stupid shit. How can you take that body seriously when shit like that comes out of it? I mean, I kind of see the argument on humanitarian grounds, but that is an ungodly stupid idea to have.

Assuming Tehran exists long enough to make that happen; I think Israel launches a massive pre-emptive (and quite possibly nuclear) strike if they ever confirm Iran has nuclear weapons and hopes the Iron Dome can squelch some of the counterattack.

It wouldn't surprise me if half the soldiers ARE children.

I thought this was an interesting read on the Border Patrol and their growing influence on the American Southwest: The Constitution-Free Agency - POLITICO Magazine I haven't been to the southwest or Texas in 10+ years, and don't really know anyone down there outside of some family in San...

LOL. So they do, 3 months without an active subscription and your CREDD are gone. Kind of a crock of shit but hell, I guess they need to make money somehow.

It worked out for them because they accepted they were beaten, took the offers to help rebuild their devastated countries, and moved on without launching a decades-long guerrilla war. Don't see that happening in Gaza.

This may make me a bad person, but I totally agree with that strategy. They will never win over the hearts and minds of the Arabs/Palestinians. Never. So if the answer is kill them every few years, while making damn sure they never have enough of an economy to build up any kind of organic...