* * * * The National Football League - 2011 * * * *

norm

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/f ... index.html

Pearl Jam_ie

Let's not forget...pro football has been around a lot longer than the Super Bowl. With all due respect, the 6 Super Bowl victories for the Steelers are impressive, but who has the most World Championships?

GREEN BAY PACKERS-12X WORLD CHAMPS!!!

Lucky #13 sounds good to me!

(Bears, btw, also have 9...which is also more than Pittsburgh )

Jearlpam0925

The Juggler wrote:

god i hate being jealous of pittsburgh. :x

this will be a great super bowl though.

Believe me, I'll never be jealous of the city of Pittsburgh.

The Juggler

somehow this is not surprising

http://www.csnphilly.com/02/04/11/Skins ... feedID=692

Wobbie

pureoc wrote:

GO PACK GO!! Bears fans have to shut the hell up, FOR LIFE!!!!!!

do you really think they'll ever shut up? :?

The Juggler

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... ttendance/

Jearlpam0925

Well, thank God Pittsburgh didn't win.

The Juggler

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Well, thank God Pittsburgh didn't win.

agreed.

i'm loving all the stories about it being an overall bad time at the super bowl in dallas. there's this too:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Supe ... ?GT1=39002

Horos

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Well, thank God Pittsburgh didn't win.

Well, at least I'll never have to worry about you thanking god for Philly winning one.

The Juggler

Horos wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Well, thank God Pittsburgh didn't win.

Well, at least I'll never have to worry about you thanking god for Philly winning one.

are you a baseball fan?

if you are, and being from pittsburgh and not a fraud, you kind of have to worry about in that sport. :thumbup:

Horos

The Juggler wrote:

Horos wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Well, thank God Pittsburgh didn't win.

Well, at least I'll never have to worry about you thanking god for Philly winning one.

are you a baseball fan?

if you are, and being from pittsburgh and not a fraud, you kind of have to worry about in that sport. :thumbup:

I'm a Pirate fan :oops: . Don't care for watching baseball until the post season comes around so it's been a long time since I've seen them play. :oops: But they have at least won one albiet a long time ago. Trying to remember the last time the Eagles won one.

Looking forward to how things go between the Pens and the Flyers. You might get me there. But when is the last time they held the cup? I think the Pirates have picked one up since then.

Hey at least you have the Phillies. BASEBALL SUCKS!

The Juggler

Horos wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

Horos wrote:

are you a baseball fan?

if you are, and being from pittsburgh and not a fraud, you kind of have to worry about in that sport. :thumbup:

I'm a Pirate fan :oops: . Don't care for watching baseball until the post season comes around so it's been a long time since I've seen them play. :oops: But they have at least won one albiet a long time ago. Trying to remember the last time the Eagles won one.

Looking forward to how things go between the Pens and the Flyers. You might get me there. But when is the last time they held the cup? I think the Pirates have picked one up since then.

Hey at least you have the Phillies. BASEBALL SUCKS!

it's amazing how many people do not realize there was a professional football championship prior to the super bowl. :roll:

The Fixer

Roger Goodell would fuck up a wet dream

And I agree that this game was close, but was not a great game (unless you bet GB big ). Sloppy on both sides.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/1465 ... -to-forget

See you in October for the start of the 2011 season. Nice work Goodell...will give you plenty of time to fuck the rules up even more than you already have.

The Juggler

The Fixer wrote:

Roger Goodell would fuck up a wet dream :?

And I agree that this game was close, but was not a great game (unless you bet GB big ). Sloppy on both sides.
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i like a close game. edge of seat all 2nd half.

The Juggler

most watched show in the history of television. 111 million people. good god.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/ ... id=6098480

"Super Bowl XLV caps what is arguably the most successful season that any sports league has ever had," said Pat McDonough, senior vice president for insight and analysis at the Nielsen Co. "The number of people watching NFL games has never been higher, with 24 percent more people watching the average NFL game this year than just five years ago. The Super Bowl continues to be in a category of its own."

The Juggler

glimmer of hope on the horizon:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... -optimism/
Saturday labor meeting gives reason for optimism
Posted by Mike Florio on February 8, 2011, 9:36 AM EST
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As the PFT rental bus began the trek from Dallas back to PFT headquarters, we saw John Clayton on ESPN discussing the labor situation. And he seemed to be trying to create the impression that he’s the only guy who is optimistic that a deal will be done by the end of March.

He’s not.

On Monday, Tom Curran joined PFT Live, and he and the host of the show, an Internet hack with whom you may be familiar, agreed that a new agreement could be coming in March.

The joint statement issued by the league and the union on Saturday strongly hints that the two sides agree on the most important threshold issue: the moment at which the clock strikes 12.

“We plan to increase the number, length and intensity of bargaining sessions so that we can reach agreement before the March 4 expiration of the current CBA,” the NFL and the NFLPA said.

We’ve been saying it for two years, dating back to a certain appearance on a certain league-owned broadcasting operation in a certain Florida city that was certainly more pleasant from a weather standpoint than the place we all left on Monday morning. No deal can be done until the two sides agree on the deadline, since neither side will begin to move toward a bottom-line position if the other side thinks that the time to do the deal hasn’t arrived.

It appears that the league finally has persuaded the union to treat March 4 as the deadline, and that NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith has decided that he doesn’t need to provoke a fight in order to have credibility with the rank and file.

That said, there’s one issue that could create some consternation. If March 4 arrives without an extension of the current CBA, which was and still is the settlement agreement of the antitrust case filed by Reggie White and others many years ago, Judge David Doty’s jurisdiction over the relationship between the two parties ends. Given that the league has tried to have Judge Doty bounced based on the perception that he has a union bias, the NFL surely would like to find a way to do a Doty-free deal. The union, on the other hand, surely would like to keep Doty involved.

In the end, it’s another bargaining chip between the two sides, and one of the only sources of true leverage for the players, especially in the wake of last week’s unfavorable rulings in the “lockout insurance” case and the health insurance grievance. With the two sides committed to getting something done by March 4, it’s reasonable to think that they’ll try to work through these issues, possibly with the same type of extension that was used five years ago to get a deal done during the month of March.

Horos

I realise the Eagles have won some championships unfortunately it was before even my father was born so it's really hard to remember. It's still fewer than the Steelers who I realise were completely aweful before 1970. Wish the Steagles would have won it.

The Juggler

Horos wrote:

I realise the Eagles have won some championships unfortunately it was before even my father was born so it's really hard to remember. It's still fewer than the Steelers who I realise were completely aweful before 1970. Wish the Steagles would have won it.

and regarding baseball, your team's town hasn't won one since before i was born. hell they haven't had a winning season since clinton's first year in office.

Jearlpam0925

The Juggler wrote:

Horos wrote:

I realise the Eagles have won some championships unfortunately it was before even my father was born so it's really hard to remember. It's still fewer than the Steelers who I realise were completely aweful before 1970. Wish the Steagles would have won it.

and regarding baseball, your team's town hasn't won one since before i was born. hell they haven't had a winning season since clinton's first year in office.

Wait, so this dude is old enough to remember the Steelers from the 70's or some shit, but his dad wasn't alive in 1960? I don't believe that.

And, also, dude who lives in Oregon but bleeeeds Pittsburgh :roll: - we support a real city. Ya know, one that supports a team in every major sport. But yinz :roll: hold onto those Stillers,crimped 90's bangs, pull-over Starter jackets, and Cutlass Ciera's. :thumbup:

The Juggler

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

Horos wrote:

I realise the Eagles have won some championships unfortunately it was before even my father was born so it's really hard to remember. It's still fewer than the Steelers who I realise were completely aweful before 1970. Wish the Steagles would have won it.

and regarding baseball, your team's town hasn't won one since before i was born. hell they haven't had a winning season since clinton's first year in office.

Wait, so this dude is old enough to remember the Steelers from the 70's or some shit, but his dad wasn't alive in 1960? I don't believe that.
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fuzzy math