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tempo_n_groove · January 2022

MayDay10 said:

Tennessee has an 'issue' with traveling fans... Nashville is a nice destination city that people want to go to, which is great. The fan base is also tepid enough where tickets are fairly easy/cheap to acquire.

The past 2 games the Bills have played there (with fans), a majority of people in attendance were from Buffalo.

Ummm LA? That city has never had an identity for a football team. Raiders take the closest claim to the city but Rams never had a chance. Chargers? Good luck.

I used to go see the raiders play at the coliseum. That was interesting up top, lol.

mrussel1 · January 2022

DewieCox said:

How much is that really going to curb resales in this day and age? 24 hours is a big window when it takes seconds.

I think the point is to shorten the window so it's harder for Cincy fans to plan and travel. Certainly some will roll the dice and come to town without tickets, but probably fewer.

F Me In The Brain · January 2022

mrussel1 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

That’s some straight up bullshit.

https://apple.news/AQn4CqaEDSWWml2470Sz2ng

Agree. If your fans want to sell the tickets and use the windfall rather than attend a divisional round game, changing the rules to stop them is kind of messed up. They probably pay PSLs ans pay for bullshit sham pre-season games at full price. Watching a single game on TV could make this much more affordable, for some.
Interested to see if any Titans fans complain.

Isn't scalping illegal there, technically? The team doesn't get any piece of that windfall, why shouldn't that limit it and get the side benefit of keeping the tickets in locals hands (and the prices down for locals). Seems like a great idea to me.

This just seems to be anti-fan, to me. Nothing stopping fans from keeping their seats and enjoying the games.
I did not know it was illegal to put seats onto Stub Hub in TN....don't know much about TN.

I'll be against most league and team mandates if I feel they are anti-fan, that is my bias against the NFL. I expect others to have different opinions.

mrussel1 · January 2022

F Me In The Brain said:

mrussel1 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

That’s some straight up bullshit.

https://apple.news/AQn4CqaEDSWWml2470Sz2ng

Agree. If your fans want to sell the tickets and use the windfall rather than attend a divisional round game, changing the rules to stop them is kind of messed up. They probably pay PSLs ans pay for bullshit sham pre-season games at full price. Watching a single game on TV could make this much more affordable, for some.
Interested to see if any Titans fans complain.

Isn't scalping illegal there, technically? The team doesn't get any piece of that windfall, why shouldn't that limit it and get the side benefit of keeping the tickets in locals hands (and the prices down for locals). Seems like a great idea to me.

This just seems to be anti-fan, to me. Nothing stopping fans from keeping their seats and enjoying the games.
I did not know it was illegal to put seats onto Stub Hub in TN....don't know much about TN.

I'll be against most league and team mandates if I feel they are anti-fan, that is my bias against the NFL. I expect others to have different opinions.

I don't see this as anti-fan. I see it as pro local fans at the expense of Cincy traveling fans.

Gern Blansten · January 2022

I'm really stoked for the Bengals. I grew up close to Cincinnati so they have been my team forever.

tempo_n_groove · January 2022

Gern Blansten said:

I'm really stoked for the Bengals. I grew up close to Cincinnati so they have been my team forever.

I'm sorry...

Gern Blansten · January 2022

tempo_n_groove said:

Gern Blansten said:

I'm really stoked for the Bengals. I grew up close to Cincinnati so they have been my team forever.

I'm sorry...

I adopted the Colts once we moved to IN but yeah....it's been rough. At least I got a SB victory with the Colts.

I watched Joe Montana and the 49ers beat the Bengals twice in the SB

Bengals are going to finally get their SB though. Assuming Burrow stays healthy.

MayDay10 · January 2022

I dunno, man. The AFC is an absolute gauntlet for the next decade or so. Even with Josh Allen, Im not counting on a Super Bowl. You have Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Herbert, possibly Trevor Lawrence if Jacksonville doesnt ruin/waste him. Wherever Watson ends up... You also have well run organizations like New England, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh.

Gern Blansten · January 2022

MayDay10 said:

I dunno, man. The AFC is an absolute gauntlet for the next decade or so. Even with Josh Allen, Im not counting on a Super Bowl. You have Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Herbert, possibly Trevor Lawrence if Jacksonville doesnt ruin/waste him. Wherever Watson ends up... You also have well run organizations like New England, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh.

please don't take a giant shit on my fantasy

Gern Blansten · January 2022

I didn't realize that Buffalo went to the SB four years in a row and lost each time....with Colts coach Reich as the backup QB

F Me In The Brain · January 2022

mrussel1 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

mrussel1 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

That’s some straight up bullshit.

https://apple.news/AQn4CqaEDSWWml2470Sz2ng

Agree. If your fans want to sell the tickets and use the windfall rather than attend a divisional round game, changing the rules to stop them is kind of messed up. They probably pay PSLs ans pay for bullshit sham pre-season games at full price. Watching a single game on TV could make this much more affordable, for some.
Interested to see if any Titans fans complain.

Isn't scalping illegal there, technically? The team doesn't get any piece of that windfall, why shouldn't that limit it and get the side benefit of keeping the tickets in locals hands (and the prices down for locals). Seems like a great idea to me.

This just seems to be anti-fan, to me. Nothing stopping fans from keeping their seats and enjoying the games.
I did not know it was illegal to put seats onto Stub Hub in TN....don't know much about TN.

I'll be against most league and team mandates if I feel they are anti-fan, that is my bias against the NFL. I expect others to have different opinions.

I don't see this as anti-fan. I see it as pro local fans at the expense of Cincy traveling fans.

We have a difference of opinion.
If the local fans don't want to sell their tickets it makes no difference.
They want the stadium to be two tone, blue.
Big whoop.
Maybe the guy who spent 5k for his family to enjoy Titans football can make back a big chunk of that by selling his seats for one game.
The team decides to try and make that hard to do, when reselling would appear to be allowed, normally, just prior to their playoff game.
To me, that is anti fan.

If the fan base is hard core you wouldn't have to worry about it.
They are worried about it, so they made a rule change.
In my opinion, that is some bullshit, anti fan, stuff.

Don't see the Packers doing that, this weekend...

MayDay10 · January 2022

Gern Blansten said:

I didn't realize that Buffalo went to the SB four years in a row and lost each time....with Colts coach Reich as the backup QB

One interesting thing is their 3rd string QB Gale Gilbert. He moved on to the Chargers and lost the 5th in a row. He also lost the Little League World Series championship. He was the QB for Cal in that Cal/Stanford Band-on-the-field-lateral game.

mrussel1 · January 2022

MayDay10 said:

Gern Blansten said:

I didn't realize that Buffalo went to the SB four years in a row and lost each time....with Colts coach Reich as the backup QB

One interesting thing is their 3rd string QB Gale Gilbert. He moved on to the Chargers and lost the 5th in a row. He also lost the Little League World Series championship. He was the QB for Cal in that Cal/Stanford Band-on-the-field-lateral game.

That dude is an albatross.

Always felt bad for those Bills teams. They were great for a long time.

Tell me what you think about "in the crease" calls in the Cup finals?

tempo_n_groove · January 2022

Gern Blansten said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Gern Blansten said:

I'm really stoked for the Bengals. I grew up close to Cincinnati so they have been my team forever.

I'm sorry...

I adopted the Colts once we moved to IN but yeah....it's been rough. At least I got a SB victory with the Colts.

I watched Joe Montana and the 49ers beat the Bengals twice in the SB

Bengals are going to finally get their SB though. Assuming Burrow stays healthy.

They need to change up those godfersaken uniforms... That is why you have been punished. The fashion gods frown upon the burnt orange stripes of a Bengal tiger...

Maybe? It would lean towards the Browns woah's too. Denver? I dunno there my man.

tempo_n_groove · January 2022

Gern Blansten said:

I didn't realize that Buffalo went to the SB four years in a row and lost each time....with Colts coach Reich as the backup QB

If not for the wide right in the first one it would only have been 3.

MayDay10 · January 2022

mrussel1 said:

MayDay10 said:

Gern Blansten said:

I didn't realize that Buffalo went to the SB four years in a row and lost each time....with Colts coach Reich as the backup QB

One interesting thing is their 3rd string QB Gale Gilbert. He moved on to the Chargers and lost the 5th in a row. He also lost the Little League World Series championship. He was the QB for Cal in that Cal/Stanford Band-on-the-field-lateral game.

That dude is an albatross.

Always felt bad for those Bills teams. They were great for a long time.

Tell me what you think about "in the crease" calls in the Cup finals?

If you look at hockey reference, there is a goal, Hull scored it, and they won. I really spend no time upset about it or arguing if someone brings it up. Dallas won the cup. Full stop.
The Sabres were the better team in that Game 6, but it was clear they were running out of gas before that goal was scored. Even if the Sabres won, it would have been against odds to win in Game 7 in Dallas.

That rule that year was such a pain in the ass though. It was a typical NHL short-sighted 1-year deal and games were getting held up and goals were disallowed if there was an edge of a toenail in the crease. That probably should have been disallowed. After the fact, the NHL claimed there was a 'memo', but that seems sketchy. Even by the logic in the memo, the goal is very debatable. The fact that it was never even reviewed stunk too.

The NHL really wanted Dallas to win that cup as a notch in marketing the game in non-traditional markets. 1999 was right in the thick of those efforts.

There is controversy that Bettman was seen talking to a Linesman DURING a game in Dallas. Why would a commissioner need to speak to an on-ice official?

This was the deadpuck era. A time where power plays were not handed out liberally. In Game 1 in Dallas I witnessed three amazing things for that era, even amazing today.

a) Buffalo was whistled for 7 consecutive power plays against. You might go years before seeing that
b) Dallas received double digit power plays that game (10 total)
c) Dallas received 2 power plays in overtime to the Sabres 0

I couldn't almost stomach the game since it had the appearance of fix.

After the victory by Buffalo in OT, Bob Swados, the original team counsel, wrote in his book that he met NHL executives in the elevator right after the game. He said the atmosphere of the elevator resembled that of a funeral. He described the league personnel as sullen and "stone-faced." He made a comment that the Sabres triumphed over adversity to which Bettman responded "Adversity justified."

By Game 6, the same refs in Game 1 had called just 2 power plays for each team, despite playing nearly 2 games with that game ending in triple OT. This ultimately favored the Stars who had mastered the smothering defensive play of that era

mrussel1 · January 2022

Sabres were shafted. As a neutral third party, it was clear.

Gern Blansten · January 2022

tempo_n_groove said:

Gern Blansten said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Gern Blansten said:

I'm really stoked for the Bengals. I grew up close to Cincinnati so they have been my team forever.

I'm sorry...

I adopted the Colts once we moved to IN but yeah....it's been rough. At least I got a SB victory with the Colts.

I watched Joe Montana and the 49ers beat the Bengals twice in the SB

Bengals are going to finally get their SB though. Assuming Burrow stays healthy.

They need to change up those godfersaken uniforms... That is why you have been punished. The fashion gods frown upon the burnt orange stripes of a Bengal tiger...

Maybe? It would lean towards the Browns woah's too. Denver? I dunno there my man.

Bruh....I still have a retro Bengals hat and coin bank.

They had talked about having a black and white striped helmet but I guess that didn't happen

They switched to stripes in 1981

Meltdown99 · January 2022

mrussel1 said:

Sabres were shafted. As a neutral third party, it was clear.

Even the dominator could not get Buffalo past Dallas and the NHL…I’m not sure I have seen a goalie make so many saves that leave me speechless…

Attaway77 · January 2022

That was a good game... Cool to see Cincy make it this far. Hopefully a lot of good seasons of football to come watching Burrows, Allen, etc... New era of QB's

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