NFL

[skullman80]

All the fun the draft was... it no longer is.

[Idoit40fans]

Nfl draft has always been tough for me to endure.

[skullman80]

When it was just sat and sun i could make an excuse to just order a pizza or two, and sit in front of the tv for two days and not feel bad about it. Now not so much haha.

[the wicked child]

It's just way too drawn out now. They need time for all the talking heads to blab about **** no one really cares about. They actually get backed up announcing picks because of it. Just silly.

I just read who dem Stillers drafted at this point and avoid the circus.

[Crankshaft]

When the draft was saturday and sunday and you had the first 3-4 rounds starting early saturday morning, the draft was fun.

[Dickie Dunn]

Yea but this year with the revolutionary changes introduced by the NFL, the Steelers could announce their 7th round pick from inside Primanti's. How could someone possibly miss such a magical experience?

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Yea but this year with the revolutionary changes introduced by the NFL, the Steelers could announce their 7th round pick from inside Primanti's. How could someone possibly miss such a magical experience?

If the really want to highlight the Pittsburgh experience they should do the announce while stuck in traffic within the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.

[Dickie Dunn]

I honestly expect the NFL to force the Steelers to announce a pick from inside a steel mill.

[joopen]

[quote="Sam's Drunk Dog"][quote="Dickie Dunn"]Yea but this year with the revolutionary changes introduced by the NFL, the Steelers could announce their 7th round pick from inside Primanti's. How could someone possibly miss such a magical experience?[/quote]

If the really want to highlight the Pittsburgh experience they should do the announce while stuck in traffic within the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.[/quote]

They would try but they would get Viking'd by missing their time because they have no cell phone reception.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

According to Wikipedia, cell phone reception should be possible in all of the tunnels.

[joopen]

Should and Are are totally different words

[Rocco]

James Harrison is picking between the Steelers and Titans.

[blackjack68]

I thought that was understood.

[skullman80]

Chris Borland who retired from the 49ers last week is paying back 3/4 of his signing bonus to the team. Thus only getting paid for what he actually did. Gotta say that is a classy move.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12537 ... -3-4-bonus" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ulf]

Chris Borland who retired from the 49ers last week is paying back 3/4 of his signing bonus to the team. Thus only getting paid for what he actually did. Gotta say that is a classy move.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12537 ... -3-4-bonus" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For as smart as he is for walking away that is moronic

[Letang Is The Truth]

Agreed

[skullman80]

Chris Borland who retired from the 49ers last week is paying back 3/4 of his signing bonus to the team. Thus only getting paid for what he actually did. Gotta say that is a classy move.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12537 ... -3-4-bonus" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For as smart as he is for walking away that is moronic

Maybe for once it's not about the money and he felt in good faith he needed to pay it back. I doubt the 49ers would have went after him for it, but who knows. It sounds like for once an athlete was being honest when they said it wasn't about the money. Between his base salary and his bonus that he is keeping he made around 500k last year... that's not bad to start out life with since he won't have any loans to pay off or anything, and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to spend lavishly.

[ulf]

400k to the niners is peanuts, that's probably most of the money he has left. I don't think anyone would think less of him for keeping his money, not that it matters.

[tifosi77]

NFL ends blackout rule for 2015

The NFL will suspend its blackout policy for the 2015-16 season, league spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed. The move is just for this upcoming season, and after the fact the NFL will review the policy to see how it played out, according to Kevin Clark of the Wall Street Journal.

The league's blackout policy hasn't made sense in a long time, and nobody has ever been able to point to proof that it actually results in more people attending games. The blackout rule came into effect when teams did not sell out 85 percent of their non-premium tickets for a home game within 72 hours of kickoff. In that event, the designated "home area" for viewers would be blacked out on television.

[Pavel Bure]

Blackouts don't make sense anyway. You don't have enough fans to buy tickets so we're not gonna let you be on TV where you might get new fans that might want to spend money but now won't because they can't watch the team to become a fan.

Chicago Blackhawks

[slappybrown]

everything about this is great

[count2infinity]

dude in the bottom left is best.

[tifosi77]

Isn't that Andy Reid?

[Troy Loney]

Highlights - Arians in his stupid hat, Belichick in flip flops and Andy Reid in fat man cabana bar attire.

[silentom]

dude in the bottom left is best.

"Is that Tom Smykowski? What's he doing?"