Pretty confident @barneygumble is a Jets fan. Mets, Jets, Everton.
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The NFL Thread, 2019
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TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Well condolences on that selection of teams Barney. But a good trade for you on this occasion.
That trio builds character
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
Apparently I’m also an Islanders fan, due to strong ties to Long Island but couldn’t tell you I’ve watched a game in my life
Also have the unfortunate ties to
Málaga, FC Köln and Genoa... basically disapponting.
But definitely happy with the trade of Adams. Didn’t want to be here and the haul was a massive. Hopefully they will be able to gauge college ball nicely and use the picks nicely this time.
2021 or 2022 is when the Jets May compete again.
I grew up on Long Island and you have the perfect assortment of NY teams! Isles-Rangers games were something else back in the day. Electric atmosphere, fistfights throughout the Coliseum. The good old days
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
Ive been to the Nass, think they played the Penguins... just can’t say I’ve ever sat down and watched a game on the TV.
Think it goes back to Jets and Mets both playing at Shea and the family living in Huntington and Southampton. So it’s always been Long Island teand I’ve been raised on.
I wouldn’t change it, in a weird way, they’re so very Everton esque in the sense that Giants, Yankees, Rangers all have the bigger Draw (sounds familiar right?)
Rook
Player Valuation: £80m
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
He’s a goner. It’s fine, our schedule this year will kill him (I hope)
Season hasn't started but the hope for my Vikes is draining already.
Sign of a true Vikings fan
Being a sports fan is like being a smoker. Part of the dependency is the ritual and structure of it. The smoker takes a break every hour to smoke, collect his thoughts and get the nicotine hit. The football fan has their weekend in the fall, where they have scheduled social activities around games. Like the smoker, the sports fan builds their life around the habit.
People who quit a vice like smoking or drinking note that they also quit the social scene that goes with it. They lose touch with Sally from accounting who they used to take smoke breaks with every day. The people at the bar are no longer a part of their life. That’s what will happen with sports. Those weekends in the fall will be filled with other things and after the withdrawal pains subside, the habit will be lost. People who cut cable know this experience. In time, you don’t miss it.
This is not idle speculation. It has been known for a long time in the sports world that the recovery time after a work stoppage is very long. When a sports league shuts down due to labor strife, it takes years for the fans to return. It’s not because they are mad at the greedy players and owners. The fans simply find other things to do with their time and many of them drift away entirely.
There is one final piece to this puzzle. The growth of sports entertainment has tracked the arc of the Baby Boom generation. Look at attendance figures for sports in the 1960’s and 1970’s, before Boomers were dominating the market. Ball parks rarely sold out and the audience for televised product was limited. In the 1980’s as the Boomers took over the marketplace, sports boomed. When they could play tennis, professional tennis was huge. Then it was golf that had a boom.
The fact is, the sports entertainment model was built for and on the Baby Boomer generation, which is now entering its power down cycle. Boomers are retiring and that means down-sizing their lives.
People who quit a vice like smoking or drinking note that they also quit the social scene that goes with it. They lose touch with Sally from accounting who they used to take smoke breaks with every day. The people at the bar are no longer a part of their life. That’s what will happen with sports. Those weekends in the fall will be filled with other things and after the withdrawal pains subside, the habit will be lost. People who cut cable know this experience. In time, you don’t miss it.
This is not idle speculation. It has been known for a long time in the sports world that the recovery time after a work stoppage is very long. When a sports league shuts down due to labor strife, it takes years for the fans to return. It’s not because they are mad at the greedy players and owners. The fans simply find other things to do with their time and many of them drift away entirely.
There is one final piece to this puzzle. The growth of sports entertainment has tracked the arc of the Baby Boom generation. Look at attendance figures for sports in the 1960’s and 1970’s, before Boomers were dominating the market. Ball parks rarely sold out and the audience for televised product was limited. In the 1980’s as the Boomers took over the marketplace, sports boomed. When they could play tennis, professional tennis was huge. Then it was golf that had a boom.
The fact is, the sports entertainment model was built for and on the Baby Boomer generation, which is now entering its power down cycle. Boomers are retiring and that means down-sizing their lives.
We’re on to 2020
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NFL thread - 2020
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Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
Ah, ignored content.We’re on to 2020
NFL thread - 2020
Deppuv xeov. Tu iydovif vu tvez aq epf vjip gemm etmiiq up vji tuge ecuav 5 nopt opvu vji 1tv raesvis cigusi vji xogi dunit fuxp epf nuept vjev O'n puv op cif et O'n aq iesmz gus xusl. Tvsephimz dupgofipv gus vji Hoepvt tietup vjot zies, O moli vji dav ug uas pix JD't koc. Xi'mm opiwovecmz ci...
Enjoy the season lids.
Ravens win it..
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