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    3 hours ago, mojoween said:

    Is it because Tommy seems fun while Daniel is Eli Manning’s more stoic younger brother?

    The embracement of DeVito is predictable:

    • Undrafted kid forced into starter role (Everybody loves an underdog story. Even me, who is underdog averse, likes this one.)
    • Wins 3 of his first 4 starts (Winning is winning)
    • Local kid with the whole, "Shouldn't be starting but has been thrust into the role, but wait! He still lives with his parents and eats his mom's cutlets for dinner."  (Relatable)
    • Italian American schtick, which is right up our alley. And when I say up OUR alley, I mean Northern New Jersey Giants fans such as myself who have Italian ancestors. Even if you're not of Italian heritage, you have a connection to it with the food and your friends. (Again, relatable)
    • The TEAM, starting with Saquon, clearly likes him and is much more enjoyable to watch seeing them having fun. (Winning is fun)
    • NOBODY in sports is more popular than the backup QB. Everybody loves that guy. And if that guy ends up going 3-1 in his first four starts (as opposed to let's say... Tim Boyle), well then, we have a lot of fans feeling justified in their love of anybody but Daniel Jones.

     

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    2 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

    I feel like this guy is going to be hated for awhile. And I do feel bad for him.  He fucked up and he knows he fucked up.

    He is, unfortunately, exactly what he has looked like he is this year with Kansas City. I hope he's been saving his money from his rookie contract, because he's dangerously close to being released and then hanging around as a fringe player for other teams. He's got drops all throughout the season. He's missed games with injuries. And then he made that mistake last night.

    He has not looked like a reliable player so far in his career. He is sometimes electric and exciting to watch, but reliable? Not even a little bit. 

     

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    22 hours ago, Black Knight said:

    I agree about the importance of a left tackle. But I don't know if I would consider Williams the MVP even on his own team, much less the league. That's because if all you have is a great LT, you're not going to win games, and the perfect example of this is Joe Thomas, one of the best offensive linemen ever, who played for the Browns his entire 11-year career, and had exactly one winning season with them, his first, followed by 10 years of abysmal losing seasons

    I didn't mean to imply that I think Williams should be considered for MVP. I just wanted to point out that the 49ers are 0-3 when they go from having the best Left Tackle in football to just some guy, versus 9-0 when he is in the lineup. It is not a coincidence. He's like a front left tire on the car. It's not a car with just a great front left tire, but the car's performance is severely compromised when it's bald or flat.

    And Joe Thomas, poor Joe Thomas. The Browns traded their 2008 R1 pick to trade up in that same 2007 to pick Brady Quinn. If he had turned into a good QB, the Browns would have had a very different experience during Thomas's career. (QB > LT and pretty much every position.) 

    Looking at the drafts from the several years after 2007, the Browns never really even had a shot at getting a good QB with their first round picks. Closest would have been when they traded their pick to the Jets who took Mark Sanchez. They also traded away a high R1 pick which was used to pick Julio Jones, which: Oof.  But on the other hand, great WR and great OT still doesn't overcome trash QB.

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    19 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

    Niners had injuries to key players. They're healthy now. 

    I can boil it down to ONE player above all else.

    Trent Williams, 2022 1st team All Pro Left Tackle, got hurt in the Cleveland game and missed the next two games. 

    • 49ers record in games when Trent Williams played hurt or missed: 0-3
    • 49ers record in games where Trent Williams was healthy: 9-0.

    Side note, 2022 2nd team All Pro Left Tackle Andrew Thomas got hurt on the first drive of the first game of 2023 (and if can make it so, this will be known from now on as the "Aaron Rodgers Special").  

    • Giants record in games when Andrew Thomas played hurt, compromised, or missed: 2-7
    • Giants record in games when Andrew Thomas was healthy: 2-1

    Shout out to the big men who can play Left Tackle at a high level in the NFL. They get PAID correctly, but we kind of forget to include them in the conversation about how damn important they are.

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    I feel like the Niners players REALLY want to win. They give off that kind of vibe. 
     

    I think from a strategic standpoint, it would be the Eagles who benefit more from a win. It virtually guarantees the one seed, the opportunity to rest banged up players last week two, and the week off. But strategic reasons typically don’t motivate players. 

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    On 11/21/2023 at 9:06 PM, mojoween said:

    “Major League” is SUCH a good movie (that has less than zero chance in hell of getting made today) but man.  The ending sucked.

    Heh.  Whenever anybody asks me what movie brings a tear to my eye, I always say Major League. And I'm a Yankees fan. And not only that, I'm very loud about not being a fan of rooting for underdogs. 

    But when it comes to fictional Yankees and fictional underdogs, I'm all in for the Major League Cleveland Indians every time.

    Charlie Sheen Baseball GIF by Comedy Central

    On 11/21/2023 at 9:56 PM, Notabug said:

    I had a 20 game season package that year. 

    My brother bought me a pair of tickets for a 20 game package to the Yankees in 1998.  (AKA: Happy Birthday bro! Enjoy getting to drive me to 20 Yankees game this summer.) 

    Having said that, he picked the absolute best year to do that.

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    4 hours ago, Calvada said:

    Forget playoff contenders, injury reports, coaches being fired - isn't it obvious the big story this week in the NFL is whether Taylor Swift and Simone Biles will both be at Lambeau Field Sunday night? 

    I'm actually working on my proposal to send to Goodell about starting a permanent league matchmaking service. Me and my team of public relations professionals, relationship gurus, and astrological matchmaking experts will see to it that every NFL team has a minimum of 2 celebrity love interests at all times. 

    We plan to set up Wink Martindale with Cher. We think that sparks would fly between Jake Elliott and Dua Lipa. We're pretty sure we can see to it that by the end of the 2024 season, no NFL game will go without at least 45-60 seconds of panning to a celebrity in a luxury box over the three hour broadcast.

    I'm thinking I could probably ask for a starting salary of at least $250K plus incentives.

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    Shark Tank in the Media

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    Looks like we'll get new episodes on 12/08 and 12/15 and then repeats the following two Fridays.  The 12/08 episode is described as follows from the ABC press release:

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    "Shark Tank" rings in the holiday season as the Sharks look to spread festive cheer to four new entrepreneurs. They are presented with business opportunities that are sure to turn anyone's spirit merry and bright.

    (College football this week.)

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    S01.E06: Kandi Burruss and JB Smoove

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    With the help of guest celebrity advisors, Kandi Burruss and JB Smoove, contestants must determine which products are real and which are a sham to advance to the "Snake Pit", for a chance to win life-changing money. Can they spot the real product or be duped by snake oil in the all-new "Kandi Burruss and JB Smoove" episode of Snake Oil

     

    Online Dating: Swiping Right Or Left?

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    On 10/22/2023 at 12:23 PM, RealHousewife said:

    I attract a lot of men who are bad boy types, ladies men, players, you get the picture.

    Pretty much by definition, those are the men who are actively making propositions. A LOT of decent men, mid-30's and older, become perfectly content to be on their own.

    They're not against getting into a healthy relationship, but actively hunting for one takes a lot of emotional energy (for a good man). They'll often just be pretty damn happy going to work, engaging in whatever activities they enjoy, and that's it.

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    Chit-Chat: What's On Your Mind Today?

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    7 hours ago, theredhead77 said:

    Usually the specials start around Black Friday. 

    Yes, I got Peacock at that time last year for like $20 for the year.

    7 hours ago, theredhead77 said:

    Though depending on the outcome of the strike the greedy overlords will probably axe those deals in the name of profits. 

    Greedy overlord here. (AKA: Financial Analyst who does the "Revenue > Expense math or we're all out of jobs" for a living.) TV is expensive to make. That $20 I paid for Peacock is a big money loser for NBC. The only way that makes sense for them is if a significant percentage of people who took the one year discount decide they like the service and keep it at the regular rate when the year is up.

    Peacock is more like a $20 per month than $20 per year product if that were the only way to get NBC shows. 

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    The Giants beat the Ravens last year 24-20 with Jackson at QB. 
     

    It is fair to say that the Giants coaching staff had plenty of experience with the Ravens, which went a long way. 
     

    Llamar threw an atrocious interception with the Ravens leading 20-17 with three minutes to go, which was the big reason they lost that game. 

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    On 8/13/2023 at 5:16 AM, dleighg said:

    I am a big V-brothers fan, but that menu is ridiculous.

    Catching up on Top Chef stuff, so I'm a day late and a dollar short here, but I would imagine that if Michael Voltaggio is involved, Green Bean Casserole and Pot Roast are likely to be "Green Bean Casserole" and "Pot Roast" in name only.

    It's not really his style to serve anything remotely close to what you would find in the standard Betty Crocker cookbook from 1983.

     

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    In non-Swift news, this was a really interesting week. A lot of teams that were previously anointed "Could be the best team in the NFL" sure as heck didn't look like that.  I think Detroit gets a bit of a pass from me, as playing Llamar Jackson and the Ravens is almost always really challenging for NFC teams. I think there's a really telling stat about it, where the Jackson led Ravens almost always beat NFC opponents. 

    I don't think we can give a pass to the Bills, Dolphins, or 49ers. (Although Miami had a tough battle against the officials in their game.)  All three of them backed up shaky games with a loss.  

    Then there is Philadelphia who bounced back with a good win, and Kansas City practically clinching the AFC West before Halloween.

    Everybody else just sort of the the middle of the pack. It's like a battle for who can stay the healthiest and have things bounce their way. 

     

    29 minutes ago, Johannah said:

    But like bluegirl147, it is annoying that people think women don't know or watch football or that Swift is bringing women/girls to watch it.  Maybe more females, but there have been a lot of female football fans for years. 

    This quote below about the impact to the ratings for the Amazon game a couple weeks ago clearly demonstrates what you're saying.

    A third (32%) of the typical viewing audience is female. It's significant, and nobody who understands the business side of the NFL would ever discount that women are a huge part of the fan base.

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    Perhaps most telling is the female viewership for the game, which saw an increase similar to what NBC experienced when the network broadcast the Chiefs-Jets game (which Swift also attended). The Broncos-Chiefs game averaged a female audience of 4.92M, which is an increase of +15% over the average female viewership of TNF’s first four games this season.

    Female viewership made up 36% of the total audience, compared to about 32% across the previous four games.

    In the 18-24 demographic, female viewership soared 29% to 303,000 (up from 234,000 across the last four TNF telecasts). In the 12-17 demo, female viewership was up 19% to 120,000.

     

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    6 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

    Now this is what annoys me.  The continued belief women don't know football.  Now yes there are women who don't but there are plenty of men who don't.

    For sure! It could have just as easily been a man who was only now aware of the Kansas City Chiefs. (But it does seem like this particular spike of interest in that  specific NFL team is mostly young women.)

    We shared a fun video here back in the summer that was put out by the Titans as part of their schedule announcement on social media. They did the same thing with team logos to random people wandering around that main street in Nashville. It was both men and women who were unable to identify the team logos. 

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    42 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

    Seriously?  Someone said this?  First of all the NFL was doing fine before Taylor and they will be doing well after Taylor.  And second, Swifties might be paying attention to the Chiefs but are they watching any other games?  And when she leaves for her world tour are they going to continue to watch the Chiefs?

    Exactly.

    • If somebody said that, they did not understand that the NFL is BY FAR the biggest thing on TV
      • However, the difference between 20 million viewers normally, and 27 million on a Swift attended Sunday night game is INSANE
      • So maybe she helps it be more epic?
    • No! The Swifties are not watching any other games, although the NFL is such a great sport that it's possible that if this goes on for a while, it might create a few more football fans. 
      • I saw a super fun reel on Instagram where it was "I ask my girlfriend to identify NFL Teams by their logo. The young woman got Patriots right, but the city very wrong. She called the Rams something like the swooshes, and go another one not even remotely close.
      • Then they showed the Chiefs logo and she immediately said, "Oh, that's Taylor Swift's team, the Kansas City Chiefs.  So I think that answers the question if they're interested in any other NFL games.
    • And, no, when Swift heads off to South America next month, it is unlikely that any Chiefs games will have a significant bump in ratings.

    And all of that is why I've made peace with "When she is at the game, it would be criminal negligence not to put her on TV." 

    I seriously can't dedicate even 0.0001% of a feeling to be annoyed that TV coverage of a three hour football game spends at most three or four minutes showing the extraordinarily popular pop star a few times.

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