Ever wonder what makes grown men dress up in a costume, go to a football stadium and get robbed(without a gun in his face), cheer like a frat boy for a bunch of NFL players who don't give a rats ass about him or the city they represent.
Oakland Raiders fans, emphasis on Oakland, are learning what the NFL and the Raiders think of their loyalty. To purchase a season ticket in Las Vegas's Allegiant Stadium you must first buy a Personal Seat License. That PSL gives you the opportunity to then purchase a season ticket which must be renewed each year. Nothing new here other franchises do this but the Raiders found the Holy Grail in Las Vegas. A PSL goes from $500 up to $75,000 a one time fee. You can then park your car for $10 if you are capable of walking an obscene distance or pay $200 to get close to the stadium. There's nothing wrong with making all the money the market will allow but the Raiders didn't earn this landfall on the field. They just moved to Las Vegas. Smart move.
Oakland Raiders fans, emphasis on Oakland, are learning what the NFL and the Raiders think of their loyalty. To purchase a season ticket in Las Vegas's Allegiant Stadium you must first buy a Personal Seat License. That PSL gives you the opportunity to then purchase a season ticket which must be renewed each year. Nothing new here other franchises do this but the Raiders found the Holy Grail in Las Vegas. A PSL goes from $500 up to $75,000 a one time fee. You can then park your car for $10 if you are capable of walking an obscene distance or pay $200 to get close to the stadium. There's nothing wrong with making all the money the market will allow but the Raiders didn't earn this landfall on the field. They just moved to Las Vegas. Smart move.
NFL On Field Challenges are decided in a NY studio so your wager might not be decided on your andicapping choices.
What would a coach do with this "data" during a game? The Mountain West Conference this season partnered with sports technology company ShotTracker to provide its teams with “smart” sensor-embedded basketballs. The five-year partnership is intended to give teams access to advanced statistics, in real time, via location data collected from sensors placed in a basketball facility’s rafters, on players’ jerseys and inside basketballs. Teams that used these balls in the trial saw their shooting percentages and scores plummet. The balls were slippery and the grooves were not as deep.
Baseball has already pioneered this concept. They have baseballs that count rotations off the hitters bat, trajectory of the ball and other useless information. Sounds like something the Astros could perfect. |
Screw the rules go back and correct an obvious mistake & make it right. The Kentucky Derby got it right in their decision to DQ Maximum Security. A classic bad beat but it was a righteous decision not like so many recent bad and missed calls that turned entire seasons around. Talk about bad beats how about the ignored pass interference in the NFC Championship game that cost the NO Saints their rightful Super Bowl appearance. A blatant no call that will haunt the franchise forever. Then there's the incorrect call that eliminated the LV Golden Knights from the Stanly Cup playoffs. Both the NFL and NHL admitted they were wrong but the calls should have been corrected immediately no matter what the absurd replay rules say. It was that crucial. Then we witness a missed double dribble and resultant three foul shots with .06 on the clock that cost Auburn a place in the Final Four. How can we handicap this crap? We can't.
From The UCLA Daily Bruin 7/21/2019 "The California State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education voted unanimously with one abstention in favor of SB 206, which would give California collegiate student-athletes the ability to profit off their own likeness, on Tuesday. SB 206 – also known as the Fair Pay to Play Act – passed 31-4 in the California State Senate on May 22 and would go into effect in January 2023 if approved".…...continuing...…. "On the national stage, North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker introduced the Student-Athlete Equity Act in March. His legislation would revoke the NCAA’s tax-exempt status if Emmert(NCAA President) refuses to give student-athletes the right to their own NIL rights"...…. The NCAA is in a Game Of Chicken they'll lose. Which school will be first to tell the NCAA so long, been nice knowing you but we don't need you anymore? Other's will follow like dominoes. The time is fast approaching when the top 20 or so super programs, the top money producers, will form a Super League without the hypocritical NCAA anchor skimming the cream off the top. |
The NFL claims to be worried about the phony integrity of their games with the passage of sports betting legislation. That's laughable when obvious, less than righteous calls are routine in NFL games.
They just can't help it. The Patriots filmed(stole) the Bengals, yes those Bengals, coaches signals before they met this season. |