I'll only mention it once so spare me the FF hate. We're trying to get a second, higher stakes league going. Buy-in is tentatively $240, but may change depending on input/interest. Any questions, there is a thread in the off-topic area. If you are interested, here is a join link...

https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1060450/invitation?key=2d8d8f00ce233fca&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=51d2717741b4ec5b

Bring back Hollywood Vic !

Vic’s alive and well and fighting the good(?) fight over in the JJP playfield quality thread.

You’ve got my vote. Without Who-Dey (RIP) and Vic the NFL thread lacks a certain spice.

Still not sure that wasn't him and his buddies at the pre-season game fighting in the stands!

I thought I saw some beards and Botox !

Bring Vic back! Who’d he piss off?

Ha I didn't see those until earlier today, yikes! Rough year coming up.

The "block"

https://twitter.com/i/status/1426716722023776259

Get home from playing pinball tourney to see Lions have released Don Mulhlbach. Sad news.

Now before you all go "who?" he was Detroit's Long Snapper for 17years - just think about how many losses this guy got to play in....

Let go on his 40th B-Day. #sad

Merciful. Can you imagine playing on the Detroit Lions in your 40s?

From the Lions fan site:

Death. Taxes. D̶o̶n̶ ̶M̶u̶h̶l̶b̶a̶c̶h̶

When I talk about I wish we had a NFL game on 5-6 nights a week, I am not talking about giving anyone less time to rest and prepare.

I think the NFL already uses computer software to make the schedule, and it even figures out when it will work if the NFL team shares a field with a baseball team, or any other team.

I think it could be done to have more nightly primetime games, while giving the players 8-9 days to rest and prepare.

So for example, your team plays on this Tuesday night, then their next game is the next Wednesday night or Thursday night, 8-9 days away.

I know the same players can not play all the time like in other sports, and I know right now players hate playing on Sunday, and then again on Thursday night.

I really think the NFL and the players union would really go for this.

More prime time NFL to make more TV money, while the players get more rest in between games also.

The only downside I see to this, is the fans that tailgate every Sunday, (or every other Sunday), schedule would be thrown off.

I would love it if there was 3 NFL games on TV on Sundays, (like now, 1pm, 4pm, and 8pm), and then one NFL game on pretty much every night the rest of the week.

I would love to see more Broncos games, and local TV does not show many, but if more games were on during primetime all week, we could all see more teams that we hardly ever get to watch.

Hell, I never get to see any Bears games, and many other teams I would like to watch, so as someone that really loves to watch NFL games, pretty much any team, it would be a win-win.

Problem with playing too often then people will get overloaded with or saturated with NFL so it becomes less special.

I know it does suck that you can’t watch every good game live but I got this service called NFL Game Pass and I can watch full games (recorded) later in the week so if there was a particularly good matchup I’ll watch that later.

I do wish the NFL would spread out the 1pm and 4pm games better like have 9 early and 6 late rather than 11 early games and 4 late.

Meh, watched Bobby Hart do this in cincy for years.

Unless you’re QBTB can you imagine playing anywhere else?

After watching the 1st few episodes of Hard Knocks it seems the Packers past success was despite Mike McCarthy not because of him.

Has Cam made a deep throw yet?

Eagles calling him “Checkdown King" at joint practices

Matt Jones laying claim to Patriots QB job? Cam has looked lethargic for several years now

Mac Jones looks good.Real good.

I guess if he wins the job I will learn his first name

But it was against the eagles, and the team (eagles) overall played poorly. Cool to see Evanders kid run the ball a few times..

Scary to think about KC this year with the new o-line.

If rb Clyde Edwards Helaire + wr Hardman can take the next step up, this offense can be something special..

It worked perfectly streaming from my phone to the TV for the game last night. https://506sports.com/nfl/ for broadcast maps and you are set. Beats the hell out of alt streams.

Yeah, we'll see. Go Bucs!

Funny I was just thinking of this today. There is a good chance a game will be blacked out in the local market and force me to set a new location in the visiting team city. Leaving it as is for now as I can easily toggle between my fake location and my actual location to determine my local market.

I was driving from my wife's parent's place to my parent's, away from the stadium. There was a guy walking and I slowed down and gave him a little space. He gave a wave, and I instinctively waved back. As I passed him I realized it was Mark Murphy. Pretty mad at myself right now.

Dude, ramming your car into him is NOT the answer!!! You did the right thing.

So any of my cincy brethren watch the game last night? I couldn't bring myself to spending a friday night watching a Cincy-Washington Preseason game, but I did watch the highlights. Any takeaways?

Washington will be better.

Missed most of the Chicago game. Are the Bills that good or the Bears that bad?

Hmmm. Let's see

QB not afraid to chuck it
WR likely future All-Pro
RB shifty and likes to catch
DL good to very good?

Likely adds up to a team that costs novice bettors a lot of money and may even win 8 games and repeat as NFC East Champions!

I’m no Gator fan, far from that. It’ll be interesting how Trask does tonight.

Welp - after watching two Lions preseason games I am ready to announce Derrick Barnes LB, 4th round pick out of Purdue can play in the NFL.

Not sure if its the Kool-Aid or tequila talking but this is shaping up to be the best Lions draft class in years.

How's Jamaal Williams looking? I miss that guy.

Did nothing week 1, didnt play week 2. His role as RB 1B pretty much locked in, hopefully he gets enough carries to take pressure and beatings off Swift

Year of the Tua!

Only got to see the end about last 4 minutes or so. From all the articles it was your typical preseason, Washington took the lead late in the 4th after a Cincy fumble but hell I don't even know who dropped it lol. Been working so much lately haven't had time to watch much of anything.

Glancing at the standings the AFC has 28 wins and 3 losses.The NFC has 3 wins and 28 losses.Useless but interesting.

I saw this post about future WFT name. I don't really love any but I guess I would go Presidents. Hogs would be fine but Red Hogs is absurd.

https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1428105960560726022/photo/1

The Washington Football Team has reportedly narrowed their list of potential names down to 3 options, per the team's "Making the Brand" series.

Their finalists come from these eight:

- Armada
- Presidents
- Brigade
- RedHogs
- Commanders
- RedWolves
- Defenders
- WFT

If they are going to keep the burgundy and gold colors, I don't see them going with a patriotic/USA themed name.
All along my thought was to go with Washington Americans.

How about “Washington Wineskins?” They can keep their colors, maybe pick up a Peter Vella sponsorship.

They should just keep WFT, it’s better than any of those other choices.

RedWolves seems to be the overwhelming favorite. Most of them are pretty awful and sound like XFL teams.

If the past year has proven anything to me it’s that I don’t really give a shit what the team is called, I’m rooting for the uniform just
Like I have for 40 years.

It’s pretty amazing how things change. About 10 years ago I honestly, deeply felt that changing the name would mean the death of the team and I’d have to find a new one to root for. Turns out it really doesn’t matter and the past 10 years everybody spent arguing and fighting about it was a complete waste of time.

Agreed.

I think their rivals are hoping for Red Hogs. They can have a lot of fun with that one...

Trevor Lawrence and Jameis Winston,hopefully, play extended minutes tonight. It’ll make it worth watching.

I predict 3 Jameis Interceptions... and 1 fumble...

So it sounds like I will be able to make the trip to the GB@KC game. Any recommendations on seats? I don't really feel like spending much more than 4-500, but I'm open to it if it's a vastly different experience. Are the top sections to be avoided?

4-500 Pennies?

I love the NFL, but no way I would spend 4-500 Dollars for something I can watch for free on my own TV, and have all the beer I want, without having to pay 5 bucks or whatever per beer, and not having to worry about driving anywhere, after a few beers.

Yeah, I know, I am old and cheap.