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Post by TW on Aug 8, 2016 8:42:10 GMT -5
I've just about seen everything now. They can't even get the paint right, for the field marking. There's no end to their stupidity.
I think the league owes everyone more than just another "Oh, well!" Heads should roll, including the Commish, because this is just plain the height of stupid.
It appears that all they see is money signs, and the game itself is just something they need to put up with, to get the money.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2016 15:42:59 GMT -5
I would be so pissed if I made the trip out there to see the game and spent that kind of money. There is no excuse for this in the NFL. I'd be angry if that happened in one of my high schools. Unbelievable!
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Post by TW on Aug 8, 2016 15:54:55 GMT -5
A friend flew out there from LA for the game. She's a dyed-in-the-wool Packer fan, and to say she's mad would be an understatement. She's livid. This, combined with the fiasco down in Dallas for the last Super Bowl when the Packers were participating, and we're talking about a league that just plain doesn't seem to think that getting the venues right for the league's number one liked team is important.
The people at the top have too much money, and spend way too much time "entertaining themselves" at the cost of the ticket buyers who support the game.
It's time for the league to either get it straightened out, or they're going to take a dive just like baseball did with the steroids and juiced balls.
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Post by oakleaf on Aug 8, 2016 16:45:50 GMT -5
Come on TW, give them a break! Do you know how hard it is to plan for an annual event scheduled only months and months before the event and have the field ready in time?
Seriously, tens of thousands of football fields have been successfully painted before. You'd think they'd have the process down pat. Unreal. So here was the new process in a nutshell:
(1) The wrong paint is used and is taking too long to dry;
(2) To speed up drying time heat is applied causing melting of rubber pellets and congealing of the paint;
(3) A chemical is applied to remedy the issue which gets photographed and circulated to others highlighting said chemical's toxicity and burn danger found on a warning on the label;
(4) NFL decides they don't want players to roll around in said chemical.
Folks, I don't make this stuff up...
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Post by TW on Aug 8, 2016 22:20:55 GMT -5
You couldn't make that up! It's too far out there to even believe it could happen, but in the NFL, there it is. It's hard to believe in a league where Jerry Jones is considered a viable source of opinions as to what should be done to make the game better. He's the man that wants to pull his team out of the NFL as it stands, and operate independently.
What ticks me off about that is that there was a time when the Packers and a handful of other teams actually stepped up and surrendered certain revenues related to advertising to the league, to insure the Cowboys and a couple of other franchises wouldn't fold, because of the AFL.
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Post by happypacker on Aug 9, 2016 0:04:23 GMT -5
the field turf was a donation from the Saints and last year the Panthers complained it was to hard of a surface. then this year they add to it by not knowing the difference of the paint, they covered 100 yards bit by bit and never thought of checking the first few places to see if it was to the NFL code? then they want the players to get hurt? I thought they were about player safety? the entire team of field preparer's should be fired. said before,,, greed is the downfall of the human race.
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Post by TW on Aug 9, 2016 7:25:11 GMT -5
Totally agree. I'm steaming mad to be honest. This was a fiasco on the part of the league, from top to bottom. I'm really tired of seeing league big shots strutting their stuff around the league, and sucking up millions of dollars in salaries, as if it was "owed to them" by the public. It's time they come down out of their ivory towers and start realizing that they're sucking the life out of the league, and the people who support it. It's also time that a fairly large portion of what now is being paid in wages to players should be diverted to lifetime health insurance policies for these guys. They know what they're getting into, but so many end up penniless after they leave the game, and don't have anything to fall back on for health care. This needs to change.
Everything is "throw money at it!" That doesn't always work. Squirrel away money for these guys' futures. If you read some of the dumb things these guys do to end up broke, after they retire, you'll get what I mean. Some of them just stay afloat with millions of dollars a year incomes, and go belly up as soon as they are out of the game.
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Post by oakleaf on Aug 9, 2016 15:21:07 GMT -5
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Post by TW on Aug 9, 2016 16:37:41 GMT -5
It's tight underwear. You can't buy small when you weigh 250# without chaffing and feeling a lump in your throat. I've decided to join you on that forum as well. We can't let Shelly have all the fun now can we?  |
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Post by 68md on Aug 9, 2016 18:59:51 GMT -5
That's what they get for using a HS Stadium. They should move this game between Cleveland and Cincy on a rotating basis where they have NFL ready facilities. Let them keep the gate.They say they will renovate that site etc but in the end it's going to be a HS stadium with a face lift.. not an acceptable place to play IMHO.
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Post by TW on Aug 9, 2016 22:29:40 GMT -5
If it was a Texas high school facility, it would be like a Div I college stadium. They're awesome!
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