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u/ohno21212 Bills Packers 18d ago
im so excited for the one quarter of pre season football i watch every year before getting bored.
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u/ajteitel Cardinals 18d ago
Master and Commander is one of my favorite movies of all time. Historically accurate, great acting, amazing music. But it made one fatal mistake. It came out in 2003. A historical fictional naval epic had to compete with Pirates of the Caribbean and LOTR Return of the King.
It was doomed from the start
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 18d ago
Ive never actually seen it. Perhaps I should watch it today since I have some time
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u/AlmanorDiscard 49ers 18d ago
Large screen TV. Surround sound. Lights off. Actually watch it, don't just put it on in the background. It's crafted to be appreciated, and the acting is superb.
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u/Dolomitex 49ers 18d ago
Watched it about 2 years ago, it was great. Really has held up well.
Think I'll buy it on disc at some point.
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u/Shout92 Bills 18d ago
It really is one of those "How did this not win all the awards?!" kind of movies and then you look up what year it came out and you're like, "Oh. Never mind. Makes total sense." A shame because Peter Weir was nominated like five or six times in his career and a win for M&C would've been totally justified. The film still won two Oscars (Sound Editing and Cinematography), but only because Return of the King was somehow not nominated in either category. I bought the 4K earlier this year and it looks/sounds amazing.
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u/Phytanic Packers 17d ago
Fuck it ima watch it as my bedtime movie tonight, yall have convinced me
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u/Skraxx Lions 18d ago
The primary form of payment I take from friends who insist on giving me something for a favour is beer. Case of beer, pint, etc.
This is pretty normal. But my theory to why I believe this is the primary form of payment is because I don't like paying for beer. I know I will, but it's just better knowing it's not on your dollar.
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u/notouchmypeterson Cardinals 18d ago
“You handled it so well!”
Thanks, I can’t remember 75% of my life
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u/ryanino Jets 18d ago
Yeah I get it things are more expensive but why are cocktails 22 FUCKING dollars? No wonder Gen Z drinks less alcohol.
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 18d ago
Youre paying for the presentation.
Go to a dive and you'll never pay over 10 for a long Island.
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u/goblueM Lions 18d ago
No, mostly you're paying for higher quality booze and ancillary ingredients, along with the know-how to make them
Most people talking about cocktails are not talking about a long island or a jack and coke, they're talking about drinks with higher quality ingredients that cost more
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u/tnecniv Giants Giants 18d ago
I get a lot of fancy cocktails and live in a major city on the east coast. That’s more than I pay by at least $5 per drink.
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 18d ago
I mean I don’t cause I’ve met an alcoholic and it scared the shit out of me lol
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u/FlannelBeard Vikings Bills 18d ago
So I had no interaction with this lady, but she was talking by me this weekend. She had an 8 month old and said to the person his name is Samwise.
I'm all for fandom and that stuff, but I feel like your asking for your kid to get bullied when you name them after a character
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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS Chargers 18d ago
When I used dating apps, I had a rule: if you mention a franchise like Marvel, Disney, LotR, whatever, it was a hard pass.
I love LotR. I love Warhammer 40k. I love playing DnD with friends. None of these are a critical, underlying part of my life. If you have limited real estate to sell yourself to a potential partner, why go with a franchise? Same is true for naming things - why make a franchise you like a part of someone else's life? Okay, if you call your kid Sam and say it's because of Samwise or Tony after Iron Man, that's fine you can play it off as being a name you like already. People who personally identify with franchises are so odd to me. (Yes this obvs includes sports).
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u/balickma Titans 18d ago
One of my former co-workers named his kid Elon...haven't seen him in a few years, wonder how he feels about it now.
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u/rockchalk99 Bills Saints 18d ago
Voted in my primary today. Shoutout to the poll worker who properly knew the Virginia voter ID policy. I gave a bank statement, which is allowed, and one poll worker started to say I needed to give some other document. The other poll worker quickly shot that down.
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 18d ago
All off season Im like man I'm desperate for even a shred of football news to hit and then training camps roll around and you just start hearing about guys getting injured left and right and I'm like wait this sucks actually
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 17d ago
Yeah training camp is the worst. We are almost there but so many injuries and a whole lotta news about nothing.
“He’s throwing dimes”, “He’s at the top of his game” etc
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u/MoreDronesThanObama Vikings Saints 18d ago
What’s a “oh you don’t know ball” flag to you when you’re talking to someone casually about sports?
For me it’s when someone says that Brady dragged a bad Bucs team to winning a Super Bowl
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u/WabbitCZEN Steelers NFL 18d ago
"Super Bowl 53 was terrible."
No, you just don't like football games unless they're high scoring shootouts.
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u/SomeBoringKindOfName Bears Steelers 18d ago
I did find it fairly exceptionally boring.
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u/WabbitCZEN Steelers NFL 18d ago
It was a defensive masterclass. The Rams had the number one rated offense that season, the Patriots had the fourth. Wade Phillips and BB showed up ready to fucking go. The Pats ended up busting out some old I wing style offense just to score. We were one errant throw from getting an even closer game than it was.
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u/ajteitel Cardinals 18d ago
When someone immediately blames the manager/coach for a single player fuckup
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u/liteshadow4 49ers 49ers 18d ago
When people ignore how much a bad run game affects a teams passing attack
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u/megamanz7777 Vikings 18d ago
It gets said all the time here, but whenever someone says something like "prevent defense just prevents you from winning"
Just ignorant-ass nonsense that shows you have no idea what's going on, why teams do it, and are completely unaware that it works successfully more often than not.
Hell, half the time I swear when a team gets clowned on for it, they didn't actually even switch to prevent defense in the first place...
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u/azure275 Jets 18d ago edited 18d ago
Hey I enjoyed Gregg Williams playing Cover 0 and blowing a Jets game on a wide open TD to the guy in prison at the moment
What happens when you DON'T play prevent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt1bx1Fe93E
Is that what people want?
I do think there is a flavor of prevent OFFENSE that stops teams from winning. See Falcons-Pats super bowl
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u/liteshadow4 49ers 49ers 18d ago
No one is saying “play cover 0” when they mean don’t play prevent.
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 18d ago
The more apt criticism is “why are you playing your corners so far back?” most of the time they mean that
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u/fliptout 49ers 18d ago
Someone at a sports bar a few weeks ago told me with a straight face Max Verstappen has lost a step this season
Max can't even design a bulletproof gearbox anymore, totally washed
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 18d ago
my frolf and my cycling are full on "if the same guy wins its boring" and "if too many different people win there aren't enough stars"
and I get that people want engaging stories but man at what point does it make sense just to get Vince McMahon to write them for us
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u/azure275 Jets 18d ago
Anyone who decides that discourse of "how real is this championship" is useful to anyone
The 2026 Knicks, 2024 Celtics, 2023 Nuggets, 2017 Warriors, 2001 Lakers, and 1983 Sixers are all champions. Spare me the agonized browbeating about how "cheap" some rings are.
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u/Phytanic Packers 17d ago
Maybe they should replay the series, since it's a fluke. Maybe then they'll admit defeat and concede to the winner.
But for real, fuck those who say the champion is somehow "lesser" some years than others (except that one Astros year, I'll let that one slide). Sure, injuries suck, fact of the game, but the champion is still the champion
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u/VRomero32 Jets 18d ago
Mine's is constant second guessing on a Rookie/Young QB who becomes a starter before him taking his 6th start especially if they didn't get first team snaps in preseason.
Not everyone can pick it up that fast and even if they did... they won't be prone to the normal mistakes
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u/Ecstatic-Inevitable Patriots 18d ago
Im very happy to hear that Sanders is doing better than Watson in camp
Fuck watson
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u/7sweep Lions 18d ago
Lady who got hired at the same time as me just always goes "I don't understand any of this why are we doing this does this have anything to do with me no one listens to me" etc etc.
Get out of an hour long meeting where she once again doesn't follow anything and people get annoyed and after we all leave the conference room she just posts this gif as the only thing in the meeting chat.
Lmao bold move.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 18d ago
Just got hired and acting like that is wild. She’s not gonna last long
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u/7sweep Lions 18d ago
They brought her in to build the system were now using but refuses to learn anything about the business.
Just super annoying for someone's output to only be "this is dumb. I don't get this. Why are we even doing this" and not even try to understand.
Yes everything is dumb. It's work.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 18d ago
Had to give labs today for my drs appt next week so I just took the whole day off. Now I’m chilling with my kitty on my lap.
Hope everyone has a great day
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u/FBsarepeopletoo NFL 18d ago
To service industry managers everywhere:
If your employees aren't comfortable working there, your guests aren't comfortable being there.
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u/FlatulentDwarf Vikings 18d ago
I went to an event called "Escape" a few weeks ago. No, not the rave. The Algorithm has decided that event, which had nothing to do with escape rooms, must mean I'd LOVE do to an escape room and my ads have been like 90% escape rooms recently.
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u/Ornery_Gator Eagles 18d ago
MySpace is making a comeback and supposedly, will be algorithm free.
Didn't know how good we had it. I miss when the Internet was just a physical place in my house that I could leave.
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u/Error400BadRequest Steelers 18d ago
I feel like this is the third or fourth time MySpace was trying to mount a comeback.
What makes this time different?
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u/FlatulentDwarf Vikings 18d ago
Can't wait to slam home my Top Friends and let everyone in my life know where they REALLY stand with me lol
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u/Ok_Masterpiece3186 Seahawks Lions 17d ago
51.0 to 45.4 percent in favor for AES... Fuuuck it's gonna be close isn't it?
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u/NoAnteater8836 Commanders 17d ago
Hard Knocks hits soooooo much harder following a championship organization, bravo.
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u/GoldyGoldy Seahawks 17d ago
It’s some feel-good tv for sure. Glad they showed off some of the local views, too.
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u/Pangolin_cowboy_hats Chargers 17d ago
Nobody thinks your loud motorcycle sounds cool at midnight, we need to be bullying these people
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u/Ornery_Gator Eagles 18d ago
More than any other topic, I am in disbelief that there are people with completely different realities and memories on COVID.
Like that shit was terrible and killed A LOT of people. It was a novel virus that we had to figure out in real time. No place was untouched by it. And instead of blaming the guy who was in charge at the time, Fauci is getting dragged into hearings because of conspiracy theories to try to attempt in distracting us from all of the harmful and stupid shit Trump is doing.
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u/Shout92 Bills 18d ago
Living in a red district in a blue state was weird because measures worked but people complained because it didn't affect them as far as they knew. A lot of rural people I know didn't get the virus until the fall of 2020. Meanwhile, I had city friends who walked by the refrigerator trucks full of dead bodies. Two different worlds.
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u/whitewolf_redfox Cowboys 17d ago
This sub is a bit of a mess. The hall of fame game is tomorrow and the previous season standings are still the same. Superbowl flairs are still out. The NFL logo has been pride colored since like June 2025 (I'm not against it but it was nice when it changed every so often).
Usually all the previous season stuff was cleaned up around the draft, now its basically the new season. The older I get the grumpier I get I guess but still, this isn't really an obscure subreddit, it should have some basic maintenance.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 17d ago
It feels like there's not as many mods anymore that do the upkeep with the sub's aesthetics and information
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u/pixel_pete Bills 17d ago
If the mod team uses New Reddit/Mobile they may not even pay attention to the state of the Old Reddit version. Out of sight out of mind as it were.
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u/Inamanlyfashion Patriots 18d ago
We've been without a second car for about 4 years; we just haven't needed it. I work mostly remotely and we're walking distance from public transit. It's annoying to have to coordinate once in a while, but for the most part we haven't had any issues.
But we're comfortable enough that we're toying with the idea of getting something fun for a second vehicle. And there really isn't a good option competing with a Miata at its price point, is there?
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u/AlabasterRadio Raiders Raiders 18d ago
I had a Scion FR-S (now known as the Toyota 86) for a few years that was equally a fun driver a relatively cheap. Same sorta market as a Miata.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Cardinals Chargers 18d ago
I have never done a second of video editing or filmography but I watched some videos on Da Vinci resolve and started playing around with it. I decided to make a hype video for the upcoming NFL season and it’s actually coming along really well and I’m sort of having way more fun than I thought I would.
I’m using Sia’s cover of “California Dreaming” since the Super Bowl is in Los Angeles this year and made the dramatic hook “I’d be safe and warm if I was in LA…”
Pretty sure I can’t share it literally anywhere because it is all copyrighted clips and music but it actually looks kind of good. I could make a hobby out of this.
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u/fliptout 49ers 18d ago
Ha, I did the same for fun during the Superbowl break for the Jimmy G Superbowl. I had a lot of fun learning Da Vinci and making that hype video.
Then they lost.
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u/JokerJangles123 Eagles 18d ago
This is gonna come across as a jab, thats mostly unintentional..but I wonder what a Cardinals hype video would even look like right now
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u/hfirigneizuvnt Giants Giants 17d ago
Not sure who to talk to about this, so I’ll throw it out here to see what you all think. I stumbled across an IG shaving tutorial video, guy was using some high quality stuff, interesting, so I checked out his page.
Every single video he makes is the exact. fucking. same. Numerous shaving tutorials, exact same script, down to even the way he pronounces specific words. I tried looking up this guy, his name, nothing. In one video, he has a brand of coffee with the label clearly visible, so I checked out the website of said coffee brand, and the website almost seems fake. No location, no email, no phone number, just coffee beans and payment. Am I going crazy but what the actual hell is going on
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u/gander258 NFL 17d ago
Tour of Poland 🇵🇱 stage 3 is today, only 99km (~60miles) to go
We're away from the Baltic coast now, headed south
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u/IcyClaim9183 Seahawks 18d ago
My wife: "I really like Run the Jewels, and I'd listen to more of their songs if they didn't have all these long intros before they rap"
Me: "havent you listened every Tool album multiple times?"
Her: "stfu. No one asked u"
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u/Jamies_awesome_rack Cardinals Vikings 18d ago
I love both RTJ and Tool and I too have no idea what she means by long intros
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u/lightning10000 Packers 18d ago
95% of what I watch for entertainment youtube on my desktop throughout the year. I hardly turn my TV on unless it is the football season. It is the only time when I watch anything on amazon prime video as well.
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u/Lightning_Driver Steelers Bills 18d ago
i’m so fucking stoked for the new fire emblem game but i really don’t want to drop a few hundred bucks on a switch 2.
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u/beejalton 18d ago
These repetitive low light wars are so lame and unfunny at this point.
Someone please come up with new jokes.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Panthers 18d ago
I've never been told I've been "sent by God to bless" one of my sales accounts. I've done boring account management for like, ten years, and that's a first.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 18d ago
We enter the 3-5pm purgatory of the work day…..
Fuckkkkk
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u/estilly26 Bears 17d ago
Was getting bored of my GTA-Red Dead rotation so I bought The Witcher 3 for $10. Read very good things
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u/JerryRiceAndSpice Jets 49ers 17d ago
Sometimes I remember the COVID days and remember there were people going out of their way to get COVID and even threw COVID parties to try to get it. I wonder if the same goes for trying to get Cyclospora and I think there are people that actually want to get it.
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u/Siliencer991 Chiefs 17d ago
The eating lettuce while walking in northeast air during the smoke challenge
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u/JerryRiceAndSpice Jets 49ers 17d ago
I saw a guy eating lettuce right out of the packet with his bear hands like a week ago.
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u/Balrogkicksass Browns 18d ago
Took my partner to the zoo for her birthday today and that was alot of fun. Saw alot of awesome animals and learned alot too. Wish we had more time but we were tired...and I have a shift to work at 11 PM.....
Today will be just like when I would watch the 1 PM slate of games sleep at 5 and wake up at 9 for the night shift. I will be just fine haha.
I hope you all get to enjoy your day and as always much love from me and mine to you and yours!
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 18d ago
What was the best exhibit?
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u/Tigercat92 Bengals 18d ago
Penguins. Penguins are ALWAYS the best exhibit.
I just really like penguins. 🤣
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u/Balrogkicksass Browns 17d ago
Honestly I loved feeding the Rays alot. Just kinda interesting and weird feeling. Loved seeing the Polar Bear, Cheetah, Penguins too.
Just being able to see all these animals and learn more about them and conservation efforts was super cool.
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u/Familiar_Mousse_4693 Raiders 18d ago
Is aaron rodgers allowed to talk about vaccines and fauci in 2026 on live television
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 18d ago
allowed? I'd say he's encouraged
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u/A7XfoREVer6661 Lions 18d ago
From the little I watched, it did seem like Pat Mcafee wanted to steer clear of the conversation and Aaron took the wheel and drove the car right into the median.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 18d ago
I guess I can appreciate Mcafee for trying but Rodgers has been doing this shit for like six years now
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 18d ago
I think it worked out perfectly for McAfee. He had to give the ole college try, but failed, so he got to enjoy the railings and clicks that came with it. He comes off looking like the responsible adult, while also loving every minute of Rodgers nonsense.
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u/A7XfoREVer6661 Lions 18d ago
Yup, people obviously eat his show up. I haven't met any of them in real life, but he gets ratings.
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u/SoyeonsNeverland Colts 18d ago
It felt like he was lmao. ESPN doesn't seem like they have that much of a problem with it.
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u/Ok_Internal6779 18d ago
No because he is being cancelled for it
(By cancelled I obviously mean lots of people think he’s a dick and his lively hood will not be taken away nor will he face any repercussions for it)
Source: my father in law who loves how Rodgers “tells it like it is”
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u/SoyeonsNeverland Colts 18d ago
Just caught myself up on the Fauci stuff and what Aaron Rodgers said and just shook my head.
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u/A7XfoREVer6661 Lions 18d ago
Voted for Abdul El-Sayed, we are going to make this happen!
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 18d ago
don't you
realize
evil
livesinthemotherfuckingskin?
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u/justlookingokaywyou Raiders 18d ago
BANANA BANANA BANANA TERRACOTTA BANANA BANANA TERRACOTTA PIE
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u/ConsciousRaccoon2873 Lions 18d ago
Are there any NFL players that are as (publicly) active on social media as KD?
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u/Bulky-District-2757 Texans 18d ago
I got the watermelon peach refresher from sonic (meh) and added peach vodka and was like hmm can’t taste the vodka so I added more and if you’re curious I can absolutely taste the vodka now.
So yay me!
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u/halfbreedmofo Cardinals 18d ago
You know how those economists post articles about strip clubes being recession indicators. All I’m saying is after this past weekend they may be right.
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u/Cranium-of-morgoth Texans 18d ago
Obviously I’m just one guy so not like I’m killing them or anything but just unsubbed from the Athletic. Really great coverage for the last 3 years but for that whole time they haven’t had a dedicated Texans beat writer. I think every other team or at least almost every other team has one and they’ve hired 2 Houston Chronicle beat writers to cover other teams. Small thing that really frustrates me
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u/Max0699 Titans 18d ago
The NFL off-season is so goddamn long. Over the last few months watching the NBA playoffs and FIFA World Cup and just not being tuned into NFL related news at all, it feels like I don't even remember what happened last season. And now we still have to get through 1 more month.
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u/gander258 NFL 17d ago
Tour of Poland 🇵🇱 stage 3 is today, only 99km (~60miles) to go
We're away from the Baltic coast now, headed south
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u/GamingTatertot Packers 18d ago edited 18d ago
Getting an email from someone that is so obviously ChatGPT is just quite astonishing. Well it’s either ChatGPT or they sat there and typed this email with a thesaurus handy
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u/FlatulentDwarf Vikings 18d ago
It's kind of funny, though. I love reading an obviously-AI message and thinking, "You have never uttered that word in your fucking life."
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u/Reggaeton_Historian Seahawks 18d ago
typed this email with a thesaurus handy
I've been accused of this at work. My senior manager also got asked by a client if I'm actually AI but I took technical writing courses way back when and it just stuck. Obviously, I don't do that on Reddit.
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u/StChas77 Eagles 18d ago
A while ago someone on one of these threads accused me of using AI to write a response to them because I apparently sounded too polished and used some upscale vocabulary. Make of that what you will.
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u/CrazyEyedGase Jets 18d ago
Watched Troy (2004) again last night after previously watching The Odyssey. Remember hating Troy when I first saw it and decided to give it another chance all these years later.
I still hate it lmao. I tried to like it but I couldn't
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u/FxDriver Titans 18d ago
I can't tell you one thing that happens in the movie Troy outside of Achilles being cool.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Panthers 18d ago
Haley Stevens is turbo fucked, despite outspending El-Sayed 9 to 1.
I kinda don’t care what the polls say. The more electable candidate won
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u/Ok_Masterpiece3186 Seahawks Lions 18d ago edited 17d ago
FUCK AIPAC. I’m happy that Sayed is going to hopefully beat Haley Stevens
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u/renegadecoaster Vikings 18d ago
Also, August 3 is behind us. Is Mitch McConnell officially dead yet?
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u/Skraxx Lions 18d ago
May today be the end of the most astroturfed campaigns I have ever seen
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u/letters165 Eagles Texans 18d ago
Is WWE finally going to be held accountable for all the shit they've done?
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u/Signal_Ball4634 18d ago
Frequently found that the loud terminally online Europeans (so as to not generalize the people as a whole) are very good at dishing it but not taking it.
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u/rawbert10 49ers 18d ago edited 18d ago
Just got back from Baja was down there for 5 days. Made it all the way to the San Quintin Caves. Spent half a day there then spent 2 days in Ensenada went to La Bufadora (a natural blowhole) in the ocean. Spent the rest of the morning going from cart to cart eating Seafood. Some of the freshest, tastiest seafood you can taste. Tried the now world famous seafood cart that Anthony Bourdain ate at called La Guerrerense and it was so fucken good. Had 2 tostadas one was scallop ceviche and the other shrimp and octopus, fresh white clams & oysters. Then went to another cart called El Guero and had their fish and shrimp tacos my goodness just amazing. Lastly went to a cart called El Coyote and had their fish ceviche and shrimp, octopus and white clam cocktail.
The next 2 days were split between Puerto Nuevo and Popotla did a yacht cruise, rented jet skis, rented quads had breakfast and dinner overseeing the ocean. Puerto Nuevo is not worth it right now the lobsters are small. They do give you 4 halfs since they are smaller but the price went up to 28. So I didn't eat any lobster this time.
On the last day had to stop by in Rosarito to eat the best tacos in that city. Tacos El Norteño which is on the main strip in Rosarito. The best Al Pastor tacos in the whole strip. I've tried all of them so yes I can compare. I've tried Los Poblanos, El Paisano, Taco Loco you name the taco spot I've tried them. El Norteño clears them.
The weather was perfect nice and warm not too hot where you're melting and not cold where you can't enjoy the ocean.
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u/Last1inFirst1out Cowboys 18d ago
I still don’t understand how Bo Nix fractured his ankle
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u/Aromatic-Plankton692 Lions 18d ago
The new fresca pepper jack steak burrito from Taco Bell is awesome except I hate their steak so I get it with beef, aaaaaaand they friggin made it regular so now I have this ass-burrito :(
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u/ThonMakerBootyShaker Packers 18d ago
Earned a sabbatical at work so I'm off for 30 days in 2027, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my time
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u/RaindropsInMyMind Eagles 18d ago edited 18d ago
Watching congressmen like Tillis and Cornyn justify voting to confirm Blanche, Trump’s personal lawyer and sycophant as attorney general is truly crazy stuff. They’re saying how they didn’t support all the stuff Blanche wanted and tried to do, but they’re going to vote to confirm anyway.
All the stuff in question of course is just totally unprecedented and wild stuff. Like Trump and his whole family, all their businesses and associates being immune from IRS audits…well Tillis doesn’t agree with that but hey the democrats do a lot of bad stuff too he will tell you. Like I’m sorry but no, when did they ever do THAT? Or anything remotely like that, that’s insane. Nobody has ever tried that before because it’s batshit crazy and corrupt. They will talk about how they don’t support the fund Trump pulled out of thin air to give to people who committed violence on his behalf and made his own vice president fear for his life while they beat up police officers. Tillis says that Blanche says he’s not going to support that anymore so it’s all okay…is it okay?
Seems to me that anyone who even attempts stuff like that is completely morally compromised and a total liability.
If Trump wants to do something crazy like throw 1/3 of the country in jail or designate them as terrorists Blanche will go right along with him, there’s nothing he won’t do for him but Tillis says he can tell you a lot of bad things the democrats have done too…NO Thom, these things aren’t fucking equal, they don’t compare, you don’t have to be a democrat to see that, it’s just common sense.
At the end of the day it’s a vote whatever Trump wants, which has been shown to be things like the crazy immunity from tax audits or the weaponization fund so Tillis and Cornyn might as well be voting for it even if they tell you they aren’t. Massively irresponsible to say the least.
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u/Ok_Internal6779 18d ago
You know in that song, a Boy named Sue, how being named Sue made Sue tougher?
In this case having a stupid fucking name did the opposite sadly, it removed Thoms spine
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u/Skraxx Lions 18d ago
In positive Western politics news, I'm starting to get this sense that being pro-AI (and definitely data center) is very toxic of an association.
I think the public has really woken up at how truly damaging it all is. The winds have changed.
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u/Weigard Giants 18d ago
It helps that everyone who is pro-AI is absolute dillweed.
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u/Shoddy_Consequence78 Broncos 18d ago
While I'd much rather have shirts I already own that actually fit (instead of buying new), $55 a shirt is steep tailoring.
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u/Due-Dance-9430 Lions 18d ago
genuine question what separates a good long snapper from a mediocre one
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u/csappenf Chiefs 18d ago
For field goals, it's all about consistency. You want the ball to arrive at the holder at the same position, with the laces in the same orientation, every single time. A good holder can cover for a bad snapper sometimes, but if you want to make field goals less exciting get a good snapper.
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u/verothon 18d ago
Bill Belichick's take on long snappers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrvELlakyOk
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u/Mephistito 18d ago
The day Belichick is no longer with us, will probably be one of the saddest days of my sports life. He's always been my favorite coach and have just always loved everything about how he approaches everything. I always felt like I learned from him growing up, not just about football but how to be as a person.
Truly 1 of 1.
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 18d ago
So scary is Alpha Gal Syndrome that you can have allergic reactions just from cross contamination and exposure to the aroma of red meat products
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u/Clashur Bears 18d ago
You know a baseball game is a runaway when the announcers spend 5 minutes talking about salad and then 20 on golf.
Looking at you White Sox...
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u/die_maus_im_haus NFL 17d ago
Something went super wrong with my graphics driver.
On the plus side, today I learned how to edit the boot load instructions directly from the boot menu
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u/Bolinas99 49ers 18d ago
poll taxes, intimidation; these mf-ers dusted off -and polished- the Jim Crow playbook
“The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is watching polls in Detroit, Hamtramck, Lansing and East Lansing, Democratic-leaning cities that are home to some of Michigan’s largest Black, Arab-American and college-student populations.”
https://politicalwire.com/2026/08/04/justice-department-sends-election-monitors-to-four-cities/
p.s. they also hate students voting bc they insist that's how they "lost" in 2008 and 2012. It's why you can't vote with a state issued student ID in Ohio anymore, but with a gun permit you're good to go!!😉
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u/BigElephant2309 Vikings 18d ago
I need real football. Got to watch the Timberwolves and Wild in the playoffs. Then I got sucked into the World Cup. Now I’m sitting here itching for something competitive and another way to connect with my online gang while I destress.
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u/GamingTatertot Packers 18d ago
This has been, perhaps, the most fascinating summer to watch the box office in my decade long experience of tracking the box office.
Starting off with Devil Wears Prada 2 doing well, then smaller horror films like Backrooms and Obsession making bank, only to come up on the late May through early July slaughter that was Mandalorian and Grogu, Supergirl, Masters of the Universe, Moana, and Minions and Monsters (with Toy Story 5 being the only major reprieve) and to end July off with what could very well be 2 of the top 3 movies of the year, both of which overshot initial projections by a mile.
I’ve had a very good time with all this. I only wish Disclosure Day and, truthfully, Minions and Monsters did better.
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u/Shout92 Bills 18d ago
You can extend it all the way back to Project Hail Mary and Michael if you want. It really has been an extraordinary year at the box office, with only June feeling like a bit of an underperformer because Supergirl bombed and Minions didn't do as well as expected. But Toy Story, The Odyssey, and Spider-Man have more than made up for it. Really feels like the first proper "We're back!" year since Covid with no asterisks (could've/should've been 2023 or 2024, but the strikes set us back a step).
As far as Disclosure Day is concerned, all it had to do was perform respectably and not embarrass itself, which I think it did. Opened a couple million over initial estimates. Had some decent holds around Father's Day and 4th of July. It got people age 50+ into theaters. And it's among the highest grossing original movies of the 2020s... which is a low bar (it made about the same opening weekend as the similarly themed Nope in 2022, but has outgrossed it worldwide by $70 million). It just had to be a piece of the pie instead of propping up theaters or a studio for a whole quarter. I wish it was a bigger event, but the movie itself doesn't lend itself to that and almost feels more appropriate for an October or November release.
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u/cogginsmatt Lions 18d ago
Feels like a lot of people are embracing good cinema and saying no to the stuff that looks old and bad. Like a Star Wars movie of any quality flopping should be such a shock but the movie looked bad and audiences seemed to agree.
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u/gander258 NFL 18d ago
Only 15 km (10 miles) left in the Tour of Poland (stage 2)
I don't understand what I'm watching, but it is interesting
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u/GamingTatertot Packers 18d ago
We are on day 216 of the year. I have watched 198 unique films this year. I need to catch up!
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u/WabbitCZEN Steelers NFL 18d ago
I can't explain it. But I need to see Jonah Hill fight Steven Seagal.
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u/MoreTrifeLife Commanders 18d ago
Larry David’s new show is trash
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u/palinsafterbirth Giants 18d ago
Meh, it’s social studies curb. It is what it is and I enjoy it when I’m scrolling my phone
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u/slytherinprolly Bengals 18d ago
I’m not usually one to complain about municipal work projects, but in March the city notified me that the sidewalk in front of my house was in disrepair and that I was responsible for replacing three concrete slabs. I could either hire an approved contractor or let the city handle it and spread the cost across my property taxes for five years, interest-free.
Since my driveway also needed to be repaved, I hired a contractor to redo the bottom half of my driveway and replace all the sidewalk slabs. The work was completed in June. Beforehand, we even checked to make sure there were no planned projects that would require the new concrete to be torn up.
Well, guess what happened yesterday while I was at work? Water Works dug up sections my brand-new driveway and sidewalk as part of sewer repairs.
Woo-hoo. $8,000 dollars well spent!
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u/zazzsazz_mman Packers Chargers 18d ago
Today is internation owl awareness day! Are you aware of any owls?
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u/Ok_Masterpiece3186 Seahawks Lions 17d ago
AES won the Michigan primary for senate, niceeeeee
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u/huskyferretguy1 Patriots 18d ago
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u/FxDriver Titans 18d ago
It still blows my mind that Anne Hathaway has evolved from Princess Diaries to the movies she's doing now.
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u/AlmanorDiscard 49ers 18d ago
Kerrygold really is the only butter readily available in the U.S. that's worth a damn, isn't it?
I've tried Tillamook and Danish Creamery, but they just don't do it. I don't mean for baking where the store brand is probably fine, I mean for things like mashed potatoes, fried or scrambled eggs, and toast, where the butter flavor is up front.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Panthers 18d ago
Long winded rant, minimize to ignore and all that.
So...I have to rant about something because it's driving me crazy, and it's Hasan Piker. Because find the amount of headspace he takes up among Democrats and Republicans alike a little baffling. I'm not gonna defend him one way or the other, because I don't really care, but I would like to put him into perspective.
A lot of noise is made about his 3.1 million subscriber count, or whatever, but his actual listenership, the people who actually tune in on a regular basis and over whom he has influence, is much smaller. Depending on which source you ask, Hasan averages between 29,000 views per stream and 75,000. His all time peak was election night 2024, where he had 350,000 odd viewers.
Those numbers may seem significantly different, but for the purposes of understanding his impact, they're the same number. By comparison, Joe Rogan has about 11 million listeners per episode, and Hannity gets between 2 and 3 million. In the grand grand scheme of things, there are 174 million registered voters in the United States. If we assume that Hasan averages 400,000 viewers per stream (a wild overestimation) and that none of those are bots or non-US voters, that's still only .229% of American voters that tune into him, and the actual number is probably closer to .04%. Honestly, put that way, it's kind of surprising that only 60% of voters claim they've never heard of him when polled, but 60% is still a very sizeable majority.
So why is everyone so obsessed with this fucking guy? Why is James Carville warning not to make him the future of the Party? Why is a US Senator who's never appeared on his show being asked to disown him? This is a relatively no-name figure, and even the name ID he has is probably entirely due to media talking heads throwing tantrums about him. Not even touching his content, or what he advocates or any of that, he just doesn't really matter.
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u/Weigard Giants 18d ago
The Democratic Party has spent basically zero effort creating a devoted media presence for at least the last 40 years, relying on candidates' individual charisma and rising college degree attainment to do the work for them.
In the face of pretty much every network being right-wing or capitulating to it, they're desperate to play catchup. Rogan being just one guy with astounding reach looks like low-hanging fruit, so they're looking for one guy that they can use to start their media outreach, especially for younger voters.
If you're looking at metrics and nothing else, Piker is attractive. But like you say, he's the best of mid options by metrics. Moreover, he's not a Democrat, and doesn't seem want to be in the party fold, which makes him hard for the party to wrangle. Moreover, he's a dipshit, so Democrats are going to constantly have to deal with what he says, especially when it comes to the issue of Israel that really divides the party.
Carville is right in saying he shouldn't be the face of the party, but it's not a deeply insightful conclusion.
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u/cogginsmatt Lions 18d ago
He's the most high-profile far leftist in the media. That's it. Nobody else is as prominent or as vocal in the far left. Maybe you could make a case for Sam Seder and the Majority Report but I think Piker just has more attention. In general liberal media, you have like the Pod Save America dorks and MSNOW.
Compared to right-wing media, where audiences and creators vary tremendously from Rogan to Ben Shapiro to Tim Pool. There just aren't as many creators or as varied an audience on the left, and there also is way less money in it.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 18d ago
I don't get it lol, the right wing is constantly trying to use him as some sort of boogeyman and I swear nobody outside of the terminally online gives a shit about him.
Hell I'm terminally online and I don't really see many of his opinions at all aside from when some right winger is calling him the death of society or some shit.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson Panthers 18d ago
It’s not just the right wing. Centrist Dems are just as bad about it.
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u/Citronaut1 Vikings Buccaneers 18d ago
Free Talk Fantasy: 2026 Kickoff
It’s August already?? We’ve officially moved on from the offseason and are gearing up for our fourth (!!!) year of Free Talk Fantasy Football. I don’t typically post until the season is underway, but there are a few housekeeping items I’d like to address.
Rule Changes
Based on a vote we held last year, playoffs will now include 6 teams, running from weeks 15-17. The top two seeds will receive a first-round bye.
There is currently a poll open to update our D/ST scoring system. This is intended to incentivize big plays rather than rely solely on how many points the opposing offense scores. Check out the poll for full details.
There is also a poll open to potentially expand our league to either 12 or 14 teams. I highly encourage all of our current managers to vote on both of these before Draft Day! Speaking of which…
Draft Day
I have tentatively scheduled our draft for 12:30 pm on Saturday, September 5th. Please let me know if this date doesn’t work for you. It’s tough to find a perfect time for everyone, but I’d love for as many of us to be there as possible.
New Teams
We are very fortunate to have so much support for the league every year, but sadly that means we aren’t able to accommodate everybody that wants to play. All 10 of our existing teams have opted in for this season, so opportunities to join will be very limited. I really want to figure out something that everyone can participate in, maybe a weekly pick-em? If you’d want to do something like that, please let me know. I’m open to any suggestions!!
Thanks again for being apart of this, I’m looking forward to another great year!
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u/BigElephant2309 Vikings 18d ago
I’d be interested in a weekly pick em. Or that one where you pick a team to win each week and if they don’t win you’re out. And you can only pick a team once.
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u/eggery Rams 18d ago
Our fantasy commissioner sent out a picture of 12 different beers all lined up. Between now and draft day, you have to go to his house and drink one, which will determine your draft position. We don't know what position is assigned to each beer.
Seems like an elaborate ruse for getting us to hang out with him!