Championship Rings? Only 46? [Archive] - Front Office Football Central

PDA

View Full Version : Championship Rings? Only 46?

Raiders Army

12-28-2004, 05:52 AM

Ben E Lou

12-28-2004, 06:15 AM

I've noticed it, too. It sounds like a design decision to me, rather than a bug.

Raiders Army

12-28-2004, 06:40 AM

But what if I have a player that was a "franchise" player who played all 16 games, got hurt, and is now inactive? Shouldn't he deserve a championship ring on his bio?

Personally, I'm just glad that the rings are being tracked, but to me, I'd rather have it work for everyone.

Coffee Warlord

12-28-2004, 08:55 AM

But what if I have a player that was a "franchise" player who played all 16 games, got hurt, and is now inactive? Shouldn't he deserve a championship ring on his bio?.

Fuck em. Fragile little whelps don't deserve a ring. :)

tategter

12-28-2004, 09:27 AM

MizzouRah

12-28-2004, 09:44 AM

I seem to remember a rule in the NFL where you actually have to play at least one down in the Super Bowl to get a ring. This comes to mind because many years ago I was watching a Super Bowl and the winning team never punted. On one of the last plays of the game they let the punter play safety for one play so that he could get his ring.

That would suck to play all year, get injured in the playoffs, win the Super Bowl and never get a ring. Heck, I would go and buy one myself. :)

Todd

Raiders Army

12-28-2004, 09:50 AM

I don't think this is true.

Link (http://www.superbowl.com/features/general_info)

Cost of Super Bowl rings: League pays for up to 150 rings at $5,000 per ring (plus adjustments for increases in gold and diamonds). League also pays for 150 pieces of jewelry for the losing team, which may not cost more than one-half the price set for the Super Bowl ring.

So if only 45 players can get the ring, where do the other 105 rings go? The owner, coaches, etc. should get one...but they aren't 105 people. I'd be pissed if Tony Dungy's son got one as the ballboy and I didn't because I was deactivated for that game.

rkmsuf

12-28-2004, 09:54 AM

Laces out!

cthomer5000

12-28-2004, 10:18 AM

I seem to remember a rule in the NFL where you actually have to play at least one down in the Super Bowl to get a ring. This comes to mind because many years ago I was watching a Super Bowl and the winning team never punted. On one of the last plays of the game they let the punter play safety for one play so that he could get his ring.
Not true.

I even remember the Packers deciding to give a super bowl ring to a player that retired mid-season in the year they won the Super Bowl in the 90's.

rkmsuf

12-28-2004, 10:19 AM

The whole Patriot front office and staff got one down to the mailroom guys. I'm pretty sure they didn't get in the game last year.

Darkiller

12-28-2004, 10:26 AM

EVERY player from the roster gets his SuperBowl ring.
Last time the Patriots won it all, WR J.J Stokes (who had been signed a couple of weeks before the SuperBowl to fill in and didn't even play a down in the big game) received his own New England Patriots SuperBowl ring.

tategter

12-28-2004, 10:31 AM

OK, maybe I remembered it wrong. Keep in mind this was almost 20 years ago and I distinctly remember the punter playing a down at safety. I also remember the announcers pointing it out and saying it was because it was the only way to get his ring. The NFL has changed a lot since then.

Then again I can barely remember what the hell I did yesterday, so it is entirely possible I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

JeeberD

12-28-2004, 10:34 AM

The whole Patriot front office and staff got one down to the mailroom guys. I'm pretty sure they didn't get in the game last year.

I'm not sure if it's true in the NFL as well, but in the NBA teams usually give trainers and front office staff much scaled down versions of the championship ring. The rings they get aren't work tens of thousands of dollars like the ones the players and coaches get...

rkmsuf

12-28-2004, 10:50 AM

I'm not sure if it's true in the NFL as well, but in the NBA teams usually give trainers and front office staff much scaled down versions of the championship ring. The rings they get aren't work tens of thousands of dollars like the ones the players and coaches get...

I'm pretty sure they all got the same thing.

AlexB

12-28-2004, 10:55 AM

Being a Brit, I know Scott McCready got a SB ring while he was only on the Pats practice squad...

hukarez

12-28-2004, 11:35 AM

It took me a while to get through the first couple of years (and I still haven't made it to the playoffs), but I was checking through the Packers' roster to see if somebody from Philly (the 2004 champions) was on the roster. I wanted to see if someone had two rings already.

The weird thing was that 7 players didn't have championship rings. Only the active players for the Superbowl got them. Is this a bug?
I think I had some active players on my squad not acquire championship rings at all. I had an extra DB who wasn't even listed anywhere on my depth charts and didn't get a ring. I'd have to check again for sure, though...

tategter

12-28-2004, 11:42 AM

No matter what the problem with SB rings turns-out to be I really hope nobody makes a big deal about it to Jim. The man gave us a really cool feature out of the blue for free.

Raiders Army

12-28-2004, 11:59 AM

No matter what the problem with SB rings turns-out to be I really hope nobody makes a big deal about it to Jim. The man gave us a really cool feature out of the blue for free.
Very true, and I agree completely...however, it is good to point out that there may be a bug for future reference. :)

Ben E Lou

12-28-2004, 12:03 PM

Very true, and I agree completely...however, it is good to point out that there may be a bug for future reference. :)I have strong suspicions that you can't classify this as a bug.

SunDancer

12-28-2004, 02:11 PM

I'm pretty sure they all got the same thing.

Jeebs is right. Usually, the players, coaches, owners and GM's get "better" rings then the remaining staff of the franchise.

rkmsuf

12-28-2004, 02:12 PM

thus the word "usually"

Yossarian

12-28-2004, 02:23 PM

I have strong suspicions that you can't classify this as a bug.

Why not?

Of course the Solecismic Title is not the Superbowl per se.

But if the developer intent was to accurately model how the NFL gives out rings then surely you'd consider it a bug?

cthomer5000

12-28-2004, 02:45 PM

But if the developer intent was to accurately model how the NFL gives out rings then surely you'd consider it a bug?
Because he probably purposely programmed it to give only the 46 active players Super Bowl Rings. It it's working as intended, it's not a bug.

If that's the case and someone can show that some active players aren't receiveing rings, then that would be a bug.

jbmagic

12-28-2004, 02:53 PM

Because he probably purposely programmed it to give only the 46 active players Super Bowl Rings. It it's working as intended, it's not a bug.

If that's the case and someone can show that some active players aren't receiveing rings, then that would be a bug.

it dont make any sense

what if you had some key players with injuries in week 16 and you put him off the active roster...

your telling me he dont deserve the ring? he started for 16 weeks and he gets a bad injury and i going to tell this player sorry you dont get a superbowl ring because you not on the active 46 man roster...

Raiders Army

12-28-2004, 03:07 PM

After thinking this over for a while, I guess I can roll with it. I realize that it's not a bug, but a design decision like Skydog said. I guess it's like the Bowl MVP. Sometimes the Bowl MVP is not the guy who kicked the winning 54 yard field goal in overtime or the guy who ran for 250 yards with no touchdowns...it's some other guy. You can't control it. Just like if your leading tackler for the season is out for the game it won't show up on his "card" as him winning the Championship ring.

Yossarian

12-28-2004, 03:37 PM

CTHomer..

You miss my point.

i was saying that if the intent was to model that accurately then there would be more than 46 given out.

IE.
If (accurately model how the NFL gives out rings ) then (give out more than 46)

You say its not a bug because the "It it's working as intended" - well in that case it was NOT intended to (accurately model how the NFL gives out rings ).

I must add that I don't care either way whether we track the 46 of the 53 (+IR)

Suicane75

12-28-2004, 03:44 PM

I cant imagine why, all things being equal, he would program it so that only the 46 active players get rings. If its a case of not being able to program it I can understand, but if its just a decision not to do it than I don't understand it all.

Suicane75

12-28-2004, 03:54 PM

If my QB of 13 years goes down, and is inactive during the playoff run, the only SB he's ever been a part of winning, and he doesnt get a ring, that would cheese me off.

CraigSca

12-28-2004, 03:57 PM

Sounds like a design decision to me. I don't know his data structures, but it would probably be just as easy to cycle through all players on the roster as opposed to just the active list.

Dutch

12-28-2004, 06:31 PM

Speaking of bad-luck, this reminds me of QB Josh Baxter in my Band of Brothers II Dynasty. While following the travels of Josh Baxter, he started in 174 games including playoffsduring his first 12 years in the league. He missed 18 games during that span and 2 of them were Super Bowls (he was injured). During his first 12 years with the Bengals the team threw a collective 199 passes during the playoffs, but just 28 of those were by QB Baxter. A complete flip-flop from regular season to playoffs.

Fortunately his luck finally changed in the years following...a little. But he would never end up with a championship ring under this setting. :)

cthomer5000

12-28-2004, 06:45 PM

Pumpy Tudors

12-28-2004, 08:25 PM

Solecismic

12-28-2004, 09:42 PM

Jim has said many times that he is not trying to depict the NFL in FOF or the NCAA in TCY. If he feels that only 46 players should get rings, that's the way it's going to be. Then again, he also hasn't said that he meant to design it this way, so maybe we should wait for a response from him.

If you're going to quote me, please provide the source. I really hate this urban legend b.s., because it spreads quickly, and people believe it.

The original quote referred specifically to academics in TCY. I said I understood that most colleges couldn't care less whether their athletes could even read or write, but I thought it added to the game to make their academic performance count for something. So I said my goal was not to perfectly recreate the NCAA.

I have not said anything remotely like what you quoted "many times", or even once.

That quote has been misused so much over the last few years it has a life of its own. Never said anything like it about FOF, though I do make a boatload of decisions that aren't completely realistic, like not including all of the NFL's contract rules, or not allowing coaches to be fired mid-season, or saying that quarterback X can't learn the Pro Formation variation with three wideouts instead of two until a future training camp. I do this in order to simplify things for the purposes of presenting a game that people can enjoy, or that I can handle programming.

As for championship rings, you have to take the field during the championship game to earn one in FOF. Just a design decision. While my goal IS to recreate the NFL, I'm taking a little poetic license here, and that's the way it's going to stay. No half-rings, no three-quarter rings, no voting, no sympathy rings for gimpy quarterbacks. You play the game, you get one. You watch, you don't.

If I had known that decision would cause controversy, or worse, spread that awful misquoting of my academic comments on TCY, believe me, I never would have added it with the last patch.

Buccaneer

12-28-2004, 09:48 PM

like not including all of the NFL's contract rules,
Like what for instance?

[ducks]

DaddyTorgo

12-28-2004, 09:54 PM

If you're going to quote me, please provide the source. I really hate this urban legend b.s., because it spreads quickly, and people believe it.

The original quote referred specifically to academics in TCY. I said I understood that most colleges couldn't care less whether their athletes could even read or write, but I thought it added to the game to make their academic performance count for something. So I said my goal was not to perfectly recreate the NCAA.

I have not said anything remotely like what you quoted "many times", or even once.

That quote has been misused so much over the last few years it has a life of its own. Never said anything like it about FOF, though I do make a boatload of decisions that aren't completely realistic, like not including all of the NFL's contract rules, or not allowing coaches to be fired mid-season, or saying that quarterback X can't learn the Pro Formation variation with three wideouts instead of two until a future training camp. I do this in order to simplify things for the purposes of presenting a game that people can enjoy, or that I can handle programming.

As for championship rings, you have to take the field during the championship game to earn one in FOF. Just a design decision. While my goal IS to recreate the NFL, I'm taking a little poetic license here, and that's the way it's going to stay. No half-rings, no three-quarter rings, no voting, no sympathy rings for gimpy quarterbacks. You play the game, you get one. You watch, you don't.

If I had known that decision would cause controversy, or worse, spread that awful misquoting of my academic comments on TCY, believe me, I never would have added it with the last patch.
AND SO SPEAKETH THE MOUTH OF SAURON!!! (oh wait...we're not in Tolkien-world)

Solecismic

12-28-2004, 09:55 PM

Like what for instance?

[ducks]

Deion rule, for one. Or the entire system of restricted free agency and qualifying offers. I don't even understand the Deion rule completely myself, and my guess is that no one outside of Deion himself really cares about it.

I'm coming down hard on Pumpy not because I think he's some sort of bastard spawn of satan, because I don't.

I want people to remember that damned quote properly. This misperception really can screw with my ability to sell the game.

sabotai

12-28-2004, 09:59 PM

If I had known that decision would cause controversy, or worse, spread that awful misquoting of my academic comments on TCY, believe me, I never would have added it with the last patch.

No controversey, just that no one knew if it was design decision or a bug.

Yossarian

12-28-2004, 10:03 PM

no sympathy rings for gimpy quarterbacks

:-)

duckman

12-28-2004, 10:35 PM

Pumpy is some sort of bastard spawn of satan.
I can't believe Jim said this. ;)

Flasch186

12-28-2004, 10:50 PM

Deion rule, for one. Or the entire system of restricted free agency and qualifying offers. I don't even understand the Deion rule completely myself, and my guess is that no one outside of Deion himself really cares about it.

I'm coming down hard on Pumpy not because I think he's some sort of bastard spawn of satan, because I don't.

I want people to remember that damned quote properly. This misperception really can screw with my ability to sell the game.

I like seeing the rings there...gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling...

sovereignstar

12-28-2004, 11:16 PM

I like seeing Dubya in office...gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling...

:eek:

Dutch

12-28-2004, 11:42 PM

I like Donny Rumsfeld giving me crazy quotes to talk about at the next Battle Star Gallatica convention...gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling...

:eek: :eek:

Pumpy Tudors

12-28-2004, 11:54 PM

Wow, I apologize. OK, I do remember that idea from the academics in TCY. Given that there are a few things (that were mentioned in Jim's above post) that are not the same as the NFL, I connected that TCY academics notion with several aspects of both games. I'm terribly sorry.

Obviously, it's been a misconception on my part, but I didn't ever play the FOF games to try to simulate the NFL. I just saw it as an NFL-like football world. While I understand that I'm free to interpret the game any way I want to, I was dead wrong for ever thinking that Jim presented it that way. I didn't mean to stir anything up, and I wish I could take it back.

Again, I'm sorry.

Solecismic

12-29-2004, 12:23 AM

Don't worry about it. I don't blame you, it's been so oft repeated I almost believe it myself now.

I just made a big deal about it because I wanted people to remember me denying it. In the past, I've just offered an occasional clarification, and it hasn't helped much.

If it helps, the AI goofs once in awhile during the end-game are also an attempt to simulate NFL coaching. Yep, I keep telling myself that.

Anthony

12-29-2004, 03:05 AM

If it helps, the AI goofs once in awhile during the end-game are also an attempt to simulate NFL coaching. Yep, I keep telling myself that.

well, fortunately for you Mike Martz exists.

Ragone

12-29-2004, 04:42 AM

I keep hoping Jim will put in a yes/no toggle for Mike Martz Endgame AI at the start of a new universe :)

honestly crazy decisions are made all the time in the nfl.. and i like to think they all even out in the end.. i'm sure we've all benefited from them as much as they have screwed us :)

MizzouRah

12-29-2004, 06:08 PM

or not allowing coaches to be fired mid-season

Damn you Jim! :D

well, fortunately for you Mike Martz exists.

Damn you Jim!

Todd

primelord

12-29-2004, 06:09 PM

well, fortunately for you Mike Martz exists.
He didn't say the AI occasionally forgets that his best player has played the entire game.