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[Fresh Tendrils]

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Affluenza. Dude is a thug.

[kingkilla56]

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Stop with the affluenza bs. The guy is just trash. Enough.

[steelerfan]

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Affluenza. Dude is a thug.

Stop with the affluenza bs. The guy is just trash. Enough.

Lighten up.

He is obviously trash, a thug, a POS etc. If you believe that I'd seriously give him the excuse of riches then you are very naive.

[mestevo]

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Looks like the Browns are part of the problem, rather than the solution, if true.

http://nypost.com/2016/02/09/browns-lied-for-manziel-after-he-showed-up-drunk-to-practice/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

The Browns quarterback reportedly showed up to practice inebriated on Dec. 30, just days ahead of the regular-season finale against the Steelers, leading the organization to announce their starter was undergoing the concussion protocol to cover up the incident.

[ImTellinTim]

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Can we move on from him? Let him get help if he wants it. If not, don't care to hear about his struggles. Just remember, if a player shows up still tipsy from the night before but they can play you will never, ever hear about it. Or it's brushed off, and it's certainly not called enabling.

[TheShizNo1]

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Michael Irvin showed up to many a practices ****ed up.

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[Boltman]

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Michael Irvin showed up to many a practices ****ed up.

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Let's go back further.

Hollywood Henderson.

[steelerfan]

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Let's go back further.

Hollywood Henderson.

Bobby Layne.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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From PFT.com

The 2015 football season included an apples-to-paperclips comparison of normal TV ratings to Internet numbers generated by the Bills-Jaguars stream on Yahoo. The 2015 football season ended with a little (or a lot) of embellishment of the Super Bowl audience.

CBS announced, and NFL.com trumpeted, that 167 million viewers tuned in for the game, “making it the most-watched single broadcast per Nielsen’s Fast Total Audience Estimates.”

That’s fine, but the total audience isn’t one of the standard metrics for determining TV ratings. The key number is average audience. For Super Bowl 50, the average audience was 111.9 million and the rating was 46.6.

Using the standard, industry-recognized measurement, the audience for Super Bowl 50 did not set a record. The record came a year ago, when 114.4 million tuned in on average during Patriots-Seahawks, generating a rating of 47.5.

The decision to make the audience seem bigger than it was obscures the fact that the audience was the smallest since Super Bowl XLVII. But to admit that would be to admit that a sport that prides itself on constant growth has seen only the second shrinkage of Super Bowl audience in a decade, based on the total numbers published by SportsBusiness Daily.

Thus, as the sport gets bigger and bigger every year, the average audience for the Super Bowl didn’t get any bigger in 2016. It got smaller. Which probably isn’t the way the NFL wanted to cap a full season of hyping the 50th Super Bowl in league history.

[SPTO]

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Michael Irvin showed up to many a practices ****ed up.

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I've heard stories where he was pretty much high on coke!


Anywho, totally off topic and random:

A while ago I watched an old CFL game from 1995. Now you may say "so what?" Ah, here's the thing, one of the players in that game was none other than Joe Horn who had 5 catches for 130 yards. It was pretty cool to see Joe Horn before he became a star for the Saints.

[wwharton]

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Looks like the Browns are part of the problem, rather than the solution, if true.

http://nypost.com/2016/02/09/browns-lied-for-manziel-after-he-showed-up-drunk-to-practice/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

The Browns quarterback reportedly showed up to practice inebriated on Dec. 30, just days ahead of the regular-season finale against the Steelers, leading the organization to announce their starter was undergoing the concussion protocol to cover up the incident.

I disagree with them being part of the problem. A good organization keeps that mess in house. The Browns were getting hammered for not just letting Johnny start ("Gotta see what they have in him") and they've stood pretty strong on disciplining him without sharing all the details to those of us that don't need to know. They're just getting criticized no matter what they do, because they're the Browns.

[areobee401]

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List of home opponents for Denver next season.

Chargers
Chiefs
Raiders
Colts
Texans
Falcons
Panthers
Patriots

Super Bowl rematch to open the season?

[redsox4evur]

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List of home opponents for Denver next season.

Chargers
Chiefs
Raiders
Colts
Texans
Falcons
Panthers
Patriots

Super Bowl rematch to open the season?

Most definitely...the only opponent that would make a good game is NE, IMO. And that would still be a great game in November.

[mestevo]

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My guess would be Pats / Chiefs / Raiders.

Could see them putting Patriots later in the schedule though. A divisional game to open the season would be good.

[LowerWolf]

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With the Raiders on the rise, I guess you could try to sell that.

But yeah, it pretty much has to be either a Super Bowl or AFC Championship game rematch.