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[Boltman]

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I would rather watch a football game in some 30,000 seat soccer stadium than a 65,000 plus football stadium. I image the more intimate atmosphere for an NFL game being pretty cool.

Season tickets for the next few seasons are going to be amazing for that reason you mentioned. The intimacy, the hits are going to sound brutal I'm sure.

Should be a great way to experience an NFL game. The way Stubhub Center is constructed there won't be a bad seat in the house. Will be very close to the action unlike your typical football stadium.

I was just there recently for the Chargers draft fan fest. There are no bad seats, checked them all out since all of Stubhub was open. I can't wait.

[l3ulvl]

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Right on time for Beast Mode's return.

wonder if he'll "adjust"

[TheMatrix31]

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I don't think the celebrations will be anything crazy. Everyone's gotta be safe nowadays so as to not offend anyone and get fined or suspended or lose their career or whatever else people do to people now. Either that or they'll probably just their take on cookie-cutter dumb things that people do in popular online videos.

Hopefully neither of my thoughts will apply.

"Credit" to them for bringing back something that never should have been cracked down on to begin with.

[mestevo]

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The results of the owner meetings this week:

- relaxed celebrations rules
- removed 75 man cutdown day, now goes from 90 to 53 on the usual date 2 days after preseason ends
- a second player can return from IR
- Regular season OT changes from 15 to 10 minutes
- With the Inglewood stadium delayed (to 2020, same year Raiders open the Vegas stadium), Super Bowl LV will be played in Tampa in 2022, LVI will be in LA.
- Approved Raiders lease w/ the Vegas Stadium Authority

[mestevo]

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Touching tribute.

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[TheShizNo1]

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The results of the owner meetings this week:

- relaxed celebrations rules
- removed 75 man cutdown day, now goes from 90 to 53 on the usual date 2 days after preseason ends
- a second player can return from IR
- Regular season OT changes from 15 to 10 minutes
- With the Inglewood stadium delayed (to 2020, same year Raiders open the Vegas stadium), Super Bowl LV will be played in Tampa in 2022, LVI will be in LA.
- Approved Raiders lease w/ the Vegas Stadium Authority

I only care about this for Madden purposes.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I don't think the celebrations will be anything crazy. Everyone's gotta be safe nowadays so as to not offend anyone and get fined or suspended or lose their career or whatever else people do to people now. Either that or they'll probably just their take on cookie-cutter dumb things that people do in popular online videos.

Hopefully neither of my thoughts will apply.

"Credit" to them for bringing back something that never should have been cracked down on to begin with.

Don't worry, we'll come up with something else before it blows up in the mainstream and inevitably ran into the ground i.e The Dab.

[N51_rob]

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At the very least players can go back to "shooting" and dunking the football on the goal posts. I actually like a lot of the rule changes.

[wwharton]

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I was just there a few weeks ago, it's amazing.

The entire list is a joke so try not to take it so seriously.

The entire list EXCEPT Fed Ex Field being dead last... they nailed that one.

[SPTO]

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I just hope to see the Dirty Bird being used as a celebration again. Hell, i'd just like to see team celebration dances like in the old days.

[wwharton]

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I just hope to see the Dirty Bird being used as a celebration again. Hell, i'd just like to see team celebration dances like in the old days.

Ironically, Any Given Sunday (seriously underrated movie) definitely played its role in getting them to crack down on celebrations to begin with.

[areobee401]

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Why Richard Sherman can't let go of Seattle's Super Bowl loss.

Richard Sherman wanted to send a message to Russell Wilson. It was June 2014, and it'd been a testy day at Seahawks minicamp, with defensive players hitting the offense in a non-contact practice. On one play, Sherman had ripped off the helmet and jersey of receiver Phil Bates, igniting a brawl, the cornerback's dreadlocks flopping in the air. Both sides cleared. Pharrell Williams' "Happy" blasted from the loudspeakers. But the defense, a ruthless and crazy and awesome bunch that less than five months earlier had delivered the franchise its first Super Bowl victory, was just getting started.

Sherman is famous for loving practice, for treating it like a game, for rarely missing it even when injured. For him, it's where a mystical bond is forged and a win on Sunday becomes an almost accidental byproduct. And so, a few plays later, when Sherman picked off Wilson, it wasn't enough just to make a great play. He wanted to get inside Wilson's head, to remind the young Pro Bowler that despite his Super Bowl fame -- and endorsements that many on the defense felt they deserved -- Sherman still owned his ***.

According to witnesses, Sherman threw the ball back to Wilson and yelled, "You f---ing suck!" Another fight broke out. Sherman was cussing and yelling; Wilson seemed stunned. Pete Carroll stopped practice and would later hold a series of meetings to remind the players they needed to build each other up, not tear each other down -- and that they needed to support their quarterback, further pissing off a defense that already thought the head coach went out of his way to protect him.

At the time, of course, nobody wore the scars they do now. Nobody knew the pain of losing a Super Bowl at the 1-yard line. Nobody could have predicted the strangest storyline from the 2017 offseason: Sherman, a future Hall of Famer in his prime, open to a trade, and the Seahawks open to shipping him. Tensions lurked beneath the surface, but the Seahawks were building something special, on an ascent toward a limitless future.

The next day, the Seahawks got their Super Bowl rings. Four phrases were engraved inside. The last one read:

What's next?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19446657/seattle-seahawks-cornerback-richard-sherman-let-go-problem-nfl-2017

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Damn, I remember drafting Bennett in Madden while doing Fantasy Drafts:

Former NFL running back Michael Bennett will spend the next five years in prison, after pleading no contest to felony charges of burglary and identity theft.

According to Filipa Ioannou of the San Francisco Chronicle, the 38-year-old Bennett took out $225,000 in loans in the name of his girlfriend’s parents. He broke into their home to steal paperwork he used to steal their identities and apply for the loans.

At the time of the incident, he was on probation in Florida for a wire fraud incident.

“The defendant used a position of trust within this victim’s family to exploit and take advantage of them,” district attorney Jill Ravitch said in a statement.

Bennett, the 27th overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft by the Vikings, was a former Pro Bowler. He also played for the Saints, Chiefs, Buccaneers, Chargers, and Raiders. He made the Pro Bowl after the 2002 season, when he ran for 1,296 yards. But injuries derailed his career after that, and he never rushed for more than 500 yards in any other season.

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[fatleg3]

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Damn, I remember drafting Bennett in Madden while doing Fantasy Drafts:




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He was my weapon x online back in madden 07-08. I think his speed was something like 98, 99...

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[slickdtc]

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NFL 2K2. Moss, Culpepper, Reed, Carter and Bennett with that speed in the backfield. That offense was made for video games.