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[Majingir]

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Tom "Hulkamania" Brady

https://x.com/WWE/status/1824207035665191226

[IlluminatusUIUC]

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Tom "Hulkamania" Brady

https://x.com/WWE/status/1824207035665191226

Well, if any football player would distract the ref while a teammate smacked someone with a folding chair, it would be Brady

[Majingir]

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Well, if any football player would distract the ref while a teammate smacked someone with a folding chair, it would be Brady

Gronk already has WWE experience too so it works. Add in McAfee and then Brady's the mystery 3rd man!

[TheMatrix31]

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[rushvsn]

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Hard knocks was tremendous, idk why people don't love their team being on it. I loved it.

[kehlis]

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Hard knocks was tremendous, idk why people don't love their team being on it. I loved it.

Pretty sure most people love their favorite team being on it.

It’s the players and coaches themselves who don’t want a part of it in most cases.


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[Madden08PCgmr]

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Shame on the Giants for unretiring a number for a hack that hasn’t played a down yet.

Keep on pretending you’re still a class organization.

[Hooe]

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Shame on the Giants for unretiring a number for a hack that hasn’t played a down yet.

Keep on pretending you’re still a class organization.

I had to look up what the heck this was referring to, so here's the context for everyone else:

Giants' rookie WR Malik Nabers was recently granted permission by the family of Pro Football Hall of Fame member Ray Flaherty to wear #1. Flaherty played end for the Giants from 1927 through 1935, and his jersey number #1 was the first to be retired by the club in 1935. Flaherty was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1976 for his contributions as the head coach of Washington and passed away in 1994 at 90 years old.

Given that Nabers asked for and was granted permission from Flaherty's family to wear the number, I don't see what the issue is here. He could have not asked and just done it; if anything, reaching out to the family is a classy gesture. Moreover, there are plenty more damning things we could criticize the New York Giants' organization about on and off the field anyway.

[Madden08PCgmr]

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First player in sports history to have his number retired.

Don’t extend the “honor” if it doesn’t mean anything.

Classless, all the way around.

[Hooe]

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First player in sports history to have his number retired.

Don’t extend the “honor” if it doesn’t mean anything.

Classless, all the way around.

That is incorrect. The Toronto Maple Leafs retired #6 worn by Ace Bailey in 1934, beating the Giants’ retiring Flaherty’s number by a year. The Maple Leafs retired Bailey’s number after he suffered a career-ending head injury during a game.

Beyond that… it’s just a number, man. If the family and the team are both okay with Nabers wearing Flaherty’s #1, we all should be as well.

[Madden08PCgmr]

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Glad to be a Packer fan.

14, 15, 4, 3, 66, 92, 12.. won’t come off the Ring. Ever.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

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I had to look up what the heck this was referring to, so here's the context for everyone else:

Giants' rookie WR Malik Nabers was recently granted permission by the family of Pro Football Hall of Fame member Ray Flaherty to wear #1. Flaherty played end for the Giants from 1927 through 1935, and his jersey number #1 was the first to be retired by the club in 1935. Flaherty was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1976 for his contributions as the head coach of Washington and passed away in 1994 at 90 years old.

Given that Nabers asked for and was granted permission from Flaherty's family to wear the number, I don't see what the issue is here. He could have not asked and just done it; if anything, reaching out to the family is a classy gesture. Moreover, there are plenty more damning things we could criticize the New York Giants' organization about on and off the field anyway.

Nabers offered them a Medium Pepsi, what could they do? Refuse?

[Ghost Of The Year]

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He could have not asked and just done it; if anything, reaching out to the family is a classy gesture.

This doesn't sound right. I would think if a number was retired, you couldn't just say "I'm wearing it any way.''
I don't criticize the Giants themselves but I wouldn't describe what Nabers did as classy. Just the opposite, approaching people you don't know and they don't know you and asking them to give up the honor of a deceased family member is tacky at best. It would be quite different if Flaherty was alive and Nabers approached him but even then, the only acceptable way this type thing can go down, say Flaherty was alive and he knew the number was one Nabers coveted, then Flaherty offer it to Nabers unsolicited. That would have been classy but that didn't happen. Having said that, I'm not a Giants fan so what they do number wise I really don't care. Tho I still have an opinion how this type scenario should play out whatever the organization.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Glad to be a Packer fan.

14, 15, 4 , 3, 66, 92, 12.. won’t come off the Ring. Ever.

I could see Favre doing more boneheaded things to get cancelled. In fact, my opinion is he's already halfway there.

[dubcity]

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I feel like most people have no idea or care what Brett Favre did. Unless you work in the media or put a lot of weight on twitter opinions, that stuff mostly went in one ear and out the other. Especially to the average person in the football fan demographic.