2024 NFL Season

[ELA]

True. Although looking it up, his 1983 salary ($440K) would be the equivalent of about $1.4M today. So they had less on the line back then. We're not talking about Mahomes with $50M/yr or whatever it is.

Exactly.  My FIL talked about how some Pirates player used to do odd jobs around the Catholic school he went to during the offseason, and helped coach the baseball team when available.  Even the pros, if you weren't a star, it wasn't even necessarily a full time job.

[FearlessF]

$1.4 mil was a helluva lot more that what bradshaw would have been makin otherwise

he wasn't bitchin and his owner wasn't bitchin too loud either

they both did OK

[MarqHusker]

Always love the story of Rogers Hornsby being told he might get sent back to the farm.

So Hornsby decided to go work on a farm in the off-season.  Didn't really understand the reference to the minor leagues. 

We had a old neighbor that employed some of the Miwaukee Braves at his auto shop in the off season

[rook119]

in the late 70s-early 80s the 10K prize money (5K for the loser) for the pro-bowl was significant and the teams balled out. 

[FearlessF]

Billy Simms and the infamous karate kick

[CatsbyAZ]

The NFL has three teams whose primary color is green – Eagles, Packers, and Jets. The NFL has chosen two of them for playing in first regular season game played in Brazil. In a soccer stadium wear the color green is banned:

“There's a possibility neither the Eagles nor Packers will be allowed to wear their home uniforms for the Week 1 clash.”

“The Eagles-Packers game in Sao Paulo will be played at Corinthians Arena, which is home to the Brazilian soccer team Corinthians. The biggest rival for Corinthians is Palmeiras, who wear the color green. So why is this a problem? Corinthians has an informal ban on wearing green, as a former player was actually fined by the club a few years ago for wearing green cleats.”

“Will a Brazilian soccer team actually prevent the Eagles and Packers from wearing green jerseys? That informal ban applies to players and fans in Corinthians Arena, as there are signs around the stadium stating the color is forbidden.”


https://twitter.com/JeffKerrCBS/status/1798827581632077983

[FearlessF]

F the Packers and their green

if they had nuts, they'd say, "We're were wearin green or we're not paylin"

[OrangeAfroMan]

Quoted:
I tried to do a breakdown from 2011-2020 with QBs, OTs and edges, and I learned a couple things.
-There were some terrible QB years that drag that position down.
-It's a low-key nightmare to grade OTs. If you're a top-16 draft pick and an OT, you're gonna start basically every game and probably make a random pro bowl a shocking percentage go the time. And since OL is always a mess to fill, even so-so guys just start forever.
-Edge is interesting because you have some clear hit/bust types and then some interesting compiler vs bright star kind of guys. Like Robert Quinn was a stud early, then fell off, bounced around and had 1-2 random later big seasons.


OT is a unique situation, as it tends to have G to fall back on.  Sort of like a 2b can be a failed SS in baseball, a guy that can't handle the pass-blocking in space aspect of OL play may be able to play in heavier traffic and just sort of be a big strong fat guy.
Plus, there's 2 of them.  There's only 1 QB and pass-rushing edge tends to be on the right side of the defense, as the left DE/LB needs to be sturdy vs the run (in typing this out, this may be antiquated thinking, given that everyone runs a spread now and RBs are valued less than the water boy).