How can he avoide them?

Subby needs to learn where the collar bone is.

And stop pointing with your thumb like the idiots on Meet the Press.

I'd be happy to grant him the immunity. As soon as he agrees not to fark up the best sports entertainment on the planet by expanding the season.

The Golden goose: try to not kill it dumbass. Go ask the NBA if we can learn to live without your product.

"How can a professional sports league and a union negotiate an effective steroid policy when neither party can be sure exactly what agreement it is striking?" he asks.

How about making sure your steroid policy complies with all state laws in the markets you have NFL teams? Too much hard work?

How's about we revoke your anti-trust exemption instead farkhead?

JohnBigBootay: I'd be happy to grant him the immunity. As soon as he agrees not to fark up the best sports entertainment on the planet by expanding the season.


The NFL is the best sports entertainment on the planet? Really?

It has been unwatchable for me for probably a dozen years, with all the commercials. It seems like 40% commercials, 45% dead time (babbling commentators, network graphics, replay pauses), 5% actual sports.

bhcompy: How's about we revoke your anti-trust exemption instead farkhead?

Does the NFL get anti-trust exemption? I thought only MLB did.

mtylerjr: The NFL is the best sports entertainment on the planet? Really?

It has been unwatchable for me for probably a dozen years, with all the commercials. It seems like 40% commercials, 45% dead time (babbling commentators, network graphics, replay pauses), 5% actual sports

Which televised sporting events don't have commercials? At any rate, I have TIVO and I don't watch the commercials so it's fantastic.

I Said: bhcompy: How's about we revoke your anti-trust exemption instead farkhead?

Does the NFL get anti-trust exemption? I thought only MLB did.

They do. It's in the news^ because of how they treat retired players right now.

What would it mean for the league to lose the anti-trust exemption?

mtylerjr: JohnBigBootay: I'd be happy to grant him the immunity. As soon as he agrees not to fark up the best sports entertainment on the planet by expanding the season.


The NFL is the best sports entertainment on the planet? Really?

It has been unwatchable for me for probably a dozen years, with all the commercials. It seems like 40% commercials, 45% dead time (babbling commentators, network graphics, replay pauses), 5% actual sports.


Which televised sporting events don't have annoying commentators? At any rate, I have a mute button and I don't listen to the commentators so it's fantastic.

Nanny Statesman: What would it mean for the league to lose the anti-trust exemption?

Bring back the XFL!!

Congress ammending a law != Congressional Ammenedment.

JohnBigBootay: mtylerjr: The NFL is the best sports entertainment on the planet? Really?

It has been unwatchable for me for probably a dozen years, with all the commercials. It seems like 40% commercials, 45% dead time (babbling commentators, network graphics, replay pauses), 5% actual sports

Which televised sporting events don't have commercials? At any rate, I have TIVO and I don't watch the commercials so it's fantastic.

Tivo would indeed make it better. I don't have tivo :(

I didn't notice the commercials that much until living overseas for a few years, and watching sports with far fewer commercials. NZ Rugby in particular. Now, NFL football broadcasts seem fairly ridiculous, with the number of commercials, extreme hyping, and insane celebration by the players for routine plays.

I love watching NHL hockey though - and part of that is probably because there are so much fewer breaks in the action. All (or most) of the commercials are lumped into the intermissions.

So I guess it's just a personal preference. I was just surprised someone would actually think NFL broadcasts were the pinnacle of sports entertainment.

foo monkey: Nanny Statesman: What would it mean for the league to lose the anti-trust exemption?

Bring back the XFL!!

Congress ammending a law != Congressional Ammenedment.

Congressional != Constitutional. duh

/FTFM

So... are we seriously not going to get a NFL Power Rankings thread? Sonsabiatches...

phartnocker: So... are we seriously not going to get a NFL Power Rankings thread? Sonsabiatches...

No, you idiot! Let's all make fun of the Commish's bunched up suit jacket. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!11!!1! LOL. Good one, subby.

phartnocker: So... are we seriously not going to get a NFL Power Rankings thread? Sonsabiatches...

Ha, I wondered if I was the only one impatiently waiting for the PR thread and Di Atribe's graph.

I want to biatch about the Chargers winning big, two weeks in a row, and actually moving down two spots total. WTF.

/I bet totalfarkers are discussing it right now, those bastards.

mtylerjr: Tivo would indeed make it better. I don't have tivo :(

dude, get tivo

Now, NFL football broadcasts seem fairly ridiculous, with the number of commercials, extreme hyping, and insane celebration by the players for routine plays.

completely agree.

So I guess it's just a personal preference. I was just surprised someone would actually think NFL broadcasts were the pinnacle of sports entertainment.

I just really love NFL football. I suppose I'm also making some kind of economic association with the value of their tv contracts. They're currently charging the major networks 20 Billion (with a b) dollars to broadcast their games. And it seems the newtorks are making money on the deal - they're about to do another deal for more in the next couple of years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television

JohnBigBootay: I'd be happy to grant him the immunity. As soon as he agrees not to fark up the best sports entertainment on the planet by expanding the season.

The Golden goose: try to not kill it dumbass. Go ask the NBA if we can learn to live without your product.

Really? REPLACING two preseason games with two regular season games (not adding on two more real weeks to the season) would make it like the NBA?

OK. Whatever.

JohnBigBootay: Which televised sporting events don't have commercials? At any rate, I have TIVO and I don't watch the commercials so it's fantastic.

Soccer. Only commercials during a soccer match are at halftime, when you're up taking a piss, anyway.

Constitutionally this isn't a federal power. In this Obama era watch congress try to overstep their authority and get away with it, at least for a while.

DemDave: JohnBigBootay: Which televised sporting events don't have commercials? At any rate, I have TIVO and I don't watch the commercials so it's fantastic.

Soccer. Only commercials during a soccer match are at halftime, when you're up taking a piss, anyway.

But I thought those guys wearing the billboards on their chest, running around pretending to get injured, were the commericals? Oh, you mean that's the "sport"???

/I'm bored.

JohnBigBootay: I'd be happy to grant him the immunity. As soon as he agrees not to fark up the best sports entertainment on the planet by expanding the season.

The Golden goose: try to not kill it dumbass. Go ask the NBA if we can learn to live without your product.

...wtf?

DemDave: JohnBigBootay: Which televised sporting events don't have commercials? At any rate, I have TIVO and I don't watch the commercials so it's fantastic.

Soccer. Only commercials during a soccer match are at halftime, when you're up taking a piss, anyway.

Well, it IS the most exhausting activity one can engage in, closely followed by mass genocide.