NFL

[willeyeam]

It's hard to ever say a bad call is THE reason someone lost. But when it's so easily avoidable, it's quite frustrating seeing it and knowing no one is/can actually do anything about it

[robbiestoupe]

I do not believe that’s why they won the cup...

Obviously it was because Bettman loves the Penguins

[NTP66]

[dodint]

*triggering intensifies*

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

And the Patriots were all up in arms about the ref at their game being the deflategate one. Smart by Goodell...

[meow]

If anything, that lessens the need for added replay IMO. So they have one really shitty group of refs as opposed to two really shitty groups.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Evidently, someone used a laser pointer on Tom Brady during the game. A full investigation will follow.

http://www.espn.com/espn/wire/_/section/nfl/id/25825341

[CBear3]

Evidently, someone used a laser pointer on Tom Brady during the game. A full investigation will follow.

http://www.espn.com/espn/wire/_/section/nfl/id/25825341

Latest I heard was Brady and the Patriots weren't aware of it until they'd been asked about it.
You can see a diffused green light on his shoulder in one the shots the TV station provided.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

#lasergate

[slappybrown]

This story is quite a ride:

The outside anger was felt inside the building. Marketing executives wanted employees to see how fans were engaging with the Browns on social media, so they projected the Browns feed onto a giant wall at the facility. It was like broadcasting talk radio over the entire building, and one day in particular, it was worse than that. One of the marketing staffers entered a search for #dp -- for Dawg Pound. The problem was, that hashtag carried a few different meanings, one of which triggered an array of porn to be broadcast onto a wall for the entire office to see for more than 20 minutes, until a tech employee killed the feed.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2579 ... ry-collide

[tifosi77]

Quite a ride

heh

There are some obscure terms that maybe a normal person wouldn't know, but I have difficulty believing no one in that decision tree knew that DP was a dodgy thing.

[nocera]

This story is quite a ride:

The outside anger was felt inside the building. Marketing executives wanted employees to see how fans were engaging with the Browns on social media, so they projected the Browns feed onto a giant wall at the facility. It was like broadcasting talk radio over the entire building, and one day in particular, it was worse than that. One of the marketing staffers entered a search for #dp -- for Dawg Pound. The problem was, that hashtag carried a few different meanings, one of which triggered an array of porn to be broadcast onto a wall for the entire office to see for more than 20 minutes, until a tech employee killed the feed.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2579 ... ry-collide

I love when old corporate folks try to tap into the internet and have no idea what they're getting themselves into.

[MR25]

This story is quite a ride:

The outside anger was felt inside the building. Marketing executives wanted employees to see how fans were engaging with the Browns on social media, so they projected the Browns feed onto a giant wall at the facility. It was like broadcasting talk radio over the entire building, and one day in particular, it was worse than that. One of the marketing staffers entered a search for #dp -- for Dawg Pound. The problem was, that hashtag carried a few different meanings, one of which triggered an array of porn to be broadcast onto a wall for the entire office to see for more than 20 minutes, until a tech employee killed the feed.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2579 ... ry-collide

I take back everything I've said.

THIS is the most Browns thing ever.

[mikey]

That Browns thing is an impressive read...

[Gaucho]

10-year-old kid won a science fair by proving Tom Brady is a cheater

https://sports.yahoo.com/10-year-old-ki ... ccounter=1

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Rekt

[tifosi77]

It feels like every year there are at least two things that happen where you go "peak Browns", and the stuff that happens the following year is even more peaky. I don't know how they do it.

[NTP66]

Matt Verderame
@MattVerderame
Le'Veon Bell prefers to sign with the #Dolphins come free agency, per a source with knowledge of the situation

[dodint]

Doesn't want to jet ski on the Mon.

[mikey]

This source, with no knowledge of the situation, welcomes him with open arms to Indianapolis...

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Take AB too

[NTP66]

There never will be a solution to correcting wrong officiating calls in the NFL because one way or another, a human must make a call. There is a better way to do it, though, and Dan Rooney had the idea years ago.

Rooney told me when replay was in its infancy as a means to “get the calls right” that his suggestion was a simple one: Add a member to each officiating crew and put him upstairs in a booth so he can watch the game on a TV screen and also view replays.

He would have the same authority as the officials on the field to call penalties, but most importantly for other purposes. He could discuss a called penalty with the rest of the crew if it were obvious to him it was not a penalty. They do that now at times when a flag is thrown — the officials huddle, and then decide there was no penalty.

I like this idea.

[dodint]

How is that any different that what we talked about before?

[NTP66]

How is that any different that what we talked about before?

I apparently missed it? Ah well.

[dodint]

It doesn't matter. Belichick would just disconnect their headsets.