NFL 2015-2016
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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I think the NBA is trying out sleeved jerseys just for that purpose but that's a good point, the jersey sponsors for European sports is out of control.Only NASCAR does it to an extent in America.
The NFL is a whole lot worse than any other sport I can think of. The fact that there are actually stoppages in the game purely for ads is ridiculous.
I think the sleeved jerseys were introduced by adidas purely to try and increase sales of game jerseys. For the hardcore NAB fan, buying a jersey / vest is straight forward. But for the more casual fan, a sleeveless jersey is not as wearable as a regular jersey.
The premier league is going sponsor free from next year as they want to "purify the brand" to be more like American sports (no Barclays and no replacement for them)
American Sports and their communist practices. You can't even negotiate your own kit deal let alone have sponsors on them. Also no point having shirt sponsors when you can have the Sears pregame analysis, Pepsi halftime show, AT&T postgame show, Sprite Slam dunk of the day, Super replay presented by T-Mobile, Bank of America coin toss, Papa Johns MVP, Microsoft Surface tablets, Doritos play of the day, feckn Gatorade shower. 2/3rds of any NBA/NFL coverage is already advertisement. Shirts sponsors aren't going to get that much exposure anyway.
Soccer clubs have a long way to go when it comes to whoring themsel... i mean commercialising & Man Utd is leading the way!
I kinda get the feeling I made the right decision going to sleep at halftime 
Good decision. I regret staying up & taking today off work. Offensively, there was nothing in that game to get you excited.I kinda get the feeling I made the right decision going to sleep at halftime
I think perhaps that I was spoiled by the fact that this was the first Superbowl I watched.. and the year after was pretty great too.
Anyone else got a legitimate claim to being better than the Broncos? Besides you will for the most part hear them called Super Bowl Champions.
Obviously the Carolina Offense was horrendous, but crucial mistakes really let the Denver O off the hook.
If Crotchery makes that simple catch down the right sideline (the throw was perfect), Panthers have 1st and goal at the 5. Carolina were the best team in the Redzone in the NFL, even if you take away the TD - that's 3 points and we have 13-16, instead of 10-16 and needing only a FG to tie, maybe Cam plays differently on the 2nd to last drive.
Also, the Carolina D is going to get forgotten, but...
Total Yards
Denver - 194 yards offensively
Carolina - 315 yards
1st downs
Denver - 11
Carolina - 21
3rd down conversions
Denver - 1/14 (on the very 1st Denver drive)
Carolina - 3/15
But....
Turnovers
Denver - 2
Carolina - 4
Penalties
Denver - 6 - 51
Carolina - 12 - 102 (and at least 3/4 of those were offensive and really hurt their drives)
Cam was bad, but not historically so, 18/41 for 265 yards and it would easily have been 300+ when you take into account 3 of the dropped catches. I put more blame (or credit, depending on how you look at it) on the respective coaching staffs. Denver obviously put together a very good game plan and Carolina not only didn't anticipate well beforehand, but they didn't or weren't able to make any ingame adjustments.
If Crotchery makes that simple catch down the right sideline (the throw was perfect), Panthers have 1st and goal at the 5. Carolina were the best team in the Redzone in the NFL, even if you take away the TD - that's 3 points and we have 13-16, instead of 10-16 and needing only a FG to tie, maybe Cam plays differently on the 2nd to last drive.
Also, the Carolina D is going to get forgotten, but...
Total Yards
Denver - 194 yards offensively
Carolina - 315 yards
1st downs
Denver - 11
Carolina - 21
3rd down conversions
Denver - 1/14 (on the very 1st Denver drive)
Carolina - 3/15
But....
Turnovers
Denver - 2
Carolina - 4
Penalties
Denver - 6 - 51
Carolina - 12 - 102 (and at least 3/4 of those were offensive and really hurt their drives)
Cam was bad, but not historically so, 18/41 for 265 yards and it would easily have been 300+ when you take into account 3 of the dropped catches. I put more blame (or credit, depending on how you look at it) on the respective coaching staffs. Denver obviously put together a very good game plan and Carolina not only didn't anticipate well beforehand, but they didn't or weren't able to make any ingame adjustments.
Non-commercializing will be a wasted opportunity in these times. without a sugar daddy club, commercial revenues go a long way to make the club healthy to go after top talents and their huge paychecks.
Annoying, I accept..but outright hate. No.
Think Peter King sums it up pretty well -
The Broncos’ defense pummeled Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady and Cam Newton in their great playoff run. Denver has a great defense. Holding Big Ben to 16 points, Brady to 18 and MVP Newton to 10? Holding the Steelers, Patriots and Panthers to four touchdowns in 12 quarters? Carolina, New England and Pittsburgh are 1-3-4 in the league in scoring, yet managed all of seven third-down conversions in three games.
The Broncos’ defense pummeled Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady and Cam Newton in their great playoff run. Denver has a great defense. Holding Big Ben to 16 points, Brady to 18 and MVP Newton to 10? Holding the Steelers, Patriots and Panthers to four touchdowns in 12 quarters? Carolina, New England and Pittsburgh are 1-3-4 in the league in scoring, yet managed all of seven third-down conversions in three games.
'do not want'You're arguing this as if I said football wasn't littered with sponsors everywhere (because it is). My point is that American sports are a circus. Love to watch them, but they're a complete circus.
If you want to compare the amount of sponsorships, consider commercial breaks for every few minutes of game time — sometimes just 1 play between commercials, actual TV timeouts so commercials can play, sponsored halftime reports, sponsored halftime shows, sponsored pregame shows, sponsored postgame shows, sponsored midgame reposts, sponsored highlights, sponsored highlights, Aflac Trivia Question, sponsored Bowl games in college football with the sponsors plastered on the middle of the field, every single venue being sponsored, artists using cameo halftime show appearances to promote their new tour/album, and many others I could name, but you get the point. Sponsorship does help, which is great, but there comes to a point where it gets ridiculous.
edit: Just wanted to make that point there, but don't care to argue this. My Broncos are fecking Super Bowl champions!
There are a lot of sponsors, but apart from the Superbowl they rarely intrude into the viewing experience, IMO. The divisional championship games for example are much more about the football than the sponsors, because only the Superbowl has the potential ad revenue that merits a flood of sponsors.
Wow, why didn't Cam dive on it??
It looks bad, but there is a possibility that Cam tried to deduce where the ball would fall after everyone scrambled on it. That or nerves.
This is a guy who flips into the end-zone risking injury, so even though he deserves some flack here, I won't go as far as to say that he pussied out.
The post game interview on the other hand was disappointing.
This is a guy who flips into the end-zone risking injury, so even though he deserves some flack here, I won't go as far as to say that he pussied out.
The post game interview on the other hand was disappointing.
I'll say it, he definitely pussied out.
If he'd have kicked that on the floor it would have been a ten yard penalty but they'd have kept possession right? Or would it have been deemed a personal foul as well (you can tell I'm approaching that situation from a football mindsetx
)There is a Ghanaian boxer back home who after beating his nearest competitor declared "I'm the World Championin my country"
. That's how I see the NFL, MLB, NBA winners: World Champions in America lol.MLB and NBA both have international teams.There is a Ghanaian boxer back home who after beating his nearest competitor declared "I'm the World Championin my country"
I'm quite happy Peyton won his 2nd Super Bowl just because (and you can tell by his face) Eli will now be more determined to take The Giants to another Super Bowl. Beckham Jr and Eli for 2016/17 SB Champions! Then we can all watch noodle arm cry in the executive box.
I think you guys are spoiled if you think that was a terrible Super Bowl. It's not long ago that we routinely had super bowls much worse than that. 48-21, 34-7, 34-19, 49-26, 30-13, 52-17, 55-10, 42-10, 46-10, 38-16, 38-9, 27-17. That's 12 blowouts in the 20 years between 83 and 03.
I know very little about american football and watched purely out of curiosity and found it really entertaining.
I enjoyed it, and expected a close game (but with a different result). It was great to see 2 excellent defenses operate.
I think it's because people were expecting or prefer to see an offensive showcase rather than a defensive one.
I love it, but then I would.
Well I mean, I thought it was kind of boring too. But most Super Bowls are boring. If you really want to enjoy football, watch the top nfl and college games every weekend. Don't just tune into the super bowl every year and say "eh, this sucks" and try again next year.
Trent Dilfer vs. Giants in Super Bowl XXXV: 12-25-153-1-0, three sacks, one fumble.
Peyton Manning vs. Panthers tonight: 13-23-141-0-1, five sacks, two fumbles.
The main thing I learned last night was that Bruno Mars really looks like Girl Lister from Red Dwarf.
As a more casual viewer I didn't think the game was that terrible viewing to be honest. Enjoyed it even if we didn't see a lot of great offense.
As a more casual viewer I didn't think the game was that terrible viewing to be honest. Enjoyed it even if we didn't see a lot of great offense.
You're right but they're just token canadian teams. Hardly world participation. The premier league has Welsh teams but I wouldn't call its winner an European champion let alone a World champion.
Thomas Davis - no questioning his desire....
Cam's offensive line let him down. It's not as if they didn't expect Bronco's defensive line to put in a great performance. Simple as that.
That's because there are other legitimate claimants to the throne. There aren't in American sports. It's silly that people get worked up over this.
This is damning for the Panthers coaching staff - http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/02/08/nfl-super-bowl-50-denver-broncos-defense
Galling to read "Peyton leads his team to SB victory" or such. Between his injury, benching and overall lackluster performances, it's the defence that led the team to SB. Sometimes these overt QB 'fanboism' in NFL is annoying. Where the QB was a passenger, media should make it known. What's wrong with "Defence carries Peyton and Broncos to SB victory"?
Wade Phillips' twitter is hilarious. @Sonofbum
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