Tenchi Muyo gets me wet posted:

This is Bill & Ted sequel took a grim turn.

Febreeze posted:

Please win Falcons we need a moral boost as a country

Febreeze posted:

Please win Falcons we need a moral boost as a country

quote:

A string of emails that began in 2010 with the Atlanta Falcons head trainer and reached all the way to owner Arthur Blank showed a franchise worried about its "excessive" reliance on painkillers to treat players and the potential embarrassment that could cause the team and the NFL.

One topic raised in the email chain concerned the review by an outside agency that found the team spent $81,000 on prescriptions for medications for players in 2009 — nearly three times the league average.

Nearly every recipient on the email chain — from Blank, president Rich McKay and general manager Thomas Dimitroff to then-head athletic trainer Marty Lauzon — is still with the team, which plays New England in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

"That's being litigated now. That's not something we're going discuss right now," Dimitroff said Monday night when asked about the emails. "When the time is right, we'll readdress that."

Josh Lyman posted:

I believe in Catt Ryan, catterback of the Atlanta Falcats

Kalli posted:

https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/826480902012272641

Kalli posted:

https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/826480902012272641

Kalli posted:

https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/826480902012272641

go go go go ROSCOE! posted:

The blank stare could have been just because it's such a dumb question

TBeats posted:

Here's my blank stare towards you for missing sarcasm.

TBeats posted:

Here's my blank stare towards you for missing sarcasm.

go go go go ROSCOE! posted:

Drew Bledsoe definitely would've won three rings if he hadn't gotten hurt!!

quote:

The 49ers are suing suspended Raiders OLB Aldon Smith to recoup signing bonus money.

Required under the terms of the CBA to re-pay the Niners $1.186 million, the team alleges Smith has still yet to pay $342,000. It's yet another headache for a player who was not reinstated when first eligible last fall. Although he's still only 27, Smith's NFL future is murky. He will reportedly meet with commissioner Roger Goodell in March.

Josh Lyman posted:

Arthur Blank is a boss.

https://twitter.com/Lizzs_Lockeroom/status/826244606081765376

Kalli posted:

I presume this is completely true:

quote:

Chuck Swierski, Gronk’s former basketball coach at Williamsville North High School (N.Y.), told the story:

“So we’re playing a home game and we have 68 points – now it’s not a blowout, but it’s not a particularly close game either. So he [Gronkowski] gets fouled and goes to the free throw line. He hits the first one to get us to 69 and the place goes nuts because he’s playing into it. On his next free throw, he purposely chucks the ball off the backboard and misses so the score would stay at 69 and then runs back on defense pointing at the scoreboard.”

evilweasel posted:

checks out

http://deadspin.com/rob-gronkowski-once-tanked-a-free-throw-to-keep-his-hig-1791836453

Kalli posted:

I presume this is completely true:

Rex Ryan posted:

"I set the expectations too high," Ryan told the Daily News in a wide-ranging interview on Monday night, his first since getting fired before the Bills season finale against the Jets. "Like, boy, that's a shock. In a way, I felt, why not us? I stepped in where the head coach had quit, the defensive coordinator quit and the quarterback quit on them. So, I thought that it was important at the time to say, 'You know what? Shoot, I believe in you. And I'm proud to be the coach here.' Every bit of that was true. I put that truck (with the Bills logo) around town. I was all-in. Even though those other three had quit, I wasn't a quitter. I was ready. And I wanted to be there. And I wanted to win. And I thought I could win.

"... Let me tell you, I stripped that drat truck the day I got fired," Ryan said. "F--- you guys."

...

"I don't wish them bad will," Ryan said. "I don't. But I don't wish them luck, either. I'll be honest: I don't wish them good luck. I don't wish them bad luck. I just don't wish them luck. I wish the Jets luck."

...

I'm really not that bitter and maybe that $15 million is one of the reasons," Ryan said. "I'm not bitter, man. Yeah, I'm hurt. I was hurt by it. There's no question. But bitter ain't how I feel. I'm like, 'Shoot, if they never wanted me here, then fine. I ain't here. I'm not your coach anymore. Fine and dandy.' But I got an opportunity in front of me that a lot of guys don't get. I'm going to see where it takes me. Maybe this a different career and I really enjoy it. I'm hoping that's the way it is. Maybe I get into and I don't like it. Maybe they don't like me. Maybe I go back to doing something I love, which is coaching. I'll never say never. I'm a young guy still. ... I'm healthy. But bitter? Nah. Not bitter, man. I'm really not."

...

"I wasn't real lucky coming in there with the situation I did," Ryan said. "Hey, that's the way it goes. No excuses. We went in there and did the best we could. I wish things would have been different. I wish Sammy Watkins wouldn't have had a broken foot and been healthy the whole year. I wish our draft picks would have played. There's a lot of things that I wished for, but at the end of the day, I'm responsible for the product on the field."

Kalli posted:

I presume this is completely true:

Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:

a patagonian cavy posted:

Let's go the falcons. temporary bird gang bitch

Bacon Taco posted:

Same. If my team couldn't win then I want the team from my conference to win. NFC rules, AFC drools!

FizFashizzle posted:

truly america's team


http://pro32.ap.org/article/only-ap...sers/mgiarrusso

Spoeank posted:

Hahahahahahaha

Reminder that Jim tomsula cried when they released him and said the Niners were there for him