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Volkerball posted:You don't have to drive home drunk, you just have to make it to the gas station on the corner to sleep it off. This is a pretty good way to get a DUI.
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MourningView posted:This is a pretty good way to get a DUI. I live like 15 minutes from the stadium.  I've got the luxury of buses and taxis.
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Volkerball posted:You don't have to drive home drunk, you just have to make it to the gas station on the corner to sleep it off. Or... get a hotel room to sleep in, and take a taxi/walk to the game, and avoid driving drunk altogether.
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FizFashizzle posted:Driving really far to support a team kinda sucks. You can't tailgate or anything and its hard to rationalize driving home drunk for four hours. This is partially why I wasn't into sports much as a kid. I lived in Idaho so the nearest team was either the Seahawks, the Raiders/49ers, or the Broncos, and none of them were within about 12 hours driving distance.
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HappyHelmet posted:Or... get a hotel room to sleep in, and take a taxi/walk to the game, and avoid driving drunk altogether. You seriously don't get that this is like super inconvenient to do? Especially since games are on a Sunday. Hey sorry your team moved, Oakland fans, but you can drive 6 hours (probably more like 7 or 8 with LA traffic), get a hotel, and miss work the next Monday while you drive back, so it's not really THAT big a deal.
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computer parts posted:This is partially why I wasn't into sports much as a kid. I lived in Idaho so the nearest team was either the Seahawks, the Raiders/49ers, or the Broncos, and none of them were within about 12 hours driving distance. I'd ignore sports too with that Sophie's choice.
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MourningView posted:You seriously don't get that this is like super inconvenient to do? Especially since games are on a Sunday. They'll have high speed rail to get them to the game in 2029.  Just kidding, that's more of a pipe dream than a new stadium in Oakland
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I'm sure New England fans wouldn't mind the trip if the Patriots moved to Buffalo.
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MourningView posted:You seriously don't get that this is like super inconvenient to do? Especially since games are on a Sunday. It's kind of a pain in the rear end when it's three hours away, let alone what's basically like "time to drive from Baltimore to Savannah now."
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Going to Qualcomm is a pain in the rear end and I live a mile away from it.
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Kawakami is a shithead but brings up a pointquote:An emailer reminded me of a potentially very significant issue involving the commisioner’s less-than-subtle nudging of the 49ers and Raiders to sit down and talk about the Raiders at least temporarily playing games at the 49ers’ new Levi’s Stadium:
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Jul 19, 2014 20:17
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Obviously the solution is to move them to London.
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The solution is to move them to LA
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Blitz7x posted:The solution is to move them to LA Sadly this really is the only solution. Oakland's politicians are a cesspit of special interest that would rather see the area continue to stagnate if it means they can't get their particular pockets lined. So, gently caress it, Oakland doesn't deserve a team(Warriors are leaving, too, GG East Bay). It's also pretty idiotic that the NFL doesn't have a franchise in LA at all. The Raiders moving to LA(if they get a brand new stadium) is a win for everyone.
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Blitz7x posted:The solution is to move them to Portland http://www.nfltoportland.com/home.html A thing that will never, ever happen but is fun to think about! lmao The Tualatin Raiders. That has no ring to it at all.
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Schwack posted:http://www.nfltoportland.com/home.html When the NFL expands to Europe, they'll move to Italy and be the Tuscan Raiders.
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FWIW, Levi's PSLs specifically don't grant any rights to other NFL games held there. And we'd probably just roll over and take it if Raiders PSLs/tickets were cheaper, although, y'know, I don't know how they'd remotely justify selling PSLs for Raiders tickets given that the stadium is already completely financed.
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rjmccall posted:FWIW, Levi's PSLs specifically don't grant any rights to other NFL games held there. And we'd probably just roll over and take it if Raiders PSLs/tickets were cheaper, although, y'know, I don't know how they'd remotely justify selling PSLs for Raiders tickets given that the stadium is already completely financed. They'll make the excuse that the revenue generated by raiders PSLs in the 49ers stadium will go to a future stadium, and that's only if they bother to make an excuse at all. The NFL has long been in the 'gently caress you, pay me' realm.
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warcrimes posted:Sadly this really is the only solution. Oakland's politicians are a cesspit of special interest that would rather see the area continue to stagnate if it means they can't get their particular pockets lined. So, gently caress it, Oakland doesn't deserve a team(Warriors are leaving, too, GG East Bay). LA: Bastion of Deserving
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Frackie Robinson posted:LA: Bastion of Deserving Deserving is too much, but it's the 2nd largest media market in the USA. It's pretty weird that they don't have a team.
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Volkerball posted:When the NFL expands to Europe, they'll move to Italy and be the Tuscan Raiders. Well now they have to do it
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Volkerball posted:When the NFL expands to Europe, they'll move to Italy and be the Tuscan Raiders. 
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Volkerball posted:When the NFL expands to Europe, they'll move to Italy and be the Tuscan Raiders. I support this proposal.
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Volkerball posted:You don't have to drive home drunk, you just have to make it to the gas station on the corner to sleep it off. This is how I went to games in St. Louis and Indianapolis while living in Milwaukee :feelsgoodman: even better than a gas station is one of those roadside Oasis things all over the Midwest. or if you went to a game in Green Bay you sleep in your car on whoever's lawn you parked on for the 2-3 hours it takes for the highway onramps to clear out
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HappyHelmet posted:Deserving is too much, but it's the 2nd largest media market in the USA. It's pretty weird that they don't have a team. They had three and couldn't keep any of them
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ROSS MY SALAD posted:They had three and couldn't keep any of them Not gifting a stadium to Al Davis is literally a small cost for not having a NFL team.
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Bip Roberts posted:Not gifting a stadium to Al Davis is literally a small cost for not having a NFL team. 
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The Rams had two problems which caused them to leave. The first is that they played in a 100k stadium and the games wouldn't air on TV unless it was sold out. The caused them to move and led to the 2nd being that they moved to Anaheim which is an hour away from LA. I'm not surprised no one attended their games. The Raiders should move back to LA. I just hope that they somehow get Farmer's Field open and not that terrible stadium idea off the 57/60 interchange.
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Frackie Robinson posted:These passes are too accurate for Raiders. They're in single high safety, to disguise their coverage.
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Nawid posted:Oakland took ten years to decide on a dog park (they finally said no recently). No loving way anything gets done there. This is the most ridiculous goddamn thing I have ever heard.
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ROSS MY SALAD posted:They had three and couldn't keep any of them That was before football's popularity exploded like it did. It makes sense to give it one more try in that context.
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Kawalimus posted:That was before football's popularity exploded like it did. It makes sense to give it one more try in that context. Goodell will put two successful franchises in LA as a part of his "legacy". If that means paying off whoever in LA it takes and loaning the Raiders 200-300 million to facilitate the building of a new stadium, more power to him.
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Christ Pseudoscientist posted:The caused them to move and led to the 2nd being that they moved to Anaheim which is an hour away from LA. I'm not surprised no one attended their games. Even just Orange County has more people than St. Louis though. That said I think the Raiders would work fine with a stadium that wasn't awful and smack in the middle of the shittiest part of LA. MourningView fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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Christ Pseudoscientist posted:The Rams had two problems which caused them to leave. The first is that they played in a 100k stadium and the games wouldn't air on TV unless it was sold out. The caused them to move and led to the 2nd being that they moved to Anaheim which is an hour away from LA. I'm not surprised no one attended their games. Too bad they didn't have tarp technology back then.
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A's to North Jersey and the Raiders to LA. Make it happen MLB/NFL. I think it would be great if LA got a modern tiered stadium and those depression era shithole bowls got the wrecking ball. Blitz7x posted:Kawakami is a shithead but brings up a point Giants and Jets each sold their own PSL's. We technically get 1st dibs at stadium events but it mostly amounts to a non-discounted "presale" using some offer code on ticketmaster.com you get in an e-mail. davecrazy fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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A's to North Jersey would be amazing. They left Philly so long ago there isn't really resentment left from it, I would love to take them on as a second team if they were that close and I bet others would too. Having fans from Philly, all around Jersey, and New York would be huge. e: Is our dream plan going to run into the same territory problem? FuriousxGeorge fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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gently caress all y'all. The A's are staying in the bay.
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swickles posted:Too bad they didn't have tarp technology back then. Those tarps have saved many a poor Jags Fan's afternoon, let me tell you. Now we have pool and cabana technology. The eyes of the sporting world fall on our tiki bars. Secretly, we always had a pool in Everbank, but that was just when the tarps filled up with rainwater.
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