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My dearest friends the TFF Goons, it's time (or rather a couple weeks past time, honestly) to once again retread the past year's worst football stories and mine them for some kind of entertainment-slash-revenge-fantasy “contest.” Actual Football is still months away, the draft is long past, the frenzy of free agency is largely over, and now all we can do to fill the terrible wasted months of summer is decide which person and/or organization was the worst douchebag of the last year. BenHasTinyWeenus used to run this thing but I charitably offered to help and now it's somehow become my responsibility. In revenge for having this foisted on me, I get to set the rules and you have to abide by them. Your Douchebag 2017 champion: Dean Spanos and the Spanos Family.  Your 2017 Inductee into the Dan Snyder Memorial Douchievement Award of Excremence Hall of Fame: Penn State Fans.  The rules In accordance with established tradition, we will first have a period of nominations. Anygoon can make any number of nominations (BUT see the NEW RULE), and in addition, you should post to "second" other goons' nominations. After the nomination period, I will build a tournament bracket consisting of the nominations that got the most "seconds." There is no specific limit to how many nominations will go through after voting. Instead I'll make a reasonable decision about where the cutoff should be and build a bracket that works. That may mean we have some wildcard spots if we don't get a power of 2 number of nominations, but that's not that hard to cope with.  NEW RULE: after individually voting on like fifty different members of the Cincinnati Bengals last year, there is a new rule to prevent this sort of tedious abuse. By Cavauro: Basically the rule is, I may group players on the same team together if it seems like a bunch of them are getting nominated individually; and also, if one ore more goons seem to be abusing their nominating power and like being sassy with lots of nominations that are intended ironically or some poo poo like that, I may put my foot down and draw a line and combine, veto, or otherwise tinker with the nominations. If the NEW RULE seems vague and bullshit, I put it to you that it is no more so than the NFL's definition of a catch.Eligibility Eligible nominees must be a person or group of people that meet these four criteria: #1: Football The nominee must be related to the sport of American Football in some reasonably direct way. #2: Douchebag The nominee must be douchebaggy or have committed one or more acts of douchebaggery. Douchebaggery is broadly defined by the thread consensus via voting, so I prefer not to try to spell out too specifically what the term means. However, by consensus we typically exclude from consideration crimes for which there was a conviction in a court of law, anyone who has been charged with a crime for which trial is still pending, and anyone who engaged in severely gross behavior that we really need to avoid having some kind of terrible "debate" about, such as the Paterno/Sandusky thing. Please also recognize that we're doing this for fun and not to have a debate about for example what exactly constitutes consent for purposes of determining if a rape took place. That said, a certain amount of discussion about where to draw the line is OK, as long as it doesn't become a derail or start resulting in probations. If you're not sure,  and I'll make a ruling about it if it needs one.#3: Of the Year The nominee must have done the douchebaggy thing during the period of May 19, 2017 through e. Note: we're extending the last year up to June 6th, since that's when I posted and we decided to include poo poo that just happened, because otherwise it has to wait a year and that sucks. #4: Not a member of the hall of fame Here are the members of the Douchebag Hall of Fame: Dan Snyder Craig James Art Modell Roger Goodell The NCAA Bobby Petrino Penn State Fans Special contest: Dan Snyder Memorial Douchievement Award of Excremence Entirely separately from the Douchebag of the Year tournament, we will have a straight vote for a new inductee into the Douchebag Hall of Fame; think of it as a sort of Lifetime Achievement Award for douchebags. Eligibility for the Hall of Fame follows exactly the same rules as for the Douchebag of the Year, but with the following exception: Douchebaggery not limited to the last calendar year. Any football-related douchebag acts of the past may be considered. You can nominate some 1950s football douchebag if you want. Nominations and seconds will run for the entire thread, including during voting for the tournament brackets. I'll close nominations shortly after we name the Douchebag of the Year, and then we'll have our vote for the hall of fame. Hopefully this doesn't get too confusing. Only the top few nominees will be up for voting. Basically whichever top nominees seem to have reasonable support, with a cutoff that drops the nominees with significantly less support. If that seems vague, well, it is, intentionally, so I can just do what makes sense at the time. How to Participate  To nominate a football douchebag (for either contest), you must at a bare minimum post in this thread:
To second a nomination (for either contest), make a post with the words "second" in bold and the name or names of whoever you are seconding. Merely emptyquoting someone else is not a vote or second. I will not attempt to interpret why you emptyquoted someone because it can signify disagreement or ridicule as well as agreement. Emptyquoting is also against the forums rules. If you totally agree with someone you can quote them and say (in bold) "seconded" or similar and I'll count that. Voting Rules Once we have all the nominations and the tournament begins, everyone will get to vote. As usual, when the matches begin, I will paste player bios (written by you the voters or halfassed by me if there are non available) and let people vote on one match at a time every two or three days. You will pick your preferred douche and you should give the best argument that you can for why they should win over the other douche. If you just post a vote for a candidate, that's worth 1 point. If you make an effort to argue in favor or against a candidate along with your vote, that's worth 3 points. That's it, that's the scoring. Non lazy people are worth three times as much as lazy people. Merely quoting someone else's argument is still only worth 1 point. You have to add something to the discussion, whether that's doing some googling and posting something someone said online or a news article or some tweets, or just writing a couple of sentences explaining your opinion, I will credit you with 3 points. I will post how many points your vote was worth when I tally your votes. OK that's it, go go go! We're already a couple weeks behind so get to it. Imma just drop this here for uh, reference purposes 
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Second post reserved. Here is the Tracking Spreadsheet. Here are Previous years of this contest threads This year, 2017-18, is Year 8. Here's most of the previous years' threads: Year 1 Year 2 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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OK, I've put Donald Trump in as a nomination for Hall of Fame - it makes sense, since he had gotten into the Kaepernick thing last year before this year's cutoff anyway. Cash Monet posted:I say we put Trump in the hall of fame for this recent poo poo and sinking the USFL. Otherwise he's just going to run away with it. Counted this as a Second for that nomination.
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I hereby nominate Ben Macadoo, coach of the New York Football Giants. His crime: benching Eli Manning to start Geno Smith, for one game, for terrible and stupid reasons, thus permanently destroying Eli's shot at the record for most consecutive starts.
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Cavauro posted:Stoney Case Leperflesh posted:
fast cars loose anus posted:I would like to nominate The NFL owners as a collective because they caved to Trump The new rule was announced during/after the May 23rd meeting, and our cutoff is, inconveniently, May 18th. I've added to the sheet provisionally anyway, because arguably the owners have been caving to Trump all year - at least, that's likely what Kaep's lawyers will argue in court - but I think it's also fair to put the new rule the owners passed onto the 2018-19 season's douchebag voting, since that's when it takes effect. Another thing I could do is just include a couple extra weeks in the timeframe. Mostly this is my fault for starting a bit late this year, but I was on vacation in Europe for two weeks starting the 19th, and didn't want to start this thread and then immediately get on a plane and not be taking care of it for its first two weeks.
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Cavauro posted:Why did you quote me. You appear to have been trying to nominate someone named Stony Case, so I quoted the information about how to nominate someone. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. Shiki Dan posted:Seconded, although he could also be a good HoF candidate for all his achievements outside of this year, including walking away from his NFL career over a dispute of $250, managing a chain of Hardee's and Denny's restaurants into the ground (with plenty of racial discrimination allegations to boot), and being one of the ringleaders of the NFL lockout a few years back. It'd be legitimate and fine if you wanted to also nominate him for hall of fame. Maybe he'd even beat Trump! That could happen, right? ...I gotta say, there's not a lot of traffic in this thread right now, compared to years prior. I wonder if it's just waning interest, or if Trump just overshadows everything else, or maybe I'm doing something offputting in how I'm running this thing, I dunno. If we only wind up with like ten guys to vote on, that's OK too I guess.
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OK I've decided to just go ahead and leave in the NFL Owners, and extend the dates to include the last couple weeks because gently caress it, we might as well get to talk about what is topical to talk about right now. Think of it a bit like how Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize at the beginning of his term, just based on the presumption that he wasn't George W Bush, except the opposite, or something.Android Apocalypse posted:Too bad Dan Snyder is already in the HoF because the cheerleader controversy is near the top of douchebaggery. Oh yeah. There has to be someone else involved we can nominate, though. Of course, the Redskins thing happened in 2013, so it's only eligible for HoF anyway.
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Jun 9, 2018 18:30
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Whitlock was a big player in last year's tournament too, so I'm gonna Also nominate him for HoF even though trump will win.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I’ll definitely vote for Whitlock, even for the HoF, though in my heart he’s more likely to get into the latter in 2019. Donnie’s orange shadow is just too yuuuge this year. I just realized I made things dumb and complicated for myself because now I won't know which category people are seconding. I'll count this as seconding both categories? GobiasIndustries posted:Anyone have links to previous years’ threads? They’d be fun to read and might remind us of some folks who were douches this year too. Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 I don't have earlier threads bookmarked.
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what did Errict do that was douchbaggy in the last year, Cavauro?
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Cavauro seeks to test my literalism and inability to ignore things. He has results, but a good scientist repeats his experiments to validate data. I commend him for his diligence.
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Thanks to forums user hepcat for providing links for the first two years of the contest, we now have all but year three: Year 1 Year 2 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Good call on the Santa Clara DA.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:41
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Well "Football" isn't a person or a group of people so while I see your point I don't think "Football" is eligible. Keep trying though, Cavauro, I believe in you.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I nominate (or second) Cavauro because the joke isn't funny any more, it's just tiresome. Well if I add Cavauro, I guess I'd have to add myself, since I was also nominated, so in all fairness I'll just disqualify goons from being nominated. Even stevens. On the other hand, Chichevache posted:God herself for creating us with the flaw of mortality. God may or may not exist, but I don't feel as though my skepticism on the matter should disqualify that entity. Assuming Chiche is referring to the Abrahamic deity, this event was not in the past year, so I've entered God for the Hall of Fame. Of course this means that God is going to be beaten by Trump, I'm not quite sure how we feel about that. This is stretching the rules though, because Chiche's described reason for nominating God is only loosely connected to Football. In as much as all football players eventually must die (except Adam Vinatieri, who is immortal), anyway, I'm provisionally allowing it. I think we'll wrap up nominations tomorrow, 1 full week seems sufficient given the level of participation. We've got 17 nominations for the DotY and 3 for HoF (including Jason Whitlock for both, and counting God), so that's a number I can work with anyway. 6 nominations for DotY have no seconds yet. Here's the sheet again, if anyone wants to read it through and think about any more nominations/seconds.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:If we're down to nominating things like God, can I nominated ALS? It killed Dwight Clark after all. quote:Also Matt Patricia for not disclosing being an (alleged) fratboy douchebag rapist. I'll allow it.
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seiferguy posted:I want to nominate Jeff Triplette, NFL ref. Not for one thing in particular but the fucker retired, and I think he was one of the worst refs of all time. It would be a shame he left without a chance to be a douche. Do you want to put him in for a lifetime award? Or do you think we can come up with at least one example of bad ref douchebaggery from the last year?
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He plainly cannot see the strip on the first call, but should not have stopped the play if he didn't see it. In the second one I'm thinking the ruling is forward progress/the play is over and the QB counts as down, before the ball comes out? Seems like a lovely ruling but I'm not sure on exactly what the rulebook says about that.
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Cavauro posted:Hall of Fame for marvin harrison shooting somebody with a witness and getting away with it, then hiring somebody to kill that person he shot, and getting away with it. he kept on showing up at shootings later and may have been involved in Doing them, i don't know. On November 17, 2002, made his 600th career reception against the Dallas Cowboys Congrats, you did it! Harrison was not convicted, but my read of his Wikipedia page suggests reasonable people could believe he did those things, so he's eligible. Here are the current nominations. I'll give you guys a handful of hours today to do any more seconding you want to do, and then we'll move forward. For Douchebag of the Year: pre:Nominee Team/Org Seconds Jerry Richardson Carolina Panthers 4 Bob McNair Houston Texans 4 Rob Gronkowski New England Patriots 3 Jason Whitlock Fox Sports 3 Pete Carroll Seattle Seahawks 2 Tom Brady New England Patriots 2 Ben Macadoo New York Giants 1 Toni Grossi ESPN 1 Cops who interacted with Michael Bennett Team USA 1 Santa Clara DA Kevin Smith Santa Clara, CA 1 ESPN Disney 1 Matt Patricia Detroit Lions 1 Jim Irsay Indianapolis Colts 1 Jeff Triplette NFL 1 University of Montana U of M 0 The NFL Owners The NFL 0 University of Tennessee UT 0 Hue Jackson Cleveland Browns 0 Jerry Jones Dallas Cowboys 0 Clay Travis Fox Sports? 0 pre:Nominee Team/Org Seconds President Donald Trump Republican Party 6 Jason Whitlock Fox Sports 2 God The abrahamic religions 1 Marvin Harrison Ind. Colts (ret) 0
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Well we just don't consider crimes for which a person was convicted as eligible. I didn't make that rule, blame the previous guy.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'd like to nominate That one dude from the goon fish bowl who took almost all 12 allotted hours to make the first of two back-to-back picks, then got a new clock for his second pick and timed out. Was it a goon, or one of the non-goon participants? This is important.
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Then I guess he or she is eligible!
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Sorry guys I got distracted.korrandark posted:Are the Michigan State Board of Trustees eligible? Considering they handled a sex scandal even worse than Baylor. Did they do anything related to football? I'm not familiar with the issue. Zurreco posted:Also, seconding the following: Neither of these guys have been nominated, although Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well since Jed York has been seconded I guess I'd better nominate him for being Jed York and possibly giving Niners fans false hope by trading for Jimmy G. I'll go ahead and retroactively second it. Shiki Dan posted:If we nominate NFL Owners as a whole while still nominating individual owners, are we basically repeating last year with the Cincinnati Bengals??? I'm allowing it mostly because the owners also make decisions as a group via voting under circumstances where we usually don't know exactly what each individual owner's role was. Although it would be weird for the NFL Owners as a group to get matched up against a specific owner. Right now I could cut off qualification for DotY at 2+ seconds and have 8 entries, or at 1+ seconds and have 23 entries. The NFL Owners has one second, while most of the nominated owners have more or fewer, so it may just work out regardless but if it doesn't, I'll make a decision about it.
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pasaluki posted:I nominate Kellen Winslow Jr. for old lady raping. Nope. We're not gonna touch that one. Serious rape crimes is not something we want to hash out in this fun thread. Fortunately it's also a trial-pending type thing, so I can overrule on that basis too. Leperflesh posted:#2: Douchebag
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Tom Brady was already nominated but I'll add you guys as seconds, except Vincent Van Goatse because he also already seconded Tom Brady.
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Jun 18, 2018 23:34
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These are the nominees for douchebag of the year who have no seconds. We currently have 23 nominees who have at least one: if anyone would like to second any of these candidates, we'll get to 24 and I can close nominations and move on to the tournament brackets without having to gently caress around with byes as much. University of Montana University of Tennessee Hue Jackson LA Chargers Org
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Excellent OK THE LINE IS DRAWN nominations for Douchebag of the Year are over, I'll work up the brackets and we can get on to the head to head rounds. e. You can keep nominating for the Hall of Fame! Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Here's the brackets, I can rearrange anyone based on same seeding so if there's some bad matchups in here, now's the time to say something.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I’m rooting for the NFL owners to go all the way. Joey Freshwater posted:Hell why not I’ll second UT too late nerds also weird, why did both of you use ’ (U+0092, character "PRIVATE USE 2") instead of ' (U+0027, "APOSTROPHE") as an apostrophe, that's a weird coincidence
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GobiasIndustries posted:I feel like NFL Owners v. Whitlock is a really tough first matchup; Jason definitely needs to get out of the first round if nothing else. Yeah, that's a good point. How's this?  Android Apocalypse posted:I’m posting from the Awful App on my iPhone. Maybe that’s it? Joey Freshwater posted:It’s an iPhone thing I think. Or Awful app maybe Yup both you guys are using it so I guess the common denominator is the app or the phone. It's a bad choice. There's other curly apostrophe characters in more common use, if they just hate the actual apostrophe character. ( ’ ) U+2019 "RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK" is the best alternative.
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lol guys guys try and keep up It's time for our first matchup! JERRY RICHARDSON vs. JED YORK Jerry Richardson  This man looks like a sack of poo poo in every single photo of him Jerome Johnson Richardson Sr. (born July 18, 1936) is a former NFL player and the founder of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. FizFashizzle posted:Jerry Richardson On December 17, 2017, Sports Illustrated reported that "at least four former Panthers employees have received ‘significant’ monetary settlements due to inappropriate workplace comments and conduct by owner Jerry Richardson, including sexually suggestive language and behavior, and on at least one occasion directing a racial slur at an African-American Panthers scout." According to the anonymous sources which were the basis for the article, Richardson asked women in the team offices to "turn around so he could admire their backsides" on Casual Friday, among other "disturbing" office behavior.[10] On December 17, 2017, it was announced that Richardson intended to sell the Panthers franchise at the conclusion of the 2017 season. After great interest from the market, in May 2018 Richardson finalized a sale to billionaire and then Pittsburgh Steelers minority owner David Tepper for an NFL record sales price of 2.2 billion dollars. The deal was approved by NFL owners on May 22, 2018. vs. Jed York  <sad trombone> Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well since Jed York has been seconded I guess I'd better nominate him for being Jed York and possibly giving Niners fans false hope by trading for Jimmy G. He has made a lot of really stupid personnel choices in the past, including getting in to a feud with and subsequently firing the 49ers' all time best coach Jim Harbaugh, but none of that matters because this is just Douchebag of the Year. Also was he really the one who traded for Jimmy G? Because normally that's the domain of the GM. But gently caress it, he gets in anyway because it's inconcievable that Jed Fuckbag York hasn't done a bunch of douchebaggy things this past year. OK, vote! Remember the voting rules, you get more points for effort and your vote doesn't count if all you do is emptyquote someone else.
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I'll wrap up this matchup this evening when I have some time, but it looks like it's gonna be a close one!!!
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Jerry Richardson Wins! in a narrow 42-3 victory over Jed York. Next up we have: Pete Carroll vs. Minnesota Vikings Fans Pete Carroll Peter Clay Carroll (born September 15, 1951) is an American football coach who is the head coach and executive vice president of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He is a former head coach of the New York Jets, New England Patriots, and the USC Trojans of the University of Southern California (USC). Carroll is one of only three football coaches who have won both a Super Bowl and a college football national championship.[1] Carroll is the oldest head coach currently working in the NFL. seiferguy posted:I nominate Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seahawks. Regarding this man, Jordan Peterson: https://www.theshadowleague.com/story/nfl-coach-pete-carroll-invited-a-right-wing-blowhard-to-talk-but-why quote:He once said that feminists have “an unconscious wish for brutal male domination,” when asked about their support of Muslims’ rights. In 2016, he tweeted to women in general, saying that if they “usurp men they will rebel and fail and you will have to jail or enslave them.” Regarding Pete Carroll's old man stories: https://www.theshadowleague.com/story/pete-carroll-s-spicy-clapback-proves-it-wasn-t-all-good-in-seattle quote:"I think it was kind of philosophical on his part," said Sherman about Coach Carroll on Uninterrupted's The Thomahawk Show. "A lot of us have been there six, seven, eight years, and his philosophy is more built for college. Four years, guys rotate in, rotate out, and so we had kind of heard all his stories, we had kind of heard every story, every funny anecdote that he had. And honestly, because he just recycles them. And they're cool stories, they're great for team chemistry and building, etcetera, etcetera. But we had literally heard them all. We could recite them before he even started to say them." OK. Then we have the Minnesota Vikings Fans: Yes, vikings fans. Aren't they just the worst?  aCyberPingu posted:Nominating Vikings Fans for being a bunch of babies after the NFCCG and stopping Eagles players and fans from eating in restaurants around the city and other petty things. https://247sports.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/Bolt/Eagles-Super-Bowl-Eagles-denied-access-to-Minneapolis-restaurants-114292791/ quote:The Philadelphia Eagles have been making their travel plans to Minneapolis in preparation for Super Bowl 52, but Minnesota Vikings fans are making sure they don't have good visit. https://twitter.com/ChrisMaragos/st...ts-114292791%2F Here's some more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jealous-vikings-fans-stop-ruin-eagles-super-bowl-fun-article-1.3787897 OK, you decide: who is the bigger douchebag, Pete Carroll, or Vikings fans of Minnesota? vote!
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Well it's all academic because PETE CARROLL WINS, in a super close nailbiter 36-3 come-from-ahead victory. And this segues nicely into the next matchup: Jerry Jones vs. Eagles Fans! Jerry Jones: Jerral Wayne Jones (born October 13, 1942) is an American businessman, best known for being owner of the National Football League (NFL)'s Dallas Cowboys since 1989. The cowboys are the most financially lucrative team with profits of $350M annually, despite sucking rear end for a really long time and having their self-claimed and always highly dubious monicker "America's team" de-facto usurped by the Pats. So Jones is special even among the billionaire's club that is NFL ownership. And not just in financial terms: he's essentially the ringleader of that gang, wielding the most influence and power at the table. So his douchebaggery has an outsized effect. Incoherence posted:I'm not sure if we're just rolling all of the anthem-protest stuff into NFL Owners, but if not, here's a nomination for Jerry Jones:  "Actually, I think you'll find this is about me" Jones' approach to the kneeling controversy was to enforce lockstep conformity to his own policy, attempt to usurp the rebellion by making it be about what he wanted (a show of patriotism and team unity in following the rules that completely neutered its impact or relevance to the actual protest), and then credited it to Donald Trump, driving home the unmistakable point that this was conservative republican anti-protest using players as pawns to screen a political maneuver. Jones is undoubtely also highly influential in the effective blackballing of Kaepernick himself, too. Either explicitly behind closed doors, or implicitly through his direct bootlicking of Trump combined with the outsized power he wields within the NFL. Or.... Eagles Fans  Darth Brooks posted:I feel like I need to nominate Eagles fans just so everybody can yell get over it and not vote for them. http://www.fox9.com/news/eagles-fan-rips-seats-out-of-us-bank-stadium-during-super-bowl-lii https://truepundit.com/watch-unruly-eagles-fans-throw-bottles-beer-cans-vikings-fans/ This is pretty douchebaggy too
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weird Asian candy posted:These seedings are awful. Yeah I kind of have a choice with seedings: I can set it up so that we have strong contenders eliminated really early, or, we can weed out the noncontenders in the first round. I think the latter is preferable. That said, I try not to overly anticipate who is gonna win, although I have my own opinions. I think our next matchup will be more interesting but we're gonna have a fair number of these blowouts over the next few days.
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Jerry Jones Wins in a unanimous 33-0 blowout. Next up: ESPN vs. The NFL Owners hoo boy ESPN  ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Egan. As of January 2016, ESPN is available to approximately 91,405,000 paid television households (78.527% of households with at least one television set) in the United States. Nielsen has reported a much lower number in 2017, below 90,000,000 subscribers, losing more than 10,000 a day. seiferguy posted:I nominate ESPN for their treatment of Jemele Hill. Specifically they reprimanded her for stating the obvious that Trump is a white supremacist, then suspended her for being critical of Jerry Jones and his flag humping poo poo. quote:Hill stoked controversy with tweets calling President Donald Trump “a white supremacist,” “a bigot” and “unqualified and unfit to be president” and later, after being reminded of ESPN’s social media policies, for suggesting fans upset with how NFL owners respond to player protests during the national anthem should consider sponsor boycotts. and, http://digg.com/2017/robert-lee-espn-controversy-explained quote:On Tuesday, ESPN reassigned a sports announcer by the name of Robert Lee from calling a football game at University of Virginia on September 2. (Lee was reassigned to cover a game in Pittsburgh on the ACC Network Extra channel.) hokay. The NFL Owners  The franchise owners of the NFL teams collectively operate the NFL. Here's a list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_franchise_owners Approximately 18 of them are billionaires, with the rest being merely mostly multi-hundred-millionaires. fast cars loose anus posted:I would like to nominate The NFL owners as a collective because they caved to Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.5e89582cb799 quote:The new policy, announced Wednesday after a two-day meeting of the league’s 32 owners here, leaves it to individual teams to discipline players for acts deemed disrespectful during the anthem but also gives the league wide discretion to fine teams for actions taken by players. The changes met quickly with approval from Vice President Pence and skepticism from the NFL Players Association, which said it was not consulted on the changes. Feel free to mention any additional douchebaggery by ESPN and the NFL Owners during the last year! But also, vote.
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Jun 23, 2018 06:49
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This is a very very tight contest (currently ESPN 24, NFL Owners 23) so keep in mind folks that giving a reason gets you 3 points, not giving a reason gets you 1.
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Jun 23, 2018 21:07
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It's currently ESPN 31, NFL Owners 29. I'll leave voting open till the full standard 48 hours elapses, which is another 5ish hours.
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Jun 25, 2018 01:16
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Okay, well, in a surprising result, ESPN WINS! The NFL Owners collectively are defeated, 31-29, but individually several remain in the running. Next up we have Tom Brady vs. Sean McDermott and the Bills Leadership Tom Brady Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Brady is a friend of President Donald Trump;[426][427] in 2017, Brady indicated he had known Trump "for 16 years".[428] At a political event in New Hampshire on the day before the 2016 presidential election, Trump said he had received a call from Brady, and that Brady told him "Donald, I support you, you're my friend, and I voted for you." However, after Gisele Bündchen was asked directly on Instagram whether she and Brady backed Trump, Bündchen answered "NO!".[429] After a Trump campaign "Make America Great Again" cap was photographed in Brady's locker, Brady said that Bündchen told him not to discuss politics anymore, which he thought was a "good decision".[430] Brady did not join most of his teammates from the New England Patriots in visiting Trump and the White House in April 2017, citing "personal family matters."[431] fsif posted:I nominate Tom Brady for forcing Jimmy G out of New England.  pals? I don't know how that happened. I do know that Tom Brady likes to share lingering, long, intimate kisses with his son, which is creepy: https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/tom-brady-kisses-son-superbowl-2018.html Sean McDermott and the Bills Leadership Sean McDermott (born March 21, 1974) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL).  Psst. I hate you Zurreco posted:Bills' Leadership, especially Sean McDermott, coach of the Bills, for aggressively trying to gently caress over their upcoming QB and veteran center.
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Jun 25, 2018 16:53
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