OT: Why I’m pulling for Cincinnati today
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I dunno. If neutral sites would eliminate homer calls like the Bills were given on the obvious Chase TD catch, maybe it’ll be for the best to go to that.
F the Bengals. I'd rather the NFL play every future championship game at Beaver Stadium than see this franchise have any success
I could see and even get behind the neutral site championship games. Might take me a while but I could warm up to it.
Are you from Philly or something? I just can’t root for the Eagles, but that’s just me.
Their success is at least a little easier to swallow now that they aren’t filled with clowns like Burfict/Pac-Man/TJ. It’s too bad Burrow plays there because I like him.
So merely selling the game out isn't good enough; they need a larger pool of people buying tickets so they can jack the prices up, I assume. Yeah, eff that.
I really don't care who wins the game today, though. I'm more or less equally indifferent to the Bengals, Bills, and Chiefs. They're good and they're not my team, so I dislike them.
I really don't care who wins the game today, though. I'm more or less equally indifferent to the Bengals, Bills, and Chiefs. They're good and they're not my team, so I dislike them.
Please no. Home field in the NFL is a positive thing and gives the game some variety.
But, I'd guess that the decision has already been made. They likely know it means more money as cities can bid on those games. Redicilous.
But, I'd guess that the decision has already been made. They likely know it means more money as cities can bid on those games. Redicilous.
My brother in law is a die hard eagles fan so I root for them if they aren’t playing the Steelers.
I don’t like the Bungles because they are the Bungles. Bills fans are annoying and their owner is a Nitter. I guess I don’t really dislike the Chiefs as much.
I’m not sure if there’s anything I’d point to for college football and say, “they do it right.” Just my opinion, though.
College football is a government-sanctioned social experiment designed to see how much we can take.
Wasn’t it last year that these 4 Divisional games were out of this world? I feel like we are suffering for it this year. These games are duds.
One thing is for sure, with the neutral site, 75% of that crowd will be WVU fans.....
There is no way neutral site games will eliminate bad officiating. NFL officiating (along with all the other sports) is horrible. How can it be that this is a side job for these guys? This is a multi-billion dollar sport and they employ guys that work a few hours Saturday and games on Sunday? The penalty calls are so inconsistent from crew to crew. Pay these guys more money and make this a full time job. Get a working agreement with the USFL and XFL and have them work those games
This whole "neutral site" thing has me pi$$ed. The teams that get the home game deserve it, but so does the city. How much revenue does the city generate by hosting a playoff game? This will then only go to 6-8 sites. The greed and arrogance of this league continues to amaze me. What will they do give 20,000 tickets to each team and then the rest to their corporate sponsors? The fans are the ones that drive this league. What happens when less and less people watch the games? Less money to the advertisers.
The Super Bowl should be the only game played at a neutral site, which should.
The average salary appears to be over $200k. That's a nice sidejob.
I don’t even like the Bengals (nor the Bills particularly) so had no dog in the hunt but it was irritating. The Bengals made a great throw, great catch in great coverage in difficult conditions. Outstanding stuff, the kind of play that makes it the greatest game in the world. Then, because a Cincy TD there would have meant another playoff game essentially being over at halftime like the one last night, the league holds it up interminably to desperately look for any kind of tiny, tiny technicality to find the feeblest excuse to overturn it … in this situation, that the ball moved slightly in Chase’s arms as he was starting to get up and the teams were leaving the field for the extra point. But then you might see an entirely different call in the exact situation the next time. All this crap goes back to the dam tuck rule fiasco and it’s gone downhill since.
I saw it as not a catch. But I understand your point that they could call the same play differently the very next week.
But I see this type of officiating in every single sport.
It's flat stupid.
Teams play the whole season to get HF advantage through to the SB. It's part of the game.
It also is something for the fans. Say the Steelers get HF and make it to the championship game at home vs having to play at a neutral site, the vast majority of fans who would go to game at Pittsburgh would not be able to go to say Jacksonville.
And, it would take the game environment from a frenzied home field crowd to a bunch of tourists.
I would have doubts they would even sell it out ...
The sellouts are guaranteed. There is no way it doesn't sell out. I have a bigger issue with the cities losing out on revenue generated and that revenue keeps going to the same cities.
2 names that I googled last night says they are also attorneys. For some maybe that is all they do, but my point is they should be employed full time and, work other games and watch film together in classrooms all season.
IDK ... conference championship game?
One week turn around.
Think people are going going to fill a stadium a thousand or more miles away from each to watch Cincy / KC?
NO!!! This is just another money grab, by the one league and group of owners who need more revenue the least.
Neutral site games are so antiseptic. They take away from what makes the NFL great. Communities rallying around. Man, there is nothing like Pittsburgh on an AFC Championship weekend when they were hosting a game. It is electric.
Neutral site games are so antiseptic. They take away from what makes the NFL great. Communities rallying around. Man, there is nothing like Pittsburgh on an AFC Championship weekend when they were hosting a game. It is electric.
You play all season for home field throughout the postseason. It’s asinine they would take that away. Might as well make every playoff game neutral site then.
Hate the Chiefs. Hate Mahomes and his stupid girlfriend and goofy brother. Think Travis Kelcey should be punched in the face by someone. Someone else. Not me. He looks like he could crush you. But still he should be punched.
Don’t hate the Bills but have a sick joy in seeing their overly arrogant fans suffer each year.
I used to hate the Bengals but I really like Joe Burrow. I love old school QBs like him.
I do love the AFC really having three teams that are the absolute cream of the crop. And none of the three seem to stand out like the Pats did years ago.
NFC is a crap shoot each year. In my mind no single team stands out. I thought the G Men would have given the Iggles have a harder time because I thought Philly won their conference because of a lighter schedule and would be the one team that suffered from a bye. But honestly they Do look like the odds on favorite to get to Super Bowl.
I absolutely love seeing Dallas lose in playoffs and seeing Dak say year after year how he will find the answer next year. He is absolutely the most over rated QB in football.
49ers defense is doing their job and Brock is defying all odds.
So for those of you who are coming out to Glendale for the game also realize that the Waste Management tournament is also happening that weekend up in Scottsdale. PHOENIX WILL BE A TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE more than even normal.
Don’t hate the Bills but have a sick joy in seeing their overly arrogant fans suffer each year.
I used to hate the Bengals but I really like Joe Burrow. I love old school QBs like him.
I do love the AFC really having three teams that are the absolute cream of the crop. And none of the three seem to stand out like the Pats did years ago.
NFC is a crap shoot each year. In my mind no single team stands out. I thought the G Men would have given the Iggles have a harder time because I thought Philly won their conference because of a lighter schedule and would be the one team that suffered from a bye. But honestly they Do look like the odds on favorite to get to Super Bowl.
I absolutely love seeing Dallas lose in playoffs and seeing Dak say year after year how he will find the answer next year. He is absolutely the most over rated QB in football.
49ers defense is doing their job and Brock is defying all odds.
So for those of you who are coming out to Glendale for the game also realize that the Waste Management tournament is also happening that weekend up in Scottsdale. PHOENIX WILL BE A TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE more than even normal.
Jalen Hurts is playing at another level this year. He’s in that top echelon and got there in a hurry. I can remember all of the doubters when Pederson started playing him over Wentz. Looks pretty good now.
Amazing how quickly that franchise turned it around. I can remember how bad they looked a few years ago with a bad line, terrible clubhouse cancer in QB, no running game to speak of, aging defense, etc… They were worse off that the Steelers ever were over the last several seasons. Which is why Tomlins seat has to start getting pretty warm if they don’t make a big improvement next year and make the playoffs. But it would probably take much more for his seat to get even a little bit warm given ownership seems to value consistency over all else.
Amazing how quickly that franchise turned it around. I can remember how bad they looked a few years ago with a bad line, terrible clubhouse cancer in QB, no running game to speak of, aging defense, etc… They were worse off that the Steelers ever were over the last several seasons. Which is why Tomlins seat has to start getting pretty warm if they don’t make a big improvement next year and make the playoffs. But it would probably take much more for his seat to get even a little bit warm given ownership seems to value consistency over all else.
No, that would suck, it would mean northern cities never get the games and all of the games have warm weather or domes, no more snow or bad weather games, and I like when the weather messes it up for one team or another, I never care about the "best team" winning or having their game plan messed up by ice or snow. I like when that happens. .
As I lifelong Steelers fan, I never hated or even cared one way or the other about the Eagles, as it stands now, I'm hoping for an Eagles vs Bengals Super Bowl.
But who wants these tickets? Let's say Bills vs Chiefs in Atlanta? Who's going? Bills and Chiefs fans on one weeks' notice? Local Atlanta people? I wouldn't go to a game between teams that aren't my team unless maybe the tickets where cheap, even then, I don't care that much.
Don't they also have like 75 picks in the first two rounds this year? I imagine they have some contracts expiring, but that should be a good way to fill those spots.
They were so much better than us that it really wasn't funny. That's why I hate people using what we did against a streak of absolutely terrible teams down the stretch as any sort of validation for anything. We just cared more than the other bad teams we played - that's about it.
I remember my dad and his friends (all Steeler fans, to my knowledge) going to a Chiefs/Bills AFC Championship back in the 90's--in Buffalo. I'm still trying to figure out why they did that. You couldn't pay me enough to watch two NFL teams not named the Steelers play in person. I'll check in periodically on tv, but that's about it.
I agree, I've been to non-Steelers NFL games, but only because I lived nearby at the time. I lived in Cleveland for a year in the 80s and went to a Browns MNF Game, and I live in Maryland now and have friends who are Ravens season ticket holders, so I've been to 2-3 Ravens games not including the Steelers. But no, I can't imagine traveling to another city, paying big money for travel and hotel and tickets, to watch to random teams. But who knows, maybe there's a market for it?
Are you/your dad from Monongahela/Ringgold? Maybe they wanted to see their old pal Joe Montana? Or are from Fort Cherry and have a connection to Schottenheimer?
I was actually thinking about the Montana angle. My dad isn't one to get enamored with that stuff, but maybe one of his friends walked him into being there for "Montana's last ride" or something. If that even was his last game.
I just remember my dad telling me he worse a Steeler coat and got booed.
