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What Wrong With Football, My Sports blog for November 2016

 

Football 2016

What wrong with football

What’s going on with the game of football?  Is it just me or has the game become a bit boring this year?     Don’t get me wrong, I love ‘football’, but something is missing this season.  Could it be that the TV football fans are missing!

 

Sagging NFL TV ratings leave owners scrambling for answers

www.usatoday.com

It is the change in some of the rules?  This year there was a bunch of changes made.  It seems that the refs have been throwing the yellow flag on just about every play.   I know that the changes were made to protect the players.  But the changes are open to the interpretation of the rules by the refs and it seems that the refs have been a bit over the top.

It’s been so bad that not even the sports announcers know why the ‘yellow’ flag are tossed onto the field of play.  You have to wonder that if the announcers are struggling with the call along with the players and their coaches; how the fans are suppose to know what’s going on.

ESPN’s Sean McDonough Is The Bravest Man In Broadcasting For Ripping NFL Ratings And Officiating:

www.forbes.com

The one new rule that is really bugging me is the ‘taunting rule’.   Come on, taunting is what football is all about.  Catching the uncatchable pass, stacking the quarter back, making the touchdown and doing you thing in the end zone is the stuff the fans eat up.  We love it!  And instead on teaching the other guy, the one being taunted not to over react, they punish the winner.   It does seem to take all of the fun out watching football.

Baseball still allows taunting and so does basketball, again makes you wonder why football players aren’t being allowed to enjoy their ‘special’ moment in the sun.

Perhaps the problem in the amount of days that football is now being played.  You have college football on Friday and Saturday for the most part, then the NFL on Sunday, Monday and now on Thursday, that’s a lot of football.

NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ has lowest ratings since 2011

www.thetrucker.com

Perhaps it just comes down to the quality of the games.  When you are getting blowout games in the NFL, you have to ask why.  Why are so many teams not playing up to the expectation of the team’s owners and their fans?

Are the teams being hampered by the excessive amount of injuries that have racked the NFL this year and if so, why are there so many injuries?  I don’t remember a time before this year that so many players were injured before the season even started.

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There is one additional reason, at least one that the NFL is blaming for the low TV ratings.   They are claiming that Fans are watching fewer NFL games due to protests by several players during the National Anthem which was started by Colin Kaepernick as the primary reason.

sports.yahoo.com

The fact is that TV ratings are down for football this year no matter what the reasons are. However, the number of people playing Fantasy Football has only slightly fattened.  That should make the NFL wonder why!

Also more women are watching football and the sales of women’s NFL sport attire is on the rise, which does seem support that, but fewer fans are actually watching football on their TV’s.

What should be a main concern to the NFL is that there is a whole lot less young adults watching football.  There are a few out there, but with social media, they are not confined to just their TV sets to watch football, they can peak at the games on their cell phones or Ipads while still enjoying a day out with friends and family.

Young adults are not totally abandoning the NFL; they are the reason for Fantasy Football.  But even Fantasy Football has seen a flattening out of participants this year,

Study: Growth Of Fantasy Sports Participation Flattens Out, Little Growth For DFS

www.legalsportsreport.com

With TV ratings down, advertisers will definitely want to roll back the hefty prices being paid to the NFL and the team’s owners.   The NFL and the team’s owners will probably have to play along with the TV sponsors and then find other means to make up the potential loss in income.   Raising ticket prices is one way, but ticket prices are at an all time record high in some areas already.

NFL ratings plunge could spell doom for traditional TV.

www.washingtonpost.com

It will be interested to see how the NFL will adjust to this.  What changes will they come up with for the NFL season for next year?  There has even been talk about re-aligning the divisions that the teams are in.  They hope that this would help stimulate better competition between teams and thus gain new fans to the game of football.  There is also small talk about less games and a shorter season, then again there is also talk about adding more teams, which could mean more games and a longer season. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

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Sports October 2016

The month of October is one of the few months of the year that just about every kind of sports is available to watch. October is filled with a ton of sports action.

It starts off with the closing of the regular MLB season, then the wild card playoffs, ending with the World Series, last year the Kansas City Royal won the World Series, who will it be this year is anyone guess. There are quite a few baseball fans that are hoping for a repeat of Kansas City Royal’s winning the World Series. Of course I will be rooting for the Dodgers, it will be a lon shot but it could happen.

By the way, the Dodgers have already won their division, now we just have to wait and see if the Dodgers can make t pass the first round of the playoffs this year, it would definitely be a long shot, but it would be nice to see a National league team win, (except for the San Francisco Giants, of course).

MLB

October also saw the retirement of one of the most loved baseball broadcasters, Mr. Vin Scully. After 67 years of calling the Dodger games, he has called it quits. During the last Dodger home game which was played on September 25, the Dodgers and their fans played tribute to Scully. It was truly amazing to watch.

washingtonpost

We also have the continuation of the NFL Football, which just started a few weeks ago, already there are more than a few upsets, but what I have noticed is the overwhelming amount of injuries by the players this year. I thought last year was bad, but this year is even worse.

Someone really needs to look into it, is it due to the shorter ‘boot camp’, or the earlier televised ‘preseason’ games, or just bad luck? Whatever the reason, it is really running havoc with Fantasy Football.

Could it be just be due to the fact that professional football is now being played on Thursday, Sunday and Monday now, maybe not enough down time between games for the players to rest?

www.NFL.com

By the way, the new LA Rams have arrived and the Los Angeles fans have more than exceeded the expected increase in cash flow to the Rams’ owner and the City of LA. Even the price of just parking your car for the game will probably go down in

There is also the continuation of college football. It is always fun to watch college football; these players are giving their all for their school, and perhaps a slight chance of making to the NLF. The famous UCLA and USA game will be held at the Rose Bowl Saturday 19th of November, which of course, will be a sellout.

For what it’s worth, both USC and UCLA have not started out as winning teams, personally I blame the coaches, both teams have the talent and should be a whole lot better than what we have seen so far, but the selections of plays being called by the coaches do not make the best use of the talent available. Both teams need to go back to the drawing board and either hire a new head coach or at least a new offensive coach.

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If you are not a fan of baseball or football, perhaps you are a fan of soccer and you are in luck because our LA Galaxy Soccer team is winding down their 2016 season with just a few games left. Then it’s off to the playoffs.

lagalaxy

The Los Angeles Lakers season is also starting this month. Good news for Lakers fans the opening game of the 2016/2017 season is Thursday Oct 13 7:30 pm with the Lakers playing the Sacramento Kings. Although a lot of Kobe fans were relented to see him retire, fortunately this did setup the Lakers to be able to do a whole lot of trading up during the off season. I think the Lakers will surprise more than a few people this season and be a real contender.

nba.com/laker/schedule

The Los Angeles Clippers will also be back. Starting with Thursday Oct 27 7:30 pm which is the opening game of the 2016/2017 NBA Basketball season for the LA Clippers playing the Portland Trail Blazers

nba.com/clippers/schedule/

Now, if you are thinking, ‘that yes’ there is a lot of sports going on in the month of October,
I haven’t even mentioned hockey yet. The NHL starts its season in October almost the same time as basketball.

We are so fortunate to have not just one but two hockey teams here is Southern CA and whether you are a Kings fan or a Ducks fan, doesn’t really matter, just like if you prefer the LA Angels or the LA Dodgers, doesn’t matter, you want both teams to do well at least until they play each other.

Wednesday Oct 12 7:30 pm is the opening game of the NHL Hockey season for the LA Kings with them playing the San Jose Sharks.

kings.nhl.com/club/schedule
and on Thursday Oct 13 5:30 pm is the opening game of the NHL Hockey season for the Anaheim Ducks playing the Dallas Stars.

ducks.nhl.com/club/schedule
October is a great month to be a sports fan, there is such a wide assortment of sporting events. It’s also the end of summer with the weather cooling off, the leaves on the trees changing, and the days are getting shorter. It’s a great time to get off the sofa and take that long walk between watching all the games on TV.

Ready for some football, the 2016 is about to start

it’s time for football

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?

Believe it or not, the 2016/2017 football season is upon us.

It doesn’t seems all that long ago that we were getting all worked up over the 2016 Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos becoming the NFL Superbowl champions. Remember this headliner ‘Broncos Win Super Bowl 50 as Defense Swarms Panthers’

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/sports/football/broncos-win-super-bowl-50.html?_r=0

However that was last season, this football season starts with the first pre-season game on August 11, which will be several teams playing a Thursday night game, The games being play that I will be keeping an eye on will be Denver at Chicago and New Orleans at New England.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/schedules/preseason

The LA Ram’s first pre-season game will be Saturday, August 13 and it will be played at 5:00pm at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum against Dallas.

Funny thing about pre-season games is that most of the pre-season games being played either Thursday, Friday, Saturday or even Sunday will cost between $10 to $20 each, but then there is the Game between Cleveland and Green Bay at Lambeau Field, these tickets will cost you around $50. However, the trophy for overpricing goes to the LA Rams, their tickets will cost around $94.00 each, can we say Ouch!

The actually opening day for the NFL season will be Thursday, September 8, at 5:30 and what better way to start off then a re-match between the winners of the 2016 Superbowl, the Denver Broncos playing the losers, The Carolina Panthers.

www.nlf.com/schedule/2016/REG1

This game is already getting a whole lot of hype. The Panthers will look to exact a measure of revenge for their defeat in Super Bowl 50 over the now Peyton Manning-less Broncos.

Not just the panthers, but specially one person and that will be Cam Newton, especially after all the criticism regarding that fumble by him in the final minutes of the game which lead to the panthers losing.

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2016/2/15/10998530/von-miller-super-bowl-50-cam-newton-illegal-bat

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http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/welcome?ex_cid=FFL11_vanwelcome_url

This year as a fantasy player you are going to need a score card on who got traded to where and who just flat out retired. Then you will have to figure in who is already hurt and who is on suspension. Of course, this list already contains the New England Patriots quarterback who likely will sit out the first four games of the 2016 season after a court denied his appeal.

http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/tom-bradys-upheld-deflategate-suspension/491129/

Below are a couple of links that will show a list of players that were traded and a list of players that have retired.

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2016/4/28/11514968/2016-nfl-draft-trades-pick-tracker

http://www.si.com/sports-illustrated/photo/2016/03/08/biggest-retirements-2016

There is also a link that rates the NFL Disaster Ratings: Retirement and Injury, this could and should be helpful in determining how long a player is expected to remain on the list of injured players.

http://walterfootball.com/disastergrades.php

During the football off season, ESPN and several of the other fantasy football sites have set their eyes on the growing number of women who are playing fantasy football. Women are the fastest growing market of football fans.

It’s not just fantasy football that has noticed the growth of women watching and enjoying football. New Era and several other official sponsors of NFL apparel are now carrying a full line of Jersey, T-shirts, hats and other miscellaneous items especially for women.

No longer will women have to wear over size jerseys, jerseys that are just too large!

http://www.ladyfanatics.com/Pages/NFL_Ladies

This should be a great football season, especially for us football fans here in Los Angeles. We now have our own team, hopefully this time around, the rams will stick around a while and not just up and jump to other city when they feel the urge. I remember going to the Ram games when they played in the LA Coliseum back before they jumped to Anaheim and the Angel Stadium. Then they jumped again to Saint Louis. Was a die-hard Ram fan, now they are going to have to win me back.

Like I said, its going to be a great football season

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February/2016

Rams come to LA

Rams come to LA
Well at least for now, Los Angeles is finally getting a football team and not just any football team, but the Rams. Apparently the Rams want back and there are several groups of dedicated Ram fans that were just delighted to welcome them back to Los Angeles with open arms.
The Rams are returning to the Los Angeles area 21 years after leaving for St. Louis. The move was approved Jan. 12, 2016 at a meeting of league owners in Houston.
I remember going to the Ram games, first at the Los Angeles Coliseum, then at the Anaheim Stadium, which they shared with the California Angels.
Rams come to LA
Back in 1977 I was an avid Rams fan, I went to as many games as I could afford. Back then the Rams were the team to beat. They won their division with the Quarterback, Pat Haden and as backup Quarterback, the famous Joe Namath, it was great! Too bad they lost to the Dallas Cowboys during the playoffs.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/ram/1977.htm
Pat Haden has since moved on to becoming the Athletic Director at the University of Southern California.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/ram/1977.htm
Rams come to LA
Then the Los Angeles Rams moved to the Anaheim Stadium, they wanted better than what the Coliseum had to offer. Unfortunately they also raised the price of admission, which reduced the amount of fans that could attend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Los_Angeles_Rams
However did you know that the Los Angeles Ram did not start here in LA, the franchise actually started in Cleveland in 1936 and didn’t join the newly formed NFL in 1946. It was after they joined the NFL that they moved to the LA Metro area in the same year.
Rams come to LA

The move to Saint Louis took place in 1995. That day was a sad day for Southern California football fans. The reasons the team left, that the owner gave the fans was dwindling ticket sales and the desire for a new and improved stadium.
Not that the new owner of the Rams isn’t going to be making money from the LA Ram fans at their brand new stadium, but why wait a couple of years to get out of the red for all the building and relocation costs, when you can cut the time in half by having two NFL teams use the stadium.
Rams come to LA
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The owner of the ‘now’ LA Rams has made an offer to the San Diego Chargers to share the stadium and thus recoup the costs in half the time.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-la-chargers-rams-20160113-story.html
The San Diego Charges could actually decide to join the Los Angeles Rams if the city of San Diego does not approve the building of a new stadium for them.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ap-source-nfl-committee-picks-combined-over-rams-220949398–nfl.html;_ylt=AwrXnCKoUpxWcV4A_mrQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByb2lvbXVuBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg–
Last month the owner of the new LA Rams allowed fans to put down a $100 deposit for the purchase of a game ticket and the Rams announced a few days later that the team received more than 45,000 deposits in the first two days of its season ticket campaign.
Rams come to LA

Fans will able to put down a $100 refundable deposit by visiting the team’s website WelcomeHomeRams.com, and reserved a spot on a waiting list that will allow them to buy tickets this spring before the general public. The team reported more than 5,000 deposits in the first five minutes that the site was live.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/NFL-Rams-Season-Tickets-366052671.html
The team will play in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before moving into a new stadium in Inglewood at the start of the 2019 season.
Rams come to LA

This is really great news for USC and their fans since the City of Los Angeles along with the Rams owner will be putting money into the old Coliseum to make sure it’s up to the task of being the temporary home of the Rams for a few years.
All in all I am glad that I didn’t toss out my old Ram’s Hat and Jersey and for all you new Ram Fans, if you just have to have some of the new Los Angeles Rams merchandise, use this link below.
Ram Fans Merchandise
Rams come to LA
We wish the new LA Rams luck as they make their move to Los Angeles, it’s been a long wait for us here in Southern California and yes, we deserve not such a team, but a winning one!
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To Many College Bowl Games?

As I started writing this blog I realize that there were still a few college bowl games left.

However, this year there was over forty college bowl games, that was a bit much, don’t you think?

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/bowl/schedule

I tried to have the same amount of zest for each game, but it was hard. UCLA looked as bad in their bowl game as they did when they played USC. Air Force didn’t look much better playing CA-Berkeley. Or how bad was it watching Boise State play Northern Illinois at the Poinsettia Bowl on December 23, the final score was Boise 55 and Northern Illinois 17.

There were also several games that were very good and even a couple that were upsets, such as Houston upsets Florida State 38-24 in Peach Bowl.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/houston-upsets-florida-state-38-24-in-peach-bowl-212942310.htm
Or how about the Alamo Bowl , with TCU, Horned Frogs playing the Oregon Ducks, it was like watch two different games with the first half being won by the Ducks and the second half being won by the Horned Toads.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2604414-valero-alamo-bowl-2016-game-grades-analysis-for-oregon-vs-tcul
Many sports announcers have made comments about how boring this year’s bowl games were.
They blamed it on the pairing up of the teams, the amount of bowl games and the TV schedule of several games being played on New Year’s Eve.

It has been said that only Alabama-Clemson can save college football’s worst bowl season.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/only-alabama-clemson-can-save-college-football-s-worst-bowl-season-073817921.html

I understand the need for college football bowl games; I know it’s all about the money that they generate for the schools. Most of it coming from TV sponsors, but how many of these forty plus bowl games were actually worth watching? I tried to watch as many of these games as possible, but several actually put me to sleep.
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The money that these bowl games generate go toward school scholarships and help support many of the other sport activities that college offer, but don’t bring in the necessary money to support them.
There is another reason that the college bowl games are important, at least to several of the senior football players, and that is to give them one last chance to show off their football skills to the NFL, thus improving their chances of entering the NFL draft.

One of the first of these senior players is the CA-Berkeley Quarterback, Jared Goff announcing he’s entering the NFL draft. Believe me, by the end of January or February the list will be long.
Unfortunately for most college football players, the majority of them will never play pro-ball.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/cal-qb-jared-goff-announces-he-s-entering-the-nfl-draft-173728430.html
Notre Dame CB KeiVarae Russell entering NFL draft.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/notre-dame-cb-keivarae-russell-entering-nfl-draft-180703875–ncaaf.html
Maybe the forces, that not only rank the college football teams during the year, but also select
what teams goes to what bowls can figure out a way to do a better job at lining up what school plays what school. This past bowl season was definitely not the best college has to offer and hopefully the selection committee will learn from their past mistakes.

http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/selection-committee-faqs

One can only hope!

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Oops another mistake by the Umps!

With the upgrades in the way we watch sports on TV, and the use of re-play in almost every sport, it’s definitely had its impact on how the games are being officiated especially in football.

http://operations.nfl.com/the-officials/officiating-development/

No longer are we watching sports are the regular old-fashion TV, but most sport fans are now watching the games on Cable TV or streaming it through their Ipad, phone or computer.

We, as fans, get to see just about everything that happens on the field. Sometimes over and over again as the station repeats the play at various anglers along with comments from the sports ‘experts’.

This has really put a lot more pressure on the officials. Not only do they have to deal with the
team players and coaches at the time of the call, but with the fallout from a bad call as early as that evening when ESPN or Sports Center brings it to everyone attention. Now add to that the ‘Social Media’, which everyone on Facebook has an opinion.

However, even with this, officials do still get it wrong, and sometimes, it is very wrong!

Error in time run-off on the clock and not noticed or corrected by officials in the October game between Detroit Lions and the Seattle Seahawks
http://www.onenewspage.com/n/Sports/7559xuidc/Sports-digest-NFL-admits-officiating-error.htm

NFL admits another error in Lions-Cowboys game
http://www.9news.com/story/sports/nfl/2015/01/06/lions-cowboys-game-officiating-errors/21357789/

In college football, the ACC has taking action against the team of officials who messed up and due to their errors, the wrong team won. You say, what’s the big deal, however, again, this is college football where one loss can prevent you from going to the payoffs. Not going to the playoff means a huge loss of revenue for the college.

The ACC (The Atlantic Coast Conference) has actually suspended the team of officials
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14026475/acc-suspends-field-officials-replay-officials-wild-miami-duke-finish

With College football actually doing something to try and clear of the mess of bad officiating, the NFL needs to follow suit. Just like the football players and their coaches are held accountably for their actions, so do the officials. Some errors appear to be so blanted that you have to wonder what the officials were thinking! Was there favoritism? Did the official actually lean heavier on a certain team verses another team? A lot of fans think so, why do certain team’s quarterbacks get sacks so much more than other quarterback from other teams.
Sack a favorite quarterback and get a penalty for late hit, sack another quarterback and it fine.

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Have to ask the question as to when will the NFL follow in the path of college football and make the officials actually responsibly for their actions. Perhaps a suspension of a game or two or even a monetary penalty would help the official take their jobs a little more serious.

Bad Calls In Sports

This is a very touchy subject and not just in football. Many baseball fans and sports announcer have discovered that certain officials when referring certain games against certain pitcher have either a very large strike zone or a very little strike zone.

Everyone by now has heard the story of a retired baseball player hiring Private Investigators to
get an advantage from Officials, if not click on the link, you will enjoy the read.

Lenny Dykstra admits to hiring private investigators to spy on umps
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25356639/lenny-dykstra-admits-to-hiring-private-investigators-to-spy-on-umps

This has got to be a real eye opener for the MLB. Even if Lenny’s story proves to be false, you still have to wonder ‘what if it’s true?’ How does the Major League Baseball fix the problem for the future? How does any sports venue fix the problem?

Unfortunately, when there is so much money to be had in sports now-a- days, cheating is to be expected. In sports the old say goes, ‘It isn’t cheating if you don’t get caught?’

Have Fun and Enjoy
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Are We Ready for Some Football, NFL Football 2015

 
Well even if you aren’t, too bad, it’s here already! Pre-season started last month with a few teams already showing signs of weakness in their lineup.

The first official game of the 2015 season is September 10, with the Pittsburgh Steelers at the New England Patriots (without Tom Brady for now)

http://www.nfl.com/schedules/2015/REG1

And just like every other season some of the weaknesses can be blamed on a few ‘missing links’.

These so called ‘missing links’ are due to injuries that occurred during practices, some due to bad pre-season trades, or too many rookies that haven’t quite managed the move from College to Pro. However, there are several players that are ‘missing in action’ due to suspensions for drug use or spousal abused or something of that nature.

For a list of NFL Fines & Suspensions, use this link.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/fines-suspensions/ or http://www.4for4.com/fantasy-football/2015-nfl-suspended-players

Tom Brady is also on suspension, due to his apparent role he played in ‘deflate gate’.

The NFL suspends Tom Brady for 4 games

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12867594/punishments-handed-tom-brady-new-england-patriots-deflategate

Public Opinion regarding The Patriots and deflate gate

https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AryV_9zOq81Bbg7nyBUCPsubvZx4?fr=yfp-t-901-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=deflate%20gate

However, even without the ‘deflate gate’ there are a whole lot of football fans that are convinced that this is just another case of the New England Patriots cheating to get a win, and it isn’t the first time that they have been caught !

Do you remember when the New England Patriots were caught using electronic means to steal signals and otherwise violate league rules back in 2007?

To check out a list of the Patriots cheating scandals, go to
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-england-patriots-scandals-from-spies-to-snowplows/
or http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/new_england_patriots_cheating_scandal/

Of course with all the players that will have to serve out their suspensions, comes the impact that this will have on Fantasy Football. Do you or not keep a player that will not be able to play for the first game or so?

There is also the players that have been released from their contracts due to being arrested for DUI’s, Violence, spousal abuse.

The latest to fall is Aldon Smith who was released by the San Francisco 49ers on August 7 for driving under the influence, committing a hit and run and vandalism. This was the third time Smith was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving since being drafted by the 49ers in 2011.

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/8/7/9116037/aldon-smith-released-49ers-arrest

If Smith was going to be one of your Fantasy Football selections, you need to go back to the drawing board, who do you replace him with. What if you already had your team picked and ready to go with Tom Brady as your starting Quarterback, do you keep him and use another pick to get a back-up for Tom. But who? Who will be available?

Add to that all the injuries that have occurred before the season even started and you can really see how much all this has already affected the game. With RG3 out once yet again with another concussion and even though he is already back in practice, you have to wonder, why was he even out there setting himself up to be injuried again.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/preseason-training-camp-injuries-mount-200218873–nfl.html;_ylt=A0SO8y6pEN1Vw6UAXbhXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzZGo2NjMyBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDVklQNjE1XzEEc2VjA3Ny

Do team owner and mangers continue in this old-fashion method of preparing for the start of the season, or do they start looking for alternatives.

This is one solution to meaningless NFL preseason games with meaningful injuries: Dual practices maybe?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/solution-to-meaningless-nfl-preseason-games-with-meaningful-injuries–dual-practices-021028059.html;_ylt=A0SO8y6pEN1Vw6UAW7hXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzcDJjOXA2BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVklQNjE1XzEEc2VjA3Ny

It’s sad when the gossip surrounding the game of football gets more press time than the game itself. But that is exactly what has happened over the last couple of years. Remember Aaron Hernandez? He is still making the headlines.

http://www.tmz.com/category/aaron-hernandez-trial/

Or Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens, who after knocking out his fiancée in an elevator was fired by the Ravens. Even though there are several teams including the Houston Texans are in need of a running back as of now he is still a free agent.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-houston-texans-arian-foster-ray-rice-20150805-story.html

So much press time given to showing the negative aspects of players personal lives that the NFL has had to step in and try to offset it with more time and assistance given to players that need help. Adding to that is also longer suspensions for drug and spousal abuse giving to players along with termination for players that are arrested.

Unfortunately players suspensions and terminations and injuries, don’t just affect them and their family, it also affect their teams, the other players on the team, the team owners and their loyal fans., especially the fantasy football players.

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/signup?mktg=fantfootball-sem-ybn-gen

Hopefully we will start to see the players will see that the end result doesn’t justify the abuse and they will get help!

Hopefully Team owners and managers will see the writing on the wall and get help to the players that really need it and start taking better care of protecting the players on the field.

When that happens, we as fans, will see more press time given to the actually game instead of what we are getting now. We all love to see the hard hits, the sacks, the blocked kicks, but not to the point where the players are either injured during the game, or take their angry out on those closest to them after the game.

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The Pressure On, For Charger New Stadium

 
San Diego is about to get hosed
by the Chargers and the NFL

Hi Sport fans, especially those of us who follow the ups and downs of the National Football League.

This was a sports blog that was posted by a Jason Notte a few months ago and it is worth repeating.

It concerns not only the loyal fans of the San Diego Chargers, but what can happen when
The NFL is allowed to pressure Cities to doing what they are ‘asked’ to do by the NFL.

A high-pressure sales tactic means taxpayers
will foot most of the bill for a new stadium

NOTTECitizens Stadium Advisory Group

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Here’s what a waste of $1.1 billion looks like.

San Diego, please don’t be as dumb as this Chargers stadium plan is making you look.

Your tax-free stadium is going to end up with ‘public money’ one way or another.

Years of griping about Qualcomm Stadium from the Spanos family of owners and some screw-turning from the NFL, which refused to award San Diego another Super Bowl until the Chargers updated their 1967-vintage facility, had previously yielded only chuckles from San Diego. A string of mayors and city councils refused to pay a dime of public money toward a new facility while a family with 10 figures of net worth held its hand out.

However, the Spanos clan did the unthinkable and partnered with the Chargers’ AFC West rival Oakland Raiders on a proposed $1.7 billion facility in Carson, Calif., that was approved in April. That’s when San Diego began losing its nerve. Rushed by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s own Los Angeles stadium proposal and pressured by NFL representatives to get an offer on the table, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and his stadium planning committee announced plans for a $1.1 billion stadium that “won’t raise taxes.” San Diego, please read the fine print on this plan.

While the Los Angeles Times pulled out the pom-poms and swiped some choreography from Bring It On for its enthusiastic A-N-N-O-U-N-C-E-M-E-N-T of the new stadium plan, it glossed over the fact that the Chargers and the NFL would be responsible for only $500 million of those costs. Oh, and the Chargers still feel they’re “being asked to contribute far more than other NFL teams have been required to pay when their stadiums were built.” Meanwhile, the project requires $173 million in bonds, $121 million from San Diego, $121 million from San Diego County, an estimated $100 million from ticket surcharges and seat licenses, and the city’s $225 million sale of the Qualcomm Stadium site to a developer.

Though the proposed plan asks the Chargers to pay $1 million per game in rent ($8 million per year, more during playoff years), the “won’t raise taxes” portion of this deal is very much in doubt. Just ask the good people of Indianapolis and Indiana. They forked over 86% of the $720 million cost of the Colts’ Lucas Oil Stadium before it opened in 2008 and borrowed money from Goldman Sachs GS, +1.39% for a bond sale to cover the cost and minimize the tax burden. However, as Bloomberg discovered, the group in charge of those bonds just paid Goldman $71 million to get out of that bond deal after an interest-rate-swap scheme went sour. As a result, hotel, restaurant and rental-car taxes that were already being used to pay stadium costs had to be increased.

NFL stadiums have soaked up an average of $250 million in public funding apiece since the mid-1990s. Harvard University urban planning professor Judith Grant Long notes that municipal or state land, lost property taxes from that land, infrastructure and annual maintenance all tack on about 25% to the cost of an NFL facility. The least the NFL can do is offer the public a say in that spending, but the NFL has rammed Los Angeles stadiums through local government without a vote and is squeezing politicians in St. Louis, Oakland and San Diego to avoid a public vote on tax money for stadiums, citing expediency.

There is no way San Diego should let this go down without a vote. Faulconer has promised one for November and a two-thirds vote would be required for approval. The NFL, knowing it doesn’t have the votes for this and that few taxpayers would agree to such a lopsided deal, sent Executive VP Eric Grubman to San Diego to declare the vote “risky.”

Take that risk. It’s your tax money and your city, San Diego. While folks in Seattle know that a public vote doesn’t always mean public money won’t go into a stadium, they also know it’s about the best tool the taxpayer has to negotiate terms. If the fourth estate would rather play cheerleader than look out for your interest, look out for you own and force a vote. If the NFL and the Spanos clan don’t like it, they know where I-5 is. Good luck getting to L.A. before the Rams and Raiders, though.

Jason Notte is a freelance writer based in Portland, Ore. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post and Esquire. Notte received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 1998. Follow him on Twitter @Notteham.

Spring and Sports go hand-in-hand!

Sports April 2015, a month to remember

April was a fun month for us sports fans! No matter what sports who follow, there was something going on.

April was the beginning of professional baseball, whether you are a Dodger fan or an Angel fan, it was great just to have the season start again.

www.Dodger.com

www.LAAngels.com

However there is still a dark side to the LA Dodgers; close to 70% of the market still is unable to see the Dodgers play and Vin Scully the game due to ‘Time Warner’ not making the games available outside their own customers.

Dodgers fans to remain in the dark as TV deal reportedly falls through!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/dodgers-fans-to-remain-in-the-dark-as-tv-deal-reportedly-falls-through-143820583.html

No matter who or who is not watching them, the Dodgers are off to a good start. In my opinion, several of their new players, such as Pederson, Anderson and Rollins are a real fine. However I do think that the Dodgers still need a great closer, especially with Jansen still out at least until mid-month. It’s not bad and it could be worse!

Rollins Plays Hero As Dodgers Open 2015 With 6-3 Win Over Padres.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/04/06/rollins-plays-hero-as-dodgers-open-2015-with-6-3-win-over-padres/

April was also the end of a very exciting men’s college basketball ‘March Madness’. We saw the end of Kentucky run for a perfect season with their loss to Wisconsin. Then it was on to watching Wisconsin loss to Duke in the finals. It was indeed a thriller!

Duke Beats Wisconsin 68-63 To Win 2015 NCAA Tournament

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/duke-wisconsin-final-score_n_7014744.html

Just as we got use to the fact that college basketball was done for the season, on comes the NBA playoffs. It was a bit concerning that once again the LA Lakers did not make the playoffs, however, the LA Clippers did. Go Clippers!

Lakers eliminated from playoffs, team’s earliest elimination in 54 years.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/11/lakers-eliminated-from-playoffs-teams-earliest-elimination-in-54-years/

You also have the NHL playoffs being played during the month of April. The Anaheim Ducks are in the playoffs, but sadly the LA Kings managed to miss the playoffs.

It was quite a shock for LA King fans when after wining last year’s Stanley Cup, they failed to even make the playoff this year. However, that means that us, the fans that were rooting for the Kings, will now turn our support to the Anaheim Ducks, after all, it would still be a Southern CA team winning the Stanley Cup!
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The Ducks have already won the first round of the NHL playoffs, and they did it in four straight games. Way to Go Ducks! Good luck in round two!

Check this link for playoff updates and schedules

http://www.nhlschedule2014.com/playoffs.html

It is a good thing is that Southern California has at least two teams for most sports, your team does make the playoffs, chances are the other team might. Such as, Lakers out, Clippers in, Kings out, Ducks in, Dodgers in, Angels out, (or the other way around, to early to tell yet).

Even USC or UCLA fans will route for the other team if their team doesn’t make it to the playoffs. Still beats an ‘outsider winning’. It’s always better for Southern CA when one of our local teams win!

Too bad the same can’t be said for professional football, LA still has no team! But that’s a whole other topic for another blog.

April is also important for the NFL. Most teams are in the hunt for new players, trading old ones, gaining new ones, even restructuring old contracts and make new ones.

There has even been a few surprises, such as the Washington Redskins deciding to pull the ‘franchise tag’ for RG3, when everyone else thought the owner would use the opportunity to trade him.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/why-in-the-world-would-redskins-pick-up-rgiii-s-option–let-s-explore-151647567.html

The NFL also releases it’s fall schedule in April. LA Fans can start marking their calendars, booking their air flights, hotels and whatever they will need in order to attend either San Diego Charger or the Oakland Raiders games.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/2015-nfl-schedule–league-releases-the-full-regular-season-slate-000758569.html

This year, some team are really going outside the box in their attempt to gain depth in their rotations, even to the extent of the Eagles hiring Tim Tebow as their 4th Quarterback, A bit of an overkill, having 4 QB, but who knows. . .

Eagles VP of player personnel explains why they signed Tim Tebow
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/eagles-vp-of-player-personnel-explains-why-they-signed-tim-tebow-211405324.html

April also brings us freaking weather in which baseball players have to deal with, we are all use to a bit of rain, in which we deal with rain delays, but how often do we see snow falling dealing a National Baseball Game, well it happened.

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-04-22/yankees-tigers-snow-game-david-price-detroit-comerica-park

All in All, April was a great month for being a Sports Fan, can’t wait to see what May will bring!

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Here the sports update February 2015.

Southern Californian’s and Their Sports!
Football, Baseball, Hickey, college and pro teams.

The National football league completely ignores us here again in Southern California, (no surprise), but that has not stopped us from being Sports Fans!! Great Sports Fans at that !!

And there are plenty of sports to go around here in Southern CA; if you prefer baseball, are you an Angel or a Dodger fan? Do you bleed red or blue? And, although, it has been awhile, but both teams have won the World Series with the DODGERS winning the National Division Title for 2014.

www.LADodgers.com www.LAAngels.com

If you love Hockey, are you a Duck Fan or a Kings Fan? Both teams have won the Stanley Cup and both teams do every well selling out their home games, even though we might not be able to watch them very often on our local TV/cable. Hopefully when the NHL’s contract with whatever company is responsible for showing the games on cable/TV, the NHL will push for a better deal and once again our favorite hockey teams will be shown again in prime time.

www.NHL/Ducks.com www.NHL/LAKings.com

Perhaps basketball is your choice of sports, okay then, are you a Laker Fan or a Clipper fan? Both teams share the same arena, The Staple Center. This year has been a pretty good year for the Clipper fans. In the past the Clippers have always the bride’s maid never the bride, until this year that is, with the Lakers in last place and the Clippers fighting to take over first place. If you are a Laker fan, perhaps the best news will be that the Lakers are looking to add some younger player to their rouster and ditch some of their older players with over-the-top contracts. There is lots of gossip out there regarding Kobe finally tossing in the towel and retiring. Who knows? He has been saying that now for several years!

www.NBA/Lakers.com www.NBA/Clippers.com

As for Football, we do have two of the best college teams available, are you a UCLA Fan or a USC Fan?
Each team has its share of devoted fans; some fans go back generations and have passed their choice of teams on to the next. You ask a young fan of either team and you will find that one of their grandparents went there or a cousin, uncle, whomever and it’s the same, whole families are fans for year after year after year.

Try getting tickets to any of the above sporting events and you know that no matter what the NFL says, Southern CA‘s love their sports. Our sporting events sell out game after game! Yet, the NFL repeatedly
States that southern CA cannot support a professional football team.

I had the opportunity to attend the last UCLA vs USC game, and although it wasn’t consider a complete

Sell-out there was close to 100,000 tickets sold. That’s more than a lot of the NFL stats for several of their teams.

Both the Dodgers and the Angels also fill their stadiums on a continuous basis. And the fans here are loyal, they attend year after year always in hope of a repeat visit to the World Series. It takes over 50,000 to sell out a Dodger game, and yet before and after the McCourt disaster, the fans have done just that and on a continuous bases year after year.

Even with a dreadful start to the season, the Lakers are still selling tickets to their home games, perhaps not selling out the games, but enough to let the Lakers know that the fans are still there and supporting them. The Clippers are also doing very well with their ticket sale.

It seems that although the NFL continues to think that our ‘market’ isn’t strong enough to support a ‘nationally rank team’. We, here in Southern CA are doing much better than other areas of the country that already have team, such as the Jacksonville Jaguars or how about the Arizona Cardinals, or my favorite, the Miami Dolphins. We continue to supporting our local teams no matter what the sport is.

NFL COMMISSIONER AXES LA TEAM IN 2015
http://espn991.com/nfl-commissioner-axes-la-team-in-2015/

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http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/news/story?id=6057731

The talk of moving a team here as gone as far as investors locating 2 sites that could possibly work. One being near the Staples Center in downtown LA and the other being in the City of Industry where the
57 and the 60 freeways meet. Investors have drawn of plans, submitted them for approval and even put out feelers for NFL teams interested in moving here.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8994427

What does Southern California get back in response for all this work, the NFL commission had decided to put the idea of moving a team to LA on the back burner for now. The NFL has more pressing problems to deal with according to Roger Goodell, who on a side note has just received a huge salary of nearly 30 million with bonus for his handling of the ‘lockout’ back in 2011.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031107057.html

It is too bad that Southern CA can’t find a way to put pressure on the NFL and Goodell to place a higher
priory on this and get it moving again. There is money to be made by the NFL, the team that moves here , the owners and Southern CA. The sports fans here are ripe for the pick’ens, we just need a local team to support!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/report-nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-made-nearly-30-220809067–nfl.html

Now there’s talk of the new owner of the St Louis Rams wanting to move the team back to LA. It seems
That he owns property here, right next to the ‘Hollywood Park’ in Inglewood. He has informed the NFL that it would be the perfect spot for the new NFL stadium to be built.

Rams need to follow NFL process to move to L.A.: stadium panel chief
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-stadium-20150117-story.html#page=1

But again, it seems that the NFL commissioner is backing off making a decision and has informed the
Owner of the Rams that he must go through proper channels, yada -yada -yada . . . . . . . .

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