2) The Eagles claimed they had a handshake deal with our ex-Mayor (John Street, a corrupt machine hack) to forgive them $8M in tax delinquency. However, there was no record. Street denied it. And they never claimed the $8M as a forgiven debt on their corporate return. The fought the city for over a year on it, at a time when the team was making a fortune and Lurie was building a gharish monstrosity home on the Main Line. AT this time the city was closing libraries and pools. The settled for $3M because the city couldn’t litigate it anymore because of the budget crisis.

“stances has been along the lines of “we put our bodies and, according to some *cough Visanthe Shiancoe* lives on the line” so therefore they deserve all the obscene amounts of money they receive and should in fact be entitled to more.”

They aren’t asking for more money. How did you miss that?

The owners are asking for more money.

Read up on the topic.

Unlike Jeff Lurie and the Eagles, who used the tragedy of 9/11 as an excuse to gouge the fans into buying more in-stadium food.
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Huh? That’s news to me. Can you please go a little deeper on this?

I know there are guys out there who really do need and are deserving of long term health care from the league and those guys are probably falling through the cracks. But most of these clowns playing today…the more I hear, the less sympathy I have.

If the players are going to play games like this, aimed at circumventing safety measures and thus knowingly increase the risks of serious injury , then why, as the NFL, would I be inclined to pay them even more money on this front?

Just goes to show how fatalistic some of these guys are. Bear in mind that Peyton isn’t even one of those players one would associate with toughness. If he’s tanking the test, imagine what linebackers and safties are doing.

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yeah, who would think a guy with over 200 consecutive starts was tough? amazing…..

Unlike Jeff Lurie and the Eagles, who used the tragedy of 9/11 as an excuse to gouge the fans into buying more in-stadium food. Oh, and who cheated the city out of taxes.

They’re so admirable.

Now if Manning tanked the test that’s pretty stupid. He’s not going to win another Super Bowl and there’s really nothing else for him to accomplish except make another 100M and pad his stats. He should be thinking about the quality of the rest of his life at this point.

Message to players: if you get hurt and fear for your long term well being, quit and sell insurance.

Done with this.

Actually, it didn’t remind me of that at all.

It doesn’t say that you can’t play if you do a certain percentage worse. I am assuming this means that if you do ANY worse on the second test that you can’t play.

If this is true…it seems very possible that you could fail the test without even having a concussion. In this case, who wouldn’t set their standards a bit low the first time and at least leave room for normal errors or discrepencies.

Consider Peyton’s “serious comments” on other issues.

“Q: You guys were both overall No. 1s. Are you embarrassed to be sitting here with a guy who only went second?

Peyton: Yeah, a little. Plus, Mom went fourth one year in the CFL draft.”

“Q: What did you think last season in the game with the Jets, when blood was just gushing from Eli’s head?

Peyton: That was overacting.

Eli: Those 12 stitches weren’t overacting.”

“People have asked me how many concussion I’ve had,” Favre said, “and I say, ‘I don’t remember.’”
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That’s not lame. It’s hardly Oscar Wilde, and Brett Favre’s actions over the last few years have made him look like a complete tool, but that isn’t a lame attempt at humour. His delivery might not have been spot on but then most comedians don’t take as many shots to head as he has.