Personally I don’t think players should be allowed to play fantasy football either.

You’re up 34-10 in the 4th quarter. What’s to stop you from allowing a TD pass to “your” wr on your fantasy team…

It’s the appearance of impropriety that is unsettling to me.
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What’s to stop you? Jeez, I dunno, your paycheck? Your family’s welfare and your quality of life after football? A TD allowed drops millions of dollars off of a DB’s future contracts over the rest of his career.

I agree with your central idea, I just don’t think there are a lot (or really any) players who would choose fantasy points over real dollars and/or wins.

Take MJD’s kneel down at the 1 yard line a couple years ago. He had a whole press conference snippet apologizing to his fantasy owners for not scoring on that run. Yeah, it was meant in humor, but the point is that players will choose real football over fantasy football 100 percent of the time.

Well that’s shaaaaady if I’ve ever heard it.
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pun intended?

This stuff is great. A part of me is actually enjoying this because all of the fights and cheap shots make it feel like watching a game in the fifties and sixties. I keep waiting for Frank Gifford and Y.A. Tittle to show up.q
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Right, fights and cheap shots are groovy until you consider how much larger, stronger, and faster these players are than players were fifty years ago.

That’s not a knock on your favorite Hall-of-Famers, that’s just a fact. Sports science and technology; physical therapy; and strength and conditioning training have developed and advanced parallel to the growth of the NFL, and it’s simply unarguable that modern players are, on average, dramatically bigger, faster and stronger than they used to be.

Which is why, as much fun as scrappy football can be, it has no place in today’s NFL, where any after-the-flag scuffle has the chance of ending a career, which is not fun for anybody.

You’re up 34-10 in the 4th quarter. What’s to stop you from allowing a TD pass to “your” wr on your fantasy team…

It’s the appearance of impropriety that is unsettling to me.

By shining a laser pointer in his eyes before he threw or did one of them sneak Manning a Mickey and put a muscle relaxer in his Gatorade so he’d throw passes with the arm strength of his dad, Archie…? Just curious.

That game was as shoddy as it gets for officiating.

Dude…..you just tied the NFL lockout to terrorists killing hundreds/thousands of people. It is NOT the same. also, it is billions of dollars vs trillions of dollars (lawsuits, damages, worldwide markets – not to mention human lives which you can’t put a dollar value on)

I just hate that the GOP-types will do anything to bust up unions to keep more of the profit and to keep the workers at each others throats for the crumbs that fall off their tables.

You NAILED it, brother. They’re fabricating problems at an alarming rate. The tool bags on the show formally known as “Inside the NFL” were all crying, in unison, for the “real” refs to come back. Yet, cited not a single fact as to why.

These guys have made some mistakes, but holy cow the union shirts make just as many, every single game.

The two biggest things right now. The losers are crying about it more and more (no surprise there) and the players and coaches are taking advantage of that situation, and acting out during the games. The beginning of last night’s game was larthargic. But it wasn’t because the refs were incompetent. It was because the stupid players kept getting in pissy little fights on every play, and the John Fox kept barging onto the field.

Joking about the integrity of the game is no laughing matter when billions of dollars are stake. Why do you think pro sports are so militant when it comes to gambling? Why do you think that the TSA freaks out even if you “joke” about bombs?

In your schoolboy “humor” you may think it’s funny to you and your lowbrow buddies, but not to normal and rationale people with a lot at stake.

“That’s why the NFL should be concerned that one of the replacement officials (or maybe more) are working with organized crime.”

i haven’t heard anything about this. is this something that is made up just to be more dramatic or has this actually happened this year?

Ratings are higher than ever and fans are as football crazed as ever. If you actually think complaining on a message board calling the league arrogant (which they are) and shortsighted is going to matter you’re deluding yourselves.

If you don’t like it don’t watch that’s the only way the league’s mind will change. But I think we all know that no matter how bad these replacement officials are we will all still watch and the league is laughing all the way to the bank.