The NFL - National Football League (Page 26 of 94)

Well Cat in these mucked up economic times I think the NY approach of a shared facility makes the most sense for the Raiders & Niners. It's worked for years back there and both teams still refer to themselves as New York, even though they play in Jersey. Santa Clara has cleared a number of hurtles to swing a stadium deal and a joint venture might seal the deal. As far as the A's situation goes there's nothing I'd rather see than a waterfront stadium in or adjacent to Jack London Square in downtown Oakland. I have a better chance of winning the lottery than that scenario happening nowadays. Just last week KNTV 11 in San Jose showed an artist rendering of Cisco Field planned to be built next to HP Pavillion in downtown San Jose. The only thing holding back this plan is the Giants relinquishing there MLB approved fan rights to the South Bay. Do the math, San Jose is further from SF than Oakland, but once upon a time the league allowed SF the rights to the Peninsula and South Bay. That may have been a condition to letting the A's move here from KC back in '68. The dollars are in San Jose, but Bud "The Boob" Selig doesn't seem to want to deal with the rights situation, but maybe once he steps down, which can't happen soon enough, a resolution might happen. Pro sports are all about M-O-N-E-Y and they say money talks, BS walks. Silicon Valley looks like the logical solution for the San Jose A's, which actually rolls off the tongue nicely. I'm sure you're aware that Raley Field was built with easy expansion plans to accomodate the A's if Sacramento had been able to lure them to the River City. Unfortunately that never happened. I'd travel to Sacto. any time for baseball rather than south to the "Pit"

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ohiodawg13 wrote:

RIP Chester McGlockton. Former Raider Pro Bowl defensive lineman Chester McGlockton passed away at the age of 42 of a heart attack. Big Chet was currently a defensive assistant for the Stanford Cardinal.

                                                                                                                       RIP Big Guy,

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This is such a shock.  RIP Chester McGlockton. 

He was doing so well as a coach and coached at Chabot as well.  So sad to see this.
From what I heard, I think he found his calling in coaching kids.  Just too young and a great loss.
This man endured a lot of pain but still wanted to be out there to help the kids.  They won't forget you Chester.

My condolences to his wife, family and friends

There were lots of obvious choices, but I'm willing to concede that there are some real close calls too. I hope I don't offend all my California friends here by going against the Raiders and Chargers, they could just as easily both win. I think the Fins are on a roll despite that one point loss last week. I'm taking a chance on Buffalo too. I think the Tebow fairy tale will continue.....

Amsterhammer wrote:

There were lots of obvious choices, but I'm willing to concede that there are some real close calls too. I hope I don't offend all my California friends here by going against the Raiders and Chargers, they could just as easily both win. I think the Fins are on a roll despite that one point loss last week. I'm taking a chance on Buffalo too. I think the Tebow fairy tale will continue.....

Two of those 'obvious' choices were the Bears and Cowboys.

Nice to see my gut was right about Tebow and the Fins though. My Skins were in danger of actually winning a game by being the slightly less awful of two truly poor teams when they held a 16-13 lead late in the final quarter. True to form, they managed to find yet more ingenious ways of shooting themselves in the foot and gave up three TDs in the last four minutes.