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Apr 20, 2003
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3 TDs called back on Harvin?lol
lol that help me out on fantasy football...... I was saved on each of those, I was down 5 points before the game started with Lynch left and the other cat had Harvin and Niles Paul, I ended up winning by 11! It sucked watching my team lose but hey at least fantasy went right.
 
Apr 20, 2003
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Yea refs were pretty bad..... One of the Percy Harvin td's should have been a no call and counted, but the last play where Marshawn caught the 30 pass from Wilson as he was scrambling should have been a holding penalty on the linemen holding Orakpo, I believe there was also a penalty missed committed by the Skins on the same play which should have washed the play and replayed 3rd down. Regardless we still lost and the refs were generous on calls for us. Wilson had one heck of a game and those 3 scrambles where he hit his receivers were sick, he gashed our depleted defense badily
 
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May 13, 2002
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Triplette must have been playing against a guy who has Harvin in his fantasy league.

false starts are supposed to be deadball penalties
Just shows they didn't know what they were doing. The flag was probably thrown for illegal formation or shift, but then they realized Harvin was not on the line of scrimmage and he's allowed to move, so then they we're like fuck it just call a false start
 
Nov 24, 2003
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Triplette is the worst, any game he and his team do 50 penalties


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If you'll allow me a rant:

NFL official Jeff Triplette is everything wrong with America. In my opinion. Triplette leads the NFL in penalties called, because he calls more unsportsmanlike-conduct penalties than any other referee, because, and this is a technical term, Jeff Triplette is an incompetent dick. Triplette once explained the rules of overtime, and got them wrong. Triplette doesn't get how downs work. Triplette once used instant replay to turn a correct call into an incorrect one by not looking at whether a player’s knee was down. Famously, Triplette threw a flag into the eye of Cleveland Browns' lineman Orlando Brown, permanently blinding Brown and effectively ending his career. In the altercation that ensued, Brown was the one punished. That story ends with Brown dead at 40, and Triplette getting promoted. Triplette’s consulting firm handled the 2012 NFL referee contract negotiations that led to both the replacement ref disaster and the gutted retirement plans for referees who entered the league after the negotiations were complete, while grandfathering referees of Triplette’s experience level. Looking at his non-footballing resume, Triplette spent his career at Duke Energy climbing all the way to vice-president, meaning Triplette can be linked directly to mountaintop-removal coal mining. Jeff Triplette's current gig is in energy and insurance consulting, which makes him a prime candidate for a plum position in Jeb Bush's future hypothetical presidential cabinet. Jeff Triplette looks like Billy Bob Thornton crossed with Lindsey Graham. Jeff Triplette is a goddamn monster.

And here's the thing: I can do nothing to get rid of Jeff Triplette. I am without agency in relation to Jeff Triplette's ongoing role in my life. I will continue to watch him officiate football games, despite the fact that Jeff Triplette is bed bugs. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is the slumlord who I would call to have said bed bugs exterminated, except Goodell is actually just a quasi-sentient human-suit also full of bed bugs. Again, Jeff Triplette is a goddamn monster.

Thanks for letting me share my feelings. Back to last night:

Almond's stance in the end is more tempered than the title of his book would suggest. He's less against football and more for a public consideration of what's happening in football. His consideration has caused him to stop watching the game, a sacrifice towards reclaiming agency within the hopelessness of hyper-capitalism. Almond is not only giving up the pleasure derived from watching football. Professional football is a social forum, and to disengage is to lose a connection with others and a shared emotional outlet. Its value is in many ways derived from being a place where the worst aspects of society live in abstraction.

Which means, perhaps Jeff Triplette is a feature of the NFL rather than a bug. He is the worst, but football Jeff Triplette is the worst in a way that's valuable. I choose to engage with Jeff Triplette, and I get to hate him in the abstract. Jeff Triplette is an object to me much the way Russell Wilson is.
 
Feb 14, 2004
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Reports: Seahawks could move back to AFC West

The city of Los Angeles has been instrumental in the history of the Seattle Seahawks, most notably when former owner Ken Behring’s failed attempt to relocate the franchise there ushered in Paul Allen and, eventually, a Super Bowl title.

Now, the NFL’s desire to reestablish franchises in the country’s No. 2 media market could have the Hawks moving again — but back to familiar territory. Seattle is a rumored target to switch divisions for the third time in team history, rejoining the AFC West, where they played from 1977 to 2001.

A report from Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio over the weekend claimed that the league hopes to move two franchises to the City of Angels “within the next 12 to 24 months.” According to Florio, the only three legitimate options for relocation are the St. Louis Rams, San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders.

Of those three, the Chargers and Raiders — rivals since their AFL days — seem the most likely candidates for L.A. due to their respective stadium situations, according to Bleacher Report’s Jason Cole. The Raiders’ lease with Oakland for O.co Coliseum expires after the 2014 season, Florio reported, and the Chargers could move from Qualcomm Stadium by “paying a relocation fee that shrinks every year.”

But that brings up a problem for the NFL, which doesn’t want two teams from the same conference sharing a city.

One solution? Move Oakland to the NFC West — as Raiders owner Mark Davis has volunteered — in exchange for one of the four teams currently in Seattle’s division, according to Cole. The Seahawks, with history in the AFC, would be the prime candidate to switch back to their old AFC West haunts.

A move back to the AFC would mean leaving an NFC West in which Seattle has experienced a lot of success, cultivating one of the league’s best rivalries with the San Francisco 49ers. Since the Hawks moved to the NFC as part of the NFL’s realignment in 2002, they have dominated their division, qualifying for postseason appearances in eight of their 12 years there with six division crowns and two wild-card berths.

Seattle didn’t experience the same success in the AFC. After playing their inaugural 1976 season in the NFC, the Hawks made the playoffs in just five of 25 AFC seasons while facing the Chargers, Raiders, Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs twice per year.

Reports: Seahawks could move back to AFC West - Seattle Seahawks & NFL News
 

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May 7, 2002
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Posted that in the NFL thread. I oppose. On one hand it would be Kinda cool to go back to the old rivalries, but on the the other the niner rivalry has become one of the best rivalries in football. I don't want to lose that.
it would be horrible to break up, I cant think of a more heated rivalry then the niners, because of all the history between everybody, it almost cant be made up, btw thank you guys for perrish cox.