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    Quote Originally Posted by eschatological View Post
    I remember '93. We got spanked and had to take a moral victory with Don Beebe stripping Deon Lett of a surefire fumble return for a TD. We still lost 52-17, which I think is still the worst margin of victory in SB history (certainly was at the time).
    I looked this up because I was curious if the Seahawks - broncos sb beat it. They were both by 35 but tied for third most points differential.

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    1 45 1990/01/28 San Francisco 49ers 55 - Denver Broncos 10
    2 36 1986/01/26 Chicago Bears 46 - New England Patriots 10
    3 35 1993/01/31 Dallas Cowboys 52 - Buffalo Bills 17
    3 35 2014/02/02 Seattle Seahawks 43 - Denver Broncos 8
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    I just like reading about the "vigorous rubbing" that might affect ball inflation.

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    Weird, I coulda sworn it was the worst point differential in any SB. Maybe it would have been the worst ever if Beebe hadn't have stopped Leon Lett's fumble return? That might have been it.

    Dumb how your memory warps shit over the years.

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    Can someone explain how out of 650,000 emails reviewed by the league , only offensive e-mails by Gruden were leaked? I have every confidence to believe that Snyder sent offensive stuff in his toxic organization. Either more stuff is coming out or this is an early ray rice type cover up. He was just going to be suspended when the nfl had already seen the KO video. Then the video got leaked and he was basically out of the league. There has to be more bad e-mails.

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    Thanks for leaving the 5th biggest SB loss off. That list would have been rough.

    Quote Originally Posted by TexasRules View Post
    Can someone explain how out of 650,000 emails reviewed by the league , only offensive e-mails by Gruden were leaked? I have every confidence to believe that Snyder sent offensive stuff in his toxic organization. Either more stuff is coming out or this is an early ray rice type cover up. He was just going to be suspended when the nfl had already seen the KO video. Then the video got leaked and he was basically out of the league. There has to be more bad e-mails.
    Gruden isn't part of the investigation going on into the Redskins (can they pick a new name already?) is the most likely reason.

    Or another is the NFL leaked them because Goodell got upset about what Gruden said about him. I don't think it was even close to a coincidence that the DeMaurice Smith one was leaked when he needed votes from the dumb players that he does a terrible job representing. The rest though, only the people leaking know why.

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    #ReleasetheSnyderCut!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crissi View Post
    #ReleasetheSnyderCut!
    This I can get behind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cordrann View Post
    I mean you say that, but then the Bills get to the super bowl and pull an Atlanta against Tom Brady. In many ways that would be worse than just being an awful team for a Bills fan I would think.
    There's no shame in losing to Brady in the Superbowl. Losing in the manner that Atlanta did, on the other hand, is another story
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    Quote Originally Posted by eschatological View Post

    I was also almost 13, and going through puberty. Talk about formative experiences. It's why I still hate the Cowboys more than the Patriots to this day. I had learned how to deal with suffering by the time of the rise of Tom Brady.
    The 4 losses covered grades 6-9 for me as a young lad. Being that I didn't live in Buffalo the Mondays after the superbowl consisted of everyone at school rubbing it in..... all fucking day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by downnola View Post
    There's no shame in losing to Brady in the Superbowl. Losing in the manner that Atlanta did, on the hand, is another story
    There's losing, then there's rolling over and dying like the Falcons did. I'd know, I still remember when the Packers did that to the Seahawks in the Playoffs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slowpoke is a Gamer View Post
    There's losing, then there's rolling over and dying like the Falcons did. I'd know, I still remember when the Packers did that to the Seahawks in the Playoffs.
    We don't talk about that.

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    Let's go Eagles! Die with dignity!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    Let's go Eagles! Die with dignity!
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    I'm not sure if you guys have noticed but sometimes I say things that are kind of dumb
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    I just like reading about the "vigorous rubbing" that might affect ball inflation.

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    Refs are a bunch of soft bitches.

    except the woman. She clearly has eyes and knows what a catch is.

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    I guess I can't complain too much. Eagles did a decent job, all things considered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    I guess I can't complain too much. Eagles did a decent job, all things considered.
    I'm already on the #FireSirianni train. Like half of their offensive yards were penalty yards. He's been awful at game planning since the Falcons game. I'm at the point where I'm hoping they get somehow get Doug back at the end of the year.

    Also, RIP anyone who bet the spread, lmao.
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    in case y'all missed it, the NYT leaked more emails. This time directed at league lawyer Pash

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crissi View Post
    in case y'all missed it, the NYT leaked more emails. This time directed at league lawyer Pash
    Well why not, I still have a subscription.

    N.F.L.’s Top Lawyer Had Cozy Relationship With Washington Team President

    For nearly a decade, the president of the Washington Football Team sent emails to a friend in which he casually joked about Native Americans and racial and political diversity, griped about referees and league initiatives to improve player safety, and arranged tickets and perks for his correspondent. He also thanked the man for getting a fine lifted and for understanding the team’s thorniest troubles.

    That man was Jeff Pash, who — as the longtime general counsel of the N.F.L. and a top adviser to Commissioner Roger Goodell — would become responsible for investigating the team that had been run by the very executive he grew close to.

    Pash appeared to engage willingly in the back-and-forth, sometimes reassuring the Washington executive, Bruce Allen, who was with the club from 2009 to 2019, not to worry about troubles that would eventually rock the team and the league, including reports about harassment of the club’s cheerleaders.

    A trove of 650,000 emails gathered in the league’s investigation of workplace misconduct in the Washington Football Team’s front office has already resulted in the resignation of Jon Gruden as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, after The New York Times published messages in which he made racist, sexist and homophobic remarks. The league received access to the emails several months before the investigation was completed last summer.

    But Allen’s exchanges with Pash, sent from 2009 to 2018, reveal a larger story about a clubby relationship between a top league official and team executives and owners he is expected to oversee.

    When the N.F.L. fined the Washington Football Team $15,000 for manipulating its player injury report, Allen reached out to Pash and the penalty was rescinded, a routine outcome, the league said. In another email, Allen expressed concern that the commissioner would accuse him of breaking rules on the signing of free agents, prompting his friend to reassure him, “He knows who it is and that it is not you.”

    And after a crisis erupted over allegations of sexual harassment of the Washington cheerleaders, Allen contacted Pash, who offered reassuring words.

    “I know that you are on it and would not condone something untoward,” he told Allen.

    In emails not involving Pash, however, Allen, Gruden and other men had shared photos of women wearing only bikini bottoms, including one picture of two Washington team cheerleaders.

    Pash joined the league in 1997, intersecting with Allen, who was a longtime Raiders and Buccaneers executive before he landed in Washington. Their emails suggest that, when the Washington franchise was in crisis, Pash tended to offer a sympathetic shoulder rather than acting as an impartial arbiter.

    “Communication between league office employees and club executives occurs on a daily basis,” Jeff Miller, the league’s executive vice president of communications, said in a statement Thursday. “Jeff Pash is a respected and high-character N.F.L. executive. Any effort to portray these emails as inappropriate is either misleading or patently false.”

    Miller said Pash paid for the tickets Allen arranged for him.

    After The Times contacted the league, the owners of the Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears and the Giants expressed support for Pash.

    Neither Pash nor Allen responded to a request for comment.

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    https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/sta...LW9POWWwA&s=19

    Ertz to the Cardinals, Eagles get a CB and a 5th
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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Goblin View Post
    https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/sta...LW9POWWwA&s=19

    Ertz to the Cardinals, Eagles get a CB and a 5th
    He should have been able to finish out his career and retire as an Eagle. They always do this to the players that mean the most to the franchise. I'll never understand it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    “Do this to players” meaning letting him go play for the only undefeated team in the league currently?
    He wanted to stay in Philly first and foremost. And its great that he's going to go play with Kyler and all of his weapons, but if they really wanted to send Ertz out on a high note they would have let him go in the off-season so he could sign with whoever he wanted and got paid.
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