Ryan Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 He seems nice. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 4, 2017 Author Share Posted February 4, 2017 This definitely falls in off the field issue Quote NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith says he will tell potential free agents not to sign with the Chicago Bears should new Illinois Senate Bill 12 SA #2 pass. The bill would adjust the Workers' Compensation Act as it applies to professional athletes, who potentially are entitled to a wage differential award. The new bill would look to eliminate those athletes from being eligible for wage differential awards after age 35. The law currently allows players to get paid for the term of their natural life which is set at 67 years old. Those wanting change contend pro athletes seldom play beyond age 35 so paying them until 67 because of injury is unfair and expensive. "I will tell you from the bottom of my heart that this union will tell every potential free-agent player, if this bill passes, to not come to the Bears," Smith told 670 The Score in Chicago. "Because, think about it, if you're a free-agent player and you have an opportunity to go play somewhere else where you can get lifetime medical for the injury you're going to have, isn't a smarter financial decision to go to a team where a bill like this hasn't passed?" Smith told the Spiegel & Parkins Show on Friday that the bill is being pushed by the McCaskey family which owns the Bears. "We join the four other major professional Chicago teams in monitoring and supporting changes to the system that protect athletes' rights under the workers' compensation system while acknowledging athletes are not competing professionally until age 67," the Bears responded in a statement released to 670 The Score. "Nothing in the wage differential language under consideration impacts the right for any athlete to receive just compensation for partial or permanent injury, medical benefits or to file a claim itself." http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18618138/nflpa-steer-free-agents-signing-chicago-bears-senate-bill-passed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 I would just do it because of it being the Bears on principle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 Oh goodie - this is what I will be hearing about all week Kirk Cousins shoves ref during Charity Flag Football game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 He's just an intense competitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 1 hour ago, Brian Fowler said: He's just an intense asshole. FTFY If you get so upset over a charity flag football game that you put hands on the referee, you are an asshole, plain and simple. I've played in multiple rec leagues and there is always someone who wants to berate a ref, and I have no respect for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Anyone ever physically assault a ref? That'd be astonishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 No one's been that stupid in a while. Assaulting an official is an instant 15 yard penalty and ejection. Probably followed by a very long suspension. Last guy who actually did it, I believe was Orlando Brown in '99 or 2000 when the ref accidentally threw a flag at him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 7, 2017 Author Share Posted February 7, 2017 Taylor Lewan was just ejected this past season for pushing a ref Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 25 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said: No one's been that stupid in a while. Assaulting an official is an instant 15 yard penalty and ejection. Probably followed by a very long suspension. Last guy who actually did it, I believe was Orlando Brown in '99 or 2000 when the ref accidentally threw a flag at him. A flag illegally weighted down with BBs that injured Brown's eye. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 And nearly ended his playing career forever and is sadly dead. At least he got a hefty sum out of the league when he sued them, so hopefully his family is taken care of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 4 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: A flag illegally weighted down with BBs that injured Brown's eye. A flag that was intentionally thrown at him. Refs at the time we're instructed to throw flags AT the guy who committed the foul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 I say we arm the refs with pellet guns and they just shoot any player that comes near them. Tabe's idea not mine, I swear! *lobs bag full of ball bearings at someone* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 I see no flaws in this idea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 I'mma just gonna leave this here. (Dungy admits they stole signals but said it wasn't cheating) http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18645192/tony-dungy-says-indianapolis-colts-stole-signals-cheat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 On 2/7/2017 at 1:47 AM, Tabe said: A flag that was intentionally thrown at him. Refs at the time we're instructed to throw flags AT the guy who committed the foul. I have no idea how good (or bad) you aim has to be to him a player directly in the eye, through a face mask, with a cloth flag weighed down with BBs, but Orlando Brown looked like he was ready to kill that guy...and I fully understand why. I don't know how many of you have ever been hit in the eye with anything, but let me tell you it fucking hurts. When I was a kid I was playing catch with my cousin, and I heard a dog bark in the distance and looked away right as my cousin was throwing the ball. I got hit directly in the eye with the point of the ball and it felt like my brain exploded. It wasn't just the pain, it's also disorienting in a way I don't think I can describe. Have you ever played a videogame where they had flash grenades? Where you are in a room and then someone throws in one of those and the screen is super bright, then super dark, and you can't see, hear, or do anything for about 5-10 seconds. That is what it is like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 4 hours ago, SirFozzie said: I'mma just gonna leave this here. (Dungy admits they stole signals but said it wasn't cheating) http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18645192/tony-dungy-says-indianapolis-colts-stole-signals-cheat I have an irrational amount of dislike for Dungy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 He's just so God damn sanctimonious and hypocritical and overrated I just can't fucking stand him 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 10 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: He's just so God damn sanctimonious and hypocritical and overrated I just can't fucking stand him Yeah. What he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 19 hours ago, Tabe said: I have an irrational amount of dislike for Dungy. 18 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: He's just so God damn sanctimonious and hypocritical and overrated I just can't fucking stand him The guy most likely drove his gay son to suicide, there's nothing irrational about disliking him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 39 minutes ago, Technico Support said: The guy most likely drove his gay son to suicide, there's nothing irrational about disliking him. This is unfair, you have no way of knowing why his son committed suicide and putting it on his father's lap is just cruel for the sake of being cruel. It's fine not to like someone, but saying that he is the reason his son killed himself is out of line in my view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 13 minutes ago, supremebve said: This is unfair, you have no way of knowing why his son committed suicide and putting it on his father's lap is just cruel for the sake of being cruel. It's fine not to like someone, but saying that he is the reason his son killed himself is out of line in my view. Yeah, I'm sure the fact that dad was a massive Jesus freak evangelical Christian who endorsed far-right and anti-gay organizations had nothing to do with it. I bet being gay and living in that household was just peachy. Was it cruel for me to say? You're right, I should have tempered it a bit more than just saying "likely." But come on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Even disregarding that part, hating him is still rational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 6 or 7 Patriots (so far) have said they're not going to the White House when the team visits later this year. Hot takes incoming. Please find shelter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said: 6 or 7 Patriots (so far) have said they're not going to the White House when the team visits later this year. Hot takes incoming. Please find shelter. And would anyone be so kind as to check what those same peoples hot takes were when players said they wouldn't go to Obama's white house? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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