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I smoked damn near evey day,some bomb ass weed and something to drink you were good to go it was better my friends and i used to get F****ed up

 

J.C. Tretter: Injury data from 2022 season makes clear that grass fields are safer

NFL owners glossed over the differences between grass and artificial playing surfaces at this week’s league meeting. But the NFL Players Association is renewing its call for grass fields.

In fact, NFLPA President J.C. Tretter says that the data from 2022 makes it clearer than ever that grass is safer than artificial turf.

“We got interesting data, I don’t think it’s been put out there, I think it will be out there in the coming weeks,” Tretter told Pat McAfee. “The data this past year show . . . there is a very large gap between the two surfaces. They quickly glanced over that at the league meetings and didn’t really dive into those details this past week, but there is a large difference between grass and turf. The players are very clear what they want.”

Tretter noted that multiple NFL stadiums that use artificial turf will install temporary grass fields when they host World Cup matches in 2026.

“When the World Cup comes to town, all these owners roll out the green carpet for all these soccer teams to play on grass at their stadiums, and then roll it back out to put the turf back down for their employees to play on,” Tretter said.

Tretter said that when the NFL briefly had an increase in grass injuries in 2021, owners used that increase in injuries on grass to suggest that grass was no safer than artificial turf. But Tretter said in 2022, the injury rates diverged, and the difference between injuries on artificial turf and on grass is as big as it has ever been.

“There’s a significant difference in injury rate on turf as on grass,” Tretter said.
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I know one thing i learned as a kid playing football... Id rather face plant in the grass over asphalt any day!

 

Former Packers fullback John Brockington dies at 74



Former Packers fullback John Brockington died Friday in San Diego, the team announced. He was 74.

The Packers drafted Brockington with the ninth overall choice in 1971, and he rushed for 1,105 yards in earning offensive rookie of the year honors his first season. It was the only season of his seven that he was named All-Pro and the first of three consecutive Pro Bowls as he opened his career with back-to-back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons.

He played every game his first six seasons.

Brockington finished his career with the Chiefs in 1977 after the Packers waived him after one game that season.

He earned induction into the Packers Hall of Fame in 1984, and his 5,024 rushing yards still rank fourth all-time in the team’s record book.

 

I agree 100%. I have all the respect in the world for the kind of talent and dedication it takes to become an NFL player but they only make the money they do because they are part of an organization that has exceeded all expectations over the last 40 years. It's just not normal to grow your audience / revenue year after year over such a long period of time - in any industry. Every player in the NFL wants to make more and more money. That's fair. But that only happens if revenue increases. And the players get 50 cents on the dollar. So bitch all you want. The ability to flex a game or two a year is putting more money in everyone's pocket.

 

Fun-loving 49ers tight end George Kittle loves the fun of pro wrestling. On Saturday night, he got directly involved.

In the front row at the 39th installment of the WWE’s answer to the Super Bowl, Kittle drew the attention of a wrestler named the Miz during an impromptu match between the Miz and Pat McAfee.


The Miz shoved Kittle back to his chair. Kittle removed his jacket to reveal that he was indeed ready to rumble, with a sleeveless Tight End University T-shirt and shorts.

Kittle jumped over the barrier and, while Miz was looking the other way, prepared to charge. The Miz turned just before Kittle flattened him with a clothesline.

That’s apparently all Kittle did. Which surely made the 49ers breathe a sigh of relief. While the risk of injury isn’t significant, teams can get skittish about their players participating in pro wrestling. In 2007, for example, the Titans went to court to keep Pacman Jones from participating in a TNA wrestling event, even though Pacman was suspended by the NFL at the time.

McAfee, who retired after the 2016 season, has no such limitations. He finished the Miz with a move called a Swanton Bomb that had McAfee doing a flip from a post into the area around the ring and landing on the Miz (it looked painful, scripted or not). The Miz was then dragged back into the ring for the finish.

 

Wrestling luv ìt

 

LMAO Diggs wants to be rescued from the Bills oh no not the tweets the Vikings know all about the tweets wow the Neverending Drama continues lol

 

Diggs and Rodgers are my top all-time divas. There is some competition, but the others are a distant 3rd.

 

Bears and Vikings also made offers to David Montgomery before Lions signed him

The Lions moved quickly at the start of free agency to agree to terms with running back David Montgomery, and they may have been motivated in part to keep Montgomery away from a couple of division rivals.

Montgomery also had offers to stay with the Bears or sign with the Vikings, according to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune.

Guaranteed money appears to be the difference, as Montgomery’s three-year, $18 million contract with the Lions includes both $8.75 million fully guaranteed at signing at $2.25 million fully guaranteed if he’s on the Lions’ roster on the third day of the 2024 league year.

The Bears’ front office and coaching staff has made clear that Montgomery was well-liked in Chicago and it’s not surprising that the Bears tried to keep him — but it’s also not surprising that the Bears wouldn’t match the Lions’ guarantee, given the extent to which NFL teams have decided that running backs simply aren’t worth huge financial investments.

The Vikings might not seem to need a running back, with Dalvin Cook and Alexander Mattison on the roster, but it’s unclear whether Cook (who has a $14.1 million cap hit this season) has a future in Minnesota, and Mattison had not yet re-signed with the Vikings at the time they were talking with Montgomery.

Montgomery has played his entire four-year NFL career in Chicago and is coming off a season in which he ran for 801 yards and added another 316 yards receiving. The Lions see him splitting carries with D'Andre Swift.

via; YAHOOSPORTS

 

Aaron Rodgers is the all time King of the divas,Diggs and his tweets can be maddening

 

I'll never forget when he was in Minnesota and would go to the sideline and whine, bitch and stomp his feet like a little baby. Never sat well with me.

 

Ya... TO is up there.

 

Oh yeah how did i forget about him that pom pom shaking diva T.O. Aaron Rodgers is something but T.O took cockiness to a whole new level

 

The Queens of Queen City

 

AB is in that diva class as well say what you want about owens I dont think he ever ran off the field mid game on his team

 

True AB just left you saying WTF

 

Austin Ekeler: Chargers refusing to discuss a new contract was a punch in the face



Chargers running back Austin Ekeler wants a new contract, but he’s sounding resigned to the fact that he’s not getting one.

Ekeler said on SiriusXM that he isn’t happy about the Chargers’ attitude toward a new contract, but he recognizes that he has another year on his contract and will have to play out his deal if the Chargers don’t give him a new contract or trade him to a team that will.

“I kind of got punched in the face when the Chargers basically said we don’t want to talk about extensions any more. This is an organization I continue to rise and hit new heights in,” Ekeler said. “That’s how it felt. It felt like, Wow. This was the first time in my career with them I felt disrespected by my own organization. It sucks. I want to be a Charger. I want to be a Charger. I want to be there and it sucks because it’s like, let’s get something done. Yes, I do have one more year on my contract, absolutely, but for them to want to allow me to be a free agent next year, maybe we’ll get something done throughout the year, who knows how it’s going to play out, but that’s how I’m feeling right now. We don’t have insight into how they’re thinking because they’re just like, ‘Nah, we don’t want to talk anymore.'”

Ekeler thinks he’s underpaid, but the reality in the NFL right now is that his $6.25 million base salary for the 2023 season is just not something many teams are going to want to trade for. NFL teams aren’t spending much on running backs, and Ekeler’s best bet may prove to be playing for $6.25 million this year, and hoping to play well enough to get more than that in free agency next year.

PFT

 

RBs always get injured when they’re contract is around ten million.