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Week 2 they will be hosting/honoring Brady. I wonder if they will hand out dildos to the fans in honor of the real life one they will be honoring.

He said "rumored", same as what @boyst has on his spreadsheet upthread. FWIW...

Yeah, somebody really dropped the ball on that one. 😂 @Roger Goodell Care to weigh in on this?

The league gives the teams playing overseas the choice of whether or they want to have their bye week the next week or whether they want it later in the season. I don't think the Bills would want it that early and would have asked for a later date. My guess is that Week 6 will be a home game and the bye will come a few weeks later. JMO

I hope that December date is correct, regardless of the opponent. I don't want a game on Christmas Eve. That is our busiest day with family over the Christmas holiday.

I agree but I hope the Bills are firing the first salvo at what will be the demise of Aaron Rodgers. The first time he doesn't deliver, the NYC media will eat him alive. I don't think he has the personality or thick enough skin to handle that environment and if things go south fast and he and the Jest don't live up to the hyperbole, it will be fun to watch. GO BILLS!!!

There is no question that those Motor City Kitties are going to get tested right out of the gate. They'll be the darlings of the league if they can pull off a road upset of that magnitude on the national stage.

Just Like 'Fireman Ed'... Sadly, the road schedule is much sexier on paper than the home schedule.

@Roger Goodell Care to weigh in on this?

That schedule has them in prime time (night) five times plus early Thanksgiving Day plus two 4:25 PM national windows. That is ridiculous for a team that looks like it is going to be a sh*t show unless Jordan Love turns out to be the real deal. They've been given visibility based on their name and history but the NFL may end up with egg on their face. We'll see. I can definitely see them getting flexed out of their late season national games.

If the below is true, then the Packers would actually play at the Panthers on Christmas Eve not on Christmas Day... Week 16, 12/24: @ Carolina Panthers (Noon - FOX) "The Green Bay Packers’ 2023 schedule has reportedly leaked, according to The Athletic’s Matt Schneidman — who had it first. Shortly after Schneidman’s report, it was confirmed by Sports Illustrated’s Bill Huber, meaning that you don’t have to wait until 8 PM Eastern for the league’s schedule release show to start planning accordingly for this upcoming season." https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/2023/5/11/23719545/2023-nfl-schedule-release-green-bay-packers-full-schedule-prime-time-primetime-leak-report-update

Doesn't surprise me. They were an exciting, high-scoring, 'feel good' team last year but they have been a dormant franchise for decades and have proven nothing yet. I'm sure there are still a lot of skeptics out there and it does seem like an odd match-up to open the season.

Lions hit the big time...

Not too far from Nazareth either.

It's an AI mash-up when you enter 'Dennis Rodman Bulls' and 'Madonna Like a Virgin'...

Thanks for sharing. Great story. Believe it or not, I have never seen a Mets home game. My cousin (originally from Jamestown, NY & went to NYU) and her boyfriend live in Brooklyn. She does not care anything at all about sports but, as a lifelong New Yorker, he is a diehard Met fan. He wants me to come up sometime and see the Mets with him so that is on my bucket list. I made a road trip with my brother and some buddies to Pittsburgh to see the Mets play the Pirates in a weekend series at Three Rivers Stadium way back in 1987. I still have the ticket stubs for those games. I think they cost something like $8. They won one of those games, 5-4, on a Keith Hernandez Grand Slam. Rick Aguilera started and got the win and Roger McDowell saved it. My worst Met memory (in person) was a game against the Orioles at Camden Yards (gorgeous ballpark). I went with a co-worker who was also a Met fan (originally from Port Jefferson, L.I.) and his nephew. I remember telling him before he got the tickets, "I hope Steve Trachsel isn't pitching when we go." I despised Trachsel. He made my skin crawl and always seemed to sh*t the bed when pitching for the Mets. He was a bum when they got him and continued to be a bum as a Met. The only other Met pitcher who even comes close to that disdain for me is Doug Sisk. Well, guess who pitched for the Mets that night? Yep...Trachsel. And guess who lost another game for the Mets? Yep...Trachsel. lol FYI...my coolest memory in Camden Yards (non-Mets related) was seeing Ken Griffey, Jr. hit a Grand Slam. I haven't been to a ton of games but I have been fortunate to witness some Grand Slams by some superstars. The most recent live game I attended was last July in Toronto to see the Jays beat the Tigers. Ex-Met Javy Baez hit a HR in that game for Detroit's only run.

I agree with you and I don't believe that simply shortening games will draw younger eyeballs either but I think MLB does. The majority of their audience is over 50 and they are desperate to stay relevant for future generations. When we were kids I believe the time of the average game was similar to what we have now (too lazy right now to go look it up) but they didn't seem rushed like they do now. The games started getting bogged down somewhere along the line with batters stepping out of the box to adjust their gloves, crotch, helmet and do whatever other OCD quirks and superstitions they had coupled with managers changing pitchers after every batter. They definitely had to do something but I don't have those answers. This is all definitely a work in progress and will take some getting used to, at least for me. The rule I hate the most is the ghost runner in extra innings. If I or anyone else have watched a game past the ninth inning do they really think we're leaving now?? I don't need the game shortened at that point. I'm invested and want to see it to its conclusion and the cat and mouse that goes along with determining the outcome. I also agree that one of the great joys in life is shooting the sh!t with friends/family at a ballgame. You don't need to pay attention to every second of the game which is part of the charm and beauty and it's a bonding/social event as much as anything else. The smell of the grass, the manicured field, the smell of the concessions, and the buzz of the crowd are magnificent and add to the magic and the ambiance. Baseball is the most beautiful of games, IMO, and I think you either like it and get it or you don't just like soccer for many people. If it weren't for baseball and my beloved, albeit frustrating, Mets the Bills off-season would be interminably longer than it already is.

MLB doesn't care about old coots like you and me despite the fact that we are their core audience. They want these fast moving games in the hopes of reeling in the cellphone-addicted, short attention-spanned, brain-dead youth who would rather watch two hours of TikTok videos than the Great American Pastime.

I agree. It was disappointing to see Verlander give up those back-to-back jacks but make no mistake, he is NOT the reason they lost that game. It's just annoying that every starting pitcher on the team is allowing HRs at an alarming rate. The team starting ERA is over 5.5 and the WHIP is pushing 1.5. What is that?! I was griping about the lack of power on this team last year and Eppler did nothing to change anything. They are a 'work out walks and play station-to-station team' and that does not play well over long stretches in today's game. Today they only walked once and struck out 11 times and over the course of the last two games they managed a grand total of 1 run on a combined 8 hits. I don't expect a sweep of the Rockies because A) Colorado has played really well in their series with the Brewers and B) the Mess are 2-9 over their last 11 with 7 of those 9 losses coming against the Giants, Natalies, & Tigers. I know it's baseball and tomorrow can look completely different than today but, until they prove otherwise, I don't trust them to beat the scrub teams they should be beating. They just got swept by the lowly Tigers. One win against Colorado would be a start (albeit a bad one).

@Gugny@SinceThe70s@Another Fan So Verlander got the first out of the game and then allowed back-to-back HRs. Awesome.