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Yep, and because the crowd is so thin you could clearly hear him screaming in agony

Interesting to see how Perez does. He's def my favorite player so far in this league

I don't have the stats in front of me (actually, I sort of do, because Google is a click away, so I'll just say I can't be bothered to look) but from memory of watching all his games, it seemed Foster got much of his yards on long plays when he first came back from the PS. But as the season went on he seemed to build his yardage with a higher number of catches for lesser chunks of yardage. I was pleased to see these games because it showed he wasn't just going to be a WR who runs past everyone maybe once or twice a game, but a viable threat who can catch passes from all over the field.

Maybe the danger aspect was part of the turn on? I mean, why did Wynona Rider go around stealing things from stores when she was a multi millionaire? She had more than enough money to buy everything there. The risk must give them a buzz. The only other possibility I've considered, which is a pretty horrible one, is that he did know they were trafficked and that is part of his thing. Sexual stuff often comes down to men wanting to feel powerful - maybe the idea of him visiting some 'slave' place makes the rich guy feel even more like an emperor. Maybe he has a thing for ancient Rome. Maybe he was dressed as a gladiator? Maximus Kraftus.

I've watched the quick highlights of most games. I like many aspects of the league but the play is very sloppy. Next season they should give them more practice time before the season, maybe have some scrimmages. The sloppy play is what furthers the perception that these guys are scrubs. I'm sure it will continue to improve as the season goes on

The Dick Jauron years truly were the absolute pits for me. From the way he coached to his post game pressers. I remember when they hired him and I said to someone "well, you can write off at least 3 years starting from now."

But those kinds of men will cheat in one way or another anyway. A jerk is a jerk. I'd just rather eliminate as many of the pimps as possible

I guess he never got a chance to deflate

Best thing to do is legalize it in controlled premises. Make an actual career that cuts out the pimps, requires the women to pay tax etc. Wouldn't 100% solve the problem but would make it a hell of a lot better.

Yup. You'd think he'd be smart enough to at least have it checked out first by someone. I mean, it sounds like he was a regular. Maybe he got off on the danger aspect, these things are never completely about sex. The thing is, knowing how the media operates, you can guarantee a long line of women he's paid for over the years will now come forward to tell their stories. Then you'll get the women he's worked with saying he's a sleaze, groper, or has propositioned them inappropriately. They're going to lap this up. And then you'll probably have people coming forward about other high profile sports figures. It'll follow the same pattern as when the Harvey Weinstein story broke.

Won't matter if he was aware of it. Trust me, the media will bury him.

Well yes, I'm sure if most of us were getting a genuine massage and a hot girl offered a quick flick of the wrist we wouldn't object. But I think it's the trafficking angle that's going to bury him. He'll of course deny any awareness of it but they'll crucify him anyway even if that were true, especially in this day and age.

I wonder what Kraft's story will be, other than "I was horny as hell and wanted to add an extra 'ring' to my collection". I remember when Pete Townsend of The Who got caught looking at child porn online and he claimed he was researching for a book or something. Amazingly he got away with it. Maybe he'll say he realised Brady was going to retire soon, so he told one of his people "get me a new pu_sy" and they got the wrong idea

In all seriousness, paying a woman for sex is one thing (Hugh Grant survived that by just admitting it and laughing at himself), but if it does turn out to be a parlour filled with trafficked women then he's f***ed, and not in the way he was hoping. All the stories will come out about how these women are treated, snatched from their homelands etc, forced into drugs etc. That stuff will make the 'dirty old man' story a million times worse and no one will defend him

I bet the prostitute was a bit creeped out when he asked her to wear a Pats helmet and a Brady jersey

Apparently as he handed over the money he was heard to say "DO YOUR JOB"

Never get with a girl who has big hands. At best she's going to make your tool look three sizes smaller when she grabs it, at worst she's going to turn out to be a dude

Well we'll see what happens if the XFL does it. As I say, this is the only thing I find remotely interesting about the XFL plans I've read

One thing about the XFL that I do think they have in their favour, and which I think this league should copy, is to allow high school graduates to play. I was thinking about this the other day and I think if the AAF allowed this it could add a tonne of interest. Imagine if certain players leaving high school were big producers and good prospects but A) they don't want to go to classes etc. B) they want to develop in a pro-style offense and C) they want to earn some money ASAP. I'm not sure if any big name prospects would just totally bypass college, but imagine if some of the bigger names did? They would produce a huge amount of interest from fans and scouts alike. Plus, it would eliminate the perception of these guys being scrubs, because the HS graduates wouldn't have 'failed' in the NFL yet.

That's great, and what this league needs. As soon as I saw Prerez throw three or four passes last week I posted here that he looks like a real QB. You could just see it right away with his mechanics and velocity and placement. Not to say he'd ever make it in the NFL but I'd like to see a guy like him continue to play well and earn a shot at training camp with an NFL team.

I agree, there's definitely a place for that 'old school' approach. The XFL had some nice ideas last time but ruined them with crap play and all the stupid wrestling style antics. The ideas of playing only outdoors, on real grass, with real hits, is something that appeals to someone of my age group. But of course that's not enough. You still have to take the product seriously.

I like the mandatory 2 point conversion, but if the NFL gets rid of kicked extra points I hope they change the 2 point conversion to the 1 point conversion. I just prefer 7-0 , 7-7 type scores, call me old.

I've seen bits and pieces of this league so far and like a lot of what I've seen. There are some things I would change if I were Charlie Ebersol: First of all, as I said earlier, have players whose rights are owned by NFL teams and have the NFL team emblem on the back of their helmet to make them easily identifiable, just to give us extra incentive to watch. In between drives (when not showing an ad) show quick 90 second 'get to know' segments of the players, maybe ones with interesting stories or charismatic personalities. One of the big problems new leagues like this have is that people don't know the players, they're just faceless guys in a new uniform, but when you get to know the players a bit you form more of a connection and take more of an interest.

This Perez guy actually looks like a real QB

What I would like is if the NFL teams could have rights to so many players each before this league kicks off each year. So maybe each team would have between 3-5 players that they would essentially own the rights to. That way it'd give us fans more of a rooting interest because we'd be looking out to see how our Bills players, or potential Bills players, were doing. If one of them led the league in rushing or passing or sacks etc. we'd probably have a lot of interest in seeing how that guy did during training camp with the Bills