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  1. The Chiefs are doing something similar, moving from Kansas City, Missouri to Kansas City, Kansas. It helps them though that most Americans are stupid and couldn't have told you that there are two Kansas Cities to begin with, nor that the Missouri version has 3x the population.
  2. I'll see you your Pontiac, and raise you an Auburn Hills.
  3. It wouldn't even be the furthest stadium from their "city" in the NFL. The Santa Clara 49ers are like 45 miles from San Francisco. The Arlington Cowboys are about 20 miles from Dallas. The Hammond Bears would be about 20-25 miles from Chicago. It's more the ineptitude of it for me. The Bears and Illinois are a bad management match made in heaven.
  4. I tend to agree. Strictly speaking, he's not saying "Terrion Arnold is connected with two men who were arrested for armed robbery." Instead, he's saying "A FOX station in Florida is reporting that Terrion Arnold is connected..." It's a fine line, and when you're Florio, with a large audience, there comes a responsibility to do more digging than just retweeting. Hell, I think I did a better job of posting the story here in my first word being "unverified." This isn't that far removed from if Florio had reported fake news promulgated by a Twitter Bot. Can't do that. And it will cost Florio, to the extent TA's agents (Klutch Sports Group, who represents ~200 professional athletes including LeBron and Jalen Hurts) have now likely put him squarely in the dog house. But as it stands, I can't really blame Florio too much for re-reporting what on its face appeared to be legitimate news.
  5. Of the front office personnel, this is least consequential for the football side of things. His main responsibilities are communication with the NFL (particularly around international games and when the officials screw us over) and business-related matters (i.e., securing the NFL Draft here, sponsorships, stadium related matters, long-term vision, etc.). Spielman might make sense, I don't know what he does right now. Disner might make sense. Allison Maki is their long-time CFO, she might make sense. Or they may go external and find a lawyer or businessman who is close to the family, similar to how Wood was hired in the first place.
  6. Sooo..... what's the connection?! How'd this even get tied to TA? There was a reason I put "unverified," I'm glad I did.
  7. Unverified reports are that a member of Arnold's security team and Arnold's cousin were both arrested for luring three men into an apartment and holding them at gunpoint while beating them senseless, in an attempt to recover $100k, guns, a cell phone, and high-end bags that belonged to TA.
  8. Wasn't having the issue until the last hour or so, but now inaccessible on my iPhone. Refreshing the page just loads the same or a new ad with the same problem where you can't scroll to the 'minimize' button.
  9. My one and only conspiracy theory in life (if you can call it that, maybe it’s just a soap box) is that I don’t think those GLP-1s are well tested enough as to the long-term side effects for long-term use for obesity. I’m worried what will happen in the next 10-15 years. They went from a little known treatment for Type 2 diabetes to a lose-weight-fast magic injection seemingly overnight. Prescriptions for them rose 300% for them from 2018 to 2023 and they’re even faster spreading now. A recent article said that 1 in 8 adults are taking GLP1s. That’s insane to me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt they help people, I know they do. I know of people who are finally able to start losing weight thanks to them, and that’s a great thing. But I adamantly believe there is no magical cure to obesity that doesn’t involve lifestyle change. Ultimately, long-term weight loss requires increased activity combined with a better diet. Today, I could download an app and order a GLP1 prescription with the relative ease of ordering a pizza. Not even see a doctor face to face. That alarming ease (when compared to getting an effective dietician or nutritionist or personal trainer) feels like a recipe for disaster. And I really worry that in 10-20 years, we’ll be seeing class action commercials on our $200 NetHulu Max Prime subscriptions saying “did you or a loved one take GLP1s and develop long-term effects? You may be entitled to compensation.”
  10. I’d support this. Both as a depth piece and a trustworthy starter. They’ll need one more starter than normal with Branch out for at lease the start of the season.
  11. I was hoping this was a joke. And it’s not.
  12. The NCAA is completely powerless. Anytime they try to flex any power they get brought to court and lose. He might as well be shaking a fist at a cloud.
  13. I agree with this. I’m hoping Graham Glasgow’s key card for building access was disabled at halftime of the Bears game. The sunny side up is that the line will get better by default with the return of a healthy LaPorta and Brock Wright. The one-two punch of losing those two decimated an already fragile offensive line. Of the five games you mentioned, there was no excuse (offense or defense) for Green Bay. But both KC and Philly have one of the best defensive lines in the league (or at least did when they faced us in the case of KC). Most offensive lines composed of the ghost of Glasgow’s past and effectively two rookies would struggle with that. With Pittsburgh and Minnesota though (and I would add the Rams game too even though they had some offensive success in the first half and probably should have won) we had effectively no tight end position. It’s hard to run the offense we are designed to run without a single NFL caliber tight end. It’s even harder without a tight end and with an interior composed of what it was.
  14. It feels like I woke up some day in the last two months and all of a sudden every fast food joint, every ad, and every health craze, now just jacks up and advertises their protein levels. Is that the flavor of the month? There's probably something to it. In the grand scheme of macros, protein and calories are the only two I pay attention to. But what's with Chipotle, Subway, and every other place that pretends to be healthy screaming at me about how much protein they have?
  15. In a past career, I worked in child welfare and became the primary caregiver of a kid with T1D. I learned so much, so quickly. He was a warrior and his parents made him just take care of it himself at like six-years-old. He somehow managed to do so until about 9 or 10, when he finally came to us. He could be a little **** head (like all kids in the system), and it became a little joke between us where I would tease him that he didn't need to prick his finger anymore because I could tell his levels just by what names he was calling me that day... Happy to say he got adopted, but not before we got his levels straightened out, his A1C steady, and got him on a CGM/pump combo. That last part made it so much easier. Anyway that all to say, hats off to you. That's a hard diagnosis with occasional nonsensical stigma from the ill-informed.
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