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I'm thinking I will be at the Seahawk vs THE PACKERS!!!!!!!!

me and a bunch of friends are looking at tickets right now, only problem is, no tailgating at the field in Seattle. Like, WTF? there are tons of bars though, but still, no brats and beer in the lot at 8 AM = :(

There's no tailgating in Seattle? Really? Even Detroit who doesn't have parking lots has tailgating. That sucks, I couldn't imagine going to any sort of football game whatsoever and not tailgating all day haha.

I'm actually fine with that.

I had tickets to park at Reliant Stadium for the Cowboys and Texans game a few years ago and all of the tail-gaiters were taking up 3+ parking spots. It was so packed, people couldn't park anywhere near the stadium. I left 2 hours early and still missed most of the 1st quarter.

If you want to party, do it at home. Get the feth out of the way of people that have actual tickets to the fething game...

NE has the best chance of a big season this year, they only play 4 teams that had winning records last year.
Atlanta is the only other team that has that few.

Based on that metric, Philadelphia and Jacksonville have the toughest each playing 8 teams with winning records.

Based on Win/loss totals NY Giants have the toughest (140-116) and again the Pats have the lightest (116-140).
(Phila. 132-124, Jax. 128-128).


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Philadelphia has a tailgater area... They even Tailgate training camp!

 kronk wrote:
I'm actually fine with that.

I had tickets to park at Reliant Stadium for the Cowboys and Texans game a few years ago and all of the tail-gaiters were taking up 3+ parking spots. It was so packed, people couldn't park anywhere near the stadium. I left 2 hours early and still missed most of the 1st quarter.

If you want to party, do it at home. Get the feth out of the way of people that have actual tickets to the fething game...

Tailgaters taking up multiple spots sucks for sure. But your going to games with 60k+ people. I don't understand how you'd possibly expect just to be in an out regardless of tailgaters....arriving 2 hours before a game is about right to get in, in time for kickoff. Not leaving your house 2 hours before. Assuming you live relatively close. Also most tailgaters I know do have tickets. And have had them for a long time. Who goes just to tailgate with no tickets to the game?

I grew up in Wisconsin, where tailgating is taught in kindergarten. It just seems odd to not have a giant parking lot to party in. I have friends that rent warehouses by the stadium so we can throw a party there, they are set up for rave style parties, so we can make it work for football.

grew up in Wisconsin, where tailgating is taught in kindergarten. It just seems odd to not have a giant parking lot to party in. I have friends that rent warehouses by the stadium so we can throw a party there, they are set up for rave style parties, so we can make it work for football.

I know that spot lol

 Jihadin wrote:

grew up in Wisconsin, where tailgating is taught in kindergarten. It just seems odd to not have a giant parking lot to party in. I have friends that rent warehouses by the stadium so we can throw a party there, they are set up for rave style parties, so we can make it work for football.

I know that spot lol

That sounds incredible. When I tailgate it's usually 2 cars with 8 guys and 2grills/coolers, and 2 desi drivers that rotate. We only go to 4 games a year or so though.

Chancetragedy wrote:

Tailgaters taking up multiple spots sucks for sure. But your going to games with 60k+ people. I don't understand how you'd possibly expect just to be in an out regardless of tailgaters....arriving 2 hours before a game is about right to get in, in time for kickoff. Not leaving your house 2 hours before. Assuming you live relatively close. Also most tailgaters I know do have tickets. And have had them for a long time. Who goes just to tailgate with no tickets to the game?

I meant 2 hours earlier than I normally do. I usually leave 1.5 hours before the game and have had ZERO problems making it to my seat, beer in hand, long before kick off. This was absolutely out of control.

I am telling you that most of these tailgaiters did NOT have tickets. They were outside the whole time, watching the game on TVs that brought. I don't know why. I wish they would have done that gak at home.

Wow that does sound pretty Awful. I've been lucky to not have anything like that happen.

So the pats release Jonathan fanene. And are probably gonna seek some of the 3.8 million in signing bonus back. Because he "didn't disclose a medical condition" such as arthritis. Can we say whoops signing. Luckily were pretty loaded at D-line.

Tailgating is a time honored tradition here. Last year we found a beautiful spot, hidden in an old port authority parking lot, which is right on lake Erie.

My motto is: if you can remember the walk to the stadium, you didn't party hard enough.

Niners and Cowboys for me thanks

 kronk wrote:
So long as it's a website like yahoo fantasy or something. Not posting and manually tabulating like we did last year...

I just started a pick 'em yahoo league

not sure if anyone else does this, sorry in advance if I am stepping on anyone's toes.

Anyone wanna do a Fantasy League?

Link to the yahoo pick 'em league

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/pickem/31753

NAME: DAKKA FUTBALL LEAGUE

PASSWORD: waaaghnutz

MY SCREEN NAME: Piston Honda

GROUP ID#: 31753

if your not interested or if someone else does it, I will just delete it.

I'm in....

Looking forward to this season. Lots of interesting things seen so far in the pre.

So we got me, Kronk and helgrenze for the pick 'em league.


If for some reason you cannot access the league, PM me your email address and I will send you a request ASAP.

Don't worry, I will only hand over your emails to only a select number of spammers.

I keed I keed.

If Green Bay plays up to their talent level they should take the NFC North. I don't know if they can make a run at another SB unless they finally manage to avoid injuries and fix their defense and run game. Relying on interceptions and Aaron Rodgers going beastmode isn't going to cut it.

RGIII for ORotY.

Manning will not make a successful comeback.

 Jihadin wrote:

grew up in Wisconsin, where tailgating is taught in kindergarten. It just seems odd to not have a giant parking lot to party in. I have friends that rent warehouses by the stadium so we can throw a party there, they are set up for rave style parties, so we can make it work for football.

I know that spot lol

which one? heh

there are a whole subculture that live down there round Airport way

I have 2 friends that rent warehouses next door to each other. 4000+ SF

Before I deployed for '09 bunch my sister husband dragged medown there to some game. Needless to say I remembering eating lots of brats...drinking "Beast"...it was a good time..was a "hurt unit" the following day

 Jihadin wrote:
Before I deployed for '09 bunch my sister husband dragged medown there to some game. Needless to say I remembering eating lots of brats...drinking "Beast"...it was a good time..was a "hurt unit" the following day

oh, GB, yea, starts at daybreak. Rum and coffee with breakfast is at 6 AM

I signed up for the pickem league. Name is chancetragedy.

didm420


no longer am I an idiot, I just had to try and it was easy as The Pack winning the next Super Bowl

ignore

Been waiting for this thread to pop up and totally missed it

whembly wrote:Rams fan here...

For those across the pond, what do you think of American 'football'?

We're playing the Patriots at Whembly Stadium this year!

Dude off to see it this year, really really excited to go! I will be supporting the rams, no worries there, not the biggest fan of the pats...........

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Go Bears!!!!!! (Really dissapointed I didn't get down to wenbley last year)

But with Cutler, Carmini and Forte back with the additions of Shea McClein (Spelling??) and Ashton Jeffries in the draft and trading for Michael Bush and Brandon Marshall and hopefully Urlacher ready for Sept. 9th the Bears have improved alot, except in its offensive line and if Cutler's getting hit alot it's harder to stay healthy.

Fellow bears fan here and I agree with everything you said there, as we come into the new season provided that everyone is ready we have a force to be reckoned with and I am really looking forward to seeing the marshall/cutler partnership.

Oh and you see your sig video, I saw that in person, it was such a beautiful move I am pretty sure I was close to destroying my voice shouting until he scored

Can the bears really do anything with gutless cutler playing? Hopefully it clicks with him and he gets it(because I love watching your defense). But he's a ladainian Tomlinson type player. Willing to quit the second it gets too hard. The NFC north this year looks like the NFC south of the last few years. Aka one of the most brutal divisions in football. Cannot wait to watch a good amount of those games.

Chancetragedy wrote:
Can the bears really do anything with gutless cutler playing? Hopefully it clicks with him and he gets it(because I love watching your defense). But he's a ladainian Tomlinson type player. Willing to quit the second it gets too hard. The NFC north this year looks like the NFC south of the last few years. Aka one of the most brutal divisions in football. Cannot wait to watch a good amount of those games.

Is Mike Martz still the OC there?

Man was a wizard during the Rams "Greatest Show on Turf". The offense made things look easy.

Chancetragedy wrote:
Can the bears really do anything with gutless cutler playing? Hopefully it clicks with him and he gets it(because I love watching your defense). But he's a ladainian Tomlinson type player. Willing to quit the second it gets too hard. The NFC north this year looks like the NFC south of the last few years. Aka one of the most brutal divisions in football. Cannot wait to watch a good amount of those games.

Cutler looked really good till he injured his thumb and we had to make do with Caleb Hanie, who is now Mannings backup in Denver,


On an unrelated note Rex Ryan has dropped Wayne Hunter as starting RT for the Jets

Touché on the mike martz experiment being done in Chicago. You should be excited about that. Maybe they'll lean on forte and bush more.

And that sucks to hear about no more Wayne hunter. I was looking forward to the pays abusing their tackles this year. But just about anyone is an upgrade over Wayne sack machine hunter.

Well Bell has been waived by the Bears after he refused a pay-cut as the team third string RB with 2 talented guys behind him

Ewww, the NFL, the most boring three seconds of sport of ever watched, and the play was literally three seconds!

No need for that. Noone is in here making fun of the fact that there's only 3 minutes of excitement in a soccer game that last 2+ hours. So stay out of our thread

Anyways have people seen the jaguars are probably gonna have a London game for the next 4 years. Could it be possible London gets an nfl team before LA?