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Dolph N.Fan

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When giving up a home game to this game. All 3 games vs the Giants, Jets and Saints were all miserable games. Coincidence the only win in London for Miami was as the road team vs Oakland? Maybe. But enough is enough to be constantly put at a scheduling disadvantage yearly it seems. SB hosting be damned. Ross should Be more concerned with his team actually playing in a SB than hosting them.
 
He did it so Miami can host a SB they will not playing in. I do not recall Houston giving up a home game so they could host the SB.
 
Dolph N.Fan said:
Neither will Minnesota or Atlanta...future Sb sites.
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Yep, to this day, it still makes no sense why Miami of all places has to give up home games while neither of these teams had to. I guess the NFL thinks fans would rather travel to 5 degree weather in January but have the game played in a shiny new stadium, as opposed to being 80 degree weather in Miami, but not having the luxury of having cushioned seats at Sun Life.
 
AEGBRG said:
Yep, to this day, it still makes no sense why Miami of all places has to give up home games while neither of these teams had to. I guess the NFL thinks fans would rather travel to 5 degree weather in January but have the game played in a shiny new stadium, as opposed to being 80 degree weather in Miami, but not having the luxury of having cushioned seats at Sun Life.
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Hell they put a SB in New Jersey. They complained in 2006 that people got soaked in the SB in Miami. Yet they weren’t concerned about a possible snow storm in NJ in February? Oh that’s right it’s a relatively new stadium. Almost any new stadium seems to be guaranteed a SB within 5 years. Only a matter of time before a SB is put in London.
 
AEGBRG said:
Yep, to this day, it still makes no sense why Miami of all places has to give up home games while neither of these teams had to. I guess the NFL thinks fans would rather travel to 5 degree weather in January but have the game played in a shiny new stadium, as opposed to being 80 degree weather in Miami, but not having the luxury of having cushioned seats at Sun Life.
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I love watching football, but one thing you need to understand about the NFL is that the NFL is not about football fans. The NFL is about expanding its global brand and extracting as much money as possible from events that take place less than two dozen times per year. The Super Bowl is the NFL's way of winking at the fans and letting them know this. Most of the tickets are not sold to fans, but rather given away by corporations, mostly to people who aren't even really football fans. It is an event more than a football contest. And when determining which city gets to host the event, how much money the owners have managed to extort from public coffers of those cities is a critical deciding factor.

You want to host the biggest annual event in the world? Well, I tell you what, you're going to give us 500 million dollars for a new facility, and THEN we're actually going to take away one of the annual events that uses that facility (and brings money in to your city) because we (the tax exempt League) can extract even more money from suckers in another country that way.

Hope you enjoy your regular season football games in ****ing China.
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
I love watching football, but one thing you need to understand about the NFL is that the NFL is not about football fans. The NFL is about expanding its global brand and extracting as much money as possible from events that take place less than two dozen times per year. The Super Bowl is the NFL's way of winking at the fans and letting them know this. Most of the tickets are not sold to fans, but rather given away by corporations, mostly to people who aren't even really football fans. It is an event more than a football contest. And when determining which city gets to host the event, how much money the owners have managed to extort from public coffers of those cities is a critical deciding factor.

You want to host the biggest annual event in the world? Well, I tell you what, you're going to give us 500 million dollars for a new facility, and THEN we're actually going to take away one of the annual events that uses that facility (and brings money in to your city) because we (the tax exempt League) can extract even more money from suckers in another country that way.

Hope you enjoy your regular season football games in ****ing China.
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All salient points. I am going to have to call you out though on your statement regarding games in China. Good luck with that happening when you will not be able to see a player if they are more than one foot away.
 
It’s certainly been a shitty start to the season not just in terms of wins and losses but also all of the different circumstances the team has had to overcome.
 
AEGBRG said:
All salient points. I am going to have to call you out though on your statement regarding games in China. Good luck with that happening when you will not be able to see a player if they are more than one foot away.
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Depends on where the game is held and when. Shanghai doesn't have a smog problem for large parts of the year, because the wind coming in off the ocean blows it away. The city's polluted as hell (it's one of the three largest cities in the world), but you can see.

In other places, they actually have a pretty good solution for it: cloud seeding. I have seen the weather in Beijing change from so smoggy that you couldn't see to the end of the block to crystal clear and visibility for miles, in the span of HOURS, because of that. When they're having a big party meeting or some other event, they can take care of it quickly.
 
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