That Aud Smell

Oh, it's not? I think you take an overly formal view of matters to get where you want to be (or feel you need to be). I'm full of surprises. And as indicated, this is not something I'm perceiving in isolation. If the Pegulas had to date proven capable of running a merit-based and professional operation, this Instagram post would have likely breezed past my attention. But there's more nepotism and cronyism in PSE than I care for. Actually, it appears that cronyism is much less of a problem than it used to be.

As with most things, the fact that this particular situation is not currently problematic or might never prove problematic does not mean that, as a policy or practice, it's something that should be condoned. Just a bad look, imo.

It's mixing business matters with personal matters. Simple as that. Bad practice. Par for the course, though, I'm afraid.

It's part of the overall picture. Consider how PSE has gobs of resources, but put Kim's brother in charge of a major part of operations, how they feature generally terrible designs from their kids (remember the striped-propeller-beanies? (or whatever they were)), and how they provided a store-front for a Pegula-daughter-restaurant-concept that, as far as I can tell, has not caught on but is being propped up by PSE bucks. I understand that pro sports franchises are proverbial "toys" for the owners. But the fact that it's becoming a playground/sandbox for the entire family is not to my taste.

Hear, hear.

Those are true statements. That leaves room for a lot of other things to be true, too. For my own part: I don't like it. It just continues to make the Pegula ownership seem like a long, extended amateur hour.

Gonna plunk this here because I treat this as the default thread for discussions of the Pegulas' ownership of the local sports teams.

This sort of got lost in the sauce. It's a whole new aspect of Pegula family dipsh1ttery if one of the adult daughters is Kardashian-ing around with rostered studs. Nah?

I was only able to listen to the game. I'm less inclined to be excited about the result (I've learned my lesson when it comes to games that seem to turn in large part on fumble recoveries), and I am more curious to hear what people saw with Allen's play. It's just one game, sure. But it sounded as though he showed really well -- not just with the goal line dive and hurdling stuff -- but with overall play (sounds like there were several bad drops). Any feedback is appreciated, even if it's a link upthread.

Good take. The PSE work product is derivative, but not even faithfully so.

Football is the most brutal sport going. An NFL team wants to use a player up. Wants to squeeze every last bit of effectiveness and of health out of him, while he’s still under contract, and then discard him. It’s the nature of a salary-capped league where most players’ careers are over before they turn 30, a brutally cold calculation that everyone on both sides of the negotiating table understands. Le’Veon Bell understands it. It’s why he’s holding out, calculating that at his age and with his mileage, another season of 400-plus touches could wear him down, an injury would sabotage his offseason, when he will enter unrestricted free agency for the very first time in his career. He’s right to fear it. The Steelers, knowing they’re not going to re-sign him, have no incentive not to run him into the ground. It’s a business, and the business model says to squeeze him dry. After all, what do they care if he’s useless after he’s no longer a Steeler. https://deadspin.com/listen-to-earl-thomas-1829265298

Smh

Kazoo!!

The thing that came across to me: He seems to know his own mind. That is not something I would have said about Eichel at the same age. In fact, I think Jack's just getting there.

And based on media reports, it sure looks like football participation is down. And the declines are probably in the 10s of 1000s. But its still a pretty frickin' robust number. A million kids playing football in a given year? Compare that with 35,000 kids playing hockey.

That same site, btw, appears to show that the numbers of high school boys playing football has remained fairly stable since 2002 (just north of 1,000,000).

The Minnesota hockey article is an interesting one. In/around Buffalo? I am confident that hockey participation is up over the same period of time as referenced in the article re Minnesota high school hockey. For example, the local private boys' high schools no longer have one hockey team (as was the case back in the day). Now, those schools will have a "federation" team (not quite sure what that is), then a series of tiered league or even club teams. So, where you used to see a school with one team, now that same school may have 3, 4, or more. I noodled around on this website*, and found that, nationally, ~23,000 male high school students played hockey in the late 80s. Nowadays, that number is more like 35,000. And that's to say nothing of the modern trend of girls playing ice hockey. * http://www.nfhs.org/ParticipationStatics/ParticipationStatics.aspx/

In which sports? Link(s)?

@Hoss acknowledged the slave metaphor was hyperbole, y’all. A bit of incendiary hyperbole. But hyperbole.

I think @josie pointed out some time ago that this is derived from a style you see in other current ad marketing. It is also objectively terrible looking. And illegible. They did do a meme correctly, though, with a mini Kermit doll looking at and then hugging an iPhone at the news of Reinhart signing. @Hoss has skills like that. Don’t try to keep up — you’ll just end up pulling a muscle.

Tyrod is still terrible.

Um, yeah. Quite so. Also, IIRC, Ulf did a lot of nasty stuff himself.

I specifically recall hearing of NFL players whose livers were just shot because of the massive amounts of ibuprofen they were pumped with on a preventive/maintenance basis.

And that SH% of those with whom he plays while they're playing together?