BRIllini07

As a fan of the Bears I hate it, but as a hater of Illinois politics I love it.

The Bears proposal to Illinois wasn’t even ridiculous. The Bears pay for the stadium, the state pay for the infrastructure and both sides come up with an agreed fixed property tax.

The Bears threw out paying $20 million/year for property tax, even liberal California is allowing the 49r’s to pay $9 million in property tax for Levi.

Now Illinois gets nothing, and then loses some of the money they were already getting (all of these visiting players now work in Indiana).

Not talked about here is there are technical limits these days of what can be played “correctly” at a halftime show.

The NFL requires most of the instruments be piped in which locks out most of the “we already have enough money” rock bands.

A band like Metallica would be culturally in line with both the Bay Area and middle aged NFL fans, however there’s no chance they play on a stage set up in 4 minutes (no sound check) with the instrumentals piped in playing unplugged instruments and 200 people dancing around a stage,

Pop,rap, hip hop work better for that environment.

Averaging the entire 21-65 year old age group dilutes the whole thing. They really ought to look at a very specific age and measure that.

Rerun the whole study with solely 45 year olds who don’t have another source of retirement income (I.e a Federal or state pension). There’s no reason to average a bunch of college juniors a military E-4’s just barely old enough to drink into a retirement savings study.

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The CRJ 700/900 are ok but I prefer the Embrair 175. Hell the ERJ 145 is 1000X better than the CRJ 200.

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Stabbing myself in the eye repeatedly with a spork is better than flying on a CRJ 200.

I don’t like the repeated an wildly swinging threats against “insert nation here” from an economic POV, but I’m all for Canada finally paying the price for releasing the CRJ 200 “Canadian Torture Tube” on poor unsuspecting American citizens.

1986 Mazda 626. At 100MPH you can visibly see the gas gauge drifting downward. That was about all that little 4 cylinder could handle.

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no shite which is why it never should've been let out to begin with.

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It died on a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.

The NCAA walked into the casino and put it all on 00 that the Supreme Court would rule in their favor, after several straight decades of operating CFB as a “business” and not “amateur athletics”. There was plenty of of chances to get ahead of this and the NCAA just stuck their head in the sand.

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Its hard to believe liberals can be that petty, but they are.

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Eh, liberals don’t have a monopoly on petty.

The service academies are so much fun to watch play. The precision and the misdirection needed to stay competitive (with middle of the pack teams) is awesome.

Seeing how a few of these guys found success with a simple change of scenery, it makes me believe Tom Brady’s point that we really underscore how bad some NFL coaching staffs are at coaching up young QB’s.

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The real Trent Dilfer is Caleb Williams. 2 100 yard running backs for the Bears in this game, and Caleb isn’t even at 100 passing yet. Dude should be taking so much heat for his awful play, but thanks to defense and run game he gets to hide behind the scoreboard

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In what world is Celeb not getting heat? Most people would slide him down a bit on the 2024 draft board.

Also his current play is “viable NFL starter all told, but not elite, +runner with playmaking capabilities but leaves far too many plays on table”. Which backup QB are you starting over him?

“Aweful” and “not living up to 1OA hype” are two objectively different concepts.

This also seems like a weird game to bring that up.

One of the narratives to this game is the Eagles run a hyper-simple offense that relies too heavily on beating people 1:1. One of the theories is it has to stay this simple for Jaylon to process it.

Meanwhile Caleb is on game 12 of Ben Johnson motioning people everywhere, and while it’s not great, Caleb doesn’t appear to be shaken by needing to re-read a defense whenever someone crosses the center on a motion.

In the post game presser Ben Johnson even mentioned on the Cole Kmet touchdown, the first read was Swift. Caleb saw the safeties crash and went for Kmet over the top while rolling to his left.

Dilfer literally didn’t have the ability to throw that ball. And the processing from Caleb’s end was fine.

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It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since Chang played college ball. I didn't think it was that long ago so I looked it up on Wiki.

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Timmy Chang’s time at Hawaii corresponded with my time stationed at Pearl Harbor. It was a fun team go see at Aloha stadium.

Perfect tailgating weather always, then go watch the hometown QB pass for 800 yards behind an all Samoan offensive line vs. a team that’s still jet lagged.

Not to mention, “Timmy Chang” being the least likely name for a QB ever, one that you’d laugh at if EA Sports NCAA Football 2005 auto-generated it.