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I remember San Diego's AAF team drew pretty bad crowds. They "officially" averaged 20k per game but I haven't seen a single picture where it looks like they have even half of that. But still a better choice than Las Vegas, I guess.

Would love for one of these leagues to succeed, but when you're hoping people are football-hungry enough to watch Jack Coan vs Paxton Lynch at QB... not ideal.

Making all the fans sit on the non-shaded side in Orlando is just brilliant.

Hoping they crack down on the exposed carbon and limit it to floors and other areas that have gone unpainted in the past. This is the worst the grid has looked in recent years because of all of the black.

People are acting like it's common for there to be games called super tight where there's four or five of these calls every game and since they didn't do that, they shouldn't have called that one. The reality is that they flag defensive holding a little over once per game. So most of the time when they call defensive holding, they "let them play" the rest of the game and it's the only time they call it. If you pull a receivers jersey as he comes out of his break, it's going to be a penalty. Bradberry was about as beat as you'll see an NFL player on that play. Even with the hold and JuJu not coming out of his break cleanly, he was still wide open. That's an easy TD without the hold.

Also, that was a cool launch for Ferrari. Had actual fans there, didn't have the stale corporate event feel, and they actually ran some laps. Cautiously optimistic for this year as a Leclerc fan.

I hope they stay silver since the grid is way too dark as-is and they're called the silver arrows. Although stripping their car and just having exposed carbon fiber would be appropriate too. Already tired of exposed carbon fiber but the Ferrari looks very good. Love the Ferrari on the rear wing.

It's very common for the official to stand over the ball to allow the defense to sub. The defense is at a huge disadvantage when it comes to subs since they have to react to offensive personnel, so the rules allow them to do so without having to worry about getting caught with too many men on the field. What happened last night is on one play, the Eagles didn't actually sub, to my knowledge, but since the play went out of bounds to the Eagles sideline, it gets treated as if they did. Philly wanted to quick snap to avoid a potential review and did, but the refs shouldn't have allowed it. On an another, the Eagles subbed late and the refs have to provide KC the ability to do it.

Yeah, but I think that would've been a slight to Mahomes, who was fantastic on a bum ankle (and didn't have an unforced fumble recovered by the other team for a TD).

Because you're arguing they shouldn't have called it because it was anticlimactic, which is nonsense.

Be disappointed about whatever you want. I had no dog in this fight. I'm disappointed we didn't get to see a final Eagles drive too. But there was a penalty on a pivotal play and they should have called it and they did. I don't see the logic in thinking they missed a call that benefitted Philly earlier so they should've missed another one that would've benefitted Philly. These guys know the rules. They know you can't grab a receivers jersey as he is coming out of his break.

I'd like to see all of these other clear holds they missed all game. More specifically, I'd like to see the ones where an out-of-position defender grabbed a receivers jersey as he was coming out of a break.

It was decided by the players. The official didn't pull JuJu's jersey. The player did. And yes, it was anticlimactic. But if I had to choose between a game being thrilling and a game being fairly called, I'll take the latter. The problem with roughing the passer is how it's enforced. That call was consistent with how the league has instructed the officials to call roughing the passer. The problem is how the league has instructed the officials to call roughing the passer is garbage. This was a jersey grab on a WR coming out of a break by a defender who was in poor position. It's very consistent with how defensive holding is called in this league. Edit to add an unrelated comment that the league should stop letting players push the QB forward on QB sneaks.

Understanding they can't call every infraction, they should try to get the ones that have a larger impact on the game correct. On this one specifically, the defender was out of position on the play and had no safety help over the top on a pivotal play and frankly, those are the ones they should call. "The call was correct but they shouldn't call it because it made the finish less exciting" is such a non-sense take. That would be rigging the game. But the refs say he held him, JuJu says he was held, and Bradberry says he held him. So what the are we even whining about here?

Because getting the call right at the cost of an exciting finish is 100% what should happen in sports and you're suggesting they do the opposite.

I don't think them missing a blatant one earlier in the game means they should have swallowed their whistles on one late in a game, though. And, fwiw, the Chiefs did have a drive end with a pretty blatant hold not called, so it's sort of a wash, I guess. Looking at it more, I've reversed course and I'm fine with the call. It was a borderline call, sure. But there was a clear grab and it happened on a play where Bradberry was out of position and beat with no safety help. Wish the broadcast showed this angle -- felt like they focused it more on what Bradberry did as JSS turned up field.

No, they did not despite people thinking they did.

Yeah, that was objectively a bad call. If that's holding then it really does happen on every single play. Robbed us of a great finish. Hopefully the NFL actually addresses its officiating problems this time around.

That should take the heat off of the :censored:ty grass, at least.

Was really hoping Toney would get in there.

Seems like they got it right per the rules, so what's the issue?

I agree with Mahomes. I like Hurts but I think Philly would get by better without him than KC without Mahomes. Crazy that Mahomes has been a starter for five years and is basically already a hall of fame lock.

It was a trend last year with Williams, McLaren, AM and probably others doing it as the season went on.

If we are splitting hairs, Kobe had an NBA Finals game 7 where he shot 25% from the field. I don't really get the doubting of LeBron's clutchness. Think he just had the misfortune of dragging worse teams to the finals and playing much better teams there than Jordan ever did. Jordan's always going to have the benefit of when he played and the influence he had on the sport and popular culture in these discussions. Also, there's this weird idea of what the NBA actually was when Jordan played. People seem to genuinely believe if you put LeBron in the 90s against people who were smaller and less athletic and then make most of what teams do to defend LeBron against the rules, he'd be some schlub.

Most of the black on this Alfa is exposed carbon fiber. In the pictures below, it looks like just the halo isn't, but that's made out of titanium, iirc.