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Luigi74

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  1. The Steelers and the Eagles also did it in 1941. Art Rooney sold the Steelers to Alexis Thompson and then turned around and bought a 50% stake in the Eagles, then a month or two later Thompson swapped franchises with Rooney and Bert Bell.
  2. Wont politicians in Virginia and North Carolina get involved if Virginia Tech and NC State get left in the cold? There's precedent in Virginia since the state legislature got involved during the ACC's first raid of the Big East which lead to VT getting in over Syracuse. Something similar could happen in North Carolina with NC State and it wouldn't be surprising to see Duke and Wake Forest alumni with political power get involved too. Remember Texas Gov. Anne Richards and fellow Baylor alums in the Texas state legislature blocked Texas and Texas A&M from moving to the PAC-1O and/or SEC and got Baylor into the Big 12 over Houston which is a state school.
  3. I think it's definitely the case in San Diego, as it's always a city that gets circled when fans in the north east plan their road trips. It's obviously going to happen with the Steelers and Packers, and local Cowboys fans, but I've also heard it be an Eagles home game there and I'm sure others too. Seems to happen in San Diego, Miami, and Tampa - vacation cities. My cousin and her husband made the trip from Pittsburgh to San Diego, they do a vacation like that whenever the Steelers get the Chargers, Saints, Bucs or Dolphins on the road.
  4. While I don't think it would happen in this day and age and I don't think Mark Davis would be for it but could a good old fashion franchise swap work out some of the problems? The Colts and Rams owners did it back in the 70's and the Steelers and Eagles owners did it in the 40's. Kroenke and Davis would swap franchises so Kroenke would end up owning the Raiders and Davis the Rams. Kroenke moves the Raiders to LA and Davis keeps the Rams in St. Louis with the new stadium. The Chargers could then move to LA and swap divisions with the Rams and leave San Diego as the city everyone threatens to move to.
  5. It could be bunk but that's the story that has been around for ages. I'll have to dig up my copy of "America's Game" it goes pretty in depth on the whole thing.
  6. Once Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh agreed to goto the AFC the remaining NFC teams couldn't agree on a division set-up, five different options were put into a glass bowl and Pete Rozelle's secretary pulled out the winning option. The five alignment plans for the NFC in 1970 were as follows, with Plan 3 eventually selected: Plan 1Eastern - Atlanta, Minnesota, New York Giants, Philadelphia, WashingtonCentral - Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, New OrleansWestern - Dallas, Los Angeles Rams, St. Louis Cardinals, San FranciscoPlan 2Eastern - Minnesota, New York Giants, Philadelphia, WashingtonCentral - Atlanta, Dallas, New Orleans, St. Louis CardinalsWestern - Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Los Angeles Rams, San FranciscoPlan 3Eastern - Dallas, New York Giants, Philadelphia, St. Louis Cardinals, WashingtonCentral - Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, MinnesotaWestern - Atlanta, Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans, San FranciscoPlan 4Eastern - Minnesota, New York Giants, Philadelphia, St. Louis Cardinals, WashingtonCentral - Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Green BayWestern - Dallas, New Orleans, Los Angeles Rams, San FranciscoPlan 5Eastern - Detroit, Minnesota, New York Giants, Philadelphia, WashingtonCentral - Chicago, Dallas, Green Bay, St. Louis CardinalsWestern - Atlanta, Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans, San FranciscoIf I remember right one of the reasons the Bucs ended up in the Central was because the Bears, Lions and Packers wanted a warm weather team in their division. Back then late in the season teams from the northeast and midwest would goto a warm weather city a few days early to "acclimate" to the climate, it was mainly an excuse for the owner to write off a vacation as a business expense.
  7. The BCS is dead and any chance of a playoff is also dead if the Pac-16 and Big Ten+6 happen. There's no reason for any of the three parties to be part of the BCS or playoff with the insane amount of money the conference championship games and Rose Bowl will now make. The SEC and Sugar Bowl will most likely cut a deal to take the most attractive at-large school, like they did back in the day.
  8. They could make up for it by being in as many NYC area pre-season tourney's along with scheduling the likes of St. John's, and Seton Hall in non-conference games.
  9. It's all about football for Pitt and Syracuse, Big East football is dead if they lose another team, they can't make that up in basketball money.
  10. They do it for the kids, it's a big deal for them to play at Heinz. Yeah, I get that. It just seems that they shouldn't sacrafice an event as big as a college championship game for state semi-final football games, since there are probably other more-than-suitable venues elsewhere. Actually, unless they were going to play at IUP, Clarion, Slippery Rock, or one of those other D2 schools, there's probably not. There really isn't anywhere central enough in the WPIAL area that could host it. Also they would have no problem re-sodding the field after the WPIAL games for a game the next weekend, they did it this year with no problem.
  11. They do it for the kids, it's a big deal for them to play at Heinz.
  12. The Big Ten also pools research money and Pitt blows the other potential candidates out of the water in this category. Total Research Expenditures (2006) Pitt: $530,162,000 Rutgers: $280,994,000 Missouri: $215,240,000 Syracuse: $ 36,100,000 Total Federal Research Expenditures (2006) Pitt: $422,316,000 Rutgers: $118,732,000 Missouri: $101,732,000 Syracuse: $ 25,299,000 Cincy, WVU, UConn and Kentucky have no shot, the University presidents will be the ones voting on the new member and those are not the schools they want academically.
  13. That picture is so wrong. No one should be that happy to wear a Pirates uniform. Wake is NOT a legend. Not even close! He would have been had Jim Leyland let him pitch the 9th inning of Game 7 in the 1992 NLCS.
  14. The Pens should have waited two years and replace the banners when the new arena opens up.
  15. Willie really needs to work on the brim of that cap.
  16. Wilt Chamberlain as a Harlem Globetrotter. Jim Brown as a Raider(just a publicity stunt)
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