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Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been named as one of those involved in a prostitution sting in Florida, but he’s far from the only one involved, and he may not be the most famous person involved.
Adam Schefter said on ESPN that Kraft isn’t the most famous person — there’s someone else whose name hasn’t surfaced yet who’s better known than Kraft.
“I’m also told that Robert Kraft is not the biggest name involved down there in South Florida,” Schefter said.
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I doubt anyone super famous would go to the seedy little massage parlor that have been shown in photos of the place under question, but I'm sure that someone really famous could have used their services in other ways.
It may just be Jerry Jones, though, or perhaps someone else connected to the Pats...
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It is also Ur Patriots to leak a story like that to a stenographer like Schefter in order to take some heat off of their boss.Last edited by ursus arctos; 22-02-2019, 19:11.
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The Redskins have traded for Case Keenum which I'm not too negative about. It's no secret that with Alex Smith crocked for the season, and likely career ended, that they needed something and had no cap room to play with really. Colt McCoy, whilst adored by Jay Gruden, is made of glass so a move in this position was vital.
Keenum is a middle of the road QB and there is still talk of a trade for Josh Rosen or hoping for Kyler Murray in the draft.
Adrian Peterson has also signed on for two years. After a dreadful 2017 with the Saints and Cardinals he was a revelation fort the 'skins last year and I'm chuffed to bits he's staying.
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It's amazing how minor pro football leagues just fail time after time, while indy baseball league seem to have endless lifespans.
College and the NFL obviously suck so much air out of the room, but the snarky baseball fan in me likes to think that most football fans don't really like football, they like pounding beers and wings with their bros and gambling.
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Though there is also a "big event" audience for gridiron (primarily the Super Bowl, but increasingly also the BCS Championship and SEC Championshaip, at least regionally) that baseball has never really had. The kind of people who take private jets to the Masters or the Oscars.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostI think there's actually quite a lot of truth to that, Flynnie. A fair number of baseball fans actually like baseball; the vast majority football fans like tribalism and like their team and their team alone.
A lot of the interest in football is just "nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd." For most fans, the massiveness of it and the huge crowds are the attraction more than the football itself. But it's hard to build up a critical mass to create that kind of event and without all of that, it just feels like there's nothing really at stake, and when it feels like there's nothing at stake - of course, that's really always the case - football is just incredibly boring.
And running a football league is just very expensive. Huge rosters, big stadiums, expensive insurance, lots of coaches and staff, etc. Arena Football has had more success, off and on, than any of the "real" leagues that have tried over the years, partly because its just cheaper to run. Of course, it's different than regular football, so it has a novelty factor.
It could sorta work if the NFL and NFLPA would work with the minor league to put marginal NFL players or prospects on these teams and except some bottom line losses as a cost of developing players. That was the premise of NFL Europe in it's later incarnation, but it lost money and the NFL owners are pretty short-sighted so they killed it.
The failure of minor league football is a major reason why college players will never get paid a salary until they unionize and perhaps even if they do. If what fans really wanted was to see the best non NFL players play football, then these leagues would succeed. The fact that they never do shows that college football's appeal is at least as much about the "brands" of the teams as the players themselves. So the players don't really have any leverage.
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Unsurprisingly, Washington plump with a QB, selecting Dwayne Haskins. I don't follow college football so I can't comment on his abilities, but it looks like a season to write off this year in the hope of turning Haskins into a franchise QB.
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