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u can count me in for some FF.
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Stranger wrote:u can count me in for some FF.
You, me, Leish, Catt, Troy. That's halfway to preferable.
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Sidney Rice retires.
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10 is much better than 8. 12 is fun, but the pickings get slim.
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The Browns are concerned about Manziel.

I think it's hilarious that everyone has to pretend that rolled up $20 wasn't for what we all know it was for...
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I think it's hilarious that everyone has to pretend that rolled up $20 wasn't for what we all know it was for...

I'm waiting for Stranger to say he's testing a new kind of Gatorade powder that you have to snort to take.
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The coaches and the owner made it clear over the weekend that they didn't like his off the field antics. GOOD!!

Hoyer is kicking his ass to start the camp and i'm glad, i feel comfortable with Hoyer and he deserves it. Johnny walked out to practice yesterday with neon green shoes on, everybody else was in team attire. 10 minutes later Johnny was sent back in to change out his cleats. What a fucking idiot! he should be a little more worried about reading defenses than thinking of what shoes he's wearing.

Dude's head is screwed on all wrong, i'm worried about this little shit right now.
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Stranger wrote:I look at it this way...
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TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!!

Its a swing for the fences. He's boom or bust, if he busts no real big loss, we've had plenty of busts, but if he booms...
Odds of bust... going up?
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014....e-tests

interesting breaking news on Josh Gordon's drug test.. Sample "A" was barely positive and Sample "B" was negative..

Ray Rice beats the shit out of a woman= 2 game suspension

Josh Gordon passes 70 drug tests and barely goes over in one test and there is a sample that is still negative = 1 year suspension?!

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Gordon presumably has a case that holds more water than the average bong.

Josh would know, wouldn't he?

But because the “A” bottle was labeled “A” and not “B” and because the “B” bottle was labeled “B” and not “A”, the end result is a positive and a minimum one-year banishment from the NFL. Flip the bottles when it’s time to apply the labels, and Gordon isn’t facing a suspension.

Uh, fuck no. The fact it was on the cusp of some arbitrary limit imposed by the NFL doesn't mean he wasn't doing shit. It means he was more than likely ingesting some substance that caused the chem signature in his piss. Since they aren't naming the substance in question, I've got no baseline for the average concentration in a non-user.

If we assume the mystery chemical is THC, then a non-user would have levels significantly below the concentrations in the article.




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I agree, if millions upon millions of dollars were on the line i wouldn't even get close to the shit. But he did pass 70 tests and i heard that the Olympics will allow up to about 100ng, a much higher limit. I'm not sure what the baseline is but you know lawers are gonna be attacking the system when it comes to something like this, its what they do.

Regardless, dude has made bad decisions, but the NFL really needs to think hard about the personal conduct policy vs the drug policy.
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the NFL really needs to think hard about the personal conduct policy vs the drug policy.


Totally agree.

Dude slapping his girl around is only 2 games, but a first time failed drug test is 4 games? News flash: Marijuana is LEGAL as a recreational drug in two states now! Slapping your lady around is still illegal in all 50 states. One hurts yourself. The other hurts someone else.

(Yes, I know what's in contracts overweighs laws, like motorcycle riding, but the point remains that priorities are out of whack.)

This is a no brainer. Ray Rice could have been used as an example. He's a washed up player who Baltimore really wouldn't lose sleep over losing. The NFL sure looks like a hypocrite right now with their breast cancer awareness push.

"Hey, we don't care if your husband slaps you around so long as you have healthy sweater melons!"

Beyond that horseshit, look at that little dickweed Johnny Manziel. Here's a guy who has smoke all around him in the last year. He's been involved in a possible scandal in college, he never actually set foot on campus, he has hung out with Justin Beiber, he's flashed big rolls of cash and front row seats in Vegas, he's rolling up $20s in a men's room, etc.

But we're supposed to ignore all that. None of it matters. The players union would come unglued if the NFL sat Johnny down for a chat. I'm not even sure they're allowed to give him a piss test after seeing the picture of the rolled up $20.

This kid is potentially a poster boy for the league, good or bad. It'd be cool if there was something in place to reach out to him now rather than suspend him later when he gets caught with Beiber's semen in his system.
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Well, drug tests do have a false positive rate somewhere between 5% and 10%. While it's not likely that he'd have two false pos in a row with the A and the B, it's certainly not impossible. The odds of that go up if the same lab did both, in which case whatever mistake made the first false pos could still be in effect on the second test.
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By the way, this is bad karma.
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Leisher wrote:By the way, this is bad karma.

If a long dead goat and his owner have psyched out the Cubs for over 100 years, I can believe Modell's ghost could hang back to torment Cleveland for at least a millennium.

I can see the headlines now:

In a stunning turn of events today, LeBron James has inexplicably been traded to Baltimore, despite their having no NBA team. That's because, again folks, for unknown reasons, LeBron James has decided to become the first NBA player to cross over to the NFL after being signed by the Ravens. What's made the story even bigger, ladies and gentlemen, is the record setting NFL debut of LeBron against the lowly Cleveland Browns, breaking single-game records in receiving yards, number of receptions, and touchdowns ... on the offensive side. He also became the first player since Deion Sanders to play both ways, and tied the single game records for both sacks and interceptions. Absolutely astonishing. One of those sacks also ended the season of rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel, who crumpled to the ground after a clean hit. X-rays later showed a thin, glass rod had shattered in his urethra. When asked how the item got there, Manziel responded, "Party at Bieber's last night. I also did coke off his ass. Or out of it, I can't remember."

Finally, on the more mysterious side of the news, Art Modell's headstone had a new inscription chiseled on it, seemingly replacing the old one, though authorities and graveyard officials are certain it's the same piece of rock. Whether created by a gifted fraudster of a stone worker or black magic, the words read FUCK YOU CLEVELAND.




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Indians > Twins

Cavs > Timberwolves

Browns > Vikings

Buckeyes > Golden Gophers

True story, I suck!
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Stranger wrote:Indians > Twins

Cavs > Timberwolves

Browns > Vikings

Buckeyes > Golden Gophers

True story, I suck!

Twins, last world series win in 1991.
Indians, last world series win in 1948. Though I'm sure the vintage post-WWII-era pride stirred in the scant few thousand people who recall it more than makes up for the distant memory.

Cavs, 0 championship wins. T-Wolves, 0 wins. Draw.

Browns v. Vikings:
While the Vikes have the worst goddamn Super Bowl record in NFL history, at least we don't have a whiny, media whore Bieber entourage member who carries around tiny paper spyglasses made out of $20s.

So he can better see the cocaine that he's about to snort through them. Shit, even Ponder would use a c-note.

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In a stunning turn of events today, LeBron James has inexplicably been traded to Baltimore, despite their having no NBA team. That's because, again folks, for unknown reasons, LeBron James has decided to become the first NBA player to cross over to the NFL after being signed by the Ravens. What's made the story even bigger, ladies and gentlemen, is the record setting NFL debut of LeBron against the lowly Cleveland Browns, breaking single-game records in receiving yards, number of receptions, and touchdowns ... on the offensive side. He also became the first player since Deion Sanders to play both ways, and tied the single game records for both sacks and interceptions. Absolutely astonishing. One of those sacks also ended the season of rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel, who crumpled to the ground after a clean hit. X-rays later showed a thin, glass rod had shattered in his urethra. When asked how the item got there, Manziel responded, "Party at Bieber's last night. I also did coke off his ass. Or out of it, I can't remember."

Finally, on the more mysterious side of the news, Art Modell's headstone had a new inscription chiseled on it, seemingly replacing the old one, though authorities and graveyard officials are certain it's the same piece of rock. Whether created by a gifted fraudster of a stone worker or black magic, the words read FUCK YOU CLEVELAND.


I enjoyed that.

Twins, last world series win in 1991.
Indians, last world series win in 1948. Though I'm sure the vintage post-WWII-era pride stirred in the scant few thousand people who recall it more than makes up for the distant memory.


Malcolm wins that one.

Cavs, 0 championship wins. T-Wolves, 0 wins. Draw.


I agree on the draw, but the Cavs are poised to win one, while I would happily place $100 on an official bet in Vegas that the Timberwolves won't win a championship in the next 50 years.

While the Vikes have the worst goddamn Super Bowl record in NFL history, at least we don't have a whiny, media whore Bieber entourage member who carries around tiny paper spyglasses made out of $20s.


That was great, but then...

So he can better see the cocaine that he's about to snort through them.


you made it less funny with the explanation. Subtle worked perfectly there.

Browns v. Vikings:
While the Vikes have the worst goddamn Super Bowl record in NFL history, at least we don't have a whiny, media whore Bieber entourage member who carries around tiny paper spyglasses made out of $20s.


Meanwhile in Pittsburgh...

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The Indians are better than the Twin right now and have been for the last few years.

Cavs have ALWAYS been better than the T-Wolves, no way is this a draw! Minnesota is NBA Siberia, there is no argument there.

Why you gotta bring up our backup QB? who cares.. And as i recall we did win against the Vikes last year..

And i don't even need to bring up Buckeys vs. Golden Gophers, thats just not even close.

And by the way.. didn't you guys lose an NHL franchise? oh yeah you did! they moved to Dallas and WON!! HAHAHAHA

So yeah, as of right now, Cleveland > the whole state of Minnesota.

No wonder you're so bitter all the time. It must suck being stuck in the land of 10,000 lakes, all you're teams are worse than Cleveland.

...And thats pretty bad.
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It's not Pittsburgh, but we'll take these....
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