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This year I will try something different. I will make a few blind-faith NFL picks. This means that no matter what the numbers are and no matter who is playing, I will make the pick. This is based on data that I have collected since 2007 based on 1041 NFL games (I am excluding pushes.) Below is how I will make the picks.
- 2011-09-09
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Football today is far more popular than it has ever been. Players today are bigger, stronger and faster than players in 1981. An NFL team from 1981 wouldn.t dare think of being on the field with a team from today. The league makes far more money now than before with the average team now worth $1 billion according to Forbes Magazine and every team in the league is profitable. Players make a lot more money today than back then, thanks to Gene Upshaw and the Players Union. I remember talking to old football players who told me that they earned so little money from football that they would have to take off season jobs to make ends meet. Today the average player is a millionaire. Back in the 1970.s you didn.t know if a game would sellout, today almost every NFL game is a sellout (except in Jacksonville and Oakland.) The league is more competitive now than before. Back then it was the same teams every year, teams like the Steelers, Cowboys, Raiders, 49ers and Redskins. Now, everyone, no matter how big or small, has a chance to win it all. Arizona almost won it all and they haven.t been good since the 1940.s.
- 2009-02-05
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Al Davis should have never moved the Raiders back to Oakland. With his team ranked near the bottom in value (according to Forbes Magazine,) games that don.t sell out, luxury boxes that are not filled, legal battles and a team that has had only 3 winning seasons in the past 14 years, the Raiders are a devalued franchise in disarray. In Los Angeles they would be the only game in town, and would be playing a football only stadium. Instead they share a market with the San Francisco 49ers and play in a run down virtual bowl of a stadium that they share with the baseball.s Oakland Athletics
- 2008-12-12
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