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Falcons safety Thomas DeCoud plays the ”meow” game from Super Troopers on SportsCenter.
Meow this is how you interview.
BREAKING: NFL & NFLRA REACH 8 YEAR AGREEMENT
The agreement includes the following key terms:
- Eight-year term covering the 2012-2019 seasons.
- The current defined benefit pension plan will remain in place for current officials through the 2016 season (or until the official earns 20 years of service). The defined benefit plan will then be frozen.
- Retirement benefits will be provided for new hires, and for all officials beginning in 2017, through a defined contribution arrangement, which will have two elements: an annual league contribution made on behalf of each game official that will begin with an average of more than $18,000 per official and increase to more than $23,000 per official in 2019, and a partial match on any additional contribution that an official makes to his 401(k) account.
- Apart from their benefit package, the game officials’ compensation will increase from an average of $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019.
- Beginning with the 2013 season, the NFL will have the option of hiring a number of officials on a full-time basis to work year-round, including on the field.
- The NFL will have the option to retain additional officials for training and development purposes, and may assign those additional officials to work NFL games. The number of additional officials will be determined by the NFL.
The Refs will vote on Friday to pass the deal, however, Commissioner Goodell has temporarily lifted the lockout so that a regular crew can work the Thursday night match between the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens. Per Pro Football Talk:
A crew is being assembled to work Thursday night’s game between the Browns and Ravens. Then, on Friday, the officials will travel to Dallas to retrieve their equipment and receive their game assignments for Sunday and Monday, with the same crews working together as last year.
Oh Happy Day!
But now what am I going to blog about?
A Craigslist user posted an ad looking for replacement referees.
I was honestly thinking about calling Goodell and begging him for a job (thanks to Clay Matthews posting his number), not as a ref, just doing anything. But I should probably wait until these angry calls about the refs die down.
“That’s the loudest manure chant I’ve ever heard.” - Al Michaels
The only bullshit in this play was Harbaugh’s explanation that he was trying to call a timeout when at no point until the flag was thrown did he make the timeout gesture.
(via sportsnetny)
The new SportsCenter commercial is everything.
(via evangotlib)
This is a picture I took of Mike Trout last night at Fenway.
It’s not blurry, that’s just how he looks because he lives so fast.
Plus he’s the love child of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
BREAKING: Another failed MLB drug test.
This time it’s Bartolo Colon. He faces a 50-game suspension.
I wonder if they will link this to his stem-cell treatment. I have plenty of questions about that. It’s either that or cupcakes laced with steroids.
Via ESPN: How many assists did Kobe have? “Probably Zero”.
‘Probably’ is probably being very optimistic. ‘Definitely’ seems more reasonable.
Who’s the hottest alien ever? What are the repercussions from the Dwight Howard trade? Perfect game superstitions? Best shark and Olympic movies ever?
Sports experts Thomas Fant and Bryan Kalbrosky join Mike to answer these questions, take some PEDs, and play some games including Manning Face-book.
P.S. This episode is not actually directed by M. Night Shyamalan, that’s just the title.
P.S.S. That post may have been.
Listen to EP 2. This episode should be on iTunes any time now. Go there to subscribe.
Thanks to Mike for having me on, it was fun, & if you have an hour or so to kill today, give a listen. A decentportion is about sports, of course, but there is a really good amount of pop culture talk, too. Some of the highlights on my end:
- Playing a game called Manning Face(book)- if you’ve followed me for any length of time you know I love me some Manning Face. Despite my shitty memory, I performed admirably.
- I think I mentioned at least 3-4 other Tumblrs. One example was calling Ned something like, “a noted online shark expert”, simply based off of his work on Fuck Yeah Sharks. I may have also made TopherChris out to be a Mars rover photo journalist of some sort & implied that I am friendly with Got ‘Em Coach(I’m fairly certain he despises me)
- I readily admit to being a degenerate gambler. We all knew this already, so I suppose that’s not exactly breaking news.
- Totally drew a blank when trying to remember Morena-Baccarin’s name, which is unforgivable.
- Last but not least, while “plugging” websites, I forgot to mention The World’s Game. We really didn’t discuss soccer at all, but still, really bad job by me.
There is plenty more to go with those things listed above. The above is simply what sticks out to me off the top of my head & in my defense I am still working off of coffee number one of my day. Like I said, not just sports, we actually got into some solid movie talk, as well. I will now wait for one of you to listen & point out all the things I said that are probably asinine, but float around in my head as normal thoughts & then come out of my mouth when unfiltered.
SportsPage followers, check out these sports writing heavy-hitters. This podcast is more perfect than Felix Hernandez and has more hits than Melky Cabrera.
