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I'm pretty sure the Bears have monetized "Bear Down, Chicago Bears" for years. Regardless, if you want to be cautious about IP law and not go with "#BearDownChicagoBears" (which may or may not run afoul of UofA's apparent trademark on "Bear Down", of which I was unaware until now, although I knew they also used the phrase), they still should have gone with something better than "#FeedDaBears", which is awful no matter how you slice it. "#GoBears" would have been light years better.

Nobody is trying to monetize those hashtags.

ImLawBoy wrote:I'm pretty sure the Bears have monetized "Bear Down, Chicago Bears" for years. Regardless, if you want to be cautious about IP law and not go with "#BearDownChicagoBears" (which may or may not run afoul of UofA's apparent trademark on "Bear Down", of which I was unaware until now, although I knew they also used the phrase), they still should have gone with something better than "#FeedDaBears", which is awful no matter how you slice it. "#GoBears" would have been light years better.

#BearWithUs

#BearMarketOffense

That's a little too on the nose for this season, I think.

Where's the post with lines for this week? Games start tonight!

stessier wrote:Where's the post with lines for this week? Games start tonight!

That's the job of the thread starter

naednek wrote:

stessier wrote:Where's the post with lines for this week? Games start tonight!

That's the job of the thread starter

You mean the one who is rather indisposed with a brand new baby that arrived this morning?

Week 1

CAR @ DEN
GB @ JAX
BUF @ BAL
CHI @ HOU
CLE @ PHI
TB @ ATL
MIN @ TEN
CIN @ NYJ
OAK @ NO
SD @ KC
MIA @ SEA
DET @ IND
NYG @ DAL
NE @ ARI
PIT @ WAS
LA @ SF

You should have thought of that eight months ago.

Seahawks’ Doug Baldwin, Bobby Wagner considering expanding national-anthem protest

Given that Pete Carroll is a 9/11 Truther it seems only fitting that his team would sit out on the anthem on 9/11.

Jeff V wrote:Week 1

CAR @ DEN
GB @ JAX
BUF @ BAL
CHI @ HOU
CLE @ PHI
TB @ ATL
MIN @ TEN
CIN @ NYJ
OAK @ NO
SD @ KC
MIA @ SEA
DET @ IND
NYG @ DAL
NE @ ARI
PIT @ WAS
LA @ SF

I think you are somehow derailing your own thread

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/colin-k ... es-charity

Jeff V wrote:

naednek wrote:

stessier wrote:Where's the post with lines for this week? Games start tonight!

That's the job of the thread starter

You mean the one who is rather indisposed with a brand new baby that arrived this morning?

Congrats! Did you name him or her Cutler?

Moliere wrote:Seahawks’ Doug Baldwin, Bobby Wagner considering expanding national-anthem protest

Given that Pete Carroll is a 9/11 Truther it seems only fitting that his team would sit out on the anthem on 9/11.

If they did it as a team, I would be impressed.

#BareScarlettJohansensGoldenGlobes?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1749 ... ny-charges

7 felony charges for beating a 70 year old man and his son with a cane. Is there something in the water out there? The Niners sure do seem to have more than their share of these asshats.

Looks like Siemens will be fighting upstream.

Turnovers killing the Broncos.

Even if they make 2 field goals on 3 of those turnovers, they are in control.

How nice would a couple fg's be for the Broncos right now

Boom

wow, talk about lucky. Bronco's new QB looks decent, just needs to reign in the dumb rookie mistakes, but overall, he looked confident and poised.

A bit more squeak than boom but I'll take it Siemian did well for his NFL regular season debut, but C.J. Anderson was the real MVP tonight. Defense was okay in the 1st half but got way better after Siemian's second interception (like an extra wake-up call).

gilraen wrote:A bit more squeak than boom but I'll take it Siemian did well for his NFL regular season debut, but C.J. Anderson was the real MVP tonight. Defense was okay in the 1st half but got way better after Siemian's second interception (like an extra wake-up call).

BOOM!

I've got C.J. on both my fantasy teams.

Concussion protocol being ignored and they aren't calling helmet to helmet hits anymore. Should be a fun year.

Rip wrote:I've got C.J. on both my fantasy teams.

CJ was a beast. I kept thinking, this was the guy who was very close to being a Dolphin.

My 13 year old son has a Fantasy Football class as an elective in school. When he told me he passed up CJ, I literally said to him, "Uh oh". He got beat last night because the other kid had CJ.

stessier wrote:Concussion protocol being ignored and they aren't calling helmet to helmet hits anymore. Should be a fun year.

It sure seemed like they didn't care about head injuries in the game.

Xmann wrote:My 13 year old son has a Fantasy Football class as an elective in school.

What?

msteelers wrote:

Xmann wrote:My 13 year old son has a Fantasy Football class as an elective in school.

What?

yeah, where was Fantasy Football when I was in the 8th grade?

msteelers wrote:

stessier wrote:Concussion protocol being ignored and they aren't calling helmet to helmet hits anymore. Should be a fun year.

It sure seemed like they didn't care about head injuries in the game.

The last hit on Cam was terrible. I'm guessing that Bronco will get a hefty fine this week. And Cam sure did seem a bit woozy out there; I'm surprised (but not that surprised) that they never tested him on the sideline.

And I don't know what Al Michaels was talking about before the last FG attempt when he said Gano was a good kicker. The stat they showed said in late game FG attempts for ties or wins he was 10/15 (now 10/16). 66% is pretty terrible for a pro kicker!

Ahhhhh, I had forgotten all we had to do was review the tape to tell when players get a concussion.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:

msteelers wrote:

stessier wrote:Concussion protocol being ignored and they aren't calling helmet to helmet hits anymore. Should be a fun year.

It sure seemed like they didn't care about head injuries in the game.

The last hit on Cam was terrible. I'm guessing that Bronco will get a hefty fine this week. And Cam sure did seem a bit woozy out there; I'm surprised (but not that surprised) that they never tested him on the sideline.

And I don't know what Al Michaels was talking about before the last FG attempt when he said Gano was a good kicker. The stat they showed said in late game FG attempts for ties or wins he was 10/15 (now 10/16). 66% is pretty terrible for a pro kicker!

I thought it interesting as well about Gano.

From a Bronco fan, It was kind of poetic justice. They mentioned a couple different times about Gano essentially bragging he could hit from 60+ yards because of the altitude.

Well, he certainly had the distance on the 50 yarder. Unfortunately, altitude doesn't help with accuracy...

He made the first one and missed the second. 50% accuracy from 50 yards isn't horrible.

msteelers wrote:

stessier wrote:Concussion protocol being ignored and they aren't calling helmet to helmet hits anymore. Should be a fun year.

It sure seemed like they didn't care about head injuries in the game.

Exactly - I don't care if they need to put an official out there to just watch the head of the quarterback - that was straight up targeting IMO and they need to shut it down.

stessier wrote:He made the first one and missed the second. 50% accuracy from 50 yards isn't horrible.

2015 stats

There are 32 that made a 50+ kick last year. Of those, 11 had a 50% rate or lower.

Isgrimnur wrote:

stessier wrote:He made the first one and missed the second. 50% accuracy from 50 yards isn't horrible.

2015 stats

There are 32 that made a 50+ kick last year. Of those, 11 had a 50% rate or lower.

Yeah, but how many were born east of the Mississippi and how many were born on a Tuesday?

Left as an exercise for the reader.

Grrrrrrr, glad I didn't lock Carolina in the OO Pool. There goes my chance at a perfect record again...

Isgrimnur wrote:Left as an exercise for the reader.

Aw, and I was hoping for a Venn diagram of the results.