Jan 15 2011

Divisional Throwball Playoffs: Saturday

2011 Throwball Playoffs

It’s hard to say whether having a bye week is an advantage.  On the one hand you have a week to rest up and get healthy (and not expose yourself to further injuries), but on the other hand it does kind of disrupt your practice schedule.  You could point at the record, but I’d say it’s not dispositive since the teams that get the bye are selected based on their superior record and are presumably better teams anyway.

Today Ravens @ Steelers is the early game at 4:30 pm on CBS.  I think the Steelers are as good as anyone this year so I would expect them to have no problem with the Ravens, but I’m frequently wrong and unexpected things happen which is why they play the games.

The late game at 8 pm on FOX I have an actual rooting interest in.  The Packers are my second favorite team in the league and as I explained last week it’s not just an accident of birth.  To quote from Wikipedia–

The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned franchise in American professional sports major leagues. Typically, a team is owned by one person, partnership, or corporate entity, i.e., a “team owner.” The lack of a dominant owner has been stated as one of the reasons the Green Bay Packers have never been moved from the city of Green Bay, a city of only 102,313 people as of the 2000 census.

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As of June 8, 2005, 112,015 people (representing 4,750,934 shares) can lay claim to a franchise ownership interest. Shares of stock include voting rights, but the redemption price is minimal, no dividends are ever paid, the stock cannot appreciate in value – though private sales often exceed the face value of the stock, and stock ownership brings no season ticket privileges. No shareholder may own over 200,000 shares, a safeguard to ensure that no individual can assume control of the club. To run the corporation, a board of directors is elected by the stockholders.

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Green Bay is the only team with this form of ownership structure in the NFL; such ownership is in direct violation of current league rules, which stipulate a limit of 32 owners of one team and one of those owners having a minimum 30% stake. However, the Packers corporation was grandfathered when the NFL’s current ownership policy was established in the 1980s, and are thus exempt. The Packers are also the only American major-league sports franchise to release its financial balance sheet every year.

So Falcons fans (and there must be some of you), it’s not so much that I dislike your team, but they’re in the way of my Packers getting a chance to crush da Bears in the Conference Championships next week.

Nothing personal.

The usual nonsense below the fold.

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  4. 5:20 to play.

  5. 24 Yard attempt.

  7. Steelers make a big strike.

    First and goal from the 1.

    1:58 to play.

  9. That was funny but then I can relate

  11. I would want to push that big guy

  16. 1:09 to play

  18. Fail.

    Game over dudes.

  19. They will face either the Jets or the Patriots

  20. Apparently the Falcons received.

    1. I expect the Steelers will win.

    1. Grabbing some cheese and crackers

  25. I thought it was played after the Super Bowl

  29. 4:50 to play in the first.

  30. Packers on the march.

  31. Now for at lest 5 min of commerciala

    1. But yeah.

  34. seems to a issue with this stadium

  37. On the return.

    At least it didn’t take up much time.

  40. ball at 1 yd line

  44. Duchenne muscular dystrophy

    Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe recessive X-linked form of muscular dystrophy characterized by rapid progression of muscle degeneration, eventually leading to loss of ambulation and death. This affliction affects one in 4000 males, making it the most prevalent of muscular dystrophies. In general, only males are afflicted, though females can be carriers. Females may be afflicted if the father is afflicted and the mother is also a carrier/ affected.

    Matthews must know someone with this

  45. Saves a score at the half, they ought to just kneel on it.

    :33 to go before intermission.

  46. 5 yds to GB 1st in 10

  49. On the other hand they do have to kick off and that didn’t work out so well the last time.

  50. Falcons trying to get in Field Goal range throw the INT for a Run Back.

    2 : 1

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