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2 of my picks got nicked for Time Travel, I would absolutely love to go back and see the dinosaurs lol

But I guess i'll take Christmas Day 1914 when there was a ceasefire during World War 1 and all the soldiers got together to exchange greetings/gifts and play football.

For anyone who doesn't know about it - Wikipedia is always your friend - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ...otball_matches

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03-19-2019 , 12:42 PM

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Not "everyone".

Boooooo

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03-19-2019 , 12:46 PM

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Boooooo

That is a common reaction to my opinions on tv shows.

It's just that the characters are sooo stupid and annoying.

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03-19-2019 , 12:48 PM

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Ok, I'll take Public Guillotine as my 12th round pick. Since this was a narrow category, I realized too late that I should have picked in this category early. Happy enough with getting this as I don't think it comes in last.

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03-19-2019 , 12:52 PM

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I'm with you on Friends, Eric.

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03-19-2019 , 03:22 PM

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friends is brain poison

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03-19-2019 , 03:30 PM

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I considered 3 other people for the guillotine and neither of them has been picked in the draft. I think there's still plenty of talent in that category.

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friends is brain poison

I've never been much of a Friends fan. Also not a big fan of [redacted]

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03-19-2019 , 03:30 PM

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should've went for my other choice lol

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03-19-2019 , 03:40 PM

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worst sports contract raiders stadium in las vegas

you guys talk about your whatever bs player multi million dollar contract. well this is a 2 BILLION dollar stadium, and nevada tax payers will pay for half of it. why? public money going to a private stadium, one billion dollars. ridiculous.

and they've changed cities 4 times in 28 years. so they might play 56 games in it before they move to another city and get a billion dollars from someone else

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03-19-2019 , 03:47 PM

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This is going to be a windfall for tourist dollars. The Dolphins play in Vegas in 2020. Will I be there for the game? Absolutely. Will every Raiders home game bring in an extra 20,000+ fans into town to root for the opposing team? Definitely.

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03-19-2019 , 03:54 PM

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i could see maybe paying a billion dollars to have you NOT come to my city

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03-19-2019 , 04:02 PM

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As a Las Vegas resident, & the primary judge of that category, this should be interesting

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03-19-2019 , 04:04 PM

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i could see maybe paying a billion dollars to have you NOT come to my city

I'll not come to your city for 50 grand. And i take PayPal.

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03-19-2019 , 07:39 PM

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let's get rid of rowing 14 medal events! every single one of them boring as ****, and all the qualifying heats kill me now.

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03-19-2019 , 07:41 PM

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btw, i would have picked a different "olympic sport" to eliminate, but eyebooger linked to a specific list, so it seemed like i should pick from that list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_S...lympics#Sports

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03-19-2019 , 07:56 PM

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For sports contract, I'm gonna go in a slightly different direction. Everybody has been picking contracts that are bad for the team, but I'm gonna take one that was bad for the player.

Ricky Williams

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When Ricky Williams entered the NFL in 1999, he also entered the worst contract in sports history. It was so bad that it's still cited in law school and business school classes as an example of a terrible sports contract. Here's the backstory.

Ricky Williams was widely considered to be the best running back in college football while at University of Texas. He won the Heisman Trophy and numerous other awards. The Associated Press voted him College Football Player of the Year. He was guaranteed to be a top-5 pick in the NFL Draft.

Williams had his choice of agents, all of whom could have negotiated a lucrative deal for him. Instead of choosing an established agent or even a moderately experienced unknown, he signed with Leland Hardy of No Limit Sports Management, a company owned by Louisiana-based rapper Master P.

Ricky Williams was impressed with Master P's flashy swagger. He admired Hardy's resume: multilingual, Ivy Leaguer, and a former broker with Bear Stearns. Being notoriously shy, Williams also liked that they didn't aggressively pursue him. Those were a big part of his reasons for signing with No Limit.

In the 1999 draft, Ricky Williams was drafted with the fifth pick by the New Orleans Saints. Everyone at No Limit Sports rejoiced since their star athlete would be playing locally. Now it was time to negotiate the contract. Master P is a savvy entrepreneur. Leland Hardy is a smart guy. Neither one of them knew a thing about negotiating difficult sports contracts. They walked into an ambush.

Terry O'Neil, the salary cap consultant for the Saints, met up with Hardy over a round of golf. They discussed how to handle negotiating Ricky Williams' contract. O'Neil convinced Hardy that performance-based incentives in a contract were more important than base salary and guaranteed money. Hardy bought into this logic, even though it runs contrary to what every other agent knows: guaranteed money and base salary always trump incentives.

When Williams signed with the Saints, his contract drew immediate criticism from agents and managers all over the sports world.

Williams received an $8.84 million signing bonus, but his base salary was just barely above the league minimum.

The contract allowed for up to $68 million in incentives, but most of the incentives were unattainable. For example, he could earn a big bonus if he rushed for 1600 yards in three of his first four seasons. Problem is, no one in NFL history ever did this.

Another clause involved playing 35% of all offensive plays. The problem was that he has no control over his own playing time or the play calling.

Some of the incentives were reasonable, like scoring 12 rushing touchdowns and 12 receiving touchdowns could earn him a bonus. However, most aspects of the contract favored the Saints.

Williams was tragically underpaid for the duration of his time with the Saints. Meanwhile, the Saints saved a boatload of money on a player who would lead them to their first ever playoff win in the 2000 season.

Williams fired Hardy and No Limit, then signed with heavyweight agent Leigh Steinberg. But the damage was already done. Williams had taken on a contract with the potential for big bucks, but it was a trap. His deal is now a cautionary tale for young athletes, agents and managers, as well as a model for team owners.

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03-19-2019 , 07:59 PM

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poor guy only got 10 million

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03-19-2019 , 08:05 PM

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poor guy only got 10 million

Yeah, but that's a far cry from the 10s/100s of millions all these other guys got, and this guy was actually an elite player.

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03-19-2019 , 08:08 PM

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Some of the incentives were reasonable, like scoring 12 rushing touchdowns and 12 receiving touchdowns could earn him a bonus.

It's funny that doing something that literally no RB has ever done is one of the "reasonable incentives".

This 538 article on the contract is more interesting imo.

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03-19-2019 , 10:02 PM

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It's funny that doing something that literally no RB has ever done is one of the "reasonable incentives".

This 538 article on the contract is more interesting imo.

I guess Marshall Faulk came closest. 18/8 one year. 12/9 another year.

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03-19-2019 , 10:10 PM

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I'll take Eventing for Olympic Sports to get rid of

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03-19-2019 , 11:36 PM

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I'm just going to tell my joke now and wrap this thing up for me. In the 0.00001% chance one of the remaining joke pickers was taking this, I apologize.

I used to tell this joke circa 2001 while still in college. I’d say it worked well 70% of the time. The other 30%, absolute crickets. I think it works much better verbally, where you can ham it up and get some laughs along the way. In any case, here it goes….

Let's call it The Coma. (It may put you in one)

Spoiler:

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03-19-2019 , 11:39 PM

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I'll take Eventing for Olympic Sports to get rid of

Eventing includes Dressage and horse jumping, which is (relatively) much more exciting.

Not saying this is an illegal pick, but dressage is the pure distilled terrible part of eventing.