Mr.TaterSalad

Would the universities ever license their name and branding out for football to a minor league organization? Let's say the Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Ohio State Buckeyes, Alabama Crimson Tide, etc. were no longer NCAA colligate teams, but the names of teams in the USFL or NFL 2. Basically, the football programs turn into minor leagues for the NFL and lose any academic requirements or ties. The new minor league organization would have a player contracts, a draft, free agency, trades, professional athletes getting paid to play minor league football until they are NFL eligible, and no academic considerations whatsoever. What the universities get in return is hefty rights fees for their trademarks, a cut of all the money from tickets/merch/etc., and deal with none of the administrative headache of running a collegiate football program. The team name being licensed out by the university and maybe agreements to let the band play at the games, cheerleaders be on the sidelines, would be the only ties to the university. The university could still use football revenue to cover all of their other non-revenue sports as they do now. They also would be off the hook for having to repair or modify football stadiums as the new league would take control over that. The USFL or whatever the organization is called would get the name, likeness, band/cheerleaders, and history of the school, while separating it from the academics. The USFL Michigan Wolverines would also have their own team president, GM, player personnel people, scouts, trainers, and a coaching staff as an NFL team would. So an AD like Warde would have nothing to do with the program unless he was hired in a role there (I would hope not). The USFL would also have a legal agreement that, baring an injury exemption, no player could be in the league for over 4 years. Once a player is eligible for the NFL draft and declares that they cannot be held to their USFL contract, so as to prevent the USFL from directly competing with the NFL. Heck, the NFL could even own a majority stake in the minor league system. I'm guessing such a minor league system, with current college team names and brandings, would never work as money and egos would ruin such a collaboration or effort.

We could have had a Harvard Law Professor and women who was a fierce legal advocate for consumers and consumer protections for President but her slogan was too preachy and she was seen as too smart. She also once said she was like 1/50th Native American or some ****. Instead we got Biden over Warren and here we sit. Biden it is. Sigh!

As someone who was bullied a lot in school growing up, from around 7th grade through 11th grade, I am thankful there was not social media at the time. I certainly feel it would have made the bullying worse for me back then. However, in my experience, it is not true that the bullying stopped when you went home. When the bullies know your home phone number would prank call your house and make sexually explicit phone calls about having sex with your mom or other sexually explicit acts, that was bullying after school. When they'd call you just to mock the sound of your voice over the phone and then hang up real quick, that was bullying after school.

The US gives approx. $3.3 billion a year in aid to Israel through the Foreign Military Financing program. I believe we can indeed condition that military aid allotted to the Israeli IDF and their iron dome missile defense system based on how they are behaving in Gaza. So to say we have no control over the situation is untrue in my eyes when we can condition the aid we give them based on their actions and actions we want them to take.

He would have went for the dagger to try and win it right there. He's going for the TD no question.

I have to give it to Craig Stadler though. The only coach to win both a green jacket at the Masters and a Lombardi trophy at the Super Bowl.

58 Super Bowls played and our tan hasn't made one of them.

7 FGs in this game. OT and the last few minutes of the 4th were about all that was super exciting tonight.

I'm sorry, but outside of OT this was an average game, filled with FGs. I'm not at all excited for another Kansas City and Mahomes Super Bowl. And **** him for talking about adversity post game. Were he a Lions fan he'd know about adversity.

I can't help but think how competitive we would be in this game.

Chase Young with a big play in the SB. Guys a bum.

When Rashida and Palestinians say it, it's a problem. When Jewish Trump says it and Israelis agree with him, it's ok.

Yeah, hopefully those communities would never vote for someone as corrupt and despot as Bibi Netanyahu or Hamas.

It's telling how much centrists pretend to care about Trump being a threat to democracy while supporting Jewish Trump.

Just about the entire population of cities like Jackson, Northville Township, Southgate, and Walled Lake would be wiped out if you compared the death toll in Palestine to communities in Michigan. Eastpointe has 34,000 people, Lincoln Park has 39,000 people, Bloomfield Township as 44,000 people. Maybe we'll get there next.

They've always declined to suspend players on the same day as the incident occurred. Just ask Evgeni Malkin and Colin Campbell.

Hunter signed a deal last year for 1 year at $17 million but all of it was guaranteed. If you give him more years but similar guaranteed money overall I don't think it is farfetched to thing 2 @ $23 million is way off base. I had Goff at an AAV of $42 million per year. If I am way off on Goff then are we thinking he's going to be making Joe Burrow money at an AAV of north of $50 million or more per year or $50 million per year with incentives and bonuses as apart of that number? So is Goff going to cost us 4 @ $210 million?

LOL at cutting our marquee offseason acquisition Joe Harris.

We want to talk about talent and how they have more of it, so let's do it. If Detroit had traded for Montez Sweat do we win that game? Does Sweat as a pass rusher have an impact on that game? Does he have an impact on Brock Purdy's ability to have more time in the pocket?

I don't normally watch music award shows as I'm not into pop music but last night was awesome. To see both Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman get put back onto the mainstage and get recognition was nice to see. And then to have BOTH Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan get nominated for Country Album of the Year made me so happy. It is nice to see that the great music these guys have been writing, along with Jason Isbell, is finally getting the mainstream recognition they deserve. There is so much bad music out there that gets spotlighted from the likes of Blake Shelton, Florida-Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, and all the other bro-country artists out there. So to see Jason, Tyler, and Zach all have their music nominated for Grammy awards and to know that fans are getting exposed to better music these days than they were just a few year ago is very refreshing.

I did a way too early mock offseason. My numbers and players are likely way off too, but I had fun doing it. Current Cap Space: $47,678,386 Lions Players Cut/Not Resigned Hal Vaitai, Jerry Jacobs, John Cominsky, Jonah Jackson, Levi Onwuzurike, Matt Nelson, Michael Badgley, Romeo Okwara, Shane Zylstra, Tracy Walker Cap Space After Cuts: $59,549,598 Lions Players Resigned Benito Jones: 2 years/$2.11 million total Brock Wright: 3 years/$4.225 million total Chase Lucas: 2 years/$1.97 million total CJ Gardner-Johnson: 1 year/$6.5 million Craig Reynolds: 1 year/$1.08 million Dan Skipper: 1 year/$1.125 million Donavan Peoples-Jones: 2 years/$3 million total Graham Glasgow: 1 year/$1.47 million Jake McQuaide: 1 year/$1,210,000 Jalen Reeves-Maybin: 1 year/$1.21 million James Houston: 2 years/$8 million total (only year 1 is guaranteed money, year two is incentives) Josh Reynolds: 1 year/$1.2 million Kayode Awosika: 1 year/$875,000 Kindle Vildor: 2 years/$3 million total Khalil Dorsey: 1 year/$875,000 Nate Sudfeld: 1 year/$1.035 million (Emergency QB) Tyson Alualu: 1 year/$1 million Will Harris: 1 year/$1.125 million Zonovan Knight: 1 year/$850,000 Salary Cap After Re-Signings: $45,981,430 Lions Players Extended Amon-Ra St. Brown: 4 year/$92 million with $61 million guaranteed (I used Deebo Samuel's contract as a comparison) Jared Goff: 4 years/$168 million total with $88 million guaranteed Cap Space After Extensions: $15,336,494 Major Free Agents Signed Danielle Hunter DE: 2 years/$23 million Stephon Gilmore CB: 1 year/$6.5 million Robert Hunt OG: 2 years/$4.5 million NFL Draft 1st: TJ Tampa/CB, 2nd: Jonah Ellis/DE, 3rd: Mike Sainristil/CB, 3rd: Roman Wilson/WR, 4th: Will Putnam/C-G, 5th: Caedan Wallace/OT, 7th: Joshua Karty/K, 7th: Evan Anderson/DT

I could usually give a crap about the Grammy awards. But to see Jason Isbell and Brandy Clark be recognized and win awards was cool. Isbell won a grammy for the Americana Album of the Year. Also cool to see Tyler Childers up for Country Album of the Year award.

The Lions won't pay for a free agent of Sneed's caliber and won't meet his likely asking price. We won't be getting A-Tier, top 20 free agents. I think we'll be looking at guys like Stephon Gilmore, Chidobe Awuzie, Kenny Moore, Adoree Jackson at CB. Guys that we can sign to 2-3 year deals that will be more team friendly.