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  1. Unforeseen detour is taken out of context by many. His full quote: His career, his salary, his life. If this is the route he wants to take, not sure why so many people care.
  2. Unforeseen detour. Still goes to show, NFL has always been his goal and will keep trying until there are no more opportunities.
  3. He could just retire. He is 71.
  4. Mandela Effect. There are a bunch that people swear happened but never did. The name comes from a common misconception that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s.
  5. Weird article. What Jets fan was asking to get Laine back?
  6. She is married, so if all this is true, do you see how that could cause a rift in the dressing room with the Blackhawks up and coming franchise player?
  7. Bought them for $285M in 2000. 13% annualized ROI. Not bad.
  8. Don't know if anyone has been following the drama happening at OpenAI this past week (creators of ChatGPT). At a high level: The board of ChatGPT fired CEO Sam Altman as a big surprise to everyone Microsoft (which owns 49% of OpenAI) offered to hire him and give him his own department for AI to run 70 - 80% of OpenAI employees wrote an open letter to the board saying they would quit and go work for Microsoft if they didn't re-instate Sam Altman and resign from the board Some board member who voted to out Altman pretty quickly changed their mind It looks like Sam Altman will soon be returning to OpenAI with a new board. What's interesting (aside from all of the above shenanigans) is this quote So rumour is the board thought Altman was moving too fast and reckless with AI, was not forthcoming / honest with the board in what he was doing, etc. Will be really interesting to see where AI goes and what future iterations of ChatGPT are capable of over the upcoming years.
  9. We had shirts made the first year we opened the site. I think maybe there was a half dozen that we sold. They are definitely a limited edition now. Don’t think I even have any anymore.
  10. This site has no where near the budget (or revenue) to fly someone out to Grey Cup. And I'm really only here because I had the technical know how of how to throw a website up and keep it running (most days). But if someone is interested down the road, we could certainly chat.
  11. Historic expansion fees: Team(s) Franchise Fee First Season Houston Texans $700 million 2002 Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars $140 million 1995 Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers $16 million 1976 Cincinnati Bengals (AFL) $7.5-$8 million 1968 New Orleans Saints $8.5 million 1967 Atlanta Falcons $8.5 million 1966 Miami Dolphins (AFL) $7.5 million 1966 Minnesota Vikings $1 million 1961 Dallas Cowboys $1 million 1960 Original members of the AFL $25,000 1960 Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Pirates* $2,500 1933 New York Giants $500 1925 Original members of the NFL** $100^ 1920 Based purely on inflation from 2002 to now, that would be $1.2B, however the Texans are now valued at $4.7B. So would an ask be around $5B?
  12. Since the cup is in Hamilton, I believe Montreal will be the home team.
  13. Picks for the Grey Cup need to be in by Sunday @ 5PM. Congrats to @MOBomberFan who has now officially clinched the win for this years Pick 'Ems and the recipient of a $50 Bomber Store gift certificate. Let's go bring the cup home next week!
  14. The only double standard is I don't usually call people out publicly. Many people you reference have probably at one time or another have had a post edited / deleted or given a warning. A distilled definition of trolling is basically posting **** for the sole purpose of getting a reaction out of other people, and when they get that reaction, they complain about ad hominem attacks. When you do get to the point of being a more blatant troll, then you will get the same warnings mentioned above. Until then, keep doing what you are doing, or don't. Up to you. Cheers.
  15. Funny. You started the whole confrontational tone with Sonny boy comments. Friendly public warning. Every day you post the blurry line of trolling that you present here is becoming less and less blurry.
  16. This is a forum. For discussion. That’s twice now you ask people why they are “interjecting”. When you post, you should expect people to reply and discuss.
  17. I have all the Pick 'Ems spreadsheets going back to 2016 (the pick 'ems before that were run on a forum extension that stopped working, so I don't have easy access to that data). So, compiled a few stats from those years: Top 3 Finalists By Year 2016 Correct Picks Correct Percentage Cam 56 65.12% WinnipegGordo 55 63.95% TBURGESS 53 61.63% 2017 Correct Picks Correct Percentage bearpants 59 68.60% the watcher 58 67.44% TBURGESS 57 66.28% 2018 Correct Picks Correct Percentage Dicky 57 66.28% TBURGESS 55 63.95% Jacquie 53 61.63% Marshall 53 61.63% Rich 53 61.63% Tony Fresco 53 61.63% wayner 53 61.63% 2019 Correct Picks Correct Percentage bigg jay 69 80.23% wayner 67 77.91% rebusrankin 64 74.42% 2021 Correct Picks Correct Percentage Fox Creek AB Rider Fan 46 66.67% Rich 45 65.22% coach17 44 63.77% 2022 Correct Picks Correct Percentage Stickem 64 74.42% the watcher 62 72.09% Booch 61 70.93% bigg jay 61 70.93% 2023 Correct Picks Correct Percentage MOBomberFan 68 81.93% TBURGESS 65 78.31% Booch 63 75.90% This also means that depending on how @MOBomberFan picks in the remaining three games this year, he could set the record for the most picks and best correct percentage of all recorded years. He currently sits at 68 picks for 81.93%. Next best is @bigg jay in 2019 with 69 correct for 80.23%. I included winning percentage as it gives an indication of consistency in correct picks and it was also a shortened season in 2021 with 69 games instead of 86. Pick 'Ems Hall Of Fame These posters have all participated at least once in all years going back to 2016. Poster Correct Picks Correct Percentage TBURGESS 389 66.84% bigg jay 384 65.98% the watcher 377 64.78% WinnipegGordo 377 64.78% kelownabomberfan 375 64.43% Rich 375 64.43% GCJenks 351 60.31% Bigblue 204 340 58.42% Sard 335 57.56% Marshall 306 52.58% Tracker 285 48.97% MOBomberFan 281 48.28% JPan85 250 42.96% JCon 247 42.44% Cam 222 38.14% coach17 209 35.91% TrueBlue4Ever 149 25.60% @TBURGESS seems to be the model of consistency year after year, but troubles getting over the hump to win it all in a single year. Thanks to everyone for playing over the years!
  18. With @MOBomberFan 3 picks ahead of @TBURGESS and 3 games left in the season, @TBURGESS would need to pick all 3 remaining games correct and hope @MOBomberFan gets all wrong to tie. Picks this week need to be in by Saturday @ 2PM Standings below:
  19. Would be better if he also goes to the Grey Cup
  20. This site has historical stats. Probably not in the easiest format for you to pull from though. https://stats.cfldb.ca
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