2013 NFL Season

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Robert Baratheon_sl

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I don't see how Smith gets away with anything fewer than 4-6 games. Repeat offender on DUI arrests now. Harbaugh needs to convince York to pay for a Dez Bryant style security detail for that guy...his rap sheet is getting pretty long at this point and it's all stupid ass shit like driving drunk at 7am. Just call a taxi, fuck. Literally the easiest thing in the world to do in a place like the bay area. Amazing to me that so many of these idiot players continue to fail to do that...like they don't have a lucrative football career on the line.
 
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Disp_sl

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There's no way he'll get 4-6 weeks. He didn't violate the PED or substance abuse policy unless possession of weed counts, which it probably does. That would be his first substance abuse offense though. This is his second misdemeanor, and that's about it.

He's been getting into plenty of trouble with the law, but he hasn't been violating the league rules, and that's the important part with regards to suspensions.
 
opiate82

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1 game according to substance abuse policy, but he will get more because he has crossed into the 'good of the game' area. Guessing 4 appealed down to 2.
 
Daezuel

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Regardless it's an embarrassment to the league and the Niners. The Niners should suspend him to set an example. Don't fucking drive under the influence.
 
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Disp_sl

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I doubt the Niners will suspend him. They'll let the league do what they're gonna do and then probably toss him into a "stop being an idiot" program.

Will probably affect his guaranteed money in the contract he signs this offseason. If he gets into trouble in the next couple seasons the league will probably bitch slap him though.
 
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Tea_sl

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Disp_sl said:
There's no way he'll get 4-6 weeks. He didn't violate the PED or substance abuse policy unless possession of weed counts, which it probably does. That would be his first substance abuse offense though. This is his second misdemeanor, and that's about it.

He's been getting into plenty of trouble with the law, but he hasn't been violating the league rules, and that's the important part with regards to suspensions.
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As a Bengals fan, I'm somewhat of an expert on these matters and I assure you the NFL will hand down a multi game suspension for a DUI depending on the menstrual cycles of Goodell. Shit Odell Thurman's first DUI was a 12 game suspension. He was already serving a suspension from the substance abuse policy, but other than that had no priors in NFL. Then he went completely off the rails.
 
jooka

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Disp_sl said:
I doubt the Niners will suspend him. They'll let the league do what they're gonna do and then probably toss him into a "stop being an idiot" program.

Will probably affect his guaranteed money in the contract he signs this offseason. If he gets into trouble in the next couple seasons the league will probably bitch slap him though.
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the niners not coming out suspending him is big part of the problem. Make Goodell look like the bad guy but the reality is the 49'er organization is the fault. They are the ones paying him, but look to another to police there BS.
 
Famm

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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...payers/309448/

Judith Grant Long, a Harvard University professor of urban planning, calculates that league-wide, 70 percent of the capital cost of NFL stadiums has been provided by taxpayers, not NFL owners. Many cities, counties, and states also pay the stadiums' ongoing costs, by providing power, sewer services, other infrastructure, and stadium improvements. When ongoing costs are added, Long's research finds, the Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Tennessee Titans have turned a profit on stadium subsidies alone-receiving more money from the public than they needed to build their facilities. Long's estimates show that just three NFL franchises-the New England Patriots, New York Giants, and New York Jets-have paid three-quarters or more of their stadium capital costs.

Many NFL teams have also cut sweetheart deals to avoid taxes. The futuristic new field where the Dallas Cowboys play, with its 80,000 seats, go-go dancers on upper decks, and built-in nightclubs, has been appraised at nearly $1 billion. At the basic property-tax rate of Arlington, Texas, where the stadium is located, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones would owe at least $6 million a year in property taxes. Instead he receives no property-tax bill, so Tarrant County taxes the property of average people more than it otherwise would.

In his office at 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell must smile when Texas exempts the Cowboys' stadium from taxes, or the governor of Minnesota bows low to kiss the feet of the NFL. The National Football League is about two things: producing high-quality sports entertainment, which it does very well, and exploiting taxpayers, which it also does very well. Goodell should know-his pay, about $30 million in 2011, flows from an organization that does not pay corporate taxes.

That's right-extremely profitable and one of the most subsidized organizations in American history, the NFL also enjoys tax-exempt status. On paper, it is the Nonprofit Football League.
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Why aren't conservatives up in arms about the NFL?
 
BrutulTM

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They should add in that there are income taxes paid on all profits the team makes as well as on their employees and also revenues from sales tax and job creation for surrounding businesses (restaurants, bars, memorabilia shops, etc. not to mention temporary construction worker jobs). I don't know if the municipalities get their money back, but it's disingenuous to suggest that the only revenues the team generates for the government is the property tax. Also, these stadiums are often put to a vote and they get approved because people want the team there and are willing to support it with tax dollars. All you would accomplish by saying no subsidies and no tax breaks is convince the team to move to another city that will subsidize them as San Francisco learned.

FWIW, the show Breaking Bad was supposed to be set in LA, where basically everyone involved with the show already lives, but it's set in Albuquerque because of tax breaks and incentives given to them by Abq/New Mexico. You have to consider that subsidies are usually done to get someone to do what is in the best interest of the people/government and not just a handout.
 
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