Anti-Dan Snyder Article
Kinda old ... from November. I'm about half-way thru - decent read. Snyder is really really upset at the author and the publishing co.
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Aside from the apparent Devil photoshop they gave Snyder,
That is a well-documented list of mess-ups by Snyder, and shouldn’t be considered libel.
Snyder proves once again he’s a very childish, thin-skinned person.
Don't play F A G! Do not play F A G! Don't- (BLAST F). OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU (BLAST A) DOING?! I SAID NOT TO (BLAST G)!
Speaking of Mr. Six...
the ’90s sure had weird/terrible/awesome dance music.
For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPM1q_Uyxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrc37wNUqU
by ghostofErikThompson on Feb 2, 2011 4:30 PM CST up reply actions
This is my favorite - it's pretty disgusting
No other NFL team put 9/11 commemorative products for sale during the 2006 season, for profit or otherwise. Snyder had previously added a $4 "security surcharge" to the ticket prices soon after the attacks.
“How many people died again? How do I make money off of that?”
Hobson, did you see that?
Yes.
She stole that tie! It's the perfect crime. Girls don't wear ties; although some do. It's not a perfect crime, but it's a good crime.
Yes. If she murdered the tie it would be the perfect crime.
ahaha
so, i’m at IAH on my way to D.C…
i go through the security check…‘random’ security check.
the people they randomly choose to go through the x-ray machine: brown person, brown person, brown person, asian person, white woman (you know, to throw people off), then me.
i just started smiling, the TSA was like, “Sir, i’ve never seen anyone all happy to go through this thing”…
Not the reason Ms. TSA, not the reason…
"what I have learned in 11 years in the sports business is that the dumbest guys in the room are always the media guys." - mark cuban
Weird,
I’ve actually had better experiences there than most places.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
Marshall Faulk's reasoning for the Steelers being a dynasty is that they don't sign elaborate free agents or fire coaches.
I can’t think of how those two things are relevant.
So does 3 out of 6 championships count as a dynasty?
The Pats and Cowboys did 3 out of 4. The 49ers of the ’80s did 3 out of 7 or 4 out of 9. And the Steelers of the ’70s did 4 out of 6.
Go Rice Owls!
The absense of back-to-back championships...
is probably why it doesn’t feel like those dynasties. But, it might be even more impressive when you think about it.
by ghostofErikThompson on Feb 2, 2011 5:58 PM CST up reply actions
yeah
it seems like football is increasingly parity driven (at least that is what they tell me), so it is one thing to win back-to-back (you get an advantage, and you’re able to hold on for one extra year). Whereas winning every other year is pretty tough when the league is set up to force teams to rebuild themselves over that duration.
That said, the Steelers missed the playoffs last year and in 2006. Can you really have a dynasty over a set of years that include two where you missed the playoffs in a league where 40% of the teams make it?
Go Rice Owls!
I'd argue that, in the current NFL, it's easier to do it this way.
Every other year, you’re getting decent drafting position and a greater chance at a weaker schedule if you go by the Steelers method (not that they’re doing it on purpose).
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
Dynasty is such a nebulous term.
Because they’ve been good for most of that time with a few other championships appearances, I might call them a dynasty. They’re really stretching the idea of what I consider to be the standard, though, and they haven’t even won this Super Bowl yet (and I agree with them being underdogs, too).
But, either way, it has nothing to do with a lack of elaborate free agents and not firing coaches.
TWSS
It goes deeper. People take out their frustrations with Josey on their real-life acquaintances, which propagates forward, and before you know it you’ve got more marriages in an easily-smashable state. by Closure GT on Dec 14, 2010 9:48 AM
It's a shot at the Cowboys, probably.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
Speaking of the Steelers. . .
I find it funny that the ultimate “ESTABLISH THE RUN!!1” team has had three receivers named MVP in the Super Bowl.
And I think I would take Stallworth in XIV. At least I’d definitely take him over Bradshaw, who somehow won the MVP despite trying desperately to give the Rams the game.
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There’s no such thing as price gouging – people choose to buy the ticket/pay for the parking/etc.
The anecdote about selling the old airline peanuts is pretty funny.
by Randy Richardson on Feb 2, 2011 5:18 PM CST reply actions
Jim Mora keeps calling Mendenhall "Chuck."
Is that an actual nickname I’ve just never heard ,or is it Jim Mora being Jim Mora?
Wait, Kurt Warner has all three of the top three passing games in Super Bowl history?!
Holy crap.
And the NFL Network didn’t have him as one of the top 10 Super Bowl QBs. . .
and
he won’t crush your eggs when he sacks em
Salma Hayek is not hot.
by AndrusImpersonator on Feb 2, 2011 8:35 PM CST up reply actions
probably
He has won a superbowl, put up good numbers, and has a good story
The snozberries taste like snozberries!!
by Chrom on Feb 2, 2011 8:52 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
yeah...but I think his wife's crewcut ruins it.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
a crew cut on a woman
Makes one handsome female
The snozberries taste like snozberries!!
by Chrom on Feb 2, 2011 8:59 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Quote at end of that article
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LSB to blame?
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
That's what's funny ...
probably few people saw this article the first time around back in November, but Snyder’s legal hissy fit has ensured that his shenanigans are revealed to tons more hearts and minds out there.
No
This was linked by some other site — I forget which, but I saw this earlier today.
by Adam J. Morris on Feb 2, 2011 7:43 PM CST up reply actions
Jeez.
Pretty crazy.
Redskins Extra Points MasterCard: The only credit card Snyder told fans he’d accept for season ticket payments for the 2005 season. He withdrew the demand following a threatened ticketholder revolt and after MasterCard told the Redskins to drop it.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
As nutty as Jerrah is...
I don’t ever recall him going quite as overboard on some of this stuff the way Snyder has.
Though he’s not shy about trying to squeeze every cent out of the stadjum. But if I owned it, I probably would too.
I don't understand why people like this get to be rich.
I’m not particularly intelligent, so I shouldn’t be rich, either, but I’m smarter than midget man, and he gets to be rich.
Opportunity and, in this case apparently,
lax ethics/morals.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
I didn't know he was involved with Six Flags.
That’s fitting, because Six Flags is a horrible place.
And their business strategy is to buy up local amusement parks that are struggling because they’re not very good, make them even worse, then close them.
Hah.
I liked Six Flags when I was a kid, but I haven’t been in years.
If Brad Pitt is playing Beane who do you want playing you?
JD: Eddie Guardado.
I haven't been to Six Flags over Texas in a long time.
My memory is that it was passable. However, it was built on solid principles, trying to emulate what Disneyland was doing by being clean, efficient, friendly, and about immersive environments instead of what Walt Disney called ‘scream machines." It’s gotten away from that, but it was still built on good foundations.
The rest of the chain, not so much. They slap together rollercoasters in ugly environments with unfriendly, poorly trained staff and an overall feeling of “cheap.” And it’s only gotten worse, as I understand from people who use to enjoy some of the locations (like Atlanta, which was also passable when I went the first time and awful the second).
Rollercoasters can be fun, but a good day at an amusement park requires a lot more than a big drop.
Way back when I went to amusement parks
I liked the Six Flags type “shit tons” of roller coasters rather than the Immersive environments. I suspect its an age thing. I think the scenery driven rides, like Pirates of the Caribbean were a collosal bore once you hit double digits. I always thought Disneyland/world appealed to preteens and Six Flags appealed to teens/early twenties.
Of course, I haven’t been to a park in decades, so it may have changed dramatically.
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
As a result, I get more and more critical crap like Six Flags.
And more and more critical of my own company’s occasional half-assing.
I know when I was a teen
I just wanted to feel G’s, and the hell with the scenery. Last time I went to the Disneyworld was ages ago, and really Space Mountain was the only ride at the time that would give you much of a kick in the butt. Even other E ticket rides were pretty tame.
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
Yeah, I get really bored with the coasters as Busch Gardens.
Do them once, cool. After that, it’s just a big ugly piece of iron work.
I’m not a teen, though.
Also, cleanliness and good customer service are a pretty big deal.
I liked Rockin' Rollercoaster and Thunder Mountain and Busch Gardens and the idea of going to Magic Mountain a lot more when I was a teenager, though.
And “teenager” is usually the demographic other parks go after to try and compete with us.
I bet you go to amusement parks every week.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
You know it :)
I was trying to figure out the last park I went to. I’m pretty sure they shut down Astroworld in Houston years ago.
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
I went to Dollyworld this past year with some bumpkin inlaws.....it was the greatest people watching event ever...
I think you woulda dug it.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Were there a bunch of chicks running around
with enormous boobies?
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
by DJCahill on Feb 2, 2011 8:38 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
yeah but they had butter on their hamstrings and no teeth.
so….
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Well
no teeth can have plusses. Then again, you know me, Mr. Glass Half Full.
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
More people should be like you.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Astroworld was shut down and turned into a real estate development project
Not sure if the new thing ever got off the ground, but they shipped off a lot of the rides to other Six Flags locations.
by Mike the Grate on Feb 2, 2011 8:45 PM CST up reply actions
When I found out AstroWorld was closed was a sad day.
By 2007, I had never been to Houston, and while in Iraq, I was talking to a friend in Houston about visiting her. I told her I wanted to go to AstroWorld and she told me it had closed two years earlier. The last time I was in Houston a year and a half ago, nothing new had been started on the land.
Dude, 'retarded' is not the preferred nomenclature. "Asian-American", please. -jam0152
There's plenty of internet info
on this epic fail. Paraphrasing from memory, they made some assumptions about land value, closed and dismantled Astroworld, then couldn’t get what they planned out of the land. Missed by quite a bit, I think.
They wanted about $150 million
Only got about $77 million, and they paid about $20 million to dismantle it and clear the land.
Dude, 'retarded' is not the preferred nomenclature. "Asian-American", please. -jam0152
I grew up going to Six Flags Over Texas every single summer.
We had season passes and went close to 50 times a year, easily. I’m a big roller coaster, “Scream Machine” fanatic and love to go faster, harder, crazier….and I thought SFOT was great at supplying the thrills.
Then I went to other Six Flags. And they were horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible cheap CRAP. I felt cheated out of my money.
I went back to the one in Arlington last year, and I had a blast. But you’re right….the model of buying old parks, and putting the Six Flags brand name on them…that is not exactly what I would call “quality”.
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by Brandon Worley on Feb 2, 2011 9:03 PM CST up reply actions
Makes sense.
Texas is the flagship. Atlanta being good the first time you went also makes sense; Texas was SF #1, Atlanta was SF #2.
Six Flags was fine when they were owned by Time Warner.
The company got screwed up when they were sold to Premier Parks. Premier was bad about buying amusement parks and continued that practiced after acquiring the Six Flags parks.
I went to Six Flags America in the middle of the week in early August 2009, and was surprised at how empty the park was. I was expecting to be there half the day or longer to get through the roller coasters. It only took a couple hours and we rode some of them multiple times. Most of the rides you walked up and got right on or waited for the next train. It seemed like the place was pretty much ran by kids who took there time getting the rides going. On the Superman ride, there is a bar in front of each of your ankles. One of the bars where I sat had padding on it, the other one did not. The ride was proof of why the padding should of been on the bars.
I went to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay on a Thursday in mid August last year. Once again, I was surprise by how empty the park was. I didn’t get there until around 2:30 or 3:00 and, again, expected to have to be there over half the day to get on all the roller coasters, but was out of there around 5:00. I walked up and onto the rides and sat where I wanted without really any waiting. The kids running the roller coasters were even slower at getting the cars going than at Six Flags America. Some of the rides, I would sit in the car for a couple minutes before they would start the ride, sometimes the train before us would already be back before we took off.
SFOT, from what I remember, seems like it is ran smoother than those two places.
Dude, 'retarded' is not the preferred nomenclature. "Asian-American", please. -jam0152
they're not afraid to have someone whacked.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
how'd that guy make all his coin?
just curious.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
hmmm.
like spam and the shit you get in the mail?
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
From Wikipedia
Snyder Communications Inc. (SNC) was founded in 1988 by Daniel M. Snyder and his sister Michelle Snyder. Their activities were mainly outsourced marketing services, such as Direct marketing, database marketing, proprietary product sampling, sponsored information display in prime locations, call centres, field sales.
by Adam J. Morris on Feb 2, 2011 8:56 PM CST up reply actions
indirect asshattery
Salma Hayek is not hot.
by AndrusImpersonator on Feb 2, 2011 8:49 PM CST up reply actions
Like this:
In a 2000 interview for a PBS show called CEO Exchange, Snyder told host Jeff Greenfield that his business depended on coming up with "$5 million niches" that he could sell goods and services to. Asked for examples of his methodology, Snyder said, "We were looking at trend lines. We saw that the aging baby boomer demographics were coming on strong. That meant there’s going to be a lot more diabetic patients, a lot more cancer patients, etc. How do we capture those market segments?"
Okay
Who can name (without looking it up) all the teams that:
1) Russell Branyan has played for
2) Mike Cameron has played for
3) Jose Guillen has played for
Which player are you referring to for that list?
by Adam J. Morris on Feb 2, 2011 8:51 PM CST up reply actions
All 3, and I just looked it up.
I can’t even picture most of the ones I forgot.
I had Branyan 1-3, Cameron 3-6, and Guillen 7-9
Que sera, sera.
Mike Cameron played for the Reds...
and White Sox, though.
by ghostofErikThompson on Feb 2, 2011 8:55 PM CST up reply actions
Dang, Guillen.
Should have spent some time AA/AAA before the majors. Everything would have been different.
I'm going to try Cameron without scrolling down.
Reds, Mariners, Padres, Brewers, Red Sox, White Sox. . .
I quit.
Cameron
Reds, Mariners, Padres, Red Sox, Mets
Jose Guillen: Royals, Angels, M’s, White Sox?
Branyan: Indians, M’s, Brewers, Tigers – want to say Dodgers or Giants or DBacks
Go Rice Owls!
OT:Ghostland Observatory
anyone here listen to this band yet? Pretty good stuff from Austin.
Salma Hayek is not hot.
by AndrusImpersonator on Feb 2, 2011 11:00 PM CST reply actions
Two years back at ACL because I can't stand Dave Matthews.
They put on one hell of a festival show with all sorts of badass laser lights and what not.
Went to their NYE show
It was pretty cool. Almost everyone there was on some sort of narcotic, but it is really chill. At the concert I went to people were so dehydrated they were paying $20 for a bottle of water. All-in-all it was a cool concert with crazy lights.
by Cruzador on Feb 3, 2011 7:03 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
ot: that dude has to have watched it by now
In shutter island, dicaprio volunteers to get the lombotomy right?
The snozberries taste like snozberries!!
by Chrom on Feb 2, 2011 11:21 PM CST via mobile reply actions
God bless Dan Snyder and Al Davis
They are the only two people keeping Jerry Jones from being the worst owner in the NFL
Forgot about Brown
He’s plenty bad. Its just that he is quite and doesnt desire to broadcast his incompetency on a daily basis. Maybe thats why I forgot about him.
by BEW on Feb 3, 2011 8:40 AM CST up reply actions
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