Eagles getting whupped by Franchise

[Beach Hut]

And now Arizona in field goal range and have a 1st and goal.

 

[Beach Hut]

TD Arizona - Hightower spins in, great play and the 2 points so lead by 7.

Eagles need a TD to take the game into overtime

 

[Beach Hut]

Eagles are moving the ball up the field and gone passed the 50 yard mark.

 

[Beach Hut]

All over Eagles failed on 4th and 10, Arizona go to the ball.

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

15 seconds will be left, time for one last hail mary

 

[Beach Hut]

15 seconds will be left, time for one last hail mary

Here we go, hail Mary time....................

Failed Arizona win

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Marvellous scenes, only in the NFL could a team that have only had 3 winning records seasons in 25 years now be in the final, puts the prem to shame

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

erm all American teams move around, LA Raiders are no longer the LA Raiders are they!?!

A lot of older New Yorkers are still angry about when they lost two great baseball teams in 1958, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, after their owners moved them to California.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

It had to happen - the Cardinals have just started thanking the Lord for their victory - oh well, I’d enjoyed it up until then.

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Steeler time!!!!

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Arizona cardinals, who are really St Louis cardinals, ie another Milton Keynes Dons are dicking the eagles ( who are a proper City team - Philadelphia)

20-6 in the secon quarter

Think you've missed a trick there actually - pretty much every NFL team (as well as major league baseball) has moved around from one place to another in their history, the Cards have just done it more recently than many.

Sad fact of the NFL unfortunately, my beloved Bills probably only have a few years left - tends to be why the supporting sentiment similar to what we have over here for football tends to be College/High School based.

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Terrible Towels at Withdean?? MAKE IT HAPPEN!

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Steelers take the lead 3-0

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Sad fact of the NFL unfortunately, my beloved Bills probably only have a few years left - tends to be why the supporting sentiment similar to what we have over here for football tends to be College/High School based.

Are they still talking about moving to Toronto - I know they had some exhibition matches at the Rogers Centre but now Ted Rogers has died will that change things ?

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Are they still talking about moving to Toronto - I know they had some exhibition matches at the Rogers Centre but now Ted Rogers has died will that change things ?

There having one regular season game in Toronto in 09

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Well done Cards seat of the pants stuff at the end, should make it an exciting superbowl.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Are they still talking about moving to Toronto - I know they had some exhibition matches at the Rogers Centre but now Ted Rogers has died will that change things ?

Its 1 exhibition and 1 regular season game this season and the next 3.

I don't think that his death will change things, but they will be moving on in a matter of time one way or another, Toronto or elsewhere. What might change things is that the regular season game there this year was shite. The Bills organisation has rammed home the idea that Toronto is a massive Bills fanbase, yet in the end there was empty seats, and more noise for Miami.

The official line was that by branching out into Toronto, they were ultimately taking steps to keep the Bills in the area, but no-one believed that. Unfortunately, Green Bay aside, Buffalo is such a world away from the other franchise cities in the league, and its not really profitable to keep a side there, even if the locals are nuts for it.

 

[sten_super]

Sorry to go back to the initial post, but thats how ALL major american sports work. They are all franchises. If a team has stayed in one place for a significant length of time, it's because they have a million/billionaire owner and a very accomodating local government who will build them a stadium. The teams and the league make no bones about the fact that they follow the money. So it's nothing like the MK Dons situation, where one team effectively became a franchise while the rest of the teams in the league weren't.

 

[algie]

Sorry to go back to the initial post, but thats how ALL major american sports work. They are all franchises. If a team has stayed in one place for a significant length of time, it's because they have a million/billionaire owner and a very accomodating local government who will build them a stadium. The teams and the league make no bones about the fact that they follow the money. So it's nothing like the MK Dons situation, where one team effectively became a franchise while the rest of the teams in the league weren't.

So why are Sky news reporting..... it's the first franchise club ever to reach a super bowl final?

 

[bhaexpress]

erm all American teams move around, LA Raiders are no longer the LA Raiders are they!?!

Because they're back in Oakland where they started.