alliance of american football tonight

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by weller1, Feb 9, 2019.

  1. NRHorn

    NRHorn 2,500+ Posts

    Game tonight, didn’t see it was on the NFL Network.
    Hmmmm, interesting.
    Have not seen one yet, but I’m in.
     
  2. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    Without looking, who threw the first NFL touchdown?
     
  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    That is former Horn Gilbert Grape with the snakcerdoodle TD

     
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  4. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    Do they have to count Mississippi too?
     
  5. weller1

    weller1 25+ Posts

    this weekends games..
    Week 2
    Salt Lake at Birmingham Sat, Feb 16 2 p.m. ET TNT/fuboTV
    Arizona at Memphis Sat, Feb 16 8 p.m. ET NFL Net/fuboTV
    Orlando at San Antonio Sun, Feb 17 4 p.m. ET CBSSN/fuboTV
    Atlanta at San Diego Sun, Feb 17 8 p.m. ET NFL Net/fuboTV
     
  6. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Gilbert now 2-0

     
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  7. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
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  8. LonghornMD

    LonghornMD 100+ Posts


    Yeah I also thought it was odd to use the name "Commanders" for the SA team.

    Just FYI....... You mentioned "Camp Bullis", "Camp Stanley", ..... military installations with the name "Camp" are Marines, "Forts" are Army. This is how I've always understood it (my dad is ex-military).

    Carswell in FW is a joint reserve base housing Navy, Marines, Army, Air Force, and Air National Guard. It's primarily an air base, but it is on Lake Worth and they can do water exercises.
     
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  9. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    At first I thought "What's the big deal, anyone can throw an interception like that..." Who the heck thought that those jerseys were a good combination for opposing teams?
     
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  10. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Yes, those jerseys are way too close, but it was a completed pass.
    Mahomes with the capper was perfect
     
  11. blonthang

    blonthang 2,500+ Posts

    No disrespect to your father, but looks like according to Wikipedia (it's on the internet, it's GOT to be true, right? lol), Texas has 15 Army installations; 7 are "Camps," including the SA bases and Camp Mabry (Austin) and Camp Swift (Bastrop), no Marine installations in Texas.

    Only 5 states have Marine installations; looks like most are "bases" or "air bases" with the notable exceptions of Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune.

    Maybe was different a few decades ago, who knows?
     
  12. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Who knows, maybe this Mickey Mouse league will birth some new innovations--cool new offenses, weird formations, etc that catch on in the wider football world. Lots of room for innovation.

    A colorable argument could be made that the spread offense concept run in so many colleges and HS can be traced (in significant part) to the USFL Houston Gamblers' run-n-shoot offense.
     
  13. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    "better known as the chuck n duck" - David Klingler
     
  14. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    Was that Gavin Escobar catching the no look? He was a Jerry special; 2nd round bust.
     
  15. LonghornMD

    LonghornMD 100+ Posts

    Hmmmm that’s interesting but makes sense..... I grew up in Austin, jogging at Camp Mabry often. It completely slipped my mind that it’s Army. I stand corrected. Thanks.

    Carswell does have Marine Corp Reserves (I occasionally treat military personnel from Carswell).... unless something has changed in the last couple months.
     
  16. militaryhorn

    militaryhorn Prediction Contest Manager

    Camp designations usually means that it is a small installation as opposed to a Fort. For example, in South Korea I went to Camp Humphreys which is tiny compared to most Army Forts, i.e. Ft. Hood, Ft. Benning, and Ft. Campbell.
     
  17. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Camps initially were smaller, but if they grew they kept the Camp name. For example, in Korea, they have shut Walker down and moved the US/UN HQ to Humphreys. Camp Humphreys is now the largest Army installation in Asia.
     
  18. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts



    "Garrett Gilbert has never thought about this, but he could have been Tua Tagovailoa before Tua Tagovailoa. The whole true-freshman-gets-thrust-into-national-championship-game-and-saves-the-day story was his for the taking 10 years ago.

    When Colt McCoy was knocked out five plays into the national championship game that capped off the 2009 season, Gilbert was called up. He remembers being on the Rose Bowl sideline in a baseball cap and looking at the video board for a replay because he didn’t see the hit. Then he remembers seeing chaos on the sideline, spending too much time looking for his helmet, and finally going in. “The next time I came up for air was halftime,” Gilbert says. “Everything [in the first half] was a blur.”

    The part of that night often forgotten by everyone else is that despite finishing 15-of-40 for 186 passing yards with two touchdowns and four interceptions in Texas’s 37–21 loss to Alabama, Gilbert nearly led a comeback. Down just 24–21 with 3:14 left, the Longhorns were a 93-yard scoring drive away from Gilbert going down as a savior. But after a penalty and a strip-sack that led to touchdowns from Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson, the game was over.

    Despite the loss, Gilbert had gained invaluable experience and remained Texas’s quarterback of the future. He’d been the No. 1 pro-style quarterback prospect in Texas during the 2009 recruiting cycle for a reason. He was teed up perfectly to take over for McCoy and continue the Longhorns’ winning tradition under Mack Brown.

    Except that’s not how his story went. Gilbert didn’t win enough games over the next two seasons at Texas, transferred from his childhood dream school to SMU to finish his college career, and became a sixth-round pick by the St. Louis Rams in the 2014 NFL draft. Since then, he’s floated between five different NFL scout teams, winning a Super Bowl with the Patriots as a member of the practice squad at the end of his rookie season....."
     
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  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    It's almost like things went to hell as soon as they hired JFF

     
  20. easy

    easy 2,500+ Posts

    I’m surprised they didn’t try to merge with xfl
     
  21. blonthang

    blonthang 2,500+ Posts

    Source: AAF to immediately suspend operations

    The record books for the AAF (all-time, lol):

    Coach wins Steve Spurrier, ORL 7
    Pass yards Garrett Gilbert, ORL 2,152
    Pass TDs John Wolford, ARI 14
    Rush yards Jhurrell Pressley, ARI 431
    Rush TDs Trent Richardson, BIR 11
    Rec. yards Charles Johnson, ORL 687
    Rec. TDs Rashad Ross, ARI 7
    Tackles DeMarquis Gates, MEM 52
    Sacks Jayrone Elliott, SA 7.5
    INTS Three players tied 4
     
  22. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    Johnny better hurry up and cash his first check before it bounces.
     
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  23. blonthang

    blonthang 2,500+ Posts

    Regarding pay, one of JFF's tweets, looks like he posted about 1 hour before the axe fell, at the link above:

    "If you’re an AAF player and the league does dissolve. The last check you got will be the last one that you get. No lawsuit or anything else will get you your bread. Save your money and keep your head up. It’s the only choice at this point unless something drastic happens."
     
  24. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

     
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  25. #2is#1

    #2is#1 1,000+ Posts

    I remember hearing Rick Neuheisel telling a story about the USFL. He said when they got their game checks they had to go to a certain bank to cash them. Every week the bank was known to run out of money, so he said they would get the checks and it was like “The cannonball run” to get to the bank.
     
  26. yelladawgdem

    yelladawgdem 2,500+ Posts

    AAF suspended operations today. With two games left in the season, the league is expected to fold.
     
  27. LonghornCatholic

    LonghornCatholic Deo Gratias

    Didn't take Johnny long to ruin the league.


     
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  28. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    Sorry to hear this, kids I met in San Ant day of sign in were really nice kids, very polite, respectful, and sure looked the part physically of players.
     
  29. I_Dont_Exist

    I_Dont_Exist 1,000+ Posts

    This league was doomed before it was founded. Total waste of time and money. The only way spring football will ever be successful is for the NFL to make it a defacto development league and that is highly unlikely.
     
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  30. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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