- APIAD
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tkihshbt wrote:
The disadvantage is that they fly from California to the East Coast on Saturday and when they wake up on Sunday, their biological clocks are three hours behind. I'm sure most of them pop Ambiens, but your body doesn't adjust to time changes in one day.
Wow that is hard. I have never lost 3 hours sleep before.
Edit: Of course these are the same people who are bitching because people are hitting them in a football game.
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A MLB team has to play several games. I could see how that could wear you down. A NFL team plays one game and has all week to get ready and fly out there. I am not saying it is meaningless but it is a poor excuse for losing games.
Darth is right: West Coast teams are at a big disadvantage playing 1 p.m. games in the Eastern time zone.
So I am supposed to feel sorry for a bunch of millionares because they have to fly across the country in a private jet and wake up to be ready to play a game at 9am there time. They can wake up and play. Sure they might not like it but really, come on.
No one's asking you to feel sorry for anyone, and I don't think salary is part of the discussion.
And that wasn't really my point, which was that the Patriots whined about having to play four games on the West Coast a few years ago and the league acquiesced by allowing them to play back-to-back weeks so they would only have to fly across the country twice.
West Coast teams routinely play three, four and sometimes five games on the East Coast, depending upon the schedule in any given year, and are not afforded the same consideration.
Richard Pryor used to do an off-color bit about what happens to letters from black people who write to their elected officials. I can see the same type of thing happening whenever Al Davis complains to the NFL - "Just put that in the Raider file ..."
It doesn't require much imagination to figure out the word Pryor used where I've substituted "Raider."
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So when the Patriots play back to back they state on the west coast. I figured they would want to come home and practice. Is it really that big of deal to fly coast to coast? I am sure NFL teams dont deal with layovers.
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"So when the Patriots play back to back they state on the west coast. I figured they would want to come home and practice."
You can practice on any old rectangle that's 100 yards long. I think Belichick worked out some kind of arrangement with Stanford the first time they came out, and with San Diego State for the second trip.