How much do know about the NFL pratice teams?

[Salty]

Click here for some interesting info.
Do Practice team members make 5 grand a week

 

[JPPT1974]

I love the NFL and have loved it since 1986 as an 11 turning 12 year old. Loved it due to my brother introducing me to the game. Still do as showing my age LOL!

 

[Salty]

Still do as showing my age LOL!

Showing your age?? I was in the Army before you were born!

 

[Foxmeister]

Showing your age?? I was in the Army before you were born!

I remember watching the first Super Bowl with my dad.

 

[Reynolds]

Click here for some interesting info.
Do Practice team members make 5 grand a week

To be honest with you, I know nothing about them.

 

[Kai]

I’ve never been into football all that much, but I’m well aware that when it comes to professional sports, the contracts are becoming increasingly lucrative with each passing year. I suppose us fans somewhat enable that to happen when we buy tickets to the games.

Remember when the Packers offered Brett Favre $20 million just to stay retired?

 

[Mike B]

Based on the article in Salty's link, practice squad members are still making
a very fine living, but no doubt that comes at a price. Injuries, and just wear
and tear on the body add up, and the chance of being elevated to the active
team roster is not that great.

 

[Salty]

..., and the chance of being elevated to the active
team roster is not that great.

But it is a chance some are willing to take
and of course now we have the United Football League

 

[KenH]

I remember watching the first Super Bowl

I watched the first Super Bowl, also. I have been a Dallas Cowboys fan for as long as I can remember, as they played their first game(1960) when I was still four years old. I can tell you when I became a Houston Astros fan(1963), a San Antonio Spurs fan(1978), and a Dallas Stars fan(1993). But by the time my early memory kicked in, I was already a Cowboys fan.

 

[Salty]

Super Bowl I - I did not know who won the game until that Wednesday!

FWIW - my dad was not a football fan at all!

 

[Foxmeister]

Super Bowl I - I did not know who won the game until that Wednesday!

FWIW - my dad was not a football fan at all!

I remember on Okinawa, we would know the scores of games a few days before they aired on the Armed Forces Network. That really took the fun out of watching them.

 

[Salty]

I remember on Okinawa, we would know the scores of games a few days before they aired on the Armed Forces Network. That really took the fun out of watching them.

Same in Eucom! I heard that at times someone would make a bet with a newbie about who would win the game, which of course had been played a day or 2 previously!
In the '70, the only live broadcast on AFN-TV was the Superbowl and 1 world series game.
Of course, we had several on AFN radio.

 

[SovereignGrace]

I have been a Dallas Cowboys fan <snip> I was already a Cowboys fan.

You are in my prayers. And I have sympathy for you. What am I saying!?!?! I’ve been a Raiders fans since January 1981.

 

[Foxmeister]

Same in Eucom! I heard that at times someone would make a bet with a newbie about who would win the game, which of course had been played a day or 2 previously!
In the '70, the only live broadcast on AFN-TV was the Superbowl and 1 world series game.
Of course, we had several on AFN radio.

I was a kid on Okinawa from '65-'68. There were no live games played on AFN-TV then. We were also 14 hours ahead of EST for any live broadcast of games airing on radio. In Iraq were were 7 to 10 hours ahead of the US depending upon time zones. In Afghanistan, we didn't have AFN available.

 

[KenH]

You are in my prayers. And I have sympathy for you. What am I saying!?!?! I’ve been a Raiders fans since January 1981.

It's not that bad, in fact both teams have had it pretty good. The Cowboys have won 5 Super Bowls. And the Raiders have won 3 Super Bowls.