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Couple of paragraphs I randomly picked out to sum up the Jets fan's case:

This case is brought by a New York Jets season ticket-holder on behalf of all similarly situated New York Jets season ticket-holders and other New York Jets ticket-holders against the Defendant New England Patriots and their coach, Defendant Bill Belichick. The core of this action is that the Defendants, during a game with the New York Jets on September 9, 2007, instructed an agent of the Defendants to surreptitiously videotape the New York Jets coaches and players on the field with the purpose of illegally recording, capturing and stealing the New York Jets signals and visual coaching instructions. The Defendants were in fact subsequently found by the National Football League (“NFL”) to have improperly engaged in such conduct. This violated the contractual expectations and rights of New York Jets ticket-holders who fully anticipated and contracted for a ticket to observe an honest match played in compliance with all laws, regulations and NFL rules.

The Patriots and Belichick deployed their surreptitious videotaping program during all eight games played against the Jets in Giants Stadium from 2000 through 2007. Beginning in 2000 when Belichick became head coach, they commenced an ongoing scheme to acquire the signals of their adversaries and then match such signals to the plays on the field, in alleged violation of the “NFL rules that are part of the ticketholders' contractual and/or quasi contractual rights.” (A24.) On the other hand, Jets fans collectively spent more than $61 million on tickets to watch these purportedly honest and competitive games between the two teams.

Posting this because I find it to be a pretty funny case; the decision made was the obvious one IMO.

One of my favorites is from Week 1 of last season, where the

My pick: 1999 St. Louis Rams aka “The Greatest Show on Turf”. Rams went from a 4-12 record in 1998 to winning the Super Bowl in 1999. How Kurt Warner who went from an unknown backup to MVP.

I was in Disneyland the past week, and the fact I was in California inspired this probably unnecessary offseason post. How I did this took quite a bit of research, and I ended up doing the following for each venue:

1. Looked up general In-N-Out locations across the U.S. (spoiler: none of them are in the northern states except a rew in Oregon)

2. Calculated directions to the stadiums from several of the nearest restaurants

3. Figured out the actual closest by the shortest route (in miles, as of Presidents Day week)

With that being said, here is the data of the closest In-N-Out restaurants to all 30 NFL stadium locations, collected by none other than me:

Edit: Correction to the In-N-Out closest to the C-Link

Edit 2: Made some adjustments to make this a proper data table

Source: . Data is based on average yards per team, per game.

- The big jump in passing yardage in the late 1970s is due to the Mel Blount rule. There was a 38% jump in passing yards between 1977 (141.9 ypg) and 1980 (196.0 ypg). More rule changes in the mid to late 2000s led to the passing boom of the 2010s.

- The 2010s passing boom may now be over. Eight seasons out of the nine between 2012 and 2020 saw average passing above 230 yards, but it hasn't been that high since then, and the last two seasons were both below 220 yards.

- 2022 was the first year since 1988 that teams averaged more than 120 rush yards per game, but that fell back to 113 yards in 2023. Overall, rushing yards have remained stable since the early 1990s.

- The decline in the value of RBs is correlated with the 2010s passing boom. Now that the boom appears to be over, perhaps RB value will increase again?

- Football before the war must have been absolutely brutal.