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Candidates say they are ready to take on Ed Markey.
A trio of Republicans in the new fifth district are vying for the opportunity to challenge Ed Markey for his long-held seat in congress.
Voters heading to the polls for Thursday's primary in the new district will see three names on the ballot for the Republican nomination: Tom Tierney, Frank Addivinola and Jeff Semon.
Each of the three wants the chance to topple Ed Markey, a Democrat from Malden. It's a tall task -- Markey has been elected to 18 consecutive terms and has never won by less than 28 points. But his district has been re-aligned since his last election in 2010, and it has added Southborough, Ashland, Holliston, Sherborn, most of Sudbury and about half of Cambridge. The district shuffle could create an opportunity for whichever of the three Republicans wins Thursday.
Semon Says He's the Only Candidate Who Can Give Markey a Run for His Money
For the Semon camp, the focus rests squarely on Markey -- even leading into the primary. In his view, Semon is the only Republican candidate with a shot to knock off the congressman of 36 years.
"The question everyone should be asking themselves is, with double digit joblessness and gasoline prices double what they were when the Democrats took control of Washington, are they better off today than they were 36 years ago when Ed Markey became their Congressman? Of course the answer then is 'Absolutely - No,'" Semon said in a written statement. "I am the only candidate of the three in the primary who can give Markey a run for his money."
A business consultant and Lexington resident, Semon has focused his campaign on job growth and low taxes.
"I invite and encourage everyone in this district to compare my campaign to the others," Semon said in an emailed statement. "They will see my campaign is simply the best and I am the candidate that can clearly articulate why Republicans will do a better job at redirecting our government and restoring our economy."
Addivinola: Markey's Agenda Hurts Mass. Families, Businesses
Frank Addivinola, a lawyer from Malden, said he's feeling confident in his campaign, which has focused on contact with voters and distributing literature.
"Voters want to support a candidate with leadership experience and skills necessary to unseat the entrenched incumbent Congressman who neglected his district, moved out of the state and became a part of a political machine that promotes an ultra-liberal agenda," he said in a written statement. "This agenda hurts local families and businesses in Massachusetts, stagnates American economy, violates the founding principles of our country and diminishes our world leadership."
Tierney: No More Social Security Cuts
Tierney, an actuary consultant from Framingham, says he wants to "dead-stop any more cuts to Social Security" and tackle unemployment "head on." He previously ran for in congress in 2010, losing in the Republican primary to Gerry Dembrowski. He has been busy greeting voters leading up to the primary and participated in a debate with Semon last week, his press secratary, Phillip Petros said.
"We feel pretty confident going into the primary as we have been out and about putting up nearly 200 signs and meeting the voters of the 5th District," Petros said in an email.
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"Our campaign is going very strong heading into the primary. Voters recognize the candidate who offers substance over grandstanding and works hard to earn every vote. We are leading over my opponents in voter contact, distributed literature, yard signs placed and overall name recognition. My supporters and I worked very hard and I am confident that I will win this primary."
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Frank Addivinola is running for U.S. Representative in Massachusetts 5th Congressional District, the seat being currently occupied by Ed Markey. He was born and raised in Malden, MA and graduated from Williams College. He earned his ALM (Master of Liberal Arts) from the Harvard Extension School, MBA & MS from the University of Maryland and MS in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University. For six years, Frank worked and taught in biomedical research as a doctoral candidate and fellow in Molecular and Cell Biology with dissertation advisor Nobel laureate Marshall Nirenberg at the National Institutes of Health. He graduated from Suffolk University Law School where he received his JD and then Master of Laws in Biomedicine and Health Law. Since graduating from Williams, and continuously during his career, Frank owned and operated several businesses. Frank teaches intro to law and life sciences at local colleges and manages a real estate investment fund. To learn more visit http://www.FrankAddivinola.com


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This is a potential deal-breaker that can narrow your distribution choices fast. If you will need to run a proprietary program on your system, check the vendor's list of supported distributions. If the vendor only supports the program on one or a few distributions, stick with one of those even if you think you can get the program to run on another. If you run into a problem and have to go to the vendor for support, you want to be able to rule out the Linux distribution as the problem's source and go straight to the real issue.
Where will you be getting support for your operating system? From the distribution vendor, from a consultant or from your local user group? If you'll be using a consultant, ask that person which distribution you should use. He or she will be much more helpful to you if he or she is on familiar territory. If you're going to a user group for support, identify the most helpful posters on the mailing list, and pick a distribution they know and use.
If you can, put this item last. You'll be happier picking out hardware you know works well with your distribution of choice rather than trying to make Linux work on random hardware. If you already have the hardware, and won't be buying more, check the hardware compatibility lists of the distributions you're considering. If you don't know what's inside your case, use the world's best hardware detection utility: a Philips screwdriver.
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Nobody only installs once. As a hobbyist getting started, you might install a couple of times and then blow your system away, either by mistake or because you decide you don't like something. In a business, you'll need to be able to install quickly, either to recover from a crashed disk or to deploy a new system.
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Here is a suggestion that someone who builds their own towers with Linux.
They said ,When you think that you like a certain Linux Distro;Do the following.
obtain ,through web sites,Forums etc. all the hardware and peripheral requirements that will work with the Distro that you like.
e.g. If you like Mepis; Then you go onto Google,the Mepis forums Linux clubs ,talk to whoever you know that is compatible,such as Ram, video card,sound card,etc. Then when you have all of the information and items ,then commence to build the tower,and install the Distro, and you should have few, if any problems.
Lurk, lurk, lurk
If you're a hobbyist, get on some user group mailing lists until you're comfortable with one or a few that you like and will feel comfortable asking questions on. Become familiar with the local netiquette rules (Linux lists tend to be tidier about formatting and trimming quoted material than other lists) and browse the archives so you don't ask the question that started last month's discussion again.
If your list is your main source of support, watch for which distribution the most helpful posters use, not just who seems to win the "what's the best distribution" argument. Often the helpful people won't join that one when it comes up.
Re: How to Pick a Distribution
After "Proprietary Software" and before "Support" should be special-Purpose sub-distributions such as Planet CCRMA -- if you want to do one of those, you should be sure to use one of the supported distributions.
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Different focus (e.g. security & stability is paramount in OpenBSD), different packaging systems, and different licenses.
Although if security and stability are paramount, I'm not sure why OpenBSD is so worried about pulseaudio, etc. That's stuff you want stripped out if you're building a server anyways..
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Posted Nov 14, 2012 0:58 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]
Erm? Some people may want a higher security workstation. And people who develop the OS will certainly want to use it on the desktop too.
Posted Nov 14, 2012 0:58 UTC (Wed) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link]
I would, admittedly, like to know why Capsicum was done on FreeBSD, since it seems a textbook example of cool things being done somewhere other than the monoculture kernel.
Regarding PulseAudio, I am a little sad that a hardened and stripped-down PulseAudio for servers is not obvious. I'd like to run the network server on a machine in my apartment hooked up to the living room speakers, but it brings in a ton of dependencies I'd rather not put on a server.
Posted Nov 14, 2012 4:21 UTC (Wed) by wahern (subscriber, #37304) [Link]
The OpenBSD folks don't want to chase features. What they want is to chase minimalism while staying relevant and useful. That's obviously a difficult path. It's made harder because many in the Linux community openly challenge even the pretense of portability, and like evil companies of yore have begun co-opting the standardization process, i.e. POSIX, and adding whatever crap features already in their toolbox regardless of merit.
Also, the idea that the "the BSD folks screwed us in the 1990s with a lack of concern for portability, so it's okay if we screw them now" is a little silly. Regardless of the veracity, it's just plain evil. Linux is not sacred. Not all Linux features are perfect, or worthy of adoption. Innovations which are strong enough to be accepted by other operating systems are likely innovations with far more merit. When you write something which only _you_ think is awesome... that should give you pause.
Monoculture sucks because you lose positive feedback. The bad features soon begin multiplying just as much as the good features, and eventually you end up with a cancerous wreck.
Posted Nov 15, 2012 15:16 UTC (Thu) by lacos (subscriber, #70616) [Link]
> chase minimalism while staying relevant and useful
This matches my ideals perfectly. Unfortunately, I can't run *BSD as a home user, because (as much as I ignore "modern desktops") I need my consumer electronics crap to work with my computer. For that I need user base behind my desktop OS. I must go with the gnome3-crazed crowd because they cause new drivers to be written too.
(The logical extrapolation would be to run Windows at home, of course, but I simply can't tolerate it.)
I'm already buying only years old (aka "antique") "consumer technology", both for low price and for better support, but Debian Stable *still* screws me regularly.
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Slackware, man. Slackware is the way. Antique, battle proven technology (no stinky systemd! no friggin' pam! good ol' *BSD style rc files!) and modern enough stuff. And sbopkg. Even this stupid new phone with mtp storage mode works, thanks dog (new phones don't come with usb-storage anymore, noooo, would be too easy and practical).
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If you aren't familiar with Gola, think again, as the England based brand is one of the oldest brands in existence – starting in 1905! But don't let their age fool you, as the British brand is back in action with a new take on the vintage classic. While reissuing their classic designs (check the vintage imagery above) Gola implements on-trend twists to create a fun yet stylish everyday sneaker. So obviously when we saw the neon versions….we immediately fell in love. With a variety of bright neon colors, we know you're gonna be just as obsessed.
Gola Stonewash Sneaker, $65. Available online and at Atrium Soho.


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Type II diabetes can have a number of symptoms, Silverstein said. Depending on the stage of the disease, diabetes can be picked up on a routine physical by finding glucose in the urine, but other signs include low energy, a discharge from the penis or a vaginal yeast infection, frequent urination or excess thirst.
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Hotel Riu Palace Oasis
Opening the 8th May 2013
The stunning Hotel Riu Palace Oasis, located in Gran Canaria, Spain, is definitely an oasis of comfort, to enjoy the most exclusive service.
This luxurious resort set in a garden of palm trees and artificial lakes 65.000m2 the best service available (All Inclusive 24h) and quality to meet the needs of its customers.
The first Riu Palace Resort in Nuevo Vallarta – Riviera Nayarit, Riu Palace Pacifico is home to unmatched luxury, comfort and convenience. These unique qualities help make this sparkling resort an inspired destination for meetings where causal elegance and unlimited opportunities to enjoy are the only goals.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "The sawdust and graphite aromas turn to cherry and raspberry flavors in this vibrant, complex red. A beam of sweet fruit imparts energy and resonance, carrying this to a long, expansive aftertaste."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 2004 Brunello di Montalcino is a pretty, fragrant wine. Initially rather reticent, this medium-bodied Brunello needs some aeration for its perfumed red cherry fruit to open up in the glass. The wine offers good intensity and depth, but needs at least a few years in bottle for the tannins to..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "What a dreamy nose of crushed berries and dried flowers. Perfumes too. Then changes to Indian spices and dark fruits. Full bodied, with super well integrated tannins and a classy, long finish. So well integrated. Just a joy to taste. Better in 2013."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Capanna's offering in 2007 is extremely bold, dark and opulent. Loads of aromatic momentum in the form of blackberry, cherry liqueur, spice, leather, tobacco, rum cake, cinnamon, vanilla bean and bitter chocolate characterize the bouquet. The wine also shows a soft, ripe, generous texture, yet..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "A floral and perfumed nose, with raspberries and blackberries. Full-bodied, with racy tannins and a dense yet refined palate. A little tight still. Give it a little more bottle age. Best after 2010. 1,665 cases made." JS
Cellar/Tasting Notes Shows dried raspberry and cinnamon on the nose. Full-bodied, with an impressive density of fruit and round tannins. Long and flavorful. Just starting to open up. Powerful and rich.
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"don't give up until you drink from the silver cup"
What are you saying, Zinngger?? You have something better to do?
Well, I'm still cold. Where is that puppy report, I didn't see it cross my desk.
I'm going to go stand near the oven while it warms up the shrimp cakes, etc. I'm freezing too. Brrrrrrrrrr BRB
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This place is TERRIBLE, pubic hairs in bed, blood smears on bathrooms door, filthy, smelly, totally disgusting - air conditioner so noisy, didnt sleep all night, just kept scratching from the bugs. Was a Saturday night, so not even cheap - they have a real nerve charging over $120 a night - would rather than slept in the car
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National Football League
Upcoming season or competition: 2013 NFL season |
Formerly | American Professional Football Conference (1920) American Professional Football Association (1920–1922) |
Sport | American football |
Founded | August 20, 1920[1] |
Commissioner | Roger Goodell |
Inaugural season | 1920 |
No. of teams | 32 |
Country(ies) | United States[A] |
Most recent champion(s) | Baltimore Ravens (2nd title)[2] |
Most titles | Green Bay Packers (13 titles)[2] |
TV partner(s) | CBS Fox NBC ESPN NFL Network |
Official website | NFL.com |
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league composed of 32 teams divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The highest level of professional football in the world,[4] the NFL runs a 17-week regular season from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing sixteen games and having one bye week. Out of the league's 32 teams, six (four division winners and two wild-card teams) from each conference compete in the NFL playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. Most games are played on Sunday afternoons; some games are also played on Mondays and Thursdays during the regular season. There are games on Saturdays during the last few weeks of the regular season and the first two playoff weekends.
The NFL was formed on August 20, 1920, as the American Professional Football Conference; the league changed its name to the American Professional Football Association (APFA) on September 17, 1920, and changed its name to the National Football League on June 24, 1922, after spending the 1920 and 1921 seasons as the APFA. In 1966, the NFL agreed to merge with the rival American Football League (AFL), effective 1970; the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that same season in January 1967. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in the world[5] and is the most popular sports league in the United States. The Super Bowl is among the biggest club sporting events in the world[6] and individual Super Bowl games account for many of the most-watched programs in American history.[7]
Out of the league's 32 current teams, only six have failed to win at least one NFL or AFL championship. Eighteen teams have won at least one Super Bowl and all but four have appeared in at least one Super Bowl. The Green Bay Packers have the most NFL championships (13), followed by the Chicago Bears (9) and the New York Giants (8). The Pittsburgh Steelers have the most Super Bowl wins (6), followed by the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers (5). The current champions are the Baltimore Ravens, who beat the 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVII to secure their second league championship.
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Founding and history
On August 20, 1920, a meeting was held by representatives of the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and Dayton Triangles at the Jordan and Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton, Ohio. This meeting resulted in the formation of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC), a group who, according to the Canton Evening Repository, intended to "raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of schedules". Another meeting held on September 17, 1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association (APFA).[8] Although the league did not maintain official standings for their 1920 inaugural season and teams played schedules that included non-league opponents, the APFA awarded the Akron Pros the championship by virtue of their 8–0–3 (8 wins, 0 losses, and 3 ties) record.[9] The following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans.[10] In 1922, the APFA changed their name to the National Football League (NFL).[11] The Canton Bulldogs managed to win the next two titles before the Cleveland Bulldogs won the next one.[9] In 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears (6-1-6) and the Portsmouth Spartans (6-1-4) tied for first in the league standings.[12] At the time, teams were ranked on a single table and the team with the highest winning-loss record (not including ties, which were not counted towards the standings) at the end of the season was declared the champion. This method has been used since the league's creation in 1920 but the league determined that a playoff game was needed to decide the champion. The teams were originally scheduled to play the playoff game (officially a regular season game that would count towards the regular season standings) at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, but a combination of heavy snow and extreme cold forced the game to be moved indoors to Chicago Stadium, which didn't even have a regulation-size field. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the smaller playing field, the Bears won the game 9-0 and thus won the championship. The fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL to, beginning in 1933, split into two divisions with a championship game to be played between the division champions.[13]
Although the NFL was the dominant football league and faced little competition from leagues (including three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, none of which lasted for more than four seasons), a new professional league, the fourth American Football League (AFL), began play in 1960. The upstart AFL began to challenge the established NFL in popularity, gaining lucrative television contracts and engaging in a bidding war with the NFL for free agents and draft picks. The two leagues announced a merger on June 8, 1966, to take full effect in 1970. In the meantime, the leagues would hold a common draft and championship game. The game, the Super Bowl, was held four times before the merger, with the NFL winning the first two and the AFL winning the last two.[14]
Season and playoff development
From 1920 to 1934, the NFL did not have a set number of games for teams to play, instead setting a minimum. The league mandated a 12-game regular season for each team beginning in 1935, later shortening this to 11 games in 1937 and 10 games in 1943. This total was again increased to 11 games in 1946 and to 12 in 1947. The NFL went to a 14-game schedule in 1961, which it retained until switching to the current 16-game schedule in 1978.[15]
The NFL operated in a two-conference system from 1933 to 1966, where the champions of each conference would meet in the NFL Championship Game. If two teams tied for the conference lead, they would meet in a one-game playoff to determine the conference champion. In 1967, the NFL expanded from 15 teams to 16 teams. Instead of just evening out the conferences by adding the expansion New Orleans Saints to the seven-member Western Conference, the NFL realigned the conferences and split each into two four-team divisions. The four conference champions would meet in the NFL playoffs, a two-round playoff.[16] The NFL also operated the Playoff Bowl (officially the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl) from 1960 to 1969. Effectively a third-place game, pitting the two conference runners-up against each other, the league considers Playoff Bowls to have been exhibitions rather than playoff games. The league discontinued the Playoff Bowl in 1970 due to its perception as a game for losers.[17]
Following the addition of the former AFL teams into the NFL in 1970, the NFL split into two conferences with three divisions each. The expanded league, now with twenty-six teams,[18] would also feature an expanded eight-team eight playoff, the participants being the three division champions from each conference as well as one 'wild card' team (the team with the best win-loss percentage) from each conference. In 1978, the league added a second wild card team from each conference, bringing the total number of playoff teams to ten, and a further two wild card teams were added in 1990 to bring the total to twelve. When the NFL expanded to 32 teams in 2002, the league realigned, changing the division structure from three divisions in each conference to four divisions in each conference. As each division champion gets a playoff bid, the number of wild card teams from each conference dropped from three to two.[19]
Corporate structure
The National Football League is an unincorporated nonprofit 501(c)(6) association, meaning its league office is not subject to income tax because it does not make a profit. In contrast, each individual team is subject to tax because they make a profit.[20] The NFL considers itself a trade association made up of and financed by its 32 member teams.[21] The league has three defined officers: the Commissioner, Secretary, and Treasurer. Each conference has one officer, the President. The Commissioner is elected by affirmative vote of two-thirds or 18 (whichever is greater) of the members of the league, while the president of each conference is elected by an affirmative vote of three-fourths or ten of the conference members.[22] The Commissioner appoints the Secretary and Treasurer and has broad authority in disputes between clubs, players, coaches, and employees. He is the "principal executive officer" of the NFL and also has authority in hiring league employees, negotiating television contracts, disciplining individuals that own part or all of an NFL team, clubs, or employed individuals of an NFL club if they have violated league bylaws or committed "conduct detrimental to the welfare of the League or professional football". The Commissioner can, in the event of misconduct by a party associated with the league, suspend individuals, hand down a fine of up to USD $500,000, cancel contracts with the league, and/or award or strip teams of draft picks. In extremely egregious cases, the Commissioner can offer recommendations to the NFL's Executive Committee up to and including the "cancellation or forfeiture" of a club's franchise or any other action he deems necessary. The Commissioner can also issue sanctions up to and including a lifetime ban from the league if an individual connected to the NFL has bet on games or failed to notify the league of conspiracies or plans to bet on or fix games.[23] The current Commissioner of the NFL is Roger Goodell, who was elected in 2006 after Paul Tagliabue, the previous Commissioner, retired.[24]
Season format
The NFL season format consists of a four-week preseason, a seventeen-week regular season, and a twelve-team, single-elimination playoff culminating in the Super Bowl, the league championship.
The NFL preseason begins with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, played at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio.[25] Each NFL team is required to schedule four preseason games, two of which must be at their home stadium. The teams involved in the Hall of Fame game, as well as any teams in an American Bowl game, play five preseason games.[26] Preseason games are exhibition matches and do not count towards regular-season totals.[27]
Regular season
AFC East | AFC North | AFC South | AFC West | |
1st | Patriots | Ravens | Texans | Broncos |
2nd | Dolphins | Bengals | Colts | Chargers |
3rd | Jets | Steelers | Titans | Raiders |
4th | Bills | Browns | Jaguars | Chiefs |
NFC East | NFC North | NFC South | NFC West | |
1st | Redskins | Packers | Falcons | 49ers |
2nd | Giants | Vikings | Panthers | Seahawks |
3rd | Cowboys | Bears | Saints | Rams |
4th | Eagles | Lions | Buccaneers | Cardinals |
The National Football League runs a seventeen-week, 256 game regular season. Since 2001, the season has begun the week after Labor Day and concludes the week after Christmas.[28] The opening game of the season is normally a primetime home game for the league's defending champion. As of the 2012 season games are run on Sundays, with a Monday night game occurring once a week (except in week 1, where there are two, and week 17, where there are none) and Thursday night games occurring on most weeks as well.[29] Games are not normally played on Fridays or Saturdays, as federal law prohibits professional football leagues from competing with college or high school football games, which are traditionally played on those days. The NFL can host games on either date beginning the third Friday in December and occasionally does so.[30] NFL games are rarely scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday, and those days have only been used twice since 1948: in 2010 when a Sunday game was rescheduled to Tuesday due to a blizzard, and in 2012 when the Kickoff game was moved from Thursday to Wednesday because of the Democratic National Convention.[31][32]
NFL regular season matchups are determined according to a scheduling formula. Within a division, all four teams play fourteen out of their sixteen games against common opponents - two games (home and away) against the other teams in the division and all the members of an NFC and AFC division as determined by a rotating three-year cycle. The other two games are intraconference games determined by the standings of the previous year (for example, the first-place team in a division will play two first-place teams from a different division in their conference).[33] In total, each team plays sixteen games and has one bye week, where they do not play any games.[34] Although the teams any given club will play are known by the end of the previous year's regular season, the exact dates, times, and home/away status for NFL games are not determined until much later because the league has to account for, among other things, the Major League Baseball postseason and local events that could conflict with games. During the 2010 season, over 500,000 potential schedules were created by computers, 5,000 of which were considered "playable schedules" and thus reviewed by the NFL's scheduling team. After arriving at the best schedule out of the group, nearly 50 more potential schedules were developed to ensure that the chosen schedule would be the best possible one.[35]
Following the conclusion of the regular season a twelve-team single elimination tournament, the NFL Playoffs, is held. Six teams are selected from each conference: the winners of each of the four divisions as well as two wild card teams (the two remaining teams with the best overall record). These teams are seeded according to overall record, with the division champions always ranking higher than either of the wild card teams.[36] The top two teams (seeded one and two) from each conference are awarded a bye week, while the remaining four teams (seeded 3-6) from each conference compete in the first round of the playoffs, the Wild Card round, with the 3 seed competing against the 6 seed and the 4 seed competing against the 5 seed. The winners of the Wild Card round advance to the Divisional Round, which matches the lower seeded team against the 1 seed and higher seeded team matching up against the 2 seed. The winners of those games then compete in the Conference Championships, with the higher remaining seed hosting the lower remaining seed. The AFC and NFC champions then compete in the Super Bowl to determine the league champion.
The only other postseason event hosted by the NFL is the Pro Bowl, the league's all-star game pitting the AFC against the NFC. The game is held the week before the Super Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii.[37]
The National Football league has used three different trophies to honor their champion over their existence. The first trophy, the Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup, was donated to the NFL (then APFA) in 1920 by the Brunswick-Balke Collender Corporation. The trophy, whose appearance is only known by its description as a "silver loving cup", was intended to be a traveling trophy and not to become permanent until a team had won at least three titles. The league awarded it to the Akron Pros, champions of the inaugural 1920 season; however, it was discontinued and its current whereabouts are unknown.[38] A second trophy, the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy, was issued by the NFL from 1934 to 1969. The trophy's namesake, Ed Thorp, was a referee in the league and a friend to many early league owners; upon his death in 1934, the league created the trophy to honor him. In addition to the main trophy, which would be in the possession of the current league champion, the league issued a smaller replica trophy to each champion, who would maintain permanent control over it. The current location of the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy, like that of its predecessor, is unknown. The predominant theory is that the Minnesota Vikings, the last team to be awarded the trophy, somehow misplaced it after the 1969 season.[39]
The current trophy of the NFL is the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Unlike the previous trophies, the Vince Lombardi Trophy is issued every year for the current champion, who maintains permanent control of it. Lombardi Trophies are made by Tiffany & Co. out of sterling silver and are worth anywhere from USD $25,000 to $300,000.[40] Additionally, each player on the winning team as well as coaches and personnel are awarded a Super Bowl ring to commemorate their victory. The winning team chooses the company that makes the rings; each ring design varies, with the NFL mandating certain ring specifications (which have a degree of room for deviation), in addition to requiring the Super Bowl logo be on at least one side of the ring.[41] The losing team are also awarded rings, which must be no more than half as valuable as the winners' rings, but those are almost never worn.[42]
The conference champions receive trophies for their achievement. The champions of the NFC receive the George Halas Trophy[43] while the AFC champions receive the Lamar Hunt Trophy.[44] Players on the winning team also receive a conference championship ring.[45][46]
Media coverage
In the United States, the National Football League has television contracts with four networks: CBS, ESPN, FOX, and NBC. CBS televises all Sunday afternoon AFC intraconference games, while FOX does likewise for the NFC.[47] If a game is interconference, the conference affiliation of the visiting team determines which network will host the game.[48] NBC carries the primetime Sunday Night Football package, the NFL Kickoff game, and a primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN carries all Monday Night Football games.[47] The NFL's own network, NFL Network, carries Thursday Night Football games.[49] The Super Bowl television rights are rotated on a three-year basis between CBS, FOX, and NBC.[47] In 2011, all four stations signed new nine-year contracts with the NFL, each running until 2022; CBS, FOX, and NBC are estimated by Forbes to pay a combined total of USD 3 billion a year, while ESPN will pay 1.9 billion a year.[50] The league also has deals with Spanish-language broadcasters Telemundo and ESPN Deportes, which air Sunday and Monday Night Football, respectively.[51][52] The NFL has a blackout policy in which games are 'blacked out' on local television if the home stadium is not sold out. Clubs can elect to set this requirement at only 85%, but they would have to give more ticket revenue to the visiting team; teams can also request an exemption from the NFL for the game. The vast majority of NFL games are not blacked out; only 6% of games were blacked out during the 2011 season.[53] According to Nielsen, the 2012 NFL regular season was watched by 200 million individuals, accounting for 80% of all television households and 69% of all potential viewers. NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time.[54] Super Bowls account for the 22 most-watched programs (based on total audience) in US history, including a record 164.1 million people that watched the most recent Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLVII.[55]
In addition to radio networks run by each NFL team, select NFL games are broadcast nationally by Dial Global. These games are broadcast on over 500 networks, giving all NFL markets access to each primetime game. The NFL's deal with Dial was extended in 2012 and will run through 2017.[56]
Each April, the NFL holds a draft of college players. The draft consists of seven rounds, with each of the 32 clubs getting one pick in each round.[57] The draft order for non-playoff teams is determined by overall record, while playoff teams are ranked the same way but are done so by the round of the playoffs they got to. Regardless of record, the Super Bowl champion drafts last and the runner-up drafts second-to-last.[58] As all NFL players must be at least three years removed from high school, only players that are at least three years removed from high school can be drafted.[59] Underclassmen that have met that criteria to be eligible for the draft must write an application to the NFL by January 15 renouncing their remaining college eligibility.[60] Clubs can trade away picks for future draft picks, but cannot trade the rights to players they have selected in previous drafts.[61]
Aside from the 32 picks each club gets, compensatory draft picks are given to teams that have lost more compensatory free agents than they have gained. These are spread out from rounds 3 to 7, and a total of 32 are given.[62] Clubs are required to make their selection within a certain period of time, the exact time depending on which round the pick is made in. If they fail to do so on time, the clubs behind them can begin to select their players in order. This happened in the 2003 Draft, when the Minnesota Vikings failed to make their selection on time. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers were able to make their picks before the Vikings were able to use theirs.[63] Selected players are only allowed to negotiate contracts with the team that picked them, but if they choose not to sign they become eligible for next year's draft.[64] Under the current collective bargaining contract, all contracts to drafted players must be four-year deals with a club option for a fifth. Contracts themselves are limited to a certain amount of money, depending on the exact draft pick the player was selected with.[65] Players who were draft eligible but not picked in the draft are free to sign with any club.[57]
The NFL operates several other drafts in addition to the NFL Draft. The league holds a supplemental draft annually. Clubs submit emails to the league with the player they wish to select and the round they will do so, and the team with the highest bid wins the rights to that player. The exact order is determined by a lottery held before the draft, and a successful bid for a player will result in the team forfeiting the rights to their pick in the equivalent round of the next NFL Draft.[66] Players are only eligible for the supplemental draft after being granted a petition for special eligibility.[67] The league holds expansion drafts, the most recent happening in 2002 when the Houston Texans began play as an expansion team.[68] Other drafts held by the league include an allocation draft in 1950 to allocate players from several teams that played in the dissolved All-America Football Conference[69] and a Supplemental Draft in 1984 to give NFL teams the rights to players who had been eligible for the main draft but had not been drafted because they had signed contracts with the United States Football League or Canadian Football League.[70] Like the other major sports leagues in the United States, the NFL maintains protocol for a disaster draft. In the event of a 'near disaster' (less than 15 players killed or disabled) that caused the club to lose a quarterback, they could draft one from a team with at least three quarterbacks. In the event of a 'disaster' (15 or more players killed or disabled) that results in a club's season being cancelled, a restocking draft would be held. Neither of these have protocols have ever had to be implemented.[71]
The NFL consists of thirty-two clubs divided into two conferences of sixteen teams each. Each conference is divided into four divisions of four clubs each. During the regular season, each team is allowed a maximum of fifty-three players on their roster;[72] only forty-six of these may be active (eligible to play) on game days.[73] Teams can also have an eight-player practice squad separate from their main roster, but the practice squad may only be composed of players who were not active for at least nine games in any of their seasons in the league. A player can only be on a practice squad for a maximum of three seasons.[74]
Each NFL club is granted a franchise, the league's authorization for the team to operate in their city. This franchise covers 'Home Territory' (the 75 miles surrounding the city limits, or, if the team is within 100 miles of another league city, half the distance between the two cities) and 'Home Marketing Area' (Home Territory plus the rest of the state the club operates in, as well as the area the team operates their training camp in for the duration of the camp). Each NFL member has the exclusive right to operate to host professional football games inside their Home Territory and the exclusive right to advertise, promote, and host events in their Home Marketing Area. There are several exceptions to this rule, mostly relating to teams with close proximity to each other: the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders only have exclusive rights in their cities and share rights outside of it and teams that operate in the same city (e.g. New York Giants and New York Jets) or the same state (e.g. California, Florida, and Texas) share the rights to the city's Home Territory and the state's Home Marketing Area, respectively. The Los Angeles home territory has no team, but is "owned and controlled" by the league.[75]
Every NFL team is based in the contiguous United States. Although no team is based in a foreign country, the Buffalo Bills play one home game each year at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada as part of the Bills Toronto Series[76] and the Jacksonville Jaguars will begin playing one home game a year from 2013-16 at Wembley Stadium in London, England as part of the NFL International Series.[77] Mexico also has hosted an NFL regular-season game, a 2005 game between San Francisco and Arizona dubbed "Fútbol Americano",[78] and 39 international pre-season (exhibition) games were played from 1986-2005 as part of the American Bowl series.[79]
The Dallas Cowboys, at approximately USD $2.1 billion, are the most valuable NFL franchise according to Forbes. Two other franchises, the New England Patriots and the Washington Redskins, are worth USD $1.6 billion or greater.[80] The Cowboys are also the most valuable sports franchise in the United States and are tied with the New York Yankees for the third-most valuable sports team in the world; only soccer clubs Manchester United and Real Madrid are valued higher than the Cowboys. All 32 NFL teams rank among the top 50 most valuable sports teams in the world.[81]
Free agency
Free agents in the National Football League are divided into restricted free agents, who have three accrued seasons and whose current contract has expired, and unrestricted free agents, who have four or more accrued seasons and whose contract has expired. An accrued season is "six or more regular-season games on a club's active/inactive, reserved/injured or reserve/physically unable to perform lists".[88] Restricted free agents are allowed to negotiate with other clubs besides their old club, but the old club has the right to match any offer. If they choose not to, they are compensated with draft picks. Unrestricted free agents are free to sign with any club and no compensation is owed if they sign with a different club.[88] Clubs are given one franchise tag to offer to any unrestricted free agent. The franchise tag is a one-year deal that pays the player 120% of their previous contract or no less than the average of the five highest-paid players at their position, whichever is greater. There are two types of franchise tags: exclusive tags, which do not allow the player to negotiate with other clubs, and non-exclusive tags, which allows the player to negotiate with other clubs but gives his old club the right to match any offer and two first-round draft picks if they decline to match it.[89] Clubs also have the option to use a transition tag, which is similar to the non-exclusive franchise tag but offers no compensation if the old club refuses to match the offer.[90] Due to that stipulation it is rarely used,[91] even with the removal of the "poison pill" strategy (offering a contract with stipulations that the old club would be unable to match) that essentially ended the usage of the tag league-wide.[92] Each club is subject to a salary cap, which is set at USD 123 million for the 2013 season.[93]
Player and coach awards
The NFL recognizes a number of awards for their players and coaches. The most prestigious award is the AP Most Valuable Player (MVP) award.[94] Other major awards include the AP Offensive Player of the Year, AP Defensive Player of the Year, AP Comeback Player of the Year, and the AP Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year awards.[95] Another prestigious award is the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, which recognizes a player's off-field work in addition to their on-field performance.[96] The NFL Coach of the Year award is the highest coaching award.[97] The NFL also gives out weekly awards such as the FedEx Air & Ground NFL Players of the Week[98] and the Pepsi MAX NFL Rookie of the Week awards.[99]
See also
- Concussions in American football
- Health issues in American football
- Homosexuality in American football
- National Football League 75th Anniversary All-Time Team
- NFL All-Decade Teams
- NFL Europe
- NFL Films
- NFL franchise moves and mergers
- NFL Network
- National Football League records
- Steroid use in American football
- USA Football
- Notes
- ^ All teams are based in the United States, but several preseason and regular season games have been held internationally.
- ^ The Bills play one home game a year at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada.[76]
- ^ a b The New York Jets and New York Giants share MetLife Stadium.[85]
- ^ a b c The Baltimore Ravens were originally the Cleveland Browns, and moved to Baltimore in 1996. Due to an agreement with the city of Cleveland that allowed the club to move, the Browns name, colors, and team history/records were left for a new Cleveland Browns team while the team, personnel, and staff of the old Browns team were allowed to move to Baltimore.[86] As such, the Ravens are considered to have began play in 1996 while the current Cleveland Browns are considered to have been founded in 1950, became inactive from 1996-98,[84] and resumed play as new team in 1999.[87]
- ^ The Jaguars will play one home game at Wembley Stadium in London, England from 2013-16.[77]
- Footnotes
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- ^ Neel, Eric. "Super Bowl from A to Z". ESPN.com. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
- ^ Jensen, Sean. "NFC's Halas trophy has new look". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
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- ^ Florio, Mike (December 1, 2011). "Flexible schedule flexes Broncos-Vikings from CBS to FOX". Pro Football Talk. NBC Sports. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
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