Division play is the only time the AFC West can count on winning a game. The division is so shitty that they are making them play south of the border. Is this a precursor to expansion? La Paz 49er's, anyone?
Mexcellent!
From the moment we leave the forest, Dan, it's all a givin' up and adjustin'.
Mexico City is auditioning for their shot at relocating the Saints. Tagliabue already announced that they would not consider another small market (ie. San Antonio), and they've been looking for an excuse to bring Mexico into the fold for a long time.
Santos de Ciudad de Mexico. Has an interesting ring to it, perhaps.
JHawkBCD wrote:Mexico City is auditioning for their shot at relocating the Saints. Tagliabue already announced that they would not consider another small market (ie. San Antonio), and they've been looking for an excuse to bring Mexico into the fold for a long time.
Santos de Ciudad de Mexico. Has an interesting ring to it, perhaps.
100K in the stands and 18.1 million in Mexico City alone says he might not be wrong.....
m2 wrote:Some redneck basterd jewed me down to $4.39 for the only windchime I was able to sell all weekend. Therefore, I'm hooking for nickels every night this week on Prospect so that I can afford Internet access.
19,000 walked to the stadium.
37,000 rode in on their burros.
The other 44,000 plus hitched a ride in the back of an old Chevy pick-up. Driver had to leave the lawn mower at home.
105,000 people there and none care about either team, and are waiting for the perfect time to start rioting and dropping urine filled bags on the field once they realize that there's no biting of dicks and more scoring unlike the sport that they're really "passionate" about.
d-townmike wrote:105,000 people there and none care about either team, and are waiting for the perfect time to start rioting and dropping urine filled bags on the field once they realize that there's no biting of dicks and more scoring unlike the sport that they're really "passionate" about.
Sounds like a Raider home game to me, except for the 105K attendance part.
JHawkBCD wrote:Mexico City is auditioning for their shot at relocating the Saints. Tagliabue already announced that they would not consider another small market (ie. San Antonio), and they've been looking for an excuse to bring Mexico into the fold for a long time.
Santos de Ciudad de Mexico. Has an interesting ring to it, perhaps.
100K in the stands and 18.1 million in Mexico City alone says he might not be wrong.....
Would the NFL allow the team keep more than 53 men on their roster?
Kidnappings still plague Mexico
By Eliza Barclay
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Washington, DC, Jun. 9 (UPI) -- Kidnapping in Mexico has long been a lucrative industry that has plagued the country's psyche with fear and filled the pockets of plotters and conspiring law enforcement officers.
While federal data from the Mexican Attorney General indicates that the country's kidnappings are on the decline, experts say official conclusions are wrong.
The Mexican daily El Universal Wednesday obtained a report from the Attorney General's office, which cited that only four remaining kidnapping groups in the country are large enough to be classified as organized crime rings.
According to the document, the PGR has broken up over 45 groups dedicated to the crime and arrested 292 kidnapping suspects since President Vicente Fox took office in 2000. It also claims to have rescued 424 victims, and that only 5 percent of all ransoms demanded by kidnappers have been paid.
But Mexican crime experts say the real figures on kidnappings and other crimes could be five times as high as the government figures. The government's numbers are inaccurate in part because many victims are unwilling to report crime out of fear of neglect from the notoriously corrupt police.
René Jiménez Ornelas, who tracks kidnappings at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM), told El Universal he estimates there are around 3,000 kidnappings a year.
"Mexico has a history of complicity between law enforcement an actual kidnappers," Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, director of the Mexico project at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, DC, told United Press International. "As a result, law enforcement is still seen skeptically by the Mexican people."
Mexico City police are known for frequently enhancing their modest salaries with bribes for traffic offenses and other small transgressions. And authorities have reported instances of police taking part in hold-ups and kidnappings.
Guillermo Velasco Arzac, the director and president of Mexico United Against Delinquency, a civil organization, announced June 2 Mexico ranks second in the world for the highest number of kidnappings registered each year.
"The phenomenon of kidnapping in Mexico is derived from the lack of coordination between the country's political bodies," Velasco Arzac said.
Velasco Arzac, also a member of the Civic Advisors for Public Security and Justice, said a change in Mexican penal laws is urgent. He added the number of abductions in the country "as it continues to be high, is occupying second place in the incidence of this crime" at the global scale.
Nevertheless, he signaled that year after year the number of this type of crime has gone down in Mexico. But he asserted because "the bands of kidnappers have not fallen apart," the phenomenon of kidnapping continues to register high incidence in the country.
Velasco Arzac said additionally the penal laws are obsolete and insufficient for attacking the problem.
Meanwhile, President Vicente Fox said Wednesday his government is not evading its responsibility around kidnappings and guaranteed that it will redouble its resources and collaboration with states to combat the illicit crimes.
In a recent report from the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations reported that in the last decade kidnappings have multiplied in countries like Mexico, Spain, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Mexico exemplifies the gravity of the phenomenon, which has doubled its figures between 2001 and 2002 from 245 to 464 incidents of kidnapping, according to the report.
Armand Peschard-Sverdrup noted that the prevalence of kidnapping in Mexico is a small part of a much broader problem that beleaguers Mexico's judicial system.
"As long as Mexico has a problem of impunity and a lack of professionalism among the Mexican law enforcement, problems like kidnapping will continue," Peschard-Sverdrup said. "But the Attorney General has done an incredible job of professionalizing the federal law enforcement so far."
Mexican Attorney General Rafaél Macedo has created a Mexican version of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, called the Agencia Federal de Investigacion.
Most promising, Peschard-Sverdrup said, is President Fox's comprehensive judicial reform proposal which will come up in the next Congressional session beginning in September.
"Judicial reform will be an important part of the upcoming legislative debate," Peschard-Sverdrup said.
drummer wrote:This is a Godawful team , the worst I've ever seen a Niner team , talent and depth wise .
Fukkin' York fucked this franchise good .
You mean Debartalo.
You wanted to mortgage the future for the present...
Welcome to the future.
True , once the salary cap came in , but York has paid big for some shit players . I think Garica is still counting against thier cap , as well as a few others who aren't on the team .
Terry Donahue is also responsible for this abortion too .
I gotta believe that sending those teams to Mexico to play a football game ahs to be some sort of violation of International law, Geneva convenetion or something. We already kicked their asses in the mid 1800's, did we really need to add to their pain?
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See You Next Wednesday wrote:I gotta believe that sending those teams to Mexico to play a football game ahs to be some sort of violation of International law, Geneva convenetion or something. We already kicked their asses in the mid 1800's, did we really need to add to their pain?
Did you hear the fans whistling every time the Cards kicked a FG or a 49ers player failed to run a kick out of the endzone? Even the Mexicans recognized horrible football when they saw it.
See You Next Wednesday wrote:I gotta believe that sending those teams to Mexico to play a football game ahs to be some sort of violation of International law, Geneva convenetion or something. We already kicked their asses in the mid 1800's, did we really need to add to their pain?
Did you hear the fans whistling every time the Cards kicked a FG or a 49ers player failed to run a kick out of the endzone? Appearantly the Mexicans know as much about football when as I do.
I guess special teams isn't much of a concept down south.
See You Next Wednesday wrote:I gotta believe that sending those teams to Mexico to play a football game ahs to be some sort of violation of International law, Geneva convenetion or something. We already kicked their asses in the mid 1800's, did we really need to add to their pain?
Did you hear the fans whistling every time the Cards kicked a FG or a 49ers player failed to run a kick out of the endzone? Appearantly the Mexicans know as much about football when as I do.
I guess special teams isn't much of a concept down south.
See You Next Wednesday wrote:I gotta believe that sending those teams to Mexico to play a football game ahs to be some sort of violation of International law, Geneva convenetion or something. We already kicked their asses in the mid 1800's, did we really need to add to their pain?
Did you hear the fans whistling every time the Cards kicked a FG or a 49ers player failed to run a kick out of the endzone? Even the Mexicans recognized horrible football when they saw it.
Actually they saw more scoring last night than they had in 12 previous years of soccer games in that stadium.
If your OLine is in such disarray that the only reason you even try to run the ball is to keep your QB out of the hospital, you're going to suck in the red zone.
As bad as they are playing with their size, the coordinater needs his as fired.
Injuries aside.
And if 6FG=1W, I'll take it.
Better that than no offensive TDs.
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