19 angry billionaires have it made and don't even know it

I’m not sure “angry” describes all of the characters. The picture shows men confronting their own emotional and experiential pasts and those of their fellow jurors as they decide whether or not to send a youth to the electric chair for the murder of his father. Some are plagued while others are buoyed by their respective personalities in this stressful situation, but each one has to decide how to move forward. They smoke, they sweat, they swear, they sprawl, they stalk, and they get angry.

The late Ralph Wilson Jr., 92, long-time owner of the Buffalo Bills and one of the founders of the American Football League, served in the Navy during World War II. None of the present owners ever served in the military.

Sports Xchange:

19 of the NFL's 32 teams are owned by billionaires. Seattle Seahawks' owner Paul Allen tops the NFL list at $17.5 billion. Allen started Microsoft with Bill Gates, who remains the richest person in the world with a net worth of $75 billion. Miami Dolphin's owner Stephen Ross is second on the NFL list at $12 billion, followed by Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke ($7.7 billion). Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots sits at $4.9 billion.

The NFL is now looking into the Seattle Seahawks' situation on CB Richard Sherman’s partially torn MCL, and head coach Pete Carroll noting that he wasn’t on the Injury Report. Carroll said that Sherman had suffered a MCL injury in his knee during a game and played through it during the second half of the season. However, Sherman's injury was never disclosed on the league's official injury reports.

Sherman's injury situation marks the third time the Seahawks have violated NFL rules. The Seahawks violated offseason rules in 2016 and 2014. They were disciplined for excessive contact during OTAs in 2016 and impermissible contact in 2014. League owners are up in arms over the fact that the Seahawks were not punished.

Rich Hill, SBNation:

The issue with DeflateGate runs deeper than just the flaws in a system that allows NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to hear and rule on the appeal of a penalty he issued himself. It's more than Goodell.

It boils down to the pettiness of owners. Owners that have managed to stay out of the spotlight by deflecting the focus on Goodell. Owners that have hit the Patriots with a lasting penalty because they can't stand the fact that their teams aren't as successful on a consistent basis. Owners that have found a way to get the greatest player in the history of the sport suspended for four games over nothing at all.

The owners have made this about taking down New England owner Robert Kraft, with QB Tom Brady being merely collateral damage, and Patriots fans are forced to deal with the repercussions.

If Henry Fonda plays Roger Goodell in the movie, they will really have something to cry about.

And Lee J. Cobb plays Robert Kraft as the last one to "let it go."

Paul Murphy

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Tom Brady can't afford to take any days off

Everett Knowlton, Business Insider:

"So 80 percent of what he eats is vegetables. [I buy] the freshest vegetables. If it's not organic, I don't use it. And whole grains: brown rice, quinoa, millet, beans. The other 20 percent is lean meats: grass-fed organic steak, duck every now and then, and chicken. As for fish, I mostly cook wild salmon."

"No white sugar. No white flour. No MSG. I'll use raw olive oil, but I never cook with olive oil. I only cook with coconut oil. Fats like canola oil turn into trans fats. ... I use Himalayan pink salt as the sodium. I never use iodized salt.

"[Brady] doesn't eat nightshades, because they're not anti-inflammatory. So no tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, or eggplants. Tomatoes trickle in every now and then, but just maybe once a month. I'm very cautious about tomatoes. They cause inflammation.

"What else? No coffee. No caffeine. No fungus. No dairy."

Tom Brady has said he wants to play football well into his 40s. "Football is not satisfied with the average man. The average man is just that." - Forrest W. England.

This is how a regular person looks at age 47.

Christie Brinkley at the age of 63 returns to the cover of Sports Illustrated after 13 years. "I tried some pretty weird diets in the beginning ... everything from juice fasting to eating one kind of food at a time, to eating a grapefruit first before everything." "The only thing that really lasts is a well-balanced diet."

Napoleon — ‘Battles are won by the power of the mind.’

Father Time won this battle with New York Giants' QB Y.A. Tittle. He was just 37, which is two years younger than Tom Brady. I think Tom should skip the trip to the White House. Time's a wastin.

Paul Murphy

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