Gag orders in the US are issued very rarely.

They haven’t had an expansion franchise since 2002 and it’s unlikely it’ll happen any time in the near future. 32 teams is perfectly balanced - each conference has 16 teams and four divisions. Each division has four teams.

It would also be very expensive.

You’d need a stadium that met the NFL standards. The average stadium costs about $2B. Fortunately for her (and unfortunately for the rest of us), taxpayers on average pay about $1.2B of that. We’ll be very generous and assume they paid even more or she received a substantial loan that will be paid off otherwise, leaving her with about $250M out of pocket.

It should be noted that the opposite is more often true for expansion teams, though. Cities don’t want to pay for the stadium because there’s more risk with new teams. They could decide to leave very quickly, the owners might not have the capital to keep the team afloat, etc. The Texans were the last expansion team and nearly all of the cost for their stadium was privately funded.

Now, the NFL also charges a fee for expansion teams. This mostly has to be a guesstimate because we haven’t seen one in two decades. The Texans paid $700M at the time so we can assume it would be closer to $1.5B now.

After that, you have the practice facilities and offices. Cities don’t usually cover that. You might be able to get away with using local facilities for a couple of years, but that won’t be enough to actually create a competitive team. A safe low-end estimate for this would be $150M. The Cowboys paid $1.5B for their facilities, but other teams have paid as low as $125M.

Finally, the last big cost is payroll. This by itself would sink any chance she has.

The NFL requires all guaranteed contracted salaries to be placed in escrow. I’m not sure where that rule came from, but I can probably guess Al Davis is to blame. A single year’s salary would be $225M for 2023 and around $240M for next season.

However, most of the big name players have guarantees that would destroy that. The most common is a signing bonus. Teams love them because the salary cap rules would allow them to amortize it over the length of the contract, including “void years”. Your QB would receive about $200M immediately upon signing. The expansion draft picks and early draft picks would be another $300-500M likely. In the end, the salary escrow plus bonuses would be about $500M-1B.

So assuming everything goes her way, she’d be on the hook for close to $2.5B immediately plus the reoccurring costs.

It should also be noted that the NFL isn’t really a great way to make money as an owner. It’s really just a long term retirement hobby for billionaires. They could just go invest in companies or whatever, but they buy NFL teams because they like football and it occupies their time. Yeah, they’ll make money, but not as much as they otherwise could. There’s a reason most owners hate the idea of a super-billionaire like Bezos owning a team.

She’s still not rich enough to buy the worst team in the NFL. You’d still need about $5-6B just to get interest.

He had one target for one yard in the first half. Travis Kelce is the best TE currently in the NFL and considered to be the third best ever to play the game.

Since all the receivers for the Chiefs are mid at best this year, he’s got some reason to be pissed. One of them, Kadarius Toney, was put on the gameday injury report for the AFCCG as being out for a leg injury and “personal reasons”. He then went public saying his leg was perfectly fine and he had no personal reasons to skip the game… Basically clarifying that the actual reason he wasn’t playing was because he’s ass.

But Travis Kelce was also being guarded by Fred Warner during the first half who is one of the best linebackers in NFL history.

It could be a diva moment, sure. But it’s the Super Bowl. Good teams know that you trust your studs. Romo would throw to Dez in double or triple team coverage, knowing he’d come down with it. Peyton Manning would chuck it at Marvin Harrison no matter who was on him. When someone is that good, all you’ve got to do is get the ball in their vicinity. Either they’ll come down with it or they’ll keep the defenders from getting it.

It’s still stupid to yell at your coach like that and physically push him, but Andy Reid was making a lot of boneheaded decisions in the first. They went into halftime down 10-3. They did change things up during the second half, though. Kelce ended up with 9 receptions for 93 yards while the Chiefs won 25-22 in OT.

Sounds like someone accidentally used the wrong port a few times.

That’s not true in the slightest.

The highest estimate for US emigrants is 9 million. Since there’s no perfect way to track emigrants, the Dept of State uses available numbers from multiple sources and extrapolates it. The UN puts their estimate at about 3 million, but their data comes from censuses which can be inaccurate or non-existent.

Pew puts the number of college or postgraduate educated immigrants at about 13 million.

Even if we assume all of the emigrants are highly educated, we still have a net positive educated immigration.

There are a lot of good reasons to dislike the US, but we have always been pretty good about bringing in educated individuals.

They make it super easy to turn off catching and DNS proxy if you’re worried about that, too. And they at least make their goals clear.

They don’t provide free services out of the goodness of their hearts, but because some users will go back to their company and convince them to get their paid services.

It’s the same reason a lot of software is free for college students and educators.

That’s not true at all.

We’ve had way more than one serious chemical spill caused by the failing rail system.

The whole time I read that, I just kept thinking “haha yeah imagine a country doing all that…”

The French do seem to take protesting to the extreme, but then again, it got them the benefits they currently enjoy.

When you’re selling a million cars, it’s guaranteed that some of them will have a missed defect, no matter how good your QC is.

That’s why you have agencies like the NHTSA. You need someone who can decide at what point the issue is a major defect that constitutes a recall.

The benefit of Wireguard is that if you screw it up, it just won’t work. It basically enforces security.

Well, unless you tried to use the original PFSense module.

Not long before Amazon came out with their spyware phone.

Seriously - they bragged about how the Fire Phone was always spying on you and still tried to charge $600 for it. Like three months later, they had to discount it to $99 and include a year of Prime.

It’s a great little machine. The downside, though, is that it’s not that powerful at all. With hardware offload enabled and features like QoS turned off, you’ll get about ~600mbps of max total bandwidth shared between up/down.

For most people that shouldn’t be an issue, though.

You could also use OpnSense and install AdGuard Home on that.

Yeah but he called a free speech absolutist timeout.

I legitimately could not get into Lemmy with any of the other apps. They just all felt wrong.

But I used Lemmy more on the first day the app came out than I did since I made my account two months ago. Best part is it feels just like Sync for Reddit did, including all the great features.

The only reason I haven’t paid yet for no ads is that I’m waiting to see how much I like it. I might even pay for Ultra if they provide a discount for buying it with the Reddit app.