#1 year vs 800 years is no big difference to him so

[deathfavor]

I love Lucifer so much guys, i just - i can and will ramble

[17gz]

it just ENRAGES me beyond words that i reconnected with a friend from high school (who reached out to me since i was 1 out of 2 people in our grade of 500+ kids that were visibly out as trans)

because she wanted to let me know that she came out and got on E and told me her name and how she's been doing. we'd been talking for a while.

and i knew her pre transition in high school. she was miserable. and meeting her in person, she was a different person. i saw so much happiness and life in her eyes that i'd never seen before. it was so amazing to see her as who she really is.

i told everyone in my group who was going to pride about her. they all knew beforehand that i was inviting her. i expressed how happy and proud i was of her.

and when she arrived i saw a switch flip in my roommates heads. both of them. including the afab intersex one wearing a niohuru x "big dick girl" bikini for pride. my friend fully said "i use she/her. i don't like they/them, i prefer she/her." and these roommates used they/them for her the entire night.

they were so annoyed that she took up any space at all. they were so annoyed that she was excited. one of these roommates talked so often abt how its hard being autistic. and yet that same person made the rudest and most passive aggressive looks and gestures towards my friend because she's autistic. it was disgusting and juice even yelled at this person at dinner when this person kept doing high school bully shit at my friend.

and when we were forced to confront this person bc "they didnt understand why we were mad at them" we were completely honest and said that their treatment of my friend was unacceptable and disgusting and transmisogynistic

and this person denied all their behavior and even tried to cover it up by saying "i'm just a silly little guy" i wish i was fucking making this shit up i really fucking wish i was. we were stone faced and said they were treating my friend poorly bc shes a trans woman. they said "they'd never do something like that to someone in the community. they're part of the community!" and when juice said they are not incapable of being transmisogynistic, the crocodile tears were running immediately.

and then my friend i've known for 6 years (whos dating that pos) said we were being racist to their partner. and then within 12 hours we dropped the news that we were moving out. we moved out abt 17 days after that. from an apartment i literally hunted down and did all the work to find. and had expressed ALL year that i didnt want to move out from.

cannot stress enough that this roommates partner was staying with us rent free even though i even said they could pay at least $100-$200 per month to help with household expenses since money was getting tight for us and 4 ppl in there vs 3 ppl was rough (but i didnt want to say $800 -$1000 for them bc i knew they were in a tough financial state) (but also we were not doing well either and they took and broke SO much of our shit without offering to do a damn thing about it and spending their money on dumb shit)

and they'd been living rent free at our place for 4+ months. we were coerced into letting them stay w us. and the entire time they treated us like absolute garbage. they constantly made comments about us being fat and how they thought we were ugly.

not to mention. meatball is brachiocephalic. my ex friend was literally with me at the vet appointments where the vets said do NOT have smoke or candles or anything around him.

while i was vacuuming and getting him air purifiers to put around the house and spending over 2k on vet bills, the two of them were hotboxing him in their room when they smoked. i told them a trillion times to ventilate their room and keep the door closed and let the room air out when they smoked and they never listened. we only found out they were hotboxing meatball in july.

not to mention all the racist shit and the painting my friend made where they painted me as a rapist being eaten by them. never done anything like that, i was not ok w them using my likeness and even told them that, i was the darkest skinned person im that apartment, and they felt 0 shame or regret about it. and now theres a painting of me, depicted as a cis man rapist, darker than i actually am, being killed and eaten by this person.

i cannot even begin to describe my anger and rage and disgust and hatred towards this person. i genuinely hope they die. i wish nothing but misery and suffering upon them

[web-novel-polls]

Popular Danmei Character Tournament

CWs: suicide, violence, death, murder mention

Hua Cheng / San Lang from Heaven Official’s Blessing

Submission: he's my boy, my blorbo, my big fav, i can't believe he wasn't on the list yet 

Ahhhhhhhhh, we love a sassy devoted love interest in this house

Devoted himself to Xie Lian for 800+ years before they properly met and was one of the only people who actually listened to how Xie Lian wanted to be “worshipped” / treated as a god 

“The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”

“To watch with your own eyes your beloved be trampled and ridiculed, yet unable to do anything. That’s the worse suffering in the world.”

“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you take apart after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives. But I know you wouldn’t allow it.”

“Your Highness, I am forever your most devoted believer.”

“...I don’t care if anyone else is disappointed. But to some, the very existence of a certain person in this world is in itself hope.”

His handwriting is HORRIBLE. He literally tattooed Xie Lian’s name on his arm, and NO ONE KNEW because of how bad his handwriting is. 

His communication array password is so embarrassing Xie Lian assumes that pretty much no one wants to say it (and that may be the point) 

Xue Yang from the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Submission: I love him he's so fucked up. Nobody's doing it like him (simultaneously affectionate and derogatory)

A morally corrupt person with such a compelling story you can’t help but look at him like a train wreck. He’s simultaneously such a bad person you can’t look away and a kicked puppy who doesn’t know shit

Plays house with the man whose best friend he blinded (which led to Xiao Xingchen giving up his own eyes) while making him kill innocent people as well as said best friend. Freaks out when Xiao Xingchen kills himself but still refuses to admit he was fond of him, even as he tries to get Wei Wuxian to fix Xiao Xingchen’s shattered soul. 

He honestly reminds me of Mo Ran from The Husky and His White Cat Shizun if he didn’t have a redemption arc, and Chu Wanning didn’t accept him (though the stories are a bit different)

[kyufiber-moved]

I feel like u have a lot of amazing ideas. Can u list them all our do u wanna keep them secret? Like a big masterlist of all the types of aus u wanna write someday. I know i have like 3 pages of ideas. I've actually written down plots to a lot of them, but i don't get much father than that 😬 -🐖

wkjefkwej i do have lots of ideas ((idk about AMAZING damn ily) but most of them are just swirling around my head tbh,,, i have an 18 page google doc with old ideas but then i didnt keep writing ideas down there so ,,, it would be like 30 pages long if i had kept at it ksjdfkjefj

i do want to ((for the most part)) keep my ideas secret so that 1. ppl wont use them before i can SKFKJE and 2. so that if i do post / write / etc them, ppl won’t have alr seen them before !!! but i can post vague-ish ?? summaries of them !!!! also this turned out to be way longer than i thought so . apologies

modern cinderella sns au

hanahaki au 

ao haru ride au

modernized jane eyre au

love alarm au

stoic tsundere chef!kyungsoo (see here)

au based off of shinee’s view music video (which i alr kinda did with runaways but . still ive had this idea for years)

tatbilb au

teacher x student au

fashion blogger!y/n

bad bitch!y/n and nerd!main lead

false memories au ((a lot more complicated but hard to explain simply so,,, ill leave it at that))

au based off of the dawnguard quest in skyrim ((but just the ‘100′s of years old vampire locked in a crypt gets found by random human’ part))

au based off groupie love by lana del rey

something with the title “1-800-CUPID” ((if someone takes this i will literally cry just . dont do it . im gonna use it at some point))

something with the title “101 ways to get the girl” AGAIN DONT TAKE IT

guy takes nerdy girls and turns them into bad bitches formula au

ur new teacher / teaching assistant / boss / etc is the one night stand you had the previous night OOPS

secretly dating au

boarding school au

harry potter au 

au based off airplane by ikon

fuckboy!heejun

au based off she’s a baby by zico

halloween party costume... turns out to not be a costume :> im mostly a  romance writer but this could go a horror route idk

this svt series i was gonna do where each of them had a love story... i can list them if you want but i think i deleted the drafts bc im ocd and have a need to clean out my drafts smh... ok they are as follows ((ill prob end up writing some of these and maybe/probably changing the idol but who knows)) :

(minghao) ur bff tags you and the boy u like in an ig pic and the pic says “tag ur best friend and their crush to ruin their life” 

(jun) FAKE fake dating au ((aka guy gets girl to fake date him so his parents will back off of asking him if he has a gf except he actually likes her and its a plan to get her to fall in love w him LOL))

(jeonghan) ice cream shop summer job au feat. flirty main lead

(chan) girl and guy have a prank war that’s been ongoing for two years ever since he accidentally did smth to her and they’re rivals but then he witnesses a moment right after her bf breaks up with her and is like ok we r bffs now and yeah . its cute in theory

(wonwoo) girl is at a party and kisses someone but bc she was intoxicated she doesn’t remember who it was and the plot is her narrowing down who kissed her etc

(mingyu) best friends to lovers bc of a game of spin the bottle HAH ik its cliche but idc

(seungkwan) girl is a prim and proper student but parties over the summer and makes a whOLE fool out of herself in front of guy at one such party but she’s like eh im embarrassed but ill never see him again so its ok except . he turns out to be a transfer to her school

(woozi) guy and girl are main leads and romantic partners etc in play / movie / whatever and while they film / practice an actual behind the scenes romance develops

(dk) guy who is energetic and spastic meets rlly stoic and cold girl bc they’re lab partners and he melts her cold ass exterior

(hoshi) girl is the only daughter of a super rich family and boy is the son of the family’s maid / etc and they run into each other and end up falling for each other despite the class difference, which causes conflict later on when they want to be together yeehaw

(joshua) girl and guy are close friends n one time their friend who is an aspiring youtuber is filming and he’s like listen i want views yall should kiss . and the girl is like no ??? what . and the guy is like surprise ! and kisses her and it changes their relationship oop

(hansol) brother’s best friend!au . simple as that tbh skejfke

and lastly (scoups) famous idol!guy and company intern!girl who definitely shouldnt like each other but . totally do 

ok anyways continuing on bc my ideas never fucking stop . oblivious! popular boy taehyung and lovesick!y/n desperately trying to get it into his rock dumb brain that she likes him

i also had this idea for kim doyoung and kim gongmyung like . about the girl liking one of them and then him breaking her heart and its like a year later and she ends up with his little brother . yanno . ok

arranged relationship au BUT with a twist bc the girl also has a bf at school (basically,, something similar to my little bride??? but not the same,, just similar)

cute new boy vs bff boy who has a secret crush on oc

au based off boys by charli xcx 

au based off in your pocket by maroon 5

sugar daddy!au

then ofc i have ones ive actually started which are:

au based off mistakes like this by prelow

au based off leave your lover by echos

au based off the mv for view by shinee yanno yanno i mentioned that

royalty!dawon and bodyguard!y/n whose real identity turns out to b something nobody knew about oops

wow i didnt know i had so many ideas when will i chill

[sesskag]

FAW Favourite Completed Fics Masterlist

Here are the completed fan fics that were submitted to us for day 1 of SessKag Fandom Appreciaton Week 2019!

Lord Charming by forthright

Rating: T

Summary: CU. More than Sesshoumaru’s pride took a blow when he lost his arm. He’s in a delicate position… and desperate enough to seek the advice of a self-proclaimed expert. A clumsy romantic adventure told in 100-word snippets.

Why @animehusbandno1​ recs it: BEST Sesshoumaru characterization ever! In fact all characters are incredibly well written and I love the insights into the Youkai court of Sesshoumaru’s mother. It’s an epic tale of 800 chapters with 100 words each and every single one is a gem. If you haven’t read it yet, I beg of you go and READ IT PLEASE! I’ve lost count how many times I’ve reread it over the years and it’s the one fic that made me fall so hard for Sesskag that I shall never get out of it again.

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A Lesson in Love by Avi

Rating: K

Summary: Strength is not determined by what you are. Love can be both a strength and a weakness. A cold youkai lord gets a lesson in love from a big-hearted miko.

Why sesshomarupatrick recs it:  This fan fiction is about our stoic, legal demon lord learning the definition of love from (soon-to-be) his priestess. This is a one-shot, but it’s a very lovely and touching fiction, so I really thought I’d recommend this fan fiction if the Awards were opened again!

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Tears of the Fallen by ShadowsWeaver1

Rating: T (on ff), R (on Sparks)

Summary: Kagome is saved by Sesshomaru. Unfortunately for the young miko, Sesshomaru’s version of chivalry includes having her impaled by Tenseiga and thrown down a mystic well. But that is only the first of our miko’s problems. SessKag

Why VS recs it:

 This is the very first SessKag fic I have read and until now the fic I have reread the most! Kagome is travelling to different points in the past, meeting not only InuPapa but Sesshoumaru at different points in his life too. It is hard to find a good fic where Sesshoumaru doesn’t stay somewhat flat as a person. ShadowsWeaver1 did not only give Sesshoumaru an actual personality with many sides, but did so with Sesshoumaru at different ages too!!! And for that they have earned my respect and my love. A must read for any SessKag fan!

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Let Us Fall In Love by MissTeak

Rating: K+

Summary: Sesshoumaru has a hopeless crush on the woman who comes along with an alluring scent of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle, Manolo Blahnik’s 4” leopard sandals, white Chanel 2.55 and just about 50 secret admirers. What would a self-respecting CEO do when the human resource executive he wished to date happens to be Miss Popularity of Taisho Corporation? “Let us fall in love,” He wished to say

Why @cookieasylum​ recs it:  I’m a sucker for Office AU’s, and this one was just too cute.

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Life After Loss by Chie

Rating: MA

Summary: The notion was utterly absurd. Kagome could not really imagine the regal daiyoukai mating anyone – let alone her! Only he would be so arrogant as to propose on the very day she had buried her mate.

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Unexpected Perspective by Azure

Rating: MA

Summary: An unusual injury inflicted by an extraordinary weapon leaves Sesshomaru and Kagome with a strange predicament. Now Kagome has to learn how to act like a proper taiyoukai and Sessshomaru has to learn how to be a miko!

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Tales from the House of Moon by Resmiranda

Rating: M (Can’t remember if NSFW so I’ll mark it as such, just in case.)

Summary: Kagome, now in college, discovers the tale of Sesshomaru and Rin. Grief can be a prison, but the bonds of love are not easily broken. What is the truth behind fairytales?

Why @stormielikeweather recs it:  This Fic is one of the first SessKag fics I really fell in love with. At the time the concept was unique, and the story is written beautifully.

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Convivial by The Hatter Theory

Rating: T

Summary: On Halloween, Kagome decides to dress as her utter opposite. Of course, she never expected to run into him.

Why @teaandcrumpets recs it:  Post-canon fic + slowwww burn. Some of the more emotional bits hurt my heart- like had me in actual physical pain- until they were resolved, that’s how good the writing is. Also I love the characterization of everyone, and the plot/romance feels very natural and realistic.

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Unstable Assassin by JoeRhys

Rating: M

Summary: They were at war and she fought for the highest bidder, demon or human. She was no saint. She was no savior. She was no hero. She was the Asa Shin Fujo. The assassin priestess. Her current benefactor wanted a certain Lord of the West dead. Unfortunately for them, they were unaware that their current killer for hire had a secret. A secret that made her lethal and a bit unstable.

Why VS recs it:  In this one Sesshoumaru becomes Kagome’s light. She takes the role of the unstable, badass assassin. Warning: A somewhat happy ending. Absolute refreshing and yay to strong Kagome!

[tillyswatson-blog]

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What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a little vengeance, right?

NXT takes over the PPV landscape Sunday night with its latest edition of TakeOver: Vengeance Day, highlighted by the NXT Championship match between Finn Balor and Pete Dunne. That alone should be worth the price of admission and maybe we’ll get Edge standing by as an interested bystander. But, in addition, they’ll crown the winners of both men’s and women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic plus Johnny Gargano defending his North American Championship against KUSHIDA which could steal the show. That is of course, unless Io Shirai doesn’t steal it first!

We know the card will deliver as it always does! Less is always more as far as the number of matches when it comes to NXT. Gives it room to breathe.

Just think about it, it’s a card that’s without Karrion Kross, The Undisputed Era, Tommaso Ciampa, Timothy Thatcher, Candice LeRae and the tag team champions, Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan, among others.

NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day – Updated Card

Dusty Rhodes Men’s Tag Team Classic Finals: Grizzled Young Veterans vs. MSK

Dusty Rhodes Women’s Tag Team Classic Finals: Ember Moon & Shotzi Blackheart vs. Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez

NXT North American Championship Match: Johnny Gargano vs. KUSHIDA

NXT Championship Match: Finn Balor vs. Pete Dunne

NXT Women’s Championship Triple Threat Match: Io Shirai vs. Toni Storm vs. Mercedes Martinez

Star of the week:

WWE's Nia Jax trends on Twitter after screaming 'my hole!' during match https://t.co/15cdcHNT9H pic.twitter.com/Q4fMI6T4h4

— New York Post (@nypost) February 9, 2021

Nia Jax – No, not for being the best, but for being one of the best moments on WWE television this week. It was a moment more memorable than anything Jax has done in the ring in months.

RAW

RESULTS

AJ Styles defeated Jeff Hardy

The New Day defeated RETRIBUTION (T-BAR & SLAPJACK)

Lacey Evans defeated Charlotte Flair by DQ to win RAW Women’s Championship Match vs. Asuka

Damian Priest defeated Angel Garza

Keith Lee defeated Riddle

Tables Match: Lana defeated Nia Jax

Naomi defeated Shayna Baszler

Non-title WWE Championship Match: Drew McIntyre vs. Randy Orton ended in no-contest

Welcome to the WHY edition of Monday night RAW.

Why did we need Shane McMahon out to help Adam Pearce announce that Drew McIntyre would defend his WWE Championship inside the Elimination Chamber against Sheamus, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, Randy Orton and The Miz?

"I think at a different level than you. You're content with being awesome? I'm not. Did that 20 years ago … I NEED to be champion!" – @EdgeRatedR to @mikethemiz #WWERaw pic.twitter.com/aqqyFRmjeJ

— WWE (@WWE) February 9, 2021

Why is Edge so damn good? Rhetorical question as he now waits until after Elimination Chamber to make his WrestleMania decision. Edge schooling The Miz was priceless and on point!

The Queen has SNAPPED, forcing this match into a DQ!#WWERaw @MsCharlotteWWE @LaceyEvansWWE @RicFlairNatrBoy pic.twitter.com/rov45KVOkz

— WWE (@WWE) February 9, 2021

Why did we need another DQ finish? This time with Charlotte Flair beating up Lacey Evans, giving Evans a title shot against Asuka. Not sure that helped anyone out there.

Why is Angel Garza being wasted in a squash match against Damian Priest? And why does Priest need Bad Bunny with the distraction to beat him? That of course, is another rhetorical question. Excellent piece of business right there for sport entertainment.

Dialing 1-800-HURT BIZ!#WWERaw @fightbobby @RealKeithLee pic.twitter.com/uwUlceEFJV

— WWE Universe (@WWEUniverse) February 9, 2021

Why is the WWE so transparent putting Keith Lee up against Riddle when we know it’s only going to lead to a triple threat match against Bobby Lashley for the US Title? Storyline aside, Lee vs. Riddle was very good.

Why did we get no build-up to a tables match between Lana and Nia Jax? Yes, they should’ve had the match, but give me at least some time to make it worthwhile.

Why haven’t we been giving a “Oh, my hole!” t-shirt from Nia Jax and why does the WWE feel the need to edit that amazing moment, trending Worldwide, out of the RAW replays? Use it my friends! It actually made Jax entertaining for a moment and made her our star for the week. At least they made amends Friday night!

Payback!

#WWERaw @DMcIntyreWWE @RandyOrton @WWESheamus pic.twitter.com/NGR5b6Qwd7

— WWE (@WWE) February 9, 2021

Why do we need yet another no-contest in a RAW main event? This time McIntyre vs. Orton goes nowhere with Sheamus’ predictable interference.

Why is there no Miss Alexa Bliss?

In the end, RAW could’ve been a very entertaining show if not for some missteps.

NXT

RESULTS

Dusty Rhodes Men’s Tag Team Classic Semifinals: MSK defeated Legado del Fantasma

Xia Li defeated Kora Jade

Dusty Rhodes Women’s Tag Team Classic Semifinals: Ember Moon & Shotzi Blackheart defeated Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell

KUSHIDA defeated Austin Theory by DQ

Dusty Rhodes Men’s Tag Team Classic Semifinals: The Grizzled Young Veterans defeated Tommaso Ciampa & Timothy Thatcher

Our favorite move is back, y'all… and this time it's off the ring apron!!!

#WWENXT #DustyClassic @joaquinwilde_ @NashCarterWWE @RaulMendozaWWE @WesLee_WWE pic.twitter.com/9yNx7LXdhu

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) February 11, 2021

Is it time for MSK to make their way to the top of the NXT tag team title scene? They’re just one step away now with a Dusty Rhodes Classic finals appearance!

Talk about The WAY to NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day!

IT'S A MIRACLE!!! …or not. Tough break, Johnny Wheelchair. #WWENXT @KUSHIDA_0904 @JohnnyGargano pic.twitter.com/5Q4GbkcLDv

— WWE (@WWE) February 11, 2021

Johnny Gargano first tried to weasel his way out of the NXT North American Championship Match with a fake broken arm diagnosis that William Regal saw right there. With Candice LeRae, Indi Hartwell, Austin Theory and of course, KUSHIDA, the segment was pure gold! Then, Gargano tried to payback KUSHIDA with a cheap shot in his match with Theory, only to be held at bay in an armbar by KUSHIDA and Dexter Lumis.

As for LeRae, she and Hartwell fell short to Ember Moon & Shotzi Blackheart in getting to the Dusty Rhodes Women’s Tag Team Classic Finals. Now, it’s Blackheart & Moon taking on Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez for the Dusty Cup and a future WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match.

Do not disobey Tian Sha. #WWENXT @Bigboawwe pic.twitter.com/vE8x5Ir93Q

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) February 11, 2021

The aura surrounding Xia Li, Boa and Tian Sha has Kacy Catanzaro & Kayden Carter as interested bystanders. Supportive friends are now turned into foes. A curious angle gets better and better with Li becoming more of a badass. Great makeover!

Tick tock…….@WWEKarrionKross & @LadyScarlett_13 await @EscobarWWE on #WWENXT this coming Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/6bgJBGw84d

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) February 12, 2021

Next week, we get Karrion Kross against Santos Escobar with Scarlett ringside. Sounds delicious! Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza have already felt the wrath. It’s only a matter of time. Tick. Tock.

Loved the build-up to this Sunday’s PPV especially the vignettes for the triple threat match for Io Shirai’s NXT Women’s Championship against Toni Storm and Mercedes Martinez. Plus, the face-offs on each match at the end of the night was a nice touch! NXT does such an outstanding job of matching it feel big time for their TakeOver events.

Cameron Grimes. Kiss My Grits. Oh my! Maybe he’s the new Million Dollar Man!

For the second straight week, we get a quality tag team main event with an upset. This time, Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher see their run come to an unexpected end at the hands of The Grizzled Young Veterans. So, it’ll be Wes Lee and Nash Carter taking on Zack Gibson & James Drake, as the GYV make it to the Finals for the second straight year.

SMACKDOWN

RESULTS

Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match: King Corbin & Sami Zayn defeated Dominik & Rey Mysterio

Intercontinental Championship Match: Big E defeated Shinsuke Nakamura by DQ

Bayley defeated Liv Morgan

The Street Profits defeated Otis and Chad Gable

Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match: Daniel Bryan & Cesaro defeated Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode

There’s no disputing the fact that Roman Reigns is the top dog, the head of the table, the number one performer right now in WWE. What I do find disconcerting though is the repeated open each week’s Friday night SmackDown. Having Reigns walk to the ring for a 10-minute promo with all talk week after week isn’t maximizing his greatness. It gets old quick. I did love that it quickly turned into Reigns turning down Adam Pearce’s request to defend the Universal Title in the Chamber just like Drew McIntyre’s WWE Championship. No need to have the same match twice. Plus, by having Kevin Owens and Jey Uso join those who qualify for the match face-off inside the demonic structure before having to face Reigns the very same night ultimately gives the Big Dog the upper hand to walk out of the PPV still the Champ heading to WrestleMania. It should also give Edge one fun night of watching.

.@SamiZayn & King @BaronCorbinWWE have punched their tickets to the #SmackDown Elimination Chamber Match at #WWEChamber! pic.twitter.com/378R8tLuZw

— WWE (@WWE) February 13, 2021

I did like Sonya Deville giving us tag team matches as a way of qualifying for the Chamber Contender match. Sami Zayn and King Corbin taking out the Mysterios was fun although I did fear for Dominik’s safety when he almost cracked his head against the announce table flying through the ropes and over Zayn. The right team went over and both should show strong inside the Chamber.

@DomMysterio35 #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/hANUFd7JP0

— WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) February 13, 2021

Big E vs. Shinsuke Nakamura put on a show, albeit too short for me with Apollo Crews predictable match. Shinsuke gets the DQ victory but robs us of a better match. Maybe down the road as the Big E vs. Crews feud continues.

"YOU WILL NEVER LIVE UP TO YOUR POTENTIAL WITHOUT ME!!"

#SmackDown @WWERollins @WWECesaro pic.twitter.com/vVDSGOUEfU

— WWE (@WWE) February 13, 2021

Welcome back Seth Rollins! I thought you were going down the right path. A new road. Fatherhood and positivity. It would’ve been the right path for him and the WWE. Instead, all of the SmackDown superstars surrounding the ring left him high and dry standing alone in the ring until a vicious attack on Cesaro.

Another week and another misstep by Billie Kay costs The Riott Squad a victory over Bayley. Last week, it was Ruby Riott and this time, it’s Liv Morgan going down to defeat. At what point, do Billie get the buh-bye?!

After a bit of momentum at the start, it looks like Otis and Chad Gable have leveled off a bit. This week, it’s a loss to the former tag team champion The Street Profits.

Anyone else find it odd that Montez Ford is dancing with Sasha Banks in a bit of a runway crossover? After all, Ford is married to Bianca Belair, who just may be choosing Banks as a WrestleMania opponent.

Oh no, NOT AGAIN!!

#SmackDown @NiaJaxWWE @SashaBanksWWE @BiancaBelairWWE pic.twitter.com/UtBMqFEjl5

— WWE (@WWE) February 13, 2021

As for Belair and Banks, they made interesting short work of the tag team champs. First, mocking Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler for their losses on RAW this week. Then, they actually do play the “oh my hole” line from Jax which is hilarious! Finally, they get physical with the champs. You wonder if we’ll get an Asuka/Charlotte Flair redux with Banks and Belair, champ and cohort, getting a title match soon.

#WWEChamber can't get here soon enough! #SmackDown @BaronCorbinWWE @SamiZayn @WWEDanielBryan @WWECesaro @FightOwensFight @WWEUsos pic.twitter.com/kGWylfzNve

— WWE (@WWE) February 13, 2021

Instead of fighting each other, Daniel Bryan and Cesaro teamed up to win a shot in the Chamber match which is a plus for all of us as anytime you can put those two inside the wretched structure along with Kevin Owens, Jey Uso, King Corbin and Sami Zayn, you’ve got yourselves some moments to remember coming! No disrespect to Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode, but Cesaro and Bryan deserved the spot and will absolutely shine. Even despite Cesaro being less than 100% thanks to Rollins, he still gets Ziggler to tap out! Give me Cesaro vs. Reigns please! Nice little brawl with all six Chamber members to end the show as Owens reminds us that he’s not going away.

Parting Shots:

During halftime of Saturday’s Celebrity Flag Football Game on ESPNews, Heisman Trophy-winning professional quarterback @DougFlutie pinned @RonKillings to become the new #247Champion!!!! #AndNew #CelebSweat @CelebritySweat1 pic.twitter.com/2YqwNzFOHU

— WWE (@WWE) February 6, 2021

Congratulations Doug Flutie! You’re in the record books as a former WWE 24/7 Champion! Flutie beat R-Truth at the Celebrity Flag Football Game during Super Bowl LV weekend. Sure, it only lasted for a few brief, fleeting moments as R-Truth won it back for his 49th title reign, but it’s more mainstream attention for the WWE, which never hurts.

Coming up this week:

RAW: Gauntlet Match – Winner gets last pod open at Elimination Chamber: Drew McIntyre vs. The Miz vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Sheamus vs. Randy Orton vs. AJ Styles MizTV with Drew McIntyre

NXT: Karrion Kross vs. Santos Escobar NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day fallout

SMACKDOWN: TBD – Go Home Show for Elimination Chamber

Thanks for letting us share our thoughts! Shoot me an email at jcrowe567@gmail.com. We’d love to hear your comments and suggestions! You can also check out my blog, The Crowe’s Nest as we delve into more pro wrestling, sports entertainment and the World of Sports. My apologies ahead of time – I AM a Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan! If you’re not down with that, I’ve got TWO WORDS for you… NEW ENGLAND

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Super Bowl 55 As Predicted By Members Of The Maine, August Burns Red, Ice Nine Kills And More

Alright football fans, it’s that time of year -- time for the biggest day in sports: The Super Bowl. Aka the “Big Game,” the “Colossal Showdown,” the Sunday, Sunday, Sunday Chiefs fans have been waiting for since… well, last year when they beat the San Francisco 49ers. 

Now, knowing most of you are probably thrilled to watch something other than Netflix reruns or your Instagram feed, we wanted to do our best to help build even more anticipation for Sunday’s matchup.  

So, in order to get you even more excited for the championship duel between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tom Brady-led Tampa Bay Buccaneers, we reached out to a handful of sports-savvy artists to see who they think will win it all.

To see what members of August Burns Red, The Maine, The Word Alive, Fit For A King, Ice Nine Kills and more had to say about Super Bowl 55, be sure to look below. 

JB BRUBAKER - AUGUST BURNS RED

Chiefs 31 - Bucs 24

Tom Brady’s back in the Bowl but Patrick Mahomes has too many weapons for the Bucs defense to handle. I expect a high scoring game with the Chiefs getting it done for the second time in as many years.

JOHN O’CALLAGHAN - THE MAINE

I hope that when I’m 43 years old I’ll be playing in my tenth Super Bowl. I do not believe the Bucs will win, but my God, Tom Brady is unreal. 

TELLE SMITH - THE WORD ALIVE 

I think that in a perfect world, Tom Brady wins a Super Bowl for the Bucs to not only prove he can win without Bill [Belichick] but that he’s still the GOAT. I have hated him and the Patriots for so long but watching his once in a lifetime greatness has grown on me. That being said, the Chiefs win 42-24 😂 Mahomes is the future GOAT.

RYAN KIRBY - FIT FOR A KING 

I’m going to go with the Bucs. I just can't bet against Tom Brady, I've been burnt on that too many times before. I think the Bucs defense is playing the best it has all year and they win in a kind of ugly game. 27-24 Bucs

RYAN “TUCK” O’LEARY - FIT FOR A KING

42-2 in favor of the pirate guys. I don’t like Tom Brady but I do love booty... that’s a pirate joke. The Chiefs get a safety and take Tom Brady out of the game with 2 minutes left.

KEVIN JORDAN - THIS WILD LIFE

Any man who kisses his teenage son on the lips in public has got that special sauce and Tom Brady is taking the Chiefs to Flavor Town. I also know nothing about football whatsoever. 100 - 3 Buccaneers. 

PATRICK GALANTE - ICE NINE KILLS

As a Buffalo Bills fan, this decision is difficult. Some want to root against the Chiefs who beat us for the AFC Championship this year and others will always root against Tom Brady. I am one of the latter. I’m going with a Chiefs win 34 - 27. Screw Tom Brady.

NICK VENTIMIGLIA - GRAYSCALE 

I think Tom Brady is going to take it all. Tampa Bay is fired up and I don’t think the momentum will stop. Kansas City has some unreal weapons so it will be a great matchup. I love seeing a young and ridiculously talented quarterback going against the GOAT. Tom’s [University of Michigan] alum, so I have to go with my boy, Brady. Let’s go Bucs!

TOM WILLIAMS - STRAY FROM THE PATH

BETS: Kansas City Chiefs -3: Risk 480 to win 400 Kansas City Chiefs Money Line: Risk 340 to win 200 Travis Kelce +800 To Win MVP: Risk 25 to win 213 Coin Toss: Risk 115 to win 100 (4 and 1 lifetime on the coin toss bet TAILS NEVER FAILS) Color of Gatorade To Be Dumped On The Coach: ORANGE and PURPLE (lines not in yet. 3 for 3 on this bet)

LAUREN SANDERSON

35-28 in favor of the Chiefs because they’re superior and midwest kids can make it big!

MELVIN BRINSON - OFF ROAD MINIVAN

Only because I’m a cheesehead, Chiefs 28-21. I went ahead and spoke to the refs directly so they are well aware to call the game correctly for this outcome.

MICHAEL LEO VALERI - BRAND OF SACRIFICE 

Well, it’s the Chiefs vs the Bucs. The Bucs have Tom Brady and in this house we don’t support cheaters now do we? Therefore, we will be backing the Chiefs. Oh, and they won last year so let’s go for two in a row. The score is gonna be 32-29. CHIEFS.

BLAKE MCCLIMON - A SCENT LIKE WOLVES 

Super Bowl LV will be a high scoring passing attack led by Mahomes and the Chiefs. I believe Hill and Kelce will cause TB’s defense issues all game long. The difference for me is TB’s pass defense, they gave up 460+ to Mahomes earlier this year and [Aaron] Rodgers showed last week that it can be done again. 41-28 KC. 

ANDREW RAPIER - FELICITY 

As a diehard New England Patriots fan this game is absolutely heartbreaking for me. However, I am SO excited to see Brady & Gronk roll into their home stadium and win another ring! I believe this game is going to be a complete shoot out, both teams have record-breaking offenses and incredible weapons, but I can’t see any way in all of Dr. Strange's 1,000,000+ versions of reality that Tom Brady does not win this game. Brady went into New Orleans and beat Drew Brees, cruised into Lambeau Field and took out Aaron Rodgers, and now he will go into the Super Bowl and beat the world champs and Patrick Mahomes. There is NO way Tom Brady loses this game, he is the greatest athlete of all time and he’s taking RING #7 back to Tampa! BUCS 31 - CHIEFS 28!

SPENCER LAYNE - CARPOOL TUNNEL

The only super bowl I care about is the one I am currently eating soup out of. 

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Terence Crawford vs. Kell Brook Fight Preview: Part 2: Terence Crawford

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Published: November 13, 2020

LAS VEGAS - You can only fight the people they put in front of you.

Every fighter from almost any era in boxing history has missed some fights. You can’t fight everybody.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is considered one of the greatest Junior Lightweights of all time, having made eight defenses of his WBC title with wins over the likes of Genaro Hernandez, Diego Corrales, and Jesus Chavez.

Mayweather, however, was never able to clean out the division completely, as he never faced the likes of Joel Casamayor or Acelino Freitas, who held titles at 130 at the same time. The reason these fights were never made may have been due to Mayweather being in a contract with HBO, while Casamayor and Freitas were fighting on a rival network, Showtime.

Decades later, WBO Welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (36-0, 27 KOs) finds himself in a situation where a majority of the top Welterweights are promoted by a rival promoter and network.

Crawford will make the fourth defense of his title this weekend against former Welterweight champion Kell Brook (39-2, 27 KOs).

The Omaha, Nebraska native, is a significant favorite against Brook, who hasn’t fought at Welterweight in over three years and suffered fractures in both his left and right eye sockets.

As of this writing, Crawford is as high as a -1600 favorite with Brook at +800.

At Welterweight, Brook is the best opponent Crawford has faced thus far. Brook won his first world title against Shawn Porter in August 2014 to become the IBF Welterweight champion.

He also took on Gennadiy Golovkin at Middleweight and faced Errol Spence Jr. at Welterweight in losing efforts.

Technically, at Welterweight, Brook has faced tougher competition than Crawford.

Unfortunately, for Crawford, he finds himself in a position where if he defeats Brook even in spectacular fashion, it will be seen as something he was supposed to do. Should he lose, the noises and clicks of keyboards of boxing fans calling him overrated will be deafening.

At 33, Crawford has likely cemented himself in a position to enter the International Boxing Hall-of-Fame should he retire today. He is a six-time champion in three weight classes, including becoming the first and only fighter to unify all four-world titles at Junior Welterweight.

Looking through Crawford’s resume, his best victories are arguably against Yuriorkis Gamboa and Viktor Postol. Since facing Postol in July 2016, he has scored seven straight stoppages, including four at Welterweight.

Gamboa is now a gatekeeper at Lightweight used as a stepping-stone for fighters like Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney. Postol is still a solid contender at Junior Welterweight, giving good accounts of himself against the current top-two 140-pounders, Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor, in losing efforts.

What is currently hindering Crawford is the lack of big-money fights available to him at Welterweight under his current promoter, Top Rank.

How that will impact his legacy will be determined when he finally decides to retire from the sport.

“I never really felt like I really needed Errol Spence for my legacy or my career,” Crawford stated at a Zoom press conference call. “You know I’ve accomplished so much in the sport of boxing that, you know, I really didn’t need him. You know, yes, needed him for my legacy at the welterweight division and becoming a two-time, undisputed champion at two different weight classes.

“But if that don’t happen, I don’t feel like, you know, it'll hurt my legacy. It just hurts the legacy of me in the welterweight division.”

It’s still unknown how much longer Crawford has in his Top Rank contract, but the general feeling is that if a fight can’t be made with the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Danny Garcia, Keith Thurman, or Errol Spence, he will be moving on to greener pastures.

Crawford isn’t a fighter known for looking ahead of any opponent, but this fight means more to Brook than it does for the pound-for-pound fighter.

“Actually, he was never on my radar from the jump,” Crawford said. "This was a fight that he wanted, that he kept calling for. Once the Pacquiao fight fell through, he was the next option given the circumstances of COVID and whatnot.

“I must’ve been on his radar. He was never on my radar. He’s on my radar now, and we’re fighting this weekend. That’s what it is.”

Whatever happens on Saturday night against Brook, it may be the end of Crawford’s time with Top Rank. Having patience is a wonderful characteristic, but waiting too long to make a move could cost Crawford in the future.

Crawford-Brook and Franco-Moloney 2 will air LIVE on ESPN & ESPN Deportes at 10 p.m. ET, with undercard action to stream live on ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET. UK fans can watch all the action on Premier Sports 1 starting at 12 a.m. Sunday morning.

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Assuming these questions were posed in good faith and not as some kind of gotcha, my answer is that I would, in fact, say the same of all those particular eras of christiandom. They can't be compared to today's brand of evangelicals. In fact the word evangelical and who it describes is a wildly different set of people today than it was in the 1880s. Which was a different set of people than it described in the 1700s. So on and so forth. Realistically speaking the Christian culture of any historical time period cannot be critiqued under todays lens because the circumstances and political atmosphere of those eras are drastically different. On the other hand studying the religious atmosphere of those eras can be a very useful lens into why the political religious landscape of today looks the way it does. It has to be understood that everything Britain ever did to any other colony it had around the world it first practiced on the Celtic nations it conquered, particularly Ireland. There are 800 years of bloody history between these groups of people and the issue is more nuanced and complex than I, an American, can really understand let alone actually relay to you here in a tumblr post. IIRC the OG asker is Scottish themselves and could probably relay the current and past political tensions to you with more understanding and grace than I can. You can literally find libraries worth of research material on the stuff I'm going to talk about and I definitely suggest looking up information about the Exodus and the Reformation yourself. The Scottish Exodus of the 1880s just so happens to be the migration that brought my personal family from Scotland to the States so it ended up being a topic of study I had exactly one [1] primary source for. The first thing you need to look up to understand the political atmosphere of the late 19th century in Scotland is the Protestant Reformation and, specifically, the formation of the Church of England and the Angelican denomination. This was sparked first by Martin Luther in 1517 but it took a few years for Protestanism to really catch on. In England the Protestant's big break came from Henry the Fifth. You know. That guy who kept beheading his wives. Now, this is clearly simplifying the reasons why a lot, but again, there's literally whole books on just this subject I am going to cover in three sentences: Henry the fifth wanted his Marriage annulled and the Pope said no. He then wanted a divorce, the pope also said no to that too. So Henry said "fuck your church I'll make my own."

One of the big things about the Church of England at inception is that it was specifically beholden to the Crown of England. Our Pal Henry was tired of having the Pope wielding power over him. The Crown, by these edicts, was able to take over many of the assets previously owned by the church and ultimately this lead to the the Nobility having a vested interest in becoming Protestants for favor and wealth with Henry. Because Protestantism ended up getting so deeply interwoven with classism, Protestants vs Catholics ended up being sticking point between the English and the inhabitants of conquered lands such as Scotland and Ireland. These are issues that persist to this day. Mostly because protestants are well known for acting like asshats any time they have power.

Between the 16th and the 19th century there are a number of Protestant shenanigans trying to get their particular belief system put into law that are met with varying levels of success. Usually the more militant groups end up excommunicated and/or exiled and then they go make a colony in Plymouth and genocide a whole continent. Ahem.

This is all to establish that, for the most part in Scotland at this time period Protestants usually went hand in hand with power and wealth. This meant that tenants in Scotland tended to be catholics while their landlords were usually protestants (and english). This lead to the Highland Clearances as the owners of Scottish land tried to make the most money off of it. IE, land owners (Usually nobility) would evict as many as 300 persons to make room for sheep grazing. Among other economically and social engineered reasons. There were many of these that erupted from the late 16th century into the late Victorian era (which suspiciously matches the timeline for...You know...The Reformation in England). It was particularly bad between 1800~1850ish with the greatest surge in immigration coming just after the end of the clearances in the 1880s. (Because they made it easier.)

So, essentially, any discussion of the White Christian culture of the 19th century in Scotland is impossible

Because what is "white Christian Culture" exactly in this context? The Catholic tenants of Scotland had a very different Christian culture than the wealthy Protestants who were evicting them. And honestly I'd argue that they didn't even have a concept of whiteness either. White Christian Culture is an entirely modern construct. The answer from WWC touched on this.

No discussion of religion in this particular area at this particular time can be had without a discussion of class. Particularly because of the manner in which the Church of England came about and how it was inextricably married to power and wealth by it's inception.

It's also very easy to paint Protestants = Bad and Catholics = Good, but that's also a huge oversimplification. There were many reasons to convert and many Scots did. There were many reasons not to. Many Englishmen were still Catholics. The conversation primarily ends up this way because of how the Church of England was used by the landed nobility to usurp wealth. But religion was so interwoven with just about every other aspect of life at this point in time that it's hard to extract it from everything else going on.

And again, this is all like, a surface swipe of the particular political shenanigans going on in that part of the world at the time. This big giant blurb barely even touches on any of it, was largely constructed from memory, and should be considered a stepping stone for interesting things you'd like to read a book about rather than authority on the subject.

Writing a Mixed-Race Lesbian in Victorian England: Navigating Queerness, Race, & Rejection

@an-unseemly-gentleman​ submitted:

Hello! This blog and mod team are amazing! I have a question I have struggled to find previous asks for.

I have a story set in late victorian Scotland and a central character is half English (father) and half Chinese (mother) but due to her mother dying in childbirth and her father being a sailor. She was raised by her white great aunt in rural England and so is disconnected from her mothers culture and she feels that disconnect deeply. This is exasperated by being a lesbian and so feeling dosconected from the white christian culture she is being raised in too. Her father later rejected her as his daughter and does not aknowledge her after re-marrying. This hurt her as a child but thinks of it as a blessing as an adult as she owes him no loyalty. Disconect is a theme shared between all the character and she bonds with the MC through both being gay and not having their parents in their lives. With all this being said, I am concerned I am telling a story that is not mine to tell. Do you have any guidence for avoiding or remedying racist tropes with this back story and how this would effect someone?

Side note. In the actualy story i have no intention of having her face any racism or microagreasions as its completly unnecessary even for ‘historical accuracy’. This is all in her backstory that is revealed through conversation she has with other characters.

I greatly value this groups advice and I fully intend to take everything you have to say on-board.

First Things First: Race

First, I personally very much dislike this textbook Tragic Mulatto backstory that you’ve set up for this character. Sailor/expat white father? Tragic POC mother? *Yawn.* White parents rejecting their mixed children is a horrible (and really, overdone) plot device that has a long IRL history. And for some reason, monoracial people are obsessed with it. Even if the father’s reasons for rejecting her are unrelated (eg. if she were born out of wedlock, etc) the associations are subtextual and cannot be erased (especially in the born-out-of-wedlock example lol). Unless you’re mixed-race, don’t go here, please. 

Beyond that, I wonder if these struggles with identity are even something you would see at all for mixed race individuals in the time period. Your description of your character’s internal conflict sounds very modern to me. I’d wager that she would focus on her difficulty with being accepted into monoracial society (especially in the time of miscegenation laws) rather than worry about losing touch with her heritage. Even as recent as the 80s, the concern was more with xenophobia rather than embracing difference/diversity (eg. one of my older coworkers gave her half-Japanese daughter an English name & didn’t teach her Japanese for fear of discrimination, and connection to Japanese culture was secondary if not tertiary). 

But this is also the reason that I say that I’m very uncomfortable with an outsider writing this story. In your attempt at avoiding a tragedy exploitation story (which, considering the parental backstory it was a rather poor attempt), you’ve swerved into an identity story. Please read through our Can I Write About X tag. 

Historical Considerations

Research real LGBT history in the Victorian era to see the ways in which people we’d consider queer today navigated society, labels, family, and interpersonal relationships. Consider this: 

What married individuals did behind closed doors was no one’s business, as long as it wasn’t made public and as long as they followed all the rules (have children, fulfill your role in society, etc.). 

Even then, bachelor and spinster cultures were a thing, and there was a place in society for unmarried individuals (even if it wasn’t the ideal). 

However, acceptance significantly depended on social class and ethnicity.

The MC’s awareness of the cultural whiteness and cultural Christianity of her society seems unrealistic to me as well; it’s kind of a This Is Water type of situation, and most people in the 21st century don’t even have awareness of cultural christianity. Queer culture wasn’t as activist-oriented as it is today. 

Your MC is more likely to be conscious of the distinctions between different Christian sects, and their varying places in society, and may feel alienated by certain religious teachings rather than meditate on the hegemonic institution that is the Church. 

Despite institutional barriers and “don’t talk about it” social taboo, queer people back then found their own communities and subcultures to thrive in, and I think it is a much more radical and compelling story to depict that. 

If you’re wlw and you still would like to write an angst narrative, that is OwnVoices and your prerogative of course, but just know that 1) the experience didn’t look at all like the way homophobia does today, so you need more research, and 2) historical suffering narratives are also just as overdone, and don’t capture the nuanced joys and hurdles of queer life before the contemporary age. 

I can’t see this story working out in the temporal context that it’s in. The struggle themes you’ve set up simply aren’t compatible, or aren’t particularly interesting. I’d encourage you to start doing extra reading, or better yet, reconsider your setting and premise. You can write a nice, queer, found-family bonding narrative that discusses community, disconnection, and religion without the complications we’ve discussed above. 

~ Mod Rina

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DC FIlms might be doing better than most of the bloggers lead you to believe

Why #DCEU might kick some #MCU ass in the coming years.

In order to make this point, I will use facts and some speculation, but overall compare some behavior and trends. As for the speculation part, i will clearly outline the FACT that is such and not present it as anything else.

First off, let’s start using more facts and less opinion. Opinion is when you say #MCU is better, because a site has given them certified scores. Also, please start making a difference between an aggregate score of a number of critics that said yes or no, and the actual score of the movie [situated below that flashy %]. 

Currently the average score for #MCU is at 6.9 compared to the “horrible failure” #DCEU at 5.85. Looking at this, it says only thing, none of these fanboys of the Disney cult, take the time to delve deep in the stats and meaning of them, they just use the convenient flashy aggregate number that fits their twisted narrative.

You can easily check this information on https://www.rottentomatoes.com/ , its not like a Collider reaction video, where most of the information is rumors and personal opinions. Or like a SchmoesKnow podcast back in the day featuring a Sasha Perl Raver exclusive that claimed, “Wonder Woman” is a huge mess from the same source, she says, told her “Batman V Superman: DOJ” is bad. Well after the movie came out and made 821 Million worldwide, something that has been achieved by 0 MCU origin stories [since they all rely on featured characters to make such Box Office results] the video was taken down. The reason being that I and many other fans, asked them to give us more info on their source and we got blocked by her and Kristian Harloff on Twitter with some swearing on his part for the ultimate experience.

So, we established the critical scores difference of 1 in favor of #MCU, now let’s see how things are looking monetary. 

Unfortunately #MCU is at their 18th movie now, and #DCEU at their 5th one, so we can compare them movie for movie, but we can clearly see that #DC’s average is currently 3 Million per movie more than the #MCU’s average gross per movie, and by the looks of it, with AQUAMAN coming this December, the DCU phase 1 movies [6 movies vs 6 movies] will finish as 3.766 Billion + Aquaman’s Box-office [which could be anywhere between 600-800 Million] compared to MCU phase 1 - 3.811 Billion, which consisted from The Avengers [1.5 Billion BO] and only positive RT scores. 

So that 50 Million difference is about to be swept under a wave in December with or without a good RT score. The average price of a ticket in 2018 is about to surpass 9.00 USD, and if Aquaman sells the same number of tickets like Thor did, it will gross around between 509-521 Million, now in case Aquaman decides to sell more than Thor and act like Man Of Steel in terms of sold seats it will end around 739-756 Million range, Wonder Woman seats put him in the 828-847 Million range and BVS DOJ type seats would mean a gross around 908-929 Million.

In any case, Aquaman will put the phase 1 at a minimum of 450 Million advance on #MCU phase 1, with an option to out-gross #MCU phase 1 with something close to 850 Million, not too bad for a “failed” franchise, I must say.

Now we all know #MCU fans have a ready answer for everything, one of their favorite points is that #MCU phase 1 existed between 2008 and 2012 and that Marvel had only B list characters. Well TDK came out in 2008 and made 1 Billion, so I guess the year wasn’t the issue and Superman in 78, first ever movie that appeared on the big screen with a superhero made adjusted to 2017 1.2 Billion. He did have a TV show previously. Something many Marvel characters tried and failed at, not our fault though. The character isn’t b or c list for the big screen until it hits it, as you can see #justiceleague had Batman and did not make 1.2 Billion guaranteed, nor did Batman Forever, Batman and Robin etc,. There is no guarantee for any brand, its the movie itself that makes money based on word of mouth.

So, to summarize:

Average critics score on RT

DCEU 5.85 MCU 6.9

Average gross per movie

DCEU 753 Million MCU 750 Million

Phase 1 vs Phase 1

DCEU 3.766 Billion MCU 3.811 Billion [DC has not released AQUAMAN to make it 6 vs 6], and as for adjusted ticket price and inflation, DC first 5 movies sold 434,457 Million seats and Marvel sold 491,466 seats, so AQUAMAN needs to sell 60 Million tickets for a tie, that's as many as the first Thor sold. Should be achievable and beyond.

And now let’s see the future: And here is the speculation is pointed at in the beginning. 

DC has coming phase 2 the following:  Shazam, Suicide Squad 2, Wonder Woman 2, The Batman, Nightwing and or Flash, how do you think this Phase 2 will behave? 

A Matt Reeves Batman movie, that can get all of them #TDK fans back in the seats ranging between 900 Million -1.1 Billion if not comedic and Joss-like. Wonder Woman 2, should this time perform better overseas, that’s a possible 900 Million sequel for a movies that made 821 Million with 50 % of that coming from international markets, which is usually around 60 + % for such movies. Suicide Squad 2 if done the right way sounds like it could beat the first one and go for that 800 Million plus range, with the studio having learned what is a straight no for this franchise from the first one. 

Nightwing, with all I am hearing and a good action martial arts movie set in Gotham, this can attract that Batman crowd and go somewhere between 600-700 Million possibly or less. Shazam could behave like Nightwing in terms of Box Office or if it's more comedic and family friendly even better due to the light and easy digestible tone it has, plus the huge boost it will get by its Producer The Rock. 

In case the movie titles match my prediction with the actual phase 2 - DC films and the Box Office predictions match a possible scenario like the one I mentioned, then we can assume , something at worst at 3.6 Billion, best case 4.2 Billion, which will take them over 8.3 + Billion by a lot in only 2 phases. How is that a bad? Its beside me. 

MCU phase 2 is around the 4.6 Billion mark, with its last two movies to make over 1.1 Billion, Avengers 2 [AOU] and Iron man 3. MCU phase 1 and 2 are worth around the 8.4 Billion give or take, and #DC has the chance to surpass that with critically acclaimed and original movies. As i mentioned, their phase 1 will likely close around the 4.1-4.4 Billion mark, add another 4.2 from phase 2 and you get a round 8.6 Billion. Again speculation on my part for DC, but they average per movies is currently 753 Million, and they aren't going to go lower for sure. While Marvel CU is doing fine mostly in phase 3, they first 2 phases were profitable due to Avengers 1 & 2 and Iron Man 3. We have two more Avengers movies that are coming and if they reach the success of the 1st one, i will be surprised. Nevertheless they will be aiming at a minimum Civil War Box Office, and if the plot is too generic and there isn’t enough closure, they will surely land on that 1 Billion circle, which can’t be that good for a movie with the cost of 490 Million plus.

Now remember, this is all speculation, because even with Zack Snyder gone for critics to use as an excuse for the same old same old rotten scores, they still went after David Ayer twice [Suicide Squad, Bright], Joss Whedon [who did most of Justice League as we saw and was praised for Avengers]. So, they might just come for all DC films in the future based on brand bias. We can't know, but what we do know, is that the new directors brought to work on these films have been nothing but successful elsewhere and the only issue that might exist is the suits behind WB Pictures and their will to cut the movies to make them unoriginal and bland, like they did with Justice League.

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The degenerate’s guide to college football TV watch ‘em ups, 2019 season, week 7

As you read this for the first time in what seems like ages Steven Montez is not throwing an interception. Enough about that, it’s Red River Shootout Rivalry week! Kind of sucks that they stopped calling it a shootout right when every game in the Big XII became a shootout.

This isn’t the best version of “Red River Valley” much like this year’s game isn’t the best version of the Red River Shootout but we have to love the ones we’re with.

Why am I putting so much of this post into a game I don’t give a shit about? Because Miami already played (and won!) and I haven’t actually looked at the rest of the schedule yet. We’ll find out together what’s going on this week! Schedule copied from FBSchedules, gambles copied from Vegas Insider, thoughts are intended to be original. I’m sorry.

Saturday, October 12

Matchup                                                       Time (ET)                  TV/Mobile

6 Oklahoma vs. 11 Texas (in Dallas, TX)    12:00pm                       FOX

Wait, get the fuck out of here. This is the first game listed to top it all off? Bookmakers are fucking with us to have the o/u at 75.5 but Sooners -10.5 seems smart to me. Note to theoretical new readers: nobody who writes on this site about gambling is right more than 15% of the time.

Maryland at Purdue                                     12:00pm                       BTN

B1G action! It sucks!

23 Memphis at Temple                                12:00pm                     ESPN2

The race for the group of five BCS bid (is that what we’re still calling it?) is a madcap so far and Temple is still in it. Wild, right? Manny Diaz might have chosen the less talented team this year when he decided to leave Temple at the altar. Memphis is the favorite for this game and the AAC championship and probably #2 in line for the big bowl money among the sisters of the poor but this is an interesting game for a whole host of reasons. Go Tigers.

Miami (Ohio) at Western Michigan             12:00pm                    ESPNU

I think I’m doing the italics wrong for this post. I won’t go back to fix it, though.

16 Michigan at Illinois                                  12:00pm                      ABC

Michigan is pure entertainment to me but only in theory. I don’t watch their shitty games but every outcome fills me with glee. Nobody likes them, especially Michigan fans. Keep it going, Captain Clutch.

Mississippi State at Tennessee                   12:00pm                     SECN

Miss State isn’t total trash, are they? I feel like no but I can’t tell you why. And, yet, they are only favored by 6.5 over Tennessee. I can’t believe there’s a reason beyond gambling to care about this game.

Rutgers at Indiana                                         12:00pm                     BTN

If you find yourself interested in this game for any reason whatsoever please call 800-522-4700.

South Carolina at 3 Georgia                          12:00pm                   ESPN

Is Coach Boom on the hot seat? I really don’t know what’s expected of him. Can he say that his shitty QB that got hurt would have made a difference in this season? Will school officials believe him? Georgia -22 seems like great value to me.

Toledo at Bowling Green                                12:00pm                  CBSSN

Bowling Green is very bad. Are they +26.5 at home against Toledo bad? Absolutely they are.

Georgia Tech at Duke                                      12:30pm                   RSN

Georgia Tech football makes me sad. Let’s not dwell too long on them.

Ball State at Eastern Michigan                        2:00pm                  ESPN+

Ball State is not baller at all. One of life’s great quandaries.

Old Dominion at Marshall                                2:30pm               Stadium

This must be the first game of the year on Stadium unless I’ve just completely stopped paying attention. What a debut!

New Mexico State at Central Michigan           3:00pm                ESPN3

Washington State at 18 Arizona State              3:30pm            Pac-12N

Holy hell, what a shit year this is. Arizona State crept up to #18 and there is nothing interesting about their team on the field. They aren’t even undefeated. It’s just Herm Edwards yelling inspiration to some kids you’ve never heard of and it’s mostly worked out so far. This game is a pick ‘em which is probably what every Washington State game should be until Mike Leach rides off into the sunset.

Florida State at 2 Clemson                                 3:30pm              ABC

When Cabbage exposed Jameis Winston’s pay-for-play thing a few years ago Jameis was probably taking money for point shaving, too. I kind of feel like Trevor Lawrence is doing the same thing this year but it’s more dangerous for him because he still has to play in college for another year. How off has Clemson looked so far? I’m entertaining thoughts of FSU pulling the upset here. Technically they can do that just by staying closer than 26. That’s the best kind of upset, really.

NIU at Ohio                                                           3:30pm            ESPN+

Even in the lowered expectations world of MACtion 2019 this is a sad affair.

Kent State at Akron                                             3:30pm             ESPN3

Maybe all MAC games are particularly sad this year.

Michigan State at 8 Wisconsin                           3:30pm               BTN

The pain isn’t close to over for Sparty but a nice moral victory here would only mean keeping Jonathan Taylor under 200 yards and 5 TDs. Or even scoring. One out of two seems possible.

25 Cincinnati at Houston                                     3:30pm            ESPN2

Holgo to Houston seemed so natural but things haven’t really clicked yet. Fickell at Cincinnati, on the other hand, has been perfect and immediate. Vegas has some faith in the Cougars still, though, so maybe I just haven’t caught up to the now. The Bearcats are favored by 7 but that seems low to me, even on the road. Maybe stay the fuck away from this one.

1 Alabama at 24 Texas A&M                                3:30pm              CBS

aTm is going to lose by 40 and somehow rank #15 on Sunday.

BYU at USF                                                            3:30pm            CBSSN

BYU is starting a black QB for the first time in school history. That’s kind of a jarring headline in 2019 for any school, isn’t it? 

UConn at Tulane                                                    3:45pm            ESPNU

Let’s run away from all the uncomfortable thoughts that go with BYU and gather together to laugh at UConn. It is wild that Tulane is favored by 34 over anybody. Willie Fritz is going to get offered a lot of money to go somewhere else for 2020 and I hope he stays put. Having a good coach and the occasionally best uniforms in the country is a cool combo.

Rhode Island at Virginia Tech                               4:00pm            ACCN

Virginia Tech won one of the most cursed games of all time last week and it would surprise basically nobody if they turned around and lost to the Fightin’ Lamar Odoms this week. Before you ask, yes, Rhode Island is bad even for a AA team.

Texas Tech at 22 Baylor                                         4:00pm             FS1

Baylor is ranked. Gross.

San Jose State at Nevada                                      4:00pm          ATTSN

If you’re a fan of Last Chance U, tune in to see Malik Henry take over as Nevada’s QB. The offense has been a shambles so far this year but the Wolfpack are still 3-2 and alive in the MWC so maybe the formerly big name recruit can provide a nice jolt.

UNLV at Vanderbilt                                                  4:00pm          SECN

People like to make jokes about the SEC not playing any good non-conference games and never going on the road to play out of conference.

Middle Tennessee at Florida Atlantic                    4:00pm          ESPN+

FAU is going to sneak into a bowl game this year and Lane Kiffin is going to get hired by like Florida State or some dumb shit. Looking forward to it all.

Iowa State at West Virginia                                     4:00pm          ESPN

The line opened at -7.5 for Iowa State and it’s moved up to -10. Both these teams are kind of messy and it’s being played in Morgantown. Somebody please enlighten us all in the comments.

Georgia State at Coastal Carolina                          5:00pm          ESPN+

This afternoon stretch is mostly pretty bleak for watchin’ ‘em up.

UAB at UTSA                                                             6:00pm          ESPN+

This game doesn’t change things much for the better. UAB should rock UTSA but this is on ESPN+ anyway, so it’s not like anybody will be watching it.

UMass at Louisiana Tech                                          7:00pm         ESPN3

Peeking down the page a bit, the night schedule actually looks pretty good. This one won’t be in the rotation. La Tech is good this year but UMass is pure trash. The 31.5-point line is a warning sign to stay away unless the game gets way the fuck out of hand really early.

Mississippi, Oxford at Missouri                               7:00pm          ESPN2

Kelly Bryant is, at long last, looking pretty good. Missouri’s offense is theoretically a good training ground for the NFL, so I’m happy for Bryant on that level, but I really just want to see extra misery (npi) poured on Mississippi.

North Texas at Southern Miss                                  7:00pm         Facebook

I swear to you the good games are on their way.

Fresno State at Air Force                                         7:00pm          CBSSN

We aren’t quite there yet but this is at least a cool looking game. The stadium, the uniforms, the offensive schemes. This is degenerate football.

Charlotte at FIU                                                         7:00pm            ESPN+

Butch Davis’s kids finally showed some signs of life last week but it’s still for the best that this one is on ESPN+ and out of sight.

Army at WKU                                                             7:00pm           Stadium

I don’t think you’ll need it but this is some pretty nice alternative program if the brand name stuff goes sideways.

10 Penn State at 17 Iowa                                          7:30pm             ABC

Two programs with very different histories dealing with disadvantaged kids clash in primetime. Here’s to another few years of contract for Kirk Ferentz following a minor but important upset victory.

USC at 9 Notre Dame                                                7:30pm             NBC

USC is great because they actually have a similar amount of talent to Notre Dame but they haven’t had a coach for the last few years. Nice to see one of college football’s storied rivalries played on the first weekend of October. I’m trying to believe the Trojans can win but honestly it would feel like a miracle if they keep things within spitting distance of the 10.5-point line.

Arkansas at Kentucky                                               7:30pm           SECN

Both of these teams are 2-3 and going nowhere but Kentucky -6.5 seems like a steal. Somebody talk Beer out of this one.

Louisville at 19 Wake Forest                                     7:30pm           ACCN

Wake Forest is the weird secret hope that at least one ACC team can stay in the top 25 all year long to make Clemson’s schedule just good enough to make the playoffs. If I know my ACC, Louisville is going to run all over them.

Navy at Tulsa                                                               7:30pm          ESPNU

I’m still not sold on this edition of Midshipmen football but maybe I’ve been too harsh on Malcolm Perry. We’re getting into the “pound the over” part of the year for Navy and I, possibly stupidly, feel pretty good about them winning this one. Which would make them 4-1 against the spread with three straight overs.

Nebraska at Minnesota                                               7:30pm            FS1

Undefeated and unranked Minnesota might be catching Nebraska at a bad time. The Huskers aren’t good but they have a little bit of fight in them. Which is what they hired Scott Frost for in the first place. Leaning Nebraska +7.5. Make of that what you will.

7 Florida at 5 LSU                                                        8:00pm           ESPN

What upside down version of the world are we in where Florida’s vicious defense is pitted against LSU’s unstoppable offense? This is the kind of place where the U.S. president would lay down the project of empire to let some pissant remnant of Alexander the Great’s conquests bomb American troops for the sake of... building some hotels somewhere, I think? This game is guaranteed to end well past midnight East Coast time.

15 Utah at Oregon State                                              8:00pm         Pac-12N

Well, Herman Munster, the Utes are people of the Great Basin whose ancestral homes covered most of present day Colorado and Utah. And the Utah Utes are gonna fuck Oregon State shit all up. Utah -14.5, under 59.5. Beware, all Pac-12 After Dark prognostication is functionally useless.

Hawaii at 14 Boise State                                            10:15pm        ESPN2

God do I want to sex this particular game. Hawaii vs. Boise on the blue turf, kicking off well after most of the country has gone to bed? This is what West Coast football is all about. Boise is the much better team but Hawaii still has the wild offense, so keep an eye on this even if the score looks one-sided at halftime.

Wyoming at San Diego State                                     10:30pm         CBSSN

In recent years this matchup has been the key to the MWC season but for some reason it got scheduled mid-season for 2019. Both are still in contention for the conference title and one of them is likely to get serious top 25 consideration tomorrow. SDSU has my heart but an o/u of 38 makes this one sound painful.

Washington at Arizona                                                11:00pm           FS1

Pac-12 scheduling baby! Why is it designed to make people not see their best teams and most dynamic players? Who knows but it’s a tradition now. UDub has sort of fallen apart after their preseason top 10 ranking but nobody is going to look to Arizona for consistency. The line has moved down, which suggests people are betting in decent numbers, but you have to got serious problems if you think this is a good ride to take.

[junker-town]

Dorktown: Why didn’t the NFL want Rueben Randle?

The Giants’ Rueben Randle was an overachieving wideout who elevated his quarterback’s numbers. At just 24, he seemed to have a long career ahead of him. But then, for reasons we can’t explain … he never played again.

The New York Giants invested a second-round pick on LSU wide receiver Rueben Randle in the 2012 NFL Draft. He had a relatively anonymous rookie season as his team’s No. 4 receiver behind Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks, and Domenik Hixon.

The next year, Hixon signed with Carolina and Randle moved up a rung as Big Blue’s No. 3 wideout, and he responded with over 600 receiving yards while scoring six touchdowns. That was better production than any other No. 3 wideout in the league outside of Jerricho Cotchery and Wes Welker (who, like Randle, was catching passes from a Manning bro – only Welker’s was league MVP). In fact, the Giants’ youngster had a stronger season than the majority of the league’s No. 2 WRs:

In the 2014 offseason, they said goodbye to Nicks and drafted Randle’s former teammate in Baton Rouge, a fella by the name of Odell Beckham Jr. A torn patellar tendon suffered by Cruz in Week 6 created a larger role for Randle, and he responded with over 900 receiving yards, which trailed only T.Y. Hilton and Alshon Jeffery among his fellow 2012 draft classmates. It also would’ve led the Saints, Titans, Chiefs, Dolphins, Chargers, Cardinals, Seahawks, Browns, Rams, Vikings, Raiders, and Jaguars:

That brings us to 2015, the final year of Randle’s rookie contract. In that season, Randle produced a tick under 800 receiving yards and was one of just 20 wideouts to haul in at least eight scores. The average NFL pass attempt during the 2015 season gained 7.3 yards; the average pass attempt that came Rueben Randle’s way yielded 8.9 yards.

When that outstanding 8.9 yards per target is combined with his 8 receiving touchdowns, he joined a group of just 10 other players that hit both those marks that year. To join such a limited club at something as fundamentally relevant for a wide receiver as efficiently generating yardage and finding the end zone’s certainly nothing to sneeze at. Here are the 137 players that were targeted on at least 50 passes in 2015. Randle’s in blue, the only others with as many yards per target and receiving TDs — a list constituted by the likes of Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, A.J. Green, Gronk, and Randle’s star teammate, Beckham — in green:

Also, here is the passer rating Eli Manning generated by receiving target:

His passer rating that season across the 90 times he threw to Randle was 102.9, a number that was a bit better than Tom Brady’s 2015 passer rating. But on his 528 non-Randle passes, that figure plummeted nearly 11 points to 92.0, a number that was a bit worse than Jay Cutler’s 2015 passer rating:

Randle emerged from this season primed to hit the open market as an unrestricted free agent in March 2016, alongside fellow wide receivers such as Cincinnati’s Marvin Jones and Mohamed Sanu.

With all three operating in similar roles as secondary wideouts on teams with a superstar (Beckham, A.J. Green) leading the pack, Randle more than doubled Sanu’s receiving yardage total with the two Bengals combining for half as many TDs as Randle (while Randle generated about a yard more per target than both Sanu and Jones):

Let’s use fantasy points — with [(touchdowns x 6) + (yards from scrimmage x 0.1)] being their applicable formula for 2015 — as a loose indicator of productivity (which also enables Sanu to get credit for his couple rushing scores) to see the relationship between that and their ensuing contracts in 2016 free agency:

Within the first 24 hours of free agency, large deals were given to Sanu and Jones that had a combined value north of $70 million with over $34 million in guarantees. A full two weeks into free agency, Randle settled for a 1-year, $3 million contract with the Eagles that included just $500,000 in guarantees.

For reasons that lack a whole lot of clarity, Randle’s Eagles contract was just a drop in the bucket to what Sanu and Jones extracted from the Falcons and Lions, respectively. The discrepancy of how much more productive Randle was in his contract year combined with his guarantees amounting to a minuscule fraction of Sanu/Jones’ is nothing short of glaring.

Sanu’s stunning proficiency as a passer on gadget plays from prior years aside, Atlanta paid him handsomely for what he can do as a wide receiver. And the bottom line is that to this day, two of Randle’s four career seasons were more productive than any of Sanu’s eight career seasons, despite the latter moving on to play with an MVP quarterback in Georgia.

Randle also had zero medical red flags, having never missed even a single game in any of his four seasons; that’s juxtaposed against Jones who’d missed the entire 2014 season with foot and ankle problems.

And whereas Randle’s QB performed much better when throwing to him vs. not throwing to him, it was the opposite in Cincy:

Granted, Randle then had what was surely an underwhelming offseason and preseason in Philly. Having made a minimal financial investment in him, the Eagles decided to go another direction, cutting him in August ... and no one ever picked him up heading into the 2016 regular season.

No one even gave him a shot amid the non-stop roster churn during the season when players’ injuries and ineffectiveness have teams making constant personnel changes. Regardless of how lousy someone may look in the summer, that kind of regular season résumé has always led to, at the very least, a low-risk flier from someone at some point when the games become real. For the entire season, that never happened.

The Bears did sign him the following offseason, but they placed him on injured reserve with a hamstring ailment during the preseason before releasing him from his contract a few weeks later. The 2017 season came and went, again without Randle ever latching on to a 53-man roster for even a single week, which effectively ended his career.

Its final chapter -- that 2015 season -- saw him join just nine other players in reaching 700 receiving yards and 8 receiving touchdowns in their last season (with the circumstances behind their exit from the game listed):

Eight of those nine had their NFL careers end either voluntarily or via injury or arrest. The only other player to be so productive and then have his career end against his will while healthy and lacking legal entanglements was Terrell Owens.

And here’s the huge, obvious difference: age. Owens turned 37 during that season (to say nothing of his decade-long reputation as a distraction). Randle’s final year occurred at the still-extremely-tender age of 24. It’s that precocious youthfulness that really makes this especially bizarre.

All of the other nine players were at least four years older in their final season than was Randle. Not only has no player his age or younger for their final year in the NFL ever posted as many receiving yards or touchdowns as Randle did, but since 1970’s AFL-NFL merger, no one that young for their swan song has even had a particularly comparable season, as we can see with fantasy production being used as a barometer:

And Randle’s still the only one of them whose career ended for reasons other than injury or legal entanglements. On top of suiting up for each of his team’s 64 games while under contract, his seemingly worst relevant transgression as a human being was arriving late to a meeting in 2014, leading to clock colonel Tom Coughlin benching him for the 1st quarter of a November game in Jacksonville.

It’s theoretically possible that he had potential opportunities after his Chicago stint and wasn’t interested at that point. It’s unlikely, but for the sake of argument even if that were the case, that wouldn’t make how the contractual events of the 2016 offseason unfolded any less mystifying.

He’s been criticized at points for things such as route running or drops. But any sort of shortcomings in these areas would be reflected and accounted for in his yards per target and/or his quarterback’s passer rating when throwing to him. And as we’ve already seen, he still passed those metrics with flying colors.

Regardless, one can still believe he wasn’t quite as good as the numbers might suggest. That’s fine. But he wasn’t so much worse that he shouldn’t have taken the spot of one of these 180 wide receivers who occupied the NFL’s 53-man rosters as the 2016 season kicked off:

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Stanley Cup Playoffs Betting Guide and Predictions

The NHL playoffs kick off tonight and I still argue that it’s the best postseason in all of sports, this despite the little known fact that hockey is NOT my favorite sport. Go figure.

The fact is, no other sport offers a war of attrition to earn the championship like hockey does. It’s pretty awesome. It can be even more awesome this season when you get involved in the action at the different New Jersey legal sportsbooks. We recommend checking out PointsBet because they are currently offering  a $50 free bet with no deposit with code BROADLINES.

While the Flyers aren’t there this year, which isn’t a surprise, that doesn’t mean you can”t enjoy the playoffs. As a matter of fact, they should be a lot of fun, especially in the Western Conference, where nothing would surprise me.

The East is a bit more chalky, although I do think three of the four first round series can be pushed to the brink of a seventh game. Still, the East is top heavy and ultimately, one of the top four teams will reach the Final.

I’m not a peerless prognosticator. In my years of making playoff predictions, I have had seasons where I’ve been superb picking series results in advance and I’ve had years where I like to forget I even made selections.

And while I will give you my first round picks here as well as my Finals prediction, that’s not the purpose of this post.

Feel free to bet my picks but do so at your own risk of peril! Haha.

Instead, I wanted to offer you some perspective, so you can make your own educated betting choices as you decide how best to spend your dollars.

So without further ado let’s get to the matchups and then after that, I’ll give you a few other things to look at when betting individual games during the opening round.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE BETTING ANALYSIS

No. A1 Tampa Bay Lightning vs. WC No. 2 Columbus Blue Jackets

The Lightning were historic this season. They matched the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings for most wins in an NHL season with 62. Their 128 points were the fourth most ever amassed by a team in the regular season in league history. They are as dominant a team as I’ve seen in the NHL in a long, long time.

And yet, there is a curse that exists on President’s Trophy-winning teams. In the 33 seasons that the President’s Trophy has been awarded to the team with the best regular season record, only eight have gone on to win the Cup. That’s an incredibly low number.

But look even further beyond that.

If you look at the 10 best seasons by points all time, only four of the other nine teams won the Cup, and all four were the same collection of Montreal Canadiens between 1973 and 1978. Only the Flyers back-to-back Championships in 1974 and 1975 broke up what would have been a near decade-long dynasty of arguably the greatest hockey team ever.

As for the other teams who had epic regular seasons, well those aforementioned 95-96 Red Wings lost on the Western Conference Final to eventual Cup Champion Colorado in a memorable series. But the others fizzled out waaaay early.

The 2015-16 Washington Capitals were bounced by their nemesis Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round while the other three teams – the 1970-71 Boston Bruins, 2005-06 Red Wings and the 2009-10 Capitals – all lost in the first round.

This history could suggest Tampa is ripe for an upset at some point in these playoffs.

And Columbus is about as good a final team in the playoffs as there has ever been. OK, maybe the Los Angeles Kings were better when they were the No. 8 seed and won their first Cup in 2012. But that’s about it.

The difference between Columbus and say Washington is marginal at best. The top five teams in the Metropolitan Division were really close and it just so happens that the chips fell the way they did and the Jackets ended up fifth-best, meaning a date with the Lightning.

The Jackets come in red hot, going 7-1-0 down the stretch to get in the playoffs and are really gelling. They have been all-in on this season since the trade deadline when they kept their own pending UFAs Artemi Panarin and Sergei Bobrovsky and traded for another in Matt Duchene, and since they know they won’ be together after these playoffs, they can make a run with a little more reckless abandon, and that makes them dangerous.

If Bobrovsky can be Vezina-Bob rather than the guy who was scratched earlier this season because of team violations, then they can really put a scare into the Lightning.

I wouldn’t bet against Tampa, and I wouldn’t bet them because there’s no value in betting such a heavy favorite. But there will likely be a couple games where you can get away with betting Columbus and cash in on a big underdog. I honestly think that could happen as soon as Game 1.

I’ll take the Lightning in six, but I wouldn’t be stunned if this series goes seven, and you can make some good money by believing a little bit in the Blue Jackets if you pick Tampa to win in six (+380) or seven (+470)

No. M1 Washington Capitals vs. WC No. 1 Carolina Hurricanes

The Capitals are the defending champs. The Hurricanes arrived a year earlier than many expected. And while I don’t think this is a long series, I do think it’s an entertaining one.

The ‘Canes are relying on a goalie tandem of Petr Mrazek (remember him?) and Curtis McElhenny, and although Mrazek has been good of late, he’s still Petr Mrazek, and the Capitals offense and power play are dangerous. So, I expect the Caps to score and score plenty.

Meanwhile, Braden Holtby had a second straight mediocre-at-best regular season for the Caps, although that didn’t matter last year as he flipped a switch and was great in the playoffs, leading to the Caps first Stanley Cup.

He could do the same this year – and he was slightly better in 18-19 than in 17-18, but Carolina’s offense has been rolling since January.

They have the fifth-most goals-per-game in the NHL since January 1, a stark difference to the first half of the season when they were terrible offensively.

The Caps are a solid play to win this series. Right now they are -155 at Fan Duel. That’s quality value as far as I’m concerned. I’ll take the Caps in five and I’ll supplement that by riding the over a bit if the number is nice each game – as it is for Game One at a low 5.5. High scoring hockey is on tap here. This is great value.

No. A2 Boston vs. No. A3 Toronto

Yet again, these two teams square off. And yet again, they are set to draw the eyes of the hockey world. Two Original six teams. A bitter divisional rivalry. Toronto has been eliminated by Boston in epic seven-game series’ in two of their last three playoff appearances, including last year.

The Bruins are the best team in the NHL not named Tampa. Bar none. They put up the record they did this season despite a rash of injuries to top end players. Their depth is the best in the game.

They have a good goalie in Tuukka Rask and a great combination of size, speed and skill.

Meanwhile, the Leafs are as good as offensive team as there is in the game today. They come at you with waves of scoring talent, and that’s what makes them so dangerous.

The difference between the two is Boston plays defense, Toronto does not.

The Leafs rely on Frederik Andersen in goal to be their best defender, and on most nights, he is. Despite just having average numbers this season, he deserves some Vezina consideration.

The problem is, his team plays so loose in front of him. If the Leafs even had a semblance of an above average defense, we’d be talking about them as a potential Cup team this year instead of a team that could be staring at another first round exit.

The positive for the Leafs is that Patrice Bergeron, Boston’s shutdown, perennial Selke-favorite center, can’t play every shift against both Auston Matthews and John Tavares since they are on separate lines, so the Leafs can get some matchup advantages at times during this series, which should allow them to hang with the better Bruins team.

But the Bruins can beat you in a variety of ways. They can play slow. They can play fast. They can play heavy. They can play light. They can play however the pace of the game dictates. And that’s what makes them so dangerous.

This’ll be a back and forth series between two heavyweights that shouldn’t be forced to meet so early in the playoffs (fix your format NHL) but the better team will prevail. Bruins in seven. As for betting this series, if you want to take the Bruins, at -145, that’s not a bad bet. Watch the over/under line though game-to-game. This series should be on the higher-scoring end, but it will depend on how Rask and Andersen are playing. I kind of like Over 6 goals in Game 1 though.

No. M2 New York Islanders vs. No. M3 Pittsburgh Penguins

If there’s a series I’m going to ask you to stay away from completely in terms of betting, it’s this one.

The Islanders have been a pleasant surprise this season, and finished on the plus side going 13-9-0 in their last 22 games. But they were 35-18-7 before that, so the bloom fell off the rose a little bit in the last month or so.

Still, credit Barry Trotz, who should be coach of the year for what he did with that team, for keeping them relevant all season and having them play an incredible, team-oriented, defensive system that does seem to have success in the playoffs.

But this is the Penguins we’re talking about. There’s a ton of experience here. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and now Jake Guentzel has to get added to the mix as an elite sniper in the sport.

The problem with the Penguins is they are too top heavy and don’t have the depth that made them dangerous in the past, and Matt Murray hasn’t been consistent in goal for quite awhile now.

The big question is, what wins out in this series, playoff experience, or a great coach and his system with a group of overachievers?

I’m not sure I can give you the answer there, but I’ll take the Islanders in seven games only because they’re playing their home games in the first round at the old barn – Nassau Coliseum – and that place will be loud and fun and give them a slight edge in the final game. But like I said, avoid betting this series at all costs. 

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WESTERN CONFERENCE BETTING ANALYSIS

No. P1 Calgary Flames vs. WC No. 2 Colorado Avalanche

Calgary is the favorite to come out of the West. This is not surprising as they had the best record in the conference, locked it up relatively early, and have a good, young, offensive minded team led by South Jersey’s own Johnny Gaudreau.

Yet, they’re the one favorite I have the least confidence in going into the playoffs.

I guess it’s their goaltending that makes me skeptical.

Veteran Mike Smith was their No. 1 coming into the season but started ceding games to David Rittich as the season progressed and the two ended up splitting the season with Rittich starting 42 games and Smith 40.

Neither had a standout season, and their numbers are indicative of average goaltending.

Well, you can’t win in the playoffs with average goaltending, it needs to be better than that. Especially against a team like Colorado who has the offensive firepower to leave you scratching your head as to what broke down when they score on you so quickly.

Nathan McKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Gabroel Landeskog are a very dangerous top line, and they will get a bulk of the ice time for the Avs.

The Flames are deeper than the Avs, but if the Avs top line out plays the Flames top line, which is possible, then this pendulum could take a surprising swing.

It’s not that the Avs have significantly better goaltending, they don’t. But, Philipp Grubauer got hot at the end of the season and so did Colorado’s secondary scoring showed some real punch. It allowed the Avs to go 8-1-2 in their last 12 games to earn this playoff spot, and they are a hot team coming in.

Meanwhile, the Flames were just sort of going through the motions down the stretch, knowing they were going to be a playoff team and the top seed for awhile. They were just 9-9-0 in their final 18 games.

Yes, playoffs is another level, but Colorado isn’t just happy to be here. They game top-seeded Nashville a run for their money a season ago and this Calgary team isn’t as good as that Nashville team was, while this Colorado squad is better than its former self of a year ago.

There’s always one big surprise in the NHL’s first round, and this is me sticking my neck out and making a bold prediction here. Avalanche in six. It’s also a good value bet to get the Avs at +180. Also, with goaltending being what it is, this is another series where the over should hit more often than not, especially if it’s six or lower. It’s six for Game 1.

No. C1 Nashville Predators vs. WC No. 1 Dallas Stars

I’ll tell you up front that Dallas is a trendy pick here. You’re going to see a lot of people hopping on the Stars because of their defense and goaltending and the fact that Nashville is not a great offensive team and it has the worst power play of any playoff team.

It’ll be sexy to follow that wave and try and make some bucks betting on a hot underdog.

And while I’m not sold on this Nashville team as a Stanley Cup Finalist, I am sold on their experience and coaching enough to be certain that they will handle Dallas with relative ease.

With two good, veteran goalies in Ben Bishop (Dallas) and Pekka Rinne (Nashville), this series also has a feel of an old-timey, low-scoring, tight and physical series.

So there are a couple of good betting plays here.

I always like Peter Laviolette in the first round as a coach. He knows how to get his team ready for the start of a long playoff run. This marks the eleventh time in his 16-years coaching in the NHL that he’s guided a team to the playoffs and in the previous ten, he’s been bounced in the first round three times – his first two years as a head coach with a scrappy but under-talented New York Islanders team and in his first season in Nashville in 2014-15. On the contrary, he’s taken three different teams to the Stanley Cup Final as well. Jim Montgomery, who coaches Dallas, reminds me of a young Lavy. I think long-term he gets the Stars back to prominence, but Lavy definitely has an edge here. The Preds are -180, which might seem steep for an NHL playoff series. But you’ll definitely get value there by combining it with:

The over/under. Yes, it’s low for Game 1 at just five goals. But this series is going to be a defensive struggle, especially in the first game as the two teams take some time to feel each other out. It could open up a little bit as the series progresses, and if it’s still five by Game 4, flip and go over. But until then, you’re looking at a lot of 2-1, 3-1 games between these two teams.

So, in the end, I’ll take Predators in five.

No. P2 San Jose Sharks vs. No. P3 Vegas Golden Knights

For much of the season, I was saying the Sharks look like the team that’s going to come out of the West. They were really rolling for awhile, and then all of the sudden, something went awry and they veered way off course.

They finished the season 3-8-1, but two of those wins came in the last two games against an Edmonton team that had quit and a Colorado team who was still feeling the hangover of a playoff clinching overtime win against Winnipeg.

Something’s a little off with a Sharks team that, on paper, is as good, or better than any team in the West.

Conversely, Vegas is a better team than they were a season ago when the Knights made their miracle run to the Stanley Cup Final in their first season of existence.

Yeah, they finished 1-5-2 down the stretch, but they were pretty locked into the position they were in and basically took the foot of the gas.

It was how they played after the traded deadline, in which thy acquired should-be Selke Trophy finalist Mark Stone from Ottawa. They went 10-1-0 in their next 11 games, with six of those wins coming against playoff teams, including a 7-3 drubbing of the Sharks in San Jose.

Oh, and they have a goalie whose won a bunch of postseason games and is unfazed at this time of year in Marc-Andre Fleury.

Fleury played other-worldly in the playoffs last season and followed that up with a very strong year for Vegas this season.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the Sharks have Marin Jones and his sub-.900 save percentage in goal.

That’s a huge edge to Vegas.

Never mind the fact that they play at a different level at home in one of the toughest arenas in the league for a visiting team to play.

This is a bad matchup for the Sharks. It just is.

I’ll take the Knights in six, especially with them being a lower seed at -110.

No. C2 Winnipeg Jets vs. No. C3 St. Louis Blues

I saved the best first round series for last.

Yeah, Boston-Toronto will give it a run for it’s money, mostly because of the hype, but this is the series that will e the most nip and tuck from Game 1 through Game 6 or 7.

The Jets have more skill. The Blues are a better defensive team. The Blues are also riding a rookie goalie in Jordan Binnington who literally came out of nowhere to lead their incredible climb from the basement of the conference to almost winning the Central Division.

Meanwhile, the Jets have been less than stellar for a while now. That’s because their game is a bit easy to identify. They have a great power play, and they sort of wait for their chances with the man advantage to be aggressive. St. Louis will shut them down at five-on-five for long stretches, and that could frustrate the Jets.

And yet, you can’t lose sight of the fact that the Jets have such top-end skill that could find a way, as skilled players often do, in the most crucial of times.

And there’s always the potential that Binnington crumbles under the bright lights shining on the playoff stage. I don’t think he will, but if there’s a crack, or a weakness, these Jets are talented enough to exploit it.

The difference is the Blues play a more focused game. They aren’t as easily deterred from their game plan after giving up a goal or two. They have great poise. I’m not sure that’s as solid in Winnipeg.

The Blues have been playing the equivalent of playoff hockey since January 10, when they were in last place in the Western Conference, and have responded by going 28-8-5.

They’re going to be a tough out in these playoffs. And I don’t believe they’ll be going out in Round 1.

Give me the Blues in six, and I don’t care that they are a favorite in the series (-115) despite the Jets having home ice advantage.

To wrap up my picks, I don’t think anyone beats the Lightning, although if any team can it’s Boston. So, if you take the Lightning to win the Cup, back it up with a smaller bet on the Bruins.

Out West, I think it comes down to Vegas and St. Louis and I’ll take the Knights to get back once again. I don’t think they can beat either Tampa or Boston, but then again, I don’t think any Western team can beat either of them. So I wouldn’t lay money on a Western team to win the Cup.

But, Vegas at +650 and St. Louis at +700 are solid bets to reach the Finals.

SINGLE-GAME TRENDS

Finally, a couple of individual game trends I want you to watch as you bet the games each night.

1. Small Road team favorites are consistently good plays

Home ice advantage is not that big of an advantage in the playoffs. It’s not like other sports. Hockey is weird that way. But, the betting public has not taken advantage of this as they keep betting home underdogs because, well, they’re the home team.

However, that doesn’t play out well… especially in the opening round.

As a matter of fact, since 2006, there have been 67 playoff games played where the road team is anywhere from a pick -em (-100) to -125 on the money line. In those 67 games, the road team is 46-21. That’s a 68.7% winning percentage.

Now, it’s also an average of  between five and six times per year in the first round, which is usually about 10-15% of the games being played, so there aren’t many opportunities. But if you find them, take them. As a matter of fact, in Game Ones tonight Pittsburgh (-105) and St. Louis (-105) fit that criteria.

2. Lower seeds on the road coming off a loss will bring a good return on investment

This one you need to wait for after Game One in each series, but the fact is, you can make some surprisingly good money here, even losing more than you’d like.

Let me explain.

Since 2006, lower seeds coming off a loss in their next game on the road are 75-91. At first glance, that might not seem like a number you want to bet with, especially if you are losing 64.8 percent of the time.

But, if you consider that underdogs are flat out winning games 45.2 percent of the time in these situations, you are going to win a greater amount of money even if you lose more games. Just for kicks, lets say all the home teams win Game 1 this year (except Winnipeg, because you followed my above advice and bet the Blues). You then bet all seven road teams in this situation except St. Louis in Game 2 on the money line.

With all of them having odds likely in the +120 to +200 range, even if you hit on three of seven (43%) you’ll likely still make money because the four losses will cost you $400 but the three wins will likely pay out more than $400.

This one won’t make you a killing, but it will give you a return on investment probably in the +15 percent range, which is a good secondary bet to cover other potential losses and is a good addition to a system of betting that you might be putting together to improve your odds of winning.

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Cash Flow In Real Estate – The #1 Reason To Invest

What’s the #1 reason that attracts people to real estate investing? Passive income, right? This comes from the cash flow real estate spins off that allow some of the wealthiest people I know to be in the position that they’re in.

It’s also how so many high-income professionals have been able to reach financial independence (like the Physician on Fire) and even fatFIRE in 5-7 years.

Grant Cardone bases his entire TV show around the cash flow real estate he’s involved with to help other investors with investing in real estate.

His choice of hats says it all!

If you’re scratching your head wondering if you should invest in something that you don’t much know about versus working until you’re 70+ then I encourage you to sit down with your spouse and create some realistic financial goals.

What does your life look like in 5,10,20 years?

Be as SPECIFIC as possible.

What does your home look like?

Where do you want to travel?

How much monthly cash flow do you want coming in?

Do you want to bring your kids or grand kids to Disney each year?

Do you want a house in the mountains or beach?

When do you want to cut back working or retire all together?

Do you want to retire to something that you love?

As you can see, there’s a lot of issues to address.

My wife and I recently had this conversation during one of our six mile walks. I’m glad we did because what she WANTS and what I WANT are much different. It’s part of being married.

She wins and I….well no comment on that one!

So it’s good to find this out so you can BOTH work together to help each other out.

No matter what you’re aspiring to achieve, more than likely you’re going to need some source of income to do it.

You have to decide if you want it to come from active vs passive income.

If you want to do this passively (like me) then cash flow is the key and the primary focus in building infinite wealth.

You Have A Choice

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I’m a big on working SMARTER instead of harder.

One of my teenagers is working landscaping and mowing yards with a friend of mine this summer. He wants the money to help his dad pay for a car 🙂 next year but he’s also getting a good taste of what working hard is all about.

I told him next year he could either:

a. continue with the manual labor and work for someone

b. start his own company taking his new-found skills with other people working for him

He’s now got a choice and so do you.

You can continue life as either an employee working for someone or self-employed working for yourself. But realize both of those situations require you to show up each day to work and if you don’t….no $$ comes in.

This is called a J-O-B and you fall on the left side (poor side) of Robert Kiyosaki’s (Rich Dad Poor Dad) CashFlow Quadrant.

If you’ve chosen to work smarter, then let’s find out how….

What Is The Definition Of Cash Flow?

Here’s a 4 minute video from Bigger Pockets explaining cash flow:

  In order to calculate cash flow in real estate, you simply take how much income is leftover after all of the bills have been paid. It’s the money you can pocket at the end of the day.

In the past I dabbled with different types of real estate investing until I found one category, real estate syndications, that are helping us build streams of passive income each year.

These are now our MAIN focus.

Many Passive Investors Circle members have questions about real estate cash returns and specifically the cash flow real estate syndications pay out in distributions on a regular basis.

Living With Land Epcot

I’ve decided to take you on a behind the scenes tour (not a Behind The Seeds Tour for my Disney friends 🙂 )

Let’s get going…

Cash Flow Distributions

The majority of the investment property syndication deals that are offered pay regular cash flow distributions (monthly or quarterly), starting anywhere from 2-4 months after closing.

The best part about this is that they keep coming in no matter what the stock market is doing. This was especially helpful for us during the COVID-19 pandemic when the stock market started a steep decline.

Gross Potential Income

As stated earlier, income comes from cash flow real estate investments spin off. In our case, we’re going to stick with focusing on apartment syndication deals as they’re my favorite passive investment.

The main source of income for apartments are form the rent the tenants pay on a monthly basis. But there are other sources of income they receive such as:

laundry fees

covered parking

storage units on site

Let’s say that the 100 units of the apartment syndication you invested in rent for $800 each. That means that the gross potential income is $80,000 per month, or $960,000 per year.

Monthly Gross Potential Income

100 units x $800 each = $80,000 per month

Annual Gross Potential Income

$80,000 per month x 12 months = $960,000 per year

Keep in mind that this is the gross POTENTIAL income. That means that’s the total income assuming all the units were filled, at market rents, with no concessions (e.g., “first month rent is free”).

Net Rental Income

The net rental income is when you factor in the:

vacancy costs

loss to lease

concessions

For our example, we’re going to factor in that 10% of the units are vacant. So with a total of 100 units, then 10 units are vacant.

Due to the fact that each unit rents for $800, the monthly vacancy cost is $8,000.

Monthly Vacancy Cost

10 units x $800 each = $8,000 vacancy cost per month

Over the course of the year, assuming the vacancy rate stays the same, the annual vacancy cost would be $96,000.

Net Rental Income

$960,000 gross potential income – ($8,000 vacancy cost x 12 months) = $864,000 net rental income

Operating Expenses

As with any business like my dental practice, an apartment building has expenses too.

These expenses include:

maintenance and repairs

property management fees

cleaning fees

landscaping

utilities

legal fees

insurance

pest control

payroll

For our example, we’re going to assume that the total projected monthly operating expenses come out to $38,000 or $456,000 per year, in operating expenses.

Annual Operating Expenses

$38,000 monthly operating expenses x 12 months = $456,000 annual operating expenses

Once you take out those expenses, you arrive at the net operating income, also known as the NOI.

Net Operating Income (NOI)

$864,000 net rental income – $456,000 operating expenses = $408,000 NOI

Hopefully you’re still with me. So for our example after expenses are taken out, we’re left with a NOI of $408,000.

Mortgage

No different than when you purchase a home, the sponsor in a syndication deal obtains a mortgage after paying a down payment.

As part of the monthly expenses, the lender would be paid back in the form of principal and interest payments.

Let’s say that our principal and interest is $20,000 per month. This would bring the annual mortgage payments to $240,000.

Annual Mortgage Payments

$20,000 monthly mortgage x 12 months = $240,000 annual mortgage payments

Cash Flow/Cash on Cash Returns

Now we can get to what we’ve all been waiting for…the cash flow real estate part (aka cash-on-cash returns).

First Year Total Cash Flow

Remember our NOI was $408,000. If we subtract out the mortgage of $240,000, we’re left with a positive cash flow of $168,000.

$408,000 NOI – $240,000 mortgage = $168,000 first year total cash flow

Depending on the agreed upon deal structure, this amount is then split up. Most deals have either a 70/30 or 80/20 deal structure.

In our example, we’re going to use the 80/20 deal structure. What this means is that:

80% of the profits go to the investors (which is YOU)

20% go to the sponsor team (i.e., the general partners)

First Year Cash Flow to Investors

In our example, the first year cash flow would be $134,400.

$168,000 first year cash flow x 80% = $134,400 first year cash flow to investors

Most syndication deals are for accredited investors only with a $50K minimum investment.

Depending on your investment amount, you’d get a share of that cash flow every month or quarter, in the form of a distribution check.

Actually, it’s not a physical check but a direct deposit. 🙂

Cash Flow Distribution Checks

In our example we’re going to assume that you receive distribution checks on a quarterly basis and that you initially invested $100,000.

Your quarterly cash flow distribution for the first year would be $2,157.

Over the course of that first year, you would have collected roughly $8,628 in passive income from this investment.

Are these guarantees? Of course not. Nothing is except taxes and death.

There are MANY factors that go into the actual calculations, and these any projections are just that. Projections.

That being said, such projections are a great way to evaluate your potential returns on your investments, and to see exactly where each dollar of your investment is going, and where each dollar of projected cash flow is coming from.

Tax-Free

Now that you’ve learned that the distributions come from the cashflow of the property. There are two notable benefits of this as investors:

a. Cash flow distributions = passive income to investors throughout the year

b. The depreciation of the asset is often higher than the cash distributed to investors = tax-free income from the distributions.

Final Thoughts

Hopefully you’re now starting to realize that cash flow can ultimately lead to financial freedom.

Something else that it can do is eliminate the fear of running out of money, especially during retirement.

Your goal should be to get more cash flow (passive income) coming in than you spend on living expenses.

By definition, that’s financial independence! You’re making your money work hard for you instead of you working hard for your money.

What are you waiting for? 

Join the Passive Investors Circle to start your journey today.

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