(Wasn't sure if this goes here or the roster thread or if there's a WAGs thread, but...) Eloy Room's girlfriend is an Instagram influencer and Vlogger. With the crappy auto-translate captions, this is pretty funny/entertaining at times. Especially her reactions seeing Mapfre and Easton for the first times. (no, I didn't watch the whole twenty-two minute thing, just skipped through)
A person that has a lot of Instagram followers and sells them things for a commision. Or something like that. See also: The Kardashians.
Someone said there had been NFL kickers who were small. I pointed out they almost all came from college football and were used to at least occasional crunching hits. Lloyd isn't. I doubt she weighs more than 150 pounds, about Gerald McNeil size. But much, much slower. She's also 37 years old. But hey if you want to argue the NFL has been missing the boat overlooking middle aged women as potential players, go ahead.
Didn't say that, now did I? I'd already noted that while I respect the women's skills they don't have the power or the speed. But you made a couple of other assumptions that were, shall we say, somewhat suspect, such as to NFL kickers all having college experience and all being large. I noted examples--of successful kickers--where the former was quite incorrect. There are many other examples.
Your examples were from many years ago as the NFL switched from straight ahead kickers to soccer style. While lots of NFL kickers and punters come from abroad, the overwhelming majority go through a US college football program first.
There are quite a number of more recent examples--if you care to look it up (I did). I just gave a couple of prominent examples. Placekicking is not that tough to learn, if you have the physical skills. Even in the cases where they pick it up in college, that's still a pretty advanced level of play for a beginner. The newer example is, of course, the Aussie Rules guys who have been getting a shot as punters.
Was cleaning off a computer going through old pictures and notes and junk and found this: (can't remember if I ever posted this here or not) My will to openly advocate for Saving the Crew stopped today. I went to a park in Westerville to isolate myself from the world and enjoy peace and quiet on a table close to a stream and read a technical document on my phone. Was wearing a Crew hat, just a hat. Someone brought her 3 brats and sat on the table next to me and felt it was necessary to start a conversation. "Do you think they are really leaving?" "I don't think it's fair to have to pay taxes for"... blah blah blah. My mind went blank and my focus looked like the vortex at the end of Evil Dead II. I remained polite and answered questions productively as her brats threw sticks and grass at each other. Eventually they left and I just picked up and drove around for a while then just went home. I don't think I'll wear that hat, or my other gear anymore.
Basically, yeah. At times, they'll try to use their "influence" to score free hotel rooms or other stuff. They'll claim they'll put reviews on their various pages for their 50k followers to see, thus somehow translating into free PR and, thus, more business. In other words, it's incredibly airheaded...but right up the alley of people who feel like they're above real jobs where they might actually have to *gasp* pay for services rendered.
If people can make a living steaming on YouTube or Twitch, more power to them for living the dream. Not my place to be bitter because I can't accomplish the same thing.
I don’t know about a bad take; not as fleshed out as wiki, but krypto was summarizing. And adding a bit of his own opinion—which I agree with.
Maybe I'm just a grump at times. We all have the rights to our opinions and nobody is forced to agree.