Remember Ficken’s 1st game in Tenn last year?

Missed extra point and missed chip shot to start his NFL career….

There’s an added sense of urgency from the offense when the kicker sucks…. even the GSOT had “money” Wilkens… you need a combat proven kicker…

Let’s hope Greg Z comes back in original form… and with the new kick off rule it’s best to have a kicker that consistently boots it out of the end zone like Zuerlein can.

If Gurley was utilized more vs ATL last season I think the Rams win that playoff game….

Foles has a ring, he played Case in the NFC title game

With McVay as coach and Whiteorth at LT I think i’d make Goff expendable.

But fuck that….I want cake and ice cream and for this msg board some pie too. I want all three….

Ok now I get it…

LINK: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/05/14/lake-merritt-bbq-confrontation-sparks-protests/

OAKLAND — A confrontation that went viral when someone complained to police about a group of black people barbecuing at Lake Merritt is sparking protests this week and reigniting a new-versus-old residents debate.
Demonstrators plan to gather at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in front of City Hall for a “Grill Your Government” protest and for a “BBQ’N While Black” event Sunday on Lakeshore Avenue, the site of the controversy attracting national attention.
Those planning to attend Tuesday’s protest in Frank Ogawa Plaza are asked to “wear cookout clothes, bring grills, but mostly, demand a response for this abuse of city services,” according to the event flie

protests are in response to a white woman’s April 29 call to Oakland police to report a black family barbecuing on Lakeshore Avenue near Cleveland Cascade. A video of the woman calling and waiting for police to arrive has gone viral and received criticism that it was racially motivated and is another example of gentrification in Oakland.
“People have had enough. The gentleman who was approached at the lake was minding his own business,” said Jhamel Robinson, founder of The Real Oakland and one of the organizers of Sunday’s event. “Whatever laws are in place … that lady had no reason to mess with them.”

the video, the unidentified woman is heard saying she called police because the family was using a charcoal grill in an area where only non-charcoal barbecues are allowed. A person who shot the video questioned whether she called authorities because the family is black, which the woman denied. Police later arrived and did not ticket or arrest anyone.
The daytime confrontation is not the first controversy at Lake Merritt, which has become a more popular destination since bond measure money improved it. Anti-cruising signs along Lakeshore Avenue date back to the 1990s. In 2015, another white resident called police on black and Latino people drumming near the pergola and colonnade.
Because of growing crowds and environmental concerns, a committee of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department designed rules involving barbecues, installing charcoal grills on the Grand Avenue side. Stationary grills were placed behind Children’s Fairyland, near the Sailboat House on Bellevue Avenue and a pit farther down Bellevue near Staten Avenue.
Pamela Drake of the Lakeshore Business Improvement District said the city was resistant to putting charcoal barbecues on Lakeshore Avenue and the grassy knoll on Hanover Avenue.
“I understand why you can’t use charcoal on grass,” said Drake, a member of a special committee who toured the lake when the city selected designated areas. “If people are going to barbecue anyway, why make something for people to fight over? Give people the opportunity to do what they want and don’t give people the chance to come down on them.”
Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney, whose district includes Adams Point, said the incident is another example of explicit or implicit bias attracting national headlines.
On April 30 — a day after the Lake Merritt confrontation — a white mother called police on two Native American teenage brothers who had joined a campus tour of Colorado State University, causing outrage. At Yale University, a woman called campus police on a black graduate student who fell asleep in a common area while working on a paper.
Also last month, two African-American men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks for allegedly trespassing after one of the men had asked to use the restroom.
“It’s just unacceptable,” Gibson McElhaney said. “If someone is concerned about enforcement, the appropriate thing to do is file a complaint. What we don’t want is this kind of intimidation or interruption that could escalate in a negative way.”
“It’s a historic pattern and we are tired of it,” added Candice Elder, founder and executive director of East Oakland Collective. “We are slowly losing a large essence of Oakland culture.”
Robinson, who is organizing “BBQ’N While Black” with Logan Cortez, said he was expecting “25 people to barbecue, listen to music and go home.” The event so far has about 1,500 shares on Facebook.
“(I want) everybody, all races to come together and hold space at the lake, have a good time and spread love,” Robinson said Monday. “It’s not about black or white, it’s about one Oakland family, one

Portuguese Revolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also referred to as the 25th of April (Portuguese: vinte e cinco de Abril), was initially a military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, on 25 April 1974 which overthrew the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo.[1] The revolution started as a military coup organized by the Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas, MFA) composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but the movement was soon coupled with an unanticipated and popular campaign of civil resistance. This movement would lead to the fall of the Estado Novo and the withdrawal of Portugal from its African colonies.

The name “Carnation Revolution” comes from the fact that almost no shots were fired and that when the population took to the streets to celebrate the end of the dictatorship and war in the colonies, carnations were put into the muzzles of rifles and on the uniforms of the army men by Celeste Caeiro.[2] In Portugal, 25 April is a national holiday, known as Freedom Day (Portuguese: Dia da Liberdade), to celebrate the event

Overview[edit]

Portugal had been run by an authoritarian dictatorship (the Estado Novo, or “New State”), which was considered by many to be fascist, for over four decades.[3] The events of the revolution effectively changed the government into a democracy, and produced enormous social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in the country, after two years of a transitional period known as PREC (Processo Revolucionário Em Curso, or On-Going Revolutionary Process), characterized by social turmoil and power disputes between left- and right-wing political forces.[citation needed]

Despite repeated appeals by the revolutionaries, broadcast over the radio, asking the population to stay home, thousands of Portuguese descended on the streets, mixing with the military insurgents.[4]

The military-led coup returned democracy to Portugal, ending the unpopular Colonial War in which thousands of Portuguese citizens had been conscripted into military service, and replacing the Estado Novo regime and its secret police which repressed elemental civil liberties and political freedoms. It started as a professional class[5] protest of Portuguese Armed Forces captains against a decree law: the Dec Lei nº 353/73 of 1973.[6][7]

A group of Portuguese low-ranking officers organised within the Armed Forces Movement (MFA – Movimento das Forças Armadas), including some who had been fighting the pro-independence guerrillas in the Portuguese empire’s territories in Africa,[8] and rose to overthrow the Estado Novo regime that had ruled Portugal since the 1930s. Portugal’s new regime pledged itself to end the colonial wars and began negotiations with the African independence movements. By the end of 1974, Portuguese troops had been withdrawn from Portuguese Guinea and the latter had become a UN member state. This was followed by the independence of Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola in 1975. The Carnation Revolution in Portugal also led to Portugal’s withdrawal from East Timor in south-east Asia. These events prompted a mass exodus of Portuguese citizens from Portugal’s African territories (mostly from Angola and Mozambique), creating over a million Portuguese refugees — the retornados.[9][10]

Although the regime’s political police, PIDE, killed four people before surrendering, the revolution was unusual in that the revolutionaries did not use direct violence to achieve their goals. Holding red carnations (cravos in Portuguese), many people joined revolutionary soldiers on the streets of Lisbon, in apparent joy and audible euphoria.[11] Red is a symbolic colour for socialism and communism, which were the main ideological tendencies of many anti-New State insurgents.[12] It was the end of the Estado Novo, the longest-lived authoritarian regime in Western Europe, and the final dissolution of the Portuguese Empire. In the aftermath of the revolution a new constitution was drafted, censorship was formally prohibited, free speech was declared, political prisoners were released and the Portuguese overseas territories in Sub-Saharan Africa were immediately given their independence. East Timor was also offered independence, shortly before being invaded by Indonesia.

Context[edit]

At the beginning of the 1970s, the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo (“New State”) continued to weigh heavily on the country, after a half-century of rule under the President of the Council of Ministers António de Oliveira Salazar. After the 28 May 1926 coup d’état, Portugal implemented an authoritarian regime of social-Catholic and Integralist inspiration. In 1933, the regime was recast and renamed Estado Novo (“New State”), and Salazar was named as President of the Council of Ministers until 1968, when he suffered a stroke following a domestic accident. He was replaced in September by Marcello Caetano, who served as President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) until he was deposed on 25 April 1974.

Under the Estado Novo, Portugal’s undemocratic government was tolerated by its NATO partners due to its anti-communist stance; this attitude changed dramatically during the mid-1960s, under pressure of public opinion and leftwing movements rising in Europe.[citation needed] There were formal elections but they were rarely contested—with the opposition using the limited political freedoms allowed during the brief election period to openly protest against the regime, withdrawing their candidates before the election so as not to provide the regime with any legitimacy. In 1958, General Humberto Delgado—a former member of the regime—stood against the regime’s presidential candidate, Américo Tomás, and refused to allow his name to be withdrawn from the competition.

Tomás won the election, but only amidst claims of widespread electoral fraud that denied Delgado of his ‘legitimate’ victory. Immediately after this election, Salazar’s government abandoned the practice of popularly electing the president, with that task being given thereafter to the regime-loyal National Assembly. During Caetano’s time in office, his attempts at minor political reform were obstructed by the important Salazarist elements within the regime (known as the Bunker). The Estado Novo’s political police—the PIDE (Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado), later to become DGS (Direcção-Geral de Segurança), and originally the PVDE (Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado)—persecuted opponents of the regime, who were often tortured, imprisoned or killed.

The international context was not favourable to the Portuguese regime. The Cold War was near its peak, and both Western and Eastern-bloc states were supporting the guerrillas in the Portuguese colonies, attempting to bring these under, respectively, American and Soviet influence (see Portuguese Colonial War). The overseas policy of the Portuguese Government and the desire of many colonial residents to remain under Portuguese rule would lead to an abrupt decolonisation, which occurred only after the Carnation Revolution of April 1974 and the fall of the regime. For the Portuguese ruling regime, the overseas empire was a matter of national interest.

In the view of many Portuguese, a colonial empire was necessary for continued national power and influence.[citation needed] Despite objections in world forums such as the United Nations, Portugal had long maintained that its African colonies were an integral part of Portugal, and felt obliged to militarily defend them against Communist-inspired armed groups, particularly after India’s annexation of Portuguese exclaves Goa, Daman and Diu (Portuguese India), in 1961 (see Indian Invasion of Goa).[citation needed]

Independence movements in Portugal’s African possessions[edit]

Independence movements started operations in the African colonies of Portuguese Mozambique, Portuguese Angola, and Portuguese Guinea. The various conflicts forced the Salazar and Caetano regimes to spend more of the country’s budget on colonial administration and military expenditures, and Portugal soon found itself increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. Throughout the war period Portugal faced increasing dissent, arms embargoes and other punitive sanctions imposed by most of the international community.[13]

For Portuguese society the war was becoming even more unpopular due to its length and financial costs, the worsening of diplomatic relations with other United Nations members, and the role it had always played as a factor of perpetuation of the Estado Novo regime. It was this escalation that would lead directly to the mutiny of members of the FAP in the Carnation Revolution in 1974 – an event that would lead to the independence of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa. Atrocities, such as that at Wiriyamu in Mozambique, undermined the war’s popularity and the government’s diplomatic position – although some details of the Wiriyamu case remain disputed.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

After Caetano succeeded to the presidency, colonial war became a major cause of dissent and a focus for anti-government forces in Portuguese society.[citation needed] Many left-wing students and anti-war activists were forced to leave the country so they could escape conscription, imprisonment and torture by government forces. However, between 1945 and 1974, there were also three generations of militants of the radical right at the Portuguese universities and schools, guided by a revolutionary nationalism partly influenced by the political sub-culture of European neofascism. The core of these radical students’ struggle lay in an uncompromising defense of the Portuguese Empire in the days of the authoritarian regime.[20]

Economic conditions[edit]

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The economy of Portugal and its colonies on the eve of the Carnation Revolution was growing well above the European average.[citation needed] Average family purchasing power was rising together with new consumption patterns and trends and this was promoting both investment in new capital equipment and consumption expenditure for durable and nondurable consumer goods.[citation needed] The Estado Novo regime economic policy encouraged and created conditions for the formation of large business conglomerates. The regime maintained a policy of corporatism that resulted in the placement of a big part of the Portuguese economy in the hands of a number of strong conglomerates, including those founded by the families of António Champalimaud (Banco Totta & Açores, Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor, Secil, Cimpor), José Manuel de Mello (CUF – Companhia União Fabril), Américo Amorim (Corticeira Amorim) and the dos Santos family (Jerónimo Martins).

Those Portuguese conglomerates had a business model with similarities to South Korean chaebols and Japanese keiretsus and zaibatsus.[citation needed] The Companhia União Fabril (CUF) was one of the largest and most diversified Portuguese conglomerates with its core businesses (cement, chemicals, petrochemicals, agrochemicals, textiles, beer, beverages, metallurgy, naval engineering, electrical engineering, insurance, banking, paper, tourism, mining, etc.) and corporate headquarters located in mainland Portugal, but also with branches, plants and several developing business projects all around the Portuguese Empire, especially in the Portuguese territories of Angola and Mozambique.

Other medium-sized family companies specialized in textiles (for instance those located in the city of Covilhã and the northwest), ceramics, porcelain, glass and crystal (like those of Alcobaça, Caldas da Rainha and Marinha Grande), engineered wood (like SONAE near Porto), canned fish (like those of Algarve and the northwest), fishing, food and beverages (alcoholic beverages, from liqueurs like Licor Beirão and Ginjinha, to beer like Sagres, were produced across the entire country, but Port Wine was one of its most reputed and exported alcoholic beverages), tourism (well established in Estoril/Cascais/Sintra and growing as an international attraction in the Algarve since the 1960s) and in agriculture (like the ones scattered around the Alentejo – known as the breadbasket of Portugal) completed the panorama of the national economy by the early 1970s. In addition, rural areas’ populations were committed to agrarianism that was of great importance for a majority of the total population, with many families living exclusively from agriculture or complementing their salaries with farming, husbandry and forestry yields.

Portuguese colonies in Africa during the Estado Novo regime: Angola and Mozambique were by far the two largest of those territories.
Besides that, the colonies were also displaying impressive economic growth and development rates from the 1920s onwards.[citation needed] Even during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974), a counterinsurgency war against independentist guerrilla and terrorism, Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique (colonies at the time) had continuous economic growth rates and several sectors of its local economies were booming. They were internationally notable centres of production of oil, coffee, cotton, cashew, coconut, timber, minerals (like diamonds), metals (like iron and aluminium), banana, citrus, tea, sisal, beer (Cuca and Laurentina were successful beer brands produced locally), cement, fish and other sea products, beef and textiles. Tourism was also a fast developing activity in Portuguese Africa both by the growing development of and demand for beach resorts and wildlife reserves.[citation needed]

Labour unions were not allowed and a minimum wage policy was not enforced. However, in a context of an expanding economy, bringing better living conditions for the Portuguese population in the 1960s, the outbreak of the colonial wars in Africa set off significant social changes, among them the rapid incorporation of more and more women into the labour market. Marcelo Caetano moved on to foster economic growth and some social improvements, such as the awarding of a monthly pension to rural workers who had never had the chance to pay social security. The objectives of Caetano’s pension reform were threefold: enhancing equity, reducing fiscal and actuarial imbalance, and achieving more efficiency for the economy as a whole, for example, by establishing contributions which distorted labour markets less, or by allowing the savings generated by pension funds to increase the investments in the economy.

After Salazar’s stroke in 1968, Caetano had taken over the office of Prime Minister. His main slogan was “evolution in continuity”, suggesting that there would be a reform of the Salazarist system. His so-called “political spring” (also called Marcelist Spring – Primavera Marcelista) included greater political tolerance and freedom of the press and was regarded as an opportunity by the opposition to gain concessions from the regime. In 1969, the Estado Novo-controlled nation got indeed a very slight taste of democracy and Caetano allowed the establishment of the first democratic labour union movement since the 1920s. Nevertheless, after the elections of 1969 and 1973 it was clear that the past practices of political repression would continue against communists, anti-colonialists and other oppositionists. In 1973, Caetano was pressured by the ultra-right faction inside the Salazarist élite to abandon his reform experiment.[citation needed]

The colonial war had a profound impact on Portugal—thousands of young men avoided conscription by emigrating illegally, mainly to France and the US. In addition, the other revolutionary Armed Forces Movement (MFA)’s goals were not in the strict interest of the people of Portugal or its colonies, since the movement was initiated not only as an attempt to liberate Portugal from the authoritarian Estado Novo regime, but as an attempt of rebellion against the new Military Laws that were to be presented next year.[21][22]

The Revolution and the whole movement were also a way to work against Laws that would reduce military costs and would reformulate the whole Portuguese Military Branch (Decree Law: Decretos-Leis n.os 353, de 13 de Julho de 1973, e 409, de 20 de Agosto). Younger military academy graduates resented a program introduced by Marcello Caetano whereby militia officers who completed a brief training program and had served in the colonies’ defensive campaigns, could be commissioned at the same rank as military academy graduates. As the war in the colonies was becoming increasingly unpopular in Portugal itself with the people becoming weary of war and balking at its ever-rising expense, the military insurgents took advantage of it and got some momentum.

Many ethnic Portuguese of the African colonies were also increasingly willing to accept independence if their economic status could be preserved.[citation needed] Following the coup d’état in Portugal in 1974, the new left-wing revolutionary government of Portugal began to negotiate with the African pro-independence guerrillas. The new government in Lisbon was disinclined to prop up Portugal’s convulsing and by now very expensive empire. All the Portuguese territories in Africa were rapidly granted their independence.

Events[edit]

Main article: Timeline of the Carnation Revolution

Portuguese Government poster from the mid-1970s by artist João Abel Manta (it reads: MFA, People – People, MFA) The character on the left is wearing a military cap, fatigues and boots while holding a garden fork and the one on the right is wearing a farmer’s cap and a military shirt and holding a rifle
In February 1974, Caetano determined to remove General António de Spínola in the face of increasing dissent by Spinola over the promotion of military officers and the direction of Portuguese colonial policy. This occurred shortly after the publication of Spínolas’s book Portugal and the Future, which expressed his political and military opinion on the Portuguese Colonial War. At this point, several left-wing military officers who opposed the war formed a conspiracy—the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA, “Armed Forces Movement”), to overthrow the government by military coup. The MFA was headed by the majors Vitor Alves and Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and captain Vasco Lourenço and joined by Salgueiro Maia. The movement was significantly aided by other officers in the Portuguese army who supported Spinola and democratic civil and military reform. Some observers have speculated that Costa Gomes actually led the revolution.

There were two secret signals in the military coup: first the airing (at 10:55 pm) by ‘Emissores Associados de Lisboa’ of the song “E Depois do Adeus” by Paulo de Carvalho, Portugal’s entry in 6 April 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, which alerted the rebel captains and soldiers to begin the coup. Next, on 25 April 1974 at 12:20 am, Rádio Renascença broadcast “Grândola, Vila Morena”, a song by Zeca Afonso, an influential folk and political musician-singer banned from Portuguese radio at the time. This was the signal that the MFA gave to take over strategic points of power in the country and “announced” that the revolution had started and nothing would stop it except “the possibility of a regime’s repression”.

Six hours later, the Caetano regime relented. Despite repeated appeals from the “captains of April” (of the MFA) on the radio warning the population to stay safe inside their homes, thousands of Portuguese took to the streets, mingling with the military insurgents and supporting them. One of the central points of those gathering was the Lisbon flower market, then richly stocked with carnations, which were in season. Some military insurgents would put these flowers in their gun-barrels, an image which was shown on television around the world. This would be the origin of the name of this “Carnation Revolution”. Although there were no mass demonstrations by the general population prior to the coup, spontaneous civilian involvement turned the military coup into an event with unexpected popular participation.

Caetano found refuge in the main Lisbon military police station at the Largo do Carmo. This building was surrounded by the MFA, which pressured him to cede power to General Spínola. Both Caetano (the prime minister) and Américo Tomás (the president) fled to Brazil. Caetano spent the rest of his life in Brazil, while Tomás returned to Portugal a few years later.

The revolution was closely watched from neighbouring Spain, where the government and opposition were planning for the succession of Francisco Franco, who died a year and a half later, in 1975.

Aftermath[edit]

A demonstration in Porto on 25 April 1983
After the military coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974, power was taken by a military junta, the National Salvation Junta, and Portugal went through a turbulent period, commonly called the Continuing Revolutionary Process (Portuguese: Processo Revolucionário em Curso, or PREC).

Initially there was a confrontation, at times open, at other times hidden, between the conservative forces around Spinola and the radicals of the MFA. Spinola was forced to appoint key figures in the MFA to senior security positions and as a result an attempted coup to halt the progress of democratisation failed and Spinola was removed from office. Then there followed a confrontation within the MFA, which itself splintered, between the most leftist forces, often close to the Communist party, and the more moderate groupings, often close to the Socialists.

This phase of the PREC lasted until 25 November 1975, the day of a pro-communist coup followed by a successful counter-coup by pro-democracy moderates, marked by constant friction between liberal-democratic forces and leftist/communist political parties.[23] After a year, the first free election was carried out on 25 April 1975 in order to write a new Constitution that would replace the Constitution of 1933 which prevailed during the Estado Novo period. In 1976, another election was held and the first Constitutional government, led by the centre-left socialist Mário Soares, assumed office.

Decolonisation[edit]

Main articles: Retornados, Angolan Civil War, Mozambican Civil War, Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and Lusophobia

Before April 1974, the war in Africa was consuming as much as 40% of the Portuguese budget and there was no end in sight. At a military level, a part of Guinea-Bissau was de facto independent since 1973, but the capital and the major towns were still under Portuguese control. In Angola and Mozambique, independence movements were only active in a few remote countryside areas from which the Portuguese Army had retreated, and the economies of these two territories were booming.

A direct consequence of the military coup at Lisbon was the sudden withdrawal of Portuguese administrative and military personnel from Portugal’s overseas colonies. Hundreds of thousands of other Portuguese citizens—workers, small business people, and farmers (often with deep roots in the former colonies)—also returned to Portugal as retornados.

Angola would later enter into a decades-long civil war which involved nations like the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa, and the United States. Millions of Angolans would die in the aftermath of independence, due either to the violence of the armed conflict or malnutrition and disease. After a short period of stability, Mozambique would also later enter into a devastating civil war that left it as one of the poorest nations in the world. Since the 1990s, its situation has improved after the war ended and multi-party elections were held.

East Timor was invaded by Indonesia and would later be occupied until 1999. There were an estimated 102,800 conflict-related deaths in the period 1974–99 (approximately 18,600 killings and 84,200 ‘excess’ deaths from hunger and illness), the majority of which occurred during the subsequent Indonesian occupation.[24]

After a long period of one-party rule, Guinea-Bissau endured a brief civil war and a difficult transition to civilian rule in the late 1990s.

Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, on the other hand, were spared civil war during the decolonization period, and by the early 1990s, they have both established multi-party political systems.

Macau remained a Portuguese colony until 1999 when China took control by agreement and went on to pursue a “one country, two systems” policy similar to Hong Kong’s.

Economic issues[edit]

Main article: Economic history of Portugal

The Portuguese economy had changed significantly by 1973 prior to the revolution, compared with its position in 1961. Total output (GDP at factor cost) had grown by 120 percent in real terms. The pre-revolutionary period was characterized by robust annual growth rates for GDP (6.9 percent), industrial production (9 percent), private consumption (6.5 percent), and gross fixed capital formation (7.8 percent). The revolutionary period itself was characterized by a slowly growing economy whose only impetus was the entering of the European Economic Zone. It never reached pre-revolutionary period growth rates. On the other hand, despite the progress in the 1960s and early 1970s, Portugal at the time of the Revolution was still an underdeveloped country with poor infrastructure and inefficient agriculture as well as the worst health and education indicators in Europe.[25]

However, researchers agree that pre-revolution Portugal increasingly accomplished notable social and economic achievements.[26] After a long period of economic divergence before 1914, the Portuguese economy recovered slightly until 1950, entering thereafter on a path of strong economic growth leading to some convergence with Western Europe, of which Portugal was and remained until the 1980s the poorest country. Portuguese economic growth in the period 1960–73 under the Estado Novo regime (and even with the effects of an expensive war effort in African territories against independence guerrilla groups), created an opportunity for real integration with the developed economies of Western Europe. Through emigration, trade, tourism and foreign investment, individuals and firms changed their patterns of production and consumption, bringing about a structural transformation. Simultaneously, the increasing complexity of a growing economy raised new technical and organizational challenges, stimulating the formation of modern professional and management teams.[27][28]

On 13 November 1972, a sovereign wealth fund (Fundo do Ultramar – The Overseas Fund) was enacted through the Decree Law Decreto-Lei n.º 448/ /72 and the Ministry of Defense ordinance Portaria 696/72, in order to finance the counterinsurgency effort in the Portuguese colonies.[29] While the counterinsurgency war was won in Angola, it was less than satisfactorily contained in Mozambique and dangerously stalemated in Portuguese Guinea from the Portuguese point of view, so the Portuguese Government had decided to create sustainability policies in order to allow continuous sources of financing for the war effort in the long run. In addition, new Decree Laws (Decree Law: Decretos-Leis n.os 353, de 13 de Julho de 1973, e 409, de 20 de Agosto) were enforced in order to cut down military expenses and increase the number of officers by incorporating militia and military academy officers in the Army branches as equals.[7][21][30][31][32]

In the agricultural sector, the collective farms, set up in Alentejo after the 1974–75 expropriations due to the leftist military coup of 25 April 1974, proved incapable of modernizing, and their efficiency declined. According to government estimates, about 900,000 hectares (2,200,000 acres) of agricultural land were occupied between April 1974 and December 1975 in the name of land reform; about 32% of the occupations were ruled illegal. In January 1976, the government pledged to restore the illegally occupied land to its owners, and in 1977, it promulgated the Land Reform Review Law. Restoration of illegally occupied land began in 1978.[33][34]

In 1960, at the initiation of Salazar’s more outward-looking economic policy due to the influence of a new wave of technocrats with background in economics (some of whom trained abroad, including in liberal capitalist graduate schools from the USA and the UK), Portugal’s per capita GDP was only 38 percent of the EC-12 average; by the end of the Salazar period, in 1968, it had risen to 48 percent; and in 1973, on the eve of the revolution, Portugal’s per capita GDP had reached 56.4 percent of the EC-12 average (though the figure is necessarily dampened by the 40% of the budget that went to African wars). In 1975, the year of maximum revolutionary turmoil, Portugal’s per capita GDP declined to 52.3 percent of the EC-12 average. Due to the new revolutionary economic policies, oil shocks, recession in Europe, the return of hundreds of thousands of overseas Portuguese from the former colonies, Portugal underwent an economic crisis starting in 1974–75.[35]

Convergence of real GDP growth toward the EC average occurred as a result of Portugal’s economic resurgence since 1985. In 1991 Portugal’s GDP per capita climbed to 54.9 percent of the EC average, exceeding by a fraction the level attained during the worst revolutionary period.[36] After the revolution Portugal’s economy would collapse and it took 16 years for the GDP as percentage of the EC-12 average to climb to 54.9 percent again. Portugal had been one of the founding members of EFTA (European Free Trade Association) in 1960. After the fall of the Estado Novo regime and the loss of its colonies in 1974 and 1975, Portugal left EFTA and entered into the European Economic Community in 1986.

A report published in January 2011 by the Diário de Notícias, a right-wing Portuguese tabloid newspaper, attempted to demonstrate that in the period between the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and 2010, the democratic Portuguese Republic governments have encouraged over expenditure and investment bubbles through unclear public-private partnerships. This has funded numerous ineffective and unnecessary external consultancy and advising committees and firms, allowed considerable slippage in state-managed public works, inflated top management and head officers’ bonuses and wages, causing a persistent and lasting recruitment policy that has boosted the number of redundant public servants. The economy has also been damaged by risky credit, public debt creation and mismanaged European structural and cohesion funds for almost four decades. Apparently, the Prime Minister Sócrates’s cabinet was not able to forecast or prevent any of this when symptoms first appeared in 2005, and later was incapable of doing anything to ameliorate the situation when the country was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2011 and required financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.[37]

Freedom of religion[edit]

The constitution of 1976 guarantees all religions the right to practice their faith. Non-Roman Catholic groups came to be recognized as legal entities with the right to assemble. Portuguese who were both not Roman Catholics and were conscientious objectors had the right to apply for alternative military service. The Roman Catholic Church, however, still sought to place barriers in the way of missionary activities.[38]

The new authorities abolished the ban on activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In December 1976, the religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses was registered. In 1978, in Lisbon, they organized their first international convention in Portugal.[39]

Freedom Day[edit]

Freedom Day on 25 April is a national holiday in Portugal, with both state-sponsored and spontaneous commemorations praising the elemental civil liberties and political freedoms achieved after the revolution. It commemorates both 25 April 1974 military coup, and the first free elections on that date in 1975.

Monuments[edit]

Originally named after António de Oliveira Salazar, in honour of the President of the Council of Ministers, the 25 de Abril Bridge (Ponte 25 de Abril) is an icon of Lisbon.
The construction of the 25 de Abril Bridge began on 5 November 1962. Forty-five months later, the bridge was inaugurated on 6 August 1966 as the Salazar Bridge, after the Estado Novo regime’s leader António de Oliveira Salazar. Soon after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the bridge was renamed the 25 de Abril Bridge, the day the revolution had occurred. A symbol of those times was captured on film, with citizens removing the big brass “Salazar” sign from one of the main pillars of the bridge and painting a provisional “25 de Abril” in its place.

In Portugal, many avenues, squares, and streets are named after the day of the revolution, vinte e cinco de Abril.

The Portuguese Mint chose the 40th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution for its 2014 2 euro commemorative coin.[40]

Evaluations of the revolution’s outcomes[edit]

After an early period of turmoil, Portugal emerged as a democratic country. It took several years to create a strong democratic government due to the radical leftist inclination of some of the leading revolutionaries, and during this period Portugal divested itself of almost all of its colonies and underwent severe economic turmoil, as the old regime had shaped the Portuguese economy with such a stranglehold that it took some time to nationalize and reprivatize businesses. For the Portuguese and their former colonies, this was a very difficult period, but many[who?] felt that the short-term effects of the Carnation Revolution were well worth the trouble when civil rights and political freedoms were achieved. The Portuguese celebrate Freedom Day on 25 April every year, and the day is a national holiday in Portugal.

Most moderate or non-aligned political sectors of the population consider that the core objectives of the revolution were achieved, although there are differing views held by supporters of the former regime and also by supporters of the revolution who felt it did not go far enough.[citation needed]

By refusing to grant independence to its colonies in Africa, the Portuguese ruling regime of Estado Novo was criticized by most of the international community, and its leaders Salazar and Caetano were accused of being deaf to the so-called “winds of change”. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and the fall of the incumbent Portuguese authoritarian regime, almost all the Portuguese-ruled territories outside Europe became independent. Several historians have described the stubbornness of the regime as a lack of sensibility to the “winds of change”. For the regime, those overseas possessions were a matter of national interest.

In 2011 during the Portuguese financial crisis when the country was under the right-wing government of Pedro Passos Coelho and had to request international financial assistance, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho stated that he wouldn’t have made the revolution if he had known what the country would become after it.[41] He also stated that the country would need a man as honest as Salazar to deal with the crisis, but from a non-fascist perspective.[42]. But later he reverted his position and said that the Carnation Revolution was worth it and that he was proud of his role in it.

good interview…..

when asked who his favorite band was, I knew he would say Huey Lewis… they were buds, Huey was on the sidelines a lot at Candlestick during Montana’s hey day and huey and Montana asked the 49ers if Huey could take 1 snap under center for a game… never happened.. back in the 80’s I wasn’t a big fan of either Huey nor Montana….. I couldn’t stand them..

BTW, do you folks remember when the term “goat of the game” was the guy who blew it and cost their team the game? but to me goat will always refer to Pontiac GTOs…….

Joe’s point about making a great QB is accuracy… that’s why I like Bradford so much, he is very accurate.

Joe was very accurate ZERO INTS in the Super Bowl… except for this one: Joe’s SB pick that never was…

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CK7’s last 6 games with SF

Jimmy G’s last 6 games with SF

CK7

Seattle Jan 1, 2017: 17 for 22 for 215 yards 77.3% 122 QBR 1TD ZERO INT
Rams Dec 24, 2016: 28 for 37 for 266 yards 75.7% 102 QBR 2 TD 1 INT
ATL Dec 18, 2016: 20 for 33 for 183 yards 60.6% 96 QBR 2 TD ZERO INT
NYJ Dec 11, 2016; 15 for 26 for 133 yards 57.7% 84 QBR 1 TD ZERO INT
Chi Dec 4, 2016: 1 for 5 for 4 yards, 20% 40 QBR ZERO TD ZERO INT
Mia Nov 27, 2016: 29 for 49 for 296 yards, 63% 77 QBR 3 TD 1 INT
Totals 110 for 172 for 1097 yards 64% 87 QBR 9 TD 2 INT

Jimmy G;
Rams Dec 31, 2017; 20 for 33 61% for 292 yards 84 QBR 2 TD 2 INT
Jax Dec 24, 2017; 21 for 30 70% for 242 yards 102.4 QBR 2 TD 1 INT
Tenn Dec 17, 2017; 31 for 43 72% for 381 yards 107 QBR 1 TD ZERO INT
Hou Dec 10, 2017 20 for 33 72% for 334 yards 92 QBR 1 TD 1 INT
Chi Dec 3, 2017 26 for 37 70% for 293 yards 84.4 QBR ZERO TD 1 INT

Totals 121 for 176 68% for 1542 93 rating 6 TDs 5 INTS

underrated should be much higher…..

I was critical that the Rams signed this guy last year, I thought he was too old…. I was very wrong..didn’t realize how great he plays.

Loved watching this guy dominate last year. Unsung in last season’s success, he was one the main reasons that the Rams won games last year.

No wonder those kids are not playing D1, they’re dumb asses.

Are you kidding? Not one of those prospects didn’t realize that was Jared Goff? Did they think that it was Sunshine from Remember the Titans?

yes, Euro league was kind of cool…… Summer league concept for the NFL have been around since New Orleans wanted to land “pro football” for their planned “Superdome” …. with a spring league in 1965….

USFL was based on the same precedence, but some asshole who owned the NJ Generals wanted to compete in the fall months directly against the NFL to worm his way into the league:

USFL WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Football_League

The ideas behind the USFL were conceived in 1965 by New Orleans businessman David Dixon, who saw a market for a professional football league that would play in the summer, when the National Football League and college football were in their off-season. Dixon had been a key player in the construction of the Louisiana Superdome and the expansion of the NFL into New Orleans in 1967.[1] He developed “The Dixon Plan”—a blueprint for the USFL based upon securing NFL-caliber stadiums in top TV markets, securing a national TV broadcast contract, and controlling spending—and found investors willing to buy in.

In 1985, the USFL voted to move from a spring to a fall schedule in 1986 to compete directly with the NFL. This was done at the urging of New Jersey Generals majority owner Donald Trump and a handful of other owners as a way to force a merger between the leagues. As part of this strategy, the USFL filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the National Football League in 1986, and a jury ruled that the NFL had violated anti-monopoly laws. However, in a victory in name only, the USFL was awarded a judgment of just $1, which under anti-trust laws, was tripled to $3.[2] This court decision effectively ended the USFL’s existence. The league never played the 1986 season, and by the time it folded, it had lost over US$163 million.

aw that sucks…. never easy.

what is ailing the dog?

for me, it’s Boston….

In addition, i’ll never understand the popularity that Meat Loaf and Bruce Springsteen had…….. I just don’t get it. To me, they fucking sucked……

Top 500 Rock Albums below: How Van Halen’s debut album didn’t make top 10 is beyond me…..

http://automags.org/forums/showthread.php?221628-Top-500-Classic-Rock-Albums-of-all-Time

500 IRON BUTTERFLY – INNA-GADDA-DA-VIDA
499 MARSHALL TUCKER BAND – DEBUT
498 ELVIS COSTELLO – THIS YEARS MODEL
497 STEVE MILLER BAND – BRAVE NEW WORLD
496 INXS – LISTEN LIKE THIEVES
495 DEEP PURPLE – PERFECT STRANGERS
494 MOODY BLUES – EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR
493 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – TUNNEL OF LOVE
492 JOHNNY WINTER – SECOND WINTER
491 AEROSMITH – DONE WITH MIRRORS
490 DAVID BOWIE – DIAMOND DOGS
489 BOB DYLAN – DESIRE
488 AC/DC – FLY ON THE WALL
487 JEFF BECK – WIRED
486 THE DOORS – THE SOFT PARADE
485 PATTI SMITH – EASTER
484 GRATEFUL DEAD – BLUES FOR ALLAH
483 LOU REED – TRANSFORMER
482 ERIC CLAPTON – ANOTHER TICKET
481 LITTLE FEAT – DIXIE CHICKEN
480 NEIL YOUNG – LIVE AT MASSEY HALL, 1971
479 JEFFERSON STARSHIP – RED OCTOPUS
478 THE BAND – STAGE FRIGHT
477 ROLLING STONES – VOODOO LOUNGE
476 FLEETWOOD MAC – BARE TREES
475 THE DOORS – ABSOLUTELY LIVE
474 IAN HUNTER – YOU’RE NEVER ALONE WITH A…
473 FRANK ZAPPA – OVERNITE SENSATION
472 J. GEILS BAND – BLOODSHOT
471 MELISSA ETHERIDGE – DEBUT
470 THE KINKS – SOMETHING ELSE
469 CINDERELLA – LONG COLD WINTER
468 RAMONES – ROAD TO RUIN
467 ELTON JOHN – DON’T SHOOT ME I’M ONLY…
466 OASIS – (WHAT’S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY
465 JETHRO TULL – BENEFIT
464 MOBY GRAPE – DEBUT
463 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK, NJ
462 VAN HALEN – BALANCE
461 AEROSMITH – ROCK IN A HARD PLACE
460 DAVID BOWIE – SPACE ODDITY
459 STEVE WINWOOD – BACK IN THE HIGH LIFE
458 JONATHAN EDWARDS – DEBUT
457 PAUL SIMON – GRACELAND
456 THE YARDBIRDS – OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN
455 VAN MORRISON – IT’S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW
454 NILSSON – NILSSON SCHMILSSON
453 J. GEILS BAND – LOVE STINKS
452 FREE – FIRE AND WATER
451 ELVIS COSTELLO – MY AIM IS TRUE
450 GRATEFUL DEAD – SHAKEDOWN STREET
449 BOB DYLAN/THE BAND – BEFORE THE FLOOD
448 BLACK CROWES – SOUTHERN HARMONY AND MUSICAL…
447 CAROLE KING – TAPESTRY
446 B-52’S – DEBUT
445 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL – BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
444 R.E.M – AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
443 STEVE MILLER BAND – SAILOR
442 RINGO STARR – RING0
441 PAUL MCCARTNEY – TUG OF WAR
440 GRATEFUL DEAD – TERRAPIN STATION
439 ROLLING STONES – FLOWERS
438 SPIRIT – THE 12 DREAMS OF DR SARDONICUS
437 TODD RUNDGREN – SOMETHING/ANYTHING
436 FACES – A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK
435 BONNIE RAITT – NICK OF TIME
434 ROLLING STONES – 12×5
433 SEX PISTOLS – NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS
432 JONI MITCHELL – BLUE
431 ROXY MUSIC – AVALON
430 TEN YEARS AFTER – A SPACE IN TIME
429 STEVIE RAY VAUGHN – LIVE ALIVE!
428 JEFF BECK GROUP – TRUTH
427 FRANK ZAPPA – SHEIK YERBOUTI
426 JAMES TAYLOR – SWEET BABY JAMES
425 JOHNNY WINTER BAND – LIVE!
424 INXS – KICK
423 J. GEILS BAND – BLOW YOUR FACE OUT
422 T. REX – ELECTRIC WARRIOR
421 THE KINKS – LOLA VS POWERMAN
420 PEARL JAM – 10
419 MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL ‘67
418 STEPHEN STILLS – SOLO DEBUT
417 CHEAP TRICK – HEAVEN TONIGHT
416 NEIL YOUNG – LIVE RUST
415 JACKSON BROWNE – THE PRETENDER
414 LITTLE FEAT – WAITING FOR COLUMBUS
413 THE WHO- SELL – OUT
412 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS – LIVE!
411 AC/DC – POWERAGE
410 TALKING HEADS – STOP MAKING SENSE
409 TRAVELING WILBURYS – VOL 1
408 LOU REED – ROCK AND ROLL ANIMAL
407 NIRVANA – NEVERMIND
406 AEROSMITH – LIVE BOOTLEG
405 BOB DYLAN – BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
404 DAVID BOWIE – ALADDIN SANE
403 THE ROLLING STONES – DEBUT
402 ELVIS COSTELLO – ARMED FORCES
401 GRATEFUL DEAD – EUROPE ’72
400 EDDIE MONEY – EDDIE MONEY
399 THE TUBES – THE COMPLETION BACKWARD PRINCIPLE
398 HUMBLE PIE – LIVE ROCKIN’ THE FILLMORE
397 THE CARS – SHAKE IT UP
396 GUESS WHO – THE BEST OF…
395 PINK FLOYD – THE DIVISION BELL
394 FRANK ZAPPA – APOSTROPHE
393 ZZ TOP – EL LOCO
392 PRINCE – PURPLE RAIN
391 DIRE STRAITS – MAKING MOVIES
390 BOB SEGER – LIKE A ROCK
389 YES – CLOSE TO THE EDGE
388 PAT BENATAR – IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
387 STEELY DAN – PRETZEL LOGIC
386 U2 – OCTOBER
385 E.L.O. – OUT OF THE BLUE
384 ROLLING STONES – EMOTIONAL RESCUE
383 JOHN LENNON – WALLS AND BRIDGES
382 BRYAN ADAMS – CUTS LIKE A KNIFE
381 BOSTON – THIRD STAGE
380 MONTROSE – MONTROSE
379 FLEETWOOD MAC – TUSK
378 JOE WALSH – THE SMOKER YOU DRINK THE PLAYER YOU GET
377 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – SOUTHERN ACCENTS
376 PAUL MCCARTNEY – VENUS AND MARS
375 J. GEILS BAND – SANCTUARY
374 DAVID BOWIE – SCARY MONSTERS
373 JIMI HENDRIX – BAND OF GYPSYS
372 ROBERT PLANT – NOW AND THEN
371 JEFF BECK – BLOW BY BLOW
370 JOAN JETT – I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL
369 GRAND FUNK RAILROAD – WE’RE AN AMERICAN BAND
368 THE BEATLES – SECOND ALBUM
367 STEELY DAN – THE ROYAL SCAM
366 THE OUTLAWS – DEBUT
365 ROLLING STONES – BETWEEN THE BUTTONS
364 SWEET – DESOLATION BLVD.
363 TED NUGENT – CAT SCRATCH FEVER
362 JACKSON BROWNE – HOLD OUT
361 BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE – DEBUT
360 CAT STEVENS – TEASER AND THE FIRECAT
359 MOODY BLUES – ON THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM
358 DOOBIE BROTHERS – TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS
357 THE WHO – WHO BY NUMBERS
356 DAVID BOWIE – LET’S DANCE
355 URIAH HEEP – DEMONS AND WIZARDS
354 KISS – LOVE GUN
353 FOREIGNER – 4
352 DIO – HOLY DIVER
351 THE BYRDS – GREATEST HITS
350 THE DOORS – STRANGE DAYS
349 DON HENLEY – END OF THE INNOCENCE
348 FOGHAT – FOOL FOR THE CITY
347 JETHRO TULL – STAND UP
346 THE CLASH – COMBAT ROCK
345 THE KINKS – LOW BUDGET
344 R.E.M. – DOCUMENT
343 ELTON JOHN – 11-17-70
342 GENESIS – WIND AND WUTHERING
341 OZZY OSBOURNE – NO MORE TEARS
340 STYX – CRYSTAL BALL
339 JUDAS PRIEST – BRITISH STEEL
338 ROLLING STONES – THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES…
337 STEELY DAN – COUNTDOWN TO ECSTACY
336 DIRE STRAITS – DEBUT
335 KANSAS – POINT OF KNOW RETURN
334 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – HARD PROMISES
333 JOHN MELLENCAMP – LONSOME JUBILEE
332 KINKS – ONE FROM THE ROAD
331 PETE TOWNSHEND – EMPTY GLASS
330 JAMES GANG – …RIDES AGAIN
329 EDGAR WINTER GROUP – THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT
328 BLACK SABBATH – MASTERS OF REALITY
327 JOURNEY – FRONTIERS
326 THE CARS – HEARBEAT CITY
325 JERRY GARCIA – GARCIA
324 THIN LIZZY – JAILBREAK
323 TESLA – MECHANICAL REASONANCE
322 PINK FLOYD – MEDDLE
321 HUMBLE PIE – SMOKIN’
320 STEVIE WONDER – INNERVISIONS
319 THE BEATLES – YELLOW SUBMARINE
318 ROLLING STONES – BLACK AND BLUE
317 AEROSMITH – DRAW THE LINE
316 DAVID BOWIE – STATION TO STATION
315 JUDAS PRIEST – SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
314 U2 – BOY
313 PETER GABRIEL – PETER GABRIEL
312 PAT BENETAR – PRECIOUS TIME
311 LED ZEPPELIN – PRESENCE
310 ALICE COOPER – WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
309 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVIAL – GREEN RIVER
308 GENESIS – TRICK OF THE TAIL
307 U2 – RATTLE AND HUM
306 THE POLICE – REGATTA DE BLANC
305 MOTLEY CRUE – DR. FEELGOOD
304 SANTANA – SANTANA III
303 DEF LEPPARD – HIGH N’ DRY
302 ROLLING STONES – STEEL WHEELS
301 VAN HALEN – FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
300 DAVID BOWIE – YOUNG AMERICANS
299 HEART – LITTLE QUEEN
298 THE PRETENDERS – THE PRETENDERS
297 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – YOU’RE GONNA GET IT
296 LINDA RONSTADT – HEART LIKE A WHEEL
295 THE WHO – FACE DANCES
294 JOHN FOGERTY – CENTERFIELD
293 NEIL YOUNG – FREEDOM
292 LEON RUSSELL – LEON RUSSELL AND THE SHELTER…
291 ROLLING STONES – AFTERMATH
290 VAN HALEN – FAIR WARNING
289 DOOBIE BROTHERS – MINUTE BY MINUTE
288 ELTON JOHN – HONKY CHATEAU
287 ALAN PARSONS PROJECT – I ROBOT
286 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – THE RIVER
285 JACKSON BROWNE – SATURATE BEFORE USING
284 ALLMAN BROTHERS – IDLEWILD SOUTH
283 JOE WALSH – BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS
282 GEORGE THOROGOOD – MOVE IT ON OVER
281 WARREN ZEVON – EXCITABLE BOY
280 GEORGE HARRISON – CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH
279 THE BEATLES – MEET THE BEATLES
278 ROLLING STONES – OUT OF OUR HEADS
277 AC/DC – THE RAZOR’S EDGE
276 ROBERT PLANT – PICTURES AT ELEVEN
275 TRAFFIC – MR.FANTASY
274 ALICE COOPER – LOVE IT TO DEATH
273 QUEEN – JAZZ
272 THE DOORS – WAITING FOR THE SUN
271 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
270 LYNYRD SKYNYRD – NUTHIN’ FANCY
269 THE POLICE – OUTLANDOS D’AMOUR
268 AC/DC – LET THERE BE ROCK
267 J. GEILS BAND – LIVE! FULL HOUSE
266 BIG BROTHER AND HOLDING CO. – CHEAP THRILLS
265 PAUL McCARTNEY – RAM
264 NEIL YOUNG – RUST NEVER SLEEPS
263 THE BEATLES – HELP!
262 STEVIE RAY VAUGHN – THE SKY IS CRYING
261 EMERSON LAKE & PALMER – TRILOGY
260 ROLLING STONES – GET YER YA YAS OUT
259 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – THE WILD, THE INNOCENT, AND E…
258 FOGHAT – FOGHAT LIVE
257 BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD – RETROSPECTIVE: BEST OF
256 ROBERT PLANT – PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS
255 ROD STEWART – GASOLINE ALLEY
254 U2 – UNFORGETTABLE FIRE
253 STEVE MILLER – THE JOKER
252 THE CARS – CANDY-O
251 38 SPECIAL – WILD EYED SOUTHERN BOYS
250 KANSAS – LEFTOVERTURE
249 CREAM – FRESH CREAM
248 LYNYRD SKYNYRD – GIMME BACK MY BULLETS
247 BLACK CROWES – SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER
246 EAGLES – ON THE BORDER
245 ELTON JOHN – DEBUT
244 PAT BENETAR – CRIMES OF PASSION
243 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – LIVE ’75-‘85
242 SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE – GREATEST HITS
241 ERIC CLAPTON – JOURNEYMAN
240 FOREIGNER – HEAD GAMES
239 QUEEN – SHEER HEART ATTACK
238 BEACH BOYS – PET SOUNDS
237 WOODSTOCK – WOODSTOCK SOUNDTRACK
236 JANIS JOPLIN – PEARL
235 VAN MORRISON – TUPELO HONEY
234 JOHN MELLENCAMP – AMERICAN FOOL
233 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVIAL – BAYOU COUNTRY
232 GENESIS – DUKE
231 NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE – EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS…
230 STEVIE RAY VAUGHN – IN STEP
229 BILLY JOEL – PIANO MAN
228 DOOBIE BROTHERS – WHAT ONCE WERE VICES…
227 JEFFERSON AIRPLACE – SURREALISTIC PILLOW
226 E.L.O. – FACE THE MUSIC
225 BILLY SQUIER – DON’T SAY NO
224 GRAND FUNK RAILROAD – CLOSER TO HOME
223 ALICE COOPER – KILLER
222 VAN HALEN – DIVER DOWN
221 MOODY BLUES – IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD
220 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
219 BLUE OYSTER CULT – AGENTS OF FORTUNE
218 TOM PETTY – WILDFLOWERS
217 THE POLICE – ZENYATTA MONDATTA
216 GRATFUL DEAD – IN THE DARK
215 TRAFFIC – JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE
214 CREAM – WHEELS OF FIRE
213 DEEP PURPLE – WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE
212 BAD COMPANY – RUN WITH THE PACK
211 OZZY OSBOURNE – DIARY OF A MADMAN
210 E.L.O. – A NEW WORLD RECORD
209 WHITESNAKE – WHITESNAKE
208 STYX – PIECES OF 8
207 PHIL COLLINS – FACE VALUE
206 AC/DC – HIGH VOLTAGE
205 GENESIS – ABACAB
204 VAN HALEN – OU812
203 HEART – DOG AND BUTTERFLY
202 JETHRO TULL – THICK AS A BRICK
201 ERIC CLAPTON – ERIC CLAPTON
200 THE POLICE – SYNCHRONICITY
199 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – DEBUT
198 STEVIE RAY VAUGHN – TEXAS FLOOD
197 BILLY JOEL – THE STRANGER
196 STYX – PARADISE THEATRE
195 FOREIGNER – DOUBLE VISION
194 BEATLES – BEATLES ‘65
193 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – DEBUT
192 RUSH – A FAREWELL TO KINGS
191 ROLLING STONES – GOATS HEAD SOUP
190 AEROSMITH – GET A GRIP
189 QUEEN – A DAY AT THE RACES
188 THE DOORS – MORRISON HOTEL
187 JOURNEY – INFINITY
186 THE EAGLES – DESPERADO
185 ASIA – ASIA
184 U2 – ACHTUNG BABY
183 LYNYRD SKYNYRD – ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD
182 THE BAND – MUSIC FROM BIG PINK
181 KING CRIMSON – IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING
180 BOB SEGER – AGAINST THE WIND
179 JOHN MELLENCAMP – UH-HUH
178 JIMI HENDRIX – AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE
177 GEORGE THOROGOOD – BAD TO THE BONE
176 JOHN LENNON – PLASTIC ONO BAND
175 SANTANA – DEBUT
174 PAUL MCCARTNEY – MCCARTNEY
173 SUPERTRAMP – CRIME OF THE CENTURY
172 GENESIS – GENESIS
171 CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG – FOUR WAY STREET
170 VAN MORRISON – MOONDANCE
169 AC/DC – FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK
168 ELTON JOHN – TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION
167 EAGLES – ONE OF THESE NIGHTS
166 HEART – DREAMBOAT ANNIE
165 REO SPEEDWAGON – HI INFIDELITY
164 POLICE – GHOST IN THE MACHINE
163 SUPERTRAMP – EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS
162 ROBIN TROWER – BRIDGE OF SIGHS
161 THE KNACK – GET THE KNACK
160 YES – 90125
159 KISS – DESTROYER
158 STEVIE NICKS – BELLADONNA
157 GRATEFUL DEAD – WORKINGMAN’S DEAD
156 STEVE MILLER BAND – BOOK OF DREAMS
155 BLIND FAITH – BLIND FAITH
154 J. GEILS BAND – FREEZE FRAME
153 LED ZEPPELIN – THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME
152 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – BRAIN SALAD SURGERY
151 VAN HALEN – VAN HALEN II
150 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – WILLY AND THE POOR BOYS
149 PETER GABRIEL – SO
148 GRATEFUL DEAD – AMERICAN BEAUTY
147 MOTLEY CRUE – GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS
146 JOE COCKER – MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN
145 JOHN LENNON – DOUBLE FANTASY
144 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – THE RISING
143 NEIL YOUNG – AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
142 YES – FRAGILE
141 BOSTON – DON’T LOOK BACK
140 PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS – WINGS OVER AMERICA
139 JOURNEY – ESCAPE
138 THE BEATLES – YESTERDAY & TODAY
137 VAN HALEN – 5150
136 PINK FLOYD – ANIMALS
135 DON HENLEY – BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST
134 ERIC CLAPTON – UNPLUGGED
133 JACKSON BROWNE – RUNNING ON EMPTY
132 METALLICA – METALLICA
131 ROLLING STONES – IT’S ONLY ROCK & ROLL
130 SANTANA – ABRAXAS
129 VAN HALEN – WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST
128 THE BEATLES – HEY JUDE
127 LED ZEPPELIN – IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR
126 BAD COMPANY – STRAIGHT SHOOTER
125 BEATLES – A HARD DAYS NIGHT
124 BOB DYLAN – BLONDE ON BLONDE
123 STEELY DAN – AJA
122 QUEEN – NEWS OF THE WORLD
121 TRAFFIC – THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS
120 OZZY OSBOURNE – BLIZZARD OF OZ
119 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – COSMO’S FACTORY
118 BOB DYLAN – BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
117 ZZ TOP – DEGUELLO
116 MOODY BLUES – DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED
115 AEROSMITH – PERMANENT VACATION
114 ELTON JOHN – MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER
113 DOOBIE BROTHERS – TOULOUSE STREET
112 ROLLING STONES – TATTOO YOU
111 DAVID BOWIE – HUNKY DORY
110 KISS – ALIVE
109 JOHN MELLENCAMP – SCARECROW
108 THE CLASH – LONDON CALLING
107 AEROSMITH – PUMP
106 BRYAN ADAMS – RECKLESS
105 ALICE COOPER – BILLION DOLLAR BABIES
104 THE BAND – THE LAST WALTZ
103 CHEAP TRICK – LIVE AT BUDOKAN
102 THE WHO – LIVE AT LEEDS
101 ROD STEWART – EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
100 ROLLING STONES – BEGGARS BANQUET
99 DIRE STRAITS – BROTHERS IN ARMS
98 U2 – WAR
97 LYNYRD SYNYRD – STREET SURVIVORS
96 LED ZEPPELIN – LED ZEPPELIN III
95 DOOBIE BROTHERS – THE CAPTAIN AND ME
94 ERIC CLAPTON – 461 OCEAN BLVD.
93 CHICAGO – CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
92 STEELY DAN – CAN’T BUY A THRILL
91 PINK FLOYD – A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON
90 THE EAGLES – DEBUT
89 FOREIGNER – DEBUT
88 RUSH – PERMANENT WAVES
87 TOM PETTY – DAMN THE TORPEDOES
86 BEATLES – MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
85 AEROSMITH – AEROSMITH
84 GENESIS – THE LAMB LIES DOWN…
83 THE CARS – THE CARS
82 PAUL McCARTNEY – BAND ON THE RUN
81 NEIL YOUNG – HARVEST
80 RUSH – 2112
79 AEROSMITH – GET YOUR WINGS
78 FLEETWOOD MAC – FLEETWOOD MAC
77 BOB DYLAN – HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
76 CREAM – DISRAELI GEARS
75 EAGLES – THE LONG RUN
74 ERIC CLAPTON – SLOWHAND
73 DEEP PURPLE – MAD IN JAPAN
72 JOHN LENNON – IMAGINE
71 ALLMAN BROTHERS – BROTHERS AND SISTERS
70 ZZ TOP – TRES HOMBRES
69 ROLLING STONES – SOME GIRLS
68 LYNYRD SKYNYRD – SECOND HELPING
67 STYX – THE GRAND ILLUSION
66 STEVE MILLER – FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
65 BOB SEGER – STRANGER IN TOWN
64 DEF LEPPARD – PYROMANIA
63 YES – THE YES ALBUM
62 TOM PETTY – FULL MOON FEVER
61 JETHRO TULL – AQUALUNG
60 ZZ TOP – ELIMINATOR
59 CROSBY STILLS & NASH – CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
58 ELTON JOHN – GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
57 AC/DC – DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP
56 BOB SEGER – NIGHT MOVES
55 BON JOVI – SLIPPERY WHEN WET
54 GEORGE HARRISON – ALL THINGS MUST PASS
53 THE WHO – QUADROPHENIA
52 JIMI HENDRIX – ELECTRIC LADYLAND
51 BLACK SABBATH – BLACK SABBATH
50 DEF LEPPARD – HYSTERIA
49 THE WHO – TOMMY
48 DAVID BOWIE – RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST
47 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – BORN IN THE USA
46 DEEP PURPLE – MACHINE HEAD
45 ALLMAN BROTHERS – EAT A PEACH
44 ROLLING STONES – LET IT BLEED
43 BLACK SABBATH – PARANOID
42 LED ZEPPELIN – HOUSES OF THE HOLY
41 MEAT LOAF – BAT OUT OF HELL
40 DOORS – L.A. WOMAN
39 DEREK AND THE DOMINOES – LAYLA AND OTHER…
38 CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG – DÉJÀ VU
37 AEROSMITH – ROCKS
36 BAD COMPANY – BAD CO.
35 FLEETWOOD MAC – RUMOURS
34 LED ZEPPELIN – PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
33 AC/DC – HIGHWAY TO HELL
32 SUPERTRAMP – BREAKFAST IN AMERICA
31 QUEEN – NIGHT AT THE OPERA
30 LYNYRD SKYNRD – PRONOUNCED…
29 BOB SEGER – LIVE BULLET
28 ALLMAN BROTHERS – LIVE AT THE FILMORE EAST
27 ROLLING STONES – STICKY FINGERS
26 PINK FLOYD – WISH YOU WERE HERE
25 LED ZEPPELIN – LED ZEPPELIN II
24 VAN HALEN – 1984
23 AEROSMITH – TOYS IN THE ATTIC
22 BEATLES – REVOLVER
21 EAGLES – HOTEL CALIFORNIA
20 THE DOORS – DEBUT
19 PETER FRAMPTON – FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!
18 RUSH – MOVING PICTURES
17 VAN HALEN – DEBUT
16 THE BEATLES – RUBBER SOUL
15 PINK FLOYD – THE WALL
14 THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
13 GUNS ‘N ROSES – APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
12 U2 – JOSHUA TREE
11 LED ZEPPELIN – DEBUT
10 BOSTON – DEBUT
9 THE BEATLES – THE WHITE ALBUM
8 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – BORN TO RUN
7 THE BEATLES – ABBEY ROAD
6 THE WHO – WHO’S NEXT
5 LED ZEPPELIN – LED ZEPPELIN IV
4 THE ROLLING STONES – EXILE ON MAIN STREET
3 AC/DC – BACK IN BLACK
2 THE BEATLES – SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
1 PINK FLOYD – DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

check out ESPN’s 30 for 30: The Two Bills.

A look at the relationship between NFL coaches Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick.

It was great……

i think that most young coaches, including McVay, believe that their culture, system, environment et al will bring out the best in people and limit the bad behavior…….

It worked for Sammy Watkins, who wasn’t known for any “good citizenship” awards in Buffalo. The key is winning…. winning cures these potential tantrums………..

Ask yourself….. would you rather have a well behaved Tavon Austin or OBJ to make a critical catch?… I don’t believe Tavon has ever made a game changing play, with maybe the exception of being a decoy on a punt return TD by Stedman Bailey…….

But at the same time, Rams shouldn’t give up too much for OBJ; since Woods, Kupp, and Pharoh are a very decent core of WR’s, but Tavon is not……

A lot a people turned off and / or were turned off because CK7 took a knee

But what’s fucked up is that no one was or said that they were turned off becuase the NFL blacked balled a more than capable player . Not only a capable player but a quarterback

A QB that won huge road playoff games including Carolina and freezing GB

A QB that fell just short of a tremendous cut mebacknin the Super Bowl

I couldn’t stand Kap as a player because I’m a Rams fan rooting against SF

but he got royally screwed he should be playing he can play AB in the NFL

BTW Mangini made a brief cameo in the Sopranos once….

Btw sorry for my poor spelling / grammar post… but this site is not iPhone friendly…