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LanternWaste

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11. Not really Orwellian. Each team has an active roster of app. 50 players that may suit up for a game

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Reply #8)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 01:14 PM

Sep 2014

Not really Orwellian. Each team has an active roster of app. 50 players that may suit up for a game, and practice squads that can't due to limits on active team membership. To deactivate a player is to take him off the active roster and place him on the practice squad rather than suspended. This terminology has been around since at least 1973.

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Jonathan Dwyer arrested, deactivated [View all] rdking647 Sep 2014 OP

time to abolish this modern day gladiatorial system, or bring back the lions! niyad Sep 2014 #1

Or adjust their dosages. n/t Orsino Sep 2014 #12

Post removed Post removed Sep 2014 #2

Yeah, christx30 Sep 2014 #3

Maybe you should care about victims of violence geek tragedy Sep 2014 #9

Rusb Limbaugh. $48,000,000/ year... New Orleans Strong Sep 2014 #4

"Deactivated"? Kelvin Mace Sep 2014 #5

I'm pretty sure that mean's he was taken off the roster to make room for someone else groundloop Sep 2014 #6

So, he was suspended. Kelvin Mace Sep 2014 #8

Not really Orwellian. Each team has an active roster of app. 50 players that may suit up for a game LanternWaste Sep 2014 #11

Yep. christx30 Sep 2014 #10

Fire them all, let them try-out next year if they aren't convicted. madville Sep 2014 #7