The Football Brainiacs

Just to reassure your request has definitely not fallen on deaf ears, we’re going to try something new here. We know you’ve wanted something of a Q&A/chat type of opportunity and that’s what we’re aiming to give you with this new ‘Town Hall’ feature.

As many of you are painfully aware, the comment section here at TFB isn’t exactly the easiest to navigate with regards to carrying on and/or following a conversation. So the goal with this ‘Town Hall’ feature is to give you a chance to ask all the Q’s you might have, and we here at TFB to do our best to provide the A’s.

With that said, at least in this initial feeling out period, we’re going to institute a couple guidelines we’d very much appreciate you following.

* As mentioned, the comments aren’t exactly easy to follow once things get crowded in there. So at least at first, we’d like to request that for the purposes of this ‘Town Hall’ post you limit your comments strictly to the question/s you’d like answered. In turn, we will respond with an answer. Thus if someone is coming to the comments after the fact, in theory, it would be much easier for them to follow along, rather than having to scroll thru dozens of comments trying to follow along.

* Again at least for now, our plan is to delete any unnecessary comments in these ‘Town Hall’ posts to make it easier for everyone to follow the conversation and get to the information they/you want. So if your comment gets deleted, it doesn’t necessarily mean you did anything wrong or can expect a visit from the Ban Hammer. Rather, we’re just trying to keep things clean and easy to follow.

* Follow up questions are fine, within reason, but obviously what we’re trying to avoid is a drawn out, back-and-forth conversation in the comments cluttering things up for everyone else.

* The comments section will be ‘closed’ until the Q&A session is about to start, at which point we will then ‘open’ the comments back up and you can start posting your questions. Once the chat has concluded, we will again ‘close’ the comments so as to avoid any aforementioned clutter after the fact.

* We’ll see how things go, but the plan as of now is to spend around 30 minutes trying to answer as many questions as we can get to. Maybe that 30 minutes goes up at some point (no promises!) depending on how popular this new feature becomes, or maybe 30 minutes proves to be too long a time. That all depends on you, TFB’ers.

If we don’t get to your question within the allotted time, well there’s always next week. We love the interaction and are working to encourage even more of it, but we also have lives too you know 😉

Hopefully that all makes sense and you understand why we’re approaching things the way we’ve chosen to do so (again, for now).

Alright, now that we have all that out of the way we’ll open up the comments starting at 7pm (CT). Looking forward to seeing you back here then.