Tag: football
I came here to talk about the draft.
pO157.
Posted to Sport on Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 08:15:17 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Well, Sports Fans, it is only a few weeks to the NFL Draft. With some teams planning on making major moves during the draft it's important to remember that the draft can be a mixed bag, with possibility of signing the next Ryan Leaf always looming large over every GM's head.
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Former NFL Star: I wanna go back and do it all over
pO157.
Posted to Sport on Mon Dec 21, 2009 at 07:31:36 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
You'd expect to hear the lyrics to classic Eddie Money from some overweight, balding, alcoholic wreck of a man whose life peaked in high school but could have been orders of magnitude better if coach had only kept him in during the 4th quarter at the State Championships. You might be surprised to hear this from a former NFL star who had it all, including a Super Bowl Championship ring.
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Weis Iced
pO157.
Posted to Sport on Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 05:16:05 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The Fighting Irish have canned frontman Charlie Weis after a series of mediocre seasons and a 35-27 overall record.
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I can haz Tom Brady Insurance Policy?
pO157.
Posted to Sport on Sat Sep 12, 2009 at 07:22:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Eight minutes into the 2008 season Tom Brady went down with a knee injury, and so did the hopes of thousands of fantasy football players. People take their fantasy teams seriously, so it shouldn't be a surprise that in response to that incident one company has started a new line of insurance to get in on the $800 million annual fantasy sports action.
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Redskin Fans Get Hit Hard By Team's Offensive Line
MayorBob.
Posted to Sport on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 08:46:53 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
American football fans are a breed apart. Especially the fans who are so emotionally attached to their teams that they are willing to fork over the moolah required to pay for Personal Seat Licenses (PSLs) and season tickets. But, hey, you're a part of something greater than yourself. You're part of the team and well-loved by the ownership. At least that's the line most National Football League clubs feed to their adoring fans as they're taking their money. But, when things are tight and you can't afford the season tickets, your club will work with you and figure out a way to honor your decades of faithful devotion, right? Wrong. At least not if you're a Washington Redskins fan like Pat Hill who is being rewarded for close to a half century of devotion by being sued into bankruptcy by the team she loves.
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Fly Eagles Fly.
MayorBob.
Posted to Diary on Sun Jan 11, 2009 at 10:38:06 PM EST. RSS.
Or will it be the Cardinals who take off for Tampa? We'll know for sure next Sunday as the birds from Philly swoop on down to Phoenix to take on the Cardinals. The Eagles got there by beating up on last year's Super Bowl champs, the New York Giants. Well, perhaps not so much beating up on them as allowing Eli to be Eli without a Plaxico to throw to. Without that target, the Eagles were able to throw enough beef on the line to keep Brandon Jacobs from running over everyone. Even though the Cards finished with the worst season record of all the teams on the NFC side, they get to host the championship game because they finished first in their division. But the Cards, fresh from sending the Falcons and rookie sensation Matt Ryan back to Atlanta, went out and did the incomprehensible -- thoroughly thrash the Carolina Panthers in a game that wasn't even close. It wasn't close because the Cardinals showed they could score at will and Panther QB Jake Del Homme waited for his 34th birthday to play the worst game of his professional career. Oh, and shutting Steve Smith out of the game helped immensely.
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Featured Diary: It's That Time Of Year When There Is No Tomorrow Again.
MayorBob.
Posted to Sport on Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 06:05:41 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
The National Football League (NFL) playoffs are set and ready to rumble. Twelve teams (six from each conference) will begin the process this coming weekend which will culminate in a national celebration of commercials, half time extravaganzas and, oh yeah, football on Super Bowl Sunday in Tampa, Florida.
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How Offensive Was This Offensive Lineman?
MayorBob.
Posted to Sport on Mon Nov 03, 2008 at 11:07:06 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Darris Ford believes his high school did him wrong. He says the confrontation he had with a teacher at Hazelwood East High School near St. Louis was a "misunderstanding." He served a suspension, but he's been reinstated to school. Although he's back in school, he is not allowed to play with the football team. This doesn't sit well with Ford at all because, without his being able to play the remainder of this season, he claims the school is jeopardizing his future.
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N-F-L
thefadd.
Posted to Sport on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 09:21:21 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
American football begins yet another season in its annual quest for the Lombardi Trophy. Tee En Tee has shown its affinity for making baseless predictions -- and occasionally being right -- so it's as good a time as any to give those another shot.
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Merry Madden Holiday
thefadd.
Posted to Sport on Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 09:46:38 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
As they have for each of the past 20 years, EA Sports is releasing its National Football League simulation game, Madden. It is of course, named for John Madden, the player, Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster who graced the game's cover for the first decade and whose recorded voice still does the color commentary inside the simulated games.
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In a surprise victory, Giants take the Super Bowl!
pO157.
Posted to Sport on Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 12:39:27 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have been to the Great Wall of China, I have seen the Pyramids of Egypt, I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel. But never in all my years as a sportscaster have I witnessed something as improbable, as impossible, as what we've witnessed here today!
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Review: Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking the Historic Mudfest at Heinz Field
pO157.
Posted to Sport on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 02:36:06 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Last night the Miami Dolphins fell to 0-11 in a heartbreaking loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers (8-3). The game was interesting because unseasonable torrential rains, coupled with a late turf switch following earlier college and high school games turned it the field into an ambiguous bowl of mud. The result? The lowest scoring game since 1993 (lowest scoring Monday night game since 1970), and the latest scoring game since the infamous "Snowplow Event" of 1982.
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