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RE: NFL News - 3/20/2008 10:08:15 AM

Lynn G.

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Oh fer pete's sake.

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RE: NFL News - 3/20/2008 5:21:53 PM

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More proof of my point about idjits like Sharpton, Et.Al

backwater soapbox Radical!

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RE: NFL News - 3/21/2008 8:41:22 AM

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Worst uniforms ever. Not just NFL, pretty funny and true.

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?SectionID=15&StoryID=4110&LayoutType=1

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RE: NFL News - 3/21/2008 9:02:47 AM

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Worst uniforms ever. Not just NFL, pretty funny and true.

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?SectionID=15&StoryID=4110&LayoutType=1

HA!

I actually love a few of those (Payne Stewart/Astros).

And btw, Hoculi is seriously a BEAST. I've always thought we should just sign him at DE.

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RE: NFL News - 3/21/2008 9:06:51 AM

Duane Sampson

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The Rapters pajamas kills me.

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RE: NFL News - 3/21/2008 9:57:11 AM

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Loved the old Expos uni's. I'm glad they called out the Canucks old uni's. Those were the worst EVER.

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RE: NFL News - 3/22/2008 12:26:53 PM

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Mike Williams Better Watch Weight Or Else
Fri Mar 21, 2008

The Nashville City Paper reports Titans WR Mike Williams has been instructed by HCh Jeff Fisher to be at a certain weight or risk being released. Agent Sean Kiernan, who represents Williams, would not comment as to what the player's weight was. “As of my last conversation with Mike, he will be in Nashville on Monday participating in the off-season conditioning program,” Kiernan said. I can't comment any further than that.”

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RE: NFL News - 3/22/2008 7:38:04 PM

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Good stuff on the unis, Sammy.
Can't disagree on too many.
The Raptors one is just incredible, that someone somewhere in some meeting passed that idea. "Hmmm, looks good".
I love the throw-backs in the NFL, and don't mind that they are gaudy, heck, thats the cool part.
Btw, we're pretty lucky with the Vikings classic look, it is a great uni.
The '70s baseball ideas were just whacked.
Many looked like Walt Disney threw up on them. Too many colors and too much polyester.
The White Sox owners had to be on LSD. They came up with several horrible ideas, not bad, horrible.
The Pirates pillbox hats were downright goofy.
Interesting that the Broncos old horizontal stripes are making it back. We ordered new unis for our hockey team this season and the boys went with them, they love them. Those of us over 30 had to be de-fibrillated after seeing them, but I guess 17 and 18 year-olds think they are the bomb. (They've actually grown on me). It's a look the Olympic teams have started to use the past 5-10 years.
I guess I'm weird, but I liked the old Patriot logo, and the Tampa Orange was a cool color to me. I could do without the gay pirate, however. As I said, I think we've been very lucky here.
The Twins have stayed very classy. Their originals were Yankee-type (the ultimate classy look, imo).
They strayed a little with the powder-blues, but we'll forgive them.
Absloutely loved their dark-grey travelers in the early '90s, loved that jersey, I had one and it literally vaporized off me on day (I wore it too much).
T-Wolves have some good looks, the blacks are great imo. Original blues were a little bland, their whites have been very classy. Its a good color combo they have. Wild tries too hard at times, the simpler the better for them. Don't like their Reds, they are too busy for me. Really wish they'd do a black some year.
Still can't beat the #1 jersey to me, the beautiful North Star white. Great trim colors and an ingeneous logo. Broke my bank account when I was a teen and bought me an authentic. Takes longer for those to vaporize.

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RE: NFL News - 3/22/2008 7:42:09 PM

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It's funny you mention the Pirates hats, Scott. I have zero connection/affection for the Pirates, as you know, but I've actually been thinking about getting one of those old hats.

As for Mike Williams, how bad do you have to be as a WR to be cut by the TITANS?!!!!?!??!?!?!

Hilarious.

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RE: NFL News - 3/23/2008 9:35:09 AM

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Girlfriend Says Cedrick Wilson Never Punched Her
Sat Mar 22, 2008

AP reports the estranged girlfriend of former Pittsburgh Steelers WR Cedrick Wilson denies that he punched her at a suburban restaurant this week. Lindsey Paulat says Wilson got upset but only shoved her in the side of the head when he saw her drinking Wednesday evening at Patron Mexican Grill in Pine Township. "He never punched. He pushed me in the side of the head," Paulat told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Friday. "It was misconstrued apparently by the people around us." In a criminal complaint, Northern Regional police say Wilson pushed Paulat on the shoulder and, when she turned around, punched her in the face. Wilson is charged with simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct. The 29-year-old man remains free on $10,000 bail. "Cedrick walked into Patron's and saw me sitting in the bar area," Paulat said. "He got upset when he saw me drinking. Basically he pushed me in the side of the head and said I was being stupid and then immediately left the restaurant." "Cedrick has been very supportive as we are working through issues," she added. "I think he was just basically very disappointed in me and he only wants the best for me and my daughter." Wilson apologized and said he would attend anger management classes. The Steelers released Wilson a few hours after Thursday's arraignment.

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RE: NFL News - 3/23/2008 9:39:04 AM

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March 22, 2008, 9:52PM
COMMENTARY
Here's some Sage advice: Keep Rosenfels

By RICHARD JUSTICE
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

The Texans cannot and must not trade Sage Rosenfels. It's not even a close call.

Everything they accomplished last season began with better play at quarterback. They didn't run the ball well, and their defense was mediocre.

Yet they were 8-8 for the first time because they had reliable play from their quarterbacks. Matt Schaub and Rosenfels weren't great, but they were dramatically better than David Carr had been.

They showed us all how solid play from that position can cover up a lot of flaws in other areas.

The Texans have miles to go before they're capable of winning a playoff game, and Rick Smith and Gary Kubiak surely will be tempted to trade Rosenfels for a second- or third-round pick.

Weakening the most important position on the field to strengthen another makes no sense. And there's no one available that's even close to being as good as Rosenfels.

The Texans have free-agent quarterback Quinn Gray in for a visit today. He was Jacksonville's backup last season, but was shown the door in favor of Cleo Lemon.

If the Texans are interested in him as a No. 3 quarterback, that's a swell idea. But if they're interested in him as a potential No. 2 because they're considering trading Rosenfels, it's a bad one.

Questions about SchaubSchaub is the starter. At least that's how he'll begin camp. But he missed five starts last season and left four games early. His season-ending shoulder injury is healing.

He was everything the Texans hoped for and then some early in the season when Ahman Green was productive. He was less productive when the running game went south, and he got pounded as badly as Carr had been.

If the Texans get their running game fixed, Schaub might become one of the NFL's 10 best quarterbacks. He's not there yet, and until he proves he can stay on the field, the Texans must keep Rosenfels.

Few teams feel as good about their backup quarterback as the Texans. They don't see there's much difference between the two, and at times last season, Rosenfels outplayed Schaub.

Yes, the Texans have needs up and down their roster. Cornerback is a pressing need thanks to Dunta Robinson's uncertain status.

Despite all the money invested in the defensive line, the Texans were near the bottom of the NFL in sacks. They need help at running back and the offensive line, too.

They're probably not going to fill all those needs in one offseason, but trading Rosenfels wouldn't be smart.

Kubiak and Smith have done extraordinary work in two offseasons together. They've replaced around 80 percent of the roster and improved from 2-14 to 8-8.

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RE: NFL News - 3/23/2008 9:48:21 AM

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NFL | New proposal requires team violations to be reported
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:03:49 -0700

Bob Glauber, of Newsday, reports the NFL's competition committee has crafted a proposal to require each team's senior management executive to report on- and off-field violations by their own club or other teams. The proposal is expected to be approved by owners at spring meetings March 30 to April 2. Under the proposal, any violation discovered by any team employee is to be reported to the league office. Each year, every team's lead executive will sign an affidavit testifying that his club conformed to the league's rules and regulations.

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RE: NFL News - 3/24/2008 1:46:42 PM

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Raiders Eyeing Trent Dilfer
Mon Mar 24, 2008

The Fresno Bee reports free-agent QB Trent Dilfer, a 14-year NFL veteran who was recently cut by the 49ers, said the Oakland Raiders are showing interest in signing him.

Culpepper must be thinking WTF??

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RE: NFL News - 3/24/2008 6:54:03 PM

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If their earlier signings this offseason are any guide, they'll probably give Dilfer a $10 M signing bonus as well.

Man has Al Davis entered Michael Jackson territory at this stage.

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RE: NFL News - 3/25/2008 8:34:48 AM

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49ers Lose Fifth Round Pick (and more) for Tampering with Briggs
Mon Mar 24, 2008

AP reports the San Francisco 49ers have forfeited their fifth-round pick in next month's NFL draft after commissioner Roger Goodell deemed them guilty of tampering with Chicago Bears OLB Lance Briggs. Goodell also determined the teams will switch picks in the third round of the April 26-27 draft. Chicago, which had the 12th pick, will get San Francisco's seventh pick and the 49ers will get Chicago's choice. Goodell determined the 49ers violated the NFL's anti-tampering policy by contacting Briggs' agent, Drew Rosenhaus, about his client during the 2007 season. Briggs, an all-Pro in 2007, had been designated as Chicago's franchise player, signing a one-year tender that meant he could not leave the Bears. He had been expected to leave as a free agent after last season but instead re-signed with Chicago for $36 million over six years. Briggs will earn $21.6 million in the first three years of the deal and $13 million of the contract is guaranteed. There had been reports of contact between the 49ers and Rosenhaus last season, and the Bears filed a tampering charge with the NFL. Goodell said both teams cooperated with his investigation into the allegations.

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RE: NFL News - 3/25/2008 8:37:14 AM

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49ers Mystified about Tampering Ruling
Tue Mar 25, 2008

The San Francisco Chronicle reports two NFL sources said the 49ers are mystified about being stripped of a fifth-round pick and a swap of third-round choices with the Chicago Bears for tampering. The penalty arose after the Bears charged the 49ers with negotiating with OLB Lance Briggs' agent Drew Rosenhaus before the trading deadline last October. Teams can not negotiate with players under contract with another team. However, according to two league scources, the 49ers never tampered. The only evidence introduced in last week's hearing in New York was a phone record between Rosenhaus and the 49ers, in which the sources say the 49ers never made contact with the agent. Even if the 49ers had talked to Rosenhaus, their plan was to discuss the availability of WR Taylor Jacobs, another Rosenhaus client, and not Briggs. Jacobs eventually signed with Denver. One source said the penalty grew out of the pressure on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for spygate and the need to punish teams for even preceived wrong-doing. Another source said the 49ers contacted Chicago about a trade for Briggs at 9:30 a.m. pst on Oct. 16, three hours before the trade deadline. Since Briggs was the Bears' franchise player, the 49ers hoped Chicago would get back to them immediately, so they could make the deal and workout an extension for Briggs. The Bears didn't return the call until 12:30 p.m., and by that time, the 49ers only had a half hour to workout an extension, so San Francisco called the deal off. The Bears have been tight-lipped about the entire situation, which might be partly to do with their desire to trade Briggs at one time. Apparently news that Briggs was on the trading block got back to him through a fellow NFL player. The Bears, who re-upped with Briggs on a six-year deal March 1, didn't want Briggs to know they wanted to trade him at one time, which may have motivated them to say the 49ers were so aggressive in trading for him, they contacted Rosenhaus without permission. The loss of the fifth-round pick is the most damaging for San Francisco. In the Mike Nolan-Scot McCloughan era, the fifth round has fetched OLB Parys Haralson and DT Ronald Fields, who both contributed significant time last year.

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RE: NFL News - 3/26/2008 8:25:00 AM

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Wiggins wants to return — to NFL

March 25th, 2008 – 1:26 PM by Judd Zulgad

Former Vikings tight end Jermaine Wiggins, who was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars near the end of training camp last year, is hoping to get another shot in the league, according to NFL.com. The website reported Wiggins has spent the past three-plus months in Atlanta training and has dropped 15 pounds. That puts him at 250 pounds. Wiggins has talked with the Falcons and Dolphins.

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RE: NFL News - 3/26/2008 12:52:11 PM

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Mike Williams Expected to Make Weight
Wed Mar 26, 2008

The Nashville Tennessean reports WR Mike Williams is expected to make the 250 lbs weight limit when he reports to the Titans for off-season workouts this week.

Maybe they're going to weigh him on the moon.

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RE: NFL News - 3/26/2008 6:43:28 PM

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250 pounds? THAT is his weight limit?

Will someone please just try him at TE already? He CANNOT play WR in the NFL.

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RE: NFL News - 3/27/2008 12:32:00 PM

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NFL considers shaking up seeding system for playoffs
By Jim Thomas
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
03/27/2008

Wild-card teams could be seeded as high as No. 3 in their conference and thus have a home playoff opener if an NFL competition committee proposal is approved by league owners next week in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Under the proposal, the two division winners with the best won-lost records still would be seeded Nos. 1-2 in each conference and receive first-round playoff byes.

But the four other playoff qualifiers in each conference — the two remaining division champions and the two wild-card teams — will then be seeded according to won-lost records.

"This is something we've talked about now, I'd say, going on five to six years," Atlanta President Rich McKay said on a conference call Wednesday. "I think it goes back to when we went to eight divisions of four (teams). We were extremely nervous about the fact that you could have a division or two that's extremely weak one year or another, and create an imbalance as to who should qualify for the playoffs."

The realignment that McKay spoke of took place prior to the 2002 season, when the league went from three divisions to four in each conference. If the new seeding process is approved, it might cut down on the number of meaningless games at the end of the season — games in which a team's playoff berth and seeding already were determined.

"To make as many games competitive as we can late in the year ... I think this would be a good thing for the league," said McKay, who is co-chair of the competition committee. "The potential re-working of playoff seeding can motivate coaches late in the year — based on seed and potential home game or non-home game — to have more games that count late in the year."

Under the current seeding system, the two division winners per conference that don't get first-round byes are guaranteed either the No. 3 or No. 4, which brings with it a home game in the first round of the playoffs. The two wild-card teams per conference can only get a No. 5 or No. 6 seed, and are guaranteed a road game to open the playoffs under the current system.

The home team has won nearly 58.4 percent of the time in the wild-card round since realignment in 2002.

If the proposed seeding change had been in place over that time, playoff seeding would have been different in four of the six seasons. Last season, for example, the Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Giants would have gotten home games instead of road games as wild-card teams.

(Playing on the road didn't matter much because both the Jaguars and Giants won their playoff openers last season — and the Giants went on to win the Super Bowl.)

McKay doesn't think the new seeding proposal will diminish the importance of winning the division.

"No, because I think the major thing you want to accomplish when you go into the year is win your division," McKay said. "And the reason you want to win your division is you know that gets you to the playoffs. So in my mind, in no way have we touched that."

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RE: NFL News - 3/27/2008 1:26:32 PM

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Tyoka Jackson Ordered to Pay $3,000
Thu Mar 27, 2008

AP reports former St. Louis Rams DL Tyoka Jackson was ordered by a federal jury to pay a flight attendant $3,000 for pushing him on a plane, a tiny portion of the more than $1 million the attendant and his wife had sought. Jurors on Wednesday ordered Jackson to pay Northwest Airlines attendant Gary Rihn to cover medical expenses for the 2005 incident. Rihn had sought $250,000 in actual damages and $750,000 in punitive damages. Jurors denied the $200,000 sought by Rihn's wife, who claimed her husband changed after the incident. Rihn claimed Jackson shoved him across an aisle and into another passenger over the proper stowing of a laptop bag. Jackson claimed he acted only after Rihn poked and prodded him.

A million bucks for shoving him??

What the f are you smokin'?

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RE: NFL News - 3/30/2008 8:22:37 AM

Duane Sampson

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Face Mask Penalty Only 15 Yards?
Sat Mar 29, 2008

ESPN's John Clayton reports one rules change proposal could clean up some of the decision-making involving face-mask penalties. The competition committee is proposing the elimination of the 5-yard face-mask penalty, which is considered grabbing the face mask. If the plan works, officials would have only one call -- a 15-yard penalty.

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RE: NFL News - 3/30/2008 8:23:17 AM

Duane Sampson

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A New Option for the Coin Toss?
Sat Mar 29, 2008

ESPN's John Clayton reports the NFL is trying to add a third category to the coin toss. Winners of coin tosses can elect to kickoff or receive the football. Under a new proposal, the league would like to give the team captain the option of deferring the decision and letting the other team decide.

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RE: NFL News - 3/30/2008 8:24:02 AM

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Icing the Kicker to Continue...
Sat Mar 29, 2008

ESPN's John Clayton reports Denver Broncos HC Mike Shanahan tried to drive opposing kickers crazy last season by waiting until the last second and calling a timeout as the ball was being snapped for a field-goal attempt. At the time, most teams thought the league would change the rule for 2008. As it turns out, the league won't change anything. The competition committee believes this is a coaching idea that could simply run its course.

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RE: NFL News - 3/30/2008 11:17:41 AM

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Face Mask Penalty Only 15 Yards?
Sat Mar 29, 2008

ESPN's John Clayton reports one rules change proposal could clean up some of the decision-making involving face-mask penalties. The competition committee is proposing the elimination of the 5-yard face-mask penalty, which is considered grabbing the face mask. If the plan works, officials would have only one call -- a 15-yard penalty.

They're really trying to remove all "judgment calls" from the refs aren't they? Not sure I like this one, and I don't remember much outrage about refs calling the "wrong" face mask penalty over the years.

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