2008 NFL Season

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:33 pm

Ouch that's my ass.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:31 pm

Never change PETA, you crazy kids.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3850162

PETA pulls offer for PSA shoot

NEW YORK -- PETA has withdrawn an offer to shoot an anti-dogfighting public service announcement with Michael Vick after his release from prison.

The organization said Wednesday that an agreement was reached with Vick's representatives to shoot the spot, but that Vick's attorneys sought assurance from PETA that the group would support Vick's return to the NFL.

"Saying sorry and getting his ball back after being caught enjoying killing dogs in hideously cruel ways for many years doesn't cut it," said PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "Commissioner Goodell knows that he has an obligation to the league and to millions of fans, including children who look up to ballplayers as idols, to make sure that Michael Vick is mentally capable of remorse before he can touch, let alone wear, an NFL uniform again."

PETA is urging that Vick undergo a brain scan and a full psychiatric evaluation.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:02 pm

For those who moan about NFL players with long hair, sometimes there is a reason guys sport these hairdos besides "Look at ME!" vanity. From Rick Reilly's column about Larry Fitzgerald Sr. and Jr.:

>>>Carol (Fitzgerald) died of a brain hemorrhage while battling breast cancer on April 10, 2003. "She hated for her boys [Marcus is 23 now] to miss even a day of school. By the time I got Larry back [from the University of Pittsburgh], she'd slipped into a coma. You make your decisions and you live with them, but it's still difficult."

No wonder Junior still carries his mom's driver's license in his wallet. No wonder he wears his hair in long dreads — as she did — to honor her.<<<

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3848921

Take care,
PK

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:47 pm

ScoopBrady wrote:
Leebo33 wrote:And CBS again showed the angle on Sunday that clearly showed Holmes in the end zone with the ball crossing the goal line in the game at Baltimore. Maybe the refs can get the call right the first time.
I was glad they showed that. I thought it was a touchdown in realtime but I know some that thought there was no way it was a touchdown, including my dad. I'm sure Alex missed that though.

I saw it..twice

Leebo is right on if they had called right in the first place there would not have been a problem.

They had no business over turning the call. They did not have any where near indisputable evidence..They didnt have that one week later computer enhanced replay on the sideline.

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:51 pm

I love Fitzgerald. I'm glad he's finally getting the spotlight he deserves.
The greatest contribution Denny Green made to AZ was drafting that guy. Actually, a lot of this team has Denny's stamp: Fitz, Boldin, Kurt Warner, and Edge James to name a few.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:51 pm

greggsand wrote: The greatest contribution Denny Green made to AZ was drafting that guy. Actually, a lot of this team has Denny's stamp: Fitz, Boldin, Kurt Warner, and Edge James to name a few.

They are who he thought they were...

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:00 pm

I watched every Pitt football game televised during Fitzgerald's time at Pitt and always enjoyed his ability and passion for the game. He's easily in my Top 5 of current NFL players not wearing black and gold, especially since I have him in a fantasy football keeper league.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:18 pm

It amazes me that coaches can completely fail in the NFL and yet get re-employed days after they are canned. Was Scott Linehan really the best person the Lions could find for their offensive coordinator? Nothing against the guy, and I would expect him to get hired as at least a QB coach. I'm just surprised that the Lions so quickly hand their offense to a coach who not only did poorly, but whose team was offensively challenged in his last season and a half.

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:24 pm

Brando70 wrote:It amazes me that coaches can completely fail in the NFL and yet get re-employed days after they are canned. Was Scott Linehan really the best person the Lions could find for their offensive coordinator? Nothing against the guy, and I would expect him to get hired as at least a QB coach. I'm just surprised that the Lions so quickly hand their offense to a coach who not only did poorly, but whose team was offensively challenged in his last season and a half.

There's five letters in your post that pretty much answers all of your questions.

dougb · Post by **dougb** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:28 pm

Brando70 wrote:It amazes me that coaches can completely fail in the NFL and yet get re-employed days after they are canned. Was Scott Linehan really the best person the Lions could find for their offensive coordinator? Nothing against the guy, and I would expect him to get hired as at least a QB coach. I'm just surprised that the Lions so quickly hand their offense to a coach who not only did poorly, but whose team was offensively challenged in his last season and a half.

The funny thing is that the observation in the first line could be applied to all sorts of management situations. I work in a hospital in Ontario and it often seems like the same people continually circle through the most senior administrative ranks. That's pretty much regardless of the mess that their previous place of employment was in when they left (and to be fair it likely is difficult to determine the amount of responsibility they had for that). The key attribute for many management positions appears to be previous experience, and I'd be willing to bet that it's the same in professional sports.

Now as for the Lions a cursory examination of their personnel hiring over the last epoch would seem to indicate that nothing they do, with their ownership, should surprise anyone!

best wishes,

Doug

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:35 pm

ScoopBrady wrote:There's five letters in your post that pretty much answers all of your questions.

LOL, I know. Silly me for thinking things would change with Millen gone. But the Lions are hardly the only team that does this. It just amazes me that, in a league that emphasizes performance over everything, so many of the same retreads keep getting recycled, just because they have NFL experience.

Doug, I know what you mean. I worked for a completely dysfunctional guy years ago, a man who should have been canned not just for his incompetence, but his inappropriate and unprofessional behavior. All the company did was move him to his own little division, until all the people complaining about him left, and then kept promoting him. He's a VP and one of the higher ups in the company now.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:59 pm

Whats wrong with Scott Linehan?

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:03 pm

XXXIV wrote:Whats wrong with Scott Linehan?

It's like that old relationship book, Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them. Perhaps they really are made for each other.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:58 pm

Brando70 wrote:
XXXIV wrote:Whats wrong with Scott Linehan?
It's like that old relationship book, Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them. Perhaps they really are made for each other.

Seems that way.

They like to hire every head coach the lambs fire to be their OC.

vader29 · Post by **vader29** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:47 pm

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:52 pm

haha

that is AWE...wait for it...SOME

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:53 pm

Danimal wrote:haha

that is AWE...wait for it...SOME

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet...

fletcher21 · Post by **fletcher21** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:49 pm

Great to see Fitzgerald in the big game.. My sister graduated from highschool with him, and he was mr popular but always had time for all the people who wanted time with him. Back in his sr year, when he was a ball boy for the Vikings, Cris Carter and Randy Moss would come to his home games to watch him. That's how he got the connection to Denny Green, was from his time working as a ball boy while Denny was coaching. Only thing I get sick of is hearing Mn newspapers and sports fans trying to ride his coat tails and call him "one of us". But for his sake, I hope he wins a sb soon. This year his chances are not very good

fletcher21 · Post by **fletcher21** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:48 pm

I have heard talk about the Vikings moving to Cali. possibly Los Angeles.. I would not feel bad about it either

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:54 pm

fletcher21 wrote:I have heard talk about the Vikings moving to Cali. possibly Los Angeles.. I would not feel bad about it either

It's only being mentioned because the City of Industry (a LA Suburb, kinda) passed a vote on a stadium tax. So it's in the initial planning phases still. That disregards the fact that the City of Industry is only known for gambling and strip clubs. Pac Man will fit right in with the team if so.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:12 pm

According to Mike Florio from profootballtalk.com there's also another rumor that the NFL is trying to get the 49'ers and Raiders to build and share a new Stadium in Santa Clara (not sure about the exact location)? It's the same thing that the Jets and Giants worked out.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:58 pm

They'd be tapping into some Silicon Valley money for the luxury boxes and season tickets but I don't know if there are that many sports fans willing to pay after paying for the Sharks.

I guess both teams are having difficulties raising money but I thought the Raiders might be in a longer lease after the renovations that Alameda county did for them at the Coliseum.

NFL gives a "loan" to teams which build new stadiums. So they could either get 2 for 1 or if they pay each team to pay for one stadium, that might really boost the financing.

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:30 pm

wco81 wrote:They'd be tapping into some Silicon Valley money for the luxury boxes and season tickets but I don't know if there are that many sports fans willing to pay after paying for the Sharks.

I guess both teams are having difficulties raising money but I thought the Raiders might be in a longer lease after the renovations that Alameda county did for them at the Coliseum.

NFL gives a "loan" to teams which build new stadiums. So they could either get 2 for 1 or if they pay each team to pay for one stadium, that might really boost the financing.

Yeah your right they mentioned that in the article. The NFL gives each team I believe 300 million towards a new stadium.

OT: The Cowboys 1.1 billion shrine must have Jerry Jones nervous in this economy. With that said I can't wait to see it completed. It's supposed to be shaped like a football with a retractable roof.

GTHobbes · Post by **GTHobbes** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:30 pm

Hate to see the NFL thread slipping to page 2, the week of the Super Bowl. Here's a nice story about The Quiet Man, aka Troy Polamalu:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09028/945039-66.stm

And a timeless classic for us Steelers fans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsdsKD2fNeY

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:47 pm

I've been avoiding pretty much all the stories about the game this year, and now I'm actually excited about watching it. Usually the coverage is so overdone that I'm sick of both teams before the SB kicks off.

I did watch the Inside Xbox Madden sim of the game. The Cards took three of the five simmed games.

Deadspin did run a pretty entertaining interview with the guy who created the Bud Bowl:

http://deadspin.com/5139483/not+so+secr ... e=true&s=x