Feb 29 2008
Jerry Porter signs a 6 year/$30MM deal
The Jacksonville Jaguars signed Jerry Porter to a 6 year/$30MM deal today. Apparently looking like you’d be a good NFL player is enough to warrant big money deals in this WR thin free agent market.
Archive for the 'NFL' Category
Feb 28 2008
Top 10 most awkward sports interviews
Came across this video today, it highlights t 10 of the most awkward sports interviews. I’m a big fan of the Shaq one and of course everyone loves the 1# video:
Feb 26 2008
If Kyle Orton gets signed to a contract with similar terms as yours is your job safe?
That is the question Rex Grossman must be asking himself this morning. After signing a deal with a base of $3MM with escalating bonuses shooting up to as much as $4.5MM, Sexy Rexy probably felt like his job was secure. His previous competition, Brian Griese, played terrible in relief of Grossman last year. The 3rd string QB is better known for his shenanigans:
I hope that time stamp is wrong
Feb 26 2008
Darren McFadden is really fast
Video of Darren Mcfadden’s 40 yard dash at the combine shows that the initial stopwatches had him clocked at a ridiculously fast 4.27 this was later adjusted to a 4.33
Here is the video, judge for yourself:
Feb 22 2008
New England Patriots are 19-0
These pictures surfaced on the New York Post today:
Super Bowl Champs, 19-0
Feb 19 2008
2008 NFL Draft - Scouting Combine
The NFL scouting combine kicks off tomorrow in Indianapolis. Since football season is over, and we’re months away from watching an organized game at any level, this is the only thing we have for the time being.
Todd McShay of ESPN.com wrote a great article about some of the kids to watch at the combine. Those who had the most to gain, those who had to succeed, etc. The most interesting part to me was the break down of what the players have to go throught during the 4 days they are present:
Feb 14 2008
Just in Case You Forgot
The New York Football Giants are Champions of the American Football world. Not only was it one of the most entertaining Super Bowls ever it has one of the best plays ever. This mediocre Gatorade commercial gives me an excuse to relive that moment one more time:
Feb 13 2008
Keegan
Kevin Keegan took over as manager of Newcastle United in mid-January and the Magpies have mustered exactly 0 wins and 2 goals in 5 matches. (If you don’t follow the EPL I’m sure none of this makes sense but hang with me, I’ll get to baseball soon). Being a Toon fan myself and hailing from the capital of the world, New York City, I got to know many of the ex-pats and die-hard Newcastle fans that were living in the City. Listening to them speak after Keegan was signed to replace Big Sam Allardyce (who was sacked after less than 1 year) you would think Newcastle had finally broke their Chicago Cubs-esque trophy drought that night. I deferred to their knowledge as they brought up stories of Keegan, as a player, saving the team from dropping to the old 2nd Division and then, as a manager, bringing them the closer to a title than anyone has in half a century. But in my mind I asked some simple questions: How is this going to save our season? Is Keegan a defender? Can he keep Michael Owen from pulling a hammy while sneezing? Will he be able to fill the void in mid-field Newcastle have had for years?
This brings me to my larger point: Sports managers/coaches are almost without exception vastly overrated in terms of their impact on team performance.
Feb 10 2008
Why Super Bowl 42 was great, even if you don’t know who played.
One week ago, a football team from New York played a football team from New England in the final game of the 2007-2008 season, to determine the champion of the season. The team from New York eventually won 17-14, and the game was watched by an ungodly number of individual Americans of which maybe 15% will vote in November if we are lucky. Now, I’m not going to just deride my fellow Americans for being lazy couch-potatoes who are more interested in Super Bowl ads than national politics. There’s more reasons to be apathetic about voting then just being an uncaring, ignorant lemming; it’s very possible that a voter actually might carefully weigh the platforms and positions of Hilary, Obama, McCain, Paul, Mary, and Joseph and decide not to vote for any of them. It’s very possible to have your opinion about the Presidential election be, “No Opinion.”
What is impossible is to imagine that if you asked any one of the 97.4 million viewers of Super Bowl 42, they would say they had “No Opinion” on what they just watched.
