Vikings #4 has been the top selling NFL jersey

Whether you adulation him or abhorrence him, Brett Favre is still one of the better names in football, and he's aswell acme if it comes to jersey sales.

The Vikings #4 has been the top affairs NFL jersey at Hoffman's Hobbies in Stevens Point this year, with the Chicago Bears' Jay Cutler advancing in at amount two.

But with both men arena for altered teams this year, the store's buyer says it's not harder to see why their sales accept been high.

"People are just aggravating to play out this ball with Favre and Cutler affective to altered teams, and giving achievement to those teams area commonly they weren't abiding or absolute abiding with their quarterbacks," says Bill Hoffman, Buyer of Hoffman's Hobbies, Your Sports Authority.

Packers jerseys are Hoffman's next accomplished sellers, with Aaron Rodgers advancing in at amount 3, and Greg Jennings afterward abutting behind.

Hoffman believes Packers sales will acceleration over the year, depending on how those players perform; for example, he believes abounding are cat-and-mouse until Rodgers proves he'll be a foundation for the aggregation afore acrimonious up his jersey.

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The Michael Vick Economy Is Rebounding

The endure time NFL Pro Bowler Michael Vick played football was in Kansas. Specifically, Leavenworth, Kansas, area he was confined a 23-month book at the city’s United States Penitentiary. In a arena beeline out of The Longest Yard, Vick, in bastille for his captivation in a abandoned dog-fighting ring, reportedly played quarterback in bastille backyard amateur as a way to annihilate time and accumulate in shape.

On Sunday, he'll accept an befalling to assuredly get aback on added accustomed turf, as his new team, the Philadelphia Eagles, host the Kansas City Chiefs at Lincoln Financial Field. And with Philadelphia’s starting quarterback Donovan McNabb acceptable to absence his additional beeline bold due to a rib injury, the achievability of Vick seeing account is high. The bold will allure not alone Eagles admirers and beastly rights activists, but aswell that allotment of the sports industry whose capital affair is sales.

The questions on everyone’s minds are: Can Michael Vick acknowledgment at the aforementioned akin of play afterwards spending 18 months in jail? Will the admirers absolve him for his animality to dogs and acquiesce him to refurbish his blah image? Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York-based Wizard Entertainment, which covers the gaming industry, says the acknowledgment is yes. “If anything, it’s his notoriety, added than his able-bodied ability, that will accord to a fasten in his popularity,” he says. “This is a aeon in our history area abomination makes you famous. And desirable.

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The Michael Vick Economy Is Rebounding

The endure time NFL Pro Bowler Michael Vick played football was in Kansas. Specifically, Leavenworth, Kansas, area he was confined a 23-month book at the city’s United States Penitentiary. In a arena beeline out of The Longest Yard, Vick, in bastille for his captivation in a abandoned dog-fighting ring, reportedly played quarterback in bastille backyard amateur as a way to annihilate time and accumulate in shape.

On Sunday, he'll accept an befalling to assuredly get aback on added accustomed turf, as his new team, the Philadelphia Eagles, host the Kansas City Chiefs at Lincoln Financial Field. And with Philadelphia’s starting quarterback Donovan McNabb acceptable to absence his additional beeline bold due to a rib injury, the achievability of Vick seeing account is high. The bold will allure not alone Eagles admirers and beastly rights activists, but aswell that allotment of the sports industry whose capital affair is sales.

The questions on everyone’s minds are: Can Michael Vick acknowledgment at the aforementioned akin of play afterwards spending 18 months in jail? Will the admirers absolve him for his animality to dogs and acquiesce him to refurbish his blah image? Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York-based Wizard Entertainment, which covers the gaming industry, says the acknowledgment is yes. “If anything, it’s his notoriety, added than his able-bodied ability, that will accord to a fasten in his popularity,” he says. “This is a aeon in our history area abomination makes you famous. And desirable.

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Plaxico Burress sentenced to two years in prison

Former Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress apologized to his ancestors and tearfully kissed his abundant wife and adolescent son goodbye Tuesday afore he was led abroad to bastille in New York to activate confined a two-year book on a weapons charge.

Burress, at the time a brilliant receiver with the New York Giants, was at the Latin Quarter bistro in Manhattan in November if a .40-caliber gun tucked into his waistband slipped down his leg and fired, acid him in the thigh.

Burress accustomed in the attorneys Tuesday cutting jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt, a abrupt adverse to the aphotic dejected clothing he wore endure ages if he entered his accusable plea.

He was accompanied by his abundant wife, Tiffany; his 2-year-old son, Elijah; his father, grandmother and stepmother.

Burress told Judge Michael Melkonian afore sentencing: "I wish to apologize to my family."

With time off for acceptable behavior, Burress, 32, apparently will serve 20 months. He could be appear from bastille as aboriginal as the bounce of 2011 and will be monitored an added two years afterwards he is freed.

Michael Strahan, a above Giants assistant who is now an NFL television analyst, acclimated his Twitter annual to abutment Burress: "My Thoughts and Prayers are with my man Plaxico and his ancestors today!!!"

The Giants, through agent Pat Hanlon, said, "This has been a tragic, sad, black bearings from the beginning. Our affair has consistently been for Plax's welfare, and for his family, and that continues to be our cardinal feeling."

Burress' big moment with the Giants was if he bent the acceptable touchdown canyon adjoin the ahead best New England Patriots in the endure minute of the 2008 Super Bowl.

The Giants appear Burress in April, but he told ESPN he hopes to resume his NFL career if his book is over.

"When I get out, I'll be 33, not 43," Burress said in an account advertisement in August. "I'll still be able to run and catch. I'll still accept the God-given adeptness to snag footballs; that's what I adulation to do. Of course, I wish to play again."

 

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Steve Schrader breaks down the latest around the wide world of sports in the ticker

Vikings arresting end/wanna-be actor Jared Allen was accomplishing his approved Monday gig on foxsports.com's "After Party" web appearance if host Jay Glazer asked how Minnesota could abatement abaft the Lions, 10-0, on Sunday.

"The refs in fact alleged us in and they gave us all Ambien," Allen said. "They said we charge to akin the arena field."

OK, the Lions accept absent 19 in a row, so it's up to them to get agitated at that one. And they should.

But aback to the show, they weren't done yukking it up. Glazer accomplished the bit by allurement Allen for his three affliction alley cities in the NFL.

"Detroit, because it's usually black and there's no one usually at the game," Allen said.

And he threw in San Diego ("you'd rather be at the beach") and Jacksonville ("not a accomplished lot traveling on there").

"Pretty abundant the aforementioned as Detroit?" Glazer said of Jacksonville.

"It's just a brilliant Detroit," Allen agreed.

Go get him, Gosder. Nov. 15 in the Metrodome.

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NFL season has our undivided attention

Another NFL division is aloft us and that agency one thing: Knee-jerk overreaction is active agrarian in the apple of sports.

The NFL arguably is the a lot of accepted able sports alliance in the absolute apple because of the alternation and action that it provides fans.

No alliance provides admirers with the bulk of advertising and accession every anniversary that the NFL does, but every anniversary the NFL storylines change acutely arch to fan flip-flopping and media over allegory that is accountable to change the next week.

The NFL changes week-to-week added than John Kerry acclimated to change opinions debate-to-debate. This division has been no exception.

In just two weeks Tony Romo has gone from a developed baton to a quarterback you cannot win with, the Texans from apparent bluff to accepted adversary and Drew Brees has all of a abrupt become a bigger quarterback than Tom Brady. Even the 2-0 San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos admirers are cerebration Super Basin or bust.

All of these anarchic knee-jerk reactions and we still accept 14 amateur larboard in the season.

But admitting all this action and chaos, the NFL division is a marathon, not a sprint. Just attending at the history of the league.

Three Super Basin champions accept started 0-2 in the endure sixteen seasons.

The 1993 Dallas Cowboys started 0-2 afore Emmitt Smith concluded his adjudicator and they concluded up acceptable the Super Bowl.

In 2001, anybody was accessible to address off the 0-2 New England Patriots afterwards they absent their starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, to an injury. The Patriots were affected to alpha a second-year, sixth-round abstract aces in Brady. Three Super Basin championships later, the Patriots affectionate accept never looked back, and Brady is admired as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.

Everyone remembers the 2007 New York Giants as the aggregation that agitated the best Patriots in the Super Bowl, but humans overlook that in 2007 the New York Giants started the division 0-2 and there were some humans calling for arch drillmaster Tom Coughlin to be accursed and closing Super Basin MVP Eli Manning to be benched in just the third anniversary of the season.

Two years later, Coughlin is admired as one of the best coaches in the NFL and Manning is the accomplished paid quarterback in the league.

The NFL is accepted because of the affect the players play with on the field, but the NFL admirers ability be even added affecting than the players.

In the NFL, admirers can go from getting on suicide watch to Cloud 9 in one week.

Before Kurt Warner led the St. Louis Rams to a Super basin achievement in 2000, St. Louis admirers were accessible to mail it in afterwards starting quarterback Trent Green suffered a season-ending knee abrasion in the preseason.

Things can change in the NFL quicker than any added alliance in sports. It seems like every division there is a worst-to-first Cinderella adventure and players and coaches can go from hero-to-goat at the breeze of a finger.

Coughlin was accursed in Jacksonville in 2002, Bill Belichick was affected to abandon in Cleveland, and just this accomplished offseason, two Super Bowl-champion coaches were accursed — Mike Shanahan in Denver and Jon Gruden in Tampa Bay.

The NFL is just as capricious as it is exciting.

Every anniversary admirers do not apperceive what is traveling to appear next. It’s like a absolute activity soap opera with absolute activity characters, it doesn’t get any bigger than the NFL.

No added able sports alliance can authority a candle to the NFL. Period.

Which is why with the MLB playoffs weeks away, everybody is too absent with the NFL division to even care.

The long, boring MLB approved division can be torturous, but every year the NFL approved division is like a roller coaster. We absolutely don’t apperceive what’s traveling to appear next.

The MLB may be America’s “past time”, but the NFL is America’s “present time.”

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Burress begins prison sentence

One-time Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was bedevilled to two years in bastille Tuesday for actionable New York's acrimonious gun laws and was anon taken into aegis afterward his hearing.

Burress agreed to the appeal accord endure ages and pleaded accusable to a bottom accoutrements charge. The accuse stemmed from an adventure backward endure fall, in which Burress accidentally attempt himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub.

He is accepted to serve about 20 months with acclaim for acceptable behavior, followed by two years of probation.

Burress accustomed at the courthouse with his wife and son, whom he agitated in his arms, at 9:41 a.m. Afore the sentencing began, Burress asked for and was accepted permission by the adjudicator to say one endure goodbye to his family, built-in in the fifth row of the courthouse.

In court, Burress apologized to his ancestors and admirers and thanked them for their support. "We will all get through this," he said.

He was again taken into custody.

Burress will be taken to the Rikers Island bastille in New York, and again transferred to the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill afore getting beatific to one of New York State's 29 medium-security prisons to serve out his sentence.

Afterwards, his aegis attorney, Benjamin Brafman, alleged the case "terribly said and actual tragic."

"This has been a actual affecting acquaintance for him," Brafman said. "He's sad about what he's done to his life, his career, and added chiefly to his family. He's a fundamentally acceptable man who has acclimated bad acumen and is traveling to pay a very, actual astringent penalty."

The case went to a admirable board afterwards months of negotiations amid prosecutors and Burress' aegis advocate bankrupt down, allegedly because Manhattan District Advocate Robert Morgenthau insisted that the above New York Giants advanced receiver serve at atomic two years in bastille for actionable the city's austere gun laws.

On July 29, Burress took the attenuate and chancy footfall of testifying afore the admirable jury, acquisitive to argue the console that the gun was not acclimated in the agency of a abomination and that he was the abandoned victim. But canicule later, Burress was accusable on two counts of bent control of a weapon and one calculation of adventuresome endangerment. He faced a minimum book of 3? years if bedevilled at trial.

 

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Outspoken Ryan livens up the NFL

Rex Ryan needs a nickname. Something with a WWE ring to it.

It can't be Son of Associate or Buddy's Boy, because associate is a pal chat and Ryan is no one's pal. Maybe Rex Dog. Or T-Rex. How about Rex-osaurus, or the Human Train Rex?

Pick one, and do it afore today's smackdown amid the Jets and the Patriots. Rope off the sidelines, lay down a canvas and about-face on the smoke machine. This AFC East altercation has all the adequacy of a turnbuckled animate cage bout if there's anytime been one.

"I never came actuality to kiss Bill Belichick's rings," Ryan said if the Jets assassin him in February.

You got that, Mr. Hoodie? Yeah, he's talking to you.

"I accept a lot of account for Bill Belichick," Ryan said, "But I'm not his acquaintance on Sunday."(Cheap NFL jerseys)

This is abundant for the NFL. Too abounding coaches are dried say-nothings who would acclaim an opposing convenance band amateur if it meant befitting the account lath clear.

NFL Hall of Fame Candidates Named for 2010

The candidates for next year's Pro Football Hall of Fame were appear Saturday. There are 131 basic candidates including NFL Football greats Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith. The account will be bargain to 15 finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in January 2010.

On September 17, 1920 the National Football League (NFL) was created. Over 80 years later, the NFL continues to about-face out abundant players, abounding of whom will end up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.(Football jerseys for sale)

NFL career accepting baton Jerry Rice and career hasty baton Emmitt Smith are two of the 131 candidates for the 2010 Pro Football Hall of Fame. To be advised for the Hall of Fame, a amateur or drillmaster accept to accept been retired at atomic 5 years. A contributor may still be alive in his pro football career.

The basic chic of 103 players, 10 coaches and 18 contributors was appear by the NFL Saturday. That will be narrowed down to 25 semifinalists on November 27, and those 25 will be whittled to 17 finalists on February 6, 2010, the day afore the Super Bowl.

San Francisco is Good to Seattle

While Seattle is on the alley on Sunday, they are alone traveling to San Francisco, which happens to be the abutting geographic alley bold and a abode that they've gone 5-2 back they abutting the NFC West in 2002.

Also, to whom should the Seahawks forward their acknowledgment for the agenda this year in agreement of travel? They play the NFC North and the AFC South this year, but amazingly they do not accept to biking to the East Coast at all this year. We apperceive what happens to this aggregation if it crosses three time zones. This year, while the aggregation does accept to biking to far off places, but that's because Seattle is not abutting to any aggregation in the NFL, it does account from in fact accepting to host those teams on their agenda who appear to be extreme from Seattle. Teams like Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, and Tennessee are all at home. This is a acceptable thing. So I accept that agency that any accident can be attributed to the absolute play on the acreage as against to some awe-inspiring centralized time clock/travel issues, thankfully.

In accession to San Francisco getting about 800 afar away, they've got a aggregation that some prognosticators who anticipate that they in fact accept a above aggregation to Seattle. That may or may not be accurate I accept it depends on whether or not Frank Gore will abide to boilerplate 1.4 yards per backpack I'm not abiding how Shaun Hill's assembly should bang abhorrence into Seattle either. I'm not adage that Seattle shouldn't abhorrence him because I accumulate mistaking him for Shaun King (the above Tulane Green Waver and Tampa Bay Buc') or that he's not a "name" player. Just because hardly anyone knows his name does not accomplish him bad (and conversely, just because someone's name is apparent doesn't accomplish him good?see Jay Cutler endure anniversary for instance). Shaun Hill has accustomed Seattle no acumen to abhorrence him, abnormally if their active bold is as abhorrent as it was endure week. I see Seattle traveling down there and winning, and accomplishing so rather easily. I'm not affairs the 49ers.(San Francisco 49ers football jerseys)

Since we're on the affair of the 49ers, I anticipation that this would be a acceptable time to allocution about Mike Singletary. He was, unquestionably, one of the best average linebackers to play the game. I admired watching him play as a kid. But actuality is one brainless affair that humans adjudge to focus on if anecdotic how acceptable he was: his eyes. If a Mike Singletary highlight is on, a analyst will assuredly animadversion on Singletary's "intensity" and "focus" and point to his eyes as evidence. For those who accept no abstraction what I'm talking about, Singletary acclimated to accessible his eyes absolutely advanced if a play was advance and affectionate of fabricated a appealing funny face while accomplishing so.

Broncos’ defense turns heads

Although he has actual little acquaintance in the NFL, Brady Quinn has a altered angle on the Denver Broncos.

On Sunday, the Cleveland Browns’ quarterback will accomplish just the fifth alpha of his career, but it’ll be his additional adjoin the Broncos. He’s the aboriginal quarterback in the alliance to face Denver’s new-look aegis afterwards accepting able for the old arrangement a year ago.

“Two absolutely altered teams,” Quinn said of the 2008 Broncos and the 2009 version. “Schematically, you can see it’s absolutely different.”

Quinn, a first-round abstract aces from Notre Dame in 2007, fabricated his aboriginal NFL alpha on Nov. 6, 2008, adjoin the Broncos. Denver won the game, 34-30, but Quinn had an absorbing night, commutual 23 of 35 passes for 239 yards and two touchdowns.

Quinn wasn’t sacked by the Broncos a year ago, which wasn’t a surprise, because the Broncos had just 26 sacks all division — and just six in the additional bisected of the year.

The endure time Quinn and the Browns faced the Broncos, Denver was active a 4-3 aegis and had one of the league’s affliction arresting units. Since then, the Broncos accept switched to a 3-4 defense, and beneath new coordinator Mike Nolan, they’ve been abundant added advancing than in the past.

Last week, the Broncos sacked Cincinnati’s Carson Palmer three times. They registered 10 sacks during the preseason.

Quinn, who was sacked 5 times endure anniversary by Minnesota, has taken apprehension of the Broncos’ advancing nature.

“Without a doubt,” he said. “That’s one of the things you notice: them putting players in positions to play the appearance of football they’re acclimated to.”

Defensively, the Broncos are benumbed a beachcomber of momentum. They gave up at atomic 30 credibility nine times a year ago, including 112 credibility in the final three games. Afterwards shutting out Arizona in the preseason finale, the Broncos gave up just a last-minute touchdown adjoin the Bengals endure Sunday.

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My NFL crystal ball

Predicting what's traveling to appear in the National Football League is an acutely abortive exercise.

Who had the Miami Dolphins acceptable 10 added amateur endure year than they did in 2007? Who had the Falcons in the playoffs? And who had Arizona in the Super Bowl at any time endure season?

Not you. Not anybody.

So if there's one affair we can adumbrate about the 2009 NFL season, it's that it will be unpredictable. But that's one of the things that makes the NFL so great. You never apperceive what to apprehend from bold to game. Actually, you absolutely don't apperceive what's traveling to appear from division to quarter, apparent by the Titans outplaying the Steelers for abundant of Thursday night's season-opener, yet declining to cull out a victory.

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Everywhere I look, humans are authoritative predictions about what's traveling to appear this NFL season, so I ability as able-bodied accompany the party. But these thoughts are from guaranteed. In fact, they appear with a minus-25 percent agreement that any of this being will in fact happen.

 

Third-and-long day against the Giants

The New York Giants set the accent with their additional third-down bearings adjoin the Washington Redskins on Sunday.

On their aperture drive, the Giants adapted a third-and-3. Now they faced third-and-7 at their own 39-yard line.

The Redskins rushed four, and Eli Manning completed a canyon to Mario Manningham for a 25-yard gain.

It was the additional of six third-down conversions by the Giants in their 23-17 win over the Redskins. Washington's aegis - which led the NFL in three-and-outs endure year - got off the acreage just already in three or beneath plays in this year's opener.

The futility on third down was a primary affair of altercation Monday at Redskin Park because the Giants had three drives of at atomic 10 plays and captivated a about 13-minute bend in time of possession.

"We knew advancing in that we had to do that in adjustment to win this game," Hall said. "In the aboriginal half, they were 5-for-8. At halftime, we knew we had to stop them and accord our breach a chance, and we didn't do that."

Defensive coordinator Greg Blache had fatigued to the aegis as aboriginal as Wednesday the bold would be absitively by third-down execution. And for the a lot of part, he was right.

For the Redskins, it was a three-pronged breakdown on third down.

The canyon blitz got to Manning alone already in 29 drop-backs.

Cornerbacks DeAngelo Hall and Fred Smoot gave too abundant cushion, generally lining up above the first-down marker.

 

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49ers at Cardinals NFL Picks

The afternoon affair shows the arresting NFC Champions in the Arizona Cardinals arena host to the San Francisco 49ers. If you are searching for NFL picks to advice you exhausted the NFL spreads on this bold (which accept Arizona advantaged by 5 credibility and a absolute at 46) again you accept appear to the appropriate place. I’m traveling to detail the handicappers I like who accept activity on this game, so you apperceive you’ll accept a bigger adventitious of acceptable with your NFL betting. If you are traveling to do any wagering this weekend again yield a attending at the $500 in benefit money BetUS offers our readers.

Steve Merril is one of the best of the best handicappers in the world. Endure year he bedeviled pro football and appropriate now he’s benumbed a 76-49 run branch into the 2009 season. He has his NFC Top play traveling on the 49ers/Cardinals advance and if you were searching for just one guy to trust, this would be the guy I’d choose.

Wunderdog has been one of the a lot of ascendant handicappers in the apple over the accomplished four months and he has no affairs to let up on that for the NFL season. Join the dog on Sunday for his Supreme Annihilator play that is on San Fran and Arizona bold this afternoon.

Robbie Gainous of Cajun Sports is accessible to band your wallet with banknote on Sunday as he has his 4* absolute leash shocker traveling on this game. This amateur set of systems has gone 35-5 ATS and is backed by a abundant address on why he is demography the ancillary that he is.

John Martin has his 5 Unit Season-Opening Sleeper on this bold today. He thinks the books accept to accept feel comatose if ambience this band and he’s traveling to be anguish the bold alone for some simple profits.

Joseph D’Amico has his one of his chargeless NFL picks for Sunday actuality on the Arizona Cardinals: The abiding NFC Champion Arizona Cardinal’s are as acceptable or bigger than they were a division ago. The one abode that they bare advice was in their active game. They went out and got Beanie Wells to advice out Tim Hightower. The high-flying air advance will alpha appropriate area they larboard off. Fitzgerald, Boldin, and Breaston are the best leash of receivers in the game. The Card’s won both amateur endure division over the Niner’s. However they did breach the covers. Outside of the 4 point accident in the Super Bowl, Arizona won their 4 antecedent amateur actually over 4 solid squads. San Fransisco had a nice adventure endure division with the accession of HC Mike Singletary. But are still a few players abbreviate of a able team. Their aegis can not argue with the outstanding air advance of Arizona. I attending for the Cardinal’s to appear out and accomplish a statement. The 49er’s are 2-6-1 ATS their endure 9 vs. the NFC. The Card’s are 5-0 ATS their endure 5 overall, 4-0 ATS their endure 4 vs. the NFC, and 9-2 ATS their endure 11 as a a favorite. Yield Arizona. Thank you.

 

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Madden Un-Retires for NFL Office Gig

Though John Madden retired afterwards nine years as an Oakland Raiders drillmaster and thirty years as a broadcaster, his football ascribe is still advised priceless.

So the NFL has offered him a "special adviser" job that doesn't pay anything.

The NFL appear Thursday that Madden has accustomed the position and will serve as an contributed "special adviser" to abettor Roger Goodell. Madden will serve as the administrator of the coaches accumulation of the NFL antagonism committee, and will accompany Goodell on a account appointment call.

"John Madden still has amazing affection for the bold and offered to abide to play a effective role for the league," Goodell said in a account quoted by USA Today. "It was an action we couldn't refuse."

An "offer we couldn't refuse"? That sounds added "bada bing" than "Boom!"

Football admirers can't get abundant of the grandfatherly ex-announcer, and even Wednesday's iPod Nano barrage anniversary in San Francisco congenital a audience of Madden NFL 10 for the iPhone.

That Madden NFL 10 for the iPhone is about un advancement over real, reside NFL football. Because it still had Madden's voice, instead of that blockhead Chris Collinsworth!

Joe Kukura is a freelance biographer who prefers to accredit to him as "Chris Collinsworthless"

 

10 games that will decide the 2009 NFL season II

Vikings at Packers (Week 8)

Not back T.O. (lately the hobbled one's name has been T.O.E.) alternate to Motownphilly has there been such apprehension for audition just how loud one amateur will be booed during introductions. Seriously, has there anytime been a amateur who has gone from celestial to blockhead in one city-limits added bound than Brett Favre? From what I hear, even Warren from There's Something About Mary got verbally accosted at a bounded Green Bay Dave & Busters afterwards Favre began his amethyst reign.

By the way, even afore No. 4 got complex this antagonism was advised a huge one in chief who wins the NFC North.

New England at Indianapolis (Week 10)

At some point, won't one of the aggregation owners ask, "Why do we accept to play them every year? Can't we get Detroit instead for arena the Colts/Pats anniversary analysis like we're in the aforementioned division?

Speaking of Tom Brady, I just bent his actualization on "Entourage" and just don't get why Turtle hated him for a lot of of the episode. His reasoning? Turtle's a Giant fan and allegedly anyone who follows the aggregation has an obligation to acquaint Brady off if they see him in person.

Now I get the antic if the writers fabricated Turtle a Jets fan (given the character's Queens roots, that would accomplish added sense). But the accomplished Tom-Brady-is-the-Giants-number-one nemesis affair fabricated aught faculty because the teams aren't rivals and hardly play anniversary added (only nine affairs absolute in history).

By the way, Sloan may be the hottest babe in the history of television but can't assume to get a big cine role. Seriously, what gives?

But afore I go off on a Sloan departure (which could accomplish this cavalcade as connected as the healthcare bill), a simple catechism has to be asked: Are the Colts the aforementioned aggregation that fabricated this animosity abundant for a lot of of the decade? The key humans surrounding Peyton's abundance (Addai, Harrison, Dungy) are either banged up, appear or retired, respectively, and you accept to admiration if you're seeing the alpha of a rebuilding date in Indy. Manning will consistently accumulate them competitive, but with added than a few acrimonious the Titans and (gasp) Texans advanced of the Colts in the AFC South, one has to admiration if the dejected and white are even on the Pats' akin anymore.

Indianapolis at Baltimore (Week 11)

The aggregation that larboard Baltimore plays the aggregation that replaced them in a acute antagonism of Peyton Manning vs. Ed Reed.

I consistently admiration if I watch these two teams play in Baltimore how abounding admirers there connected to basis for the Colts admitting the move. The Ravens assume to accept a abundant fan base, but for the old schoolers who watched anybody from Unitas to Bert Jones, did they just about-face to the Ravens the moment the aggregation began arena there?

In today's apple of DirecTV and seeing any aggregation you like admitting location, I would anticipate added than a few would stick with the Colts. But if this accomplished affair went down in 1984, the moment those affective vans larboard on a albino night, that adherence had to go to the Redskins or Eagles back that was the one bold they could see consistently on a Sunday afternoon, right? If you're in Baltimore and built-in afore 1970, feel chargeless to email me on this one. I'm absolutely curious.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh (Week 16)

The best 13-12 bold the NFL has to offer. The hits are brutal, both teams are accomplished — old academy football at its finest.

But I still can't get over Santonio Holmes antic the amount 10. Every time he catches a ball, I apprehend him to yield off his helmet, again his face (which is in fact a mask) and alpha bedlam like a dement while exclaiming, "There is no Santonio Holmes! It was me, Kordell Stewart all along!"

This bold is aswell a rematch of endure year's AFC Championship bold that assuredly showed Joe Flacco that we ain't in Delaware anymore. But by the time this one rolls around, the absorbing adolescent QB will accept added acquaintance beneath his belt. Compared to Pittsburgh, the Ravens' active bold is superior, the aegis is on par. So if Flacco can abstain the affectionate of crippling interception he tossed to Troy Polamalu backward in endure year's appointment championship, this bold could adjudge who-gets-home-field-versus-who in the playoffs.

Philadelphia at Dallas (Week 17)

It's abundant that the NFL approved analysis plays into January. A playoff atom will acceptable be on the band (as it was endure year) and the new Dallas scoreboard that Jerry Jones refuses to move will acceptable aftereffect in 8-13 do-overs and ability even be active in blocking a field-goal attempt.

You just accept to adulation it if a guy like Jones thinks he's congenital the absolute amphitheater like the association in New York did if the new Yankee Amphitheater opened, alone to see things like scoreboards blocking punts or wind tunnels axis bunts into home runs transforming both venues into billion-dollar punchlines. It's like a aristocratic marriage getting absorbed for months until the absolute day comes and the benedict somehow loses the ring.

The alone catechism is if Michael Vick will be active defenses or Donovan McNabb crazy at that point in the season. This could aswell be the bold that decides whether Wade Phillips survives addition analysis as Cowboys' coach.

So adore the NFL season, kids. The backward alpha this year seems to accept admirers even added amped up than usual. Just burden from authoritative predictions like I just did. Remember, alone weathermen get paid able-bodied for getting consistently wrong.

 

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So much optimism based on so little realism

Sports Illustrated has the Bears traveling to the Super Bowl this season, adopting the accessible question: Where does Lovie Smith acquisition the time to drillmaster an NFL aggregation and address for a above publication?

The magazine's apprehension ability be adventurous -- ability even be meandering against batty -- but on the added hand, what the heck? If you can't dream big afore the approved division begins, if can you? Autumn and Jay Cutler passes are in the air, and lots of accurate believers in boondocks already are activity apologetic for the '72 Dolphins.

Fervor about consistently alcove analytical accumulation in Chicago this time of year, but with the reviled Packers aboriginal on the agenda and Cutler at quarterback, it ability be too abundant for some of the added agitable Bears fans, the ones with above-mentioned affection altitude and/or heat-packing spouses who are annoyed of getting asked to advance next week's opponent.

When has there been this abundant fizz surrounding the Bears? Even their a lot of contempo Super Bowl season, 2006, didn't aftermath the affectionate of apprehension we're seeing as the aggregation readies for its Sunday night opener in Green Bay. Yes, the aegis was aberrant in '06, but the quarterback was Rex Grossman.

Might we accept to go aback to that a lot of angelic of angelic years, 1985, to acquisition agnate levels of excitement? I don't beggarly to put these Bears on that akin because they're not even abutting in agreement of all-embracing talent. But if has a absolute of activity covered the acreage like this?

Is the galloping optimism warranted? No, but never belittle the avidity of admirers who accept been beggared of a contemporary affair alleged "the advanced pass." And actuality comes Cutler, with an arm like a deranged casting machine.

Can a quarterback accomplish that big a difference? Maybe the bigger catechism is, can a quarterback with Cutler's abilities accomplish an boilerplate Bears aggregation that abundant better? Aboriginal off, the guy is not a phenomenon worker, admitting there were off-season letters he could change baptize into beer. If he can accumulate his arch on beeline and if just one advanced receiver starts arena like an NFL advanced receiver, Cutler is account one added achievement this division and conceivably a wild-card anchorage for a aggregation that went 9-7 endure year.

I apperceive that's black to those of you who wept blithely and unapologetically afterwards account the SI prediction. But the arresting backfield charcoal a big catechism mark. The acceptable account is that, perception-wise, Charles Tillman has angry into a Pro Bowl cornerback while he recovers from aback surgery. If he stays off the acreage abundant longer, he can alpha autograph his Hall of Fame consecration speech.

 

 

 

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Cut down day: NFL teams pare rosters to 53

David Tyree has gone from Super Bowl hero to unemployed hero. Tyree was appear by the New York Giants on Saturday in the final cutdown that aswell featured a backward trade, with advancement bound end Michael Matthews, addition Super Bowl veteran, getting alien to the New England Patriots for a codicillary abstract pick.

Tyree absent endure division afterwards abasing his hamstring while advancing aback from offseason knee surgery. The 29-year-old advanced receiver battled accessory groin, hamstring and knee injuries in training affected this year and played alone two preseason games, missing the endure two.

"It's acutely a time of alloyed feelings," Tyree said Saturday. "This is allotment of the journey. It's not like it's a abundant day. But at the aforementioned time I'm abounding with expectations about what's next on this track, and I'm excited, as well."

Tyree fabricated one of the a lot of arresting catches in Super Bowl history some 19 months ago if the Giants defeated the ahead best New England Patriots.

With the Giants abaft 14-10 backward in the fourth division and faced with a third-and-5, Tyree hauled in a 32-yard canyon from Eli Manning, pinning the brawl adjoin his helmet as apostle Rodney Harrison yanked him to the ground.

Vick Reinstated For Eagles' Third Game

NEW YORK--Michael Vick's acknowledgment to the NFL was accustomed final approval Thursday by Commissioner Roger Goodell. The alliance absolutely reinstated the quarterback, able in the Philadelphia Eagles' third bold of the approved season.

Goodell fabricated the advertisement actuality Thursday afternoon afterwards affair with Vick and Eagles Coach Andy Reid for about 45 account beforehand in the day at the team's auberge in New Jersey.

"He's demonstrating his commitment," Goodell said, speaking to a accumulation of reporters at the NFL's offices. "He's demonstrating he's traveling to use bigger acumen traveling forward, and I wish to animate that. As I said to you again and I said to Michael repeatedly, we're searching for a success adventure here. We would like to see him be acknowledged and this is a alteration to hopefully aerate the befalling for him to be successful."

The Eagles' third bold of the approved division is appointed for Sept. 27 at home adjoin the Kansas City Chiefs.

Vick and the Eagles were in the New York breadth to play the Jets in a preseason bold Thursday night at Giants Stadium.

 

Have at it: Favre and ticket sales

Oh boy. My accumulated cousins over at ESPN 1000 in Chicago noticed this address in the Star Tribune and went to town. The adventure addendum that Minnesota still had 6,000 division tickets accessible afterwards the antecedent billow of purchases accompanying to the signing of quarterback Brett Favre.

As a result, the hosts of the Waddle and Silvy appearance declared Vikings admirers “the affliction fan abject in all of America.” You can accept for yourself in this podcast.

I don’t present this alone to bandy claret in the water. (Just a few drops.) I’d in fact like to see some altercation beneath about Favre’s appulse (or abridgement thereof) on the Vikings’ admission sales and what, if anything, it means.

Remember, this is not a new issue. The Vikings bare accumulated advice assorted times endure division to abstain bounded television blackouts and aswell accustomed two extensions from the NFL to advertise out its bounded playoff bold adjoin Philadelphia. They accept some of the a lot of absorbing players in the NFL, including tailback Adrian Peterson and arresting end Jared Allen, and play in a amphitheater that requires beneath than 63,000 tickets awash to be advised awash out.

There are bread-and-butter realities to consider, as able-bodied as the ache of four able teams and a Division I university on a mid-level market. Let me apperceive what you anticipate and we’ll amphitheater aback after this anniversary in the boastful acknowledgment of “Have at it.” So, accept at it.

 

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Bruschi set to say goodbye to the Patriots and the NFL

Did you hear?

By cafeteria time tomorrow anybody about Tucson will be talking.

Why you ask?

One of the All-time Arizona Wildcat football greats has absitively to adhere it up.

After 13 years of arena for the New England Patriots, average linebacker Tedy Bruschi will be announcement his retirement during a columnist appointment at 10:45 a.m. ET.

There are a few factors that played into his decision…

Age – At 36 years-old Bruschi is the oldest amateur on the aegis and additional on the aggregation abaft Joey Galloway, 37. The claiming apparently went something like this…retire with address or be cut in shame.

Depth blueprint – A year ago the Patriots drafted average linebacker Jerod Mayo out of Tennessee in the aboriginal round. He went on to become the NFL arresting amateur of the year. This off-season New England active central linebacker Paris Lenon from the Detroit Lions.

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It could be a boo-fest at Invesco Field at Mile High on Sunday night.

The Broncos' barter of brilliant quarterback Jay Cutler to Chicago in April is still causing affections to balloon over in the Rocky Mountains. Cutler has bent the acrimony of Broncos fans. But so has new Denver drillmaster Josh McDaniels, who engineered the adjournment of Cutler, and Kyle Orton, who has the assignment of replacing Cutler in Denver.

When Cutler and the Bears appointment Denver on Sunday night in one of the a lot of advancing preseason amateur in Broncos history, all three men will acceptable be at the centermost of fans' displeasure.

Cutler will acceptable be booed because he wouldn't abet with the aggregation afterwards he bent wind that McDaniels was aggravating to accumulate with above New England quarterback Matt Cassel. Cutler basically abandoned the Broncos' brass, including buyer Pat Bowlen, afterwards the Cassel barter talks fell apart. The admirers became agitated if Cutler gave up on the authorization afterwards the Cassel talks became public.

McDaniels has agitated Denver admirers for starting the Cutler blend by cerebration about trading him. Many admirers anticipation McDaniels was replacing Mike Shanahan to accord the authorization new blood, not to breach it apart. Cutler admirers may never absolve McDaniels.

Orton has already been booed in Denver. If he makes a absurdity with Cutler in the house, the boo birds will be out in abounding force. Orton was booed at a flat at Invesco Field beforehand this ages and he added agitated the home association by throwing interceptions on three beeline alternation in his aboriginal preseason games. Orton is no Cutler and he may pay for it.

Broncos admirers are alleviative this bold like a playoff game. Beforehand in the week, I asked Denver admirers how they will acknowledge if they see Cutler in a Bears compatible in Denver. As expected, they are accessible to accord it to Cutler. McDaniels may apprehend it as well.

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NFL clarifies rules on punts at Cowboys Stadium

ARLINGTON, Texas | There will be do-overs in Dallas.

NFL abettor Roger Goodell on Friday antiseptic rules on punts that backlash off the high-definition monitors blind over a lot of of the acreage at the new Cowboys Stadium.

The new rules administer to all stadiums even admitting it’s alone an affair at this one.

Downs will be replayed “if a brawl in play strikes a video board, adviser wire, sky cam, or any added object.” The bold alarm will be displace to the time if the play was snapped. Any penalties during the wiped-out play won’t count, except for claimed fouls.

Also, if admiral on the acreage don’t see the brawl hitting the board, the epitomize abettor can now admit a berth analysis at any time. If the epitomize abettor doesn’t ask for a review, coaches can claiming beneath accustomed claiming rules.

Perhaps the key allotment of Goodell’s advertisement is that the guidelines awning alone this season, an adumbration the alliance may force Cowboys buyer Jerry Jones to accession the boards afore the 2010 season, which ends with the Super Bowl in his building.

The alliance acutely wouldn’t wish even the limited achievability of a championship absitively by a brawl hitting a TV awning aural a punter’s reach.

On his radio show, Jones said he’s admiring to accept this settled. He aswell common his attitude that “I don’t see it as ultimately an issue” because punts rarely are kicked that top down the average of the acreage because teams adopt pinning returners afterpiece to the sideline.

The Eagles fans cheer Vick's return to NFL

Michael Vick was showered with admiration Thursday night in his Philadelphia Eagles debut. Not beer and batteries from bashed louts a la above Dallas drillmaster Jimmy Johnson. Not blimp animals, as one anti-Vick band had contemplated.

Eagles admirers — a bearish lot that already pelted Santa Claus with snowballs — gave Vick a Rocky Balboa-type acceptable whenever he played in a 33-32 preseason win adjoin Jacksonville. The pregame protests accepted because of Vick's above-mentioned captivation in dog angry fizzled as well.

"I didn't anticipate it would be that positive," Vick said of the army acknowledgment during his postgame account conference. "I was actual pleased."

About the alone affair that could accept gone bigger was Philadelphia's achievement with Vick both in and out of the huddle.

Like with Brett Favre in Minnesota, amalgam Vick into the Eagles breach will yield time. After spending the accomplished two seasons out of football, Vick said he is alone "70 percent" of the three-time Pro Bowl amateur he already was. Vick didn't alpha practicing with the Eagles until 12 canicule earlier.

No. 1 rookie wide receiver is Brian Robiskie of the Cleveland Browns.

Robiskie is advised the a lot of pro-ready advanced receiver from this year's abstract class. He has actual acceptable easily and is a abundant route-runner.

He is in a abundant position to accomplish an appulse this season. He has actual little antagonism and will a lot of acceptable alpha alongside Braylon Edwards.

Last division the Browns were 31st in the alliance in casual yards, but don't let that anticipate you from assertive in Robiskie. In 2007 the Browns were 12th in the alliance in casual yards.

This accomplished division the Browns were a mess. I'd apprehend something afterpiece to the 2007 casual bold than endure season's. If that's the case, Robiskie could be a abundant auto in fantasy leagues.

He will aswell be helped by Cleveland's abridgement of added talent. The Browns' second-leading receiver endure division was Kellen Winslow. He has back confused on to Tampa Bay, and that leaves a lot of passes that anyone will get, and a appropriate bulk of those passes will go to Robiskie.

During his career at Ohio State, he had 127 receptions and 1,866 yards. He aswell had a actual absorbing 24 touchdowns during his bookish career.

His best division was in his inferior year. He had 55 catches for 935 yards and 11 touchdowns. His chief year was not as absorbing due to the Buckeyes alteration their abhorrent arrangement to board Terrelle Pryor.

With Edwards demography the burden off the rookie, Robiskie has a abundant befalling to put up some big numbers. He’s absolutely a amateur to accumulate an eye on, and is a abundant aces in the after rounds

No. 2 rookie wide receiver is Hakeem Nicks of the New York Giants.

Nicks is a guy who was drafted in the appropriate abode at the appropriate time. When Plaxico Burress attempt himself in the leg, he opened up the Giants No. 1 advanced receiver spot.

With no accurate No. 1 advanced receiver on the roster, the Giants approved to acquisition one through the draft. Nicks is the aboriginal admired to footfall into the role which would accomplish him a abundant fantasy option.

I am by no agency adage Nicks will put up Plaxico-type numbers, but he should accomplish an appulse from Day One. He is abundant abate than Plaxico, so the better aberration amid the two will be red area touchdowns.

The Giants aswell absent Amani Toomer this offseason, which opens up added receptions and yards for the taking. Without a agnosticism Hakeem Nicks will yield advantage of these losses.

He had a acceptable 2007 with 986 yards and 5 touchdowns, but he exploded in 2008. He had over 1,200 yards and 12 touchdowns.

His best bold of the division was North Carolina’s basin bold adjoin West Virginia. He had eight receptions for 217 yards and three touchdowns. This absolutely helped his abstract banal and fabricated everybody accumulate an eye out for him.

While we all apperceive academy success does not according NFL success, Nicks has accomplished potential. He could end up as the No. 1 amateur advanced receiver if he accomplish up and gets the Giants' No. 1 advanced receiver job. Either way Nicks should aftermath this season.

No. 3 rookie wide receiver is Percy Harvin of the Minnesota Vikings.

Harvin was one of the best academy players in the nation endure season. His capital catechism advancing into the abstract was whether he was a active aback or a advanced receiver.

Last division at Florida, Harvin led the aggregation in receptions and was additional in accepting yards. He was aswell fourth on the aggregation in carries and additional in hasty yards.

His upside on the acreage is huge, but he does accept some problems off the field.

He activated absolute for marijuana at the combine. Knowing he would be activated at the amalgamate he still did it anyways, which absolutely makes a lot of humans catechism his character. If he can accumulate his arch on beeline he should accept a abundant year.

One affair Harvin does accept traveling for him is versatility. He can band up at as abounding as three abhorrent positions. Advanced receiver will be his capital position, but he may aswell play some quarterback and active back. If he plays quarterback it will be in a Wildcat formation.

After testing absolute for drugs at the combine, his amount has risen. The accession of Brett Favre could absolutely advice him as a advanced receiver. Favre has no botheration traveling downfield which will plan abundant with Harvin’s speed.

With Harvin’s versatility, he should accept no botheration authoritative an appulse in his amateur season.

No. 4 rookie wide receiver is Jeremy Maclin of the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Eagles traded up in the abstract to get Maclin with the 19th all-embracing pick. This shows that they accept in him and like something about him.

Maclin will a lot of acceptable see time as the bang returner and as a advanced receiver. He will be acclimated as the returner so that DeSean Jackson can focus on his advanced receiver role.

I alone anticipate Maclin will alpha the division as the third advanced receiver abaft both Jackson and Kevin Curtis. Others anticipate Maclin will be advanced of Curtis. Either way, Maclin will accept appealing acceptable value.

Maclin has abundant acceleration and is actual quick in the accessible field. He will accept affluence of weapons about him demography all of the burden off of him.

Brian Westbrook and LeSean McCoy will yield the burden off through the arena game. With a acknowledged arena bold the Eagles advanced receivers will be able to get accessible easier.

Maclin will aswell be helped by his adolescent advanced receivers demography the burden off of him. Jackson will be the receiver the defenses pay the a lot of absorption to, and if Maclin is the No. 3 advanced receiver, Curtis will aswell be watched afterpiece than him. This could accomplish it actual simple for Maclin to become a accordant fantasy option.

Maclin is about like a bigger adaptation of Jackson and is absolutely a amateur account risking a aces on.

No. 5 rookie wide receiver is Darrius Heyward-Bey of the Oakland Raiders.

Heyward-Bey is a actual arresting prospect. He was the aboriginal advanced receiver taken in the draft, but was not the No. 1 advanced receiver in a lot of people’s minds.

As everybody knows Al Davis loves speed, and that’s absolutely why his Oakland Raiders drafted Darrius. He is the a lot of acceptable applicant to be a bust, but he has just as abundant upside.

Heyward-Bey was the fastest advanced receiver at the amalgamate with a 4.3 in the 40-yard dash. It takes added than acceleration to be a acceptable advanced receiver, but that won’t aching his affairs of succeeding.

His admeasurement will aswell advice him in the NFL. At 6’2”, Heyward-Bey has abundant admeasurement to go with his speed. He will accept a acme advantage over anyone who will be accoutrement him.

He has abundant acceleration and height, but he does accept some negatives. He has never absolutely acclimated his admeasurement and acceleration effectively. Last division he had 609 accepting yards and alone 5 touchdowns. He struggles with route-running and isn’t as able on “jump balls” as a receiver of his ability should be.

Heyward-Bey is far from extensive his potential, and will charge actual acceptable apprenticeship to get accidentally abutting to his potential. With his admeasurement and acceleration he could be an accomplished receiver, but anyone has to advice him get to his potential. He is a chancy aces that could pay huge assets for your fantasy team.

THE NFL:Preseason Week 2, Winners

After watching the affectation Leon Washington put on in the aboriginal bisected of Monday night's game, is there any agnosticism the 5-foot-8, 195-pound aback is the Jets a lot of admired player? He didn't advance the NFL in accumulated yardage endure division by fluke. New York needs to get an addendum done with this guy because his amount tag appears to be headed in alone one direction, and that's up.

On the Jets' aperture 5 drives of the aboriginal half, which coincided with Sanchez's night's work, Washington had a duke in creating 80 of New York's 121 yards of offense. He accomplished with 83 yards of hasty and accepting in the aboriginal half, including the Jets' aboriginal touchdown, and added a 52-yard alpha acknowledgment in his appropriate teams role. Washington adapted three third-and-long situations to about alone accumulate New York's aboriginal bisected from getting an abhorrent disaster. He took a awning canyon 16 yards on third-and-12, ran for 15 yards on a third-and-10 and bent his 19-yard touchdown canyon on a third-and-9, assault Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain in a one-on-one mismatch.

As it turns out, trading arch drillmaster Herman Edwards to Kansas City for the fourth-round aces they acclimated to abstract Washington in 2006 was one of the shrewdest moves the Jets anytime made.

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Jets amateur quarterback Mark Sanchez ability able-bodied go on to adore his allotment of Matt Ryan- or Joe Flacco-like amateur highlights this season, but if so, I didn't see abounding hints of the big things to appear Monday night in Baltimore. Though his endure canyon of the night was his best of the night -- that 19-yard touchdown bang to Leon Washington with just beneath than six account larboard afore the bisected -- Sanchez looked every bit the deer-in-the-headlights for a lot of of the 5 drives he played in his aboriginal NFL career start.

Facing Baltimore's alive aegis on the alley is about as boxy an admission as you're traveling to get, even in the preseason. But Sanchez didn't absolutely put the Jets quarterback antagonism to bed with his accumulating of poor throws (the Ravens should accept taken his aboriginal two passes to the abode for touchdowns), awkward brawl handling, adjournment of bold penalties and accepted abridgement of execution. He wouldn't even accept gotten a attempt to bandy that face-saving touchdown canyon to Washington if the Jets active aback hadn't somehow best up a aboriginal down on a third-and-10 run. That play was advised to just get New York into bigger acreage ambition ambit and absolute Sanchez's affairs of authoritative addition mistake.

All in all, it reminded me already afresh of two things: Sanchez started a simple 16 amateur at USC, and we would do able-bodied to bethink the accidental clue almanac of first-round quarterbacks who skip their chief seasons and access the NFL early. Sanchez and Detroit's Matthew Stafford (who aswell struggled in Week 2) ability both still abruptness us this season, but the eventually we let the Ryan and Flacco comparisons go, the better.

NFL: Adviser Busted for Ponzi Scheme

Bernie Madoff's got some antagonism -- in the NFL.

Former NFL adviser Mary Wong, who formed with Michael Vick and two added above NFL players, was answerable Monday with burglary $3 actor from eight victims in a Ponzi-style arrangement affiliated to Bernie Madoff's wallet-busting swindle.

Prosecutors say Wong acclimated the money she aloft from investments she awash to bolster her added businesses, application money from absolute investors to pay accomplished clients.

Wong has aswell formed with Demorrio Williams of the Kansas City Chiefs and accompanying brothers Josh Bullocks and Daniel Bullocks of the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, respectively.

Vick sued Wong in January for $2 million, a case that is awaiting in Virginia. Vick claims in the accusation Wong assertive him to accord her ability of attorney, which put her in ascendancy of his cash.

Wong was barred in 2007 from trading balance on the New York Stock Exchange.

NFL: Hill is back on top

The 49ers quarterback of the approaching is (wait for it, delay for it) Shaun Hill?

That approaching getting Sept. 13. That getting the year 2009.

As for Sept. 20 and beyond, the 49ers can't be assertive Hill is their abiding solution.

Then again, the NFL is a day-by-day operation, area affairs aren't affirmed and backups are a breeze abroad from distinction (see: Matt Cassel, Tom Brady's understudy-turned-multimillionaire with the Kansas City Chiefs).

It's up to Hill to prove he can be added than just the 49ers' fourth opening-day quarterback in 5 seasons.

It'll be a admirable adventure if he absolutely seizes what already was the NFL's a lot of admired throne, that getting 49ers starting quarterback.

But it took about eight months back endure division concluded for him to argue Singletary & Co. that he is a bigger advantage than Alex Smith, the 2005 No. 1 all-embracing abstract aces who can't assume to get out from beneath that atramentous cloud.

Hill is in the additional year of a three-year, $6 actor contract. Does that complete like abiding security, for him or the 49ers?

Smith got four times that money in a signing benefit abandoned if he got drafted, and he alternate this division at a bargain amount (reportedly a two-year, $6.5 actor deal).

Matthew Stafford remains Lions' best option at QB

Matthew Stafford still is the Detroit Lions' best advantage at quarterback.

Forget the Cleveland bold and his aboriginal bandy for an interception. It's the preseason and the kid was on the alley for the aboriginal time.

Focus on the way he picks up the assault bigger than any Lions quarterback we've anytime seen. Once he sees that advancing with his big receivers active down the field, it will be scary.

Forget the top throws to the short, third-string receivers. He is acclimated to his taller receivers in practice. It has been there area Stafford has pushed Culpepper for the job. Teammates drift to him and it shows.

His administration isn't as authentic by preseason numbers as it is his adeptness to angle and yield a hit and bear the ball. This will accomplish the aggregation assemblage about him even more.

Forget Culpepper and his few wide-open completions to mid-level wideouts adjoin backups on Saturday night. Don't even alpha with which guy had bigger numbers.

My appearance on Stafford is that he is mentally accessible for the job. He is a baton on the field. If was the endure time you acclimated the chat baton if apropos to a Lions quarterback?

Stafford's quick absolution and able supply is the best I've anytime apparent in Detroit. His preseason growing pains accept not addled me to his acceptable attributes.

Starting Culpepper is a stop gap, a brief abstraction that drillmaster Jim Schwartz vowed not to do in a Lions boondocks anteroom affair endure spring.

Starting Stafford will actuate the admirers and accompany accurate achievement to a authorization that bottomed out endure year at 0-16.

With Brett Favre's acknowledgment to the NFL in Minnesota, I may accept to decline my beforehand anticipation of an NFC North Division appellation and anticipate the top ancillary of wins this year is abreast eight for this team.

I anticipate the Lions will be acute actuality and not annihilate this fan fizz that has fabricated the name Matt fun afresh to in fact say if talking about the Lions. Let him yield buying of this aggregation from bold one so he has his affection and body invested in this franchise.

They charge him and receiver Calvin Johnson to be the Aikman and Irvin of Detroit. Let them abound calm now.

If Stafford alone wins one bold this year, he still is bigger than anyone from endure year. It is alone bold acquaintance that will acquiesce him to become the Super Bowl akin quarterback he can be.

I anticipate if the stars break advantageous and the Lions accumulate advanced like they accept back Schwartz took over they could be in a Super Bowl aural the next 5 years if the Ford ancestors lets the coaches and players do their jobs.

They can alone get there with Stafford as their quarterback. Culpepper does annihilation to move the authorization advanced into the future. The Lions accept lived by concise solutions for continued enough.

Give the keys to the authorization to Stafford appropriate now and let the aggregation and admirers chase him to believability and account in the NFL.

NFL NOTES:REDSKINS

Quarterback Jason Campbell has played 5 alternation this exhibition season, has a achievement allotment of 30.8 and enters conceivably the a lot of important anniversary of the preseason advancing off a statistically afflictive 1-for-7 achievement in Saturday night's 17-13 achievement over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Still, Coach Jim Zorn provided a absolute appraisal of the situation.

"I anticipation Jason did a nice job accepting us into the appropriate play," Zorn said.

A day afterwards the Redskins' aboriginal abhorrent assemblage bootless to account a touchdown for the additional after preseason game, Zorn downplayed any disappointment in Campbell's performance, apperception added on the fifth-year quarterback's controlling action than on the beheading of his passes.

NY Jets plan to copy Baltimore Ravens' three-running back system

The adapt comes after accounting instructions, apocryphal promises or cinch measures to accumulate everyone's claret burden from boiling. The Software is unscripted, the plan is fluid, and no amount how abounding times you anticipate you assuredly accept it ample out, you don't.

Jets drillmaster Rex Ryan advisedly admits he'll abduct the plan for his own egocentric needs.

The Baltimore Ravens ploughed their way to the AFC Championship Game endure division with addition ambit of the active aback by board access that has adapted the NFL mural in contempo years.

The amount acceptance of the three-headed work-sharing affairs may be simple, but Ravens abhorrent coordinator Cam Cameron, the artist abaft the activation of a arrangement that produced accomplishment a bearing ago, is quick to allay the No. 1 myth.

A chronological look at Raiders woes since 2003

Jan. 24, 2003: Pro Bowl centermost Barret Robbins leaves the aggregation auberge the Friday afore the Super Bowl in San Diego to go affair in Tijuana. Robbins misses a aggregation affair and walkthrough and is abeyant for the game, which the Raiders lose 48-21 to Tampa Bay. Robbins is ailing and diagnosed as bipolar.

Aug. 24, 2003: Linebacker Bill Romanowski punches abettor Marcus Williams during practice, ballyhoo Williams' jaw. Williams afterwards files a civilian accusation and is awarded $340,000 in damages.

Nov. 30, 2003: Drillmaster Bill Callahan calls the Raiders "the dumbest aggregation in America" afterwards a 22-8 accident to Denver drops the arresting AFC champions to 3-9. Callahan is accursed afterwards a 4-12 division and replaced by Norv Turner.

Sept. 19, 2004: Jerry Rice throws a amusement anger afterwards getting taken out of the bold by Turner backward in a achievement over Buffalo with no catches. That ends Rice's almanac band of 274 afterwards amateur with a catch. Rice is traded to Seattle the next ages and Oakland finishes 5-11.

March 2, 2005: The Raiders access Randy Moss from Minnesota in a barter for two abstract picks and linebacker Napoleon Harris. Moss has the additional affliction year of his career (to that point) with 60 catches and eight touchdowns. Oakland finishes 4-12 and Turner is accursed afterwards the season.

Feb. 10, 2006: Afterwards a monthlong search, buyer Al Davis hires Art Shell for a additional assignment as Raiders coach. Shell brings aback his old abhorrent coordinator, Tom Walsh, who was active a bed and breakfast in Idaho.

July-October 2006: Receiver Jerry Porter arrives at training affected ambitious a trade, accepting gotten into an offseason altercation with Shell over conditioning plans. Porter is benched for the division opener and afterwards abeyant for insubordination.

Nov. 29, 2006: Shell accuses controlling Michael Lombardi of aggravating to attenuate the apprenticeship agents and acclaim adjoin the team, adage there was a "fox in the hen house." Shell is accursed afterwards a 2-14 mark that set a Raiders almanac for losses in a season. Lombardi is accursed the afterward May.

Jan. 22, 2007: Davis hires 31-year-old Lane Kiffin as his arch drillmaster afterwards getting spurned by Kiffin's aide at USC, Steve Sarkisian.

April 28-29, 2007: The Raiders abstract quarterback JaMarcus Russell with the No. 1 all-embracing pick, a move Davis afterwards says was fabricated adjoin Kiffin's wishes. The afterward day, Oakland trades an black Moss to New England, area he goes on to animate his career and set an NFL almanac with 23 TD catches in his aboriginal division with the Patriots.

July-September 2007: Russell holds out of training affected in a arrangement altercation and doesn't assurance until afterwards the aboriginal bold of the approved season, abasement his amateur campaign.

December 2007: Kiffin expresses absorption abaft the scenes in the academy aperture at Arkansas afore the Raiders division even ends, angering Davis.

January 2008: Kiffin is agitated that he can't alter arresting coordinator Rob Ryan and asks to be accursed if he can't ascendancy his staff. Davis dares him to abandon instead. Kiffin stays on, but the altercation does not die.

May-August 2008: Kiffin badmouths abounding of Davis' offseason acquisitions, a lot of conspicuously receiver Javon Walker, and complains that he does not accept ascendancy of his roster.

September 2008: Afterwards a 41-14 season-opening loss, Kiffin says he has no ascendancy over the aegis because Davis and Ryan put calm the bold plans. Davis gives Kiffin a admonishing letter to stop his accessible criticisms. Kiffin aswell suspends arresting abettor Randy Hanson, who criticized the apprenticeship agents in a affair afterward the game. Davis afterwards overturns the suspension.

Sept. 30, 2008: Kiffin is accursed with "cause" and replaced by Tom Cable on Sept. 30, if Davis posts his letter on an aerial projector and data abundant of the close apparatus of the aggregation in a camp account conference. Kiffin says he acquainted "embarrassed" for Davis and the alignment afterwards watching the 90-minute production.

Oct. 29, 2009: Kiffin files a affliction with the NFL to affirmation the absent bacon he maintains he is still owed by the aggregation for the butt of his two-year contract. That case is still pending.

Aug. 5, 2009: Hanson goes to a Napa hospital with a torn cartilage in his jaw that he tells badge was acquired by a affiliate of the Raiders apprenticeship staff. Reports say Cable is the culprit and the NFL launches an investigation.

NFL preseason preview: Lions versus the Cleveland Browns

Another week, addition Lions preseason game, addition day of adulatory it was the approved division already. Will the Cleveland Browns be able to stop that juggernaut that is the 2009 Detroit Lions? Lest we forget, they are best on the year.

I anticipate the Browns will be one of the few teams that will be worse than the Lions this season, but that doesn't amount abundant in preseason. As with bold one, there are abounding things I am absorbed in seeing in this game, some of which are alone extensions of the aboriginal game. For example, I am still actual absorbed by how Matthew Stafford and Daunte Culpepper will attending in bold two of the preseason. Both players met, if not exceeded, my apprehension in bold one. Can they accumulate it up? Stafford in accurate I am absorbed in seeing back we all basically apperceive what Culpepper is at this point. Stafford, however, is an alien commodity, and one in which myself and all my adolescent Lions admirers accept a lot invested in. The added advance I see as a player, the bigger I will feel about the Lions approaching at quarterback.

Dallas Cowboys are going deep -- into fans' pockets

ARLINGTON — Going to a Dallas Cowboys bold has never been cheap.

But with the aperture of Cowboys Stadium, you ability charge to analysis your acclaim line.

A ancestors of four will absorb added than $700 if they buy $149 seats in the accomplished deck, pay $40 to esplanade and absorb the following: four atramentous Angus cheeseburgers at $8.50 apiece, one airheaded at $5.50, one adjustment of nachos at $8.50 and four bendable drinks at $5 each.

Add gift ballcaps from the amphitheater pro boutique — or a jersey for one of the kids — and the tab could advance $800 or more.

Even two abject admirers accessory a Cowboys bold this division will absorb about $200 — $197, in fact — if they buy two of the cheapest single-game seats ($75), pay $20 to esplanade in the extreme lots by Rangers Ballpark, buy two beers at $8 apiece and bite on a brace of hot dogs at $5.50 each.

And you’d bigger accept bought those tickets already because the bargain seats are awash out for the absolute season.

The lowest-priced division tickets, at $59 each, were never accessible as single-game tickets, Cowboys agent Brett Daniels said.

But admitting the prices, Daniels said, single-game tickets are accepting "scarce" for the approved season.

NFL to See if Raiders Coach Fought an Assistant

Oakland Raiders Coach Tom Cable went on the arresting Tuesday and the N.F.L. said it would investigate letters that he got into a action that beatific one of his administration to the hospital.

The N.F.L. agent Greg Aiello said the alliance was searching into the bearings to try to actuate what happened.

A day afterwards calling it “an centralized affair that we are ambidextrous with,” Cable denied annihilation transpired with the arresting abettor Randy Hanson beforehand this month. Cable reportedly punched Hanson in the jaw.

Attorney: Case should be tossed

A above Nevada bank artisan who accused Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of abduction in a civilian accusation should bead the case because her own e-mails and argument letters prove she wasn't assaulted, his advocate said.

The woman "should carelessness her accusation anon and accept that Ben Roethlisberger did not abduction her," Roethlisberger's advocate W. David Cornwell said in a account e-mailed to The Associated Press.

More on the Steelers

Pittsburgh's abhorrent starters are accepted to play about one division adjoin Washington on Saturday, about the aforementioned bulk of time they were on the acreage adjoin Arizona. ... This is the aboriginal time the Super Bowl and Stanley Cup champions are residing accompanying in the aforementioned city, so Penguins drillmaster Dan Bylsma took advantage by absorption with Peninsula-bred Steelers drillmaster Mike Tomlin at the Steelers' affected to bandy account and abstraction the means of a champion.

Ex-Hokie changes teams

Soon afterwards getting appear by Miami, adept cornerback Eric Green from Virginia Tech reportedly agreed to agreement with San Francisco. Green spent four years with the Arizona Cardinals afore signing with Miami in March. He was accustomed a adventitious to attempt for a starting job adverse Will Allen with the Dolphins but struggled.

Burress' balloon date to be set today

Former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress of Virginia Beach will be arraigned this morning on abomination gun-possession accuse in New York Criminal Court. A balloon date will be set. Burress hopes to acknowledgment to the NFL, admitting few teams accept apparent interest.

Cooley, Daniels absence Redskins' practice

Tight end Chris Cooley and arresting end Phillip Daniels absent convenance Wednesday, but Redskins drillmaster Jim Zorn expects both to play adjoin Pittsburgh on Saturday night. Cooley had spasms in his lower back. Daniels was adequate afterwards accepting aqueous drained from his larboard knee.

Elsewhere

Colts drillmaster Jim Caldwell said his abhorrent starters would get about 20 plays tonight adjoin the Eagles. But Indianapolis assurance Antoine Bethea (broken hand) from Denbigh High won't play, and neither will above Virginia bound end Tom Santi. ... Tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams will become the latest celebrities to own a pale in the Miami Dolphins, a being accustomed with the accord said. Musicians Gloria and Emilio Estefan and Marc Anthony afresh bought baby shares of the team. New Dolphins buyer Stephen Ross aswell artificial a affiliation with accompanist Jimmy Buffett. ... Above Vikings abundant Fran Tarkenton, who ahead bidding his abhorrence over Brett Favre's disability to accomplish a decision, batten out afresh afterwards Favre absitively to assurance with Minnesota. "He affectionate of absent me a few years ago by backward and active and actuality and there," Tarkenton said on "The Opening Drive" on Sirius NFL Radio. ... The San Francisco aegis reportedly best off Oakland quarterbacks 5 times during a collective practice. Western Branch High alum Dre' Bly had one interception. ... Seahawks starting linebacker Leroy Hill said he expects to apprehend from the NFL because he has been answerable in Georgia with abomination marijuana possession.