Filed under: NFL Video, Super Bowl, Pro Bowl
MIAMI — Possibly the best statistical season in Brett Favre’s career ended on a sour note in New Orleans. Favre was selected to his 11th Pro Bowl, but will not play in Sunday’s game in Miami.
That didn’t prevent his future from being a big topic of discussion.
Is he coming back for another season? Check out the video below to see what some of the NFL’s biggest stars predicted for Favre’s future.
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Filed under: NFL Draft
MOBILE, Ala. — The Senior Bowl is over. Here are the latest poll numbers for Tim Tebow:
32 percent think he’s destined to work in the NFL.
29 percent think he’s destined to work at McDonald’s.
The National Organization for Women thinks he’s destined to work for the Taliban.
I think he’s destined to be drafted in the fourth round, spend a couple of years as a hybrid novelty before becoming a serviceable pro and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
But what do I know? What do you know? What does anyone know other than everybody seems to know something when it comes to Tebow?
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Filed under: NFL Draft
MOBILE, Ala. — He was physically impressive on the field. He was polite and friendly off of it. Insiders say there’s no question he increased his NFL draft stock this week, some even believing he was the best running back during Senior Bowl week.
LeGarrette Blount knows he can’t escape what happened last September. The punch Blount threw at a Boise State player after Oregon’s season-opening loss was vicious.
That’s why Blount feels blessed to be given another chance to rebuild his image and show the public, including the NFL, that he has his temper under control.
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Filed under: Saints, Super Bowl
You’ve heard it. If not, you will.
You surely will.
“Who dat, who dat, who dat say gone beat dem Saints?”
This slightly addictive “Who Dat” craze is on the verge of spreading from its New Orleans base to south Florida during the next few days, and that’s fine. If those involved with the Saints Nation wish to continue to live under the delusion that they brought the essence of that chant to the NFL, so be it.
It’s their Super Bowl party (well, in conjunction with the Indianapolis Colts), and they can claim what they want to — even though it’s wrong.
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Filed under: Chargers, FanHouse Exclusive, Pro Bowl
FORT LAUDERDALE – Norv Turner and Vincent Jackson came to the defense of embattled San Diego Chargers placekicker Nate Kaeding, saying the team’s abrupt exit from the playoffs shouldn’t be placed on his shoulders — or his much-derided right foot.
“That was on all of us,” Jackson said of the Chargers‘ 17-14 AFC divisional meltdown at the hands of the underdog New York Jets.
Said Turner, “Nate is a competitor, and Nate is really a great player. I don’t know see that it should be any different for Nate than it should be for me or the rest of the guys on our football team.”
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Filed under: Eagles, NFL Quarterbacks, Pro Bowl
FORT LAUDERDALE — Bryant McKinnie may not have appreciated his Pro Bowl experience, but Donovan McNabb always does.
On the same day McKinnie, the Minnesota Vikings left tackle and a first-time Pro Bowler, was kicked off the NFC squad after missing two practices — and Tweeting about his Thursday night partying at Miami’s Mansion nightclub – McNabb was enjoying every minute of the final team workout at Lockhart Stadium.
The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback also was busy plotting the pranks he would pull on some of the first-time participants in the NFL’s annual All-Star game.
He’s the master at reeling in younger players to become part of his evil plot.
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Filed under: Super Bowl, Sports Business and Media
For many, the three or so hours that a ball is in the air and television cameras are on hand to capture it, are a respite from the controversies and troubles of the real world. And the Super Bowl has become the ultimate American party, the ultimate temporary relief.
In agreeing to air the Focus on the Family’s anti-abortion commercial with Florida quarterback Tim Tebow next Sunday, CBS has touched off a discussion on whether the relatively bliss-filled nature of sports television should be intruded upon by real life.
No matter which side you take on the issue of abortion (and we’re not taking one here no matter how hard you may look for it), CBS’ choice to run the ad opens the door for advocacy groups of all political stripes and causes to spread their messages to sports telecasts, which, by and large, have been devoid of that kind of controversy.
Indeed, six years ago, CBS declined to run a commercial from the United Church of Christ that touted its welcoming approach to gays and to people who feel uncomfortable with more conservative-leaning churches.
Since then, the network said in a statement, it has moderated its approach to advocacy ads, “after it became apparent that our stance did not reflect public sentiment or industry norms on the issue. In fact, most media outlets have accepted advocacy ads for some time.”
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Filed under: Eagles
PHILADELPHIA — Former Philadelphia Eagles star Tom Brookshier has died at 78.
The Eagles said he had cancer and died Friday night.
“Tom Brookshier is one of all-time greats, both for what he did on the field and for the kind of man he was off the field. I will always remember him for his booming and bright personality,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said. “He had an uncanny love for life, a love for his family and a love for the game of football, especially for the Philadelphia Eagles. He bled green and I will always cherish our conversations and the relationship that we fostered throughout my tenure in Philadelphia. Our deepest condolences go out to his wife, Barbara, and the rest of the Brookshier family.”
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Filed under: Vikings, NFC North
The Pro Bowl isn’t exactly known for its intensity. There isn’t a lot of hitting, and the games tend to be quite relaxed in comparison to “normal” NFL games.
That said, the league still wants the players in the Pro Bowl to try to be part of their teams. That means there is an expectation that they will show up for practices and meetings, and then they can go relax and do whatever they want.
For Minnesota Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie, showing up for the short practices is apparently too much to ask. As a result, he is no longer a Pro Bowler.
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Filed under: Steelers, AFC North, NFL Free Agency
Is there anything more predictable than an NFL star complaining in advance about a potential franchise tag?
Casey Hampton wants a new long-term deal, one that would keep him a Steeler through retirement. But considering Hampton’s tendency to put on five, 10 or 50 pounds when he’s not in a contract year, the Steelers seem more inclined to throw the franchise tag on him, pay him more than $6 million for one year and let him hit the free-agent market again in 2011.
You can see the arguments for the Steelers. If they franchise Hampton they have a reasonably safe assumption that he will come into camp in shape, because he’s playing for his next contract. And rather than pay millions for the decline years of Hampton’s career (he’s 32 years old), they can keep him for a run at the Super Bowl in 2010, while picking up his replacement in the draft.
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