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Brett Favre Is Back In The NFL

August 20, 2009 in Crazy Stories In Sports, Football, NFL

Days after Mike Vick returned to the NFL, Brett Favre must have felt left out.

After retiring again for the 2nd time, Favre again returned the NFL, this time with the Vikings. Favre said in a press conference that his arm feels good and he would like to play again.


I don’t know what makes Favre decide that he is playing, he isn’t playing, he is playing, he isn’t playing now he is. Maybe it is just to get attention. Personally, I think he should have left the game on the high point of his career. I think now he is asking to leave the game because he is hurt, or sucks. I think he will ruin his legacy if he tries to play again. I want to see Favre vs. Vick. That is a sportscasters DREAM!!

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Twitter and Professional Sports

August 5, 2009 in Crazy Stories In Sports, Football

Being from San Diego, I follow San Diego sports pretty closely. One story that is making headlines through sports is Antonio Cromartie’s $2,500 fine for knocking the food at the Charger park during training camp. Via Twitter.

This story seems funny to me. I know many professional athletes are using twitter and facebook to create a fan base, because having fans sell tickets, and selling tickets gets players paid. But teams are not quite liking the fact that players are putting butts in the seats. Chargers have actually banned tweeting from within the locker. Shawn Merriman (@shawnmerriman) posted that he found a loop hole in the agreement and he is outside the locker room.

This story has even made it to ESPN. Bill Williamson said that players need to be careful-Big brother is watching.

I really don’t understand why send a tweet is such a big deal. I understand that the teams want to maintain some form of control within their compounds, but Merriman has 40,000+ followers on twitter. Than fan base sells jerseys, tickets, and other items and keeps the organization running. To restrict it is to restrict the money flow. I understand that sports is not all about money, but if there were no fans, there would be no sports. If I owned a sport team, I would recommend my players, especially high profile ones, to get onto social networking sites and start chatting.  It creates a feel of “knowing” a pro player. It puts butts in the seat and money into the organization. Fining a player for tweeting is crazy!

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Darren Sproles Re-signs With Chargers

April 29, 2009 in Football, NFL

You always love rooting for the underdog.

Last season, when San Diego’s star RB LT went down for the count, 5 foot 6 in Darren Sproles came in and did a 328 total yard game. He became one of the leagues premier running backs in one game.

And now he gets paid like one.

Sproles signed a one year deal worth 6.25 million dollars. The kid is only 25 years old! Not a bad raise at that age if you ask me (made a little over 1 mil last year). He now ranks with the average salary of star running backs as he should.

He becomes a free agent at the end of the year. My opinion is you drop the dead weight called LT and you give the little guy his chance to show the NFL what he can do. You let him go and rely on LT, you are going to watch him blow up on another team. Being a S.D. boy, I want to see him blow up here. LT is past his game. He offers a great mentor to Sproles, but when push comes to shove, I think Sproles needs to be our every down back.

What do you think?

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Curses in Sports

April 25, 2009 in Football, NFL, Sport History

Any sports fan has heard of various curses in sports. You have the curse of the bambino, which supposedly prevented the Red Sox from winning a championship for 86 years because they traded Babe Ruth. And then there is the sports illustrated curse, which is supposed to give bad luck to everyone who graces the cover the Sports Illustrated. And yes, there is even a San Diego sports team curse-Stating that professional sports team in our lovely city cannot win any sort of championships.

Whether or not you believe in curses, they are kind of fun to follow. Here is a new one that has surfaced recently that I have been watching: The Madden video game curse. This curse causes anyone who is on the cover to get hurt the next year.

It all started in 2000 when Madden featured star running back Barry Sanders in the background of the case. Subsequently, curse or no curse, Barry Sanders did not play a single down during the 2000 season. Players soon started following that role:

  • Dorsey Levens: Cover 2000. Bad new throughout season, and let go by the packs.
  • Daunte Culpepper: Cover 2002-Knee injury, missed 5 games.
  • Marshall Faulk: Cover 2003-After 4 1300+ seasons, ankle injury dropped is rush yards to under 1000
  • Michael Vick: Cover 2004:  Broke fibular during pre season game.
  • Ray Lewis: Cover 2005: Tore hamstring-missed half the season.
  • Donovan McNabb: Cover 2006: After stating that the Madden curse was “A trend” and he “don’t believe in the curse at all” McNabb suffers a sports hernia in the first game of the seasons (do you hear me know….GOOD!)
  • Shaun Alexander: Cover 2007: Broke book and missed 6 games during the season.
  • Vince Young: Cover 2008: Hurt quadricep missed 2 games.
Curse or no curse, that is quite a trend going on with the cover of this game. This next release will be a great indicated as it features 2 prime athletes: Steelers Troy Polamalu and Cardinals Larry Fitzgerald. I don’t believe in curses either, but I can tell you that I will be watching the injury report this year to see how this guys do through the season.

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Vick pays 6.5 mil to Falcons-Release is next?

March 31, 2009 in athletes, Football

Michael Vick agreed to pay the Falcons 6.5 million dollars for the 2 years that he missed while in prision on Federal Dog Fighting charges. Vick, due out in about a month, is hopefully to play in the NFL again. NFL commissioner Roger Godel will review the situation when Vick gets out of prison. Vick has been suspended indefinetly. Vick paying the money most likely indicates the Falcons will release him.

Here is my opinion: What Michael Vick did was in no way right, moral or OK. However, he has served his time-like any other criminal that has caused a crime. He should be allowed to play in the NFL again, purely on the principle. However, I also think IF he gets back in, he will NEVER be the player that he used to be. IN fact, the only reason he will get picked up is because of the press coverage. Not becuase he is Michael Vick-one of the best quarterbacks of all time.

That is my opinion-What is yours? Do you think Vick should play in the NFL? Will he be GOOD enough to play again?

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