Eric Smith, The New York Jets player that committed the dirty hit on Arizona receiver Anquan Boldin in the final seconds of a blowout game is appealing the one-game suspension and the $50,000 fine levied by the NFL. Not that I am surprised. From the AP article:
With 27 seconds remaining and the Jets leading big, Boldin tried to catch a pass from Kurt Warner in the end zone, but was hit in the back by Kerry Rhodes. As Boldin was falling forward, he then took a shot to his helmet from Smith. After being worked on for several minutes, Boldin was immobilized and placed on a stretcher before he was carted off the field. Boldin missed the Cardinals’ game Sunday against Buffalo and is out indefinitely after having surgery to repair a fractured sinus.
The hit was not only dirty, it was vicious. Smith hit Boldin helmet-to-helmet while he was being held by another player and was already falling forward. The helmet is a personal saftey device, not a weapon to be used against other players.
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I started to watch the Green Bay Packers - Tampa Bay Buccaneers game and I heard the commentators say something about Buc’s kicker Matt Bryant and the fact that he decided to play even with what happened to his family this week. I didn’t know what they were talking about so I turned to Google.
Matt Bryant and his wife Melissa experienced probably the worst loss that two people can experience in that they awoke Wednesday morning to find their three month old infant son Tryson dead.
I can’t imagine the pain the Bryant family is experiencing. I also can’t imagine choosing to play a football game only a few days after something like this. Some things in life are important. Football is not one of them.
Supposedly the Bucs only have one place kicker on the team, and because of this fact, Matt Bryant probably felt pressure to play. Whoever is in charge of player personal for the Buccaneers should have had a list of available place kickers available on the free agent market. What would they do if Bryant sprained his ankle? Instead of signing a kicker, they were planning on using safety Sabby Piscitelli as their place kicker.
There’s a reason people take bereavement time when they experience such a personal loss in their lives. Grief is a very real thing that must be dealt with. If you don’t deal with it, it will deal with you.
If the Buccaneers organization had any class, they wouldn’t have put Matt Bryant in the position to decide to play or not.
The four-letter sports network is reporting the Hall of Fame Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway is engaged to a 41-year year old former Raiders cheerleader. According to the The Denver Post, Elway met Paige Green three years ago at a Los Angeles celebrity golf tournament.
What’s a former Raiders cheerleader even doing at a “celebrity” golf tournament? That makes me wonder just how celebrity the tournament was.
I find this news somewhat shocking in that the last I heard, Elway was happily married to the mother of his four children. In fact, I remember something about his wife being a colon cancer survivor. For all I know, they divorced a long time ago and Raiderette Paige Green had nothing to do with the break up. I would go look it up on Wikipedia, but I would hate to find out that Elway didn’t dump his cancer surviving wife for this woman.
This is just wrong. Raiders, even former Raiders cheerleaders, don’t have sex with Broncos. It’s unnatural and perverted. It’s an abomination. If she is going to do John Elway, it makes we question just how committed to the Silver and Black she ever was. Paige Green is bringing great shame to the once proud football franchise.
Today starts the begining of the NFL 2008 season even though technically it sort of began this past Thursday when the 2007 Superbowl Champions the New York football Giants beat the Washington Redskins.
I was planning on watching the local Baltimore Ravenslose to host the Cincinnati Bengals, but the TV listings show that our CBS station is showing the New York Jets play the Miami Dolphins. Thus begins the obsurditiy of watching sports in the central Maryland region.
Perhaps it’s for the best. Normally watching the Ravens play football is a lot like taking four Excedrin PM’s and turning the thermostat up to 85 degrees. To say that their games are boring makes them sound more exciting then they really are. Watching a game where the final score is 9 - 6 might be fun to watch if it’s baseball. It’s not so fun when it’s football. It’s even less fun when, because of geography, the team you are rooting for is the one with only six points.
Update: I just checked the TV listings again and the Bengals vs. Ravens game is now showing up on the non-HD CBS channel. The HD CBS channel is still showing Jets vs. Dolphins. Watching non-high definition football like people did back in the olden times is like drinking warm non-alcoholic beer or eating a tuna sandwich made with fat-free mayonnaise.
I saw this commercial last night while watching Monday Night Football. I don’t get it. I guess it’s to promote the NFL football video game Madden 09. The only problem is that the last thing I feel like doing after watching this commercial is to play Madden 09.
I want to take the person featured in this commercial (code name “Secret”) and beat him over the head with his own shoe.
This guy has got to be the most obnoxious punk I think I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen quite a few obnoxious punks in my lifetime. He is supposedly the world’s best Madden player. This guy. This guy who appears to be humping the ground. This guy that looks like he is wearing his dad’s red jersey. This guy that makes weird faces at his opponent.
Why would anyone from either Sony (Playstation 3) or EA Sports (Madden 09) want this spot to air on the TV to promote their products?
All is now well in the universe. Art Monk was finally inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio yesterday. There’s a lot in life I just simply don’t understand. How it took Art Monk this long to be inducted into Canton is a mystery.
If I was in any way connected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I’d be embarrassed that it took eight tries for Art Monk to make it in. Eight tries.
Even though he played primarily on run happy Washington Redskins Joe Gibbs offenses, he was still able to put together some impressive career statistics. He comes in at 7th on the all-time reception list with 940 catches and 12th on the all-time receiving yards with 12,721 yards.
The man simply played the game the way it ought to be played. He wasn’t flashy. He didn’t do anything to draw unnecessary attention to himself. The reason you don’t remember what any of his touchdown dances looked like is because he didn’t do any. He just made plays.
WTMJ-TV Channel 4 in Milwaukee is reporting that the Green Bay Packers offered Brett Favre $20 million paid out over the next 10 years to stay retired. Could they know something that the rest of us don’t? I think most people believed that the reason Brett Favre wanted to un-retire and come back and play quarterback in the NFL was because he still had the burning desire to compete.
What if he just needs the money?
It seems to me that if a guy just wants to play, offering him money to sit at home and watch Judge Judy would be a complete waste of time. With that said, the Green Bay Packers thought it was worth making the offer.
I would think with all of the commercial endorsements Brett Favre does, money wouldn’t be a problem. Unless of course being the pitchman for heartburn medication and blue jeans sold at Wal-Mart doesn’t pay a lot.
I don’t know what Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu has been doing during the off-season, but he needs to stop doing it. Though I commend him for finally getting a haircut, he has really let himself go.
I started to watch the Green Bay Packers - Tampa Bay Buccaneers game and I heard the commentators say something about Buc’s kicker Matt Bryant and the fact that he decided to play even with what happened to his family this week. I didn’t know what they were talking about so I turned to Google.
The four-letter sports network is reporting the Hall of Fame Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway is engaged to a 41-year year old former Raiders cheerleader. According to the The Denver Post, Elway met Paige Green three years ago at a Los Angeles celebrity golf tournament. 
Today starts the begining of the NFL 2008 season even though technically it sort of began this past Thursday when the 2007 Superbowl Champions the 
WTMJ-TV Channel 4 in Milwaukee is reporting that the Green Bay Packers offered Brett Favre $20 million paid out over the next 10 years to stay retired. Could they know something that the rest of us don’t? I think most people believed that the reason Brett Favre wanted to un-retire and come back and play quarterback in the NFL was because he still had the burning desire to compete.
