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NFL Favorites.; What is your Favorite NFL team?
Topic Started: Aug 7 2008, 12:06 PM (4,297 Views)
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REPORT: KIFFIN WON’T BE FIRED TODAY
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 22, 2008, 5:01 p.m.
It says something about the current state of the Oakland Raiders that it’s newsworthy when the coach isn’t fired.

But after reports swirled this morning that Raiders coach Lane Kiffin would be out of work by the end of the day, it now appears that Kiffin will live to see another day.

Adam Schefter of NFL Network is reporting that Kiffin will not be fired today. Schefter quotes a Raiders source saying, “There’s nothing happening today. It ain’t happening.”

But Schefter says the same source wouldn’t go so far as to say that Kiffin will be coaching the Raiders on Sunday. And since Tuesday is the usual NFL day off, tomorrow would be a natural day to make a coaching change.

Or maybe Raiders owner Al Davis will keep Kiffin around for one more game, and then fire him a week from today, when the Raiders are heading into their bye week.

In any case, Kiffin is still employed and will apparently to to bed tonight as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders.

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AIKMAN A PART OWNER OF THE RAIDERS?
Posted by Mike Florio on September 23, 2008, 5:16 p.m.
Several readers have pointed out to us a fairly recent item in the East Bay Express, in which Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman is outed (not in that way . . . not that there’s anything wrong with it) as a part owner of the Oakland Raiders.

Here’s the money quote from the September 3 article: “Davis was apparently so hard up for cash ten months ago that he sold a 20 percent stake in the team to some silent partners, reportedly including former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, according to County Supervisor Scott Haggerty, who sits on the Coliseum Joint Powers Authority.”

Regardless of whether Aikman is or isn’t a minority owner in the team, there’s strengthening talk in league circles that some of the minority owners have begun the process of determining whether and to what extent they can bounce Davis out of the captain’s chair.

The rights will be determined by the operating agreement. And if Davis is as shrewd as he has always seemed to be, our guess is that there’s really nothing anyone can do to wrest control of the team from him.

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MILLEN IS OUT!
Posted by Mike Florio on September 24, 2008, 10:02 a.m.
Less than an hour ago, yours truly told the Sports Junkies on WJFK radio in D.C. that Matt Millen will continue to run the Detroit Lions for as long as William Clay Ford Sr. owns the team.

And, to no surprise, Millen has been fired.

Jay Glazer of FOX reports that Millen is out.

Per Glazer, the decision came on Tuesday night. It’s unclear whether Millen resigned or was fired. The timing of the move, coming a day after Bill Ford Jr. said that he’d fire Millen if he could makes us think that Millen might have decided to move on.

Millen, who previously was a game analyst for FOX, became the president and G.M. of the team in 2001. The team generated a woeful record of 31-84 during seven-plus seasons.

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COWHER RUMORS FLY IN CLEVELAND
Posted by Mike Florio on September 24, 2008, 12:32 p.m.
We’ve ignored the stream of e-mails on the subject, but they’re becoming more frequent, and we’d prefer to be left alone.

Apparently, plenty of folks in Cleveland have heard that former Steelers coach Bill Cowher has bought a home in Strongsville, Ohio.

It’s creating a buzz on the Internet, and for good reason. Cowher’s purchase of a North Carolina home in early 2006 fueled rumors that he would be leaving the Steelers

After the 2006 season, he did.

But the Browns have a coach. They also have a G.M. If Cowher were to join the franchise, he’d want to run the show. And that means that both Romeo Crennel and Phil Savage would have to go.

And for Cowher to already be sufficiently confident of those moves that he’d buy a house in the area, it means that he would have acquired some understanding from owner Randy Lerner that Crennel and Savage will be out, and that Cowher will take over.

The biggest problem with this scenario is the rule named for Cowher’s former boss in Pittsburgh. The Browns can’t simply fire Crennel and hire Cowher. At least one minority candidate must be interviewed, and few if any will agree to interview for the job if it appears that Cowher has already been chosen.

So we’d be very surprised to learn that Cowher actually has purchased a house in the Cleveland area or that, if so, he has done it because he plans on coaching the Browns. Even if Lerner had entered into a wink-nod arrangement with Cowher, it would be beyond stupid for Cowher to buy a house in Cleveland months before the plan can unfold.

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AIKMAN DOESN’T OWN ANY PORTION OF THE RAIDERS
Posted by Mike Florio on September 23, 2008, 9:39 p.m.
In response to a published report from earlier this month suggesting that Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman owns a minority stake in the Raiders, we’ve learned that Aikman had no interest, directly or indirectly, in the team.

Last year, a 20-percent stake in the team was sold to a group of investors. Aikman wasn’t one of them.

Under the deal, the minority owners have no authority whatsoever regarding the operation of the team.

Meanwhile, a media source in the Bay Area tells us that the Raiders seem to be on track for a sellout of their home venue for Sunday’s game against the Chargers. So the turmoil engulfing coach Lane Kiffin apparently isn’t affecting fan interest, yet.

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YO IF I WANT TO READ ALL THIS SHIT I'LL GO TO WWW.ESPN.COM

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Then you don't have to read this, this isn't must to read issues, btw, it is open to all, you ain't special arabic terrorist boy.

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guess who the worst terrorist before 9/11 was. A white dude.
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guess who the worst terrorist before 9/11 was. A white dude.
Correction. A goat-looking white dude.
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Quit copying Scrub series show "goat" word, and create ur own better 1, jackass Dylan

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WILL OCHO CINCO RACE MARY WINEBERG?
Posted by Michael David Smith on September 27, 2008, 4:18 p.m.
Bengals wide receiver Chad Ocho Cinco talks like a man who wants to be a multi-sport star.

In 2007, after out-racing a horse, the receiver who was then known as Chad Johnson said, “Floyd Mayweather, you’re next. I want to fight you. I’d like to take Kobe and LeBron one-on-one. Jeff Gordon, we can take a couple laps.” And in August of this year he said he could out-swim Michael Phelps.

So what will Ocho Cinco say when he learns that Olympic gold medalist Mary Wineberg has challenged him to a race of one lap around the track?

Wineberg, who is from Cincinnati and was a member of the American women’s relay team that won the 4×400 meters in Beijing, has called out Ocho Cinco:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As_8yrLHQrc

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SEHAWKS FAN SITE CROSSES THE LINE
Posted by Mike Florio on September 27, 2008, 9:56 a.m.
We’ve been flooded with e-mail messages about the decision of a Seahawks fan site to prepare for the team’s upcoming game against the Giants by posting a list of nauseating, tasteless, and horribly inappropriate 9/11 jokes.

We weren’t going to mention the situation, because we didn’t want to push traffic to the site. But given the extent to which the story has grown legs, with stories by Deadspin and Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News, we needed to chime in.

Seahawks fans, you can do better. There are plenty of other places where you can get news about your team.

Actually, Seahawks fans might have no choice. The site in question, SeahawksHuddle.com, currently is down. (Here’s the cached version of the page .) We hope that it’s because their servers collapsed under the weight of the unanticipated curiosity in the site, and we also hope that it will never be back.

If the site ever does return, we’ll be organizing an effort to contact all of its advertisers and plead with them to stop doing business with the site.

Based on the cached page, the advertisers include RazorGator, StubHub, Google, and FansEdge.

And before anyone suggests that every subject is fair game for jokes after sufficient passage of time, we don’t think that this loose rule of comedy applies to the single greatest tragedy in the history of our country. It’s been nearly 67 years since Pearl Harbor, and I’ve never heard a single joke about our men and women who were slaughtered that day.

We realize that comedy is subjective. But claiming “it was just a joke” doesn’t provide the would-be comedian a license to offend an entire nation.

While the First Amendment to our Constitution gives shmucks like this the ability to say things like that without being thrown in jail, the First Amendment also gives shmucks like us the ability to call them the shmucks that they are, and to ask anyone who does business with these shmucks to stop. Now.

UPDATE: We should have thought of this earlier. The domain for the site includes the term “Seahawks,” for which the Seahawks own the copyright. And so the Seahawks need to send these shmucks a cease-and-desist letter, pronto.

http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:2STjQRXkBEsJ:www.seahawkshuddle.com/v1/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D19&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&strip=1

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THE LATEST TEMPTATION OF RICKY
Posted by Mike Florio on September 30, 2008, 9:24 a.m.
Dolphins running back Ricky Williams admits that he was tempted to smoke marijuana during the team’s bye week.

“[T]here was definitely an urge,” Williams said. “But I just thought about what I have to lose and it was easy. The urge didn’t last very long.”

Williams said that the temptation arose from the team’s time off.

“It’s greater because, like, Thursday, coach told us we had Friday off, so automatically your mind, which is so constrained since training camp began — every day is a grind, it’s a grind, it’s a grind — and then Coach says ‘you’re free.’ And the mind says, ‘I’m free, what can I do?’”

Williams explained that, instead of smoking pot, he meditated. “I realize that I really enjoy meditating and when I can go home and sit in my room and meditate, I can get the same feeling,” Williams said.

(In an unrelated note, Randy Moss has just taken up meditating.)

Williams should have all the incentive he needs to avoid smoking, given the number of times that he is tested as a six-years-and-counting member of the league’s substance-abuse program. If he smokes, and if he doesn’t own a Whizzinator, he’ll undoubtedly be caught, and his NFL career undoubtedly will end.

And when his NFL career ends, it sounds like Ricky will replace meditation with inhalation.

“I’d be lying if I said I’m never going to do it again after I’m done,” he said.

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LAWSUIT COMING FROM KIFFIN?
Posted by Mike Florio on October 2, 2008, 11:47 p.m.
Former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin has confirmed, via agent Gary Uberstine, that there will be no detailed public response to the allegations made against Kiffin on Tuesday by Raiders owner Al Davis. But there’s something in Uberstine’s statement that makes us think that Kiffin might have something up his sleeve.

“When Lane initially thought it would be appropriate to address the fans and the situation it was before Mr. Davis gave his press conference,” Uberstine said, according to Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times. ”In light of Mr. Davis’ statements, we advised Coach Kiffin to cancel the intended press conference and instead refute the allegations specifically in a more appropriate venue, which would likely be, among other things, a grievance with Commissioner Goodell.”

The reference to “among other things” is intriguing. It suggests that perhaps there will be some type of legal action against the Raiders.

Pursuant to his contract, Kiffin must pursue any claim for the balance of his contract via a grievance presented to the Commissioner. But the things said by Davis on Tuesday were said after Kiffin’s employment ended, and thus he could (if he so desires) sue Davis and the Raiders for defamation.

Such a fight would come down to whether or not the things Davis said were true, since truth is a defense to any defamation claim.

And so it could be that, in the end, the effort to block Kiffin’s ability to collect his unpaid wages could end up costing Davis and the Raiders a lot more.

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LAST WORD ON OUR AL DAVIS STANCE
Posted by Mike Florio on October 2, 2008, 9:16 p.m.
I’ve had a couple of days to reflect on our reaction to the Tuesday press conference given by Raiders owner Al Davis. I’ve considered the input of readers to our show of support and respect for Davis, who has collected three Vince Lombardi trophies (three more than 15 of 32 NFL franchises combined), and I took to heart the comments of Jason Whitlock of FOXSports.com, whom I hold in very high regard.

Wrote Whitlock: “I’d like to mention that my favorite blogger, Mike Florio at profootballtalk.com, is mysteriously in the tank for Shallow Al and the way he fired Kiffin. I can’t figure out what Florio’s angle is on this one. Are Florio and Shallow Al exchanging e-mails? I can’t believe my man Florio would play favorites when his reputation is built on blasting agents and reporters who play favorites.”

Here’s my angle, for the benefit of Big Sexy and anyone else who gives a crap (all three of them).

I don’t have many pet peeves, but for some reason it drives me bonkos that former Raiders exec Mike Lombardi has been using his new voice in the media as a way to take shots at Al Davis without providing the audience full disclosure regarding the basis for Lombardi’s bias.

As I’ve previously mentioned, Lombardi was one of multiple Raiders employees who work without a contract. But, when he was fired, he filed a grievance with the Commissioner’s office in search of a contract buyout.

What’s that, you say? How can a guy who had no contract get a contract buyout? He can’t.

The league agreed with the Raiders.

So Lombardi’s opinions about the Raiders should be regarded no differently than those of any disgruntled former employee who filed a frivolous claim against his employer and was thrown out of court. Those facts infect everything he says and writes about the Raiders, whether he realizes it or not. Indeed, Lombardi claims (presumably with a straight face) to be unburdened by agendas or pettiness. Thus, his chronic failure to come clean about the circumstances surrounding his departure from the Raiders hurts his credibility whenever he comments on that franchise.

The issue reached a critical mass for me on Tuesday, when after I pulled up NFL.com to watch the Davis press conference, I was greeted by images of Lombardi, again talking about his experiences with the Raiders without disclosing the nature of his potential bias. I suspected that, no matter what Davis said or how he said it, Lombardi was going to knock Davis. So, when the press conference began, I was looking for reasons to prop Davis up.

I expected a train wreck. Once Davis started talking, I was blown away. I expected the 79-year-old owner to talk like every other 79-year-old person I’ve ever known. Davis was the opposite. He made clear arguments, and he also came off as truly believing what he was saying.

In my ever-shrinking day job, I assess the credibility of witnesses while testifying. And 17 years of experience told me that Davis was being truthful.

But was it appropriate for Davis to disrupt his team’s 2008 football season by attempting to conjure a basis for stiffing Kiffin out of the balance of his contract? Hell no. And I’ve said that, as recently as Monday on SportingNews.com regarding the game of buyout roulette that Davis and Kiffin have been playing: “Both should be ashamed for allowing the issue to supersede the importance of winning games. None of this stuff will help the Raiders win a single game; it very well might cause them to lose a few. It needs to end. The Raiders should either declare publicly that Kiffin will hold the job the rest of the season, or Kiffin needs to be fired now.”

I lost sight of that bigger picture on Tuesday because I wanted to disagree with Lombardi, whom I suspected would disagree with anything Davis said or did. Those same feelings prompted me to take a shot at Lombardi (and not at any of the publications for which he works) on Wednesday morning, based on a post-press conference comment Davis made about Lombardi’s role in the trade that sent receiver Randy Moss to New England. In hindsight, I should have at least considered the possibility that Lombardi wasn’t giving Bill Belichick inside information about Moss in the hopes of helping the Patriots, but that Lombardi was puffing in order to get the Pats to offer up the best possible package for Moss — which ended up being a fourth-round pick for a guy who then caught 23 touchdown passes.

I raise this tonight in large part because Lombardi has opted to take a shot back at me, and because a couple of readers have mentioned it to me. But I can take the heat. And I prefer that, if Lombardi or anyone else has a problem with me, the matter be handled out in the open.

One major benefit of Lombardi’s criticism has been that it’s allowed me to recognize that my own bias regarding Lombardi’s bias regarding Davis influenced my take on the Tuesday press conference. It shouldn’t have, but it did.

Hopefully, Lombardi will recognize his own bias at some point, too.

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JOEY GETS A LATE SACK
Posted by Mike Florio on October 2, 2008, 2:48 p.m.
There’s a tired old line that gets routinely used after a sporting event in which one team or player does a lot of something. For example, someone who thinks he’s awfully damn funny might have said on Monday, “This just in: Brett Favre has thrown another touchdown pass against the Cardinals.”

So . . . this just in: Joey Porter has gotten another sack against the Patriots.

Per the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Elias Sports Bureau has credited Porter with his fourth sack of New England quarterback Matt Cassel during Miami’s September 21 visit to Foxborough.

On the play in question, Cassel ran for a one-yard gain. Porter stripped the ball, causing Cassel to fumble it. (Apparently, Cassel recovered.) After further review, the fumble was caused behind the line of scrimmage. By rule, when a defender causes the would-be passer to lose the ball behind the line of scrimmage, it’s a sack.

Porter now has five sacks in three games. That puts him on pace for 26.5 sacks, which would be a single-season record.

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SAPP SLAMS RAIDERS
Posted by Mike Florio on October 3, 2008, 10:13 a.m.
Former NFL defensive tackle Warren Sapp, who was never known to hold his tongue during the years that he played football, has added his characteristically loud mouth to that anti-Raiders din that currently is playing out in the media.

“Nobody tells you how bad it is,” Sapps said on Showtime’s Inside the NFL. “[A]ny person that calls me on the telephone, [I tell them] do not go anywhere near Oakland.

“[Owner Al Davis] is the common equation,” Sapp added. “You take him out, put him at home watching film or whatever he is doing — you have a functioning football organization. But once he comes over the top, he goes and starts moving it around.

“Al Davis knows football — it’s just ’60s and ’70s football. That’s what it is. He’s thinking that Cliff Branch is outside and [Jim] Plunkett is dropping back and you can throw it 80 yards down the field — deep ball, deep ball, deep ball.”

Sapp also said that Davis had a hand in the coaching process, phoning play suggestions to the sidelines and adjusting the game plan on defense.

ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, who was called a “professional liar” by Davis during the Tuesday press conference, points out that Sapp’s claims regarding the involvement of the owner in the defensive strategy contradicts statements from both Davis and defensive coordinator Rob Ryan that Davis has no hand in the defensive play-calling.

But though it’s obvious that, as we recently pointed out, the game has changed but Davis hasn’t, Sapp is the same guy that he always was. So if he isn’t afraid now to crow about how bad things were, why didn’t he pop off while he was in Oakland?

And please don’t give us the old “players can get into trouble if they do that” crap. Randy Moss wasn’t bashful about speaking his mind in 2006; in multiple radio interviews that year, Moss stirred the pot.

We’re not saying that Sapp isn’t onto something. All we’re saying is that, if it was really as bad as he’s now portraying it to be, we would have heard something from Sapp at some point during his four years with the organization.

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DOLPHINS CONTINUE THEIR RUN OF PERFECT HEALTH
Posted by Mike Florio on October 3, 2008, 9:19 p.m.
Maybe they’re using medicinal marijuana. That’s the only way we can explain it.

The Miami Dolphins once again had no injuries to report. None. Zero.

We can hear all you Fins fans, shouting at the monitor. “We were on a bye. A bye!” (”My eye!“)

Well, so were the Lions. And they’ve got six guys listed as probable or worse.

And so were the Colts. They’ve got three.

So were the Pats. They’ve got three.

The Seahawks had a bye. They’ve got nine names on the injury list.

The Giants were off. They’ve got five.

It’s increasingly obvious to us that something has caused Bill Parcells to get a bug up his butt about the league office, and that he apparently has decided to retaliate by reporting no injuries.

Or they’re all getting high. It’s one or the other.

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