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Brett, you're dead to me now.

I'm so disappointed, I can't find the words. This sums up my feelings as well as you can.

Sigh...

I hope he's happy, because we Packer fans lose regardless of how his time in purple turns out...

Pimp My Logo

The NFLs worst team, the Lions, unveiled a new, more hard-core version of their logo last week.

ESPNs page two has some fun with the concept:

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(Hat Tip: Rich O.)

And the Football Fans Say....

Amen.

More games that count, perhaps as early as August 2011? That's exactly what NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants.

There are several hurdles before the league can expand its regular season from 16 to 17 or 18 games. Among them is reaching a new collective bargaining agreement with the players' union.

Still, Goodell hopes to present a proposal to the owners in May after the matter was discussed at length this week at the NFL Annual Meeting.

God bless 'im.

The Zebras Have Feelings Too...

Sometimes they get it right.

From Peter King:

I think the nicest story I've heard in the wake of the Super Bowl came in the officials' locker room after the game. Vice president of officiating Mike Pereira entered the locker room to find field judge Greg Gautreaux crying, and they were tears of joy and relief. Seems that Gautreaux, the man who made the immediate and correct call on the touchdown catch by Santonio Holmes by seeing Holmes get both feet down in fair territory while possessing the ball as his body hit the ground, was petrified that the biggest call of his life, a call he had to make in a millisecond, might be wrong. But it wasn't. It was perfectly correct. "That's a call that will define your career,'' Pereira told Gautreaux.

Favre

(Brett Favre and his wife after what I consider to be his best game ever, December 22 2003, on Monday Night Football, the day after losing his father.)

Brett Favre retired again this last week, and I believe its the end this time. I've been a Favre fan as long as I've liked football. I've never seen a season he wasn't a part of and until this year, I had never seen a Packer game he didn't play in. I have always been a Packer fan, but Brett had always been there. I wasn't sure if my love for the team would wain in his absence. It didn't, but I expected less of them.

His retirement is bitter-sweet for me. Its an end of a great era in pro-football. As a Packer fan I don't think I'll ever see a greater Packer player. So for that, I'm sad. I am also happy because I didn't want to see him continue to get old and abused physically and in the press.

I though i should write something in memoriam of his great career, but I don't think I have the words. His play spoke for itself. He wasn't flawless, but his flaws seemed to endear you to him more. He won more than any other QB ever, but his losses seem to tell you more about him. I hope we treasured our time as fans of his. I did.

Happy trails to the GOAT...

Correction

Ok, so I was wrong about them winning. But if you watched that game, you saw why I picked them to win. They have a lot more heart and talent than the world-at-large is aware of. My heart broke for them. They played a flawless game except for the last play of the first half which cost them 10 points (at best) and the title. As a football fan though, I was very entertained. I hope the Big Game can be that good every year.

I have no love for the Steelers. They get enough love from everyone else, they don't need me....

Super Bowl Champ?

You heard it here first! In these playoffs I am 7-3 picking games. I'm good at it.

If you would have told me a month ago I'd be making this pick, I would have laughed at you. But I know inspired ball when I see it, and Arizona is playing inspired ball.

2008 Super Bowl Champion Arizona Cardinals.

What a wonderful game....

The Butler Did It

Rasul Butler, of New Orleans Hornets fame, had the sickest single sequence I've ever seem in an NBA game last night. Block, steal, save, jumper all in about 5 seconds. (It comes about 50 seconds into the video)

Pete Carroll

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If you know me, then you know I'm a much bigger pro football fan than a college football fan. But after watching this story, I'll be rooting for USC whenever I see them on TV. You don't even have to like football to appreciate this because this story isn't about that. Its about what a quality human being Pete Carroll is. After you watch this, no matter your allegiances, you'll root for him too...

The Catch

In my football-watching career I've seen a lot of great catches, but this may top them all.

Wade

When you watch Dwyane Wade play basketball you realize you are watching someone do what they were born to do. This facial was thrown down on an over matched Emeka Okafor last night. Video here.

Pro Bowl

The Pro Bowl is being moved:

Look for this to be the last year the Pro Bowl is played the week after the
Super Bowl. As I reported on NBC last night, the league likely will announce in
the next few weeks the moving of the game to the weekend before the Super Bowl
-- either on Saturday night, Sunday, or Monday night, depending on network
preference -- as part of the pre-Super Bowl buildup. In addition, I look for the
league to play more than half of future Pro Bowls on the mainland instead of
Honolulu, mostly at the same site of the Super Bowl to maximize attention and
focus on an all-star game that has become totally irrelevant. Next season the
Super Bowl is in Miami. I expect the rotation to begin then, with the Pro Bowl
quite possibly at Dolphins Stadium either eight, seven or six days before the
Super Bowl.

I am, for the most part, in favor of this idea. the NFL is the
greatest of american professional sports and yet its all-star game has
consistently been the worst. something needed to change, hopefully this will
give the game more juice. my only problem is that if it is before the super
bowl, then the players of the two participating teams won't play in the pro bowl
since they'll have a big game to prepare for. you might say " well, playing in
the super bowl is a good enough prize" and you'd be right. but there are two
problems with that: 1) a good portion of the players in the pro bowl are likely
to come from those two teams since they are the best. the game will be robbed of
some of its star power. and 2) its a big deal for the players to get to play in
it. its a bonus for all the hard work they put in. some even have contract
bonuses built in if they make the team.

i hope they find ways to get around the problems....