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skinnyrattler said:
We need more info. If the cop was not in a uniform, no marked car then it stinks to hell. If he had a uniform and was in a marked car, then it seems like Foley ****ed up. I suspect the latter because if it wasn't legit, his lawyers would be running damage control and would probably sue the city for lost wages.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2575196

Brugos said Tuesday that while Mansker was wearing his police badge on the right side of his belt, he didn't believe he showed it to Foley from his car.

Asked if Foley saw the badge, Brugos said he didn't know.
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Why would the cop need to show a badge if he was in uniform or in a marked car? And now it turns out that Foley had no weapon. The PD is gonna pay his lost wages plus damges...
 
BlackClouds said:
LOL @ Tiki Barber's new Direct TV commercial. He just about assumes the position on some guy and does the running man!
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That video is incredibly stupid.

I feel bad for Wellignton as he actually looks up to this guy!
 
woodchuck said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060906

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Leinart lost me forever during the episode of "Punk'd" when the cops mock-arrested him and a friend for soliciting a prostitute, then agreed to drop Leinart's charges if he sold out his buddy … followed by Leinart incredibly agreeing to do so … followed by an ecstatic Ashton Kutcher leaping out of a van to tell him he'd been Punk'd. Does that sound like something a great QB would do? Would Tom Brady or Brett Favre EVER sell a buddy like that? No way. That show told me everything I ever needed to know about Matt Leinart's future as an NFL quarterback.
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:lol Missed that episode.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQwvqY1qa34 Thanks YouTube!
 
Something like that could have cost him millions of dollars. Can you seriously blame him? Im sure he would have made it up to his friend anyway.
 
woodchuck said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060906

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To my favorite story line of the preseason: The Cardinals turning down a $30 million offer to sponsor their stadium from the Pink Taco restaurant chain. Can you imagine the Goodyear blimp hovering overhead during a Fox broadcast as Joe Buck says, "There's an overhead shot of Pink Taco Stadium … you know what, this is awful! This is a disgrace! This is a disgusting act! I apologize to our viewers who had to see that!"
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:lol
 
Ninja Scooter said:
seriously. I'd take the fall for Matt Leinart if it meant blowjobs from hot girls and a nice chunk of cash later on.
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plus a tell-all book years later when he's in his prime.
 
TheDuce22 said:
Something like that could have cost him millions of dollars. Can you seriously blame him? Im sure he would have made it up to his friend anyway.
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I don't blame him for throwing a friend under the bus. I find it a little douchey, especially since he plays a leadership position, but I can't fault him for thinking about that extra couple million dollars since we don't know exactly how his career is going to go down (I don't see him being part of a Bengals-esque resurrection with the Buzzsaws). I just think it was funny that it got caught on tape.
 
Cloudy said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2575196

Why would the cop need to show a badge if he was in uniform or in a marked car? And now it turns out that Foley had no weapon. The PD is gonna pay his lost wages plus damges...
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It's starting to look suspect. Any time a person needs to pulled over like this, where he's not a direct threat to someone (ie waving a gun around, hitting grandma's), it needs to be by a uniformed officer with a badge and a marked car. Unless it's a sting operation, I don't see the point of this. It just seems like an overaggressive cop. **** a badge on his hip. you-got-badges-i'll-give-you-badges-motherbitches.jpg/img

I'm actually upset at how this is playing and how it ****ed up his year. He's not a saint but it scares me how they didn't release info saying it was a marked car and a uniformed officer. As far as he was concerned, it could have been a robber who has been stalking his ass for some time. That he shot at Foley with no overwhelming evidence of him being a cop (bright flashing lights, sirens and marked police vehicle) is even more justification of Foley's actions. If it was a robber and Foley's lady ran him down, we'd be calling them lucky and heroes. This stinks and we need some better explanations. By this time, the PD should be giving us a better account of the events.
 
Bowser said:
So Steve Smith didn't practice today and is listed as questionable...

:/
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I thought he had gotten better? At least you've got Keyshawn there now, so losing Smith isn't the gutpunch it used to be.
 
Tamanon said:
I thought he had gotten better? At least you've got Keyshawn there now, so losing Smith isn't the gutpunch it used to be.
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Apparently he tweaked his OTHER hamstring during Tuesday practice. Knowing Smith though, he'll probably be playing Sunday.

edit: DeAngelo Hall is a smug mother****er:

Hall said he has already grown tired of hearing about how great Smith was last season and how Smith is one of the top receivers in the NFL. The evidence (103 catches, 1,563 yards, 12 touchdowns) bears as much, but Hall is still sick of hearing about it.

"I know he's a good receiver, a great receiver," Hall said. "I didn't think he had much success against me" Period. They weren't trying to go downfield with him at all. They threw a couple little narrow routes. Obviously, he broke that one. Bad tackling. Fluke play. You do it 10 times, I make that play nine times. So besides that one fluke play, the guy didn't have that much success against me."
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To the Texans. First, they passed on the next Gale Sayers (Reggie Bush) to take a project defensive lineman (Mario Williams) and nearly caused a riot with their beleaguered fan base. Then they explained their mind-set by saying, "We need help on defense, we don't need a running back when we already have Dominick Davis," which was like Vanity Fair passing up a chance to run the Suri Cruise photos because they were already locked into a photo spread with Gwyneth Paltrow's second kid. Then they dumped GM Charlie Casserly, which always makes your fans feel good when you follow up the biggest decision in franchise history by immediately firing the guy who made it. Then Davis' knee problems grew worse and worse, culminating in his getting placed on injured reserve this week. Then somebody named Wali Lundy was named the starting running back for Week 1. And this entire sequence unfolded in the span of five months.

So why am I giving the Texans a thumbs up? Because it took 21 years, but we finally have a scenario that knocks Bowie-over-MJ off the board. See, Portland taking Sam Bowie was at least SOMEWHAT defensible -- nobody knew MJ would be a superduperstar, they had Clyde Drexler (a future Hall of Famer) playing the same position, and everyone forgets this, but Sam Bowie would have been an All-Star center if he stayed healthy. In fact, when he was healthy during the 1985-86 season, the Blazers gave the World Champion Celtics (who ended up going 82-18) more trouble than anyone -- they even were the only team to win in the Garden that season, and Bird had to toss up 49 points, a game-tying shot in regulation and a game-winner in OT just to fend them off in Portland. Sam Bowie was no joke. The guy was good. And by the way, the Rockets also passed on MJ for Hakeem. Nobody remembers that part.

Who needs Reggie Bush when you can just give the ball to Wali Lundy?
Look, I'm not condoning the move -- Portland should have taken MJ. But the Blazers' logic for taking Bowie was, at the very least, understandable. Houston's logic was never understandable; the Texans' decision to pass on Bush was shockingly brainless from the moment it happened, if only because you can't disappoint your fans to that degree unless there's a really, really, REALLY good reason. Now it looks like the dumbest sports decision of the past 25 years … and that's before we find out Reggie Bush's ceiling, both as an impact running back and personality. I just find the whole thing to be amazing. In a weird way, I'm glad it happened. Incompetence is always more interesting than competence. So thumbs up, Houston Texans. Well done. You're the sports version of Enron.
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Bill Simmons
Haha, the Texans. Sorry Matrix.
 
Bowser said:
Apparently he tweaked his OTHER hamstring during Tuesday practice. Knowing Smith though, he'll probably be playing Sunday.

edit: DeAngelo Hall is a smug mother****er:
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You would expect a pro bowl corner to say, "I just couldn't cover the guy, he's just too good." :lol
 
woodchuck said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060906

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"Hey, Bill, I have a movie pitch for you, I want you to write it. Let's say there's this new football announcing team, and one of the guys has been allowed to contradict himself and make dumb proclamations for far too long, to the point that it's hard to take him seriously anymore, and then his network decided to team him up with someone who's conditioned from years and years of radio and TV work to challenge every dumb sports-related argument he hears. And these guys were forced to announce games together for the next 17 weeks. Is that something you might be interested in?"
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:lol :lol :lol
 
storybook77 said:
It sounds a lot better when you go with the higher variations.

10 out of 100 or 100 out of 1000.
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sounds like once a game to me.
 
Meanwhile, everyone's counting out the Eagles, who absolutely REEK of Ewing Theory potential after T.O.'s departure and everyone acting like they were a 6-10 team last season, when the reality was this: Their defense was decimated by injuries; they lost McNabb in Week 7 and Westbrook in Week 8; and the T.O soap opera and residual bitterness from the Pats' Super Bowl destroyed what was left of their season. Well, who has an easier schedule -- @Hou, NYG, @SF, GB, DAL, @NO -- over the first six weeks? With the exception of Dallas and Chicago, who has a better defense in the NFC? Why is everyone so willing to count out a team with a quality coach that's loaded on the offensive/defensive lines? Couldn't they do a reasonable impression of the 2005 Bears, only with a much better QB? I love the Eagles this season. More on this later.
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Bill Simmons

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Who's ready for football?
 
I know I certainly am!

Also set my initial fantasy lineup

QB Jake Plummer
RB Shaun Alexander
RB Corey Dillon
WR Joe Horn
WR Randy Moss
TE Heath Miller
K Jeff Reed
Def Seahawks

Bench:

Jerrius Norwood
Daunte Culpepper(only not playing because it's the Steelers vs Plummer playing the Rams)
Fred Taylor(probably swap him in once Maroney gets healthy since Dillon will run into trouble)
Mark Clayton
Matt Jones
 
Like I said, they were counting us out when we were dominating the conference. The only difference is now they dont look like complete idiots to the casual observer.
 
Bill Simmons will be on Colbert Report on Thursday the 14th. Should be interesting, I guess he'll be promoting the paperback version of Now I Can Die In Peace.
 
Tamanon said:
Bill Simmons will be on Colbert Report on Thursday the 14th. Should be interesting, I guess he'll be promoting the paperback version of Now I Can Die In Peace.
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yuck. Bill Simmons is my favorite "sports writer", but I skip anything related to baseball or the Red Sox.
 
QFT: Bill Simmons is one of the few sports writers that I like and respect. He is not overly pretentious, and he doesn't follow the 'average sports writer formula' like a sheep. Oh, and he actually uses logic which is refreshing. And he is so funny half of the time because he speaks the truth.

To the Raiders, for having the foresight to team up Shell (the shakiest game coach of my lifetime) with Aaron Brooks (the dumbest QB of my lifetime). For gambling purposes, I feel like Marty McFly when he stumbled across Biff's sports almanac in "Back to the Future 2." This is too good to be true. I don't want to jinx it. In fact, let's move on. Quickly. Before somebody changes their mind here.
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:lol :lol :lol

To the Lions for hiring Martz as an offensive coordinator. Here's a guy with a gigantic ego, a checkered history of butting heads with superiors, and a penchant for putting his own elaborate game plans ahead of the welfare of his teams … and he's working under a first-year coach saddled with Jon Kitna and a slew of underachieving first-rounders? Let the back-stabbing and undermining begin! I'm getting flashbacks to the "Melrose Place" episode when Alison took over D&D and stupidly re-hired Amanda as an assistant to help her out. This is gonna be great.
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:lol

To new Vikings coach Brad Childress, who brought some much-needed discipline back to the Vikes, but with the added bonus that he looks like someone who'd wander into the kitchen of one of those "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" shows holding a 12-pack of MGD and three adult DVDs. I love this guy. Couldn't you picture him living in a trailer with Ron Gardenhire, wearing matching wife-beaters and fighting over Powerball tickets?
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Alright. Now here's the picks we've all been waiting for.... :D

Miami at Pittsburgh
Baltimore at Tampa Bay
Atlanta at Carolina
Denver at St. Louis
Buffalo at New England
Philadelphia at Houston
New Orleans at Cleveland
Seattle at Detroit
NY Jets at Tennessee
Cincinnati at Kansas City
Chicago at Green Bay
Dallas at Jacksonville
San Francisco at Arizona
Indianapolis at NY Giants
Minnesota at Washington
San Diego at Oakland
 
Another goodie from Bill Simmons Page 2:

(Another reason to love them: After hitting rock bottom last winter, Philly seems to be in the middle of an under-the-radar resurgence, between Ryan Howard putting the Phillies on his back, the success of "Invincible" and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," Billy King somehow avoiding a mindless Iverson trade (although there's still time), the upcoming Rocky movie, the hysterical M. Night Shyamalan book … I mean, all we're missing is the reunion of D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince at this point. I'm feeling good things ahead for the Eagles. Can't explain it.)
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This made me laugh because it reminded me of this memory from years ago, YEEEEEARS ago. My Grandmother lived in one the quiet suburbs of Philly (I'll have to ask her what town that was because I don't remember anymore) and I was listening to Power 99FM and they had an extended remix of Parents are Nothing But Trouble playing this particular day.

I have NO idea why that particular memory is so vivid of the visits I had there.. I also remember that was when this kid who lived near her introduced me to Dragonlance... man I remember dying when Raistlin opened the portal lost control and the book ended.. come home.... ARGH I can't wait!!!
 
Good article here on how the NFL is immune to criticism.
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/columns/articles/0906bickley0906.html

The NFL's logo is a shield. Nothing could be more perfect.

It is a league where fans wear blinders, where players hide under helmets, where the product remains untouched by criticisms that plague other sports.

In the NFL, problems just bounce off that shield. And here on the brink of another season, fans have their eyes wide shut all over again.

"I think the NFL is getting a free ride," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said.

No doubt about that, and pity Bud Selig. The commissioner of Major League Baseball has seen his sport severely damaged by the steroids era, where suspicions of rampant drug use and tainted records have ruined the mood. Nowadays, a player like the Phillies' Ryan Howard can no longer have a jaw-dropping season without a nation rolling its eyeballs.

C'mon, 53 home runs by Labor Day? Somebody better check his fluid levels.

Meanwhile, no one cares that members of the Panthers allegedly were using steroids in the days leading up to their appearance in the Super Bowl.
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Smith on DeAngelo Hall:

"I guess when you're on the top you have a lot of people trying to knock you down. Some people are lower than others on the Totem Pole by age, performance and talk. When you're the court jester and you're talking to the King, you gotta do stuff like that. I'm not gonna play games with little kids. When you talk, you're obviously insecure about something, and if you talk long enough, you'll hang yourself. If that's the kind of game he's trying to play, he's barking up the wrong tree, because it's a big ass tree."
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TheDuce22 said:
Good article here on how the NFL is immune to criticism.
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/columns/articles/0906bickley0906.html
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The NFL has been more proactive in fighting steroid abuse than any other pro US sport. There's good reason that they're "immune."

And if Super Bowls don't mean anything, why can't you let this go?

TheDuce22 said:
Like I said, they were counting us out when we were dominating the conference. The only difference is now they dont look like complete idiots to the casual observer.
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another great quote, Eagles almost made it into the same class as the 90's Bills.
 
you got me tickets!? thanks! but i can't go, i'm going to the superior Cardinals-49ers game :(

and by superior i mean superior blowout!

49ers - 49
cardinals - 3
 
FrenchMovieTheme said:
you got me tickets!? thanks! but i can't go, i'm going to the superior Cardinals-49ers game :(
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The true sign of a football fan that lives in the L.A. area: going out to the Desert to see your team play.
 
levious said:
The NFL has been more proactive in fighting steroid abuse than any other pro US sport. There's good reason that they're "immune."
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Guess that explains why they are doing their best to sweep it under the rug. Have you even heard this mentioned outside of a few random webpages? If this were the MLB EVERYONE would be talking about it.

levious said:
another great quote, Eagles almost made it into the same class as the 90's Bills.
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I dont think there is an NFC team that comes close to the Eagles record this decade.
 
fantasy help alert! I have an ok team, and I've slowly picked up some people off waivers over time. Currently, I have only 1 defense, and I have no kicker so I need to drop someone to acquire a kicker for this week or risk the lost points to hold all my position people one more week to see how teams do.

Who should I drop, or should I just hold them all?

QB - Hasselbeck, Bledsoe (keeping both)
RB - Steven Jackson, Ronnie Brown - Chester Taylor, Frank Gore, Mike Bell .. one of these 3 would be in my group to drop probably
WR - Santana Moss, Roy Williams, D. Mason - Matt Jones, Reggie Brown. I'm probably going to keep all 5 of these, but I could drop 1 maybe.
TE I have LJ Smith, and picked up Kellen Winslow. LJ's a pretty solid bet, but Winslow had a lot of potential. I'm not sure what to do here.. I don't like carrying 2 TE's normally.
 
yodathesoda said:
If you drop the starting RB for the Broncos for Frank Gore you are high.
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Yeah, but the thing is the Broncos RB by committee style makes it a toss-up from week to week. Plus, depending on how his league is set up, Jackson and Brown should be starting every week, and everything after them is just security in case of an injury.
 
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