This is that scrum from the last night’s game that started after Atlanta tried for an onside kick for a chance to score a TD with the 2-point conversion and tie the game. And it’s just a terrific mass of humanity with a camera shot that makes you forget how annoying it is to watch that camera slide along on cables above the field. Remember two years ago when that camera actually fell onto the field? That’s the only thing that would have made this any better. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s Dre’ Bly playing for the San Francisco 49ers jumping a route against Atlanta but dude decided to showboat before successfully eluding capture. Watch Dre’ Bly cup his hand to his ear, a la NFL great and de facto NCAA agent Deion Sanders. Do you hear that, Dre’? That’s the sound of failure. Next time, try to get to your own end zone first.
The Michael Vick Era is, only now, officially over. The Atlanta Falcons officially released Vick, along with a semi-tailored Best Of Luck press release earlier this morning, as reported by the Miami Herald, not to be confused with my amphetamines dealer, Miami Harold:
“Michael remains suspended by the NFL. However, in the event NFL commissioner Roger Goodell decides to reinstate Michael, we feel his best opportunity to re-engage his football career would be at another club.
“Our entire organization sincerely hopes that Michael will continue to focus his efforts on making positive changes in his life, and we wish him well in that regard.”
Other NFL stuff: The Eagles apparently had five million dollars around and nothing to do with it, so they restructured Donovan McNabb’s deal and gave it to him. Instead of getting $19.2 million over the next two seasons, he’ll get $24.5m, and can still leave in 2011. Even the guys that used to run GM think that seems a bit exorbitant.
After learning that NFL teams were unwilling to take even a 7th-round pick for Michael Vick, the Albany Firebirds of the developmental league arenafootball2 offered Vick a contract. But they were totally kidding as it turns out:
“I’m a dog lover and I don’t want anything to do with (Vick),” Albany Firebirds owner Walter Robb told The Times Union for a story posted on its Web site Tuesday night.
Earlier in the day, the team an arenafootball2 franchise, announced it had offered the 28-year-old quarterback a one-year contract at the league standard: $200 a week plus a $50 bonus for a win.
“That’s a joke,” Robb said. “Can you imagine him playing for $200 a week? I think (the offer) was a big mistake.”
I’m secretly hoping that Vick does catch on with another team, somewhere. I just want to see how he’s treated by the fans, by his teammates, and see if he actually realizes that inhumane handling of animals is much worse than raping women or killing someone with a car under the influence.
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Tony Gonzalez is finally getting out of Kansas City. Gonzalez was accquired in a trade by the Atlanta Falcons for a 2nd round draft pick in 2010. Yes, Atlanta didn’t even give away a pick this year for arguably one of the top 3 receiving tight ends in the league. And suddenly the Falcons go from “probably making the playoffs again” to a dark horse Super Bowl contender. Holy crap, that team is pretty GD scary right now.
Tomorrow’s going to be more NFL-intensive with the draft this weekend, but we should probably mention Torry Holt’s thank-you note to the city of St. Louis, which was summed up nicely on KSK by Christmas Ape. As far as Georgia’s Matt Stafford going No. 1, who knows. Wake Forest linebacker Aaron Curry has already said he’ll take less money, guaranteed and otherwise, to go No. 1. And that could actually go down. Stay tuned.
Michael Vick plans to work 40 hours a week at a construction company upon his release from prison, according to statements Vick’s lawyer made in a bankruptcy court appearance yesterday. I saw this on TMZ first, and thought, “Maybe they got him mixed up with these people,” and then when I saw it over here. But dude owes everybody money and the feds wanted him to outline his plan to pay everyone back. So his lawyers did it for him. They’ve gotta be getting paid, right?
Lawer Michael Blumenthal told US Bankruptcy Judge Frank J. Santoro that Vick, once the highest-paid player in the NFL, is “going to change the way he lives his life.”
Vick’s plan would allow him to keep the first 750,000 dollars of his salary should he find a club interested in him and make a deal. Creditors would claim part of any additional income.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Vick–who is still under contract with the Atlanta Falcons–will be paid $600,000 for starring in a documentary. Possible working title: Four Legs And A Funeral? If they could get Frankie Muniz to play the dog, this whole thing could spin in Vick’s favor. Nobody likes that kid.
