Kurt Warner will join former NFL quarterback Troy Aikman Dancing with the Stars next season. The show, entering its eleventh season, has had a number of NFL stars compete on the show including Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones.

Kurt Warner will be among Dancing with the Stars’ eleventh-season competitors this fall, the Washington Post reported Monday.

While Dancing with the Stars’ prior seasons have featured several retired NFL players — Michael Irvin, Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, Warren Sapp, and Lawrence Taylor — as well as still-active players — Jason Taylor and Chad Ochocinco — Warner would be the first quarterback to compete on the ABC reality ballroom competition. –Reality TV World

This trend of football players dancing with the stars need to end, now. Better yet, this show needs to be cancelled immediately. Dancing is something that’s done by yourself at three o’ clock in the morning, not on national television. Except for Erin Andrews, but when I say “on national television” I mean in scantily clad in my room. I hope Erin wasn’t on the same season as Lawrence Taylor. He tends to get a little ‘handsy.’ My mistake, I forgot that was only with 16 year-old prostitutes.

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The Atlanta Falcons marketing department is hoping that they speak English in Atlanta, because that’s the language Samuel L. Jackson used while recording the team’s newest commercial. The ad calls for Falcons fans to “rise up,” because that’s what Falcons do. They flap their wings to generate lift, which rises them up into the sky. Clever, I know.

The gist of the ad is Sam Jackson and his ridiculous glasses are breaking the fourth wall to pump up Falcons fans for the coming season. While he speaks, a church choir is hanging out in the back, repeating “rise up” as Jackson loses track of his inside voice. And why wouldn’t you rise up after watching this commercial? If you said “because watching football in a dome is stupid,” then I’m inclined to agree with you. Video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

The NFL has been the big money professional sports league for some time now, but that won’t stop them from taking every opportunity to stack that cheese. NFL.com will be getting into the action later this summer, streaming live preseason games online for those willing to waste 40 dollars.

NFL spokesman Dennis Johnson tells Michael Hiestand of USA Today that the league will show preseason games live online for the first time this year, with games available to anyone who pays $40 for a subscription.

Of the 65 games on the NFL preseason schedule, 54 of them will be available via live stream. The only 11 that aren’t available are the ones that will air nationally on NBC, CBS, Fox or ESPN. –PFT

I consider myself a football fan, but there’s no way I could ever watch all the nationally televised games, let alone pay to watch games online. Preseason is just unbearable after the first quarter. Charlie Batch can only throw so many wounded ducks before I start pounding my head against a wall. That being said, there’s no way the NFL will come out of this deal losing money. It’s pretty common knowledge that their accountants are wizards. Video after the jump is potentially NSFW. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing says it’s almost time for the NFL like contract disputes, practices with no pads, and good ol’ fashioned rookie hazing. Hazing, an American tradition that makes baseball and apple pie look Communist, has been an NFL mainstay for years now. Try telling that to Dallas Cowboys wide reciever Dez Bryant, who has decided that he will not participate in the good natured humiliation.

NFL rookies are often required to carry veterans’ pads as a sort of training camp hazing ritual. But Cowboys rookie Dez Bryant wants no part of it.

Tim MacMahon of ESPNDallas.com reports that Roy Williams gave his pads to Bryant today, and Bryant refused to carry them.

“I’m not doing it,” Bryant said. “I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player’s pads.”
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It’s not like they’re asking him to do the elephant walk. I guess it would be too ridiculous a notion for Dez to endure a difficult rite of passage with the rest of the rookies. Looking like an entitled brat is a great way to make friends. Wade Phillips was going to put Bryant on double secret probation, but gorging himself on Twinkies was much easier. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, some celebrities were named to a list called “The Blackest White Folks We Know,” put together by TheRoot.com. Well, Glenn Beck certainly wouldn’t be Glenn Beck if he didn’t say something about it on his show. After going through the list chalkboard-style, Glenn came across a picture of Paris Hilton lover Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. Beck, who apparently isn’t a football fan, had some less-than-kind words for the man he failed to recognize.

Theroot.com put together a list called, “The Blackest White Folks We Know.” Among the names that made the list was Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. So Glen Beck from Fox News was analyzing the list the Root.com came up with in his usual blackboard style..looking at all the pictures commenting.. As he went through pictures of his peers on the list he said.. “There’s Madonna. Bill Clinton, of course I know,” Beck said.And then the dude points at Urlacher, and says, “I think this guy’s a neo-Nazi.” –Terez Owens

That’s a pretty big gaffe from Glenn. He should send a fruit basket and an apology note written in calligraphy over to Brian’s house. Not because I’m angry or offended, but because Urlacher could very easily rip out his throat. Video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the biggest stories in football this summer was the contract disputes between Chris Johnson and the Tennessee Titants. Well, if you couldn’t tell by my use of the past tense, or this post’s headline, the Titans and Chris have come to an understanding. The specifics of the 2,000 yard rusher’s newly worked deal have yet to be announced, but Johnson will be getting paid more money this coming season. It’s a good thing too, those rims are expensive.

Chris Johnson has officially received the pay raise he was looking for.

The contract will pay Johnson more money this season by accelerating some escalators that he had unlocked for future seasons.

So Johnson will arrive at Titans practices next week a happy camper. And he’ll still that way — at least until next offseason. –PFT

Good news for Chris, the Titans, and people lucky enough to get the number one pick in their fantasy draft. Hopefully, Johnson will find ways to stay in the news now that his contract disputes are over. That man gives one hell of an interview. Read the rest of this entry »