NFL players love everything about Pro Bowl, except playing
Over the years players have complained about having to travel to Hawaii to play in the Pro Bowl. Since most teams are on the East Coast, guys had to travel 9 hours to reach the tropical paradise of the south pacific...I covered the Pro Bowl in 2002 at Aloha Stadium and it was silly how many guys bailed on the game... People on the Islands took it personally...
Nobody has that travel excuse anymore, since Roger "The Hammer" Goodell moved the game to Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
More than two dozen players have already found a reason to not play... Most claimed injury as an excuse...
Smart money says more than half of those injured players would be healthy enough to play if they been lucky enough to be part of teams that had reached the Super Bowl...
Oakland hired Hue Jackson this week to turn around JaMarcus Russell's career... If he can do it, Al Davis should sell him a piece of the franchise...
What ever happened to those drug and burglary charges against Ryan Leaf in Texas...
Peyton Manning is lucky that the Super Bowl's not being played at the Swamp...
If you put a gun to my head, I'd pick Cooper as my favorite Manning brother. He was injured and couldn't continue in the family business... He did appear in an episode of the Simpsons though...
I'm happy we won't have to deal with two weeks of Brett Favre tush kissing by the national media...
Brett Favre has mastered the art of chocking in the NFC title game...
David Stern killed the Suns. The Phoenix Suns had the most entertaining team in the NBA until commissioner David Stern stepped in and messed them up...
During the 2007 NBA Playoffs, in the Western Conference Semifinals against the San Antonio Spurs, Amare Stoudemire left the bench area, late in game four, during an altercation between guard Steve Nash and Robert Horry/ Stoudemire should have been fined, instead Stern overreacted and suspended him for Game 5. The Suns would go on to lose to the Spurs in six games...
Because of the loss to the Spurs, Phoenix ownership panicked that they couldn't beat the Spurs and win a championship with the fun and gun style. They traded four-time All-Star forward Shawn Marion to the Miami Heat for Shaquille O'Neal...
Its been a disaster ever since. If Stoudemire isn't suspended by David Stern, the Suns beat the Spurs and take down the Jazz to reach the NBA Finals. Then they would have easily beaten LeBron James and the Cavs in the NBA Finals....
Instead they let go of coach Mike D'Antoni, tried to play a defensive style of basketball, then when that didn't work, they went back to the run and gun style, but the damage was done....
Lakers fans should hope the team continues its recent sluggish play until the trade deadline... Its much more likely that they'll deal for Chris Bosh with more losses in the next few weeks. Bosh could bring lots of buzz to LA's repeat bid...
Cooperstown got it right, Andre Dawson's best years took place in Montreal. He can have a big party with Gary Carter at the Hall of Fame ceremony...
Dawson played 11 seasons in Canada, hit 225 HR's in an Expos uniform... http://bit.ly/dcxjDZ
Does GM Brian Cashman really think anyone is buying his line about the Yankees not being able to afford Johnny Damon's salary... The Yankees print money under the stands at the new ballpark in the Bronx...
