Speaking of giving up picks for someone who never played for them, here's something that happened. There was an unheralded, lowly-drafted QB named Greg Barton who sat on the Lions bench for three seasons (NFL stats: 1 attempt, 0 completions). The Eagles were so enamored with Barton they traded two 2s and a 3rd for him in 1971, even though he was about to become a free agent. They also traded away starting QB Norm Snead to the Giants (where he made the Pro Bowl). Barton was actually looking forward to getting a chance to play, until he met owner Leonard Tose and thought something was very wrong with the organization. So he decided to take more money to play for the Toronto Argonauts instead.
Did you see the story about the fake school that conned their way onto ESPN where their winless football team played a national powerhouse and lost 58-0? Turns out they also paid for their hotel by bouncing two bad checks. And the head coach (who has been fired) has an active bench warrant on him. Other high schools have since canceled their games with them.
This. All scoring plays and turnovers go to review automatically. The booth also controls all replays inside of two minutes left in each half, no coaches challenges during that time.
So in one of the last pre-season games, one of the announcers mentioned that there will be no overtime this season. Is this true? If so, that seems a rather odd omission to me.
Ah! That makes sense then. Although I could have sworn that, when the announcer was talking about it, he was specifically referring to a “new rule” for the season. Oh, well. Guess we’ll find out soon enough.
It is a new rule - there used to be overtime in the preseason, now there's not. Makes sense - who wants to risk further injury to players in pointless preseason games?
I don’t see the NFL going back to dozens of tied games every year. What would be the point other than frustrating your audience? https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl-video-rulebook/overtime-rules/
I actually agree with Tom Brady... https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...lays-reveals-what-hed-change-about-nfl-rules/
Dan Marino said it all once euphemistically, ya' gotta have an O-line or you will end up on your... Take care of them and "glove" them up.
Clinton Portis, Tamarick Vanover and Robert McCune pleaded guilty to defrauding an NFL program set up to reimburse medical expenses not covered by insurance for retired players and their families. McCune could be facing life in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and health care fraud, 13 counts of health care fraud, 11 counts of wire fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft. Portis and Vanover each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and could face up to 10 years in prison. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...-players-plead-guilty-healthcare-fraud-scheme
Well Gentlemen, The High Holy Season is upon us. Let us pause and give thanks to the Football Gods for this glorious time. May your starters be healthy, may replays go your way, and may your hearts prepared for crushing defeats.