Month: May 2007 (Page 2 of 12)

A new football league is apparently in the works and ready to rival the NFL, according to FOXSports.com. The United Football League, which was created by Bill Hambrecht, a Wall Street businessman, and Tim Armstrong, a senior executive at Google, apparently wants to kick off its preseason in August of 2008. Hambrecht and Armstrong already have one owner on board: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

“(Former NFL coach) Bill Walsh used to tell me that the last 20 players cut from every team were almost interchangeable with the last 20 players to make the team,” Hambrecht says.

So let me get this straight, these two boy wonders are standing around the water cooler one day and say, “Hey, we’ve got a ton of money, let’s start a new football league to rival the NFL!” One of the major complaints in the NFL now is that the league is too watered down. Yet these guys think people are actually going to tune in to watch the NFL’s scrubs? Nevertheless compete against the NFL during the NFL’s regular season? I could see a league trying to challenge the NFL in its offseason, but not parallel to America’s most popular regular season. I believe the last football league to attempt this feat was the XFL, and anyone unfortunate enough to actually remember that debacle recalls it only lasted a year and because nobody gave a crap.

Not to rain on your parade fellas, but I think it would be easier to resurrect Britney Spears’ career right now than trying to compete with the popularity of the NFL.

Sincerely,

“He Hate Me”

So, what’s new in LenDale White’s world? Oh, not showing up for a mini camp practice, you know, nothing big. White’s been bothered by a hamstring injury and therefore limited in previous workouts, but completely failed to show up on Tuesday.

Tennessee head coach Jeff Fisher is not amused:

“He had some kind of flight problem or something like that,” Fisher said. “No one else seemed to have flight problems. …

“I’ve been on record with being disappointed with him. I hope to have him back on the practice field, but again everybody else was here and he wasn’t. I’m anxious to hear what kind of excuse he has.”

Let’s see, there have been hamstring problems, rumors of a failed drug test, spitting in the face of a teammate, overweight issues and now missed practices. Hey LenDale, the Titans gave you the keys to the car over the offseason by trading Travis Henry and not re-signing Chris Brown. So how about you get into shape so you don’t have any more injury problems and start justifying why Tennessee gave you $1.3 million in guaranteed money last year. Give a regular “Joe” $1.3 million and I guarantee you he’ll put down the cheeseburgers and get his ass to practice on time. Oh and by the way, Chris Henry is breathing down your neck.