Rookie of the Year Adrian Peterson rushed for 129 yards and 2 touchdowns on only 16 carries as the NFC topped the AFC 42-30 at the Pro Bowl Sunday.
Three Redskins players – tackle Chris Samuels, long snapper Ethan Albright and tight end Chris Cooley – all wore No. 21 in honor of slain teammate Sean Taylor.
R.I.P. Sean:
The Redskins recently hired Mike Zorn to be their next head coach and Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post lauded the hire in one of his recent columns.
Virtually every big-splash acquisition over the last seven years, whether it was a player or a coach, has turned out to be, well, overstated. A great many times Snyder has gone out and gotten exactly the guy he had in his sights, from Deion Sanders to Al Saunders, and watched it fall somewhere between disappointing and disaster. You cannot fault Snyder one bit for effort.
And that brings me to Jim Zorn, newly and somewhat surprisingly now the head coach of the Redskins. Nothing the Redskins have done in Snyder’s tenure has had less fanfare than the announcement of Zorn as coach.
It might be the best thing that’s happened to the franchise in a long time. If any franchise could benefit from a hire with no hype, with no fanfare, with no overstatement about what he’s going to do and how he’s going to do it, it’s the Washington Redskins.
The hiring of Zorn was a head scratchier to many, but as Wilbon points out, there’s no sense making a big splash-hire if it’s only going to backfire three years later. The Ravens, Falcons and now, the Redskins, have all made hires that have been less about style and more about substance. Obviously only time will tell if these teams made the right decisions, but it’s nice to see organizations get back to hiring good football people instead of good headline material.
Brain McNamee, the former trainer of Roger Clemens, is now claiming that he not only injected Rog, but his wife Debbie, too.
McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Debbie Clemens with HGH — at the seven-time Cy Young Award winner’s direction — before the couple posed for a 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition photo shoot, a lawyer familiar with his testimony said Friday.
Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin, warned Friday that this situation will be the “second edition of the Duke (lacrosse) case” and that “any of you who got on the bandwagon about Roger taking steroids is going to be embarrassed.”
I’ll heed the warning Rusty, but right now I’m going to believe the guy that saved used syringes just in case his proflic client screwed him sometime in the future (like now).
A little over a week ago, Deadspin.com posted a YouTube video of ESPN’s Chris Berman acting like a complete a-hole on a Monday Night Football telecast from 1999. Thankfully, the Berman-acting-like-an-idiot-train is still rolling into a station near you.
SPORTSbyBROOKS.com is sharing more priceless Berman moments, this time instead of yelling at fellow employees, he’s hitting on them!
And for those of you who liked Berman freaking out about people ducking under the camera while he was working, here’s another clip of him whining about the teleprompter.
Dude’s a mess.
Deadspin.com has an amazing story that any football fan (especially a Giants fan) could appreciate. During the Giants’ Super Bowl celebration in New York City earlier this week, one fan snuck through several security checkpoints to get on to the field during the trophy ceremony, as well as in the locker room with the players.
As we are pulling away from City Hall, the streets are lined with Giants fans cheering for “us” and we had a police escort the entire way to Giants Stadium. That’s where things got interesting. We got off the bus and were escorted directly into the Stadium tunnel. This is where I thought I was going to get caught. I had no idea what to do next. All of the players went in the locker room and all the Mara’s said they were going up to the owner’s box for the ceremony. I had to make a decision. I then saw David Tyree walking in with his little son and decided I would act like I was with them. I walked right behind him and got right into the locker room. So now the real fun starts. I’m hanging out as if I’m a player while all the guys in the locker room are just getting each other’s autographs on the game balls and on their jerseys. This was my time to shine. I walked around and took some pictures of some of the lockers and then I got to Eli’s. I asked Eli if he could sign my ticket stub from the Super Bowl, which he did. I then asked him to sign my Super Bowl jersey, which he did. I was then ecstatic and didn’t know what to do. I even had people coming up to me asking me for my autograph. They must have thought I was Lawrence Tynes or something.
Click here to read the entire story, as well as view the pics. His bit about people thinking he was Lawrence Tynes is funny.
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