I thought for a moment that this was going to be a spoof of the whole Brett Favre saga (since he’s on the cover), but this is the real deal. It’s a trailer for Madden ’09, and it looks scary fun.
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Yahoo! Sports is reporting that the Arizona Cardinals are doing everything in their power to make sure that University of Phoenix Stadium isn’t filled with Dallas Cowboys fans when they meet on October 12.
“In the past two seasons, there was little concern about this since the team sold out every home game. But with ticket sales a bit slower as the third season approaches, the Cardinals are requiring fans who want to buy tickets to the Dallas game on Oct. 12 to also buy tickets for the Aug. 7 exhibition opener vs. New Orleans. Cardinals fans have “created a decisive home-field advantage” the past two years, and the team wants to keep it that way by discouraging single-game ticket sales to Dallas Cowboys fans, team spokesman Mark Dalton said.”
I can understand why a team wouldn’t want their stadium filled with the opposing team’s fans, but c’mon, this is ridiculous. Are you telling me that if I were a Cowboys fan, I’d have to buy a ticket to watch the Saints and Cardinals square off in an exhibition game? The first pre-season game is by far the worst to watch and the fact that exhibition tickets cost just as much as regular season tickets only makes it more painful. Maybe the Cardinals should worry more about putting a winning product on the field. Perhaps then Arizona fans would be more eager to come out and support their team.
The Chicago Bears and middle linebacker Brian Urlacher have reached an agreement on a restructured contract according to ESPN.com.
Urlacher, 30, had four years and approximately $25.5 million remaining on his contract. Under the terms of the upgraded deal, Urlacher will receive a $6 million signing bonus along with a $1 million bump in salary each of the next four years. The sides also have agreed to extend the pact into 2012, at a salary of $7.5 million. Urlacher can earn an additional $500,000 in a workout bonus in 2012.
That’s a total of roughly $43.5 million over the next five years, with $18 million in new money for the six-time Pro Bowler and four-time All Pro.
Boy, the Bears certainly go about things the hard way sometimes, but they’ve made their star players happy (of late). Lance Briggs got a new contract at the start of the 2007 season and now Urlacher is set to go until 2012.
Even though he was hampered by nagging injuries last year, there’s no denying Urlacher is still Chicago’s best option at middle linebacker in their Tampa 2 defense. With how important the position is in that type of defense, the Bears could ill afford not to pay Urlacher and have him back on the field in 2008.
Imagine the shock ESPN.com Page 2 contributor Sam Alipour had when he saw a car racing towards him following an ESPYS after-party Thursday night. Perhaps more shocking than being blasted by a car was who was there to help him until the paramedics came: Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens.
Terrell Owens was standing over me. I’m told he was the first do-gooder on the scene of the accident. That he helped me to my feet and off the street to safe ground. That he didn’t leave my side. It seems the mercurial Dallas Cowboys receiver is my hero. But my hero looks scared, and this scares me.
“Wow, you all right, man?” Owens kept asking me, but in a manner that would suggest there is no possible way that I, in fact, could be all right. “Don’t move. Just sit there. Breathe. Don’t move.”
I’m fine, nothing to worry about, but Owens is so concerned, so kind, and I’m so touched by this — we hardly know each other — that I think my lip is quivering. There’s a good chance I could break down like T.O. at that news conference. (It’s just not fair. That’s my receiver, man.)
“So, T.O. was nice, huh?” says the medic who took my blood pressure inside the ambulance. “Boy, you think you know somebody, but the media doesn’t tell you the whole story. You never know how they really are.”
Guilty as charged.
When the medics were done with the paperwork (note: patient has lacerations, bruised knee, stained shorts, etc.) I headed back to the street to deal with the police, meet the driver and thank my hero … but T.O. was gone. He didn’t care to wait for the cameras, the spotlight, the attention. Didn’t need to hear my thanks. He simply vanished into the dark night, alone (well, with his bodyguard, also a nice man) like a samurai, his work complete.
We hammer the guy for being an ass, so it’s only fair to commend him when he does a great thing. We’d like to think that any honorable human being would do the same thing T.O. did, but how many people would gaze astonishingly at what happened and allow someone else to extend a hand? Well done, T.O.
In the morning New York Giants’ GM Jerry Reese was telling reporters that tight end Jeremy Shockey might not be with the team in 2008. In the afternoon, Shockey is now a member of the New Orleans Saints.
The Giants have agreed to trade their disgruntled tight end to the New Orleans Saints for a second-round pick and a fifth-round pick, FOXSports.com has learned. The deal is pending league approval, according to a league source. Shockey must also pass a physical.
The compensation is the same the Saints offered New York back in April prior and during to the draft … and it was turned down.
Shockey’s attitude made the move somewhat necessary as the Giants sought to avoid distractions from their bid to repeat as Super Bowl champions.
During the team’s recent minicamp, Shockey reportedly engaged in a shouting match with GM Jerry Reese, just the latest controversy involving the outspoken former first-round pick out of the University of Miami.
Given Shockey’s attitude, this is a bit of a risk for the Saints, but it’s a risk that could pay huge dividends. Nobody argues about Shockey the player – it’s Shockey the distraction that has always been the problem. But adding him to Sean Payton’s innovative offense makes things interesting for the Saints.
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