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TOP STORIES - OCTOBER 17, 2007 Get your NFL football tickets now at TickCo. They have all team Cardinals tickets, Cowboys tickets, Packers tickets, Colts tickets, Patriots tickets, Titans tickets and more. Get your Super Bowl tickets here! FOOTBALL IS HERE!!!  WEEK 6 FANTASY RANKINGS DEGENERATE CENTRAL DEANNA FAVRE ALMOST CALLED FOR DIVORCE: Saying that she didn't want 'to go down that road' with her children, Deanna Favre mentions in her just released book that she was ready to call it quits in 1999 over Brett Favre's drinking problem, and said that she only reconsidered after the quarterback checked into rehab. Deanna wrote that she had packed up #4's belongings and wanted him out of their Mississippi home, and had already spoken to an attorney. Deanna says she went as far as saying she would call 9-1-1 if he didn't get out of the house. At that point Brett called agent Bus Cook, and decided to go into rehab. Deanna says that Brett has not had a drink since. This episode would had been three years following Favre undergoing rehab for his Vicodin addition, Favre recently said he took 15 Vicodin at a time and washed it down with beer - that was said to have led to Favre suffering a seizure after undergoing ankle surgery, it was shortly after that time that Brett and Deanna were married. The Favre's youngest daughter was born in 1999, and the couples first child was born in 1989, when the two were attending Southern Mississippi. FAVRE'S FIRST LAMBEAU APPEARANCE TO RE-AIR: WTMJ Radio is to re-air the broadcast of the Packers Week 3 game v. the Cincinnati Bengals from 1992. Considering this is the Packers bye week, I'm guessing the rebroadcast will air at 12 noon Central time. An early game injury to Don Majkowski set the stage for Brett Favre to enter the contest, and despite a shaky performance the Packers would win the game in the closing seconds on a long Favre strike to Kitrick Taylor, that would be the lone touchdown reception of Taylor's career. Favre actually made his Packer debut the previous week during the second half of a loss at Tampa Bay, and was projected to become Green Bay's starter sooner rather than later in the 1992 season. Favre would start against Pittsburgh the week after the Cincinnati win, and has not relinquished the starting job since. Incidentally, the Cincinnati game was so low on NBC's (who carried the game since it was an AFC opponent) pecking order that Jim Lampley and Ahmad Rashad, who usually worked other assignments for the network, were the announcers that day. WORST MAN IN THE NFL??? LOOK IN THE MIRROR: With no one taunting on an unconscious quarterback to pick on this week, Keith Olbermann decides to nominate Jones Soda for commemorating the Seahawks appearance on Sunday Night football by placing an outdated picture of his mug on some soda bottles. Olbermann says the picture was from when he got hired by FOX Sports. Well, if someone who makes turkey and gravy soda can be eligible then what about someone in NBC's production crew who drops the ball, or even worse yet - the overhead camera. The exact nightmare of many NFL players comes true in the first quarter when the camera slumps, then crash-lands onto the Qwest Field turf, narrowing missing Seahawks QB Matt Hasselbeck. But at least that wouldn't be as bad as if a video board fell and ruined the night of several unsuspecting NBA or NHL players. But then again for X million dollars per year NFL QB's should be expected to dodge falling cameras. Better him than the network trying to do an overhead crowd shot and half of section 109 getting it. Come on Keith, show some stones!!! If you got fired on the spot for throwing your own employer under the bus it wouldn't be the first time. But I will say this for the peacock - nice pre-game show. I know, it isn't nearly as highlight driven as the old ESPN Primetime, many people (Steve Czaban) still aren't over it. But who would you rather have doing your highlights??? Olbermann and Bob Costas or Berman and Stuart Scott - I rest my case.TOMLINSON - 4 TD'S, NO FLAG: No yellow flags, and no red, white, and blue ones neither. One of the NFL's biggest mysteries continues as the same player who leaped out of the tunnel on Opening Day with a giant American flag continues to be perhaps the only player not to have the flag decal that has been standard on the back of NFL helmets for the last 6+ years. More amazingly, no major media outlets has picked up on this story, especially considering he happens to play in a market with a major U.S. military presence. If Jake Plummer can be called out insisting on having the Pat Tillman '40' on his helmet full time, or if Keith Foulke can be called out by MLB for wanting to have the flag stiched on his cap full-time a couple years back, then I think at least an explanation on this is necessary by both the league and LT. If Tomlinson just gave a brief reason why he's making an obvious stand I would probably be fine with it. Carlos Delgado was in the center of a minor firestorm a few years back by making it a point to not be on the field when God Bless America was played - Delgado's reasoning is that he was not happy with decades of weapons testing on a remote island in his native Puerto Rico. In the end I gave him credit for letting his feeling known. On a much lighter note, memo to the Chargers - make the powder blues the primary home jersey - by far the best uni's in the league. BOULERICE - 25 GAMES: Serial NHL goon receives tie for longest suspension in league history. Noting that his two-handed cross-check on Vancouver's Ryan Kesler was far more than careless play, NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell said that the league would had been facing 'a whole heap of problems' had Kesler been seriously injured. Boulerice's reputation started thanks to an ugly incident while playing in the Ontario Junior Hockey Leauge. During a 1998 playoff game, Boulerice injured an opposing player with a full, baseball like-swing which inflicted a brain injury on the player. The player could be heard shouting profanities when he came to while being treated by medics in the stunned arena. Since the incident occurred in one of the three U.S.-based venues in the OHL, Boulerice wound up facing criminal charges in the state of Michigan.   VIKINGS TANGLE IN LOCKER ROOM SCUFFLEThe Love Boat debacle of two years ago about this time may of actually been good compared to this - according to witnesses defensive end Erasmus James and running back Chester Taylor (who has lost his starting job as fast as Leon Taylor in Playmakers) got into it in a midweek locker room scrap which featured a flying chair. Erasmus belted Taylor in the eye, at which point Chester grabbed a folding chair and attempted to go AWA on James - problem was chair misses Erasmus and nails offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie, who very fortunately for Taylor keeps his cool. Coach Brad Childress then calls a team meeting and tells everyone to cut the crap. Meanwhile Chester now has a shiner and Erasmus has been added to the injury report with a bum shoulder. Meanwhile Packer Nation remains very bummed that Brad inked with the Vikings and never showed up for that interview in Green Bay. 'DUMP TRUCK' STRIKES AGAIN: With no less than six teams on the bye this week, I figured we were way overdue to see a player with way too much free time on his hands land in trouble this week. My personal pick-to-click was Travis Henry, figuring that he could very well strike for a 'final-straw' like incident that would get him kicked out of the league for good - perhaps with girlfriend #10 or #11 or even #26. At least I was on the right track, as it is Steelers running back Najeh Davenport who gets charged in a domestic case that actually occurred last week. Najeh is accused of three misdemeanors stemming form a custody dispute with a Cleveland women over Najeh's five-year old child. Obviously Najeh must have rebounded from his last love pretty quickly. You may recall just before the 2002 Draft Najeh got dumped by his girlfriend, Najeh famously responded by dumping in the lady's college dorm closet. ANOTHER LENGTHY NHL SUSPENSION FORTHCOMING??? Haven't we seen this script before?? Blowout game in Vancouver and all hell breaks loose in the third period. Flyers enforcer Jesse Boulerice could find himself getting decked by the league office even faster then he did by then-Dallas Star Aaron Downey a few years back. Angry members of the Canucks are calling for a 20-game suspension for Downey for his match penalty after cross-checking Vancouver center Ryan Kesler in the face. If Boulerice were banned for that long he would be the second Flyer to be busted for that long in the last couple of weeks - rookie Steve Downie got a 20-game ban after his cheap shot on Ottawa's Dean McAmmond. The Flyers were going to send Downie to the minors and call him up on off-days to serve the NHL suspension, but the AHL double-whammied Downie and suspended him as well.   'SURPRISE' PLANNED FOR USC/UCLA GAME???Sean David Morton discloses on George Noory's radio show that Pete Carroll has petitioned the NCAA, asking that UCLA be allowed as the road team to wear their home pastel blue jerseys when the teams meet at the LA Coliseum later on this year. When UCLA also played it's home games at the Coliseum, both teams traditionally wore their home dark jerseys for the season-ending rivalry game. The practice was ended when UCLA moved their home games to the Rose Bowl in 1984. SDM also discloses that the punishment for a road team bringing the wrong jerseys to a game is the loss of one timeout during the first half. That ought to hurt - too bad the NFL doesn't have that rule, Mike Shanahan would have the equipment man bringing the white jerseys no matter what the home team is supposed to wear... MORE SDM: Morton also came on the show with his usual five hours worth of commentary/predictions - unfortunately he only had a one hour segment and Noory had to go Gene Okerlund, announcing 'WE'RE OUT OF TIME...'. Included yet again was Morton's prediction that a major earthquake would someday rapture through SoCal. Morton envisions the event coming in conjunction with a major sporting event - he guesses it might be when either a Summer Olympics or Soccer World Cup is held in the city - but figures it won't be for a while because he says that when it happens there will be a Space Needle-like landmark with a 'flaming angel' with a sword on top punctuating LA's skyline. A tower with a flaming angel??? That city can't even get the money for a new stadium to bring the NFL back. Actually, I can tell Sean when the earthquake will happen, actually it just did. The fifth chakra let loose on LA just after 7 PM Pacific Time last Saturday, just as perhaps the biggest upset in college football history had gone down at the Coliseum. The trembler caused plates, utensils, and even a giant plasma TV to fall at the Papadakis Taverna in San Pedro while insurance adjusters have been busy ever since handling millions of dollars worth of claims from shocked Trojan boosters throughout the region. The quake was so powerful it was even felt in Pasadena, eventually resulting in a UCLA loss to lowly Notre Dame.FAVRE CAMPAIGNS FOR KOREN ROBINSON'S REINSTATEMENT: Brett says he has spoken to the oft-troubled wide receiver and came away saying that Koren is serious about cleaning up his act. Koren is eligible for reinstatement next week - although not allowed at team facilities it has been said that he has been working out in Green Bay and also at a facility in Phoenix where training camp conditions are simulated. Guess James Jones better not fumble any more receptions... IT'S TRUE - GUNDY RANT PARODIED: Not one, but two Oklahoma car dealers have ran ads where an actor playing OSU football coach Mike Gundy angrily shows the automotive section of the paper (the easiest section to find at McD's) and says the deals offered by the competitors 'are not true'. In addition at least a half-dozen different renditions of a Coors Light commercial dubbing excerpts of Gundy's presser have made their way onto Youtube - the best of which (in my opinion) appears on the top of this page.  NLCS TICKET SALES COLD AS ICE IN PHOENIX: What if they held the National Leauge Championship Series and no one showed up??? In a development that could make past apathy in Pittsburgh and Atlanta blush, over 12,000 tickets remain for Games 1 and 2 of the National League Championship Series at the ballpark formerly known as the BOB. Along with the fact that there is simply not a lot of support for the local team, the Colorado Rockies are one team that (unlike teams such as the Cubs or the D-Backs potential World Series opponent) does not travel well with visiting fans. It will be a different story at the LCS venues, as tickets are already spoken for at Coors Field and selling for $100-$500 on the secondary market. And obviously empty seats will not be an issue for the ALCS in baseball mad Boston and Cleveland. I'm just waiting for that Rockies/Indians World Series to start - how many of those games will be snowed out??? They may have to finish that baby in Miller Park - snow squalls, seagulls, bugs, Cleveland has it all.WILL MARATHON DEBACLE KILL CHICAGO OLYMPIC BID??? A couple weeks back I couldn't go to a page on Yahoo Sports without hearing some lady babble about how she likes to run, and to click her mug so I can enter for my chance to run in the Honolulu marathon. Excuse me, but last time I checked Honolulu wasn't exactly know for the brisk autumn October days often associated with Chicago. Which brings us to this past Sunday's Chicago Marathon where record high temperatures gave the event a Honolulu-like climate that organizers may not have been ready for. Runners were ordered off the final 13 miles of the course after four hours, by that time approximately 250 participants had landed in local hospitals. A 35-year old runner also died, although a subsequent autoposy determined that a pre-existing heart condition strongly contributed to his collapse. Water shortages along the course were reported as soon as the ninth mile, and frustration mounted among participants over the water stations being closed. Publicity about the disaster was fueled even further by attention given to the story on the Drudge Report. And I'm sure Matt was also babbling about that as well as global warming in general on his radio show. Wait, that's right - Drudge no longer does a radio show. And Chicago weather has not exactly been known to be cool in July in August, when the Summer Olympics are traditionally held. BEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL FINISH YOU DID NOT SEE: Another incredible weekend in college football, Stanford stuns USC in the LA Coliseum in an upset possibly even bigger than App State's win at Michigan earlier in the season. Then there is LSU coach Les Miles going for it on fourth down five times against Florida, and going 5-5. As Verne Lundquist said during the telecast - ONIONS!!! And then there is what would normally be a ho-hum MAC game between Western Michigan and Akron. WMU was holding on to a 38-31 lead when they decided to have their punter run out of the end zone and concede a safety. That left just enough time for a free kick, which an Akron player picked up at the 11-yard line, then lateraled to another player at around the 20, who promptly found an opening and went the the rest of the way for a 89-yard score and a 39-38 win. Should have squibbed it. You can catch the video along with the Joe Starkey-like radio call at the top of the page. RETURN TO SENDER: Marion Jones relinquishes the five medals won at the 2000 Summer Games, days after admitting she used PED's. It is not known where the medals are now, but the usual protocol is for the athlete to give the medals back to the USOC, who in turn hands them over to the IOC. NBA PLAYER OK AFTER PRACTICE SCARE: Blog just in from the Bay Area says that Golden State Warriors guard Monta Ellis is out of a Hawaii hospital with just a neck sprain after taking a header off a teammates knee during a practice session yesterday. A very dire report this morning feared that Monta could of been facing paralysis from the neck down. According to a team official, Monta was 'walking and laughing' and only expects to miss a few days of practice.  LEBRONX CHEER - CLEVELAND TEES OFF ON LBJ: Making good on a promise he made on Saturday Night Live a few weeks back, LeBron James creates an uproar in the town he supposedly owns by showing up at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario last night rooting for the visiting New York Yankees. But leave it to pitching legend Bob Feller to come out with the most blunt suggestion of all, suggesting that he should show up at a Cavaliers game wearing Detroit Pistons gear and see how LeBron likes that. You know, I would really like to hear Feller tell us WHAT HE REALLY THINKS sometime... CUBS IN 2-0 HOLE: I don't mean to go Dave Campbell on you, but sometimes you need to lose a battle to have a shot at winning a war - and Lou Piniella proved himself as a genius by sitting down Carlos Zambrano after only 85 pitches, this so Z would be ensured of starting Game 4 on Sunday. That is unless of course the Diamondbacks end up sweeping the series and there is no Game 4.HAS PISS MAN NAILED TRAVIS HENRY!?!? Didn't I say a month ago to grab Selvin Young off the waiver wire??? And who would spend that valuable first round pick in fantasy football on a father of nine, with nine different women - who is also pretty deep in the NFL's substance abuse program. Disclosure comes Thursday night that Broncos running back Travis Henry is fighting a positive drug test. It's said that Henry filed a restraining order against the NFL, preventing the league from announcing the results. Henry contends that the specimen was a 'dirty sample'. Because Henry has been in trouble with the league before, it is believed that his next suspension will be for an entire season. Ironically (or maybe not so ironically), Ricky Williams applied for reinstatement this week, and Denver has been mentioned as a possible destination. YANKEE HURT BUMPING INTO CAMERAMAN: That could not have been a good omen. Doug Mientkiewicz rolls up his ankle after bumping into a TV cameraman while walking up a ramp before Game 1 of the Yankees opening-round playoff series in Cleveland. The freelance cameraman was immediately fired by the YES Network following the incident - guess George really does not mess around.  THE DARK SIDE OF SUMO WRESTLING: Japan's sumo wrestling authority plans to dismiss a stable master who admitted belting a teenage wrestler with a beer bottle a day before he suddenly died during practice. The suspicious death has dealt another blow to Japan's national sport, whose stables have been dogged by allegations that senior disciples rough up youths trying to cut their teeth in the sport in the name of training and discipline. Police have since questioned the 57-year old trainer after deciding the injuries did not appear consistent with those typically sustained in training. Only once before in sumo wrestling history has a stable master been dismissed, and that was after he went missing. Brained with a beer bottle??? Sounds more like something Sandman would do in the pro wrestling world, guess the kid should of trained better...PACK, COWBOYS, STEELERS AGAIN LEAD WAY IN POPULARITY: Super Bowl 41 participants Indianapolis and Chicago as well as resident dynasty New England also cracks the top six in annual Harris Interactive Poll. The Jacksonville Jaguars pull up the rear in the poll, ranking 32nd, followed by Houston, Buffalo, Arizona (a perennial in least popular) and Atlanta. Which reminds us of the enormous TV ratings blockbuster looming when the Packers and Cowboys meet in late November. Oh wait, that one is on the frickin' NFL Network - so much for that. Incidentally the NFL is now sending e-mails urging fans to write letters to newspapers as well as the cable companies. That won't make a dent, they simply refer to that as spam and throw it in the recycle bin. You might be better off going Ken Patera and throwing rocks through the cable companies doors - don't worry, the customer service windows have reinforced glass. I'll say it again, I'm not taking sides in this catfight, all I know is that it is Joe Fan who is losing out. NED YOST SAFE - FOR NOW: Brewers announce that manager Ned Yost will return for the 2008 season, but if you read between the lines at the presser it did not sound like GM Doug Melvin was willing to give Yost a long-term commitment. As I said before, a 10-16 April and Ned might want to update his resume. |
