Posts belonging to Category Teams In The News
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The California Redwoods are one of the new teams in the United Football League (UFL) that will be playing for the first time in 2009. They recently held their first training camp, and here is a look at some of the interesting and familiar names that showed up on their roster.
Dennis Green
Dennis Green, the [...]
Categories: Players In The News, Team Facts, Teams In The News |
Tags: California Redwoods, Peter Warrick, Redwoods, UFL, United Football League |
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Posted by Mark
In just a few short weeks, the United Football League is going to be starting it’s first season ever. One of the teams in this new football league is the New York Sentinels, here is a look at some names on their roster that may be familiar to some football fans.
Ted Cottrell
The head coach [...]
Categories: Players In The News, Team Facts, Teams In The News |
Tags: New York Sentinels, Sentinels, UFL, United Football League |
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Posted by Mark
Slated to begin play this fall is a new professional football league. The United Football League has been called both a competitor to and a minor league of the National Football League. There is no current working relationship between the two leagues though. The United Football League, or UFL, will start their [...]
Categories: League Facts, Teams In The News |
Tags: Locomotives, Redwoods, Sentinels, Tuskers, UFL, United Football League |
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Coming off of an 0-16 season in 2008, the 2009 Detroit Lions will look completely different on the field. Okay, not completely different… and not in a way that affects how they play on the field… but they will look different.
Since 1961, the Detroit Lions have taken the field with their famous blue lion [...]
Categories: Just For Fun, Teams In The News |
Tags: Lions, Logos |
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It was just announced that there has been an addition to last night’s trade of Mike Vrabel to the Kansas City Chiefs. Now included in the deal is quarterback Matt Cassel. In exchange for these two players, it looks like the Kansas City Chiefs are giving up a second round draft pick, the [...]
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Tags: Chiefs, Matt Cassel, Mike Vrabel, Patriots, Quarterbacks |
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It looks like the Broncos are up to their old tricks. After saying for years that you don’t need to invest a high draft pick to get a good running back, they’ve now moved on to kickers and punters who they evidently say you don’t need to invest a draft pick in at all. [...]
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Tags: Broncos, Kickers |
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With the 2008 NFL Draft over and done with, we’re taking a look back at the worst draft picks of the past twenty years. Since it is way too early to judge this year’s draft, we’ll look at 1988 through 2007. We’re going on a pick-by-pick basis here so, who do you think [...]
Categories: NFL Draft, Teams In The News |
Tags: NFL Draft |
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BuffaloBills.com is reporting that their is a huge demand for tickets to the Buffalo Bills games that will be played in Toronto this year. The Bills and the NFL have entered an agreement with the city of Toronto to play eight games there over the next five years. The first game will be [...]
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Green Bay Packer fans won’t have to wait long to see new starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers in a high pressure game. Rodgers leads the Packers in the Monday Night Football opener against the rival Minnesota Vikings. In a blast from the past, for years the Raiders and Broncos have had one of the [...]
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To follow up on yesterday’s post on the history of NFL wild card teams that make it to the Super Bowl, the Giants have now become the 5th team to win the Super Bowl as a wild card team (the others: 1980 Oakland, 1997 Denver, 2000 Baltimore, and 2005 Pittsburgh). The Giants did it in [...]
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In an NFL football game, usually it is odd for one team to be favored by too much more than 14 points. Oddsmakers use different formulas to come up with a point spread that entices people to bet on both teams for any given game. But, that’s all out the window for this Sunday’s Patriots [...]
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Tags: Eagles, Patriots |
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