Articles Tagged with National Football League

New Orleans Saints Make Drew Brees A New Offer

Drew Brees Negotiations Heat Up With New Orleans Saints

Drew Brees has received a new contract proposal from the New Orleans Saints, the proposal was announced on Thursday afternoon by general manager Mickey Loomis. Loomis has been in deadlocked negotiations with Brees’ manager Tom Condon over a $2 million per year dispute. Brees is believed to be seeking $20.3 million per year while the… Read more »

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Will Hear Bounty Appeals On June 18

Roger Goodell Hearing Saints Appeals Over Bounty Program

Roger Goodell on June 18 will meet with four New Orleans Saints players who were suspended last month following an investigation into the teams 2009 through 2011 bounty program. Roger Goodell has not met with any of the four players since he handed down his punishment. Among those appeals Goodell will meet with New Orleans… Read more »

New York Giants Extend Tom Coughlin’s Contract Through 2014

Tom Coughlin Signs Contract Extension With New York Giants

New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin will continue to coach the Super Bowl champs through the 2014 season after the Giants granted their head coach a contract extension on Wednesday. Coughlin helped guide the New York Giants to Super Bowl win in 2007 and then again in 2012. The team has not revealed the… Read more »

Terrell Owens Wants Allen Wranglers To Apologize, Pay Him $160K

Terrell Owens Suing Allen Wranglers

Indoor Football League (IFL) team the Allen Wranglers recently cut former NFL star Terrell Owens and now the former Pro-Bowl player wants the team to issue him a public apology and pay $160,000 or face a lawsuit. The Wranglers fired T.O. last week and took away his partial ownership in the team. At the time… Read more »

Brian Banks Will Get NFL Tryout After Rape Charge Was Exonerated

Brian Banks Exonerated

Brian Banks was a star middle linebacker at Long Beach Polytechnic High School and had agreed to a full scholarship with the USC Trojans before his life came grumbling down. Banks was accused and eventually charged with rape of a close childhood friend in 2002, a charge she has now recanted. After spending five years… Read more »

Detroit Lions May Face NFL Fines Following Bad Player Conduct

Nick Fairley Arrested and Detroit Lions Could Face Fines

The Detroit Lions have watched during the off-season as running back Mikel Leshoure was arrested for marijuana possession and Nick Fairley was arrested on two separate occasions for drunk driving and marijuana possession and now the franchise under NFL rules may face fines of its own. NFL rules state that when two players are suspended… Read more »

Baltimore Ravens Hope To Secure Ray Rice Well Into The Future

Ray Rice Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens and star running back Ray Rice have not been able to hammer out a long-term contract and because of that conflict Rice has not been participating in organized team activities, something the Ravens had hoped to remedy sooner rather than later. Now sources close to the teams talks with Ray Rice have… Read more »

Tim Tebow Gets E! Entertainment Documentary

Tim Tebow - New York Jets Backup QB Getting 30 Minute Special

Apparently all it takes for Tim Tebow to become an E! Entertainment Television celebrity these days was a decent college football career, a couple of come-from-behind NFL wins and a very public belief in god. Sports Illustrated is reporting that Tim Tebow is getting his own 30-minute special airing on E! although what the airing… Read more »

Vikings New Stadium: Minnesota House Approves Bill To Build

New Vikings Stadium

The first major step towards beginning construction of the Minnesota Vikings new stadium has been completed as the Minnesota House of Representatives approved a bill to build a new $975 million stadium in Minneapolis. The House negotiated for eight hours on Monday before they finally approved the bill by a vote of 73-58. After an… Read more »

Ben Roethlisberger Graduates From Miami University in Southwest Ohio

Ben Roethlistberger Graduates With Degree In Education

When Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger left for the NFL in 2003 he had not yet earned his degree from Miami University in southwest Ohio, now nine years after the fact the NFL star has managed to finish the required classes needed to pick up his diploma. The 30-year-old Roethlisberger received his bachelor’s degree in… Read more »

Cameron Wake Reaches A Deal with Miami Dolphins

Cameron Wake Dolphins Linebacker Signs New Deal

The Miami Dolphins and linebacker Cameron Wake will have at least four more years together after Cameron on Sunday agreed to sign a four-year contract extension worth a reported $49 million with $20 million guaranteed. First announced by an insider close to the team the deal was later confirmed via the Dolphins official Twitter feed,… Read more »

Junior Seau Family Will Allow Researchers To Study His Brain

Junior Seau Brain To Be Studied with family permission

The family of Junior Seau has agreed to let researchers study his brain to determine if he suffered extensive damage from concussions received during his 20-year NFL career. The announcement comes just one day after a San Diego County medical examiner officially ruled Seau’s death to be caused by a self inflicted gunshot wound to… Read more »

New Orleans Saints Bounty Probe Reaches ‘Final Stages’

New Orleans Saints Bounty Investigation Nearly Over

While it is unlikely that penalties and fines will be handed down to New Orleans Saints players this week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Wednesday that he is almost done conducting interviews regarding player participation in the bounty program. Speaking at an NFL draft event Goodell said he doesn’t expect to issue any final… Read more »

Brian Dawkins To Retire From NFL After 16 Years

Brian Dawkins Announces NFL Retirement

Veteran safety Brian Dawkins is calling it quits after spending 16 years in the National Football League. The pro safety’s announcement was made on Monday via his personal Twitter account. In announcing his retirement Dawkins proclaimed: “The Lord has blessed me to play in the NFL for 16 years. I would like to thank the… Read more »

Braylon Edwards Settles Slander Lawsuit, Donates Settlement To Charity

Braylon Edwards Settles Slander Lawsuit

NFL star Braylon Edwards settled his slander lawsuit with a group of restaurant employees last month and has donated all of the money from that settlement to charity. According to several sources the $14 million lawsuit was dropped last month after Edwards and his legal team reached an agreement with everyone involved. The lawsuit went… Read more »

Gregg Williams Seeking Reinstatement Plan From NFL Front Office

Gregg Williams Wants To Be NFL Reinstated

St. Louis Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams has been suspended “indefinitely” for his part in orchestrating the NFL bounty program for his former team the New Orleans Saints. Now Williams’ advisers are attempting to set into motion some type of reinstatement plan. According to an NFL.com report the coaches advisers have already reached out to… Read more »

Sean Payton Exiled From All NFL Contact For Entire Season

Sean Payton NFL Exile

Sean Payton has already begun to serve his one-season suspension following an investigation into the New Orleans Saints NFL bounty program and now sources close to the coach with details of his suspension contract have revealed that Payton is essentially taking part in an NFL exile. Under terms of his suspension Payton can not speak… Read more »

Peyton Manning Works Out With Denver Broncos

Peyton Manning Practices With Denver Broncos

After 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts Peyton Manning was began barking out calls and throwing passes to his new teammates in Denver on Monday. The Denver Broncos began holding team workouts on Monday morning and Manning was ready for the offseason conditioning program while throwing some passes to his new receiving corp during an… Read more »

Wes Welker OK With New England Patriots Franchise Tag

Wes Welker Okay With Franchise Tag

Wes Welker says he’s OK with receiving a franchise tag from the New England Patriots, a tag that will keep him on the team for $9.5 million next season. In speaking with NFL Network’s NFL Total Access on Thursday Welker revealed: “I mean, it’s a lot of money. How can you ever be upset about… Read more »

Blazing Saddles Star Sues NFL After Developing Dementia

Alex Karras Sues NFL After Developing Dementia

Blazing Saddles actor and former Detroit Lions star Alex Karras has filed a lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL) in which he claims that his increasing dementia was caused because the league failed to protect him from concussions during his playing days. Aside from his time in the NFL Karras played Mongo in “Blazing… Read more »

Sean Payton Is Out For Season, Full Suspension Upheld After Appeal

Sean Payton Suspended For Full Season

The New Orleans Saints will be without head coach Sean Payton after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell decided on Monday to keep the coaches full-season suspension in place following a bounty program that urged players to injure their opponents for bonus money. Payton was originally scheduled to begin his suspension on April 1, that day has… Read more »

New Orleans Saints To Appeal Payton And Loomis Suspensions On Tuesday

Sean Payton Appealing On Tuesday with Mickey Loomis

Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis are hoping to save their coaching and team management seasons on Tuesday when they meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and various other NFL officials to discuss their 2012 season suspensions brought on by the teams bounty program. Commissioner Goodell has promised that the appeal process would be met with… Read more »

New York Giants To Open 2012 Season Against Dallas Cowboys

New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys Open 2012 Season

The Super Bowl champion New York Giants will kick off the 2012 NFL season when they host the Dallas Cowboys during a Sept. 5 event at MetLife Stadium. The game will kickoff at 8:30 p.m. ET and will be televised live on NBC. While the regular season has traditionally started on a Thursday since 2002… Read more »

Andrew Luck To Hold Private Practice For Indianapolis Colts

Andrew Luck Private Practice with Colts

The Indianapolis Colts will have a special guest in the next couple of weeks when Stanford quarterback and likely 2012 NFL Draft first round draft pick Andrew Luck holds a private workout for his likely future team. Colts general manager Ryan Grigson said during a conference call on Monday that Andrew Luck was ready to… Read more »

Pat Robertson Wants Peyton Manning To Get Injured

Peyton Manning is a Denver Bronco

There’s nothing like the love of a god fearing man to make us smile in the morning. Pat Robertson was back to his “hate everyone who doesn’t share my beliefs” hate spewing self-caricature this morning when he attacked the Denver Broncos for replacing the overrated bible-thumping Tim Tebow with recently rehabilitated mega-star Peyton Manning. According… Read more »

Buffalo Bills Continue Expanding Defense, Sign Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson Buffalo Bills

Former New England Patriots defensive end Mark Anderson is now playing for division rival the Buffalo Bills. Less than one week after signing defensive end Mario Williams the team proved they were serious about improving their defense by signing Anderson to a four-year deal. According to reports Anderson’s new deal will net him $27.5 million… Read more »

49ers QB Alex Smith Meets With Miami Dolphins

Alex Smith 49ers QB meets with Dolphins

Miami, FL – The San Francisco 49ers have jumped into the race to win over Peyton Manning and with that announcement free-agent quarterback Alex Smith has decided to meet with the Miami Dolphins. Smith traveled to Miami on Sunday to sit down with the teams front office and discuss his future. Speaking with the South… Read more »