Gene Upshaw dies...

This sucks. Gene Upshaw was an NFL Hall of Famer, 7 time pro-bowler, 11 time All-Pro, 2 time SuperBowl champion, a member of the NFL 75th Anniversary Team, and a member of the 1970's All Decade Team. He played for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders from 1967-1981, playing 15 seasons (217 games). He retired in 1981 and shortly after became executive director of the Player's Union.

I told the guy I work with "I can't find any stats on this guy, Gene Upshaw, like nothing just a couple of Fumble recoveries..." and he said "Who cares? He's dead."

Real nice.

Gene Upshaw dead at the age of 63, from pancreatic cancer that he was apparently hiding.
1945-2008

Giants goes against the Pats in the Superbowl.

The Giants pulled out an upset this past Sunday when they went against the Packers and won. The Patriots also beat up on an already injury-plagued Chargers team.

The Giants will go up against the 18-0 heavily favored Patriots in the Superbowl on February 3rd 2008.

Brett Favre is an awesome cold-weather QB...

That is, according to this article on ESPN...

Did you know that the coldest cold-weather stadiums are these below:


Green Bay Packers
25.90 degrees (F)
Cleveland Browns
34.39
Kansas City Chiefs
35.06
Buffalo Bills
35.94
Pittsburgh Steelers
36.10
Chicago Bears
36.35
Cincinnati Bengals
36.56
New England Patriots
36.85

At least New England came in last in something ...Next year though, I heard they were going to ice the field; and make snow balls for the fans to throw at the opposing team.

This is the original article.

The Greatest Line ever told...

So, as per usual, Sunday morning has me perusing the Yahoo! Sports section and NFL.com, to make sure all my players are starting. I find out that Frank Gore is questionable, and decide that I'm going to bench him in leu of Jerious Norwood. So, my running backs are a newly acquired Fred Taylor and Norwood instead of a beat up and dragging Gore, and a Bye-d Brandon Jacobs. What I found really hilarious as I'm reading through one of Andy Behrens' infamous Fog Bowl columns on Yahoo! is this line:

Kubiak also had this to say about his running backs: "I may suit all three of them." If that's the case, fantasy owners should look for alternatives to all three of them. Those three would be Ahman Green, Adimchinobi Echemandu and the irrepressible Ron Dayne.

This headline on the RB sit/start video segment cracks me up: "Ride the Dayne train." If there were such a train, it would take you exactly two yards short of wherever you wanted to go.

Notice the bold. Holy Effing shit, that's true. Ron Dayne has been awful since his days in New York, he's a terrible running back.

GO JETS!

JD